Thank you SO much for what you have done for our Club Gus!

[Deleted member 2719]

Yes, of course rescuing us from relegation that Slade got us into with the same budget was pure luck wasn't it?

Rescuing us from relegation!! Slade lost his job early Nov from memory, not sure we were already down but keep believing that Gus is god if it makes you happy.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

gosh you make it sound so easy...why bother with a manager at all...its a doddle

It is, if i managed the Albion a coal shovel would be my main tool.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Rescuing us from relegation!! Slade lost his job early Nov from memory, not sure we were already down but keep believing that Gus is god if it makes you happy.

And there ladies & gentlemen is the crux of the matter. I do not believe that Gus is god or any other 'put down' you may like to post.
We were in trouble, or else Tony Bloom wouldn't have sacked Slade who had rescued us the previous season from the impossible position that Adams left us in.
Gus pulled us up to mid table by identifying the full back problem immediately by getting Calderon & Painter in and getting the team to pass the ball around. He inspired confidence with his very first game at Southampton.
He is a very good manager despite everything that has happened. It was sad when it went wrong but you cannot deny that historical record.

Continue to put others down if it makes you feel better but it doesn't make you right.

 

[grawhite]

Not in a minority perhaps but I can't agree.

Yes he did well but was really given every opportunity. He took over at a time when our future was assured and we walked a very crap L1. He then can pretty well design all the footballing side of the Amex and TB gives him a great budget (despite his denial) and with the "Amex effect" he could hardly fail. Last season we stuttered too much in the first half season much like we did in the first season, lacking creativity, pace and finishing. With the arrival of Ulloa and Upson we suddenly looked a lot better but it was a pretty poor Championship and arguably we underperformed.

He didn't show a lot of interest in anything other than himself and he had an over inflated opinion of himself.

As far as I'm concerned he was in the right place at the right time and any one of numerous other capable Maangers could have "achieved" the same

I have to disagree, there was only manager at a time when we were in the shit, who could have transformed the playing side like we know it today. Yes he whored himself at every opportunity, but he still did a great job.
Gus will always be remembered for the manager who transformed the club from one going nowhere, to one going places now.

 

[B.W.]

Bloom could have kept quiet and failed to do so - the club statements on their website said that the club would make no further comments - Bloom, for whatever reasons, chose to make a further comment.

You didn't answer the question!

 

[B.W.]

Perhaps if you left these threads alone, and let those who want to, have their say, they might die out.

Fair point. Over to the Gus sycophants! ;-)

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Continue to put others down if it makes you feel better but it doesn't make you right.

Not sure who i have put down,if it is you i apologies but this is NSC where you debate your views i have never been offended anymore than a few seconds on here by anyone.
I may not put my point over so well on paper as i do in person but i prefer to get to the point i rarely see grey it's always one way or the other IMO.

Anyway we are going to win the league this season so it should be harmony all season on here!

 

[LamieRobertson]

Anyway we are going to win the league this season so it should be harmony all season on here!

nah the argument the will then be we should have won it by more points

 

[Deleted member 2719]

nah the argument the will then be we should have won it by more points

That true, nice argument thou.

 

[Seagull73]

Anyway we are going to win the league this season so it should be harmony all season on here!

Christ, not even the chairman is thinking that way. So, in your world anything less than 1st will be failure??

Prepare to be very disappointed.

 

[London Irish]

Anyway we are going to win the league this season so it should be harmony all season on here!

Ha, certainly if Oscar canters to promotion, Gus will have been proved decisively wrong to have moaned about his resources for the job. However, it does cut both ways, if Oscar doesn't match at least Gus's play-off achievement, then this will support Gus's case.

And I'd much rather be watching Prem football than seeing Gus proved right, much as I admired his managerial skill I never particularly warmed to him as a personality given certain stuff he did (Nicky Forster, Suarez).

 

[Pavilionaire]

I'm not going to beat myself up over Gus. Two other managers took us out of League One whilst we were at Withdean, so what he did wasn't unique, but he was the man when we moved into Falmer so will forever be part of the club story.

Gus was like a crazy girlfriend; the sex was great, it was fun while it lasted but we were never meant to be together.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

I'm very much behind Oscar and believe he will do well here but I'm very disappointed in how the Gus era ended. The football he had us playing was (mostly) a joy and with exceptional help from Tony Bloom he played a major role in rebuilding the club. Lost a fair bit of respect for him after yesterday's goings on but I will give him a hearty round of applause if/when he is stood in the opposition dugout at the Amex.

100% THIS,Gus changed the club in the way of football,but it seems he blotted his copy book by the furore that arose from the way he tried to engineer a move,but thank him for what he did. Mullers did well,but he took over a team built by Peter Taylor (Cloughies sidekick) but again ,as with with all discussions...it's a matter of opinion...

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I'm not going to beat myself up over Gus. Two other managers took us out of League One whilst we were at Withdean, so what he did wasn't unique, but he was the man when we moved into Falmer so will forever be part of the club story.

Gus was like a crazy girlfriend; the sex was great, it was fun while it lasted but we were never meant to be together.

Nobody said the achievement was unique but there were three historical records ripped apart that season. I have already mentioned the number of weeks at the top of the season, from September to the end, the record breaking 95 points and the final one which was 24 points in a month, ie. 8 wins out of 8 in March 2011.

Of course it was time to split up but also don't forget that Gus was here for twice the average length of time that a managers spends at any club.

It does make me laugh that people are so keen to write off his achievements as average, when they were anything but. Maybe you're trying to convince yourselves that you never liked him anyway?

 

[Seagull73]

Nobody said the achievement was unique but there were three historical records ripped apart that season. I have already mentioned the number of weeks at the top of the season, from September to the end, the record breaking 95 points and the final one which was 24 points in a month, ie. 8 wins out of 8 in March 2011.

Of course it was time to split up but also don't forget that Gus was here for twice the average length of time that a managers spends at any club.

It does make me laugh that people are so keen to write off his achievements as average, when they were anything but. Maybe you're trying to convince yourselves that you never liked him anyway?

Well said

 

[silky1]

Two words...move on. End of.

Ps I happen to agree with the OP but moved on some weeks ago

Very much agree with this. Does it really matter now?
We have a new management team and new season. Gus is no longer our manager, so he has what he wanted.
It was a job well done, but as has been said many times, he had a pretty good set of tools to work with.
SEAGULLS !

 

[blue2]

Thanks Gus we had some good times but we and you move on

 

[somerset]

It does make me laugh that people are so keen to write off his achievements as average......

Who is?.....nothing I have read has indicated anything of the sort, show me.......

....but equally, his consistent self self self attitude throughout the 2nd half of his tenure had a distinctly 'average' feel to it.

 

[Rugrat]

Who is?.....nothing I have read has indicated anything of the sort, show me.......

....but equally, his consistent self self self attitude throughout the 2nd half of his tenure had a distinctly 'average' feel to it.

Before it comes back I did!! I accept I was harsh but I never warmed to the bloke and still think he was given the sort of chance many a good Manager would have been envious of. Moving on now!

 

[Surf's Up]

I'm not going to beat myself up over Gus. Two other managers took us out of League One whilst we were at Withdean, so what he did wasn't unique, but he was the man when we moved into Falmer so will forever be part of the club story.

Gus was like a crazy girlfriend; the sex was great, it was fun while it lasted but we were never meant to be together.

This is a very good analogy! Poyet's ego, ambition and lack of political awareness and sensitivity were/are fundamental personality defects which will always be a negative counterbalance to his managerial skills.