Hughes "close" to being named Fulham manager

[lets all have a disco]

Hear hear.


Fat faced twunt.

[brite blu sky]

Those stats are league performances only i take it.

If you take the 1.947 average and recalc for 38 games it comes out as 73.986 .... 74pts basically

that would have landed us a point shy of the Arse.

Chelsea got a return of 2.2 pts/game to win the league. so 1.947 is in the ball park even with last years squad.

I would conclude that not only are our players already good enough, also that Mancini is on track and is the right kind of person/manager to get this kind of consistency. Bear in mind always that he dropped into this half way through the season with a lot of pressure and a lot of work to do and no time, while learning about the realities of the prem.

anyone arguing about this imo is about as deluded as the rags currently are. its a non-argument.

Just out of statistical interest the difference between 1.947 for the whole season and what Chelsea achieved would be 12 pts
4 loses into wins or 6 draws into wins or a mixture of the two. Think of the draws we took last season..

[Fidel Castro]

Looks like its a go ahead then

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 866133.stm

Thank you and god bless Leslie x

Thank you?? What for???

Adressing the problems at Carrington. Setting the wheels in motion for a top-5 finish last season and the chance of silverware in the carling cup. For signing Given, Kompany, Bellamy, de Jong, Tevez, Adebayor, SWP, Zabaleta.

And signing Crocky Santa Cruz for 700% of what he bought him for at Blackburn, even though he was totally crocked. Signing Tel Ben Haim, Wayne Bridge, Kolo Toure etc and of course the infamous "Tafia" useless backroom team. Cheers Leslie, you did us proud.

Of course he made mistakes, like all managers do (Vieira anyone???). Bridge and Kolo have dissapointed, but I don't think anyone would've said no to them before hand. Somebody asked what we had to thank him for, why turn that question around and make it into something negative. Just shows how bitter and petty you really are.

[Fidel Castro]

Why does Mancini make you erect but Hughes didnt?

When was Jozef Friztl our manager? He was shit by the look of it, probably had his mind on other things though. Like dungeons and incest.

[paulh]

re mancini erect reply to my earlier post - he doesnt make me erect think he is more tactically astute than hughes. Hughes made some awful signings, ex red, not the most charasmatic of managers and left substitutions way to late. good riddance

[sandman]

re mancini erect reply to my earlier post - he doesnt make me erect think he is more tactically astute than hughes. Hughes made some awful signings, ex red, not the most charasmatic of managers and left substitutions way to late. good riddance

Plus he insisted on constantly playing Ched Evans despite him being blatantly below par and he wasted a shitload of money on RSC when the whole world could see he wasnt going to work out.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

re mancini erect reply to my earlier post - he doesnt make me erect think he is more tactically astute than hughes. Hughes made some awful signings, ex red, not the most charasmatic of managers and left substitutions way to late. good riddance

Plus he insisted on constantly playing Ched Evans despite him being blatantly below par and he wasted a shitload of money on RSC when the whole world could see he wasnt going to work out.

he was suffering from the syndrome that many players turned into managers suffer. They need to have similar player that they were themselves on the pitch. Evans had the nasty edge to him that Hughes had as player and Santa Cruz was bit similar in other ways. Problem is, there's no need for player type that Hughes were in modern fast paced game. Player who basically just kicks the shit out of opposition defenders to create space for more talented players and scores occasional wonder goal but rarely is prolific.

[saulman]

Why does Mancini make you erect but Hughes didnt?

I've never seen that table before. It's quite astonishing just how far ahead Bobby it at the top, though it's only over 19 games and with probably the best squad of the lot. That said, he came in mid-season and took over a deflated and depleted squad.

The comparison with Les is interesting when you take only last season into account. 19 games each with the same group of players. Bobby had the addition of Johnson and Vieira, but Lesley started the season with a few players that Bobby didn't get to play till later on........

Bobby Manc - 1.947
Lesley Hughes - 1.578

That would put Lesley in 3rd place behind Kendal but still miles behind Bobby, who's now working with his own signings and has had a full pre-season. The new signings are only going to make the squad stronger so if the players do gel early on, and there's no reason why not because they're all good enough, then I think we could mount a serious challenge next season.

I doubt that Lesley would A) been able to attract the players Bobby has and B) leave me feeling this confident.

Good luck to him at Fulham.

[HeyMark]

Hope he does really well at Fulham, the way he constantly went to bat for us against the media was quite refreshing and pleasant to see. Particularly after having to put up with Pearce and his poor attempts at dealing with the media.