Potter Out

[THUNDERCLINT]

Had enough of this arogrant no mark now.  

11 games, 27% win ratio and 0.66 goals per game.

Either the break clause is true or this flake quits otherwise were proper fucked.

[XKhammer]

He's got to be given a chance to make the squad his
l think we will be better next season...well we can't be any worse!
 

[Any Old Iron]

Potter is more of an HR manager than football manager and is clearly risk averse. Putting the shutters up against the worst team in the league when only 1-0 up just shows how it’s in his nature to revert to negative, safety-first kind of tactics. Any decent coach with some ambition and backbone would be trying to kill them off by getting a 2nd and 3rd goal. 
The more I see of him the less I like him. He sounds like he’s spent too much time on media training and seems to have little or no personality; something which the best managers definitely have.  All in all he’s another Southgate.
Instead of having a positive effect on the team he’s having the opposite and doing worse than Lop.  That’s nowhere near good enough.  He’s lucky that we had a reasonable points haul when he showed up otherwise he’d be taking us down.
I wouldn’t trust him with a large transfer budget so for that reason I want him gone by the summer. 

[El Scorchio]

I’m still going to stubbornly say he’ll work out ok after giving the midfield an overhaul in the summer. 

I may be wrong but we shall see 

[threesixty]

Who decided that Potter was an improvement on Lopetegui?
Who decided that Lopetegui was an improvement over Steidten's choice of Amorim?
Who decided to let Steidten go after blaming him for 2 poor signings (Guilherem & Fullkrug) who are now regularly starting to feature well?
Who appointed Moyes as an upgrade on Pellegrini after rejecting him first time around?
Who appointed PL Champion Pellegrini and managed to turn him into a 2nd season failure so sacked him?
Who appointed Moyes for a 6 month save our season then decided he wasn't good enough so let him go?
Who appointed Bilic for a great season only to sack him 2nd season after letting our star player go?
Who made fans suffer 4 seasons of Sam Allardyce after promising a world class team in a world class stadium?   
who appointed Avram Grant in preference to Zola who struggled his first season of management quite well without any money to spend?

You'd certainly want to sack the serial loser for such incompetence wouldn't you? Oh yes that would be David Sullivan...

 

 

This is why it all feels pointless. It really is all Sullivan's doing. I cant blame Potter for wanting a PL job even though he probably knows he's not good enough. I can only blame the person who hired a guy no one else would hire for years, because he's mates with the club managing director.

I have no hope of personally influencing the person who can solve all these issues, and no other fans seems to be able to do that either. So we just hope that something fortuitous happens.

The only hope I have is that Sullivans ego will not want yet another failed appointment and yet another relegation scrap next season and buys some seriously good players to bail Potter out form his inability to coach this side. 

Potter doesnt deserve a spectacular transfer window. We the fans do. Potter no. He might get one because he's been so shit, which is the irony of the whole thing. But I will know when / if we do get some great players, any success will not be because Potter is a good coach. He's completely fluffed that audition over the last few months. I suspect he will be a lucky coach and not a good one, if he does survive.

[BBondsBootlaces]

I played football with Paul P. before he went pro. Nice lad and a really good goalkeeper!

[Cambiron]

I wanted Potter as I thought he was level headed and offered decent hope as a longish term solution. In reality we have been no better off than we would have been with Lop. In some ways I warmed to Lop more and wanted him to do well.

All in all, we are under-achieving shockingly with some significant players not seeming to give more than 80% of their potential. I'd like to blame the players but we have changed a lot of them over the last few years with little change in effort and therefore in league achievements. Let's just get to the end of this miserable season and see how the next one goes before giving up hope on Potter. There has been the occasional glimmer of hope (e.g. Liverpool away).

[Keep dreaming]

Home.....?
It's Sullivan's fucking goldmine, and our shitpit

[factory seconds]

The Fullkrug interview is the first time this season that anybody has given an honest assessment of anything at West Ham.
 

i'd love for someone to ask him about our "home" and how it compares with the westfalenstadion.

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Not sure why we even sacked Lopetegui. Sullivan clearly wasn't massively impressed by Potter or else he wouldn't have tried to give him just a short term contract, so why not just wait until the summer to bring in a new manager, when we might have had more choices open to us? It wasn't like we were in danger of relegation. Lopetegui got sacked after drubbings by Liverpool and Man City but we'd got 8 points and were unbeaten in the previous 4 games, so hardly in relegation form. 

[fraser]

Or they could have paid for Potter and sacked him in December with less points than Lop, having seem what's happened since January that seems more likely to me. 

[Iron Duke]

We could have got Potter at the end of last season, and allowed him to build his own team. But that would have meant paying compensation to Chelsea, so as usual we took the cheap option and went for Lopetegui who was out of contract. There were other options, but again we would have had to pay compensation.

When they sacked Lop, the only realistic options were out of contract managers. For such an important role, they love taking the cheap option. Ironically, it ends up costing more in the long run because they end up with a load of overpaid and overpriced players the new manager doesn’t want.

[claypole]

The club is rotten at its core and until that malignant maggot fucks off any success will be by luck 

[Far Cough UKunt]

The problem at this club is not who the manager is or isn't, it's the fucking Nick Nack cսnt with the Russian hat.

[honky cat]

How on earth did Potter convince Sullivan and Brady that he would be a success as West Ham manager…???

Potter's best mate is Paul Peschesolido so his wife is good friends with Karren Brady. Probably had a cursory quick chat with Sullivan about contract length rather than a formal interview, having effectively been gifted the role already.

 

They were all at Birmingham at the same time 92/93. The suprising thing is how long it took him (potter) to end up west ham. they all know each other.

[Gank]

How on earth did Potter convince Sullivan and Brady that he would be a success as West Ham manager…???

Potter's best mate is Paul Peschesolido so his wife is good friends with Karren Brady. Probably had a cursory quick chat with Sullivan about contract length rather than a formal interview, having effectively been gifted the role already.

[Texas Iron]

How on earth did Potter convince Sullivan and Brady that he would be a success as West Ham manager…???

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

We did win at Arsenal and we had 60% possession at Anfield, you would NEVER have had that under Moyes...

I think he is trying to get us to press more than under Moyes and it is working in patches but not at all consistently. 

We never had 60% possession at Anfield. We had 45%, and that is actually a bit less than Moyes' team had at Anfield 2 years ago.

Generally speaking we do have more possession now, but we do fuck all with it so the only benefit to our ball hogging is that it gives the opposition less time with the ball, so we concede less than we might do if we actually took a risk and tried to score ourselves.

As far as pressing goes we're winning possession in the final third less often than we did under Lopetegui.

[nychammer]

I’ve not seen one of our games under Potter and thought ‘I can see where he’s going with this team’.

Which gives me zero confidence that he’ll change this mess.

I'm not happy but I will I disagree on that at least for now. We've had some impressive performances in places without getting the results. We did win at Arsenal and we had 60% possession at Anfield, you would NEVER have had that under Moyes.  I know there has been some real shit like yesterday that has me scratching my head too, but I think he is trying to get us to press more than under Moyes and it is working in patches but not at all consistently. I think Moyes got the most out of this lot by setting up the way he did and when it worked it worked well. Potters 'out' here is the obvious limitations with the squad he has to work with. He will get a summer transfer window to stamp his own mark on the team, so in a sense the limiting factor will be how much the club is willing to pony up and sign the right players that we have failed to do for 2 or 3 seasons now. 

IF we are still floundering in October then YES I will be whole heartedly behind replacing him. 

[southbankbornnbred]

The Fullkrug interview is the first time this season that anybody has given an honest assessment of anything at West Ham.

And no doubt he’ll get told to stay schtum in future.

I’ve stopped listening to Potter’s interviews. He’s just full of piss and hot air. Talks a lot without ever saying anything meaningful. Like a mid-level manager in a council planning department.

[Russ of the BML]

I am with Alfs. I do genuinely believe that Potter deserves a well backed transfer window and a full pre-season to set up for next season. But, frankly, I am clinging onto that view by my fingernails. 

Once again, Potter has a chance to show some balls, and once again just comes across as a loser. His attitude and approach are woefully off the required level.... But, he has inherited a squad with so many holes and weaknesses that is so unbalanced, for me, he has a get out. 

As Adsiron very eloquently put below - This is Sullivan's mess. It was Sullivan's choice to hire Lope (instead of Amorim) to clean up the mess left by Moyes. And it was Sullivan's choice to hire Potter to clean up the mess of Lope. It's just that, right now, like Lope before him, Potter isn't making a very good job of cleaning up the mess made by the previous manager. 

So Sullivan needs to back Potter and give him the funds to bring his players in to help clear up the mess and get us back being competitive. Come the summer, if he gets the players he wants and a good pre-season and then in October we are still floundering, then Sullivan needs to being in his next cleaner. 

 

[goose]

I’ve not seen one of our games under Potter and thought ‘I can see where he’s going with this team’.

Which gives me zero confidence that he’ll change this mess.

So I was right all along that we should have stuck with Moyes.

As for twoleftfeet, he seems to have a massive hard on on this ludicrous idea that I am a Spurs fan. The bloke is a cսnt!

No you weren’t you desperate AIDS ridden prick.

Moyes last half a season was equally as shit as anything Lopetegui & Potter have served up.

[Ladysmith]

I’ve not seen one of our games under Potter and thought ‘I can see where he’s going with this team’.

Which gives me zero confidence that he’ll change this mess.

So I was right all along that we should have stuck with Moyes.

As for twoleftfeet, he seems to have a massive hard on on this ludicrous idea that I am a Spurs fan. The bloke is a cսnt!

[goose]

I’ve not seen one of our games under Potter and thought ‘I can see where he’s going with this team’.

Which gives me zero confidence that he’ll change this mess.

[THUNDERCLINT]

If he shits himself this much when 1 - 0 up against the bottom team in the league when there is no pressure at all, I dread to think what's going to happen next season when he has to get points on the board to keep us up.

The signs have been there. The disgrace of the last half hour against 10 men at Arsenal. We got North of our 18 yard line 4 or 5 times. Crossed the half way line about once and had about 15 touches of the ball. Total coward.

He needs to go.

We beat Arsenal you fucking spurs mong cսnt.

We did, and after they went down to ten men instead of getting their faces, we, like your mother, just bent over and took it dry.

[fraser]

It's odd that the likes of feet and some others saying we should back him and give him time, yet they were very vocal very early about wanting Lop out, yet this bloke is doing worse.. 

Feet demanded he was sacked now anybody doing the same is a spurs cսnt, he's definitely not all there. 

Spurs fans are massive cunts but feet definitely is a bigger one 
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