Update post(mortem) Burnley
Can we speak the truth now, or do we still have to pretend all in the garden is rosy. Hughes is tactically naive, today once again reinforces the point. 3 goals conceded all soft goals. Two down then 3 2 up and yet we still throw it away. Anymore it is a good draw we are 4th, 5th, 6th dropping shit. Wake up smell the salts we are not evn top 6 playing like this.
How bad do we have to get before we can be honest and realistic about the manager?
Update post Birmingham
I repeat Mark Hughes cannot set up the team, motivate the team and clearly is tactically naive, we are going backwards not forward.
All those who hurled abuse at me when I first posted this OPEN YOUR EYES, R U BLIND.
Nice Guy Hughes, but I think he has serious flaws, despite the multitude of good things he has done, in critical areas as stated above. Unfortunately these areas make the difference between a good manager and a winning manager (A Top Notcher).
It is winning that ultimately matters, not the art of good excuses.
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Updated post Fulham defeat (ok draw but feels like a defeat) on Page 11.
Hughes praised our performance while yet again rubbishing last years players/team. It was a sign we were top 4 material, apparently.
Get a grip, this is Hughes doing a Fergie by distracting attention away from a dreadful performance. That is the managers' performance.
Martinez outsmarted Hughes second half, who could not respond, seemingly not up to the tactical challegne.
We let in a pathetic goal, Richards fault. We have a defence as leaky as a sieve. injuryies no excuse with our resources and anyway was leaky when at full strength. A leaky defence is not top 4 material.
The sending off just hid the fact that Wigan (new players galore just gelling) took over the game second half (clearly shown by the stats up until the sending off), despite our early goal reposte.
We had our ass kicked by an inferior team, and were lucky, very lucky to get a draw and Hughes celebrates this, pathetic.
Hughes should have taken Zabableta off earlier, it was obvious he was going to get sent off. Hughes should have made tactical changes and substitues earlier.
I am not saying he definitively is not up to the task, because in every box other than tactical, I rate him very highly, but the questions over his tactical ability, and therefore ability to win major honours, remain.
I think this serious weakness will be exposed in the coming Cup matches (No not Scunthorpe) and second half of the season, we will get dumped out of both Cups when up against decent opposition, imho, given Hughes lack of tactical nous.
Who evaluates the manager for Khaldoon Al Mubarak?
Can we speak the truth now, or do we still have to pretend all in the garden is rosy. Hughes is tactically naive, today once again reinforces the point. 3 goals conceded all soft goals. Two down then 3 2 up and yet we still throw it away. Anymore it is a good draw we are 4th, 5th, 6th dropping shit. Wake up smell the salts we are not evn top 6 playing like this.
How bad do we have to get before we can be honest and realistic about the manager?
Update post Birmingham
I repeat Mark Hughes cannot set up the team, motivate the team and clearly is tactically naive, we are going backwards not forward.
All those who hurled abuse at me when I first posted this OPEN YOUR EYES, R U BLIND.
Nice Guy Hughes, but I think he has serious flaws, despite the multitude of good things he has done, in critical areas as stated above. Unfortunately these areas make the difference between a good manager and a winning manager (A Top Notcher).
It is winning that ultimately matters, not the art of good excuses.
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Updated post Fulham defeat (ok draw but feels like a defeat) on Page 11.
Hughes praised our performance while yet again rubbishing last years players/team. It was a sign we were top 4 material, apparently.
Get a grip, this is Hughes doing a Fergie by distracting attention away from a dreadful performance. That is the managers' performance.
Martinez outsmarted Hughes second half, who could not respond, seemingly not up to the tactical challegne.
We let in a pathetic goal, Richards fault. We have a defence as leaky as a sieve. injuryies no excuse with our resources and anyway was leaky when at full strength. A leaky defence is not top 4 material.
The sending off just hid the fact that Wigan (new players galore just gelling) took over the game second half (clearly shown by the stats up until the sending off), despite our early goal reposte.
We had our ass kicked by an inferior team, and were lucky, very lucky to get a draw and Hughes celebrates this, pathetic.
Hughes should have taken Zabableta off earlier, it was obvious he was going to get sent off. Hughes should have made tactical changes and substitues earlier.
I am not saying he definitively is not up to the task, because in every box other than tactical, I rate him very highly, but the questions over his tactical ability, and therefore ability to win major honours, remain.
I think this serious weakness will be exposed in the coming Cup matches (No not Scunthorpe) and second half of the season, we will get dumped out of both Cups when up against decent opposition, imho, given Hughes lack of tactical nous.
Who evaluates the manager for Khaldoon Al Mubarak?