People who think we did OK say it cause it was Man City but the reality is that we created almost no chances at home vs a team that doesn't park the bus at all.

Man City didn't even get into the second gear and they routinely won 3 points at the Bridge.

When Tuchel took over we went on having 10 PL matches without defeat and the first, second and third match vs Man City we won.

But since Potter isn't called Potti from Salerno, it's not his fault . . . .

 

5 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

People who think we did OK say it cause it was Man City but the reality is that we created almost no chances at home vs a team that doesn't park the bus at all.

Man City didn't even get into the second gear and they routinely won 3 points at the Bridge.

When Tuchel took over we went on having 10 PL matches without defeat and the first, second and third match vs Man City we won.

But since Potter isn't called Potti from Salerno, it's not his fault . . . .

 

Well yeah, we don't seem to score goals. That has been an issue for a few seasons though. That's not Potter's fault. The previous managers had the benefit of the likes of Hazard and Costa, even Tuchel had Giroud up top. So far we do not have a competent striker, let alone a creative outlet. We haven't replaced Hazard or Costa, or even Giroud. Should have kept Giroud. Signed Lukaku for him to then down tools and fall out with Tuchel. Ridiculous situation. Haaland is winning City games singlehandedly, and Spurs have the likes of Kane to get them out the sh*t. We used to have Hazard or Costa getting us out of the sh*t, but we no longer have either or players of that quality. 

12 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

People who think we did OK say it cause it was Man City but the reality is that we created almost no chances at home vs a team that doesn't park the bus at all.

Man City didn't even get into the second gear and they routinely won 3 points at the Bridge.

When Tuchel took over we went on having 10 PL matches without defeat and the first, second and third match vs Man City we won.

But since Potter isn't called Potti from Salerno, it's not his fault . . . .

 

Potter supporters don't care for any of that, stats, performance etc. 

The ready made excuse is there, injuries, not his players and is only there 4 months. 

You can only make any genuine criticism after 2 years because "it's a long term project"

3 minutes ago, Deino said:

Potter supporters don't care for any of that, stats, performance etc. 

The ready made excuse is there, injuries, not his players and is only there 4 months. 

You can only make any genuine criticism after 2 years because "it's a long term project"

Plenty who are supporting Potter have been critical of a few things, so your last paragraph is a strange one. 

There’s a massive difference between criticism and actively wanting the bloke to be sacked so soon. 

4 minutes ago, enigma said:

Well yeah, we don't seem to score goals. That has been an issue for a few seasons though. That's not Potter's fault. The previous managers had the benefit of the likes of Hazard and Costa, even Tuchel had Giroud up top. So far we do not have a competent striker, let alone a creative outlet. We haven't replaced Hazard or Costa, or even Giroud. Should have kept Giroud. Signed Lukaku for him to then down tools and fall out with Tuchel. Ridiculous situation. Haaland is winning City games singlehandedly, and Spurs have the likes of Kane to get them out the sh*t. We used to have Hazard or Costa getting us out of the sh*t, but we no longer have either or players of that quality. 

I understand that he can't fix it and that the issue started a long time ago, fair but I do think that he as the manger does have the responsibility as well.

At the very least he should openly say that we need to strengthen this transfer window even if from my perspective that's obvious.

24 minutes ago, drjonesy1994 said:

Plenty who are supporting Potter have been critical of a few things, so your last paragraph is a strange one. 

There’s a massive difference between criticism and actively wanting the bloke to be sacked so soon. 

Critical of what exactly? Every "criticism" is followed by one of 3 excuse: a) Not his players b) only been here 4 months c) injuries. 

The calls for his sacking is ridiculous, I agree and in some cases a bit too extreme in the choices of words used but all of that came with a healthy(maybe unhealthy for some)  dose of love for the club. 

Almost none of those who want Potter to stay are willing to highlight any mistakes/weaknesses seen in his time here. 

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These are the weaknesses I see in Potter:

His press conferences are tired and way too vanilla. Hardly any worth quoting or something that's inspiring/badass/thoughtful

His teams come out of halftimes worse than when they start even from positions of strength. 

His substitutions are questionable. 

His lineups change every few games (some of it is forced due to injuries so can't blame him too much)

The stats are damning, I haven't compiled nor looked at it yet but I'm pretty sure we barely registered 20 shots across 4 games. 

The players look unmotivated and uninspired. They can even come out in interviews saying "The opponents want it more"

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I have never seen any of the Potter-in crowd use any of these weaknesses to criticize him or added to any of it. 

All I see is "this is a long term project and these aren't his players/these are players set in old ways. Give him 4-5 transfer windows then we'll see but if I'm wrong so be it because I want to look like a model supporter"

The thing is we're not Roman's anymore. Boehly doesn't offset revenue losses with his own money. The transfers are made with money loaned from probably Clearlake Capital itself. We are now close to 500m spent in a single season alone and are in 10th. If we go on this trajectory, by year 2, we will be 1bn++ in debt in a recession year. This is literally what happened to Blackburn, Millwall, Wimbledon etc. 

Sure, in 2 years we may be title challenging but if results continue like this at this same time next year, the threat of liquidation or being passed around among billionaire venture capitalist groups becomes real. 

Edited January 6, 20233 yr by Deino

7 minutes ago, Deino said:

Critical of what exactly? Every "criticism" is followed by one of 3 excuse: a) Not his players b) only been here 4 months c) injuries. 

The calls for his sacking is ridiculous, I agree and in some cases a bit too extreme in the choices of words used but all of that came with a healthy(maybe unhealthy for some)  dose of love for the club. 

Almost none of those who want Potter to stay are willing to highlight any mistakes/weaknesses seen in his time here. 

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These are the weaknesses I see in Potter:

His press conferences are tired and way too vanilla. Hardly any worth quoting or something that's inspiring/badass/thoughtful

His teams come out of halftimes worse than when they start even from positions of strength. 

His substitutions are questionable. 

His lineups change every few games (some of it is forced due to injuries so can't blame him too much)

The stats are damning, I haven't compiled nor looked at it yet but I'm pretty sure we barely registered 20 shots across 4 games. 

The players look unmotivated and uninspired. They can even come out in interviews saying "The opponents want it more"

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I have never seen any of the Potter-in crowd use any of these weaknesses to criticize him or added to any of it. 

All I see is "this is a long term project and these aren't his players/these are players set in old ways. Give him 4-5 transfer windows then we'll see but if I'm wrong so be it because I want to look like a model supporter"

The thing is we're not Roman's anymore. Boehly doesn't offset revenue losses with his own money. The transfers are made with money loaned from probably Clearlake Capital itself. We are now close to 500m spent in a single season alone and are in 10th. If we go on this trajectory, by year 2, we will be 1bn++ in debt in a recession year. This is literally what happened to Blackburn, Millwall, Wimbledon etc. 

Sure, in 2 years we may be title challenging but if results continue like this at this same time next year, the threat of liquidation or being passed around among billionaire venture capitalist groups becomes real. 

I can’t speak for everyone but I know have been critical of performances in one or two games. The Arsenal, Forest, and Newcastle games in particular I was quite vocal on here and said as much as “Potter got it wrong today” 

But I like to see a balanced view of things, even going back to Gols post here about not creating anything last night. I don’t think that’s true at all. Chucky hit the post, Pulisic almost certainly scores if not for a world class tackle from Stones, Silva came close in the second half from a set piece and Hall had a really good chance at the end. That’s 4 really good chances there and there may be more that I’m forgetting.  Granted these were all of target but you can’t pin that on Potter in my opinion. I think on the overall balance of play yesterday a draw was probably fair, but was generally more encouraged by our performance. 

Across his time here I’ve seen a decent enough sample size to suggest that if we do give him time we will be better for it. Wanting to give him time has nothing to do with being a “model supporter”. I want the club and the manager to succeed. The only manager I have ever really been vocal about wanting to leave was Sarri, and even by the end of his season I would’ve been ok with him having another season. 

As I’ve said if things are still not great in a years time then maybe that’s when we re-evaluate. But I do think we are going to have to take the rough with the smooth for a while. 
 

18 minutes ago, drjonesy1994 said:

I can’t speak for everyone but I know have been critical of performances in one or two games. The Arsenal, Forest, and Newcastle games in particular I was quite vocal on here and said as much as “Potter got it wrong today” 

But I like to see a balanced view of things, even going back to Gols post here about not creating anything last night. I don’t think that’s true at all. Chucky hit the post, Pulisic almost certainly scores if not for a world class tackle from Stones, Silva came close in the second half from a set piece and Hall had a really good chance at the end. That’s 4 really good chances there and there may be more that I’m forgetting.  Granted these were all of target but you can’t pin that on Potter in my opinion. I think on the overall balance of play yesterday a draw was probably fair, but was generally more encouraged by our performance. 

Across his time here I’ve seen a decent enough sample size to suggest that if we do give him time we will be better for it. Wanting to give him time has nothing to do with being a “model supporter”. I want the club and the manager to succeed. The only manager I have ever really been vocal about wanting to leave was Sarri, and even by the end of his season I would’ve been ok with him having another season. 

As I’ve said if things are still not great in a years time then maybe that’s when we re-evaluate. But I do think we are going to have to take the rough with the smooth for a while. 
 

Across the past 4 games, we have on average 2 shots on target. (The only outlier was Bournemouth and even then Bournemouth has someone who earns £700/week)

The scenario you envision only works in a perfect storm of good results coming in, players regaining motivation, injured players coming back and staying healthy, the club suffering minimal losses and getting a massive windfall from sponsors and Todd getting every transfer signing right.

It's not about taking the rough with the smooth, there is no smooth. Every other week we are either losing, getting embarassed by Boehly or having to stay awake seeing overpaid players struggle to put an entertaining performance. There is 0 momentum being built to create an upward spiral, yet it's fine? 

To not even ask for some sort of change is the weird part in all this and just hope for "maybe next year we'd be better".

4 minutes ago, Deino said:

Across the past 4 games, we have on average 2 shots on target. (The only outlier was Bournemouth and even then Bournemouth has someone who earns £700/week)

The scenario you envision only works in a perfect storm of good results coming in, players regaining motivation, injured players coming back and staying healthy, the club suffering minimal losses and getting a massive windfall from sponsors and Todd getting every transfer signing right.

It's not about taking the rough with the smooth, there is no smooth. Every other week we are either losing, getting embarassed by Boehly or having to stay awake seeing overpaid players struggle to put an entertaining performance. There is 0 momentum being built to create an upward spiral, yet it's fine? 

To not even ask for some sort of change is the weird part in all this and just hope for "maybe next year we'd be better".

Then we just have to see what happens, I and others obviously hold some optimism that things will get better. You and others obviously have less optimism, and that’s fine. But with that probably comes different levels of patience. 

If I’m wrong then I’m wrong, but my gut is we will be better for giving him time. 

For what it’s worth that “perfect storm” scenario exists whether Potter is the manager or not. Even if Potter isn’t the answer long term, then whoever the next man is will still have all these same problems to deal with. 

1 hour ago, Gol15 said:

I understand that he can't fix it and that the issue started a long time ago, fair but I do think that he as the manger does have the responsibility as well.

At the very least he should openly say that we need to strengthen this transfer window even if from my perspective that's obvious.

Why on earth should he openly say anything. What benefit does it have in telling the press he wants to strengthen? 

Do you think him and Boehly only communicate through journalists? 

Me personally I wouldn't sack Potter.

But it's hard to criticize someone who thinks that would be the right thing to do, because why? Because the standard had been set for the last two decades at this football club and that was that if the manager looks like he will steer the club to a finish outside the Top 4 you were gone.
And some of our greatest success-stories came after sacking a manager that had us sinking away from Top 4, latest with Tuchel who also took over a squad every claimed were absolutely terrible with "donkeys" like Rudiger, Christensen, Jorginho etc and he changed it all around despite us being in a similar position as we are in now when he took over.

It should be completely understandable if that kind of mindset is "stuck" to many. And we all know that Potter would be history now if Roman was in charge, for better or for worse.

3 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

Why on earth should he openly say anything. What benefit does it have in telling the press he wants to strengthen? 

Do you think him and Boehly only communicate through journalists? 

He would be openly saying that the squad needs some boost right now during this January transfer window, something that previous managers did as well. This would be justified and true even if we didn't have so many injures so it would be, to me at least a sign that he's aware that he isn't at Brighton anymore and that he needs to win more matches.

"Ultimately it's about staying calm and dealing with the players we have... Today was a step forward for us"

Is it a step forward losing at home? Cause prior to this he was basically saying that away games are hard. Now both seem to be difficult and he also comes across as someone that would have been happy with a point, with a 0:0 match.
I think that I would need a bit more ambitious outlook cause not all fans are just going to accept that as soon as Potter came that we should all be happy with being a top 10 team so maybe what I'm looking for is just some more ambition from Potter in his attitude, even in that minimal way of openly saying that the squad needs to be freshened up.

I read this youtube comment on another video related to Potter:

I wasn't a fan of Tuchel going for 1:0 wins against most teams, but it looks like Potter has a similar mentality if we are to trust that Brigton fans know what they have been watching. Not scoring has been a huge issue for us and as time goes on I'm starting to have my doubts if Potter actually can solve that problem at all because it's a big problem and he doesn't seem like the profile to fix it.

12 minutes ago, drjonesy1994 said:

If I’m wrong then I’m wrong, but my gut is we will be better for giving him time. 

For what it’s worth that “perfect storm” scenario exists whether Potter is the manager or not. Even if Potter isn’t the answer long term, then whoever the next man is will still have all these same problems to deal with. 

The thing is you and Boehly can't be wrong. If the vision can't be completed within the time period, the club would be taking on more debt, ticket prices will soar to mitigate losses and we'll be losing revenue. We still need to pay the stadium renovation/expansion costs in a recession year. 

The reason we need to be in CL places isn't just because of football. It's the money that's needed to reduce our losses and to cover the debt. 

1 year out of CL places is one thing but 2 years out will see Clearlake feel the losses. Yo-yoing cannot be an option with an owner that spends money (he doesn't have) like water

Footballing-wise, sacking Potter after a year in charge will leave the club being in transition still and send us back to square 1. This will set us back years and hundreds of millions more in debt 

The perfect storm scenario doesn't need to exist if we were winning and within CL places. 

2 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

 

I wasn't a fan of Tuchel going for 1:0 wins against most teams, but it looks like Potter has a similar mentality if we are to trust that Brigton fans know what they have been watching. Not scoring has been a huge issue for us and as time goes on I'm starting to have my doubts if Potter actually can solve that problem at all because it's a big problem and he doesn't seem like the profile to fix it.

We basically replaced Tuchelfootball with English Vanilla Tuchelfootball

6 minutes ago, Deino said:

Footballing-wise, sacking Potter after a year in charge will leave the club being in transition still and send us back to square 1. This will set us back years and hundreds of millions more in debt 

So genuine question. What do you suggest is the answer? Because you’ve said in another post that Potter shouldn’t be sacked just yet and you’ve hit the nail on the head with the bit I’ve quoted here  but it’s also clear you think he’s not the man to make this work in the long term, so I’m genuinely curious as to what you think the answer would be. 

37 minutes ago, OriginalS said:

Me personally I wouldn't sack Potter.

But it's hard to criticize someone who thinks that would be the right thing to do, because why? Because the standard had been set for the last two decades at this football club and that was that if the manager looks like he will steer the club to a finish outside the Top 4 you were gone.
And some of our greatest success-stories came after sacking a manager that had us sinking away from Top 4, latest with Tuchel who also took over a squad every claimed were absolutely terrible with "donkeys" like Rudiger, Christensen, Jorginho etc and he changed it all around despite us being in a similar position as we are in now when he took over.

It should be completely understandable if that kind of mindset is "stuck" to many. And we all know that Potter would be history now if Roman was in charge, for better or for worse.

If we still had the same board as previous seasons with Roman in charge, then Tuchel would likely have been shown the door in the summer, and we would have brought in another manager under pressure to bring in quick success. We would still have lost the players that left in the summer, and they likely would still not have been adequately replaced (based on our mostly poor transfer windows in the last few years). A lot of the main injury issues (Chilwell, Kante, Reece) had been occurring prior to the change of ownership so will still have continued and any new manager would likely face a similar challenge to what Potter is currently experiencing. I do agree that Roman probably would take quicker action in this case but I am not convinced it would have yielded the results he hoped for this time. Probably more like the season we had Guus second time around. Additionally the constant 18-24 month cycle of managers is one of the main reasons we found ourselves with no long term plan and a bunch of players who are regularly willing to stop playing for the manager when they are tired of training/tactics etc.

10 minutes ago, forbzy said:

If we still had the same board as previous seasons with Roman in charge, then Tuchel would likely have been shown the door in the summer, 

I disagree. They let it get a lot of worse with Jose and Conte before they acted, and even with the latter it was more behaviour based.

37 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

He would be openly saying that the squad needs some boost right now during this January transfer window, something that previous managers did as well. This would be justified and true even if we didn't have so many injures so it would be, to me at least a sign that he's aware that he isn't at Brighton anymore and that he needs to win more matches.

"Ultimately it's about staying calm and dealing with the players we have... Today was a step forward for us"

Is it a step forward losing at home? Cause prior to this he was basically saying that away games are hard. Now both seem to be difficult and he also comes across as someone that would have been happy with a point, with a 0:0 match.
I think that I would need a bit more ambitious outlook cause not all fans are just going to accept that as soon as Potter came that we should all be happy with being a top 10 team so maybe what I'm looking for is just some more ambition from Potter in his attitude, even in that minimal way of openly saying that the squad needs to be freshened up.

I read this youtube comment on another video related to Potter:

I wasn't a fan of Tuchel going for 1:0 wins against most teams, but it looks like Potter has a similar mentality if we are to trust that Brigton fans know what they have been watching. Not scoring has been a huge issue for us and as time goes on I'm starting to have my doubts if Potter actually can solve that problem at all because it's a big problem and he doesn't seem like the profile to fix it.

My point was what value is there in Potter saying something publicly. Why does he have to shout about it to the press?

He's clearly going to be in conversations with Boehly directly and they aren't always going to be the same things he says in public. 

Imagine Potter comes out to the press screaming we need a striker. Does that not make Boehlys job sourcing one harder? 

2 hours ago, Deino said:

Critical of what exactly? Every "criticism" is followed by one of 3 excuse: a) Not his players b) only been here 4 months c) injuries. 

The calls for his sacking is ridiculous, I agree and in some cases a bit too extreme in the choices of words used but all of that came with a healthy(maybe unhealthy for some)  dose of love for the club. 

Almost none of those who want Potter to stay are willing to highlight any mistakes/weaknesses seen in his time here. 

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These are the weaknesses I see in Potter:

His press conferences are tired and way too vanilla. Hardly any worth quoting or something that's inspiring/badass/thoughtful

His teams come out of halftimes worse than when they start even from positions of strength. 

His substitutions are questionable. 

His lineups change every few games (some of it is forced due to injuries so can't blame him too much)

The stats are damning, I haven't compiled nor looked at it yet but I'm pretty sure we barely registered 20 shots across 4 games. 

The players look unmotivated and uninspired. They can even come out in interviews saying "The opponents want it more"

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I have never seen any of the Potter-in crowd use any of these weaknesses to criticize him or added to any of it. 

All I see is "this is a long term project and these aren't his players/these are players set in old ways. Give him 4-5 transfer windows then we'll see but if I'm wrong so be it because I want to look like a model supporter"

The thing is we're not Roman's anymore. Boehly doesn't offset revenue losses with his own money. The transfers are made with money loaned from probably Clearlake Capital itself. We are now close to 500m spent in a single season alone and are in 10th. If we go on this trajectory, by year 2, we will be 1bn++ in debt in a recession year. This is literally what happened to Blackburn, Millwall, Wimbledon etc. 

Sure, in 2 years we may be title challenging but if results continue like this at this same time next year, the threat of liquidation or being passed around among billionaire venture capitalist groups becomes real. 

Well that sentence there isn't a Potter specific issue is it. That same stuff has been said multiple times through almost every season we've done poorly. The players are unmotivated, don't look up for it, no effort, the same old, same old. It comes a time when we also have to look at the players far more than the coach. Tuchel even said that the players weren't good enough before he left, so there's something about the players we buy and the effort and fight they put in to win games.

Do you not think it's odd how we haven't been competitive or consistent on the domestic stage for so long despite hiring and firing managers. As I keep repeating, we've won TWO league titles in 12 seasons. Does that make us a "giant" in Europe or just an inconsistent team that can turn up now and then in big games both in Europe and PL? Meanwhile Man City have won 6 league trophies in the same amount of time. Once City won the league they added players and strengthened, kept it consistent and went on to challenge and win another title or come close again. We've been way off for a long time. 

Edited January 6, 20233 yr by enigma

40 minutes ago, enigma said:

Well that sentence there isn't a Potter specific issue is it. That same stuff has been said multiple times through almost every season we've done poorly. The players are unmotivated, don't look up for it, no effort, the same old, same old. It comes a time when we also have to look at the players far more than the coach. Tuchel even said that the players weren't good enough before he left, so there's something about the players we buy and the effort and fight they put in to win games.

Do you not think it's odd how we haven't been competitive or consistent on the domestic stage for so long despite hiring and firing managers. As I keep repeating, we've won TWO league titles in 12 seasons. Does that make us a "giant" in Europe or just an inconsistent team that can turn up now and then in big games both in Europe and PL? Meanwhile Man City have won 6 league trophies in the same amount of time. Once City won the league they added players and strengthened, kept it consistent and went on to challenge and win another title or come close again. We've been way off for a long time. 

You are right but what makes Potter the guy to carry us to that domestic glory? 

I'll give him time sure but that doesn't mean he gets a free pass when our results are this poor.

47 minutes ago, enigma said:

Well that sentence there isn't a Potter specific issue is it. That same stuff has been said multiple times through almost every season we've done poorly. The players are unmotivated, don't look up for it, no effort, the same old, same old. It comes a time when we also have to look at the players far more than the coach. Tuchel even said that the players weren't good enough before he left, so there's something about the players we buy and the effort and fight they put in to win games.

Do you not think it's odd how we haven't been competitive or consistent on the domestic stage for so long despite hiring and firing managers. As I keep repeating, we've won TWO league titles in 12 seasons. Does that make us a "giant" in Europe or just an inconsistent team that can turn up now and then in big games both in Europe and PL? Meanwhile Man City have won 6 league trophies in the same amount of time. Once City won the league they added players and strengthened, kept it consistent and went on to challenge and win another title or come close again. We've been way off for a long time. 

They've stayed consistent because they have Pep Guardiola in charge, and have backed him regularly.

On the contrary, United showed that same faith to Ole and look where that got them, despite outspending City during that period.

Tuchel deserved that kind of faith that Pep and Klopp got, sacking him after a medicore few months (where we still got top 4 easily), was a disgrace. Potter hasn't achieved anything in his career to suggest that kind of faith in him will pay off.

Edited January 6, 20233 yr by Drogba1

1 hour ago, drjonesy1994 said:

So genuine question. What do you suggest is the answer? Because you’ve said in another post that Potter shouldn’t be sacked just yet and you’ve hit the nail on the head with the bit I’ve quoted here  but it’s also clear you think he’s not the man to make this work in the long term, so I’m genuinely curious as to what you think the answer would be. 

1) Potter getting his act together, rally his coaches and figure out what to do with the current squad at hand. Set pieces need to be better, offensive transitions, defensive transitions, substitution management etc the whole shebang. 

2) Galvanizing the squad, better half time teamtalks that makes the players coming out for the 2nd half hungry for goals. 

3) Focus on what his philosophy/methods/ethos are and implement it straight in. A clear playing style or at least 50% of it. He's not coaching Ostersund level players, our players should be able to at least deliver 50% of what the playing style should be on the field

4) Bench/send to reserve anyone that wants out or doesn't believe in his process. Ship out if need be. This isn't the time to play kumbaya anymore, we are in the business end of the season. 

If Potter can do all this which are all in the scope of his job. I'd hazard a guess, we might just be placed better come end of the season. It won't be easy(very difficult)  but at least there's solid foundation in place by the end of the season. 

It'd give Boehly and co. some platform to work on.

2 minutes ago, Deino said:

1) Potter getting his act together, rally his coaches and figure out what to do with the current squad at hand. Set pieces need to be better, offensive transitions, defensive transitions, substitution management etc the whole shebang. 

2) Galvanizing the squad, better half time teamtalks that makes the players coming out for the 2nd half hungry for goals. 

3) Focus on what his philosophy/methods/ethos are and implement it straight in. A clear playing style or at least 50% of it. He's not coaching Ostersund level players, our players should be able to at least deliver 50% of what the playing style should be on the field

4) Bench/send to reserve anyone that wants out or doesn't believe in his process. Ship out if need be. This isn't the time to play kumbaya anymore, we are in the business end of the season. 

If Potter can do all this which are all in the scope of his job. I'd hazard a guess, we might just be placed better come end of the season. It won't be easy(very difficult)  but at least there's solid foundation in place by the end of the season. 

It'd give Boehly and co. some platform to work on.

All fair enough points, and all what I want to see as well. 

Nice to know there’s some people on here capable of having a mature discussion without name calling or petty point scoring! 

16 hours ago, JM7 said:

Bloody Tuchel, why couldn’t he play the game and please his new bosses. We could have been rebuilding with him at the realm. 

I loved Tuchel but bare in mind this mostly poor transfer window was overseen by him, he was the one pushing for Sterling and auba and now we're stuck with them

1 hour ago, timetowaste said:

I loved Tuchel but bare in mind this mostly poor transfer window was overseen by him, he was the one pushing for Sterling and auba and now we're stuck with them

Sterling looked good under Tuchel, 5 G/A in his first 7 games, then Potter started playing him LWB and now he looks awful. No idea what Boehly's plan was last summer.