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The old Chris Hughton discussion thread

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zolton

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Hi all, hav'nt visited for a while, last season panned out pretty much as I predicted.

Anyway, obviously the Hughton rumours are doing the rounds, seems you think there is not much in them, general feeling on the West Brom forum is you should stick with what you have and get some stability into the club.

 

The feeling on here is that West Brom fans should learn some facts before they buy into bullshit media rumours.

 

Its very hard when you are distant from it, but having read some of the posts on here, it seems you think its a load of tosh. Did you believe the rumours about Steven Gerrard by the way?

 

Fair point. It's been a very frustrating week though seeing these rumours run and run despite our boards denials and no fans calling for his head.

 

I have given your opinion on West Brom.com, what more can I do, good luck against Sunderland, I won't get to your place this year and have some of those luvly fish and chips at Cullercoats unfortunately.

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Sifu

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Hughton has impressed me this season, obviously he has got some things wrong but with experience he'll only improve imo. I'd stick with him for the long haul yet.

 

Was quite surprised with the recent rumours really!

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Guest Ridzuan

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I will be damned if Chris gets the sack. Apart from some tactical mistakes he did in some of our previous matches, he has not done anything wrong that would warrant his sacking. We have been here before in the past, and it did not worked. Sometimes, I feel as if it is not the manager who needs to change, but other elements around the club. Unless someone like Mourinho or Wenger come out and declare they would like to manage us, we should give our full support to Chris. He deserves his chance.

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Begbie

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I think Hughton needs to be a bit tougher if we are going to climb the table, so I think its time to drop the nice act and start getting dirty like Ferguson, Wenger and most of the others are. He need to adress the referees having a vendetta against us, do a Wenger and say publicly that players are out to injure our players(look Barton).

 

We need to be cheating cunts, that is whats work in todays games. Nile Ranger should have went down in the penalty box, I think a lot of managers tells there players to do this(i dont like this myself, but this is how many games are won).

 

Hughton also needs to stick to the basic, get the players motivated for the games like we were in the championship and in the start of this Premier League campaign.

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Cronky

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I do get irritated with this opinion that Hughton may be okay for the Championship but is out of his depth in the Premiership. Based on what, exactly?

 

Lazy malicious journalism perhaps ?

 

True, but this scepticism about Hughton isn't just confined to the press. I can only go by what I read on here, but there seems to be a lot of hesitation about granting him full recognition amongst some supporters.

 

I think it stems back from the way in which he got the job. When a coach becomes caretaker, and then gets the permanent job, it's natural to wonder whether at some stage he's going to be found out. I spent the first half of last season wondering when it was all going to go belly-up.

 

Of course, it didn't. Every time there was a setback, the team just picked itself up and got going again. The same thing seems to be happening this season. This team has the capacity to shake off pressure and stay focused, and I'm sure that's what Hughton has brought to the club.

 

The other big plus is his judgement of players to bring in. Despite a small budget, we've been strengthened significantly in both transfer windows.

 

But as I say, this attitude of 'when is Hughton going to fail' still lingers. But he seems to have the ability that only the best managers have - which is to re-focus the players on the next game regardless of victory or defeat previously. You can even see it during games, when we pick up our performance in the second halves of matches.

 

There was this funny sense on Wednesday - and this is typical - that even after a 4-0 home defeat we didn't look like a beaten side. Nobody's head dropped.

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Wullie

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I do get irritated with this opinion that Hughton may be okay for the Championship but is out of his depth in the Premiership. Based on what, exactly?

 

Lazy malicious journalism perhaps ?

 

True, but this scepticism about Hughton isn't just confined to the press. I can only go by what I read on here, but there seems to be a lot of hesitation about granting him full recognition amongst some supporters.

 

I think it stems back from the way in which he got the job. When a coach becomes caretaker, and then gets the permanent job, it's natural to wonder whether at some stage he's going to be found out. I spent the first half of last season wondering when it was all going to go belly-up.

 

Of course, it didn't. Every time there was a setback, the team just picked itself up and got going again. The same thing seems to be happening this season. This team has the capacity to shake off pressure and stay focused, and I'm sure that's what Hughton has brought to the club.

 

The other big plus is his judgement of players to bring in. Despite a small budget, we've been strengthened significantly in both transfer windows.

 

But as I say, this attitude of 'when is Hughton going to fail' still lingers. But he seems to have the ability that only the best managers have - which is to re-focus the players on the next game regardless of victory or defeat previously. You can even see it during games, when we pick up our performance in the second halves of matches.

 

There was this funny sense on Wednesday - and this is typical - that even after a 4-0 home defeat we didn't look like a beaten side. Nobody's head dropped.

 

:clap:

 

No-one would be saying these things if he had a fashionable name.

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