And maybe Zola, if he hadn't been sacked wouldn't have spent the entire first half of the season in the drop zone, even with the players presently at our disposal.
He clearly got more out of Cole and Ilunga.
We may under him have scored more or shut more out.
That's a fair point. If Managers like Gary Megson and Glenn Roeder can get work then Zola must be in with a shout somewhere.
I always thought Zola was an odd choice but Avram Grant has achieved worse results this season. If he can be replaced with someone who can genuinely do a better job and turn your season around then he needs to come in - but only for the right reasons.
Avram has achieved some better results than Zola, too, for sure. I can`t remember anything under GZ that could compare to 4-0 over Man Utd or 1-0 over THFC.
btajim - mcfc wrote:
That's a fair point. If Managers like Gary Megson and Glenn Roeder can get work then Zola must be in with a shout somewhere.
I always thought Zola was an odd choice but Avram Grant has achieved worse results this season. If he can be replaced with someone who can genuinely do a better job and turn your season around then he needs to come in - but only for the right reasons.
Any Manager that can beat Man United 4-0 after making 8 changes to our Team from the previous League Game that we won & can beat T*ttingham, is alright in my book.. :lol:
Chuck D wrote:I see Grant got the best out Cole today...two goals in a league game is something Cole has failed to do under three other West Ham managers.
Bobby Orangeboom wrote:Any Manager that can beat Man United 4-0 after making 8 changes to our Team from the previous League Game that we won & can beat T*ttingham, is alright in my book.. :lol:
I was buzzing for West Ham that night - but the Carling Cup run has effectively given Grant more time. Imagine if you'd been knocked out by Colchester United in the 2nd round. Grant's Cup exploits with Pompey also made him look a little better than he was. They went down with him in charge.
Good result for West Ham today and I hope it's the catalyst for a good second half of the season.
Hughes got sacked from City cause of too many draws.
He now took a pretty solid team from last season and given them the highest amount of draws in the league this season.
We have less draws than them but we have more wins (as odd as it may sound)
For the sake of balance, though, Zola's record up to this point last season vs Grant's present record is
20th place:
Zola - never
Grant - 14 weeks
19th place:
Zola - 5 weeks
Grant - 3 weeks
From then onwards, Zola was 18th for a single week of the season.
Perhaps of more salient note is that, if you ignore what was a later points deduction, by this point, Portsmouth had won one more game, scored more goals and conceded fewer.
Lets hope Grant improves - he isn't going to be sacked - but I still believe that, if Zola had conjured up Grant's run of results, he'd have been fired.