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Post by stokemark on Jan 24, 2021 9:57:44 GMT
Doing a great job at Ipswich in League 1 (not !!)
It will remain forever a moment I will never forget (too young for President Kennedy's assassination but remember where I was when Lady Diana died) when I heard we had appointed him and quite simply could not believe how shite a decision it was.
I remain convinced that we could have stayed up with the right appointment and that Lambert is up there with Chic Bates as one of the worst 'in the moment' managerial decisions the club has ever made.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Jan 24, 2021 9:59:43 GMT
I’m amazed he’s still in a job there,pinching a living
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Post by Bagwash on Jan 24, 2021 10:03:07 GMT
Doing a great job at Ipswich in League 1 (not !!) It will remain forever a moment I will never forget (too young for President Kennedy's assassination but remember where I was when Lady Diana died) when I heard we had appointed him and quite simply could not believe how shite a decision it was. I remain convinced that we could have stayed up with the right appointment and that Lambert is up there with Chic Bates as one of the worst 'in the moment' managerial decisions the club has ever made. I'm convinced we would have stopped up if we had kept Hughes until the end of the season.
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Post by cheadlepotter on Jan 24, 2021 10:04:26 GMT
I was sat on a bench in the Potteries Centre whilst my wife was shopping. As if my day wasn’t going badly already I read the news that we’d been relegated.
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Post by PotteringThrough on Jan 24, 2021 10:05:18 GMT
Doing a great job at Ipswich in League 1 (not !!) It will remain forever a moment I will never forget (too young for President Kennedy's assassination but remember where I was when Lady Diana died) when I heard we had appointed him and quite simply could not believe how shite a decision it was. I remain convinced that we could have stayed up with the right appointment and that Lambert is up there with Chic Bates as one of the worst 'in the moment' managerial decisions the club has ever made. I'm convinced we would have stopped up if we had kept Hughes until the end of the season. We were abysmal with Hughes, confidence gone and shipping goals for fun. I can't see it myself.
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Post by nonameface on Jan 24, 2021 10:06:23 GMT
Doing a great job at Ipswich in League 1 (not !!) It will remain forever a moment I will never forget (too young for President Kennedy's assassination but remember where I was when Lady Diana died) when I heard we had appointed him and quite simply could not believe how shite a decision it was. I remain convinced that we could have stayed up with the right appointment and that Lambert is up there with Chic Bates as one of the worst 'in the moment' managerial decisions the club has ever made. I'm convinced we would have stopped up if we had kept Hughes until the end of the season. We would have done... Lambert like Jones played the wrong style of football for the footballers we had.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Jan 24, 2021 10:06:30 GMT
I'm convinced we would have stopped up if we had kept Hughes until the end of the season. We were abysmal with Hughes, confidence gone and shipping goals for fun. I can't see it myself. Spot on mate,Hughes should have gone a lot earlier that was the issue
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 24, 2021 10:09:25 GMT
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Post by franklin on Jan 24, 2021 10:10:44 GMT
Doing a great job at Ipswich in League 1 (not !!) It will remain forever a moment I will never forget (too young for President Kennedy's assassination but remember where I was when Lady Diana died) when I heard we had appointed him and quite simply could not believe how shite a decision it was. I remain convinced that we could have stayed up with the right appointment and that Lambert is up there with Chic Bates as one of the worst 'in the moment' managerial decisions the club has ever made. I'm convinced we would have stopped up if we had kept Hughes until the end of the season. Absolutely, Lambert was a complete cluster fuck of an appointment.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2021 10:17:06 GMT
Doing a great job at Ipswich in League 1 (not !!) It will remain forever a moment I will never forget (too young for President Kennedy's assassination but remember where I was when Lady Diana died) when I heard we had appointed him and quite simply could not believe how shite a decision it was. I remain convinced that we could have stayed up with the right appointment and that Lambert is up there with Chic Bates as one of the worst 'in the moment' managerial decisions the club has ever made. I remember I was at work, and a mate told me we appointed him while he laughed his bollocks off at me (Villa fan). To this day I'm still baffled by the appointment, given his track record.
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Post by 19notbeaten72 on Jan 24, 2021 10:18:57 GMT
One of many dire decisions made by Coates & Scholes that condemed us to were we now are. It could & should have been so very different.
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Post by werrington on Jan 24, 2021 10:19:00 GMT
Good appointment or bad appointment I don’t share the disdain for him
He was the one who took the dressing room on
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 24, 2021 10:21:04 GMT
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 24, 2021 10:23:15 GMT
Hammered the last few nails in the coffin with some bizarre team selections.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 24, 2021 10:24:33 GMT
Fact remains he got us more organised and improved our performances , got one or two decent results and was unlucky with some incidents (eg Butland throwing the ball in the net at Leicester). Every manager has a myriad of different issues with every appointment they take and Lambert is one of those guys who in recent years has walked into some major league disaster zones masquerading as football clubs.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 24, 2021 10:27:21 GMT
Good appointment or bad appointment I don’t share the disdain for him He was the one who took the dressing room on Getting a bit worried about agreeing with you so much these days but this is dead right 🙂 (There seems to be an almost pathological need on this board at the minute to dismiss everyone associated with the club).
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 24, 2021 10:30:51 GMT
Hammered the last few nails in the coffin with some bizarre team selections. I'd love to see the Sliding Doors scenario where we actually appointed a vaguely competent manager at that point. We weren't cast adrift Of all the catastrophic decisions we've made, I still think this was in a league of its own for absolute nuttery I wonder who drove it through?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2021 10:32:06 GMT
Doing a great job at Ipswich in League 1 (not !!) It will remain forever a moment I will never forget (too young for President Kennedy's assassination but remember where I was when Lady Diana died) when I heard we had appointed him and quite simply could not believe how shite a decision it was. I remain convinced that we could have stayed up with the right appointment and that Lambert is up there with Chic Bates as one of the worst 'in the moment' managerial decisions the club has ever made. I'm convinced we would have stopped up if we had kept Hughes until the end of the season. Definitely. I wanted him gone at the time but with hindsight we would’ve stayed up for sure.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2021 10:38:38 GMT
Good appointment or bad appointment I don’t share the disdain for him He was the one who took the dressing room on I hold no disdain for the bloke at all. He was exactly what we knew we were getting, a manager completely out of his depth for the task he took on. Having said that, in my opinion, we were a lost cause by the time he came in and I seriously doubt anybody could have stopped that rot, well certainly anybody who we could have tempted anyway.
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 24, 2021 10:42:36 GMT
Good appointment or bad appointment I don’t share the disdain for him He was the one who took the dressing room on I hold no disdain for the bloke at all. He was exactly what we knew we were getting, a manager completely out of his depth for the task he took on. Having said that, in my opinion, we were a lost cause by the time he came in and I seriously doubt anybody could have stopped that rot, well certainly anybody who we could have tempted anyway. www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/formtabelle/wettbewerb/GB1?saison_id=2017&min=1&max=22As daft as it seems, we were 3 points off 12th when we sacked Hughes
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2021 10:46:24 GMT
I hold no disdain for the bloke at all. He was exactly what we knew we were getting, a manager completely out of his depth for the task he took on. Having said that, in my opinion, we were a lost cause by the time he came in and I seriously doubt anybody could have stopped that rot, well certainly anybody who we could have tempted anyway. www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/formtabelle/wettbewerb/GB1?saison_id=2017&min=1&max=22As daft as it seems, we were 3 points off 12th when we sacked Hughes Yeah I get that, but the rot had set in and you only have to look at the years that have followed to see how deep rooted our issues were behind the scenes.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 24, 2021 11:02:40 GMT
Hammered the last few nails in the coffin with some bizarre team selections. I'd love to see the Sliding Doors scenario where we actually appointed a vaguely competent manager at that point. We weren't cast adrift Of all the catastrophic decisions we've made, I still think this was in a league of its own for absolute nuttery I wonder who drove it through? You could see it being a Coates Sr job couldn’t you?
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 24, 2021 11:15:06 GMT
I'd love to see the Sliding Doors scenario where we actually appointed a vaguely competent manager at that point. We weren't cast adrift Of all the catastrophic decisions we've made, I still think this was in a league of its own for absolute nuttery I wonder who drove it through? You could see it being a Coates Sr job couldn’t you? Yeah, bit of an old school Brit. PC would've liked that. Not the type that JC's mate down the pub would have gone for. His interview must've been a worldie!
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Post by andystokey on Jan 24, 2021 11:21:35 GMT
You could see it being a Coates Sr job couldn’t you? Yeah, bit of an old school Brit. PC would've liked that. Not the type that JC's mate down the pub would have gone for. His interview must've been a worldie! We didn't need someone who did a days worth of Googling. We needed someone who the team would respect and not be able to piss take. Even if it was a short tenure we needed a leader. After the rejection in Spain we just panicked. The biggest mistake was delaying the sacking of MH after the Watford away win. He should have really gone that summer but we dithered.
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Post by RF10 on Jan 24, 2021 11:22:41 GMT
He wasn't at fault for our downfall but another mananger would have kept us up. If he managed to keep us up he wouldn't have lasted much longer.
I think we massively undersold ourselves and if we reached out properly could have ended up with a decent manager.
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Post by wilcopotter on Jan 24, 2021 11:36:31 GMT
Doing a great job at Ipswich in League 1 (not !!) It will remain forever a moment I will never forget (too young for President Kennedy's assassination but remember where I was when Lady Diana died) when I heard we had appointed him and quite simply could not believe how shite a decision it was. I remain convinced that we could have stayed up with the right appointment and that Lambert is up there with Chic Bates as one of the worst 'in the moment' managerial decisions the club has ever made. I'm convinced we would have stopped up if we had kept Hughes until the end of the season. I don’t think so. The team I watched in his last game at Coventry looked like they’d downed tools for the manager to me.
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Post by prudhoesnose on Jan 24, 2021 11:55:38 GMT
Remember coming on here before bed. We'd been turned down my Martin O'Neill. Then, I Think it was Cilla, revealed the board were talking with Lambert. Didn't sleep a wink that night.
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Post by silsdenstokie on Jan 24, 2021 11:57:51 GMT
Good appointment or bad appointment I don’t share the disdain for him He was the one who took the dressing room on Yep As poor appointment as it was, he tried his best and it just wasnt quite good enough. Had some downright bad luck aswell (Leicester away, Charlies pen against Brighton, Everton at home) I hold no ill will towards him
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Post by prestwichpotter on Jan 24, 2021 11:59:30 GMT
I have no ill feeling towards him, he was just a terrible terrible appointment with the thousands of managers there was out there.........
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 24, 2021 12:01:03 GMT
Good appointment or bad appointment I don’t share the disdain for him He was the one who took the dressing room on Yep As poor appointment as it was, he tried his best and it just wasnt quite good enough. Had some downright bad luck aswell (Leicester away, Charlies pen against Brighton, Everton at home) I hold no ill will towards him Was Everton at home bad luck? He picked a rotten side including bringing back a patently unfit Adam who duly did an Adam and got himself sent off with an act of wanton recklessness?
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