Chums as I sit here watching this mess, I ask but one question:
Any chance of getting Eddie back?
PS: Happy to keep Tinders as Assistant Manager.
As someone else said on another thread, if you moan about something for long enough you’ll eventually be right. Many didn’t want him back in 2012...I guess they were proved right eventually.
He’s the greatest manager we’ve ever had, achieved more than we ever deserved and were fortunate enough to be around to see it.
Absolutely amazing memories, had unbridled success in two spells with different sets of players. Turning around underachieving squads on both occasions and leading them to success.
But some choose to only remember the one poor season. Like he wasn’t due one poor season after a decade of only seeing success. At a point when he was rebuilding a squad for the long term future, but struck with injuries and bad attitude from some players engineering their next moves believing their own hype and unsettling the squad to the point where it still hasn’t recovered.
We’ve now got Neill Blake, Richard Hughes and Jason Tindall pretending to be fill his shoes and floundering.
But would we have him back, of course not, we want Frank Lampard or Jamie Redknapp, they’re far more attractive options? Or maybe Paul Cook because he’s looked good on Soccer Saturday a couple of times...
Class is permanent, form is temporary.
As someone else said on another thread, if you moan about something for long enough you’ll eventually be right. Many didn’t want him back in 2012...I guess they were proved right eventually.
He’s the greatest manager we’ve ever had, achieved more than we ever deserved and were fortunate enough to be around to see it.
Absolutely amazing memories, had unbridled success in two spells with different sets of players. Turning around underachieving squads on both occasions and leading them to success.
But some choose to only remember the one poor season. Like he wasn’t due one poor season after a decade of only seeing success. At a point when he was rebuilding a squad for the long term future, but struck with injuries and bad attitude from some players engineering their next moves believing their own hype and unsettling the squad to the point where it still hasn’t recovered.
We’ve now got Neill Blake, Richard Hughes and Jason Tindall pretending to be fill his shoes and floundering.
But would we have him back, of course not, we want Frank Lampard or Jamie Redknapp, they’re far more attractive options? Or maybe Paul Cook because he’s looked good on Soccer Saturday a couple of times...
Class is permanent, form is temporary.
To go from pushing for Europe at Christmas to getting relegated takes some doing.
I was referring to our position in the league at Christmas compared to where we actually finished. You remember. We own the South Coast and all that.You’ve merged two seasons together.
Part of the “pushing for Europe” hype was down to David Brooks’ first season. The relegated season he was injured for its near entirety and has never looked the same player.
Part of the “pushing for Europe” hype was down to Ryan Fraser. The relegated season he was “not playing for the team”, putting in zero effort and most likely causing problems amongst the squad due to the consequences of those actions.
Part of the “pushing for Europe” hype was down to Joshua King. The relegated season he was having his head turned by Manchester United, wanting to leave by Christmas, believing he was leaving come the end of the season and barely performing.
etc etc
I was referring to our position in the league at Christmas compared to where we actually finished. You remember. We own the South Coast and all that.
Yep, the same man that got us promoted 3 times in 5 years. And against all odds, kept us comfortably in the PL for 4 seasons.Absolutely not. We don’t want the man who got us relegated.