Quote from: N'ZMAV on April 05, 2020, 04:23:42 PMI'm not sure the like sof Whittingham, Phil King and Fashanu were good enough to replace the players from 92/93 that needed replacing.Townsend came in too that summer and was certainly a very good signing for the club. United signed Roy Keane though. Blackburn had signed a young Alan Shearer the season before. BFR seemed to prefer the experienced pro though.
I'm not sure the like sof Whittingham, Phil King and Fashanu were good enough to replace the players from 92/93 that needed replacing.
Quote from: brontebilly on April 05, 2020, 05:41:32 PMQuote from: cdbullyweefan on April 05, 2020, 04:57:11 PMOur strikers were never scoring thirty a season but they were decent enough. Those stats back up my theory that we never scored nearly enough goals from midfield. Also, can't remember very many set piece goals.What happened Tony Daley's form around then? Ray Houghton was pushing on alright by then, had a brilliant game v Inter that I recall but didn't start the league cup final. Graham Fenton never really kicked on either.Again, I don't think BFR really fancied Daley. Houghton was a bit hit & miss all the time he was here and Fenton just never made the breakthrough.
Quote from: cdbullyweefan on April 05, 2020, 04:57:11 PMOur strikers were never scoring thirty a season but they were decent enough. Those stats back up my theory that we never scored nearly enough goals from midfield. Also, can't remember very many set piece goals.What happened Tony Daley's form around then? Ray Houghton was pushing on alright by then, had a brilliant game v Inter that I recall but didn't start the league cup final. Graham Fenton never really kicked on either.
Our strikers were never scoring thirty a season but they were decent enough. Those stats back up my theory that we never scored nearly enough goals from midfield. Also, can't remember very many set piece goals.
Sadly, it seems that Sir Brian was great at getting a team winning games, but when things didn't go for him, he was unable to change things. His career seemed to keep going the same way when he left Villa good start, bad run, end.
Quote from: dave.woodhall on April 05, 2020, 05:48:19 PMQuote from: brontebilly on April 05, 2020, 05:41:32 PMQuote from: cdbullyweefan on April 05, 2020, 04:57:11 PMOur strikers were never scoring thirty a season but they were decent enough. Those stats back up my theory that we never scored nearly enough goals from midfield. Also, can't remember very many set piece goals.What happened Tony Daley's form around then? Ray Houghton was pushing on alright by then, had a brilliant game v Inter that I recall but didn't start the league cup final. Graham Fenton never really kicked on either.Again, I don't think BFR really fancied Daley. Houghton was a bit hit & miss all the time he was here and Fenton just never made the breakthrough. Didn't Tony Daley have a bad injury at the start of that season and only came back in around March time? It happened the previous season as well when Robson clattered him against ManUre at Villa Park early in the season. Robson went on to dive to win a penalty late in that game as well if I remember correctly.
For all the supposed flair and great football we played under Atkinson goalscoring was always pretty crap. Even in 92/93 we were only 8th highest scorers, Oldham who stayed up on GD scored more than us. I think it was 26 times we scored 0 or 1. In 91/92 we had that pathetic run of 1 goal in 11 league games. 93/94 we were 16th highest scorers, even bottom of the table Swindon scored more than us.
Frogatt was never the same player after the assault by those clogging Wimbledon wankers in the Atkinson Goal game that season.
Quote from: brontebilly on April 05, 2020, 07:55:08 PMQuote from: N'ZMAV on April 05, 2020, 04:23:42 PMI'm not sure the like sof Whittingham, Phil King and Fashanu were good enough to replace the players from 92/93 that needed replacing.Townsend came in too that summer and was certainly a very good signing for the club. United signed Roy Keane though. Blackburn had signed a young Alan Shearer the season before. BFR seemed to prefer the experienced pro though. He wanted Shearer and Le Tissier. The latter wasn't going anywhere and the former was offered 15k a week by Blackburn when we were paying 4 at most.
Quote from: dave.woodhall on April 05, 2020, 08:04:44 PMQuote from: brontebilly on April 05, 2020, 07:55:08 PMQuote from: N'ZMAV on April 05, 2020, 04:23:42 PMI'm not sure the like sof Whittingham, Phil King and Fashanu were good enough to replace the players from 92/93 that needed replacing.Townsend came in too that summer and was certainly a very good signing for the club. United signed Roy Keane though. Blackburn had signed a young Alan Shearer the season before. BFR seemed to prefer the experienced pro though. He wanted Shearer and Le Tissier. The latter wasn't going anywhere and the former was offered 15k a week by Blackburn when we were paying 4 at most.Interesting, Ellis too mean I guess? Would have thought we were reasonable wage payers at the time, given we signed three experienced players from Liverpool?
BFR had excellent teams at Albion, Manure and Villa who could beat anyone on their day and he had good runs in Europe and victories in cup competitions. But third place with Albion, two third places with Manure and second place with Villa were his best top flight seasons. I must admit until I looked it up I didn't realise he had never managed a second place finish with United. 1992-1993 with Villa was his best top flight season.