Mark Hughes sacked

[decmancity]

It will be interesting to see which club is so devoid of imagination as to put this man back into employment.

He can easily afford to retire on the back of multiple severance payments. And that’s what he should do.

Why would you retire?

At least another 10-12mil out there for 5 years. Easy work.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

I think he just needs more dynamism.

I think you have mis-spelt managerial talent......

 

[nmc]

I always found it hilarious that he mouths off so much about how good he is at improving fitness and intensity and getting teams to run more, yet the first thing Bobby Manc did was basically call our entire squad unfit and ramp the intensity way up in training (with noticeable results).

And boy did some of them woman! But you are right Hughes sides have a soft underbelly and poor discipline. He’ll pop up at a Championship team sometime in the New Year, even Bruce is about to get another chance.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Best British manager of his time....


I'm struggling to remember his time, but I'm sure I read it somewhere.

2:55 ? It then all goes tits up, come 3:00.

 

[Gary James]

Gary James was at Castleton OSC a couple of weeks ago and told the story about him being questioned by the board at City when we were in that run of games where we only won one in ten and telling them that he didn't plan to change anything as he was doing everything right and the team just needed a bit of luck. The board weren't happy with that response so decided to sack him.

I saw an interview with Hughes a few days ago where he said that the team was doing all the right things and that it would come good eventually. I knew then he didn't have long.

I felt exactly the same when I saw that interview. It was like I'd heard it all before. Deja Vu perhaps or just his usual approach?

 

[taleofbluehalves]

Sacked again?

 

[Gary James]

At the time the press went very negative on the sacking saying that he should have been given the next 3 games as they were eminently winnable, completely ignoring our current run of drawn games that we should have easily won.

That same media had been calling for him to be dismissed - or at least questioning why he hadn't been during 2008-09 and the whole hypocrisy of it all really angered me at the time.

 

[Blue Llama]

That same media had been calling for him to be dismissed - or at least questioning why he hadn't been during 2008-09 and the whole hypocrisy of it all really angered me at the time.

Unfortunately that's the way the media is today. Reporting is fuelled by the need to drive emotion to encourage readership and viewers. Reporting the facts and separating opinion from news is long gone. News programmes frustrate by dragging out 'learned' specialist to speculate on what might have happened and incorporate what amount to trailers for documentaries to be broadcast.