After calm reflection in a dark room with a bottle of wine and a box of Kleenex tissues, here are my thoughts for what they are worth.
It should not be a Hughes in or out divide and slanging match, but serious hard questions must be asked. We now have a team, a squad of new quality players in the main but are we any better than previously?
We raise our game for the top 4 but fail to beat lesser rivals, like we have always done; 'TYPICAL CITY'.
We are leaking like a sieve in defence, seriously worse defensive record than last year, when we were supposed to be bad.
We look disjointed in our play, 11 guys trying their hearts out but as individuals not a team.
Hughes appears TACTICALLY NAIVE, in a big way and has done for most of his 18 months; I like the guy but seriously question whether he or his backroom staff are anywhere near good enough, RSC as a substitute tonight when two down, Petrov left on the bench until too late, even a blind man can see RSC is not good enough currently and is not a guy to bring on to change a game going against you.
Under Hughes good players suddenly look bad players. I see no leadership qualities in him, or his players.
Anyway for me it is not about tonight’s result we are still in the race for a top 4 place. It is about the fact that for me the bubble (of illusion) burst tonight bigtime as tonight just highlighted what has been obvious for ages but been masked by the one defeat argument (8 draws, 1 win, 1 defeat), we are not anywhere near good enough as a team to finish in the top 4 and our return over the last 10 league games is put simply near relegation form.
We will not collect 9 points from our next 3 games which we should which for me will reinforce the fact that we are not going forward, just standing still, which in previous days of few resources would have been fine but given our multitude of resources now is APPALLING FAILURE. We are behind Birmingham in the league and just ahead of Fulham who have the distraction of Europe and very limited resources.
I was prepared to give Hughes this season and next but now I must seriously question the wisdom of letting him have even the January transfer window to waste more money. My greatest fear is we will end up buying BENTLEY a useless twat like RSC at massively inflated transfer money and wages.
I think Khaldoon Al Mubarak needs to spend time like me in a dark room thinking deep thoughts about where we are going and whether or not we are progressing, regressing or worse maybe just standing still.
I do not care if Hughes stays or goes but things need to improve, we need to see progress on the field to match that off the field, no matter who manages the team.
It should not be a Hughes in or out divide and slanging match, but serious hard questions must be asked. We now have a team, a squad of new quality players in the main but are we any better than previously?
We raise our game for the top 4 but fail to beat lesser rivals, like we have always done; 'TYPICAL CITY'.
We are leaking like a sieve in defence, seriously worse defensive record than last year, when we were supposed to be bad.
We look disjointed in our play, 11 guys trying their hearts out but as individuals not a team.
Hughes appears TACTICALLY NAIVE, in a big way and has done for most of his 18 months; I like the guy but seriously question whether he or his backroom staff are anywhere near good enough, RSC as a substitute tonight when two down, Petrov left on the bench until too late, even a blind man can see RSC is not good enough currently and is not a guy to bring on to change a game going against you.
Under Hughes good players suddenly look bad players. I see no leadership qualities in him, or his players.
Anyway for me it is not about tonight’s result we are still in the race for a top 4 place. It is about the fact that for me the bubble (of illusion) burst tonight bigtime as tonight just highlighted what has been obvious for ages but been masked by the one defeat argument (8 draws, 1 win, 1 defeat), we are not anywhere near good enough as a team to finish in the top 4 and our return over the last 10 league games is put simply near relegation form.
We will not collect 9 points from our next 3 games which we should which for me will reinforce the fact that we are not going forward, just standing still, which in previous days of few resources would have been fine but given our multitude of resources now is APPALLING FAILURE. We are behind Birmingham in the league and just ahead of Fulham who have the distraction of Europe and very limited resources.
I was prepared to give Hughes this season and next but now I must seriously question the wisdom of letting him have even the January transfer window to waste more money. My greatest fear is we will end up buying BENTLEY a useless twat like RSC at massively inflated transfer money and wages.
I think Khaldoon Al Mubarak needs to spend time like me in a dark room thinking deep thoughts about where we are going and whether or not we are progressing, regressing or worse maybe just standing still.
I do not care if Hughes stays or goes but things need to improve, we need to see progress on the field to match that off the field, no matter who manages the team.