Remember how the club had all the gear and no idea when Groves was here? Massive money wasted on false maraquee signings in Demouge and Davids.
All so totally clueless and aimless. The first time in its history that the club had a firm financial footing and ability to land some targets rather than trying to hold onto anyone decent for more than 6 months and we were in the relegation zone, playing awful football and heading firmly for League 2.
Eddie dragged everyone at the club up. More likely, Eddie likely covered everyone else's failing and inexperence, perhaps even hindered by them at times.
That we're back with a board of short sighted morons who can't make a decision beyond the next payday shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone. 7 or 8 years ago I wrote a very depressed post about how the club was throwing its greatest opportunity for success and stability under a bus. We've had a good few years in terms of the football and generated some memories but it's equally disappointing to think we became one of the richest clubs in the country and will be exactly where we were having built the square root of **************** all as a legacy. No increase in capacity, no infrastructure improvements, no expansion of the fanbase to bring all the newly-interested youngsters on board.
At the end of this season, we'll have a team playing terribly with a mostly clueless and inexperienced manager playing in front of 1100 fans. Almost exactly the same as before Eddie came back.