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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 6:56:50 GMT
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Post by bayernoatcake on Oct 23, 2017 7:13:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 7:16:13 GMT
Hughes has quite clearly lost the plot.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 7:19:49 GMT
It's a peculiar sentence. We have NEVER been in the bottom three when the season ended under Hughes. But everything else that he says makes perfect good sense and is true to the policies employed by the board. It's just too bad for some people's blood pressure that they worry over a couple of bad defeats in October, when to my knowledge no team has ever been relegated.
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Post by mouseykanga2 on Oct 23, 2017 7:20:35 GMT
So we're experts in being in the shit ! And over 38 games we can survive ! Someone just gag him, less embarrassing
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Oct 23, 2017 7:22:30 GMT
All we can do is hope that he's nowhere near as blase behind closed doors.
Lose the next couple - especially in the manner of Saturday - and there's no way he'll be able to get away with coming out with this sort of stuff, even if you have to take most managers' comments with a pinch of salt.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Oct 23, 2017 7:23:54 GMT
It's a peculiar sentence. We have NEVER been in the bottom three when the season ended under Hughes. But everything else that he says makes perfect good sense and is true to the policies employed by the board. It's just too bad for some people's blood pressure that they worry over a couple of bad defeats in October, when to my knowledge no team has ever been relegated. To be fair, as someone who was preaching calm and reasonably encouraged by our start to the season, I don't know how anyone could watch that performance on Saturday - our supposed 'reaction' to a 7-2 gubbing - and not be worried. |
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Post by nutterpotter on Oct 23, 2017 7:27:37 GMT
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Post by fca47 on Oct 23, 2017 7:27:41 GMT
There's panicking, and then there's refusal to recognise the truth.
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Post by geoff321 on Oct 23, 2017 7:34:02 GMT
It's likely the the Stoke Board are in panic mode and I suspect Hughes will lose his job, that's the nature of footbal today especially in the top leagues of the world.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 7:57:53 GMT
What a stupid comment to make "we are rarely in the bottom three when the season ends". That's patently obvious or we would have been relegated !
The sooner the Board does act and get rid of Hughes the better. He is only taking us in one direction, down to the Championship.
Will the Board give him these 4 games or will another bad defeat at Watford finally tip the scales ?
He has to go !
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Post by geoff321 on Oct 23, 2017 8:00:25 GMT
What a stupid comment to make "we are rarely in the bottom three when the season ends". That's patently obvious or we would have been relegated ! The sooner the Board does act and get rid of Hughes the better. He is only taking us in one direction, down to the Championship. Will the Board give him these 4 games or will another bad defeat at Watford finally tip the scales ? He has to go ! Hughes is going through a difficult time but he's not taking Stoke down. |
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Post by sheikhmomo on Oct 23, 2017 8:09:21 GMT
We haven't been in the bottom three at the end of a season for 20 years!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 8:10:28 GMT
What a stupid comment to make "we are rarely in the bottom three when the season ends". That's patently obvious or we would have been relegated ! The sooner the Board does act and get rid of Hughes the better. He is only taking us in one direction, down to the Championship. Will the Board give him these 4 games or will another bad defeat at Watford finally tip the scales ? He has to go ! Hughes is going through a difficult time but he's not taking Stoke down. Hopefully he won't get the chance. |
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Post by sufolkstokie on Oct 23, 2017 8:10:34 GMT
Percy: Stoke Board Stick Head in Sand
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Post by alster on Oct 23, 2017 8:10:47 GMT
What a stupid comment to make "we are rarely in the bottom three when the season ends". That's patently obvious or we would have been relegated ! The sooner the Board does act and get rid of Hughes the better. He is only taking us in one direction, down to the Championship. Will the Board give him these 4 games or will another bad defeat at Watford finally tip the scales ? He has to go ! Hughes is going through a difficult time but he's not taking Stoke down. There's appearing calm and composed and then there's giving the impression you are living in a bubble or a parallel universe. I'm afraid he's doing the latter. |
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Post by kidcrewbob on Oct 23, 2017 8:12:07 GMT
What a stupid comment to make "we are rarely in the bottom three when the season ends". That's patently obvious or we would have been relegated ! The sooner the Board does act and get rid of Hughes the better. He is only taking us in one direction, down to the Championship. Will the Board give him these 4 games or will another bad defeat at Watford finally tip the scales ? He has to go ! Hughes is going through a difficult time but he's not taking Stoke down. No - hopefully he'll be replaced before he does |
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Post by thevoid on Oct 23, 2017 8:30:07 GMT
What a stupid comment to make "we are rarely in the bottom three when the season ends". That's patently obvious or we would have been relegated ! The sooner the Board does act and get rid of Hughes the better. He is only taking us in one direction, down to the Championship. Will the Board give him these 4 games or will another bad defeat at Watford finally tip the scales ? He has to go ! Hughes is going through a difficult time but he's not taking Stoke down. Have you got tomorrow's horesracing results? |
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Post by bathstoke on Oct 23, 2017 8:32:56 GMT
Isn't this a Stoke Board, Cause there seems to be some panic on here 😱 |
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Post by Trouserdog on Oct 23, 2017 8:33:07 GMT
I wish they would panic.
I wish Coatesy would come in, arms flailing, reach for the axe and start chasing Mark Hughes around the stadium like Jack Nicholson in the Shining.
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Post by geoff321 on Oct 23, 2017 8:33:35 GMT
Hughes is going through a difficult time but he's not taking Stoke down. No - hopefully he'll be replaced before he does Of course getting rid of the manager solves all of the problems doesn't it, I seem to recall you being anti Hughes fairly soon after he was appointed though. |
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Post by Northy on Oct 23, 2017 8:34:31 GMT
It's a peculiar sentence. We have NEVER been in the bottom three when the season ended under Hughes. But everything else that he says makes perfect good sense and is true to the policies employed by the board. It's just too bad for some people's blood pressure that they worry over a couple of bad defeats in October, when to my knowledge no team has ever been relegated. It's not the defeats, it's the manner of the defeats. Bristol City, Bournemouth, just no fight in them. |
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Post by sheikhmomo on Oct 23, 2017 8:34:59 GMT
I think anyone expecting Coates to make any swift and brutal decisions is in for a lot disappointment. I don't think there's a chance of anything happening for another month or so at the earliest.
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Post by FullerMagic on Oct 23, 2017 8:38:22 GMT
I think the earliest anything could happen is after the Leicester game, with an international break giving us time to maybe do something.
Unless we win at Watford, a loss against Leicester and things would get pretty nasty in the stadium, and they might have to get the axe out, as much as they don't want to.
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Post by kidcrewbob on Oct 23, 2017 8:38:46 GMT
No - hopefully he'll be replaced before he does Of course getting rid of the manager solves all of the problems doesn't it, I seem to recall you being anti Hughes fairly soon after he was appointed though. I'm flattered your recall my ramblings - he was not my choice but prepared to give the benefit of the doubt and I thought he'd proved my doubts unfounded about 2 years ago but sadly we are where we are and he does seem to have lost the plot - yes, I think it's time to move him out (should have been at the end of last season but Coates hadn't the stomach formit) - we'll see what transpires........ |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 8:39:45 GMT
What a stupid comment to make "we are rarely in the bottom three when the season ends". That's patently obvious or we would have been relegated ! The sooner the Board does act and get rid of Hughes the better. He is only taking us in one direction, down to the Championship. Will the Board give him these 4 games or will another bad defeat at Watford finally tip the scales ? He has to go ! I think that they will give him the next 4 games. Pick up less than 4 points (not exactly 'setting the bar') and he'll be gone. If he's still here with less than 4 points from this group of 5 games, he'll never be sacked. He's even talking bollocks now...very worrying. |
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Oct 23, 2017 8:47:05 GMT
Panic involves action ,(and cost which is our overidding principal ) our definition of well run has nothing to do with what goes on , on the pitch , the chief executive is monitoring the situation if after 37 games we are in the bottom three we will make a decisive move for a manager who was highly rated early in his career but lost his way and has something to prove .
They may not panic but for the record they are utterly wrong , worst squad in ten years , team that does as it pleases , manager who now can't see wood for trees, but as someone said on here over the weekend , it is no longer A Hughes issue. It's the board that are sending us down now which further adds to the CEO crime sheet , his £12m banked in the summer racking up true cost week after week on the pitch and coming with an interest cost of £100m per annum come May .
For his part Hughes we aren't in the bottom three come May we've been here before is as deluded as the CEO , Jesse , Chopper , Ramadan , berahino , haven't Wimmer hasnt ,Zouma hasn't , Tymon hasn't , the players you need in here walters , Bardsley , Whelan all sold as the two of them presided over a summer which I said at the time will be this eras equivalent of the roof blowing off the butler street stand but totally self inflicted .
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Post by likelyladgalizmo on Oct 23, 2017 8:51:24 GMT
Gone by Bonfire night.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 8:56:32 GMT
Panic involves action ,(and cost which is our overidding principal ) our definition of well run has nothing to do with what goes on , on the pitch , the chief executive is monitoring the situation if after 37 games we are in the bottom three we will make a decisive move for a manager who was highly rated early in his career but lost his way and has something to prove . They may not panic but for the record they are utterly wrong , worst squad in ten years , team that does as it pleases , manager who now can't see wood for trees, but as someone said on here over the weekend , it is no longer A Hughes issue. It's the board that are sending us down now which further adds to the CEO crime sheet , his £12m banked in the summer racking up true cost week after week on the pitch and coming with an interest cost of £100m per annum come May . For his part Hughes we aren't in the bottom three come May we've been here before is as deluded as the CEO , Jesse , Chopper , Ramadan , berahino , haven't Wimmer hasnt ,Zouma hasn't , Tymon hasn't , the players you need in here walters , Bardsley , Whelan all sold as the two of them presided over a summer which I said at the time will be this eras equivalent of the roof blowing off the butler street stand but totally self inflicted . You've predicted our demise almost every season since you've been posting on this board Benji, but it looks like you've finally got it right, and IMO your comments above are spot on regarding our current situation. That old saying really does apply in your case "if at first you don't succeed, then try, try, try again". |
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Post by Paul Spencer on Oct 23, 2017 9:08:58 GMT
I think the earliest anything could happen is after the Leicester game, with an international break giving us time to maybe do something. Unless we win at Watford, a loss against Leicester and things would get pretty nasty in the stadium, and they might have to get the axe out, as much as they don't want to. If we lose against Watford i'm convinced he'll go into the Leicester game needing a result to save his job. I guess a lot of it will come down to what sort of indication Big Sam has given them behind the scenes. |
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