Hughes at Stoke

[Gabriel]

Smells of Charlton under Curbishley this one. Think Hughes was making a point with Guidetti.

Remember Mancini bringing Ade on with about a minute to go! It's more pointless than pissing into a hurricane.

True. Don't see the point in managers acting so simply to show who is boss.

 

[bert's broken neck]

Starting to live up to his "Clueless" nickname! Good opportunity to prove that he's not on Saturday - but I'm not holding my breath and I am expecting another wonder show from the scum. Mind you, a boring nil-nil, like we managed way back when, would be piss funny. WTF was that all about btw (our nil-nil that is)? Stange to think we've scored 116(ish) goals in something like thirty odd matches and we couldn't manage one at Stoke (and Sunderland for that matter!)

Funny game football!

 

[davymcfc]

Well I think people are now beginning to realise that mark Hughes isn't all he's cracked up to be.

 

[baldybouncer]

He's a shoe in to replace that Norwegian turd when Tan dumps him after Cardiff are relegated!

 

[carlos tevez is a blue]

Don't worry Mark Bowen will tell you his team's better in the second half of the season.

 

[1961_vintage]

Talks a good game even if he can't get his teams to play one. I imagine he would make a good replacement for that little prick of a pundit on BT sport.

 

[KentBlue]

It's been said before, but it's definitely true: Hughes (and others of his ilk) always seem to come out smelling of roses, regardless of the chaos they leave in their wake. Stoke will go down and Clueless will be sacked - pocketing another windfall. Someone like Leceister will replace them, but after a couple of months of struggling with life in the Premiership, they'll sack Pearson, appoint Clueless and the merry-go-round will begin again.

 

[RandomJ]

The guy is a con man. He has been stealing a living ever since he retired from playing. He just isn't a good manager. A good manager looks at the players he has and figures a way to get the most out of them. For Stoke like it or not that is brute force and set pieces. But oh no not Clueless. He wants the Stoke players to play it all on the deck like Barca except getting the Stoke players to do that is like getting an elephant to do a triple backflip, they just don't have the ability. Then the genius plays one up front - Crouch who to be fair to him does a good job in holding the ball up or knocking it down but of course there is no one up there to help him because of the way Clueless has set the team so the ball just keeps coming back at them.

I am just simply amazed the man keeps getting gigs in the top league and he will just get sacked, pick up his nice juicy pay off and then he will somehow get another job a few months later. Any chairman giving him the job deserves to see their team relegated which is the way Stoke are heading now.

 

[DalbeyINUK]

Media are actually starting to turn on him. Not viciously of course but listening to Talksport late last night they for the first time I've ever heard are starting to question whether he should ever get another job coaching after Stoke is relegated. Which they were taking for a given. Don't know if I agree that it's a given at all, but still nice to see years later opinion finally starting to come in line with what we've known for years.

 

[Bill]

I didn't want Hughes sacked by City. I wanted him to be given more time.

I was wrong.

His spell at Blackburn was his peak and since then its been all down hill.

he was right for us for where we were when he joined. after the money came in he was on very thin ice. all those draws and some rotten luck made his position untenable. it was a proper upgrade getting bob but we shit on hughes and made us seem crass. we didn't learn and repeated the same mistake with mancini sacking. again we have upgraded again to pelli, lets hope we show this guy a little more patience and respect. he certainly deserves it.