I love Claude

[Fosse93]

1 minute ago, filbertway said:

Which team should have won...

The team who scored the most goals?

 

Should we have won the prem in your opinion?

[Albert]

4 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Which team should have won...

......which teams should have won

[eblair]

7 hours ago, filbertway said:

Which team should have won...

https://understat.com/league/EPL

 

 even with all that possession they beat us on xG we were fookin shite man

[Swalshed]

14 hours ago, eblair said:

defo heard L1 singing it today...

 

'puel out, puel out'

That's not quite what I'd hoped for!!!

 

Same happened in SK1, sadly.

 

I was as disappointed as anyone walking away from the ground yesterday. But, it's difficult to legislate for an individual performance as disastrous as Papy Mendy's was. There were also a lot of below par performances across the team.

 

Only consolation was the Ndidi goal. Okay, he bundled it in, but it was really well worked and I'd like to believe this kind of football Puel is working towards.

 

 

 

[Bob Weasel Fox]

21 hours ago, iancognito said:

Thank God he rested the players last week. If they'd gone out there looking, tired, beaten & exhausted after expelling energy defeating the mighty Newport, we could have taken a hammering today.

Good point. 

[MC Prussian]

I, for one, would say that this thread is about four months premature.

 

But hey ho, up the Football League we go...

[somebum]

On 11/01/2019 at 23:30, womp said:

except for the odd team selection i think he is doing great.he is looking further down the road than just this year which is what I want,build a stable squad for the future and stable place in the epl.

i dont mind his pressers as he is telling it as it is but a lot of fans arent listening.

apparently most fans think managing in the epl is easy it seems.

 

Thanks for that Claude

[somebum]

23 hours ago, filbertway said:

Which team should have won...

Cringe alert

[inckley fox]

Sometimes it feels like managers have to be either the Promised One or garbage, there's no grey area in between where you have your gripes, but accept that they're okay. In our case, maybe that's a result of our recent history, with the two preceding long-term managers being two of our best. And fans are readjusting to the mundane reality of being an established top flight side - mid-table, no promotions, no Europe, no title challenges, no great escapes, victim of the occasional upset.

 

But we are still 8th. According to our budget that's a respectable placing. We knew this would be a transitional season too. While I'm not sold on the football, I'm also aware that Puel's City has averaged 1.4 goals per game, 1.2 this season, and O'Neill only managed 1.3, and Bloomfield only 1.1. I also know we lost to Harlow Town under Wallace, and remember the Cup debacles against Grimsby and Hereford under O'Neill. And I remember losing to sides like Derby, Bradford and Sheffield Wednesday in his final season. So you have to maintain some perspective - that this is what it is to be mid-table, and in transition.

 

On the other hand, I accept we're a side in real danger of collapse right now, and agree that Puel needs to rethink some of his ideas, but as it stands he's still on track to achieve his primary objective for the season. I don't think you can fire your manager while that's the case - you'd be a laughing stock if you did, and a terrifying prospect for potential new bosses.

 

I agree with many of the concerns but as fans - like every other set of fans - we've been known to get things wrong. I read in 'Fossils and Foxes' that many fans were eager to see the back of Gillies in 1968 and Bloomfield in '77, but were ecstatic with the appointments of McLintock and, years later, Hamilton. I remember fans spitting at Little just before promotion in 1994, calling for O'Neill to be fired after 12 games, mourning the loss of Martin Allen, celebrating the arrival of Holloway and yelling 'w*****' at Pearson. So maybe we should at least wait until things are going seriously wrong, or seriously right, before we pass a verdict this time round.

[nnfox]

3 hours ago, inckley fox said:

 

On the other hand, I accept we're a side in real danger of collapse right now, and agree that Puel needs to rethink some of his ideas, but as it stands he's still on track to achieve his primary objective for the season. I don't think you can fire your manager while that's the case - you'd be a laughing stock if you did, and a terrifying prospect for potential new bosses.

 

This is such a good point.  Whilst I don't particularly care if we are a laughing stock or not, we do have an unjust reputation of sacking managers for no reason...  Pearson went after the Great Escape, Ranieri went after winning the league and seeing us through the group stage of the Champions League, Shakespeare went after one of the best starts to a Premier League managerial career of all time.  Accepting that we aren't going to finish in the top 6, sacking Puel when we are right in the mix for a 7th placed finish would make any potential incoming manager question what they would have to do to keep their job, it would be a big risk to them and their reputation.  A promising, highly regarded, up and coming manager earmarked as a future manager of a European giant isn't going to want a sacking from a mid-table team on their CV.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

9 hours ago, MC Prussian said:

I, for one, would say that this thread is about four months premature.

 

But hey ho, up the Football League we go...

I am know for my premature moments . . . 

[Bob Weasel Fox]

On 11/01/2019 at 23:30, womp said:

except for the odd team selection i think he is doing great.he is looking further down the road than just this year which is what I want,build a stable squad for the future and stable place in the epl.

i dont mind his pressers as he is telling it as it is but a lot of fans arent listening.

apparently most fans think managing in the epl is easy it seems.