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Post by stokie1947 on May 20, 2019 17:20:01 GMT
be interesting to see how he does
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Post by scfc75 on May 20, 2019 17:22:39 GMT
He’s got a really poor squad to work with. If he keeps them up it’ll be a great achievement.
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Post by JurgenVandeurzen on May 20, 2019 17:25:15 GMT
All the best to him.
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Post by kronkie on May 20, 2019 17:39:59 GMT
Very brave and risky appointment by Brighton, I think it will end in tears though.
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Post by Bojan Mackey on May 20, 2019 17:41:09 GMT
Hughes retreating to Wales for the Swansea job?
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Post by stokief on May 20, 2019 17:42:20 GMT
Think he'll find it tough. I've come to the conclusion that we were amazingly lucky to get a decade in the Prem. As we saw, once you lose your backbone that got you there, either through injury, old age or sale(plus the MH kiss of 'death') and you fall into the trap of wanting to watch fancy attacking football and achieve higher than mid table you're stuffed. You attempt to fill your squad with talent, often big egos add a sprinkling of bad character and as we all know identity is lost and the re-set button has to be pressed(we all knew this before the bloke who worked as fitness coach or somesuch told us the other day) What happened to us can happen to anyone outside of the top 6-8. So, are Brighton going to be a better bet in the long term for him than Swansea or will he just find himself back down in the Championship getting unceremoniously sacked? Are Bournemouth a better bet for Jack? Probably only to see him back in the Prem and in the faces of the top Clubs. How long before we see Burnley losing their DNA? they teetered for a while last season.It is what it is. Enjoy it while it lasts.Hope you get back up there one day, so the whole process can begin again IF you're lucky to survive a few seasons.Good luck Graham You'll need it!!
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Post by Lakeland Potter on May 20, 2019 17:47:44 GMT
I was all in favour of appointing him rather than Rowett last summer. He's done reasonably well well with a Swansea squad which had its best players sold before he arrived. They finished comfortably above us having spent a fraction of what we did. I think he'll do well at Brighton - if he does he'll probably move to a bigger Prem Club within a couple of years.
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Post by cheshirepotter on May 20, 2019 17:51:14 GMT
Think he'll find it tough. I've come to the conclusion that we were amazingly lucky to get a decade in the Prem. As we saw, once you lose your backbone that got you there, either through injury, old age or sale(plus the MH kiss of 'death') and you fall into the trap of wanting to watch fancy attacking football and achieve higher than mid table you're stuffed. You attempt to fill your squad with talent, often big egos add a sprinkling of bad character and as we all know identity is lost and the re-set button has to be pressed(we all knew this before the bloke who worked as fitness coach or somesuch told us the other day) What happened to us can happen to anyone outside of the top 6-8. So, are Brighton going to be a better bet in the long term for him than Swansea or will he just find himself back down in the Championship getting unceremoniously sacked? Are Bournemouth a better bet for Jack? Probably only to see him back in the Prem and in the faces of the top Clubs. How long before we see Burnley losing their DNA? they teetered for a while last season.It is what it is. Enjoy it while it lasts.Hope you get back up there one day, so the whole process can begin again IF you're lucky to survive a few seasons.Good luck Graham You'll need it!! Couldn’t agree more. Our mantra going forwards needs to be to live in hope not expectation. Only then will we be able to enjoy our journey again.
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Post by Vermelho20312505 on May 20, 2019 17:54:41 GMT
I was all in favour of appointing him rather than Rowett last summer. He's done reasonably well well with a Swansea squad which had its best players sold before he arrived. They finished comfortably above us having spent a fraction of what we did. I think he'll do well at Brighton - if he does he'll probably move to a bigger Prem Club within a couple of years. Always interesting to see what the fans think and recently I've heard a few Swansea fans who loved him and what he had done in a short period. Initially I would have been happy to have him here but wasn't clammering for him. Now I'm thinking we missed a trick.
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Post by spiderpuss on May 20, 2019 18:00:49 GMT
I was all in favour of appointing him rather than Rowett last summer. He's done reasonably well well with a Swansea squad which had its best players sold before he arrived. They finished comfortably above us having spent a fraction of what we did. I think he'll do well at Brighton - if he does he'll probably move to a bigger Prem Club within a couple of years. Always interesting to see what the fans think and recently I've heard a few Swansea fans who loved him and what he had done in a short period. Initially I would have been happy to have him here but wasn't clammering for him. Now I'm thinking we missed a trick. At the time it would have been a miles better choice than Rowtwit.
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Post by gibby1409 on May 20, 2019 18:07:40 GMT
I don't dislike Potter, and hope he does well. But I think Brighton will crash next season, and I'll be surprised if he's still in the job at Christmas
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Post by thevoid on May 20, 2019 18:36:48 GMT
Now that it looks a certainty that Potter and his team are heading to Brighton at a cost of £3million, how ironic would it be if Swansea were to take Hughton and then Swansea got promoted next season and Brighton relegated? There's more irony there than in the examples used by Alanis Morissette. A couple of stand-out ones: "Rain on your wedding day"- that's not really ironic, it's just bad luck or poor planning. Unless she was marrying Michael Fish, which would introduce an element of irony. "A traffic jam when you're already late"- again, no irony, just bad luck and dubious pre-planning/time management. "10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife"- she's probably accidentally left her knife in the takeaway box when she's had a Chinese and binned it. Sheer carelessness, but no irony. Again, the only potential for irony here was if the shortfall in knives occured in the canteen of a factory that distributed cutlery.
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Post by chigstoke on May 20, 2019 19:39:25 GMT
Hughes retreating to Wales for the Swansea job? I hope so, because I'd love us to fucking twat them 5-0 with him in charge.
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on May 20, 2019 20:20:43 GMT
Now that it looks a certainty that Potter and his team are heading to Brighton at a cost of £3million, how ironic would it be if Swansea were to take Hughton and then Swansea got promoted next season and Brighton relegated? There's more irony there than in the examples used by Alanis Morissette. A couple of stand-out ones: "Rain on your wedding day"- that's not really ironic, it's just bad luck or poor planning. Unless she was marrying Michael Fish, which would introduce an element of irony. "A traffic jam when you're already late"- again, no irony, just bad luck and dubious pre-planning/time management. "10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife"- she's probably accidentally left her knife in the takeaway box when she's had a Chinese and binned it. Sheer carelessness, but no irony. Again, the only potential for irony here was if the shortfall in knives occured in the canteen of a factory that distributed cutlery. This has been bugging me for years! Really fucking annoying, "isn't it ironic?" No not really! Presumably Potter will have money to spend there, unlike at Swansea.
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Post by Gary Hackett on May 20, 2019 20:37:49 GMT
That's Brighton relegated then.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 21:44:39 GMT
He’s got a really poor squad to work with. If he keeps them up it’ll be a great achievement. They might have a poor squad but 1. He's a good coach 2.They've got millions to spend on improving it
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Post by magwitch on May 21, 2019 20:17:09 GMT
I was all in favour of appointing him rather than Rowett last summer. He's done reasonably well well with a Swansea squad which had its best players sold before he arrived. They finished comfortably above us having spent a fraction of what we did. I think he'll do well at Brighton - if he does he'll probably move to a bigger Prem Club within a couple of years. I would have appointed him before relegation last January, and am still convinced that it was one of the Stoke Board's biggest mistakes. Hopefully Jones will succeed, but i still believe that Potter would have been better than all three of them.
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Post by JoeinOz on May 22, 2019 3:34:34 GMT
Good luck Potty.
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Post by biddulphchav on May 22, 2019 5:08:16 GMT
Now that it looks a certainty that Potter and his team are heading to Brighton at a cost of £3million, how ironic would it be if Swansea were to take Hughton and then Swansea got promoted next season and Brighton relegated? There's more irony there than in the examples used by Alanis Morissette. A couple of stand-out ones: "Rain on your wedding day"- that's not really ironic, it's just bad luck or poor planning. Unless she was marrying Michael Fish, which would introduce an element of irony. "A traffic jam when you're already late"- again, no irony, just bad luck and dubious pre-planning/time management. "10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife"- she's probably accidentally left her knife in the takeaway box when she's had a Chinese and binned it. Sheer carelessness, but no irony. Again, the only potential for irony here was if the shortfall in knives occured in the canteen of a factory that distributed cutlery. I’ve often wondered if the lack of irony in the song is in itself, somewhat ironic and that Alanis Morrisette is some sort of evil genius fucking with our heads....
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Post by robstokie on May 23, 2019 21:28:26 GMT
There's obviously a good manager in Potter, his work at Ostersunds was incredible, and he looks to have laid the foundations for Swansea to compete towards promotion next season, but I think Brighton is the wrong job for him. They've got rid of the most successful manager in their history who was popular within the club, so that's big shoes to fill, hes inherited a squad that is full of experienced heads who are used to traditional managers with a CV of results in English football and not an awful lot of quality, so he could struggle to implement his style if the senior pros don't buy into it and has lost the comfort of getting time to build a project - survival will be the end goal for next season at least and will need to get hard results on the board pretty early on to convince.
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