Hyypia - happy, unhappy or fence?

[RexCathedra]

you raise an interesting point....the last 2 seasons we've reached the play offs..what will be acceptable this time..top six finish?

Good Lord, no. Nothing less than a lock on promotion by Christmas, and Europe.

You can start the "Hyypia out" threads now.

 

[Napper]

Norwich are jealous which is encouraging http://services.pinkun.com/forums/mobilepinkun/cs/forums/3136449/ShowPost.aspx

 

[algie]

In between fence and unhappy.

 

[Napper]

http://www.espnfc.com/story/1484703 interesting reading and could be reason for decline. Also about the system

 

[Superseagull69]

Norwich are jealous which is encouraging http://services.pinkun.com/forums/mobilepinkun/cs/forums/3136449/ShowPost.aspx

Interesting. Is their team really streets ahead as some are suggesting ? 20 points more than us..... Really ?



Oh hang on I forgot they have more fingers n toes than everyone else...

 

[Hugo Rune]

What would you say are the positions where Brighton need most improvement? Obviously the centerback position, but what else? I don't know much about Brighton's team But I'd love to find out more.

This is the minimum:

2 x Goal Keeper (1st choice needed)
1 x 1st Choice Left Back
1 x Young Right Back to develop
2 x Centre Backs (1 ex Premier League, 1 to develop)
1 x Attacking Midfielder ( ex premier league or very experiments)
1 x Left footed winger/left midfield
2 x Striker

Budget around £4m I would guess.

 

[Drpepper]

Its a very very big gamble i think, id love big sami to prove me wrong but i just think there are so many managers who know the championship inside out, and the last two managers for us had no championship experience. would we be better off with one of those managers who know the championship or has bloom played an ace? Only time will tell

 

[HastingsSeagull]

happy thanx

 

[Miami Seagull]

Fence. Hoping it all works out but you wonder how we can expect to hold onto him for long. If we are crap he will go and if he does well he will be snapped up by a desperate premiership side within a year or two. Would have much rather had a more experienced championship manager, preferably who had a promotion to the Premier League on his resume.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Fence. Hoping it all works out but you wonder how we can expect to hold onto him for long. If we are crap he will go and if he does well he will be snapped up by a desperate premiership side within a year or two. Would have much rather had a more experienced championship manager, preferably who had a promotion to the Premier League on his resume.

Surely for that to happen he would have had to have got us into the Premiership though. I can't see too many Premiership teams outside of Sunderland taking a punt on a Championship manager who has failed to get his team promoted.

 

[Spicy]

I have voted "fence" in the absence of an "OMG" option.

 

[Icy Gull]

Fence but cautiously optimistic. I assume he has a decent war chest and the fact that he comes from being sacked by a team much further up the ladder than us makes it interesting. I won't be swooning like some on here until I've seen who he can entice here and the type of football he plays. I confess to only knowing what I've seen on the Internet about his managerial abilities, and let's be honest there has to be some concern that it wasn't his abilities that shone through. A bit like Wise and Poyet maybe.....

Happy to support him but not gonna get carried away the day he is appointed.

 

[Mannie]

I think we're dealing with a different set of challenges this season and any success we achieve will be more akin to what Burnley did this season and Palace before that than what big spenders like QPR have done.

I'd be happy if we take a more Southampton-style approach, gradually putting faith in the academy to deliver raw talent that will help us with our league position and also bring in revenue when some of the players it produces are sold on.

I know that's all long-term stuff but I'm happy if Hyppia's brief is to work with our existing young players and bring them on, with limited funds for new players. For a medium-sized club like ours that has to be a more realistic future than breaking the bank signing overpaid and probably ageing star players.

Couldn't have put it better myself!

 

[Silkster365]

Fence. With a hint of relegation battle

 

[Surf's Up]

I think we're dealing with a different set of challenges this season and any success we achieve will be more akin to what Burnley did this season and Palace before that than what big spenders like QPR have done.

I'd be happy if we take a more Southampton-style approach, gradually putting faith in the academy to deliver raw talent that will help us with our league position and also bring in revenue when some of the players it produces are sold on.

I know that's all long-term stuff but I'm happy if Hyppia's brief is to work with our existing young players and bring them on, with limited funds for new players. For a medium-sized club like ours that has to be a more realistic future than breaking the bank signing overpaid and probably ageing star players.

I think this is a very sensible summary of the situation. I've gone "fence" because from what I've read about Hyypia he needs a good quality no. 2 and although Jones will have learnt a great deal last year I'm not sure he's of a sufficiently high enough calibre to fulfil this role to the level required. But hey, what do I know?! obviously TB and PB are in a better position than me/us to make this assessment and I trust their judgement.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Hopeful. But can he build a winning team - which is what we need.

 

[Ernest]

If we had appointed a plank of wood as manager people on here would have been creaming their undies about him and how good he was without having any knowledge whatsoever if he was up to the job, this is like groundhog day from last year with the same cheer leaders saying the same about Oscar and that went well didn't it ?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

If we had appointed a plank of wood as manager people on here would have been creaming their undies about him and how good he was without having any knowledge whatsoever if he was up to the job, this is like groundhog day from last year with the same cheer leaders saying the same about Oscar and that went well didn't it ?

You could say the same with any manager. The average life span of a manager is 18 months so every couple of years or so, there is going to be renewed optimism and moaners. It's the way of life for football fans.

 

[Creaky]

Knew, (and still know), little about SH as a manager, only as a player, so have been Googling to see what I could find out.

The impression I get is that he is essentially defensively orientated and some of the comments regarding his footballing style being boring are a bit worrying - the excuse being proffered that he didn't have a relatively strong squad.

Not sure that his statements that managing Liverpool was his 'dream job' went down well the fans either/

Overall I'm very much on the fence, as I have always been over the years with new managers, until such time as his style with us is revealed.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

If we had appointed a plank of wood as manager people on here would have been creaming their undies about him and how good he was without having any knowledge whatsoever if he was up to the job, this is like groundhog day from last year with the same cheer leaders saying the same about Oscar and that went well didn't it ?

Oh dear - I agree with Ernest. I'd better lie down in a darkened room.