Hughes bewildered!

[lionheart]

If Hughes was genuinely bewildered, it shows how detached he was from the real world.

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

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?

Hughes was given a lot longer than 10 games and this season has ahrdly been convincing. We were in the relegation zone last year for FFS, if our owners were as big a set of twats as evryone is making out they woulda sacked him then. If they were a much smaller set of twats than people are making out they woulda sacked him at the end of last season

 

[Mental_blue]

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.

I agree. I think if he had been sacked on Thursday morning then no one would have batted an eyelid. Maybe KAM is too honourable a man coz he wanted to do it face-to-face himself and explain the reasons rather than than get Cook to do it.

As for the so-called "big exclusives" in the press this morning that Bobby was being touted while Hughes was still in post - well, so what. It is much more preferable than bombing Hughes on Thursday and then kicking our heals until the New Year waiting for someone to come in.

 

[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?

Hughes was given a lot longer than 10 games and this season has ahrdly been convincing. We were in the relegation zone last year for FFS, if our owners were as big a set of twats as evryone is making out they woulda sacked him then. If they were a much smaller set of twats than people are making out they woulda sacked him at the end of last season

I will requote myself! just saying it is a stupid thing to bring up in the press conference and didn't really justify anything. All we will get is people/press averaging our points totals after each and every game.

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.

 

[Foreverin1w27ul2blue]

Well, I disagree with most of what is being said here. AND, I for one am voting with my feet, as are another 5 of my friends.
Yesterday we all sent our season tickets back, ripped in half, and nomne of us will ever attend another match which includes Man City.
What they have done to Hughes is criminal and utterly disgusting.
Mancini, although a great player and manager in Europe, never fitted in at Leicester, and was an arrogant SOB.
Let's see where City are at the end of the season now.... If Bellamy is anything of a man, he will through his boots into the boardroom, or at the very least withdraw his superb ability as a footballer. City do NOT deserve him.
I hope amongst all hopes that the club get NOTHING this year now, and that the paymasters suffer financially as a result.

 

[Anonymous]

Well, I disagree with most of what is being said here. AND, I for one am voting with my feet, as are another 5 of my friends.
Yesterday we all sent our season tickets back, ripped in half, and nomne of us will ever attend another match which includes Man City.
What they have done to Hughes is criminal and utterly disgusting.
Mancini, although a great player and manager in Europe, never fitted in at Leicester, and was an arrogant SOB.
Let's see where City are at the end of the season now.... If Bellamy is anything of a man, he will through his boots into the boardroom, or at the very least withdraw his superb ability as a footballer. City do NOT deserve him.
I hope amongst all hopes that the club get NOTHING this year now, and that the paymasters suffer financially as a result.

LOLOLOL!

This is all bullshit isn't it, raggety man?

 

[jay_mcfc]

The Hughes PR machine that was so apparent last season is still in full swing I see. £243m and still can't defend after 18 months.

Alex is bang on, if our owners were the people the press are now making them out to be he'd have been sacked after the West Brom game last season. They've given him 18 months too long imo and are absolutely right to get rid and go for a man with proper credentials.

 

[M18CTID]

Well, I disagree with most of what is being said here. AND, I for one am voting with my feet, as are another 5 of my friends.
Yesterday we all sent our season tickets back, ripped in half, and nomne of us will ever attend another match which includes Man City.
What they have done to Hughes is criminal and utterly disgusting.
Mancini, although a great player and manager in Europe, never fitted in at Leicester, and was an arrogant SOB.
Let's see where City are at the end of the season now.... If Bellamy is anything of a man, he will through his boots into the boardroom, or at the very least withdraw his superb ability as a footballer. City do NOT deserve him.
I hope amongst all hopes that the club get NOTHING this year now, and that the paymasters suffer financially as a result.

PMSL - One of the worst WUMs ever on this forum. If you're on a wind-up, at least try and be a bit more subtle about it ;)

 

[Biginoil]

Well, I disagree with most of what is being said here. AND, I for one am voting with my feet, as are another 5 of my friends.
Yesterday we all sent our season tickets back, ripped in half, and nomne of us will ever attend another match which includes Man City.
What they have done to Hughes is criminal and utterly disgusting.
Mancini, although a great player and manager in Europe, never fitted in at Leicester, and was an arrogant SOB.
Let's see where City are at the end of the season now.... If Bellamy is anything of a man, he will through his boots into the boardroom, or at the very least withdraw his superb ability as a footballer. City do NOT deserve him.
I hope amongst all hopes that the club get NOTHING this year now, and that the paymasters suffer financially as a result.

Paper ones, were they?

Tee hee.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I've just read the article in the MUEN, with Peter Spencer refusing to let it lie.

He's now quoting Hughes "watching it on TV" and his reactions.

Now my views on Peter Spencer are well known, but what is Hughes playing at?

Can't the man show some dignity? When King Kev walks at least he goes into hiding for a few weeks.. I wish the previous incumbent would do the same.

He is now reminding me of a dumped girlfriend who follows you about telling all your mates what a shit you are...

I used a similar analogy yesterday. And that girlfriend has got everyone bitching about you becuase you did it on the phone.