rocky29 wrote:Thommo's perm wrote:Benny The Noon wrote:dawson99 wrote:Benny The Noon wrote:Which once again is an opinion not a fact . Were we ever this bad under Rafa . The fact is no - in fact not been this bad a start for 50 odd years . So currently the evidence is pointing to changing the manager was an incorrect choice .
Thats a different question!!!!!
Last seasno we were awful. His buys were awful, everyone saw it, everyone knew it. We will never know where wed be if Rafa was still here, or which players wed have.. we cant see that!
What we do know is it was well past his time to go.
Choice was perfectly correct to anyone who knows anything about anything.
Its a relevant question - the point that you and a few others miss is - You change managers to improve and move forward - have we done that - if its yes then the changing of managers is correct - if its no then the changing of managers is incorrect . You all seem to think "anyone but Rafa" BUT we are currently in 18th because we changed managers . If there is no one better available then you dont change managers because you go backwards - and look what is happening currently - we are going backwards .
Good point
But there is no evidence whatsoever that things would have got better had Benitez stayed. There is more to prove that things would have got worse. We are 18th but we could have been 19th?
This is not a defense of Hodgson, merely a reasonable argument for Benitezes departure
i wanted rafa to go but theres no way mash would of left and aqua would of stayed and i do think roy signings have been terrible. Theres no doubt last years team was much better. Roy has fecked it up in my opinion.
To my recollection last years team played sh'ite, so much so that the manager had to go because of them?
I will agree youve got a point over Aquilani not staying. Mistake for me...