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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2018 3:22:07 GMT
I suppose the board should have been less gentlemanly and have had a replacement lined up before sacking Hughes. The sacking last Saturday seems very much to have been an impulsive act. They could easily have waited and they could have asked Hughes to stay on a little longer to at least keep the players focused on training and the next match.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jan 15, 2018 8:49:24 GMT
Stop going over the Hughes management issue and focus on where the real problem lies. Who put Hughes in power and allowed him to continue to wreck our club until it's (probably) too late? You don't like it when Shawcross doesn't perform, or Hughes for example, but fuck me, don't dare to criticise Peter Coates and his ilk when they get it horribly wrong. The Board are responsible for the current mess for sitting back and trusting Hughes when most of us could see he had to go. For this reason it’s hardly hindsight as the thread title suggests. Many, many fans were clamouring for the board to act last summer and, when that didn’t happen, there were some calling to give him until October to see what transpires. Then we had PC's "what’s all the fuss about" understatement of the decade. The board has walked blindly into this fiasco despite the warning signs over the last 18 months.
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Post by nott1 on Jan 15, 2018 9:02:39 GMT
This may divide opinion but if the Hughes Out brigade (of which I was one) knew that our top 2-3 targets would turn us down would you of given Hughes till the end of the season to avoid this farce and public humiliation? Exactly, and you got what you asked for!
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Post by 1982stokie on Jan 15, 2018 9:23:03 GMT
No he should have gone in the summer, However the fat that the club seem to have not had a succession plan or any real strategy is a disgrace, the list of managers we are now looking at show we have absolutely no imagination.
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Post by redstriper on Jan 15, 2018 10:10:05 GMT
I backed Hughes for a long as I could, mainly because of the dearth of sensible replacements that were mentioned, the current problem was foreseeable, but the bottom line was that his position became untenable after west ham.
The fact that we have failed to find a half decent replacement doesn't change this.
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