Well Phil Robinson made his only appearance for us didn't he I'm the game at Old Tradford.By all accounts, Dean Glover was a willing player, tho I never saw him in the flesh
Anyone who is too young to remember the 86 team should click below;http://youtu.be/F6T42PGarqs The clearance attempt by Elliott is the most pathetic bit of defending I have ever seen in the Professional game. The 86 team had some players who played for some trophy winning clubs, plus 2 European Cup winners. I remember an article in Shoot magazine where Allan Evans made a scathing report on his teammates. Wish I still had it, as it would have been interesting to read again.Both that team and our current allow the opposition to split us open at every opportunity. As someone mentioned before, we desperately need a spine in the team, with midfield the priority. Hope Vlaar returns soon so we can rest Clark, he's looking extremely down.
Did Neale Cooper ever actually kick a ball for us?Time plays tricks with the memory, but I only really remember him as being permanently injured.
Yeah it was a deflected shot at the Witton End, we were two down by that point and the goal was greeted with a half-hearted yuh. I think it was Stuart Richie (?) that made his only appearance at Old Trafford, his only contribution nodding back the cross for Birchie (possibly) to score. Lots of possibly in there, someone wiser could probably fill in the gaps. All I remember from that season was that we had a purple patch from beating Cov away 0-1, then Southampton at home 3-1. Then one or two games 2-0 at home - one being Leicester. We then got beat 4-2 at Watford and other than the League Cup, didn't win again 'til Spring, again against Cov. There was one more win against West Ham 4-0, when it could have been six - Aspinall's best game for us. And other than a couple of decent draws (manure 3-3 at home, Liverpool 3-3 a 2-2 h) that was it. 86-87 a couple of games where we tonked the opposition and the rest a load of garbage. Finally Evans played plenty. He was close to being/was top scorer, along with Bruno and Monkey Poo with six. Neale Cooper played six or so games, notably scoring against Chelsea on a pitch that would have been iced off against Chelsea in the Cup and kicking Stuart Pearce rather hard in the 0-0 at home.
Quote from: Lky on December 30, 2012, 08:02:02 PMQuote from: rutski on December 30, 2012, 07:50:41 PMQuote from: Lky on December 30, 2012, 07:45:49 PMThe 86 squad surely had more midfielders ?Worringly the 86 team looks far better (on paper) at least.Looking back the young players showed real promise that maybe the current crop don't. Keown, Dorigo and Walters were always top quality players that were going to play for the top clubs. Paul Elliot - oh dear - he was far worse than we have at the moment.From memory Evans, Daley and Shaw didn't play much because of age, youth and injury respectively. The others though would certainly be an improvement to the current side.The commom denominator worringly seems to be the midfield being woefully not good enough.for fucks sake, we were ace 2 weeks ago. now apparantly, we are shit. get a fucking grip!Getting a fucking grip what don't you agree with ?i will tell you that i cannot believe everyones response with 3 defeats, as i said if something is so right 2 weeks ago why is it all so fucking wrong 3 defeats later?
Quote from: rutski on December 30, 2012, 07:50:41 PMQuote from: Lky on December 30, 2012, 07:45:49 PMThe 86 squad surely had more midfielders ?Worringly the 86 team looks far better (on paper) at least.Looking back the young players showed real promise that maybe the current crop don't. Keown, Dorigo and Walters were always top quality players that were going to play for the top clubs. Paul Elliot - oh dear - he was far worse than we have at the moment.From memory Evans, Daley and Shaw didn't play much because of age, youth and injury respectively. The others though would certainly be an improvement to the current side.The commom denominator worringly seems to be the midfield being woefully not good enough.for fucks sake, we were ace 2 weeks ago. now apparantly, we are shit. get a fucking grip!Getting a fucking grip what don't you agree with ?
Quote from: Lky on December 30, 2012, 07:45:49 PMThe 86 squad surely had more midfielders ?Worringly the 86 team looks far better (on paper) at least.Looking back the young players showed real promise that maybe the current crop don't. Keown, Dorigo and Walters were always top quality players that were going to play for the top clubs. Paul Elliot - oh dear - he was far worse than we have at the moment.From memory Evans, Daley and Shaw didn't play much because of age, youth and injury respectively. The others though would certainly be an improvement to the current side.The commom denominator worringly seems to be the midfield being woefully not good enough.for fucks sake, we were ace 2 weeks ago. now apparantly, we are shit. get a fucking grip!
The 86 squad surely had more midfielders ?Worringly the 86 team looks far better (on paper) at least.Looking back the young players showed real promise that maybe the current crop don't. Keown, Dorigo and Walters were always top quality players that were going to play for the top clubs. Paul Elliot - oh dear - he was far worse than we have at the moment.From memory Evans, Daley and Shaw didn't play much because of age, youth and injury respectively. The others though would certainly be an improvement to the current side.The commom denominator worringly seems to be the midfield being woefully not good enough.
Although comparing that to the Wigan game wouldn't see much difference overall, we had a fucking clueless manager then with no idea. At this point we have a plan and a manager who I trust to get us through this.