Silverhatch
Well-known member
Will transform Sunderland's footballing philosophy. He'll do a great job for you. Just make sure the press officer is close by when a microphone is near him.
Jeckyll and Hyde!
He was a good manager. One of our best and made some great signings.
He also made some very strange tactical decisions and very crap signings.
Jeckyll and Hyde!
He was responsible for getting us so high in the league but again his tactics were to blame for losing important matches and ultimately for us losing out on promotion.
Is he the right man for you after PDC? I don't think he is as he is unable to adapt his tactics and can marginalise players in a similar way to your former Italian hot head.
I hope your players know how to pass the ball.
He's a terrific manager, one of the best we've ever had. It's not always plain sailing with him and yes he does have a big ego, but how many top managers, or very successful people for that matter, don't? He'll do well for you.
The no plan B stuff is just Poyet's way, he wanted to create something beautiful, where a team have a style and ethics and they stick to it no matter what, even if if sometimes meant not winning. Personally, I think that's fantastic, but you know what football fans are like, they're not the sharpest bunch generally and they all want instant success. Some genuinely wanted him sacked in January last year, the season where we finished 4th in the Championship having been down the bottom of League 1 three seasons before when he turned up. Expect a lot of "GET IT FORWARDS, THAT'S WHERE THE GOAL IS" from some of your simpler supporters.
He stifles flair, boring but pretty football. When it's 0-0 with twenty minutes left he will bolster the defence rather than go for the win. His greatest weakness is his ego, it's Ronaldo times ten. He could well save your club from relegation but it will be at his own agenda and for him. Horribly frustrating for any club owner I'd imagine as he wants to control everything.
Finally for me I'm glad he's gone and I am convinced BHA will do better for it. But good luck to Sunderland anyway far to big a club to not be in the premier.
Poyet was a car crash waiting to happen just like Di Cannio is/was. The only difference being Di Cannio's will and has happened allot sooner than Poyet's did.
Poyet will probably last a couple of years before he calls the chairman a pigdog or does something equally as daft.
He'll have you playing decent football though.
Same as every manager then.
Utter gibberish.
Also, ignore the stuff about 'no plan B'. It has no merit, and was disproved on many, if not most occasions; from changing the system, going from one winger to two, pushing a holding midfielder further forward, changing the personnel etc. - all mid-match.
Ian ****ing Holloway outwitted him in his most important match as a manager that's what I call a load of bollocks.And straight away here's a good example of someone not 'getting it':
Load of bollocks.
Ian ****ing Holloway outwitted him in his most important match as a manager that's what I call a load of bollocks.
In your opinion - and football is a game of opinions - you have yours and I have mine. Don't be childish and start a willy waving contest just because your opinions don't tie in with other people on this board.
And he outwitted Ian ****ing Holloway a few weeks before. I know it's hard to understand for some people, but sometime in football you have a bad day at the office. Sometimes it just doesn't work, and anyone who has even a basic understanding of the game should know that. You can't win every time, and Poyet won more often than not.
Can I assume that you have never ever had a bad day at work and that everything you do goes 100% exactly according to plan?
Look to Watford for your new manager. You know it makes sense.
And he outwitted Ian ****ing Holloway a few weeks before. I know it's hard to understand for some people, but sometime in football you have a bad day at the office. Sometimes it just doesn't work, and anyone who has even a basic understanding of the game should know that. You can't win every time, and Poyet won more often than not.
Can I assume that you have never ever had a bad day at work and that everything you do goes 100% exactly according to plan?
Pros.
Great manager, gets the best out of players (strikers excluded), lovely keep ball football, seems to instill confidence in average players.
Cons.
Confrontational to officials, says what he means not what people want fans to say, very ambitious.
Ees complicated.