Next Manager The Runners & Riders

[Marinakis Red]

I suppose you can level that at him at Everton but he was at clubs battling to stay up. Going for promotion is different and he has done that once or twice too. My hunch is Hughton.

That's the dullest football of the lot. He is the one I'm dead against.

[Colnago]

I suppose you can level that at him at Everton but he was at clubs battling to stay up. Going for promotion is different and he has done that once or twice too. My hunch is Hughton.

That's the dullest football of the lot. He is the one I'm dead against.

Yep I agree

[PsychoStooge]

You can say what you like about Allardyce but he had Jay-Jay Okocha in his side and he was the most entertaining footballer to ever play in the Premier League!

[ozzyten10]

Hughton- A promotion winner - twice and kept clubs up in the league above. I don’t think he is as negative as you are being led to believe- certainly similar to the much lauded Karanka and actually has a better record. A very sensible and ambitious appointment for me

[Sabricadabra]

Hughton- A promotion winner - twice and kept clubs up in the league above. I don’t think he is as negative as you are being led to believe- certainly similar to the much lauded Karanka and actually has a better record. A very sensible and ambitious appointment for me

Agreed.

[Reds73]

I'm not going to lie but I would be in the dead against it camp on the big Sam route.

For what reason mate? Genuine question

I hated seeing his team's play football. That is all. Think you get frustrated with the defensive style now well we would get a whole lot more. And here is the thing once he is gone it takes a long time to recover from that style of play.

The side he had at Bolton played great football.

I bet Bolton were in dreamland having players like Ivan Campo, jay-jay Okocha, Youri Djorkaeff

[PsychoStanleyStone]

I'm quite warming to the idea of Big Sam, he was a pioneer of sports science, likes organisation and usually popular with his players

In October 2014, Allardyce claimed his reputation for playing long ball football was "not founded in fact" and had been used as an excuse by opposing managers such as Arsène Wenger, David O'Leary, Graeme Souness and Rafael Benítez following defeats by sides managed by Allardyce.[5] Allardyce wrote in his autobiography that "when they hit a 50-yard ball it was a cultural pass; when we did it, it was a hopeful hoof".[212]

[ozzyten10]

Villa battered Liverpool with direct long balls yesterday...

[Marinakis Red]

Villa battered Liverpool with direct long balls yesterday...

What goals came from direct long balls ozzy, or was I watching a different game? 

None of Watkins goals were, one was scored from a set piece though. 

They broke through with through balls from midfield more than anything.

[Sabricadabra]

Balls over the top of a pushed up back line aren’t really ‘long balls’.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

I'm not going to lie but I would be in the dead against it camp on the big Sam route.

For what reason mate? Genuine question

I hated seeing his team's play football. That is all. Think you get frustrated with the defensive style now well we would get a whole lot more. And here is the thing once he is gone it takes a long time to recover from that style of play.

The side he had at Bolton played great football.

I bet Bolton were in dreamland having players like Ivan Campo, jay-jay Okocha, Youri Djorkaeff

That cannot be denied ^^

Sam had Bolton playing some lovely stuff with some cracking players.

[Jacksbadhobbits]

Balls over the top of a pushed up back line aren’t really ‘long balls’.

t fat Sam. He is yesterday's manager like MON.Another Dinosaur. Let's get an up and coming manager who can motivate modern players. Fat Sam and MON best work was 20 years ago. Their long ball tactics will get some victories but not enough to get promoted. The game has changed massively over the last 10 years with the influx with foreign coaches and players. If the manager has to be British I would make Eddie Howe the number one target or Paul Cook