Spin and Win - Hughes Loses

[citoeast]

My problem with Mark Hughes is that he is brillant at every part of management as far as I can see and he has turned the club around to the good in so many ways. Where he has clearly failed is in managing the team performances.

He is exceptional at the PR bit, as he is a very eloquent and very accomplished speaker, but therein lies the problem, he has been able to build up this illusion of progress and the need for ever ending patience thus giving himself a job for life for those who buy into this theory. He is a master of Spin not Win (Winning Mentality).

He has underachieved given the quality of the squad, resources and first team players and more importantly there is no tangible sign of progress. Yes we beat Arsenal's kids and Chelsea and nearly drew at the swamp, but these are achievements past failed managers and so called (losing mentality players - Hughes words) also achieved, because players get themselves up for big games they do not need the manager to do that, professional pride.

Hughes has never tactically turned a game around, he is indeed clueless in this regard and the way he sets his teams up bewildering at times (e.g. Spurs Sylvinho & Robinho, while Petrov and Kompany sat on the bench?).

I regret to say it but I feel strongly Hughes has had his golden opportunity and blown it.

 

[Maineblue]

I agree he looks and sounds the part and I actully quite like him but some of his decisions have been baffling and on the whole the impression we get is someone who struggles to change it on the fly.

For the fact that I want him replaced I do feel a bit sorry for him, I wanted him to succeed despite his rag connections a young british manager taking the club to the top and creating a dynasty here would have been awesome but despite the quality squad that has been formed he's been in around 18 months but from looking at some of the teams performance that could be 18 days.

 

[hgblue]

I agree he looks and sounds the part and I actully quite like him but some of his decisions have been baffling and on the whole the impression we get is someone who struggles to change it on the fly.

For the fact that I want him replaced I do feel a bit sorry for him, I wanted him to succeed despite his rag connections a young british manager taking the club to the top and creating a dynasty here would have been awesome but despite the quality squad that has been formed he's been in around 18 months but from looking at some of the teams performance that could be 18 days.

Yep. Good post. If the op is correct, there should be nobody on here 'gloating' at the manager's demise. His failure is our failure. But I agree that it's beginning to look like we're flogging a dead horse.

 

[sam221985]

If Hughes gets the boot he will take on somebody like Newcastle and get them up to consistently 6th/7th. Because that's what he does well and that's about his level. What we're trying to achieve here is beyond him though, or at very least at this stage of his managerial career it is.

 

[Pam]

If Hughes gets the boot he will take on somebody like Newcastle and get them up to consistently 6th/7th. Because that's what he does well and that's about his level. What we're trying to achieve here is beyond him though, or at very least at this stage of his managerial career it is.

What a nightmare it is that we are having the same old conversation about the same old disappointments.

 

[blueonblue]

Whoops sorry............

The day that clown takes his floppy shoes out the door I will be gloating big time, gloating because he will never get a big job again and certainly he aint got the talent to work his way back from a lower league, gloating because his idea of football is workrate and kicking an its one less of the bas*ards in the game.