Ancient history, but MON's departure put us into a tailspin from which we are yet to recover from. I still think that allowing Lambert to coast along for far too long caused further serious damage to the club.
Quote from: tomd2103 on October 01, 2016, 10:17:17 PMAncient history, but MON's departure put us into a tailspin from which we are yet to recover from. I still think that allowing Lambert to coast along for far too long caused further serious damage to the club. Yes, it was the point when just turning up was deemed acceptable.
It was all about Lerner and the money - too much initially was badly spent, then retrenchment was too high, then Lerner made a series of bad choices I've got a lot of doubts about RDM. But when managers who've previously achieved good things are all awful, you have to think there are other factors. The regime has changed now, but the legacy of failure is going to take some getting over Of course, it would help if the new spine we'd bought didn't depend on a 21 year old Italian keeper, a centre back and captain who just doesn't look very good, and a 32 year old midfielder who looks well past hit (and I never thought he was that good when he was allegedly an inspiration).If we do get a new manager, I think all three may be out of the side as soon as we can get someone else in.
Since Houllier left our league record is, by my reckoning:PL201 W41 D59 L101 F191 A328 GD-137 Pts 182
Quote from: aj2k77 on October 01, 2016, 10:20:30 PMQuote from: tomd2103 on October 01, 2016, 10:17:17 PMAncient history, but MON's departure put us into a tailspin from which we are yet to recover from. I still think that allowing Lambert to coast along for far too long caused further serious damage to the club. Yes, it was the point when just turning up was deemed acceptable.Totally agree, the Lambert years really put us here, gutted the club of its self respect and professionalism.
Quote from: OzVilla on October 01, 2016, 10:22:40 PMQuote from: aj2k77 on October 01, 2016, 10:20:30 PMQuote from: tomd2103 on October 01, 2016, 10:17:17 PMAncient history, but MON's departure put us into a tailspin from which we are yet to recover from. I still think that allowing Lambert to coast along for far too long caused further serious damage to the club. Yes, it was the point when just turning up was deemed acceptable.Totally agree, the Lambert years really put us here, gutted the club of its self respect and professionalism.Yes I see the Lambert reign as far more embarrassing than what Sherwood produced tbh and surprised people don't see it.Under Sherwood it was chaotic but at least he was put out of his misery fairly quickly....Lambert reign just seemed to go on and on and on and on...Under him we suffered record defeats...couldn't even score a goal for months on end and just generally reduced us to a non-entity at premier league level and even now in lower league football.McLeish started the process, Lambert perfected the ineptitude.
our biggest problem is given that the fact that we are literally a basket case who are we going to attract?we are really in the shit