He ultimately has a lack of confidence in his team to compete at the top level

Which manifests itself in the ultra defensive approach/tactics. When you basically don't try and win away from home ever then you place such huge pressure on your home games.

He also struck me as very much a coaching by numbers man., Can set a team up well to start a game and I rarely disagree with his selections (except when leaving Wes out) but he could not change a game during the course of the 90 minutes at all. Not sure he has much "in game awareness/intelligence" but obviously an incredibly hard worker who knows the coaching manual back to front.

Posted By: Jim on May 13th 2019 at 10:08:58

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Hughton sacked (Other Football) - duke of york, May 13, 09:35:22
- not enough letters in Alireza Jahanbakhsh to cover costs with shirt sales (Other Football) - Dave in France, May 13, 12:13:46
- Pope in big hat exposé (n/m) (Other Football) - Augustus Pablo, May 13, 10:50:00
- Next story; Bears found shitting in woods 😉 (n/m) (Other Football) - Worthing Yellow, May 13, 10:49:13
- Graham Potter odds on to get the job (n/m) (Other Football) - Adster, May 13, 10:45:58
  - Will take a lot of work in the close season to adapt Hoots’ squad to his style of play (n/m) (Other Football) - King, May 13, 10:49:28
    - It didn't seem to have adapted to Hoots' style so maybe not quite so much... (n/m) (Other Football) - mr carra, May 13, 10:50:45
- Cautious Chris in the top flight, by the numbers (Other Football) - Henclrikus, May 13, 10:27:02
  - Final 18 games... all but half a season (Other Football) - norway, May 13, 11:39:20
    - and yet the BHA fans are as divided as we were (Other Football) - Henclrikus, May 13, 11:44:40
  - How does that compare to the average bottom-six or bottom-ten side, though? (Other Football) - Old Man, May 13, 10:45:35
    - I'd say that for a man who says "barclays premier league" as much as him (Other Football) - Worzel Scrimmage, May 13, 17:24:37
    - not that it alters his very obvious failings (Other Football) - Henclrikus, May 13, 11:41:03
    - His Championship sides seem to score plenty of goals (Other Football) - duke of york, May 13, 10:52:54
    - "better for them than us" (Other Football) - mr carra, May 13, 10:49:50
  - Pity he didn’t achieve that average at Norwich! (n/m) (Other Football) - Thegelman, May 13, 10:35:51
- Incredible after he managed to hold out for the 1-4 (n/m) (Other Football) - Old Git, May 13, 10:09:16
- Not good news for us that as Brighton may improve. Amazing how one again (Other Football) - Jim, May 13, 10:06:27
  - From a City point of view I'm rooting for Mark Hughes (n/m) (Other Football) - mr carra, May 13, 10:16:05
- It's weird - he seems to start out brightly but gradually lose self-confidence over time. (Other Football) - Higher Wrather, May 13, 10:04:40
  - He ultimately has a lack of confidence in his team to compete at the top level (Other Football) - Jim, May 13, 10:08:58
    - yes, he's defensive, but the retreat into the shell happens over seasons. We had some dece (Other Football) - Higher Wrather, May 13, 10:13:39
      - Yes but I think it all ultimately flows from his attitude. It doesn;t happen immediately, (Other Football) - Jim, May 13, 10:19:08
      - Decent 1-0 wins, but still negative (Other Football) - mr carra, May 13, 10:17:25
        
        The hoime wins v Man U and Arsenal in that 10 game run were great albeit (Other Football) - Jim, May 13, 10:22:29
- Talkshite cannot comprehend (Other Football) - LowestoftBoy, May 13, 10:04:24
  - How dare they? He's a nice bloke. What do the expect down there? (Other Football) - bird table, May 13, 10:17:24
  - Dan Ashworth is the new Technical Director. (Other Football) - norway, May 13, 10:09:51
    - Ashworth! (Other Football) - APB, May 13, 13:27:52
      - Totally Mexico. Keep it futile, yeah? (n/m) (Other Football) - Old Man, May 13, 14:51:23
    - Norfolk lad. (n/m) (Other Football) - protheroe fitzgibbon, May 13, 11:09:09
    - Good point (Other Football) - duke of york, May 13, 10:11:43
- Hahahaha! They've seen the light. (Other Football) - bird table, May 13, 10:03:27
  - I don't (Other Football) - Charles21, May 13, 10:06:01
- ns seem despearte that they should appoint him... (Other Football) - mr carra, May 13, 10:01:33
  - ** Boro fans seem desperate thet they should appoint him (n/m) (Other Football) - mr carra, May 13, 10:01:55
- occasional flashes of pleasure? (n/m) (Other Football) - paulg, May 13, 09:53:54
- What an incredible development. Stunned I tell you. (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, May 13, 09:50:19
- Thoughts and prayers to Pants at this difficult time. (n/m) (Other Football) - tim berry, May 13, 09:44:40
  - Hardly, he did a job there and kepr them up. Huddersfields season (Other Football) - pants, May 13, 11:14:38
  - not in the bottom 3 (n/m) (Other Football) - Higher Wrather, May 13, 10:05:10
    - a proud record of never being sacked while in the bottom 3 (n/m) (Other Football) - Higher Wrather, May 13, 10:06:10
- Exactly what we should’ve done after he’s first season (n/m) (Other Football) - Thegelman, May 13, 09:43:57
- Bad news for us (n/m) (Other Football) - matgore, May 13, 09:41:57
- More adventurous football? (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, May 13, 09:37:11

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