Nick QQQ 10:53 Sun Oct 20
Did we get rid of Slaven too early?
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I know it’s all ifs and buts but Slaven seems to be doing a decent job at West Brom. We had one of our best seasons under him with a squad that on paper isn’t as good as the current team.
I always liked him and he went with dignity.
Obviously still learning but maybe a bit premature.
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Takashi Miike
10:56 Sun Oct 20
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no, I think he'd worked long enough for them. once they started undermining him via their lapdogs on twitter and c&h, his position was untenable. it doesn't matter who manages us while they own the club
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Nick QQQ
11:03 Sun Oct 20
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Yeah they pretty much made it untenable but lots were calling for his head anyway.
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11:06 Sun Oct 20
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Well we'll never know. Would we have gone down if we had kept him?
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ironsofcanada
11:11 Sun Oct 20
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No
I like him and wish him well and might welcome him back some day.
But he was too immature to maintain any kind of success and our players were just plain out of shape, which undermines anything else you try to do.
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claypole
11:12 Sun Oct 20
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I thought he could have done with some better coaches in his management team. He maintained his dignity though despite some disgusting behavior by those that run the club.
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Hammer and Pickle
11:14 Sun Oct 20
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Good Lord no - too late by half a season if anything.
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Tomshardware
11:18 Sun Oct 20
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I don't think we did, he's doing well at West Brom but towards the end of his time with us we were awful.
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arsegrapes
11:35 Sun Oct 20
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I’ll reserve judgment until the honeymoon is over?
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diehardhammer
11:46 Sun Oct 20
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Absolutely not.
Should have been sacked at the end of the 16/17season, results were dreadful and carried on til the next season before he eventually got sacked.
The club were nailed on to get relegated before luckily moyes came in and club the club up.
Bilic now has a entirely new coaching team at West Brom and I’m sure he learnt lessons from his time at West Ham but it was the right time to sack him if not a little late IMO
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diehardhammer
11:47 Sun Oct 20
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Kept the club*
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Vexed
12:22 Mon Oct 21
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He was a fucking dreadful manager. Got lucky to inherit a squad with a world class player and then proceeded to fuck it up.
And no he didn't buy Payet. So just shut the fuck up.
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Finno
1:42 Mon Oct 21
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In knowledgeable footballing circles, the bloke was clueless, and I’m guessing you belong to the same family....
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gph
1:46 Mon Oct 21
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He's a very clever bloke, no doubt.
I suspect he hasn't a clue how to deal with the very stupid bloke who's your average footballer.
Simply telling them your genius ideas doesn't work.
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arsegrapes
1:53 Mon Oct 21
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diehardhammer 11:47 Sun Oct 20
Are you saying the thread title should read Moyes?
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Manuel
3:21 Mon Oct 21
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No, apart from probably not being great tactically etc, he was too friendly with the players.
Doing well (so far) in the fizzy don't make you a good PL gaffer..see Houghton, Colin, Holloway, etc.
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Mike Oxsaw
5:40 Mon Oct 21
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Clickbait.
You may as well have asked "Did we get rid of Martin Peters to early?".
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Sydney_Iron
6:17 Mon Oct 21
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His first season with us had people coming in there pants, but when it started going wrong it quickly turned to urine..........
Nice bloke but does anyone honestly think we should have stuck with him???
Now he has started well at WBA, hes once again the Messiah is he!
FFS
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Darby_
7:08 Mon Oct 21
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I suspect that Slaven is one of those managers who relies on passionate speeches to rouse the team. The problem is that that sort of thing stops having an effect after a while. You have to have more than that in your locker.
The team’s fitness got worse every season, and unsurprisingly the results got worse the longer that he was manager.
His first couple of months with WBA have been great. His first few months with us were great too. Whether he can keep it up for more than one season is the question.
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Sven Roeder
8:02 Mon Oct 21
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No, he deserved the sack if not earlier.
I want every manager to succeed but he is the one this century that I’ve been most disappointed to see not be able to get it right after the best season we have had in the last 30 odd years.
2015/16 was an absolute pleasure but in a way he (like many of us) never looked at home once we left Upton Park.
His refusal to change his coaching and fitness staff was a major mistake and it was all downhill from there.
The Championship is a very volatile division and one or two players can make all the difference ... he has done well to get Pereira and Diangana but like the new Derby manager he won’t have loan stars once they go back.
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goose
8:30 Mon Oct 21
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Nah his race was run.
But I think he was royally shafted by the owners with lack of investment & having to deal with the move to the cesspit.
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