hypochondriac

Who is he?

Read a good article about him a few months ago about how he really looks into the opposition in details and sets up to deal with each game individually. Sounds much better than what we have

I was going to write this but thought better of it Ps yes I am.

Because the fact he is British means he will be able to communicate his ideas effectively. Its not the sole preserve of British people but it can't hurt. The rest of your post makes little sense. Most sane people are fully aware of what I was saying - see trouser's posts for details.

I'd take him if that were true. We've had a ton of leaks about managers before though and most are wrong so I'll hold fire until we get anything more concrete. Thanks for the snippets though.

Because I can see alpines point. I know its easy to have a go at him because of how absurd he is, but I do think he has a point. My guess is that there was indecision because of Gao but it does look very odd. I don't think there's a need to send him abuse on this topic.

Hughes is on a different planet if the choice is Mark Hughes or Kelvin Davis to manage saints. You're just making yourself look a bit silly and out of touch.

That's pretty ironic given the amount of time you spend metaphorically sticking your fingers in your ears and humming loudly when someone tries to present some facts or opinions you disagree with.

I wouldn't underestimate their stupidity given how they have approached the last two January transfer windows.

It wasn't hindsight though, an unprecedented number of fans and commentators thought he should be sacked around the start of the year. Had we not sacked him yesterday, I can see why people thought there was something dodgy going on. I don't think any manager has performed as poorly for so long for an established club and mot been sacked. It was getting bizarre.

Thanks trousers. I would have thought that was obvious. The difference is I said I'd welcome us trying to get out of this hole we have dug by firing the manager and appointing someone. We are finally doing that so I am happy even if it doesn't work out and we go down. For the reasons I've already said, Hughes would be a pretty good appointment for us given the circumstances.

"lauded his appointment?" utter rubbish. I've said I think he's a solid appointment under the circumstances if he is who we go for and I think people expressing utter disappointment and deflation are being totally unrealistic and failing to understand the predicament we are in.

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Is Mount Mauricio worth a visit?

Maybe not but we are where we are.

I'm not delighted with Hughes you cretin, I think there are some positives to his appointment and I'm extremely pleased we have sacked pellegrino which will give us a chance. There's certainly many more positives to appointing Hughes than kelvin flipping Davis at any rate.

Already explained. Has experience in the league so more likely to hot the ground running, was a good player and by many accounts would take no nonsense and would hopefully command more respect than pellegrino, has had some success on this league such as three top ten finishes with Stoke. Quite a lot of positives here given the short time frame to get someone in and the few amount of games we have left. But given that you would prefer kelvin Davis I'm not sure we can take your views entirely seriously...

Hughes has had some poor seasons and some decent season in the prem. He is experienced, British and knows the league. We need someone for 8 games minimum who can keep us up. Given our position right now, the fact we need someone in quickly, the fact we need someone who can command a bit of respect and how unnatractive we would be to higher profile candidates at this stage, Hughes would be one of the best realistic candidates available. If he can get us into similar form that saw Stoke finish top ten for three season in a row--no reason why not--then I'm happy to give him a chance. We could have not sacked pellegrino this week and waited till the end of the season and Hughes as manager for the last 8 games is vastly preferable, particularly if he manages to keep us up.

I was referring to the pellegrino bit not qpr.

He's a great appointment in comparison to pellegrino. I wasn't referring to qpr I was talking about your comparison with pellegrino and his success in Spain. That has no relevance to Hughes having some success at Stoke.

This is now the biggest game we have left. Win this and I think we will stay up. I'm going and will be hoping for a cracking atmosphere. Huge.

What does that have to do with success in the premier league? Would you rather have kept pellegrino?

But I'm afraid it was quite obviously the wrong thing to do. Giving managers more time can be an honourable trait but by December there were zero signs at all that anything was being done differently to try to turn things around. The fact we have now sacked him shows that we should have done it much earlier and that combined with our awful January window may now result in our relegation.

What about the one who improved Stoke and led them to top ten finishes?

Good news. Preferable to pellegrino and gives us a better chance of survival. I hope everyone gets right behind him for the last eight games and we see a bit of passion and attitude from the squad.