[Albion] If Potter hadn’t left

[Mackenzie]

The club would be £21m worse off and we’d have a not as good manager. It didn’t feel like it at the time but his leaving was a blessing.

 

[Eeyore]

If Potter was still here I would want him out and that young Shaktar geezer in.

You mean that geezer who none of us would ever had heard of and weren't sure about when he was appointed, and for a few games afterwards ?

 

[GT49er]

If Potter hadn’t left​

......and we'd just popped 5 past Leicester........and whupped United's arse on their own ground - we'd be doing fine. Maybe just top ten rather than Europa League (but who knows?). Wouldn't have been many moans anyway (Scottish Albion fans probably excepted ).

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Without trying to derail the thread I’ve got a couple of questions. If Gordon Smith had scored what would our allocation have been for Dukla Prague away? also would we have sold them all? would 270 points been enough? and finally, where would we have been drinking?

 

[GT49er]

Without trying to derail the thread I’ve got a couple of questions. If Gordon Smith had scored what would our allocation have been for Dukla Prague away? also would we have sold them all? would 270 points been enough? and finally, where would we have been drinking?

We'd have been in Europe. Maybe a couple of players who left might have stayed, and a couple more might have joined who didn't. We might have done better in rhe second division (we were always in the hunt for promotion until we taied off in the last few games and finished 8th.)

The last 40 years might have - no, would have - been entirely different. But who knows in what way it might have been different? Beating Leicester to the title at the Goldstone a few years ago......or battliing it out now with Derby and Charlton?

 

[Nobby]

Well, we would have kept learning.

And by this time we would have learned a hell of a lot.

 

[oldboyroy]

We'd of all had a history lesson

 

[Gabbafella]

If potter hadn't left, Chelsea would've saved the money they spunked on him and Cucurella allowing them to afford Caicedo a bit quicker.
Chelsea would be in a better place and we wouldn't have unearthed Estupinan.

 

[Russconha]

What if Sami Hyppia had wings? We could've flown into the PL.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

If Potter hadn’t left​

......and we'd just popped 5 past Leicester........and whupped United's arse on their own ground - we'd be doing fine. Maybe just top ten rather than Europa League (but who knows?). Wouldn't have been many moans anyway (Scottish Albion fans probably excepted ).

Nah, we’d be in position “to win the feckin champions league!”

 

[MJsGhost]

No I dont think so, since GP, Cucurella they've become fixated with us, like a hopeless gambler chasing their losses.. someone needs to have a word .

Hopeless gamblers chasing their losses are the perfect casino customers.
They are welcome to keep over-paying and funding our club's future as Tony holds all the cards.

 

[A1X]

People would still be responding to criticism of him on here with variations on the “Oh and who replaces him then, eh? Name me anyone else who could do this well, but you can’t because there isn’t anyone” theme

 

[Triggaaar]

I liked Potter, but had he stayed we’d have finished the season in a lot lower position ……

I'm not sure about that. We finished 9th the season before, and we started last season really well under Potter. Plus we had better players than the previous season.

 

[rudolf hucker]

Potter? He’s gone, I’ve already forgotten about him.

 

[WATFORD zero]

People would still be responding to criticism of him on here with variations on the “Oh and who replaces him then, eh? Name me anyone else who could do this well, but you can’t because there isn’t anyone” theme

I was just about to say that nobody could have named RDZ but then came across these posts from April 2019

I'm very much still IN the Hughton camp, but I do have a list of (semi-)realistic possible replacements:

Jose Bordalas - Getafe
Rudy Garcia - Marseilles
Marco Rose - RB Saltzburg
De Zerbi - Sassuolo

and in my dreams Marcelo Gallardo from River Plate. Completely unrealistic this one though.

All of the above have proven pedigree in a top division and play flair football.

Yep this.

Or Roberto de Zerbi

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[RandyWanger]

I think we'd have finished 10-7 with the dullard pots in charge.

 

[Badger Boy]

Every time this sort of thread comes along I smile a little bit, remembering that he's gone now. Luckiest manager in our history.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Every time this sort of thread comes along I smile a little bit, remembering that he's gone now. Luckiest manager in our history.

This. Gormless **** never came even close to realising the world-class quality he had at his disposal. Any EPL gains were despite him, not because of him. RDZ, when he came in, must have thought he'd won the lottery

 

[A1X]

Also enormously lucky so much of his tenure came during Covid when we couldn't attend. I suspect one win at home in a calendar year with fans present would not have gone anything like as well for him as it did when we were reduced to grumbling on here.

 

[Giraffe]

Don't get me wrong I love De Zerbi, but I think there is a bit of selective memory loss here.

Potter had had a great end to the previous season and a great start to the 22/23 season. There is nothing to sat that we would not continued on that trajectory. It might not have been fun but the results were there and we were at last scoring goals closer to the Xg!