If we come up again it is unlikely that our team will have four players of the ability of Jack, John, Tyrone or Tammy. We may well come back again. When it happens depends on having fewer players in our team who are not so unspeakably inferior.
Not marketing ourselves properly in the 90s when we were finishing in the top 4, winning cups and consistently in Europe. This coupled with Doug selling 5 years too late in my opinion is where it all went wrong. More specifically would be want could have happened if we had signed a better option that Collymore for £7 million when we still had Yorke.
Quote from: richtheholtender on June 28, 2020, 09:03:07 AMNot marketing ourselves properly in the 90s when we were finishing in the top 4, winning cups and consistently in Europe. This coupled with Doug selling 5 years too late in my opinion is where it all went wrong. More specifically would be want could have happened if we had signed a better option that Collymore for £7 million when we still had Yorke.I agree with all of what you have said except Collymore. It was on paper a perfect signing. The team that won the League cup in 96, reached the FA cup semi final and finished 4th was not properly supported by Ellis. He was happy with that achievement instead of having the vision to invest and really dominate English football. That was a chance missed to keep us in the elite group.
I said at the beginning of MON's final season that it was clear his strengths had got us to 6th but his weaknesses would prevent us from going any higher. I thought that would have been the ideal time to replace him but that was considered to be disloyal. Fast forward to the beginning of the following season and we all saw just what disloyalty was. We've never since been in a such a strong position to attract top drawer managers.
Yep. Agreed.... pretty much a perfect storm of wrongness!Wrong manager, wrong director of football, wrong players.
I said at the beginning of MON's final season that it was clear his strengths had got us to 6th but his weaknesses would prevent us from going any higher.
25th December 1938.
bloke who sits next to me at work reckons if DOL had the cash MON had it wouldn't have gone wrong...