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[Football] Southampton appoint Hughes
- Thread starter Invicta
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Why? What can he add? That could be two of the three sorted.
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Hove / Παρος
Shocking. I hope they go down for making such a dour decision. I'd be fuming if I were a Southampton fan
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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When will this merry-go-round end!?! What a joke. Managers doing well in the lower leagues so seldom get a chance these days - such a shame as the prem is fast becoming a laughing stock at the bottom end. Quick fix solutions, same old faces - so dull
Raleigh Chopper
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It will be interesting to see what happens now, unfortunately just a change of manager, any manager quite often makes a difference at least for 2 or 3 matches.
He hasn't got a get out of jail free card to play either, Southampton are not in the drop zone, only West Brom look doomed, if Southampton go down he will have no excuse, except that Hughes is a very poor manager.
He hasn't got a get out of jail free card to play either, Southampton are not in the drop zone, only West Brom look doomed, if Southampton go down he will have no excuse, except that Hughes is a very poor manager.
Surrey Phil
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- Aug 3, 2010
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Great news for us. If he doesn’t take Saints down this season, he’ll do it next season!
- Apr 5, 2014
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He's only contacted till the end of the season.
AmexRuislip
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Perhaps the perm may make a comeback in Hampshire!
While you are right, managers eventually stop getting chances. I doubt Pardew will be getting another PL job any time soon. Even once golden boy 'arry doesn't get them now. Hughes hasn't made failure a habit yet has he?
As for lower league managers, if they do well enough to get promoted, they stand a good chance of a bigger job before long. Which ones have done well and not been rewarded?
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Chris Wilder ?
He's moved up the league and has a small chance of being a PL manager next season. What better job should he have been offered?
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Well, I doubt he'd have done any worse than Pardew at West Brom.
But that was just an exceptionally poor appointment.
The manager merry-go-round is funny, but it's mostly understandable. If you put the best managers in charge of the 20 PL teams, 3 will still get relegated. That doesn't suddenly make them bad managers. Sometimes the players have to take a chunk of the responsibility. And it's a lot to ask of a team that's struggling to appoint someone with zero PL experience.
If Wilder continues to do well with Sheffield but doesn't get promoted, maybe he'll get an offer from a stronger Championship club, and his best chance to prove himself in the PL will be by getting promoted.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
If I was a West Brom fan, I'd have been MUCH happier with the appointment of Wilder rather than "Pards", who is a proven serial failure of a manager. It was a pissing-in-the-wind appointment, in the vague hope that he'd somehow achieve a short-term dead cat bounce that would just about scrape them out of the bottom 3. No wonder the chairman and chief exec have been binned off since he was brought in. An appalling, panicked decision and a rare occasion where, now that they're doomed, for once the right heads have actually rolled for it.
I always considered WBA to be a similar sized club that we should look to emulate - until this season that is. They're a shambles from top to bottom now. My abiding hope is that they drag that rancid FILTH down with them on the final day at Selhurst. Oh man, that'd be sweeeeet.