nwgull
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What do you define as a 'good few seasons'? At most the playing side has been in decline for 2 seasons; and even last season was quite good.
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Can see Houghton Quitting before next season......
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What do you define as a 'good few seasons'? At most the playing side has been in decline for 2 seasons; and even last season was quite good.
Seasider78
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- Nov 14, 2004
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Ironic that a novice manager such as SH gained one of the most prolific strikers ever to wear the stripes in Darren Bent all be it for a month, yet the vastly experienced Hughton brings in one of the most useless to wear the shirt.
SH did not bring in Bent the now redundant recruitment team did and not surprisingly he quickly jumped ship for a team that at the time were top of the league
Best has been terrible but what top striker is going to be flocking to the Amex late in this season to join a team that looked to be heading for the trap door
The damage was done in the summer anything since then has been panic deals and punts with hit and miss results
wehatepalace
Limbs
Perhaps I should've just said "a couple" of seasons, but the fact remains we've lost quite a few big players that haven't been replaced with the same quality.
Last season was ok, yes we made the playoffs but we were helped along the way with other teams around us not winning, I'd hardly say we stormed into the playoffs, would you ?
- Jun 27, 2012
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Agreed. We've had a bad season , not 2 bad seasons as some insist!!. If getting to the play offs is just "ok" then blimey.,but it's not because Tony Bloom isn't interested or hasn't stumped up enough cash to fund a decent squad. ?? That's rubbish and malicious rubbish.
deslynhamsmoustache1
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I'm sure SH would have sanctioned it. Bent went to Derby for multiple reasons like: (a) he is out of contract with Villa this summer and Derby probably could offer him a return to premiership both wages and contract wise, if they get promoted, (b) Derby offered to pay Villa a greater percentage of his salary. (c) he had just got married, no need to uproot his new wife and move house, Birmingham to Derby is drivable every day for training. Had he still been with us we would be comfortably mid table by now. I'm a Hughton fan but bringing in Best has been a disaster, only wish he had gone back to one of his former clubs and borrowed some bright young thing that was desperate for 3 months championship experience.
It's sunny out Jem, go get some air.
All the agendas, misremembering, scapegoats, and downright lies from the self appointed entitled empowered spoilt few, will still be here when you get back.
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sydney
tinky ****in winky
last two seasons he can't really be faulted.....he was well within his rights this season to think ..."hmm nah , i'll back off .." seeing as that's what the team did for the back end of last season......the thing about getting skinned 6-1 on aggregate in a play off is it doesn't matter to most of the players......it is something the fans have to carry around unfortunately....!!
LamieRobertson
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Lurchy
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- Jul 2, 2014
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100% agree about Best. Not sure who Hughton could have brought in direct from his previous clubs tbh. Newcastle sent all their good prospects to Rangers, as Norwich loaned us Bennett you'd think a conversation would have been had about other players and a loan from Birmingham would be unlikely / not be any better than we have.
el punal
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That old chestnut, have we got two managers at the club? Houghton and Hughton, similar to Clough and Taylor at Derby, Brighton and Nottm.Forest. So, which of the two "H's" are people suggesting is leaving?
el punal
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We certainly did when Leo scored in the 92nd minute at the City Ground!
Great gesture? You call £200m + a gesture?
wehatepalace
Limbs
But in the run in to that game if the other contenders had fallen over themselves to drop vital points, the forest game would have meant nothing, even with Leo's goal.
Don't get me wrong we did very well to make the playoffs, but we were a shadow of the team from the previous season.
I can see him quitting, us being relegated down to the Conference, crowds dropping drastically, the club eventually folding, Palace going on to become the top club in Europe and having to play at Wembley stadium to cater for the demand for tickets but things will level out to an extent when the UK has a nuclear strike from the state of ISIS, famine ensues and Piers Morgan visits from the USA and becomes stranded so he has to stay here.
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- Jun 27, 2012
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PS: We've had 2 other seasons as good as last season in the last 32 years.
No, we've got one manager and his name is Chris Hewton.
mona
The Glory Game
Yes. Broughton are going down and Judy Blume will want his money back and Kris Haughton will walk and Kristal Police will win the bromide league.
spring hall convert
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The only way TB gets his money back is if Brighton are in the Premier League. Even then it would be doubtful.
There is no way he will walk away. He knows he can turn it round if he is given funds to do so and he has been promised funds. Will it be enough funds well that's the million dollar question. If he gets enough to be competitive then I think he can live with that
mona
The Glory Game
Brentford, Ipswich and Wolves have challenged for the play offs without spending mega-bucks. It's about quality identification of talent, innit.