Even if we got relegated, CH will deservedly keep his job. He’s the perfect manager for a Board with no whinging or politicking through the media, a good coach and he creates a great squad spirit. Those calling for his sacking would be heavily outnumbered.
The league table after 46 games never lies. The three teams that went down deserved it more than us. Fact.
Hindsight? Some of us defended CH in this thread and got it right.
Phew, I got lucky with a pro-CH post, when so many others thought he was crap!
I can’t recall posting that, but I do remember my view that squad quality was allowed deliberately to dip massively (post Lopez, Vicente, Orlandi, Bridge and Upson), as TB/PB tried to stem annual accounts losses...
Same here. He’s earned that and is great for the club on several levels.
Whilst knee jerk other clubs in the top two divisions are stuck in a perpetual cycle of sacking management teams at multi-£m a go. West Ham, Everton, WBA & Stoke spring to mind.
Not necessarily.
Hughton was handed the same, awfully lacking in so many areas squad (where do start ... but lack of decent strikers, creators, pace in attack, shit CMS, so-slow Greer and error-prone Stockdale), as Hyppia. Morale was rock bottom on the pitch and in the stands, there was no...