VectisSaint

What part? The players don't hate him anyway, that is just a "supporters" thing, the players that had been there for a while were supportive, after all Hughes managed them to 3 top 10 finishes. The issues at Stoke can be laid fairly and squarely at the transfer policy, which Hughes had a say in but did not control. Some massive non-performers who then caused disquiet iin the dressing room. The nonsense about Hughes relegating Stoke is just that, nonsense. They had plenty of time to get out of the situation, but they didn't.

Even though he thinks a 9 goal swing is needed. He really is a complete plonker.

But we had to continue with Hoedt who is far inferior. Bednarek is good, but he is not markedly better than Stephens, in my opinion Jack is a better all round player.

But Hughes is not managing them now. They have not conceded more than 3 goals in a game since the start of the year. Even when they conceded 7 they also scored 2 so it was "only" a 5 goal deficit. Swansea scored 8 earlier in the season. But it was against Notts County. They have only scored 2 goals in the last I don't know how many league games. Most likely result there is probably 0-0 or 0-1.

Was it a different Hughes that finished top 7 twice with Blackburn?

How is Sean Dyche relevant?

Not really much of an Escape, let alone a Great Escape. Great Escapes come when you are a long way behind and you get out, not when you are just bumbling along, drifting into relegation as we were this season. We weren't even in the relegation zone when Hughes arrived. West Brom nearly achieved a great escape this season.

First things first, get rid of Les, Ralph, Ross Wilson, SKD, Head of Academy, Dave Watson, Kat (Gao would be nice bu won't happen). Get a new Chief Exec who knows about football. Then sort the rest out.

Even if we did, its difficult to see Swansea scoring 4, even against Stoke, their problem is they can't score goals, its very unlikely that is suddenly going to change, very unlikely. But it might.

The article doesn't say that, the author simply suggests they will. Hope they do to be fair, they might learn if Sparky gets a chance to explain. We have to end this attitude of unto hability of referees, some of them, Moss in particular are simply not good enough, whatever Whitey might say.

Really don't think much credit goes to our keeper coach. Alex was a good keeper before he joined us, Watson doesn't seem to have destroyed him like he has our other keepers. Credit should go to Alex for his patience while we stuck with the awful FF.

Sincerely hope some of them don't stick around.

Of course Romeu can play, 10 yellow deadline passed after 32 games. Next cut off is 15, even OR cannot get to that this season. Lemina, probably subbed as precaution, have to wait and see I guess.

Gutted, so nearly. The injury time was fair enough, and not the issue. The "foul" by Redmond was probably not a foul, and the free kick taken from 10-20 yards from where the "offence" happened was the issue, Moss is an embarrassment, again. Hopefully missing Yoshida at Swansea will not cost us, we have Jack to come in, would have been nice to have the option of dropping Wesley Liability Hoedt.

Excellent, our Chinese bank owners will be pleased that Gao can pay back a small part of his loan.

100th Birthday today.

Yeah, just remember how bad it was when Poch was our manager, or when Koeman came in and took English lessons. Both of them were dreadful because of their inabiity to speak English. Puel and Pellegrino actually spoke English better than Poch. It has nothing to do with being able to speak English, it is to do with communicating and getting your messages across, that doesn't need to be by a native English speaker to be effective. Sparky is no more English than any of the other aforementioned managers for that matter. Given the majority of our players are not native English speakers (Forster for instance) it really is not a necessity, but it is nice to have someone who is able to communicate easily from a supporter's pov.

Your first sentence says it all. No hope for you pal.

If you don't understand that Leeds are a bigger club then you clearly know nothing about football history. He said bigger clubs have suffered that fate, i.e. in the past. European Cup Runners-up, Cup winners cup runners-up, UEFA Cup winners twice, Everton have won the Cup Winners Cup, Leeds League Champions 3 times in the reasonably modern era, same as Everton. There was a time in recent memory when Leeds were certainly top 2 or 3 in this country.

Think this is one of the keys. We certainly looked fitter yesterday, the way we set up to play Boscombe meant we needed runners, and they couldn't have done that under the Pellegrino/Puel regime. Its probably taken a few weeks since his appointment for Hughes to be able to get players playing like this, you cannot change fitness levels overnight, but his more intensive training looks like it has worked. If only he had been given the chance to do this a few weeks earlier, not convinced yet we can get out of this mess but at least we have a chance with two tricky but winnable away games coming up.

Hoedt really is a liability. He needs to learn a lot, good player in there, but he really is so naive, too laid back and lacking in understanding the game.

The effect of Puel who managed 1 win and 2 draws in the last 8 games of the season, with 0 goals in our final 5 home matches. You really need to think about what you post. Puel becmae a ****ing disaster who is largely responsible for where we are now. He is heading the same way at Leicester just to prove that his achievement wasn't just a fluke.

Racial stereotyping at its best.

Probably thinks Boscombe is in Dorset as well.

Presumably your retort to a Liverpool fan is that we have the same number of PL trophies. Same as Spurs as well.