How's Keith Hill Doing?

Re: Extremely Northern...

You're a top judge of character Mr Lowry. Can't fault you.

 

I'll second those comments

Totally without bias, of course(!)

 

Re: I'll second those comments

There's only us reight tha noz.

 

Totally agree

It's amazing how we stay so humble.

 

He's an absolute buffoon...

In some people's opinion and a messiah in others.

I think last season proved that when he had the players he got us playing some nice football and there was a buzz about the place, but when he lost them, he ran out of ideas very, very quickly and we were bloody awful.

I hope he succeeds, but he's got a lot to do and a lot to learn. Let's hope he is given the time.

 

He splits opinion, I think thats fair to say.

We had the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright ****ing bizarre last season in any way you can imagine. Signings, results, entertainment, comments, formations, interview . . . it was a real mixed bag. The second half of the season was hideous, but we managed to stay up.

Come back after about 2 months of the season. If we carry on the results from last season you will hear the knives being sharpened, although if we start ok (which I think we will), everyone will love him again. He could do himself a few favours by keeping some opinions to himself . . . .

 

Before the start of last season, most fans (including me) said that he was filling the side with lower league players, and that was where we would end up. After a good start during which we played the most entertaining football for years, most of those who said that we would go down, said it would not last, or I don't like his interviews, or I don't like his accent. I said, I think this man might have something. At Christmas, for one reason or another. we lost the 3 outstanding players in our midfield. After that, a string of injuries as bad as I have known, robbed us us the remaining members of our midfield and the players he brought in on loan just were not fit. The naysayers from the start of the season said "I told you so", without giving any ground when the adverse circumstances surrounding our dramatic loss of form were pointed out. Keith kept quiet and learned from his experiences, and I am convinced that he will be a better manager for all that. Nevertheless, the club just cannot compete for the better players in this division, and survival remains Keith's primary goal. If he achieves it again this year, he will have worked another miracle in my view, and if he can uncover another gem in the process, as he did with Ricardo Vaz Te, he will have surpassed even last season.

 

With everything Keith Hill has had to deal with (first Championship season, selling Vaz Te, injury to Butterfield/Jim O'Brien/Bobby Hassell, limited transfer budget, losing Drinkwater to Leicester)...............I think he's done a sound job and would give him.....................7 out of 10.

Anyone who gets wound up by his interviews needs to grow a thicker skin........

 

Some Barnsley folk have made a career out of taking offence. They can read things into comments which wouldn't be out of place in the DeVinci codes.

 

Keith Hill also needs to grow one.

 

He's looking to bounce back into the Championship at the first attempt after relegation last season.........sorry thats Dunfermlin......I was getting Scotland and England, Rangers and Portsmouth mixed up for a minute

 

Disappointingly for me, despite all the preseason ******** he talked we had a miserable second half, and would have been relegated if pompey didn't get a points deduction.

Needs to raise his game, to match the ego.

 

Pompey got a points deduction because they'd spent money on players they couldn't afford, including outbidding us on wages for Jason Pearce. There's not a chance they would have got more points than us if we'd signed him and they hadn't been (not) paying players of the quality they signed and couldn't afford.

 

With the fantastic defence we have I don't see how Pearce could have improved on anything we had last season.

 

Might be wrong, but I get the impression that you actually want Hill to fail?

 

You are wrong. I want him to take us up as Champions. Unfortunately I think we will finish bottom. Can't see beyond that at the moment. I'd take 21st again but unlike many on here I wouldn't consider that a success.

 

The best manager of the past 10 years. F.ck statistics.

 

Aye f.uck em when they dont support an arguement but use em when they support one. Thats what stats are for.

Worse than McSeveney and Hodges that Khiller am telling thi.

 

That's how it works my friend.

 

He's at the height of fashion....





He's tachetastic.... in November



He makes me proud to have a receeding hairline....






But it's too difficult to judge just how well he's done thus far as Barnsley FC manager.

From June 1st 2011 to January 31st 2012, it's fair to say he'd done remarkably well, in a short space of time, and considering the budget he'd had to work with. The vast majority of his permanent signings looked more than capable at this level, and he'd got the best out of a few players who struggled to shine under the previous regime - Butterfield, Steele and O'Brien. We looked on course to surpass last seasons points tally, and all whilst playing an attractive brand of football....

However, from February onwards, and for a variety of reasons - some mitigating, some not - we witnessed the mother of all slumps. Not only that, but Keith seemed to lose the plot. His recruits now struggled without the 'star' players we lost in January, and his replacements were largely ineffectual, especially the myriad of loanees. But it was his change in approach tactically that baffled many. We now went into games hoping for little, expecting nothing, and duly recieving **** all. And Keith's ego had taken a battering. No longer were his interviews full of bravado and humour. Instead he whinged about the budget, the expectations, and of course the supporters.
He'd already done a fair bit of that during our good run, but to continue down that route whilst overseeing the worst run of results in years was a very bizarre and damaging tactic on his part, IMO.

So as I say, it's hard to judge his ability as a manager at this point.

Unlike the last 2 managers before him (Robins and Davey), he didn't have the chairman bankrolling his recruitment. But just like the last 2 managers, he couldn't solve our annual second half of the season collapse.

I think it's a huge season for the club. And a huge season for Keith.

And I can't fcukin' wait!

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