Anyone Remember John Benson ? (Pro Hughes thread)

[Dale Blue]

Everyone keeps telling me that stability is the key & you never get anywhere keep sacking managers....

Real Madrid seem to get rid of a manager a year.

They've won 92 trophies!!!!!

 

[twinkletoes]

How many City players would make it in Chelsea's first eleven?

 

[Soulboy]

The joke was they only appointed him as replacement for John Bond so that they didn't have to change the initials on the Manager's Tracksuit.
The point I'm making is this club is crying out for stability. Last season was a transition season and because we then sacked Sven, this season as a result will be exactly the same. We have the nucleus of a very good team but sacking Hughes right now is a knee jerk reaction to some poor performances by individual PLAYERS.
Or better still, let's sack him and take our choice from Souness, Harry bassett or George Graham....because if you think any TOP Manager would come to us right now (Mourinho, Hiddink etc) you are just dreaming.
Personally, i have waited 32 years for success....and prepared if necessary to wait 1 or 2 more years so that we make sure we get it right.
Commence slagging off now.....

As far as I can see most of Hughes detractors have the memories of a gold fish and don't realise that sacking managers every five minutes is a bad idea.

Just a bit of history about that viewpoint... alan ball was universally hated as manager of City, most Blues wanted him out by the halfway point of the season, but Chairman Franny refused to listen, stating "stability" would see us through our problems.

We got relegated.

Ball was sacked 2 games into the next saeson.

Frank Clark took us to the brink of the 3rd. division in spite of us being the biggest spenders in the division. Shoud he have been given more time? Don't think so!

Royle had seen two relegations before he was sacked. Fair enough?

Keegan resigned 15 months before his contract ended. So we didn't sack him.

Pearce endured 18 months and I defy ANY City fan to suggest he should have been retained instead of appointing SGE!

Then SGE... okay, lasted just a season and there might be a view that he should have been given more time. But his 2nd. half of the season was appalling, and couldn't be defended, and the owners at the time had big ambitions that they felt Sven couldn't meet any more.

So we actually DON'T have that bad a record of sacking managers too early.

We just keep appointing ther wrong fucking ones!

And here we are again...

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Our squad is a good one, its just underperforming at the moment.

Some of our good squad

Evans (shite)
Fernandes (shite)
Vassell (shite)
TBH (shite)
Caicedo (shite)
Hamann (passed it)
Schmeichel (shite)
Ball (shite)
Petrov (injured)
Johnson (injured)
Etuhu (injured)
Sturridge (injured)

What? Didi passed it? Without falling over? Did the pass reach a blue shirt?

 

[moomba]

How many City players would make it in Chelsea's first eleven?

Does it really matter?I don't think anyone is suggesting we have the squad to better the Chelsea of the league, just that we have a squad that shouldn't be behind the Hulls and Stokes of this league.

 

[Balti]