Turning Points

[saunders_heroes]

I think the turning point was sometime near the end of O'Neill's reign where Lerner lost interest and decided to run us on a relative shoestring. O'Neill walked and we've been on a downward spiral ever since.

[olaftab]

I do think Leicester was a big turning point though

However that may have saved us from relegation this season but where to next......
The whole thing is about Lerner's executives not getting to grip with the real issue and compounded errors that have let this happen.

[Dave]

Bringing Tom Fox in to replace Faulkner.

No new contract for Lambert, no "shortlist of one", a comfortable mid-table finish in 14/15, a competent structure in place for summer 2015 with a good manager spending £60m or so wisely.

We make the most of the erratic form of most of the league and finish eighth. Sign Benteke back from Liverpool ready for our Leicester-style assault at the league title next season.

[itbrvilla]

Stoke....

[Stu]

Was a statement alright. The yank didn't have a Fucking clue what he was doing. If the current setup now had been put in place earlier we wouldn't be in this mess. This utter disaster

Appointing McLeish had nothing to do with him being an American, and everything to do with him being daft.

[Lucky Eddie]

MON

[clash city rocker]

Sherwood  was a chancer  and so was Fox. Put them both together at the same time and disaster was always on the cards.

[The Edge]

MON

Bring back MON. Three top six finishes- European football  and a League Cup stolen from us by a dodgy ref. That sounds like a good option right now. Martin O'Neill was not responsible for the players contracts. That's down to the administration.

[The Edge]

Not bringing in a decent keeper. Guzan was dropped after his shambolic performance at Man City.  Tactics Tim played Given for the rest of the season  but still started the season with Guzan. Why? Whoever made that call has to shoulder a large chunk of the blame for me.

[Morleys left boot]

Telling Steve stride they didn't need his experience around the club the general already knew everything

[Jon Crofts]

Moscow followed by Stoke the weekend after.

[malckennedy]

The most recent turning point was January this year.

We were beginning to perform better and achieved 8 points from 6 matches. We were unlucky not to get more ( for example WBA were very lucky to draw with us). Garde had challenged some of the bigger wasters like Agbonlahor, in the belief that he would be backed in the transfer window as promised.

But the board decided to run up the white flag. They told Garde that none of the players he had identified wanted to join us, when some were not even approached. Garde was deflated, players like Agbonlahor had to be played, player power was quickly reestablished when it was seen that Garde was not being supported. Then Liverpool happened and the rest became inevitable.

I wonder how much Hollis had to do with the January decision of to spend?

[brian green]

All our midfield getting early yellow cards in the Cup Final.  It handed the game to the Arsenal and we capitulated.  That day eleven months ago when we watched our team vaporise in front of our eyes was when we first looked over the edge into the abyss.

[Nunkin1965]

Thinking instantly about this is that one of my highs was Ajax at home. Maybe that was my turning point.

[brian green]

Hollis is an accountant malc.  He would have been at the centre of the decision to force Remi Garde to carry the can.  One of the most insightful comments made in this forum over the relegation year was when Ads described Steve Hollis as our de facto Administrator.  Look at the last five months through that lens and it all becomes much clearer.