sidSmith wrote:Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:well the positives are obviously that results are still there. I was anticipating us losing to Everton and rags at Swamp was always going to be tough tie. Hull loss was a real shock to the system though and send a worrying message. Tonight we were shite again but are still in competition where we were last season kicked out by Forest so at least there's some improvement in longer term.
It's the performances that are the worry really. I do feel that we are in stage where we are taking that step backwards in order to move forward. Whether I'm right remains to be seen but every club go through rough spell at some stage with their new manager. Whether we will bounce back will tell us whether Mancini has what it takes.
I agree with this but the step back and pain we're going through is a bit excessive considering we've spent what we have! What was so bad under Hughes that we needed to strip the fucking lot back and start again to this extent?
Nothing but they could hardly have sacked Hughes because of his attacking prowess. We let in too many crap goals to be top 4 so rather than give Hughes the license to try & sort it, we brought in Mancini clearly with those instructions, so it's a bit unfair to slag him for trying to do what he's been appointed to do.
Unfortunately, it's failed against all but the worst of attacks & the goals we let in v Everton, Hull & today's disaster v Stoke are identical to the previous faults but that's often how it goes.