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​​​​​​In the past he's favoured a 3-4-3 formation...hard to see how we can do that currently with only 3 senior CBs, one of whom is injured. He's also played wingers (Solly March as an example) in the wing back roles.

Typically when a 3-4-3 gets announced on a match day the manager is immediately described as being too negative, too cautious etc. I guess it depends on the composition of the 4.

He's given young players chances...hopefully that continues at West Ham.

Welcome Graham.

Come On You Irons" wrote: ↑10 Jan 2025, 22:01 A very inauspicious start from Potter tonight. Decent first half but the team collapsed second half when Villa woke up. Seemed he couldn't manage the game at all.

I can kinda see why he has a lowly 32% win percentage as a top flight manager, and why Chelsea bombed him out after 6 months.

The jury is out on Potter. He will have to convince he has what it takes to manage our great club to better pastures. The honeymoon period of not being 'loser Lop' and being able to speak English is over.

A very inauspicious start from Potter tonight. Decent first half but the team collapsed second half when Villa woke up. Seemed he couldn't manage the game at all.

I can kinda see why he has a lowly 32% win percentage as a top flight manager, and why Chelsea bombed him out after 6 months.

The jury is out on Potter. He will have to convince he has what it takes to manage our great club to better pastures. The honeymoon period of not being 'loser Lop' and being able to speak English is over.

As Arthur Daly says "British is Best"

, wrote: ↑10 Jan 2025, 15:23 Above all else we need to give Potter time. 

Not sure on Mr Potter myself, but who else was there really ?
Carrick to early !
Not to many more to choose from.
No obviously to Moyes return !

British manager 
Spoke well about the club and the fans.
This could be a brilliant decision or very very bad.

I am going to give him a chance, but I am worried if he can demand the respect from the players.

i heard the Chelsea players called him Harry behind his back..

let’s hope he can do the business.

Good luck to him and I hope he does well. 

But the reality is they appointed a cheap option, someone who it completely unproven, a friend of Brady from Birmingham, and let's be honest someone who failed terribly at Chelsea even after spending 600M. 

Until the corrupt lying board is gone I couldn't care less about the appointment. 

I was on the fence with his appointment, but seeing his press conference yesterday and the behind the scenes videos from the Club, it goes without saying I hope he does really well with us and am fully behind him and now believe he is the right person at the right time for us.

As comma says he will need time and we will need to throw him some slack between now and the rest of the season, a minimum is mid table and seeing some identity and progress with the side. If him and Tim can forge a good working relationship and park any egos then for once, we may be onto something.

As ever, time will tell 

i think he'll get a good reaction at first at least from the players. they seemed to have no time for lopetegui and you couldn't find a more different personality in a manager if you tried.

it'll be like when the strict, sallow teacher retires and you get the "fun" one in. everyone also knows the pitfalls of that, but when the kids are getting paid £100k a week just to turn up, in the modern game they will always be the ones calling the shots unless your name is mr guardiola.

The more I read and hear from and about him, the more I like him.

When he left Brighton to join Chelsea, I did wonder if Chelsea's poor form and Brighton's continuing good form under their new manager De Zerbi, was evidence that he was maybe overrated.

But you could argue that Chelsea was a shit club at the time and there aren't many managers that would have succeeded, and that Brighton's success was possibly helped by the foundations laid by Potter before he left.

I'm quite optimistic about this one as and I think that we've got him at the right time too.

Been watching the videos of him settling in on YouTube. 
I like the cut of his jib. 
If he's shit, we will tell him in due course. But for now, good luck Graham son 

I smell werthers originals

Browse through this site and you get the impression most posters think all our players are shit in one way or another. If that is the case, it won’t matter who the manager is, we’ll still be crap.

Manuel wrote: ↑10 Jan 2025, 07:05 Former Celtic and Barcelona player Henrik Larsson commented on Potter's pattern of play, stating he "played all different kinds of systems, starting off a match one way, and then halfway through they started playing a different system, and then they ended up with a third system. And all the players knew exactly what they were doing." Guardiola admitted that he was a "big fan" of Potter, saying that Potter's "Brighton are a joy to watch, a joy to analyse" and that his "players move with freedom and everyone knows what they have to do. They have the courage to play everywhere."

I really hope he was scarred by his experience at Chelsea and hope also that he learned a good deal from it. 

Managers that are nothing but 100% successful in their careers are like hens teeth. It’s all about whether he will be a good fit for us and clicks well with the players and management and rigors of the PL. Loppy did not. Potter understands the English game so sighs for him have to be better

Former Celtic and Barcelona player Henrik Larsson commented on Potter's pattern of play, stating he "played all different kinds of systems, starting off a match one way, and then halfway through they started playing a different system, and then they ended up with a third system. And all the players knew exactly what they were doing." Guardiola admitted that he was a "big fan" of Potter, saying that Potter's "Brighton are a joy to watch, a joy to analyse" and that his "players move with freedom and everyone knows what they have to do. They have the courage to play everywhere."

RootsRadical wrote: ↑09 Jan 2025, 22:05 Am I the only one sensing that he's got the demeanor of a washed up ex Alcoholic or Heroin addict, or someone who suffers / has suffered with mental illness.
 

We've gone from "can't understand the cսnt" to "talks to much" in one fell swoop.

But none of us are fickle cunts, honest guv.

I’m just waiting to see Noble do something…to justify his title…


Not the only one to say Potter talked a lot and repetitive in first interview…

Texas Iron" wrote: ↑09 Jan 2025, 19:55 Potter talks a lot…

RootsRadical wrote: ↑09 Jan 2025, 22:05 Am I the only one sensing that he's got the demeanor of a washed up ex Alcoholic or Heroin addict, or someone who suffers / has suffered with mental illness.

His confidence seems a bit shot to me and I found the press conference quite awkward with him repeating the same sound bites, and coming across like someone in an interview and libbing because they either hadn't prepared or just didn't know the answers.
Don't wish to insult or slag him off. ​​​​​​I could be way off the mark and hope I am, but it's my gut feeling and I'm a pretty good judge of people.

RootsRadical wrote: ↑09 Jan 2025, 22:05 Am I the only one sensing that he's got the demeanor of a washed up ex Alcoholic or Heroin addict, or someone who suffers / has suffered with mental illness.

His confidence seems a bit shot to me and I found the press conference quite awkward with him repeating the same sound bites, and coming across like someone in an interview and libbing because they either hadn't prepared or just didn't know the answers.
Don't wish to insult or slag him off. ​​​​​​I could be way off the mark and hope I am, but it's my gut feeling and I'm a pretty good judge of people.

RootsRadical wrote: ↑09 Jan 2025, 22:05 Am I the only one sensing that he's got the demeanor of a washed up ex Alcoholic or Heroin addict, or someone who suffers / has suffered with mental illness.

His confidence seems a bit shot to me and I found the press conference quite awkward with him repeating the same sound bites, and coming across like someone in an interview and libbing because they either hadn't prepared or just didn't know the answers.
Don't wish to insult or slag him off. ​​​​​​I could be way off the mark and hope I am, but it's my gut feeling and I'm a pretty good judge of people.

Yeah sorry don’t get that. Thought he came across very well and the other interview (high performance) he did said all the right things. If he can follow up on that is another matter but think you are looking for faults when there wasn’t really anything there.

Agreed Stubbo, a thinker who's been through the ringer at Chelsea and had a lot of time to think about it which has affected his confidence.
You summed it up well with the boxer analogy.
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