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Dont get me wrong, i am hacked off as much as everyone, but I think we are being a shade harsh on sparks because of the benefit of hindsight.

yes, his appointments have been bad, but I have been happy with most when they were made, bar giving mccall an extension on his last deal (and that may have been JR’s call??).

trueman and sellars led to better results and impressed during their caretaker period, so they deserved perm deals.

adams was a good appointment on paper. Had just taken morecambe up and dropped back to l2 to manage us.

hughes was a coup. Dont care what anyone says. We were buzzing when it happened, even though he’d been out of the game.

i want hughes out now and, yes, id class all as failed appointments - but i’m only able to say that with the benefit of hindsight.

 

Not sure why fans are getting on Sparks back? Hughes has a recruitment team and his own assistant. If between them all they can't put together a decent squad vying for promotion at a club with little to no support from the owner how the hell is that Sparks fault? Lad needs cutting some slack here, were a small business but with the pressure of 17/18,000 people breathing down his neck after every move. Yes, he needs to be accountable but not to the levels of a witchhunt.

 

Then why didn't he do that today? Why hang out to dry an entire starting eleven for 45 minutes when the solution is slapping you in the face? Hughes gets no credit whatsoever today, his tactics cost us 2 points against a very average Grimsby side.

 

Sooner Hughes is fired the better. Sparks will dither and drag it into Oct. we need to act now. The bloke does not have a Scooby.

 

Sparks cannot be allowed to make another footballing decision at this club ever again, especially with regards to hiring managers. He hasn't got a single footballing decision right since he was made CEO.

 

Halliday and Ridehalgh were never the problem last season although some take aim at the full backs as it's the unfashionable position on the pitch. The problem for me during Hughes tenure has been the failure of the central midfield. He's never really got the formula working where we dominate that area of the park and yet again this season I've seen team walk through the middle part of the pitch.

 

Sadly this site has now slipped into a catalogue of comments where the author is trying to trip other contributers up and take a slightly superior stance.
I still would prefer Hughes was replaced as there are just too many failings in my eyes but I do respect the majority want him to stay, be that for at least another half dozen games or until the end of the season and his current contract.
I am very disappointed with so much about City at present as I really felt this might be the coaching and recruitment team to take us forward, think thats why I am so underwhelmed by them.
Going to haave a break on here as my views on Hughes wont change, hope I am proved so wrong and we go on an insane winning run!

Always a City fan, be kind and tolerant to one another - even the WUM's

 

Respect your opinions (we all have them)
Grinding out the rest of the season for what ?? disappointment of facing yet another season in L2 watching the most negative football imaginable, the frustration of seeing things 17000 fans can but the manager refuses to, he proved yesterday his first half team selection compared to the second half was woeful not forgetting they are all his players
Have you not seen enough in the 76 (18 months) games he's been in charge 30 wins 24 draw 22 loses (according to Wiki) and the worst brand of football imaginable to realise he's not the man to take us up let alone keep us there
Yes we have injury problems that's not unique so does every other club at some point in the season but they change things round and make the best of what they have we seem to shoehorn players into a system that's proven not to work
Cook was never going to repeat last season's heroics and replacing him with Derbyshire was pure attacking suicide
Won't even touch on Jake Young (he's proving that himself) am done with giving him 10/15 matches I've seen enough in the last 76 to realise it's time to join the "managerial merry go round" again I do however fear the credentials of the "selection committee"
Hats off to Hughes a fantastic player who risks tainting that reputation by trying to be a manager trading on passed reputation may sell season tickets for us but it's not a recipe for success

 

Hughes hasn't been here two weeks. He's been here 18 months. By now, we should've created a clear identity with regards to style and system but the truth is we have neither. Everything is muddled and constantly changing because he still doesn't know what works and what doesn't. Ironically, I'd say our most consistent run of performances came at the back end of his first season but since then, style and intent have deteriorated.

 

STUART, STUART, STUART!

Bring, him, home, now!

 

I agree with this, as much as i'm no fan of Sparks i'm not sure what more he can do in this situation. Although there was an element of luck in the appointment of Hughes it was and still is a big deal bringing in such a big name in the football world. What happens on the field is largely out of Sparks hands, its up to Hughes and Gent to give us a team worth paying the entrance fee to watch.

 

I totally don't have a clue anymore what the right decision is? Are we supposed to stick with a manager who appears to be failing despite having good resources? And all because we haven't stuck with anyone before? I'd love us to find a manager we can stick with but my opinion is MH is not that guy, don't get me wrong hopefully i'm way wrong and he crushes it, but my guess is he's not the guy.

 

You are absolutely right, Halliday and Ridehalgh were part of a defensive back 4 last season that were the third best in the league. They are still here, as are 2 of the CBs that were part of that back line but in the first game of the season, those 2 CBs weren't even on the pitch, Halliday and Ridehalgh were played as WBs which neither of them are in a month of Sundays, and we had a back 3 of a player who'd featured for us a grand total of 40 minutes the previous season, a young lad who isn't even a CB and another person who isn't even a footballer. Absolute madness.

 

I saw 11 players and a manager who had their pants down yesterday, in a far more public setting.

Get him in.

 

Hate these referees who make us pass round at the back till we lose the ball and concede
They even make us defend on our own goal line after we scored
They stop us playing another striker alongside Cook
But what I find most unacceptable is after drawing level at Carlisle when we had a glimmer of hope they take off our best attacking option
Pfffft who needs em

 

I hope you don’t go. You make very valuable and constructive postings. Like you I keep changing my mind. I also don’t like the superiority postings as if those that disagree are second class citizens. I would love it if we could put a winning run together but I can’t see it happening. You are just as entitled to your view as anyone else in here.

 

I clapped like a demented seal at HT.

That definitely made Derbyshire less shit.