| Congratulations 09:28 - Jan 5 with 2597 views | MattFinish |
I don’t visit this site very often any more. There’s some decent people on here but there’s also some utter tools. But I just wanted to say congratulations to the boo boys and bed wetters. You finally got Hasenhuttl the sack and now we have Nathan Jones.
What did you expect? We’d sack Hasenhuttl appoint someone else and start winning games with this squad? Get real.
What are your expectations for the club? We’ve had chronic underinvestment with Gao and Sports Republic seem to be not much better.
Personally, I’m happy with mid table finish, not being in a relegation battle each season and a good cup run every now and again.
And before Butthead 101 points out to me that we didn’t finish mid table because mid table is 10th or 11th I mean mid table points wise.
So which manager is capable of delivering that with this squad? Well, we’ve just sacked him.
For four seasons we were never in a relegation fight, we topped the Premier League for the first time in 32 years, we got to the semi final and quarter final of the cup and we were only in the relegation zone for a total of four weeks. This was all achieved with average players and kids. Yeah, there were the two 9-0 defeats but we always bounced back. With the investment we’ve had we should have been relegated before now.
It’s been clear from when Hasenhuttl was appointed that the squad was inadequate but somehow he got results with the players he had. It was clear we needed a decent striker alongside Ings but we got Che Adams who has to be on par with Carrillo although at least Carrillo gave a sh1t. Then Ings went and we replaced him with Nathan Jones’s twin Adam Armstrong. So for the best part of 2 seasons our main strikers have scored a combined league total of 14 goals in 87 appearances yet Hasenhuttl still kept us up. He made it clear he wanted strikers in the summer window and Armstrong and Adams were on their way but he got no-one.
We needed to strengthen this season. We needed a decent centre back, some pace in midfield and on the wing, 2 quality strikers and a decent goal keeper. We got kids. Bella-Kotchap started well but is showing his inexperience, Bazunu is not good enough, Lavia is off, Edozie and Larios are ones for the future. Yet still if we’d had a decent striker instead of Adams we wouldn’t be in this mess. Look at the howlers Adams has missed this season that would have turned defeats into wins or draws.
Yet the same boo boys and bed wetters who hounded Fraser Forster out of the club to Celtic and slagged Koeman off for buying a donkey like Pelle have got their way.
Congratulations lads.
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| Congratulations on 21:01 - Jan 5 with 502 views | Bison |
| Congratulations on 20:51 - Jan 5 by SonicBoom |
It was a sensible thread til u said they should get Ralph back.... |
If he did come back tomorrow say , do you think we would have a better chance of staying up ? Or haver you contacted the board for your suggestion of who should replace the current incumbent ? |  |
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| Congratulations on 21:30 - Jan 5 with 463 views | cocklebreath |
| Congratulations on 21:01 - Jan 5 by Bison |
If he did come back tomorrow say , do you think we would have a better chance of staying up ? Or haver you contacted the board for your suggestion of who should replace the current incumbent ? |
Yes we’d have a better chance but that’s because we got a total loser in, doesn’t mean we should have kept a disillusioned Ralph. |  |
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| Congratulations on 22:08 - Jan 5 with 416 views | SFC_Referee |
| Congratulations on 21:30 - Jan 5 by cocklebreath |
Yes we’d have a better chance but that’s because we got a total loser in, doesn’t mean we should have kept a disillusioned Ralph. |
Ok but who’s out there then who we knows gonna be better than this “total looser”?
As the only person I’ve heard getting mentioned who we’ve heard of and would probably be good is Potter, but of course that’s only if Chelsea give him the boot, which we don’t know how long that could be, or of course if it’ll ever happen, and even then there’s no certainty that we’ll get hold of him then as I wouldn’t be too surprised if he didn’t wanna join a relegation battling team!
But I’ve heard no one else who most would be happy with, so who’d you get in then? Stevie G? Lampard, if Everton sack him? Dyche? As most of these managers have also done very poor recently, as even the likes of Dyche wouldn’t do any better, as this isn’t his sorta team and as he showed with Burnley last season, when his teams not good enough, unfortunately he still can’t keep them up. But still who else is out there then? As if we did sack NJ within the next few weeks our best bet will ever be some foreign manager we’ve never heard of, or yeah probably getting Ralph back!
But even then it doesn’t matter who we’ve got as manager, as unless we get the signings we need in, we’ll be going down irrelevant of who’s in charge. |  |
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| Congratulations on 22:26 - Jan 5 with 407 views | MytchettSaint |
| Congratulations on 22:08 - Jan 5 by SFC_Referee |
Ok but who’s out there then who we knows gonna be better than this “total looser”?
As the only person I’ve heard getting mentioned who we’ve heard of and would probably be good is Potter, but of course that’s only if Chelsea give him the boot, which we don’t know how long that could be, or of course if it’ll ever happen, and even then there’s no certainty that we’ll get hold of him then as I wouldn’t be too surprised if he didn’t wanna join a relegation battling team!
But I’ve heard no one else who most would be happy with, so who’d you get in then? Stevie G? Lampard, if Everton sack him? Dyche? As most of these managers have also done very poor recently, as even the likes of Dyche wouldn’t do any better, as this isn’t his sorta team and as he showed with Burnley last season, when his teams not good enough, unfortunately he still can’t keep them up. But still who else is out there then? As if we did sack NJ within the next few weeks our best bet will ever be some foreign manager we’ve never heard of, or yeah probably getting Ralph back!
But even then it doesn’t matter who we’ve got as manager, as unless we get the signings we need in, we’ll be going down irrelevant of who’s in charge. |
Ralph was a good coach but he wasn’t without his flaws and was badly burned by two 9-0 defeats. It changed him. I could never understand the feast or famine nature of results under him. When things weren’t going well, the subs would always be two minutes too late or he’d start players who were not up to it in positions completely alien to them (although NJ seems afflicted with that same problem)
Have people forgotten the run of form from February last year until his departure?
It’s bizarre as McCarthy was a liability under Ralph due to his insistence on him playing the ball out rather than clearing danger. I wonder if the one player NJ may be able to get a tune out of would be him. |  |
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| Congratulations on 23:28 - Jan 5 with 348 views | SFC_Referee |
| Congratulations on 22:26 - Jan 5 by MytchettSaint |
Ralph was a good coach but he wasn’t without his flaws and was badly burned by two 9-0 defeats. It changed him. I could never understand the feast or famine nature of results under him. When things weren’t going well, the subs would always be two minutes too late or he’d start players who were not up to it in positions completely alien to them (although NJ seems afflicted with that same problem)
Have people forgotten the run of form from February last year until his departure?
It’s bizarre as McCarthy was a liability under Ralph due to his insistence on him playing the ball out rather than clearing danger. I wonder if the one player NJ may be able to get a tune out of would be him. |
Ok but he made up for those 9-0’s and other poor result and runs by what he did on the positive side.
As I heard this on the radio before and completely agree, as Ralph was always a game away from getting a big club job or a game away from getting the sack! As he’d almost always be on a great run or a poor one, and for everything he did well he then brought us back down to earth with something poor, or vice versa. As we’d go on these great runs, where just before we start actually wondering if we can make Europe or not and if he’ll go anywhere else, we’d loose and start dropping off a bit, or be on poor runs, but then he’d always win that last chance game and we’d get going again, which is why he kept his job.
And he’s he did have a poor run from February until the end of last season (as it wasn’t until he got sacked that we were on the same poor run, as we did actually have a great August and not too bad October for this season, as it was just how poor he ended last season as well as in September and some of those games in November, which got him the sack), but then he also had an amazing run from like November to February last season, which made up for the poor end to the season and is why we stayed up.
As Ralph would’ve certainly done better than the 0 league points NJ has had from his first 4 league games in charge.
And even then those 9-0’s will just mean less and less over time as more teams will start to loose by these margins, because of how big this gap is getting between the “top 6” (although it’ll soon be 7) and the lower teams, hence why Bournemouth lost 9-0 this season, and I’m sure some team will loose in the double digits soon! As it’s no coincidence that there’s just a single 9-0 win from 1986 to 2019, yet within the last 3 years alone there’s been 3 of them!
Of course that’s not to say that it’s perfectly fine to loose by those margins and not a big deal, but it’s just how it’s also down to modern day football as well as the teams on the day. | |
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