Manager Of The Year

drunkenmaster said:
Thing is no one really pays attention to league two, hell league one is a push for people to bother with and most still don't.

To make a champion winning side out of a club with the ability to spend in the 10k's type numbers for very few players, looking to only get loan and free transfers in has done a simply astonishing job.

Not only that but they've improved all year and even looked to be building a pretty massive gap at the top but for injuries(one shocking) to the two best strikers at the club. With what 6-7 games to go and both lead strikers out he goes and plucks two emergency loans out of thin air who are relative unknowns who come in and he gets them scoring goals right out the gate to seal the themselves as champions. That takes some doing, his first full year in charge is pretty impressive.

if its not him hodgeson has the most improved team by far and its purely down to the changes he made in the team, you can tell because the team is almost entirely different to the year before.


Redknapp, has done nothing, few stupidly lucky wins since he was appointed and have now taken around half the points available to them since he was manager, hardly brilliant for a team looking to Uefa most years and even considering challenging for the last Champs league spot. Pretending they have a small squad, when its considerably larger than most, and pretending he's done fantastically when he's been distinctly average in a year with possibly the least quality in the premiership to date, if you want to kid yourself.
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It was going unusually well up to that point.
 
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It was going unusually well up to that point.
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any other year Spurs would be, 2-3 wins ahead of where they are now, those 2-3 wins gotten from those 8 games that didn't go great, so what. Villa had a slump this year, Arsenal had a slump, Liverpool had a slump, Man U had a slump, everton, Hull, etc, etc, etc. The only difference is Spurs's slump was at the beginning and everyone over reacted. THey had new players who had yet to find form, Redknapp didn't give them a magic ability, over time they got to form.

Once their attacking players clicked, the team clicked, its really that simple, they are exactly where you'd entirely expect them to be if you took the 8 games out of the equation.

They are still a team capable of complete compitulation as we've seen today. They aren't some massive force since that had Redknapp been incharge would have been ahead of Villa or Everton. People are acting as if had it not been for those 8 games they'd be the best team in the league.
 
drunkenmaster said:
any other year Spurs would be, 2-3 wins ahead of where they are now, those 2-3 wins gotten from those 8 games that didn't go great, so what. Villa had a slump this year, Arsenal had a slump, Liverpool had a slump, Man U had a slump, everton, Hull, etc, etc, etc. The only difference is Spurs's slump was at the beginning and everyone over reacted. THey had new players who had yet to find form, Redknapp didn't give them a magic ability, over time they got to form.

Once their attacking players clicked, the team clicked, its really that simple, they are exactly where you'd entirely expect them to be if you took the 8 games out of the equation.

They are still a team capable of complete compitulation as we've seen today. They aren't some massive force since that had Redknapp been incharge would have been ahead of Villa or Everton. People are acting as if had it not been for those 8 games they'd be the best team in the league.
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Their "clicking" at the same time as a new manager was appointed is pure coincidence?

Ramos would have got King playing, or signed keane etc etc etc?
 
atpbx said:
Ferguson so far this year has had the team playing some truly awful football, has wasted money on the biggest flop in Premiership history and has spent an absolute fortune.
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I think Shevchenko has to be a bigger flop! :p Berba proved he can put the work in, even if it is running into the box to get the 5th goal in the 80th minute. He's scored some crucial goals and got some assists for us so while he might not justify 30m i think he's far from a flop.

When the team does great all you'll hear about are Rooney and Ronaldo, when we kept the clean sheets it's Ferdinand and Vidic, but when we play poorly it's Ferguson.... something doesn't add up.
 
NokkonWud said:
Can't do the treble now, in my eyes, the Treble is the top 3 trophies, we're out of one of them now, so you have to draw a level at where you count trophies. I remember when Liverpool fans tried to claim they'd done 'the treble', or even 'the quintuple', despite not winning the CL or EPL :p.
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I don't rate it particularly highly, but if we had won the FA Cup and presuming we wint he Premiership and Champ League, I would have said we won 4 trophies. I mean we put out pretty much the same side in the FA Cup Semi as we did in all the Carling Cup matches, in terms of youth.
 
Hodgson for me, the way he has turned Fulhams fortunes around has been pretty unbelievable. In pole position for 7th spot too.
 
y2viks said:
I don't rate it particularly highly, but if we had won the FA Cup and presuming we wint he Premiership and Champ League, I would have said we won 4 trophies. I mean we put out pretty much the same side in the FA Cup Semi as we did in all the Carling Cup matches, in terms of youth.
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Yes, I would have said we'd won the quintuple. Because we won all 5 in ranking order. Now we can't win the treble because we didn't win the 3rd most important trophy.

We might win 4 trophies, but we haven't won THE 4 (or 5, which would be the case if we'd won the FA Cup and hypothetically win the CL and EPL too).
 
Manager of the year in the Premier League for me has to be Fulham's Roy Hodgson. To get Fulham where they are now takes a pretty good manager. They struggled so much last season and they have surpassed teams such a Man City, Spurs and Portsmouth this season.
 
I've heard on TalkSport today that David Moyes has won Manager of the Year. :)

edit - Trying to find a source for this and it's actually Ferguson who has won it along with Vidic as player of the year.
 
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suprised only 1 mention for Bruce, if his best players didn't leave at christmas Wigan could be in the Europa League.
 
Should have been Hodgson. When he took over at Fulham they were all but relegated and a season later they are in Europe. Incredible job.
 
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