The Owners

[Didsbury Dave]

I understood your point straight away, Billy, and I think I commented on it in my first reply.

I'm just trying to paint it in black and white and simple terms for those who don't get it.

Mate, I posted a blatant pisstake last week after the UAE game saying that my Blue table football team had lost and it was hughes's fault. The point I was making was that the UAE game was meaningless.

Yet a few clowns still took it seriously.

 

[BobKowalski]

Billy's obviously more subtle than I was prepared to give him credit for.

Can't believe how many have got the wrong end of the stick.

Agreed. Personally I think its been a damn good thread and it was nice to see a different approach taken to the Hughes argument. Ah well back to 'Hughes OUT FFS' I guess.

 

[EalingBlue2]

The other week I sarcastically posted about us dropping ppoints against sides that non league teams would beat by 7 or 8 and got crucified. It shows just how out of touch some of the Hughes out people (and how sensitive some of the Hughes in people are) are that I can make that comment and it be taken as a serious anti hughes comment.

I think that now 6th with a game in hand is totally unacceptable though that there is a belief in some quarters that if we ended the season with 112points there would be some calling for Hughes head because he is an ex rag and how dare a 200m super team drop 2 points!

 

[blueinsa]

The other week I sarcastically posted about us dropping ppoints against sides that non league teams would beat by 7 or 8 and got crucified. It shows just how out of touch some of the Hughes out people (and how sensitive some of the Hughes in people are) are that I can make that comment and it be taken as a serious anti hughes comment.

I think that now 6th with a game in hand is totally unacceptable though that there is a belief in some quarters that if we ended the season with 112points there would be some calling for Hughes head because he is an ex rag and how dare a 200m super team drop 2 points!

Are you incabable of reading the reasons given by many on here for not wanting him and understanding them?

Im not for one minute suggesting that some dont like him because of his past but please mate, the majority against his tenure are in that position because of a lack of faith in his tactical abilty, his management of men, his failure to recognise his own failings and act upon them, the constantly poor performances despite the vast amount of money invested in the squad and him just not being the best that we could get at the moment to manage our project.

But dont let our reasons get in the way of your obvious fascination with his "RAG" past?!

 

[Anonymous]

I understood your point straight away, Billy, and I think I commented on it in my first reply.

I'm just trying to paint it in black and white and simple terms for those who don't get it.

Mate, I posted a blatant pisstake last week after the UAE game saying that my Blue table football team had lost and it was hughes's fault. The point I was making was that the UAE game was meaningless.

Yet a few clowns still took it seriously.

I know DD...it's a shame so many people got hold of the wrong end of the stick...

I'm also disappointed that there was such a thin turn out from the "Hughes Out" brigade...still, it at least kept the conversation civilized...

 

[whp.blue]

The other week I sarcastically posted about us dropping ppoints against sides that non league teams would beat by 7 or 8 and got crucified. It shows just how out of touch some of the Hughes out people (and how sensitive some of the Hughes in people are) are that I can make that comment and it be taken as a serious anti hughes comment.

I think that now 6th with a game in hand is totally unacceptable though that there is a belief in some quarters that if we ended the season with 112points there would be some calling for Hughes head because he is an ex rag and how dare a 200m super team drop 2 points!

that is just ridiculous it would depend on whom we dropped the points against

 

[Balti]

I posted this in another thread, but think it deserves a thread of it's own.

It's apparent that there's again moral outrage on Bluemoon at Mark Hughes' inability to improve the players he has, to beat the likes of Burnley, Fulham, Birmingham, et al To do anything other than blame Elano and Sven for all his own shortcomings. To dismantle a perfectly good youth system. To sack all the decent staff at the club and replace them with under-qualified mates of his. To play nothing but negative, long ball football. To be a glorified Sam Allardyce. The list of Hughes' crimes are as endless as the Hughes Out threads...

It begs the question...what the fuck are these supposedly perfect owners of ours doing sitting on their hands. Ultimately, the buck stops with them. They are the ones who have been publicly backing Hughes since they took over. They are the ones who have let him fritter away over 200 million pounds on workhorses like Bellamy, Santa Cruz, and Tevez.

Surely it makes sense to just get shot of Hughes now and bring in someone better - which lets face it, if we believe even 50% of the stuff written on here about Hughes - won't be difficult. The reality is that come the end of this season, if we don't finish 4th, there's no way we will be capable of attracting the kind of players we would want. Furthermore, even attracting a manager of the ilk of Mouinho or Hiddink is out of the question irrespective of what other people think, if we aren't playing champions league football next season.

So you see, it's a huge season this one. Isn't it time our owners stepped up to the plate. Showed that they know what they're actually doing in running a football club. Demonstrate the kind of nous which undoubtedly is going to be required in the coming years to ensure long term success at the club. Shouldn't they now, or in the very very near future, take responsibility for the "Mark Hughes Project" - rather than hiding behind the blank cheque book which they've given him. Accept that he is not what the fans want, and he is not good enough. I'll repeat myself. Take some fucking responsibility, show some leadership and character, and stop hiding behind empty rhetoric about stability, and long term planning...

yawn

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I understood your point straight away, Billy, and I think I commented on it in my first reply.

I'm just trying to paint it in black and white and simple terms for those who don't get it.

Mate, I posted a blatant pisstake last week after the UAE game saying that my Blue table football team had lost and it was hughes's fault. The point I was making was that the UAE game was meaningless.

Yet a few clowns still took it seriously.

I know DD...it's a shame so many people got hold of the wrong end of the stick...

That's precisely what makes it so funny.

 

[Anonymous]

I posted this in another thread, but think it deserves a thread of it's own.

It's apparent that there's again moral outrage on Bluemoon at Mark Hughes' inability to improve the players he has, to beat the likes of Burnley, Fulham, Birmingham, et al To do anything other than blame Elano and Sven for all his own shortcomings. To dismantle a perfectly good youth system. To sack all the decent staff at the club and replace them with under-qualified mates of his. To play nothing but negative, long ball football. To be a glorified Sam Allardyce. The list of Hughes' crimes are as endless as the Hughes Out threads...

It begs the question...what the fuck are these supposedly perfect owners of ours doing sitting on their hands. Ultimately, the buck stops with them. They are the ones who have been publicly backing Hughes since they took over. They are the ones who have let him fritter away over 200 million pounds on workhorses like Bellamy, Santa Cruz, and Tevez.

Surely it makes sense to just get shot of Hughes now and bring in someone better - which lets face it, if we believe even 50% of the stuff written on here about Hughes - won't be difficult. The reality is that come the end of this season, if we don't finish 4th, there's no way we will be capable of attracting the kind of players we would want. Furthermore, even attracting a manager of the ilk of Mouinho or Hiddink is out of the question irrespective of what other people think, if we aren't playing champions league football next season.

So you see, it's a huge season this one. Isn't it time our owners stepped up to the plate. Showed that they know what they're actually doing in running a football club. Demonstrate the kind of nous which undoubtedly is going to be required in the coming years to ensure long term success at the club. Shouldn't they now, or in the very very near future, take responsibility for the "Mark Hughes Project" - rather than hiding behind the blank cheque book which they've given him. Accept that he is not what the fans want, and he is not good enough. I'll repeat myself. Take some fucking responsibility, show some leadership and character, and stop hiding behind empty rhetoric about stability, and long term planning...

yawn

Fucking hell mate - did you stay up all night constructing that reply....???

I actually think if you read the whole thread you'll find you've completely got the wrong end of the stick...

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The other week I sarcastically posted about us dropping ppoints against sides that non league teams would beat by 7 or 8 and got crucified. It shows just how out of touch some of the Hughes out people (and how sensitive some of the Hughes in people are) are that I can make that comment and it be taken as a serious anti hughes comment.

That was on my table football thread.

You were thumped by the King of the Tubthumpers on that one.

He was the first one in 20 pages, to be fair, and he is a bit of a special case.