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Ralph Hasenhuttl An Appreciation on 13:31 - Nov 8 with 1888 views
Always have a chuckle to myself when i hear the rhetoric of why Gao didn't invest in the playing side of things.
Ralph deserves an award for keeping the club on the gravy train that is the PL. Sadly the year we have seen a modicum of investment may just have been too little, too late.
[Post edited 8 Nov 2022 13:32]
Ready and waiting to mop up those European places......
Ralph Hasenhuttl An Appreciation on 13:31 - Nov 8 by TripleNiemi
Always have a chuckle to myself when i hear the rhetoric of why Gao didn't invest in the playing side of things.
Ralph deserves an award for keeping the club on the gravy train that is the PL. Sadly the year we have seen a modicum of investment may just have been too little, too late.
[Post edited 8 Nov 2022 13:32]
Totally agree with you about Gao. How the situation is spun to look like he couldnt invesst yet funny how the famous Landers Sport sponsorship balls up has been brushed under the carpet. I will bet my left testicle that money left China - just never got to Saints.....
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Ralph Hasenhuttl An Appreciation on 15:00 - Nov 8 with 1767 views
To quote the article "When Ralph Hasenhuttl arrived at St Mary;s on 5th December 2018 the club was in a far different position than it is now as he leaves."
Im pretty sure he joined us in 18th and left is in 18th.....
Why on earth do Sky have to put that on there. Fuk me, the bloke's just been sacked so they really have to rub salt in the wound. Ok, we all wanted (needed) a change at the top and it is part and parcel of professional football management, but is there really a need for that?
Don't recall seeing anything remotely like that for the myriad of other managers sacked in the past
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Ralph Hasenhuttl An Appreciation on 17:01 - Nov 8 with 1659 views
Arriving at a club and embarking upon a plan to build a team in the image you want is something that he did well enough and we had a couple of decent seasons.
However, like many managers, when the game changed and the tactics and strategies had to change and as some players left of their own free will or because they never got games and replacements arrived who were poorly selected or poorly integrated, he was found wanting.
In those situations a tried and trusted tactic is to pick a core of say 8 players who play every week unless injured or woefully out of form and you put 3 players around them. That way the team is settled and when the pressure comes on they have the comfort of being able to play instinctively and not to some tactical masterplan that was hashed out earlier the same week.
RH did not do that. Instead he tinkered with the team, made decisions based on his own plan rather than listen to his coaches, picked players for two matches, dropped them and then played them again, went from never using subs to bringing on three/four at a time.
In short he was erratic and chaotic and this translates to players with no confidence because it matters not how they play, they could still be dropped for the next game.
In his time with us he did not advance the club significantly and arguably we went backwards with our once famed academy falling behind the likes of Chelsea and City. The whole point of our academy was young players being given the chance to play first team football. How many of those do we have now?
Summed up in his final game. Newcastle = best defence in the league. Goals against them are scored from low, hard crosses from the flanks into the space between the pen spot and the edge of the D. Last Sunday, perfect conditions to do that. Not once did we did do that.
Walcott - waste of a player. We would have been better with ten men until he went off. He left Che totally on his own against defenders who were are physical as he was.
It was obvious form the first minutes this was happening and he should have changed things after ten minutes. Instead he waits until an injury forces him to make changes.
For me, much of RH's failing were evident in this game.
I left the ground (bearing in mind I bought 5 tickets for myself and family) vowing that I would not return to watch the team whilst he was in charge.
Ralph Hasenhuttl An Appreciation on 17:58 - Nov 8 by saint901
Arriving at a club and embarking upon a plan to build a team in the image you want is something that he did well enough and we had a couple of decent seasons.
However, like many managers, when the game changed and the tactics and strategies had to change and as some players left of their own free will or because they never got games and replacements arrived who were poorly selected or poorly integrated, he was found wanting.
In those situations a tried and trusted tactic is to pick a core of say 8 players who play every week unless injured or woefully out of form and you put 3 players around them. That way the team is settled and when the pressure comes on they have the comfort of being able to play instinctively and not to some tactical masterplan that was hashed out earlier the same week.
RH did not do that. Instead he tinkered with the team, made decisions based on his own plan rather than listen to his coaches, picked players for two matches, dropped them and then played them again, went from never using subs to bringing on three/four at a time.
In short he was erratic and chaotic and this translates to players with no confidence because it matters not how they play, they could still be dropped for the next game.
In his time with us he did not advance the club significantly and arguably we went backwards with our once famed academy falling behind the likes of Chelsea and City. The whole point of our academy was young players being given the chance to play first team football. How many of those do we have now?
Summed up in his final game. Newcastle = best defence in the league. Goals against them are scored from low, hard crosses from the flanks into the space between the pen spot and the edge of the D. Last Sunday, perfect conditions to do that. Not once did we did do that.
Walcott - waste of a player. We would have been better with ten men until he went off. He left Che totally on his own against defenders who were are physical as he was.
It was obvious form the first minutes this was happening and he should have changed things after ten minutes. Instead he waits until an injury forces him to make changes.
For me, much of RH's failing were evident in this game.
I left the ground (bearing in mind I bought 5 tickets for myself and family) vowing that I would not return to watch the team whilst he was in charge.
*This* is a fair summary of Ralph Hassenhuttl‘s time at Saints.
It articulates what so many fans have been feeling for a very long time.
Ralph Hasenhuttl An Appreciation on 15:00 - Nov 8 by Butty101
To quote the article "When Ralph Hasenhuttl arrived at St Mary;s on 5th December 2018 the club was in a far different position than it is now as he leaves."
Im pretty sure he joined us in 18th and left is in 18th.....
With an uncertain style, uncertain best 11, and not a lot of options, and we don’t have a recovering Danny Ings to pull us out of the fire this time.
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