Mark Hughes as manager

talkativesprout said:
I believe RSC and Hughes shared the same agent. Wasn't there a "under cover agent" expose at the time in one of the papers?

just had a quick check and out of the 20 he brought in i'd say 5 1/2 didn't work out (Robinho being the 1/2 we weren't ready for him)

Jo -Shit

Robinho - too good for the team we had

Nigel de Jong - Wonderful signing just what we needed

Craig Bellamy - Splits opinion but i'm a lover of balls on the saw players

Wayne Bridge - took us for a ride but a decent player

SWP - say no more

Shay Given - Decent

Pablo Zabaleta - Hero

Vincent Kompany See Above

Tal Ben Haim - Can't remember him playing for us, didn't he break his leg?

Glauber - Got a great song out of him (proper weird signing)

Gunnar Nielsen - Backup keeper hard to tell

Emmanuel Adebayor - For that celebration alone

Carlos Tevez - Cult Hero

Joleon Lescott - Without his big square head there is no Aguerooooooo, decent

Roque Santa Cruz....Seriously dodgy

Kolo Toure...Steady defender

Sylvinho Can't really remember him but guess he was passed it, one for the dodgy category

Stuart Taylor- Legend
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Regardless of who was bought at the time, he couldn't manage them, thus my comment about him being a shit manager. I gave him somewhere in the region of 5-6 games and could see then there was no management of tactics.

Those lads worked it out on the pitch, mainly.
 
Kompany Zabba and Tevez and Joe Hart I think - but suspect these were signings made by the upper management and not Hughes - anyway regardless of that I was never comfortable with a rag as manager and for that reason alone I was glad to see the back of him
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Scored a cracking goal v Scunny in the cup. The game where Knobhead Dirty Dan Walker thought he was amusing when he proclaimed it was Scunny v The Money. ****. Must be the name! Are all Dans cunts - Dan Roan Danny Murphy, Dan Neville, Danny Carragher,Dan Klippity?
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Can't think of a Dan I like but Lieutenant Dan pisstake pics can lighten the mood.

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jimharri said:
Never understood the sheer hatred for him. If it's because he played for Trafford's finest, why not the same for Denis Law, or Carlos Tevez, or Terry Cooke? And if it's because he underperformed as our manager, I could name quite a few others who were markedly worse.
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Mate some of us just hate everything about them - only reason you need is being a die hard blue - the ex rag players just about got tolerated but having one as manager is totally unacceptable
 
Trojan63 said:
Mate some of us just hate everything about them - only reason you need is being a die hard blue - the ex rag players just about got tolerated but having one as manager is totally unacceptable
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I totally understand. If you know anything about Ireland, they made my life hell for the thick end of 25 years.I just wonder if they feel the same about Busby? Not looking for an argument, by the way.
 
The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
Pie eaters ?
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Yep. For me, that was a far worse day. Emphasis on "day". The shitstorm surrounding Mancini's likely departure, the hostile atmosphere at the stadium, anti Pellegrini chants, blues fighting blues, other blues pissed/coked up, the rotten weather; and I haven't even mentioned the no show by the team. I'm not saying the Forest game was a delight; far from it. But to not show up on the day of the final, against a team who was relegated the following midweek was a level above (below?) the Forest shambles. In my opinion.
 
Trojan63 said:
Kompany Zabba and Tevez and Joe Hart I think - but suspect these were signings made by the upper management and not Hughes - anyway regardless of that I was never comfortable with a rag as manager and for that reason alone I was glad to see the back of him
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Hughes played in Germany and closely followed German football and went there at City and Blackburn - RSC was at Bayern. He knew you got better value for money there.

Hart was 2 managers before Hughes. It is odd that Hughes and Pearce get all the stick whilst Ball gets off relatively lightly.
 
jimharri said:
Yep. For me, that was a far worse day. Emphasis on "day". The shitstorm surrounding Mancini's likely departure, the hostile atmosphere at the stadium, anti Pellegrini chants, blues fighting blues, other blues pissed/coked up, the rotten weather; and I haven't even mentioned the no show by the team. I'm not saying the Forest game was a delight; far from it. But to not show up on the day of the final, against a team who was relegated the following midweek was a level above (below?) the Forest shambles. In my opinion.
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Not wrong here to be fair.
 
jimharri said:
Yep. For me, that was a far worse day. Emphasis on "day". The shitstorm surrounding Mancini's likely departure, the hostile atmosphere at the stadium, anti Pellegrini chants, blues fighting blues, other blues pissed/coked up, the rotten weather; and I haven't even mentioned the no show by the team. I'm not saying the Forest game was a delight; far from it. But to not show up on the day of the final, against a team who was relegated the following midweek was a level above (below?) the Forest shambles. In my opinion.
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A day I remember only too well. Thoroughly miserable performance from the team and the Mancini news rumbling and getting absolutely soaked into the bargain.

Even a piss up became impossible due to the abject feeling am! amongst all of us booked into a hotel.
 
jimharri said:
No one's trying to downplay the Forest shitshow; I'm certainly not. Anyone who was there has my sympathy. But leaving Wembley that afternoon in 2013 matched how I felt against Luton in '83 or Stoke in' 98. Don't think I'll ever forget it.
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Forest defeat was a bad day, losing the FA Cup final to Wigan was a fuckin disaster.
 
jimharri said:
No one's trying to downplay the Forest shitshow; I'm certainly not. Anyone who was there has my sympathy. But leaving Wembley that afternoon in 2013 matched how I felt against Luton in '83 or Stoke in' 98. Don't think I'll ever forget it.
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Cannot believe it was only 15 years between Luton & Stoke - seemed like decades , and cannot believe that stoke was 25 years ago !! Reading this made me feel very old. The Wigan game was a sickener as it felt self inflicted and a bit of the old city , imploding when we were on the brink of something big but turned out to be a minor hickup. Nothing stung quite as much as spurs in 81 , not even Luton but I might have been numbed by the shock. Stoke felt inevitable.
 
jimharri said:
Yep. For me, that was a far worse day. Emphasis on "day". The shitstorm surrounding Mancini's likely departure, the hostile atmosphere at the stadium, anti Pellegrini chants, blues fighting blues, other blues pissed/coked up, the rotten weather; and I haven't even mentioned the no show by the team. I'm not saying the Forest game was a delight; far from it. But to not show up on the day of the final, against a team who was relegated the following midweek was a level above (below?) the Forest shambles. In my opinion.
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I think all those factors and the magnitude of the game makes your shout extremely valid. But just going off what happened on the pitch, I think you'll do well to find a worse display than Forest. Incidently, I was spared that final. It was my best mates stag do..it was touch n go, but I chose the races. Great decision.
 
CarlosTevez'sEnglishTutor said:
Great first leg but fuck me that second leg was a sickener.
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Under Mancini the 2nd leg in one of his first games in charge not Hughes... I always felt if Mancini was hired a little later after that game we'd have beat the rags in the 2nd leg.

Not because Hughes was a great manager far from from it Mancini was an instant upgrade, the problem was Mancini picked Boyata on a whim in that 2nd leg based on seeing him in a single training session, not for one moment had Boyata played at right back for the youth team, Mancini saw him in training and wrongly decided to put him in like a deer in the headlights.

Boyata was for me the main reason we lost that Semi Final 2nd leg against the rags so easily got at, Micah and Zab were injured some might say but we had Kieran Trippier available and Trippier being a boyhood blue was champing at the bit, he would've been up for it against the rags he had a knack of having top games against them in the youths, Mancini bizarrely kept overlooking him in his first month in favour of one of someone he liked from training.

Boyata was terrible it's still bizarre that he got game time for us, along with Abdi Ibrahim and Abdul Razak later on too, anyone who regularly watched the youths back then can't tell me the latter two weren't in the top 5 worst youths at our club. That League cup 2nd leg totally miffed me I've no idea how Boyata the 4 choice youth centre back and 3rd choice DM in the youths, instantly broke in at right back ahead of both Trippier (despite never appearing for the academy there) or ahead of Ben Mee too when he played centrally.

Both were streets ahead back then and still are Boyata has actually done well for himself since, at City though others were clearly better he was never at any point good enough while here, despite some fans strangely liking him he was a total liability and never looked like be becoming a top player.
 
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