[Albion] Hughton In or Out?

Meade's Ball said:

It's all about Tuesday eh. He has to be able to get a decent enough performance from the players he has, to link them into being a tough and sometimes foreboding unit with an occasional net-bulging intention. If we're undone or out-thought by that gaggle of flingers it will be a bad sign of how instructions are not melding us as a team of character and impetus. Seems crazy to make such a decision now, but how we progress, and sustain our position at the same time, has to be evident. I imagine we'll always be something in the making, but we can't accept a worse version of ourselves repeatedly.

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Johnny RoastBeef said:

Hughton is a very good manager but perhaps his coaching team needs refreshing? Liam Rosenior always talks sense, and is doing a decent job coaching the u21s. so how about promoting him to the first team coaching staff and benefit from some positive fresh input.

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Barham's tash said:

Why do we have a god given right to ‘push to the next level’?

If TB has given him a target of 17th and that’s where we finish then he won’t go.

What I want more than anything is a reaction. Some emotion. Maybe even a radically different starting XI Tuesday.

On the strength of my albeit emotional evaluation now I would drop:

Ryan
Duffy
Stephens
Knockaert (even if he hasn’t been sent off)

And bring in

Button
Burn
Kayal
Izquierdo

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matt said:

IMHO the problem is the squad overall. How many of our regular starters would get into the first XI of any of the teams above us? Dunk would get into half a dozen, Duffy and the keeper might get into a couple, but apart from that we're picking players every week who are at the very bottom of the Premier League talent pool. Hughton clearly doesn't have any secret sauce to make the performance of the team better than the individuals within it, but who would?

If we're very lucky we'll manage to pip Cardiff to 17th, and then hopefully we'll see a marked improvement in recruitment over the summer, as the past couple of years has seen minimal improvement in the quality of the team we are able to put onto the pitch.

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London Irish said:

Just 16 in it now. Think that will be overhauled in the morning

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matt said:

IMHO the problem is the squad overall. How many of our regular starters would get into the first XI of any of the teams above us? Dunk would get into half a dozen, Duffy and the keeper might get into a couple, but apart from that we're picking players every week who are at the very bottom of the Premier League talent pool. Hughton clearly doesn't have any secret sauce to make the performance of the team better than the individuals within it, but who would?

If we're very lucky we'll manage to pip Cardiff to 17th, and then hopefully we'll see a marked improvement in recruitment over the summer, as the past couple of years has seen minimal improvement in the quality of the team we are able to put onto the pitch.

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casbom said:

It’s too late in the day to be changing Managers, it would be taken as a panic action which is not TB’s style.

Biggest thing for me is that he has performed miracles in keeping us up last year and probably this year on a budget that is in the bottom 3!
We need some serious investment otherwise nailed on to go down next season, whoever the Manager is.

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Sirnormangall said:

Apologies if someone has already posted that in April 2014 Norwich (managed by CH) were one place and five points above the relegation zone and were relegated. Lightening doesn’t strike twice......does it?

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Mo Gosfield said:

Cannot understand the mentality that thinks he would be the best man to take us out of the Championship. Why, when we would see the same old turgid, cautious approach as soon as we arrived back in the PL. If we survive, we will sink without trace next season. Fans expecting a change of tactics shouldn't hold their breath. It won't happen. We aren't progressing. We are still allowing ourselves to be intimidated by the leading sides. The lack of pace and the lack of goals from midfield haven't been addressed. Away tactics are still awful. He is blatantly ignoring the blueprint of playing in the PL and managing us as if it is the 70's and 80's and one point counts for the same now as it did then.
Nice man who has been too loyal to certain players. Needs to unload his passive assistant and get in a young aggressive man who has played at the highest level and commands more respect. That is his only chance but he won't change the status quo and therefore nothing will change.
Out at the end of the season

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