[Albion] Fabian Hurzeler: IN or OUT

[Flounce]

I make no apologies for this potentially divisive thread.

Today has been a f***ing embarrassment of a performance and injuries are no excuse.

Clueless doesn’t cover it and given our recent form and performances this is not a knee jerk

I haven’t called for a managers head since the latter days of Chris Hughton.

So so pissed off with how this season has fallen apart with clueless management…just imo. I accept others may have a different opinion.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Fence. But....

 

[jcdenton08]

Injuries are an excuse, and a bloody good one.

Kadioglu would be starting, Steele would be available to push Verbruggen and probably start, based on Bart’s current form. Mitoma would’ve started, possibly March (if both fully fit), Veltman would be available and either him or Kadioglu playing, Milner would be available and probably starting, Webster or Igor would be ahead of a very out of form Dunk.

We’re missing up to seven players who feasibly could’ve started today.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Fence, but it’s getting harder to ignore the splinters in my arse.

 

[Flounce]

Injuries are an excuse, and a bloody good one.

BUT the style of play has turned to clueless and absolute shite, the manager should be able to adjust and even go back to basics to stop the rot. I have seen nothing to suggest he is capable of adjusting to the circumstances

 

[mothy]

I've always said. Wait until the end of the season

 

[dangull]

Tony Bloom and family were there on my stream as well. I suspect he liked Hyppia and didn't want to sack him, which will give FH a few months at the start of next season.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Calm heads.

This is the wrong time to be voting on such a poll

 

[Ethelwulf]

Out because he is out of his depth a brave gamble by the club that has not worked out

 

[GrizzlingGammon]

Not knee jerk, just a jerk

 

[Blues Guitarist]

Stupid thread. Yes, it's not a great result, but...

We're missing Webster, Veltman, Ferdi and Lamptey at the back.
Minteh should have scored (or at least hit the target) just after they scored their first.
If ref had given free kick for clear foul on Pedro the red would have been avoided.
And rubgy tackling Dunk could have been a penalty.

How is that Fab's fault?

 

[Flounce]

I've always said. Wait until the end of the season

Of course we should leave it to season’s end. Totally pointless to make a change at this stage.

Remember Leicester hadn’t scored for months and Brentford hadn’t won at home for months. We made it so fuxking easy for both of them to end those runs.

 

[jcdenton08]

BUT the style of play has turned to clueless and absolute shite, the manager should be able to adjust and even go back to basics to stop the rot. I have seem nothing to suggest he is capable of adjusting to the circumstances

I agree we were very poor again today, but we were frequently very poor last season under RDZ and under Potter. I think we’d be a different proposition with all the key players we are missing.

What is concerning to me is players doing too much to try and force something to happen, getting frustrated and having poor body language. Pedro was the worst for this, looking very frustrated every time we dribbled and held it, despite a simple pass being on. The coach needs to address our tempo, but also remind the players (Baleba did a lot of this too) to play as a team.

 

[Flounce]

I agree we were very poor again today, but we were frequently very poor last season under RDZ and under Potter. I think we’d be a different proposition with all the key players we are missing.

What is concerning to me is players doing too much to try and force something to happen, getting frustrated and having poor body language. Pedro was the worst for this, looking very frustrated every time we dribbled and held it, despite a simple pass being on. The coach needs to address our tempo, but also remind the players (Baleba did a lot of this too) to play as a team.

There’s the rub, there seems to be no leadership on or off the pitch

 

[Justice]

Injuries are an excuse, and a bloody good one.

Do you actually watch the games? Injuries have no bearing on the way the teams set up. Every game we get done with almost identical goals. Every manager spots the weakness and exploits it.

 

[hart's shirt]

There's nothing like the return of a certain G Potter next week to galvanize the home support and start to turn the form around.

But for now, it is what it is. Not good at all.

Edit: On reflection, I've moved from 'In' to 'Fence' today. I hope my direction of movement is proved very wrong, but there's little evidence of that for now.

 

[Mancgull]

We’ve played over 30 games now under this manager. I’d think that fans should have a better opinion than Fence to this question, at this stage.

Fence maybe after say half the season but frankly I’ve run out of patience with him.
The reason is that we lack a style of play that we had under RDZ and Potter, a sense of identity. Yes results are important but it’s that lack of knowing what we are about that bothers me.

We have the strongest squad of players we’ve ever had and yet he doesn’t seem to be getting the best out of them.

Too inexperienced, full of naff cliches and thinks that running around a lot brings you success. No clear patters of play, very regimented substitutions and doesn’t seem to have the respect of the players in the same way Potter and RDZ had.

So, out for me.

 

[Flounce]

Do you actually watch the games? Injuries have no bearing on the way the teams set up. Every game we get done with almost identical goals. Every manager spots the weakness and exploits it.

Yep, f***ing groundhog day every game now

 

[BNthree]

Don’t think he’s doing a very good job but would be stupid to sack him at this point in the season.

 

[Mustafa II]

Got to go. Not good enough yet. Won't be good enough next season.

Give a new manager the summer and start afresh.