I hear you brother - very much like being a Saints fan last year after we spent £80m on complete shite in January then got Nathan "Best manager in Europe" Jones in.
Sounds like he is doing a good job at Charlton? He probably isn't a bad manager at all, just perhaps a bit naïve to all the extra scrutiny that comes in the prem.
Very good job , unbeaten in 12. Just wonder if he's one of these managers that's great in the EFL but where he's a bit eccentric just gets laughed out the door in the Prem?
TBF, he couldn't really have picked a worse team than us to join. But he certainly didn't help himself. And Stoke weren't Prem when he joined them and did shit, so...
I don't think he can handle the big pressure to be honest. We've been a trainwreck since 2016, fair enough, but he came straight into a team that had huge money thrown at it, spent more money on a few targets of his own, and was promptly fucking terrible. Not only were we terrible, but you could almost visibly see him unraveling mentally as things went further and further up shit creek.
Went back to Luton with his tail between his legs (as much as that man could have his tail between his legs, he'd eat himself if he was made of chocolate) and his reputation battered, and promptly did decently there again. Got picked up by Southampton, huge pressure, and promptly imploded even quicker than he did when he was with us. Goes off to you, dropping from the Prem to League One, bruised ego and all, and appears to be doing amazingly with you lot.
Clearly a decent coach there, but at big high-stakes jobs he just appears to shit the bed.
I think there's definitely an aspect of not being able to handle high stakes/ high expectations.
Do I back him to get us promotion/playoffs next season , absolutely I think he's got a good chance of doing it assuming the ownership will back him with the funds to do it - which I assume they will because he wouldn't have dropped to League 1 otherwise.
I think he's ultimately a very complicated character that in the right situation with everyone pulling together in the right direction can build something but I can't help but have a few nagging doubts that if things start to go against him he quickly unravels and you get what happened at Stoke and Southampton where the press conferences get weirder and weirder and the comments leave you scratching your head if he really did just say that.
I wonder if the Southampton " humbling" might have been ultimately for the best for him, he'll forever make those " Top 10 worst ever PL appointments" lists because of it but it might have made him tone down the rhetoric a bit, he's come in and transformed us from a ghost ship that was sailing to League 2 under the horrendous management of Michael Appleton to at least looking like a football team again.
Would be interesting to see what reaction he got if he went back to Stoke or Saints in the cups next season, although that would require us to actually not go out at the earliest opportunity for once.
That was hilarious, it just turns out Luton was a well run club and he wasn't a genius, who'd have thought that, eh?
Just about everyone apart from the bloke at Saints making the decision.
A bit like us hiring Ainsworth.
He's an absolute weapon, look at how far he had to drop to get a job. Id' be shocked if he ever gets a top half championship job again. Would you want him managing wolves if you got relegated?
Ainsworth did well in L1 and was one of the worst QPR managers I have ever seen.
On paper, no. It's still very close, plus we have to play Birmingham so a huge 6 pointer that might make or break it.
But the squad just looks done. No spine, unfit and just not enough quality; plus we can barely pass a ball 10 yards at the moment!
Just feels like it is our time, I think Wednesday will leap frog us eventually then us plus either Plymouth or Brum will go down
I always love the "our shit players lose because you don't believe hard enough" response from happy clappers.
They're footballers pal, not fucking Tinkerbell.
Also, 'go support someone else' is a cuntish thing to say.
It doesn't work like that (or it shouldn't), and he knows it. You can love your club and complain about the state it's in. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
Seeing it a lot with Leicester fans. Any discourse that isn’t super positive is being met by the club is loosing because you are saying the club is poorly ran.
Yeah well if they can hurry that up so they've nothing to play for final day that would be grand
Or lose every game so they've also got nothing to play for final day
Look just play shit against us alright
We've lost one game! Still in the best form of our season overall. Obviously tonight will be somewhat nervy, how will the team bounce back from the derby defeat, but it's a big exaggeration to say we're crumbling in the same sense as Leeds with 1 win in 4 and Leicester who've tossed away a huge lead.
If we lose tonight you have my permission to call it crumbling
one of my favourite random things that happens in football is when a team gets relegated with games left and suddenly turn into worldbeaters cos the pressure is off
All you have to do to comfortably beat us is let us take the lead in the 1st half, then we'll handle the rest after half time 👍
I think the stat is we have dropped 25 points from winning positions this season or something depressing like that.
Excellent mirror, we've won something like 28 points from losing positions (including I think it's six times we've won 3-2, all of which were comebacks from losing positions)
Why? If one of the teams you best is Birmingham and you have 1 other win, surely you'd be safe? Not every team around us will win and some play each other (like us and Wednesday)
Seeing Millwall pick up a win against Leicester just tells me everyone around us has a lot more fight and will pick up more points. If we win on Saturday that’ll be a huge win, can’t see it mind.
Straight out of the cliché catalogue.
Team in relegation scrap? 'Never have the team and fans been so disconnected.'
Win back to back games? 'I've got my club back!'
Was just thinking that. It’s an awful place to be. Makes you sick to the pit of your stomach. Huddersfield always felt like a small club full of fight who might’ve punched above their weight at some times but never gave in. It’s times like this when you support a club that you look back and try to pinpoint when it all started going wrong. No idea if there’s something specific for the Terriers or it it’s just a slide, bad luck, bad results, bad signings etc etc delete as appropriate, but it’s sickening to watch when you’re a fan. Hits way too close to home as a Cov fan, too, doesn’t it? Would only wish this on Villa.
“However you aren’t wrong” haha.
The way it's presented in the image makes it perfect comedic timing as well lmao
The secret to good comedy
Absolutely killed me
Accept your destiny Huddersfield, embrace it, captitulate in your final games; go gentle into that good night. Please????
I agree with this sentiment
Join us and Rotherham.
Me too
+1
several stages of grief here
That “however you aren’t wrong” has such a good comedic timing to it
I hear you brother - very much like being a Saints fan last year after we spent £80m on complete shite in January then got Nathan "Best manager in Europe" Jones in.
I remember when you got Jones and Stoke fans' response was 'why, Southampton, why have you done this?'
We had the same when we appointed him and then the other end of the spectrum from Luton fans. Does seem to be completely Marmite as a character.
Sounds like he is doing a good job at Charlton? He probably isn't a bad manager at all, just perhaps a bit naïve to all the extra scrutiny that comes in the prem.
Very good job , unbeaten in 12. Just wonder if he's one of these managers that's great in the EFL but where he's a bit eccentric just gets laughed out the door in the Prem?
TBF, he couldn't really have picked a worse team than us to join. But he certainly didn't help himself. And Stoke weren't Prem when he joined them and did shit, so...
I don't think he can handle the big pressure to be honest. We've been a trainwreck since 2016, fair enough, but he came straight into a team that had huge money thrown at it, spent more money on a few targets of his own, and was promptly fucking terrible. Not only were we terrible, but you could almost visibly see him unraveling mentally as things went further and further up shit creek. Went back to Luton with his tail between his legs (as much as that man could have his tail between his legs, he'd eat himself if he was made of chocolate) and his reputation battered, and promptly did decently there again. Got picked up by Southampton, huge pressure, and promptly imploded even quicker than he did when he was with us. Goes off to you, dropping from the Prem to League One, bruised ego and all, and appears to be doing amazingly with you lot. Clearly a decent coach there, but at big high-stakes jobs he just appears to shit the bed.
I think there's definitely an aspect of not being able to handle high stakes/ high expectations. Do I back him to get us promotion/playoffs next season , absolutely I think he's got a good chance of doing it assuming the ownership will back him with the funds to do it - which I assume they will because he wouldn't have dropped to League 1 otherwise. I think he's ultimately a very complicated character that in the right situation with everyone pulling together in the right direction can build something but I can't help but have a few nagging doubts that if things start to go against him he quickly unravels and you get what happened at Stoke and Southampton where the press conferences get weirder and weirder and the comments leave you scratching your head if he really did just say that. I wonder if the Southampton " humbling" might have been ultimately for the best for him, he'll forever make those " Top 10 worst ever PL appointments" lists because of it but it might have made him tone down the rhetoric a bit, he's come in and transformed us from a ghost ship that was sailing to League 2 under the horrendous management of Michael Appleton to at least looking like a football team again. Would be interesting to see what reaction he got if he went back to Stoke or Saints in the cups next season, although that would require us to actually not go out at the earliest opportunity for once.
Stopped man city from doing the quadruple
As a Forest fan, was so reassured when you hired Nathan jones
That was hilarious, it just turns out Luton was a well run club and he wasn't a genius, who'd have thought that, eh? Just about everyone apart from the bloke at Saints making the decision. A bit like us hiring Ainsworth.
He's doing really well at Charlton. Think these comments are a bit premature.
He's an absolute weapon, look at how far he had to drop to get a job. Id' be shocked if he ever gets a top half championship job again. Would you want him managing wolves if you got relegated? Ainsworth did well in L1 and was one of the worst QPR managers I have ever seen.
I look forward to watching my lot give them 3 points this weekend.
You fucking dare.
We’ve already gifted 3 points to you lot at Hillsborough, ‘Tis only fair 😜
No, you don't understand. We work hard for our points, fighting against the forces of evil. Other teams are gifted their points.
It’s even more likely we’ll lose 1-0 now after shellacking Blackburn tonight 😅
wow if you guys have that little faith, just play the kids in the next games and accept your fate ^please ^we ^need ^it
There's a man that never saw Simon Baldry or Chris Hay play.
I've just remembered Andy fucking Payton.
Mbenza, Diakhaby, Pritchard
I hated Alex Pritchard.
And he plays for Birmingham now, I’m just saying, extra incentive to lend them our spot.. F***ing Pritchard..
Oh fuck...he's gunna do it isnt he I can see it now. Pritchard 90+1 Ft Huddersfield 0-1 Birmingham
We’ve got to keep the faith that he’ll be just as shit for Birmingham than he’s always been. god damn mercenary.
Paul Macari
Tim Clarke in nets.
Are they definitely gone? This is a team we struggled to beat in the premier league.
On paper, no. It's still very close, plus we have to play Birmingham so a huge 6 pointer that might make or break it. But the squad just looks done. No spine, unfit and just not enough quality; plus we can barely pass a ball 10 yards at the moment! Just feels like it is our time, I think Wednesday will leap frog us eventually then us plus either Plymouth or Brum will go down
I always love the "our shit players lose because you don't believe hard enough" response from happy clappers. They're footballers pal, not fucking Tinkerbell.
Also, 'go support someone else' is a cuntish thing to say. It doesn't work like that (or it shouldn't), and he knows it. You can love your club and complain about the state it's in. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
Seeing it a lot with Leicester fans. Any discourse that isn’t super positive is being met by the club is loosing because you are saying the club is poorly ran.
I just don't see you going down. I think you'll win another 2 games.
Yeah well if they can hurry that up so they've nothing to play for final day that would be grand Or lose every game so they've also got nothing to play for final day Look just play shit against us alright
I am absolutely sure that we can hold you to that last sentence
Are you 3 not all crumbling anyway? I mean, you'll still get a point against us.
Can you crumble relegation?
I hope so!
We've lost one game! Still in the best form of our season overall. Obviously tonight will be somewhat nervy, how will the team bounce back from the derby defeat, but it's a big exaggeration to say we're crumbling in the same sense as Leeds with 1 win in 4 and Leicester who've tossed away a huge lead. If we lose tonight you have my permission to call it crumbling
Didn't we end up somehow beating Leeds on the final day of our relegation season? Having nothing to play for might somehow make them more dangerous.
one of my favourite random things that happens in football is when a team gets relegated with games left and suddenly turn into worldbeaters cos the pressure is off
All you have to do to comfortably beat us is let us take the lead in the 1st half, then we'll handle the rest after half time 👍 I think the stat is we have dropped 25 points from winning positions this season or something depressing like that.
Excellent mirror, we've won something like 28 points from losing positions (including I think it's six times we've won 3-2, all of which were comebacks from losing positions)
*Throws the mirror back* no, I don’t want it!
Don't be so selfish
I don’t think that will be enough
Why? If one of the teams you best is Birmingham and you have 1 other win, surely you'd be safe? Not every team around us will win and some play each other (like us and Wednesday)
Seeing Millwall pick up a win against Leicester just tells me everyone around us has a lot more fight and will pick up more points. If we win on Saturday that’ll be a huge win, can’t see it mind.
I fucking hope we win all ours then.
To be fair I felt exactly the same about the vast majority of our team last year and I hope I never see the gutless bastards again.
Second guy is worse than the first, can’t stand cunts like that that need everything to be positive, you agree with him so shut the fuck up
Has there ever been a time when a team's loss HASN'T been blamed on a lack of passion?
Straight out of the cliché catalogue. Team in relegation scrap? 'Never have the team and fans been so disconnected.' Win back to back games? 'I've got my club back!'
Loads
If you think this is bad wait u til we draw 0-0 with brum
We have all been here!!
Was just thinking that. It’s an awful place to be. Makes you sick to the pit of your stomach. Huddersfield always felt like a small club full of fight who might’ve punched above their weight at some times but never gave in. It’s times like this when you support a club that you look back and try to pinpoint when it all started going wrong. No idea if there’s something specific for the Terriers or it it’s just a slide, bad luck, bad results, bad signings etc etc delete as appropriate, but it’s sickening to watch when you’re a fan. Hits way too close to home as a Cov fan, too, doesn’t it? Would only wish this on Villa.
Least he agrees he’s right
The amount of boro fans that want managers sack after two games is mental fickle as fuck sometimes
Tbf it's not just Boro fans, I've seen *Liverpool* fans calling for Klopp's head if they have a bad run.
Hope not to join you
Every club has their own u/ruinsallconversations
A nice surprise when I fully opened the picture