| This week's Open All R's Podcast on 23:03 - May 14 with 617 views | daveB |
top podcast but found the interview very depressing with regards to what we have to look forward to |  | |  |
| This week's Open All R's Podcast on 07:46 - May 15 with 572 views | stuabd |
I enjoyed it too, and you're right that interview was depressing. You could almost feel Clive sinking into his chair.
Like most of us, I'd like to give HR a chance but I do think we need to get a solid start to the season as if things don't work out after about 10-15 games, it could be another painful season.
Clive wrote a good article a few years back about how some teams had started well in the champs and then faded in the second half of the season, but that the initial surge had ensured that they'd finished in a good position. I think Palace and Leicester had pretty bad results over the last 10 or so games but still hung on to their play-off place. Palace won 1 in 11 I think and Leicester's record was possibly worse. |  | | |
| This week's Open All R's Podcast on 20:02 - May 17 with 504 views | TacticalR |
The interview with Crace *was* worrying, mainly because most of the faults of Harry he listed were the same faults as Mark Hughes. The faults that he attributed to Harry were:
1) Plan A manager. If it doesn't work he's not good at thinking on his feet.
2) Sticks with same first 11. Doesn't rotate, so team gets tired at the end of the season.
3) Portsmouth. Bankrupted the club. It's not the transfers themselves, but the wages that bankrupt the club.
4) Could be off if Premiership side wanted to escape relegation.
5) 4-4-2 manager.
6) Buys older players, so the team has to be reinvented every 18 months.
Points 1, 3, 5 and 6 all apply to Hughes.
The strange thing about Point 1 is, when Redknapp first arrived, I was quite impressed with his ability to act. For example away at Sunderland he hooked Diakité before he got sent off (which Hughes was too clueless to do more than once), and at home to Liverpool he replaced Cissé with Derry at half-time to prevent an even greater hammering. |  |
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