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Post by heworksardtho on May 26, 2018 15:03:37 GMT
Not sure how to take this comment from MH taken from SFC website especially as he apprearred to have had patience in chasing our prolific (not) goal scorer “If the last four years have taught us anything it is that patience is a virtue, when it comes to signing players and managers it is vital that the club keeps it's dealings private to ensure that things are not compromised, that is the right way to do things, although some fans seem to thing that the club should publicise and make announcements on a daily perhaps hourly basis” I’m not accepting by inference that he was not fully complicit in all SCFC transfers. PS. What’s happened to Hoss Cartwright, all been very quiet in the run up to, and re recruitment of GR Hoss Cartwright your showing your age now , Little joe etc
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2018 15:05:09 GMT
Slippery arrogant cunt
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Post by mrred on May 26, 2018 15:18:01 GMT
They've effectively just injected themselves with aids. You were warned. Give it a few years and history will repeat itself. You couldn't be more wrong. Southampton sacked Puel after he finished 8th and got to the League Cup Final. At the first sign of the team declining they will sack Hughes, long before it becomes terminal. In the meantime I fully expect him to achieve his 7th top ten finish next season. Fair point. They can't just keep sacking managers though. This appointment will be the first in a long time that there's any sort of sentimentality with it so maybe he'll be there long enough to do his damage.
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Post by theplantpotter on May 26, 2018 15:22:14 GMT
I guess I understand some of the hostility towards Hughes but some of the venom spouted by a few is dramatically over the top. He produced the best football I have seen from SCFC since the Hudson/Greenhoff era. Yes he was major to blame for our demise but a big part of the blame has to be pointed at the board. 3 years maybe 4 maximum is the right tenure for a manager, then you need fresh ideas. The board didn't seem to understand that. So 3 year contract at Southampton seems a good call from them. I think he will do OK. No hate from me. I support your post. I got pilloried on here for constantly quoting the 3 x 9th place finishes he achieved. I supported the club giving him chance to turn the bad situation round, he had earned it IMO, but he was let down by the very players he chose to chase after. Notably Imbula and Berahino, but Arni didn't repay the loyalty Hughes gave him, and Diouf never really worked out successfully having chased him for over a year. By Novemebr I joined the ranks of those who thought he had had enough time to turn things around. The Swansea victory gave me false hope, but the West Ham defeat was the last straw. Our grand children could be be looking back in 50 years time to the Hughes era being the second best period in the club's history. Or not
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Post by premiershipteamfor10years on May 26, 2018 18:17:06 GMT
It amazes me how a lot of Stoke fans think Hughes is the sole reason we were relegated and forget some of the best football we have ever played. The Coates family are equally culpable for our demise with their self-suffiency mantra and yet they seem to get off lightly. Not the sole reason but undoubtedly the main reason, Lambert was a desperate appointment that none of us wanted not his fault he is totally wank as a manager. In my opinion the Coates family are the main reason for us getting relegated. The self-sufficiency plan was bound to land us in trouble. Peter Coates was arrogant and complacent in ‘wondering what all the fuss was about’ when Hughes should have been sacked last summer, but they didn’t want to pay Hughes and his team off...... I don’t believe all this loyalty spin nonsense. When they finally got round to sacking Hughes, they hadn’t even got anyone lined up to replace him and then we ended up with QSF humiliating us, and then we ended up with an unsuitable manager on the cheap. All round pi.s poor management and strategy. Then the spin starts coming out that Mark Hughes was to blame and in hindsight should have been sacked sooner. If they were really bothered about Stoke City, they really need to have a good hard look at themselves in the mirror. I am not convinced we will be back in the Premier league anytime soon, unless the Coates family show a bit more ambition by retaining as many of our good players as we can. And blowing away our rivals like Wolves did in the transfer market. I really hope the Coates family prove me wrong.
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Post by lloydcolesguitar on May 26, 2018 20:20:38 GMT
Who is this Hughes you refer to ?
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Post by Scrotnig on May 26, 2018 20:25:23 GMT
We were good for three years. I said after it started to go titsup.com that Hughes should go, so he could be remembered as a decent manager, not as the man who killed us off.
Now, he's the man who killed us off. It's actually quite the tragedy. He did give us some good times. Now he's a hate figure (and rightly so). Because we just couldn't act decisively.
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Post by Bojan Mackey on May 26, 2018 23:39:26 GMT
I hope he tumbles into the Solent and fucking drowns.
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Post by nott1 on May 27, 2018 5:25:05 GMT
He'll be laughing all the way to the bank whatever happens!
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Post by stokiebis on May 27, 2018 5:57:43 GMT
The hatred is quiet funny at Hughes yes it was shit but the board are firmly to blame they thought we were safe n kept doing it on the cheap
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Post by PolPotter on May 27, 2018 7:49:56 GMT
I was devastated when we signed him. However, he did extremely well for 3 seasons and we had some great victories against teams we struggled against when the team was managed by Pulis.
I think Hughes gave up leading to his final season. Like Arnie, he knew the ambition wasn't there so why bother.
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