Hughes bewildered!

[Matty]

We'd be on target for 70 points "if we beat Stoke and Wolves" goes the article, yeah, and IF we win every game between now and May we'll be Premiership champions. You can't simply gift us points we haven't won yet and assume it'll happen. Yes, we SHOULD beat Stoke and Wolves, but we should have beaten Burnley, Hull, Fulham and Bolton and didn't.

 

[johnny crossan]

Hughes is bewildered!

I am fucking bewildered that City have conceded more goals than Portsmouth ffs !!!

Therein lies Hughes' downfall. He didn't manage his staff, Mark Bowen utterly failed as a defensive coach and Hughes did nothing.

 

[allan harper]

I was bewildered traveling back from tottenham birmingham wigan bolton

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Well he would be.

Although Hughes appears dignified I actually think he is a very arrogant man. He will accept no responsibility for what happened to him, because in his own mind he is a great innovative coach.

Since day one he has always passed the buck, blaming Elano, Sven, even the club. He has lowered expectations to give himself enough space for failure.

Hughes supporters will say why post this now, he has gone. Well yes he has gone but he is still trying to spin the media. In this he is ably abetted by the media who can't understand that a RAG legend has been treated in this way.

I have a feeling Mancini will not blame the existing players, none of which he has bought, but will in fact just quietly get on and make them play better.

I think this is just slightly harsh. I would expect Hughes to be concerned about the level of points acquisition but if he has been told a certain target and he feels he is within the target area, and no-one has iterated or re-iterated their concern that they think the target is slipping away, which is just what Marwood and Cook should be doing (I'd like to know whether conversations such as this one have taken place), then Hughes has every right to be somewhat set back.

But it's all gone and Cook for one would love to see it treated as water under the bridge.

Wonder if we'll get Italian flags on the seats come Saturday.

Arrivederci Mark, benvenuto Roberto. Three points please, and just think on we were four up at halftime Boxing Day last year. Only five would be an improvement!

 

[mancity5]

I was bewildered traveling back from tottenham birmingham wigan bolton

I was gonna put that,,, but I dint go Tottenham, so I didn't !!!

 

[kismet]

so was John Terrys wife when she took a call from Kevin Hitchcock in the middle of the night.

He was smoothing the water for the transfer to City that nearly came off.................

WOW

 

[IFeedGoats]

We'd be on target for 70 points "if we beat Stoke and Wolves" goes the article, yeah, and IF we win every game between now and May we'll be Premiership champions. You can't simply gift us points we haven't won yet and assume it'll happen. Yes, we SHOULD beat Stoke and Wolves, but we should have beaten Burnley, Hull, Fulham and Bolton and didn't.

But you have to have a milestone, half a season review would be normal. What if Robbie M doesn't average x amount of points after 10 games are we going to sack him?

 

[Mental_blue]

We'd be on target for 70 points "if we beat Stoke and Wolves" goes the article, yeah, and IF we win every game between now and May we'll be Premiership champions. You can't simply gift us points we haven't won yet and assume it'll happen. Yes, we SHOULD beat Stoke and Wolves, but we should have beaten Burnley, Hull, Fulham and Bolton and didn't.

But you have to have a milestone, half a season review would be normal. What if Robbie M doesn't average x amount of points after 10 games are we going to sack him?

In any business you have to set targets, monitor progress against those targets and take action if you don't seem to be meeting them. It's all very well saying that if we won the next 2 games we would have been exactly half way there with half the season gone but prior to saturday, we had won 1 out of 10 and would have had to go from there to winning 3 onthe trot.

We have gone from a man who thinks Top 6 is a reasonable target after spending £200 million to a man who set himself the target of top 4 this year and the title next. If you aim for the top, you have a chance of reaching it and falling short still leaves you in a good position. If you aim for mediocrity and fall short - well I'll let you work that out.

 

[barney8]

IMO Hughes was very lucky to get another season after the first one. The owners probably regret that now.

 

[IFeedGoats]

But you have to have a milestone, half a season review would be normal. What if Robbie M doesn't average x amount of points after 10 games are we going to sack him?

In any business you have to set targets, monitor progress against those targets and take action if you don't seem to be meeting them. It's all very well saying that if we won the next 2 games we would have been exactly half way there with half the season gone but prior to saturday, we had won 1 out of 10 and would have had to go from there to winning 3 onthe trot.

We have gone from a man who thinks Top 6 is a reasonable target after spending £200 million to a man who set himself the target of top 4 this year and the title next. If you aim for the top, you have a chance of reaching it and falling short still leaves you in a good position. If you aim for mediocrity and fall short - well I'll let you work that out.

Good Post, my point is it shouldn't have been in the public domain and used as a stick to beat Hughes with as he technically had a chance to fulfil his target. I wasn't debating whether it was the right decision to get rid of Hughes and bring in Mancini.