Is Gus good enough.....

[Withdean Wanderer]

Nope.

Too stubborn, too poor at influencing games that aren't going his way, too patient, too slow, too focused on control and not on results.

 

[StonehamPark]

If a manager cannot work out how to turn around a 1-0 deficit in 2 whole seasons you also have to wonder.

That statistic alone should accurately answer the OP's question.*

*Barring the opening game last season against Doncaster.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

We have improved massively every season he has been here, there is no reason to think that trend won't continue.

If we fail to go up this season, I can see us finishing top 2 the next.

What's massively improved between this season and last? The squad is possibly twice as good, the results and performances?

 

[CAPTAIN GREALISH]

Oi! Are you the same arsehole player that calls for others to be sent off? I just posed a question!

a negative 1

 

[Silver flying chariot]

I told you all last year, he would never get a team out of this division. He is to arrogant to adapt to changing tactics for different opposition. He might even be better suited by a Chelsea, with £50 million to spend on a player,,but I doubt it.

he would still be moaning about his bloody budget

 

[bhawoddy]

Nope.

Too stubborn, too poor at influencing games that aren't going his way, too patient, too slow, too focused on control and not on results.

theres definitely some truth in this

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

This is absurd. So, Gus fails to get us into the Premiership after just 2 seasons in the Championship and suddenly everything he and his team are building is no good. Geez. Talk about impatient.

 

[Bill Cassidy's tie up]

Is it a case of TB has put his all into getting The Amex and there is none left in the pot for the players that we need to make a push for The Premier League.

Disagree think we have one of the best squads in the championship

 

[T soprano]

We have improved massively every season he has been here, there is no reason to think that trend won't continue.

If we fail to go up this season, I can see us finishing top 2 the next.

We now have fewer points this season than we did at this stage last season

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

First 11 good enough on it's day to beat anybody home or away,good strength in depth now,but squad wise not strong enough yet,but getting closer,all the while aging,next season we should with additions seriously be aiming to go straight up.

 

[Silver flying chariot]

Overachieved greatly last season (Ankergren, Painter, Navarro, Vokes etc etc!), credit to Gus for that. Been unlucky in so many games this season, performances massively better overall though, we've looked quality in a majority of games.

sadly you don't get points for looking quality...

 

[blue2]

We are a far better team now than the one that won promotion two seasons ago and we are a far stronger team in depth than last season no matter how the rest of this season pans out year on year we are getting a better stronger squad

 

[Silver flying chariot]

This is absurd. So, Gus fails to get us into the Premiership after just 2 seasons in the Championship and suddenly everything he and his team are building is no good. Geez. Talk about impatient.

its not about getting to the premiership.. that squad is good enough with our facilities and support to be in the top 6 of this league and we are currently no where near challenging the top 2... Fans paying £600 a a year for season tickets won't be patient to keep waiting and waiting watching us play such negative low scoring attackless football.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

Overachieved greatly last season (Ankergren, Painter, Navarro, Vokes etc etc!), credit to Gus for that. Been unlucky in so many games this season, performances massively better overall though, we've looked quality in a majority of games.

Have we looked quality in a majority of games? I've been to a majority of games and we haven't.

If we overchieved last season (did we?) then we're definitely underachieving this season with Bridge, Tom, Bruno, Dave (yes) Ulloa, Orlandi and co.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Possibly, possibly not.

The big question is how many available managers are there that are good enough to do it? Not many IMHO. Better the devil you know for me at the moment, football isn't an exact science and we could sack Gus, get another manager in who does about the same with a similar budget and the same whingers would be on here moaning when we lost a couple of games. Or we'll get promoted and the same whingers will be on here moaning that the manager isn't good enough when we lose a couple of games in the Prem.

 

[dragonred]

to get us promotion on Mr Bloom's budget?

This season or next.

He's good but not great and in my eyes too limited to be able to get us out of this division. if we went up and played as we are now, a poor version of Swansea, we'd be relegated by Xmas.

 

[BensGrandad]

Disagree think we have one of the best squads in the championship

I fail to see how you can say that when we are short of at least 2 or 3 players that would make us a promotion candidate. Even before the injuries we needed at least 1 more striker proven at this or the equivalent level. I also need an attack minded midfielder who could do the job that Croft was brought in to do and also a multi positional back four player who could fill in as required wherever across the back four.

I do not blame Gus for this as I believe, but have no proof, that it is a case of there not being the money available to sign the players that are needed, the same as there wasnt the money to pay GM as squad/back up player.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

We're going up as ****ing CHAMPIONS

 

[Stat Brother]

I just meant budgetwise. Blackburn's striker cost more than our whole squad (at a guess)

Irrespective of budget

How many goals would Drogba score under Gus' management?

How many goal shy strikers (very very tough on Ulloa) do we have to argue over before the bigger picture raises it's head.

Judging by this thread, the answer is 3.

 

[Icy Gull]

He's good enough to produce an attractive team not sure if he's good enough to manage at the top level though, he doesn't do pressure games very well which is a problem.