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[Albion] Potterball failure?
- Thread starter Guinness Boy
- Start date
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
We have one. His name is Glenn Murray. Is Potter the tactical genius/coach that people think if he cant get the best out of him. Like I say Emporers New Clothes.
Don Tmatter
Well-known member
Wonder how CH feels about our recent performances
Both can score goals and both have played a lot of football at the highest level. It still doesn't get away from my original point that both haven't been replaced.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Would you rather we kept Hughton?
LowKarate
New member
Oven ready?
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Not saying that. But this so called genius cant build a team or tactics to get the best out of the best striker we havw had in modern times.
Hampster Gull
Well-known member
- Dec 22, 2010
- 13,465
Potter is the Tinkerman, I’m surprised he hasn’t seriously tried to deploy Murray.
blue-shifted
Banned
Not even the best managers can fight the tide of time. Muzza is 36 now. Can't think of too many other 36 year old's playing up front in top level football. And there's a reason.
brightonmark1234
Well-known member
no mate just what I have been thinking over the last few monthsDid you copy and paste that from last February?
I have loved the style of play that Potter has introduced. So much more positive and exciting than the turgid fayre served up by Hughton. I have been fully supportive of Potter so far (with the exception of his baffling decision to kick Andone out AFTER the transfer window had ended).
But now I'm worried.
- constant changes to the team. Why was Ali J dropped after he was at last showing us what he could do
- daft selections. Alzate's pace and creativity is totally wasted at right back
- defending a lead. Sending the team out for the second half with a negativity that was bemusing. The front players pressing high with the midfield dropping deeper and deeper. That is never going to work. Gave Villa way too much time and space
- substitutions. If we were going to try and win the game after Villa equalised then bringing on the two slowest players in the squad was not the way to do it
But my major concern now is Potter's apparent naivety in publicly stating that we do not need to bring players in to strengthen the squad this window. Now whether you are a Potter lover or detractor it is plain that our squad does not have the quality in depth. We desparately need a new centre forward. We needed a Murray replacement in the summer and didn't get one. If Giroud is still available we should be doing everything to get him. Yes, his wages will cost. But that cost needs to be balanced against the cost of relegation.
If Potter can't accept that he needs to strengthen the squad then he is watching something different to what I saw on Saturday. And that is the most worrying thing of all.
But now I'm worried.
- constant changes to the team. Why was Ali J dropped after he was at last showing us what he could do
- daft selections. Alzate's pace and creativity is totally wasted at right back
- defending a lead. Sending the team out for the second half with a negativity that was bemusing. The front players pressing high with the midfield dropping deeper and deeper. That is never going to work. Gave Villa way too much time and space
- substitutions. If we were going to try and win the game after Villa equalised then bringing on the two slowest players in the squad was not the way to do it
But my major concern now is Potter's apparent naivety in publicly stating that we do not need to bring players in to strengthen the squad this window. Now whether you are a Potter lover or detractor it is plain that our squad does not have the quality in depth. We desparately need a new centre forward. We needed a Murray replacement in the summer and didn't get one. If Giroud is still available we should be doing everything to get him. Yes, his wages will cost. But that cost needs to be balanced against the cost of relegation.
If Potter can't accept that he needs to strengthen the squad then he is watching something different to what I saw on Saturday. And that is the most worrying thing of all.
B.W.
New member
- Jul 5, 2003
- 13,666
No, I am sad to say Muzza has gone way past his sell-by date... (I hope he proves me wrong)...
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Lord Murray of Withdeanshire is getting closer to 37 than he is 36. I bet you can count on one hand how many strikers at that age have started and contributed consistently in the Premier League. I know the pun is on our manager's name, but he doesn't have an actual magic wand.
London Irish
Well-known member
At least Hughton had 3-4 seasons before everyone started blaming him for everything. Same people I bet.
There is nothing wrong with what Potter is doing. He will make mistakes here and there but only the superfans think any managers are infallible
There is nothing wrong with what Potter is doing. He will make mistakes here and there but only the superfans think any managers are infallible
Gritt23
New member
Yep. And even more worrying is whether we have been rumbled, and a way to play us has been worked out.
We have no width, and seemingly, no ability to switch to a system of using any width. It all comes through the middle, so you pack the midfield, over-run us in that area, as Villa and Everton have done in consecutive games, and watch our game plan disintegrate. We are slow to react by adding further numbers to the midfield, and never stretch the midfield by adding width.
Only superfans think nothing is wrong with what Potter is doing. I would just hold back that opinion first for a bit longer.
Gritt23
New member
The pattern is exactly the same. Criticism of Hughton only started when we stopped going further up the table/leagues. Potter hasn't taken us any further up the table yet, despite having better players, so people are looking for why.
Please don't turn this into a pro vs anti debate. We are not at all polarised from conversations I've had. Everyone believes, that the average level of performance is better, and more entertaining, but we don't get it right every time, and when we don't people are bound to debate what went wrong, or what we'd have different. That's football.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Nothing has changed from last season , even the football is now on the turgid side rather than the fleeting promise of August and September, unless Potter gets some decent players in before the window closes we'll end up going down
London Irish
Well-known member
You've just repeated the same point I've made. I think Potter does make mistakes but that doesn't mean his overall project is in any way flawed
At the end of the day managers are only as good as the squads they have and given the transfer mistakes of the past few years Potter needed plenty of money to overhaul his - and he probably hasn't had enough yet