Maybe. Alternatively, it's been so tight all season long that just a couple of different

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I think the main point I'm making is this. We all get so angry (me no less than anyone else, cf. Arsenal last season :p) that we think we know better than the manager.

The reality is he knows far, far more about football than any of us will ever know. And that he'll have had good reasons for his methods: reasons which we all underestimate I think.

Posted By: thebigfeller on April 15th 2014 at 19:37:47

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Gary Neville - "it's impossible to play football without pace". (n/m) (Other Football) - Only1Doherty, Apr 15, 19:11:49
- He did ok (n/m) (Other Football) - strap_on sally, Apr 15, 19:12:37
  - Sorry - he meant with no pace anywhere in your team. (Other Football) - Only1Doherty, Apr 15, 19:17:12
    - Doesn't that show why Hughton played the way he did? This is the bit we've always (Other Football) - thebigfeller, Apr 15, 19:26:41
      - He signed most of them tbf (n/m) (Other Football) - lurd, Apr 15, 19:27:23
        
        IMO, if he hadn't started messing around to try and appease the fans (Other Football) - thebigfeller, Apr 15, 19:29:34
        
        There was no point this season at which we were playing well enough to be safe by now (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 15, 19:32:44
        
        Maybe. Alternatively, it's been so tight all season long that just a couple of different (Other Football) - thebigfeller, Apr 15, 19:37:47
        
        A couple of goals at strategic points. Cardiff & West Ham away to name (Other Football) - dennis moore, Apr 15, 20:00:24
        
        If that logic was right, then every manager ought to keep their job for ever (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 15, 19:40:29
        
        But many of them are in jobs in which the fans wildly under-estimate the odds (Other Football) - thebigfeller, Apr 15, 19:46:15
        
        well, that's a completely different argument (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 15, 19:56:35
        
        I think we should've expected a long, hard struggle. That's what the wage bill tells us (n/m) (Other Football) - thebigfeller, Apr 15, 19:57:37
        
        What is our wage bill in comparison to others this season, do you think? (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 15, 19:58:23
        
        Bottom 4. Maybe bottom 3. (n/m) (Other Football) - thebigfeller, Apr 15, 20:03:33
        
        And in that sense, Bowkett's comments about 'top 10' were stupid (n/m) (Other Football) - thebigfeller, Apr 15, 19:58:10
        
        well said, dumb logic. As for Hughtons tactics (Other Football) - phrankin, Apr 15, 19:45:16
        
        Mate said to me after the Man Utd game that we'd go down because we just don't score enoug (Other Football) - lurd, Apr 15, 19:35:52
        
        I've been droning on about it all season (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 15, 19:39:05
    - we are neither quick or play the ball quickly... (n/m) (Other Football) - phrankin, Apr 15, 19:26:29
    - Redmond, Olsson, Bradderz? (Other Football) - APB, Apr 15, 19:26:07
      - Redmond's quick but hardly ever see him get behind a defence (n/m) (Other Football) - Only1Doherty, Apr 15, 19:31:56

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