Poyet is to blame for the clubs current position

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Those players looked to him to motivate and prepare them, he was f%^king sulking and didn't do his jobs.

My opinion mate, like it or lump it, I'm entitled to it

 

[Hyperion]

Poyet's tenure with us can be likened to a long beer fart. It feels good at first, but then shit comes and a bad smell lingers for a while.

pundit material

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

You could say we threw it away on the first game of the season at Hull, where at 0-0, Bruno switched off for a second & let Hull score in the last 2 minutes. We threw away those 2 points which would have been enough to go up automatically above Hull.

I think we would have needed a win vs Hull rather than a loss, but I haven't checked.

It was also the season of the Kuszczak and Ankergren last minute howlers vs Birmingham and Forest.

 

[mreprice]

Poyet is not to blame for anything. But he had a wages bill about £5m a year more than the current one and we once went an entire month almost without a shot in our away games.
That said, I fear he may be a better manager than Sami.

 

[Mellotron]

I am not ignoring the good he did but I am afraid he undid that with the chaos his ego caused in the last 3-6 months of his reign.

No he didn't. Undoing it would be him causing us to fall back to the depths of League One. The good work was still done.

 

[perseus]

Without him we would still have Buckley and Bridcutt.

 

[akipling]

Or arguably we would never have had them in the first place

 

[APACHE]

Why do people have this feeling that Poyet was the greatest thing to happen to the Albion ? In the 40+ years that I've supported BHA he's done nothing that others before haven't and some have won Campionships and promotion spending less. He really goes down as the manager, that when the big prize was up for grabs threw it all away for his own personal glory.

 

[El Presidente]

Thats far to sensible a post. I agree with some of it I just think that GP acted like a total cock over a few months with us an arguably wasted the best chance we had of going up by sulking.

Is that the last three months of the season in which we went on a ten match unbeaten run?

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

You could say we threw it away on the first game of the season at Hull, where at 0-0, Bruno switched off for a second & let Hull score in the last 2 minutes. We threw away those 2 points which would have been enough to go up automatically above Hull.

And CMS missed presentable chances, still trying to work out how he managed to hit the bar.

But it was a long season and there were plenty of other games where we failed as well. The home draw with Charlton, Ipswich etc....

 

[El Presidente]

Why do people have this feeling that Poyet was the greatest thing to happen to the Albion ? In the 40+ years that I've supported BHA he's done nothing that others before haven't and some have won Campionships and promotion spending less. He really goes down as the manager, that when the big prize was up for grabs threw it all away for his own personal glory.

He took a side from 21st in League 1 to the Championship playoffs. Under Poyet we were promoted from League 1 with six matches to go competing against teams with far bigger wage bills and better facilities, playing some of the best football I've seen in over 40 years watching the Albion.

People can't cope with us losing to Palace in the playoffs and his undignified comments at the end of the match. That doesn't undo all the good work he did for the club.

As for not wanting to go up, he was on a £500k bonus if we were promoted, I can't see why he would deliberately throw that away, as he still could have left the club in the summer for a bigger club, and with his reputation enhanced.

 

[kevtherev]

He certainly is. Without him we'd've been a division or two lower

Yeah, because no one else could have spent the millions he spent on transfers and players wages and got us to the Championship could they. Hang on a minute, two past managers got us there on peanuts and playing at a make shift stadium.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Why do people have this feeling that Poyet was the greatest thing to happen to the Albion ? In the 40+ years that I've supported BHA he's done nothing that others before haven't and some have won Campionships and promotion spending less. He really goes down as the manager, that when the big prize was up for grabs threw it all away for his own personal glory.

He turned a bunch of journeyman pros into the most entertaining side I have had the pleasure of watching. We were, as the song went, "f***ing brilliant". We continued to be so for over three years.

He threw the prize away for personal glory? What an utterly bizarre assertion. He nearly got us up, and the final quarter of that last season saw us as the best team in the Championship. I miss him.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

He took a side from 21st in League 1 to the Championship playoffs. Under Poyet we were promoted from League 1 with six matches to go competing against teams with far bigger wage bills and better facilities, playing some of the best football I've seen in over 40 years watching the Albion.

People can't cope with us losing to Palace in the playoffs and his undignified comments at the end of the match. That doesn't undo all the good work he did for the club.

As for not wanting to go up, he was on a £500k bonus if we were promoted, I can't see why he would deliberately throw that away, as he still could have left the club in the summer for a bigger club, and with his reputation enhanced.

You clearly type quicker than I do.

 

[El Presidente]

Yeah, because no one else could have spent the millions he spent on transfers and players wages and got us to the Championship could they. Hang on a minute, two past managers got us there on peanuts and playing at a make shift stadium.

Errrr......Kevin, we were playing at a makeshift stadium when Poyet took us up.

 

[kevtherev]

Errrr......Kevin, we were playing at a makeshift stadium when Poyet took us up.

Errr.....Yes I know, but so did Taylor and McGhee. Poyet had more tools to work with than any manager in since Mullery. The job he done at this club is so overhyped by some it's unbelievable.

 

[El Presidente]

Errr.....Yes I know, but so did Taylor and McGhee. Poyet had more tools to work with than any manager in since Mullery. The job he done at this club is so overhyped by some it's unbelievable.

Taking us to our highest place in over 30 years was overhyped was it?

 

[kevtherev]

Taking us to our highest place in over 30 years was overhyped was it?

At what cost Yes he took us to our highest place in over 30 years, but that's the point. So he should have with what he spent. It's no great managerial miracle, to get a side littered with million pound players and ex international's into the play offs. Although maybe you think it is

 

[El Presidente]

At what cost Yes he took us to our highest place in over 30 years, but that's the point. So he should have with what he spent. It's no great managerial miracle, to get a side littered with million pound players and ex international's into the play offs. Although maybe you think it is

Yes it is. We had the 8th highest budget and finished 4th

 

[kevtherev]

Yes it is. We had the 8th highest budget and finished 4th

And teams like Woves in the past have had one of the highest budgets and have gone down. There is so much Poyet myth on this site it's a joke. He is a money manager, with a big ego, that the press laps up. What has he got on his cv One div 1 championship and a failed play off campaign, that's it. There a plenty of manager's ahead of Poyet, but because they don't all shoot off at the mouth, every chance they get people just dismiss them. Poyet isn't a patch on Pullis, Warnock, Dyche and many others.