indy3050
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- Jun 22, 2011
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I thought Hughton had lost the dressing room after Bournemouth. But after we stayed up and the great point at Arsenal i thought he deserved a window to turn it around. Bloom didn't and i don't begrudge that, but he showed very little patience with one of our greatest ever managers so I'm surprised we're being told to stay patient with a bloke who has imho only really achieved a 'record points tally' (2 points more than our first season in the Prem) with a useful 3 month break after 3 months without a win and then a handy 5 subs to use in empty stadiums
I liked Hughton's counter attacking football. I had no issues in our first season in the Premier League but it went wrong when a load of people spat the dummy at three consecutive 1-0 wins where we were up against it. But looking back, what would we give for 3 wins and clean sheets now? And 3 brilliant performances by Maty.
I don't agree scoring is our problem, we scored 3 tonight and still didn't win despite 5 centre backs in the side.
Lack of alternatives is probably the best reason for keeping him in a job tbh. Good performances mean very little if you don't get the results. With City and Leeds to come we don't look likely to hit 30 points at the moment; that's not good enough.
He may not have been given cash but he's been given a player who could have been sold for £25 million and frequently played him out of position. This, in addition to 2 England Internationals and a Champions League finalist. Not backed, really? He also had £20m on Webster, 20m on Maupay, £3m on Lamptey, £18m on Trossard, and £3m on Mooy (plus £3m on Zequiri). It's not as if he's had nothing to work with. It started well and has faded badly, he can turn it around but he's very lucky a lack of alternatives have prevented him losing his job
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All very good points and I wasn’t looking for an argument but tonight aside we’ve battered teams and lost because we don’t score enough goals, this is something recognised by the media, football fans and pundits nationally. I will not accept that our style of football has gone backwards although do completely agree about playing players out of position and second guessing his line up doesn’t help him!
I have to ask one more time. Who do you bring in to replace him? (I voted Ruel Fox btw)
Anyway, Happy New Year to you sir and thank you.