Well done Hughes

[mike channon´s windmill]

Elephant mans Bruces Bruisers only a point behind and Burnley only 2 ffs!!! We should be out of sight in 3rd /4th

 

[deynaskaz]

Comparing Hughes to Wenger is just fecking ridiculous!

By all means defend Hughes i have no prblem with that but dont get fecking giddy!

Think it was a joke mate.

Thanks hg need to have a bit more humour in here...................think the lol gave it away..

 

[moomba]

Birmingahm drew with us and then went to Anfield and got a point (when they should have got a win)
Wigan beat Chelsea but couldn't beat us
Burnley are beating Villa

So hardly worth slitting my wrists just yet.

Not worth slitting wrists yet, and not worth sacking the manager yet.

But we should be comparing ourselves to our rivals best achievements, not their worst.

 

[LongsightM13]

Aside from extra time against Fulham reserves in the league cup, it remains a fact that we have yet to come from behind and win a game under Hughes. That, after 18 months and £200m is simply not good enough. His players, his tactics and his man management. Nobody else

 

[DaveH]

Chelsea were after Hughes at the same point we were (allegedly)

He did nothing wrong today, infact he got everything spot on... I can't beleive after today people still feel the need to demand his head.

99.9% of people on here haven't got a clue what he's done for this club since he arrived, but those that do say he's doing a good job in what were difficult conditions. Its not a lack of ambition wanting to keep Hughes, and results havent been perfect, but still maybe some of us don't drop our bollocks at the first few games we don't win.

Birmingahm drew with us and then went to Anfield and got a point (when they should have got a win)
Wigan beat Chelsea but couldn't beat us
Burnley are beating Villa

So hardly worth slitting my wrists just yet.

Thank God for the voice of reason. Spot on Mate

 

[GStar]

What difficult conditions??.yeh i suppose the financial constraints are tough on him

Like i said 99.9% of us don't have a clue...

 

[GStar]

Birmingahm drew with us and then went to Anfield and got a point (when they should have got a win)
Wigan beat Chelsea but couldn't beat us
Burnley are beating Villa

So hardly worth slitting my wrists just yet.

Not worth slitting wrists yet, and not worth sacking the manager yet.

But we should be comparing ourselves to our rivals best achievements, not their worst.

True and we should have ended our run of draws today no question... but whilst people demanding his head will point our letting 3 in at home to a promoted side, its only fair to put that iscolated fact into perspective.

 

[SalfordCityBlue]

2nd time you've mentioned Barry playing DM... if you watch the match again, he was playing level and often ahead of Ireland.

His only contribution (certainly that I can remember) was defensive - if he was supposed to be playing a more attacking role then his ineffectiveness in that area makes it an even more obvious choice to swap him for Tevez.

SWP struggled today but was at least positive going forward, and at a goal down and chasing the game positivity was what we needed.

 

[moomba]

What difficult conditions??.yeh i suppose the financial constraints are tough on him

Like i said 99.9% of us don't have a clue...

If we lose to Hull next week I'm sure we can all read about it in the Daily Mail again. ;)

 

[cyberblue]

Only fair to praise him when there are so many Hughes out threads!

He got everything right today, picked the line up everyone wanted, made some good subs, its not his fault the defense switch off.

The First 70 minutes were apalling & embarrising

 

[sniff]

well your an idiot then, one of the key points of the first half was Barry heading across goal to Ade

 

[GStar]

Like i said 99.9% of us don't have a clue...

If we lose to Hull next week I'm sure we can all read about it in the Daily Mail again. ;)

I'll give you evens on the daily Mail leading with;

"Manchester City solely responsible for the death of Diana!"

 

[SalfordCityBlue]

What difficult conditions??.yeh i suppose the financial constraints are tough on him

Like i said 99.9% of us don't have a clue...

How convenient. For reasons nobody knows (and therefore cannot dispute) we should be feeling sorry for poor old hard done to Hughesy?

Well, in that case, I'm now fully convinced he's brilliant and not in fact, shit.

 

[sniff]

Like i said 99.9% of us don't have a clue...

How convenient. For reasons nobody knows (and therefore cannot dispute) we should be feeling sorry for poor old hard done to Hughesy?

Well, in that case, I'm now fully convinced he's brilliant and not in fact, shit.

You have no intention in listening to anyones points of view, you dont sound lik eyou have watched the same games as everbody else. so what are you doing on here, may as well just argue with yourself. It what your doing anyway

 

[GStar]

Like i said 99.9% of us don't have a clue...

How convenient. For reasons nobody knows (and therefore cannot dispute) we should be feeling sorry for poor old hard done to Hughesy?

Well, in that case, I'm now fully convinced he's brilliant and not in fact, shit.

0.1% is obviously not nobody. I never said he was brilliant. Nor did i say we should feel sorry for him... Christ your jumping to a lot of conclusions.

But thats not surprising, 'most' who want Hughes out, have never heard of progression, learning curves and evolution. Every great achiever started as a complete novice at some point. What i'm saying is, just because a manager hasn't won 20 league titles doesn't mean he never will.

 

[SalfordCityBlue]

well your an idiot then, one of the key points of the first half was Barry heading across goal to Ade

No idea what you're on about mate. One header does not a performance make.

And did the first half actually have any 'key' points?

 

[sniff]

well your an idiot then, one of the key points of the first half was Barry heading across goal to Ade

No idea what you're on about mate. One header does not a performance make.

And did the first half actually have any 'key' points?

well you said he didnt get forward, off the top of my head i though of that one. Also many other times he was up in support with Ireland. The real question is what are you talking about.

Your slaggin Barry for being shit at DM today when it was clear to everybody else he didnt play in that position.

and then we had that great save by given, another key point that didnt happen i suppose.

 

[blueinsa]

How convenient. For reasons nobody knows (and therefore cannot dispute) we should be feeling sorry for poor old hard done to Hughesy?

Well, in that case, I'm now fully convinced he's brilliant and not in fact, shit.

0.1% is obviously not nobody. I never said he was brilliant. Nor did i say we should feel sorry for him... Christ your jumping to a lot of conclusions.

But thats not surprising, 'most' who want Hughes out, have never heard of progression, learning curves and evolution. Every great achiever started as a complete novice at some point. What i'm saying is, just because a manager hasn't won 20 league titles doesn't mean he never will.

No it doesnt but it also doesnt mean he will go on to do it either.

As far as i can see all the hughes innies base their arguments on the stabilty issue as if it was the holy grail? Give him time and he will come good!

Sorry but that is nothing but an assumption and wishful thinking.

You assume that he has the quality and skills to become an acheiver and so far we have seen nothing to warrent that assumption

 

[PistonBlue]

Can't believe some of the comments on here, I only hope it's passion getting in the way of reason. Otherwise some of our fans just don't have a clue about football.

Hughes got it absolutely right today. He picked the right team and made the subs.

Tactics. Bang on.
To those who say we were too negative, get a grip. You don't go to places like Anfield and score 4 goals before half time, it doesn't happen.

They were the home team, under some pressure and needing a win against genuine challengers for their top 4 spot. Did you think they were gonna let us walk through them?
Hughes managed it perfectly. Soak up a bit of pressure in the first half, shut the home crowd up, give Rafa sommat to think about.

The plan would have gone absolutely perfectly if Ireland had played Bellamy in on about 46 minutes. No one could legislate for Zab giving away a fucking stupid free kick a minute later leading to their goal - against the run of play.

The plan all along was to step it up in the second half, the goal just kick started it. Had they not scored first we would have won 2-0 or 2-1 comfortably.

Todays game just highlights to me that neither of our full backs in particular are good enough to play in a top 4 side. I don't like pointing the finger but Zabaleta has for a long time flattered to deceive and he has cost us two points today.

We've played two of the big 4 away now and could very easily have won both, although the rags tought us a lesson at times tbf. We should look at the positives and see the big picture. We are very much an improving side and we've only just got started.

 

[GStar]

0.1% is obviously not nobody. I never said he was brilliant. Nor did i say we should feel sorry for him... Christ your jumping to a lot of conclusions.

But thats not surprising, 'most' who want Hughes out, have never heard of progression, learning curves and evolution. Every great achiever started as a complete novice at some point. What i'm saying is, just because a manager hasn't won 20 league titles doesn't mean he never will.

No it doesnt but it also doesnt mean he will go on to do it either.

As far as i can see all the hughes innies base their arguments on the stabilty issue as if it was the holy grail? Give him time and he will come good!

Sorry but that is nothing but an assumption and wishful thinking.

You assume that he has the quality and skills to become an acheiver and so far we have seen nothing to warrent that assumption

Have i even given my opinion on Hughes in this thread?

I guess from this thread, that both sides have pretty weak arguments re: Hughes' future.