Yes but I think it all ultimately flows from his attitude. It doesn;t happen immediately,

we still had a fairly swashbuckling Paul Lambert side when he took over who still had great belief and momentum from the back to back promotions and first season survival in the prem.

Brighton too seem to ride the momentum last season but I would argue have also been helped by the fact that over the last 2 seasons there have been several of the worst premier league teams I can ever remember which has made his job of keeping them up easier.

Next season looks a lot tougher to me for clubs like us and Brighton. Several of the "usual" relegation candidates have now been up there for several seasons. doesn't mean they won't go down of course but the likes of Palace, Burnley, Bournemouth, Watford etc have now consolidated and have quite a lot of good players and Wolves were never a normal promoted club.

If Villa or Leeds come up as well then its not hard to see why us and Shef u will be massive favourites for the drop. Which is not to say that I think we will go down.

Posted By: Jim on May 13th 2019 at 10:19:08

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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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