12-05-2021, 08:44 PM
Hughton has been entrusted with the job and he will know the score. He will have to get the team challenging at the right end and to do that, generally sides have to play more progressive and attacking football.
Hughton has yet to shape the team as he wants it because he inherited a squad cobbled together with aging players, unknown foreigners or players who had played virtually no football in the previous 12 months. He was also picking from an existing squad of players scarred by failure, whose best player had been sold, whose leading creative player was injured/out of form and whose central striker was woefully out of confidence. The side had little pace or creativity and ultimately we got safe because we were generally defensively sound - particularly once Worrall returned.i think the mantra is play to your strengths and Hughton did not have many options as to our strengths.
We saw the difference some of his signings made to the team in January and with the changes to recruitment we've got to be positive about our chances of doing better than last season. We saw in flashes last season against Swansea, Millwall and a few other games that we could play some good football and hopefully with some more cutting edge then that style is what Hughton wants and will bring us more reward than this year.
If Hughton gets the sack for finishing 17th in the Premier league he will have done better than every manager since Frank Clark - and for that I would be very grateful.
Hughton has yet to shape the team as he wants it because he inherited a squad cobbled together with aging players, unknown foreigners or players who had played virtually no football in the previous 12 months. He was also picking from an existing squad of players scarred by failure, whose best player had been sold, whose leading creative player was injured/out of form and whose central striker was woefully out of confidence. The side had little pace or creativity and ultimately we got safe because we were generally defensively sound - particularly once Worrall returned.i think the mantra is play to your strengths and Hughton did not have many options as to our strengths.
We saw the difference some of his signings made to the team in January and with the changes to recruitment we've got to be positive about our chances of doing better than last season. We saw in flashes last season against Swansea, Millwall and a few other games that we could play some good football and hopefully with some more cutting edge then that style is what Hughton wants and will bring us more reward than this year.
If Hughton gets the sack for finishing 17th in the Premier league he will have done better than every manager since Frank Clark - and for that I would be very grateful.