Quote from: Richard E on January 22, 2021, 03:20:07 PMNo away end could possibly be as cold as Meadow Lane in 1992. And it was a terrible game.I seem to recall Staunton missed a penalty.
No away end could possibly be as cold as Meadow Lane in 1992. And it was a terrible game.
Quote from: Clampy on January 22, 2021, 01:07:37 PMStoke is always cold whenever I've been there.Stoke away in '87/'88 was the worst view (or more accurately lack of view) I have ever had at a game. We were alongside the pitch and right down the bottom with our eye level view in line with the players legs. Although to be fair I wasn't cold.
Stoke is always cold whenever I've been there.
Quote from: Damo70 on January 22, 2021, 02:31:01 PMQuote from: Clampy on January 22, 2021, 01:07:37 PMStoke is always cold whenever I've been there.Stoke away in '87/'88 was the worst view (or more accurately lack of view) I have ever had at a game. We were alongside the pitch and right down the bottom with our eye level view in line with the players legs. Although to be fair I wasn't cold.The coldest I remember being was at Shitefield Rd in the seats on that horrific Boxing Day 3-0 when Mick Quinn got a hat trick, funny how the two worst performances I've seen there were in the two seasons we finished runners up.The coldest I've been at though must be Hamburg a few years ago, it was showing -6 on the scoreboard.
Quote from: ChicagoLion on January 22, 2021, 11:05:58 AMHe came in, spent a shit load of money that we didnt have on players that were not good enough. He had and has no idea of tactics which limited any chance of promotion. He failed miserably blamed everybody else until someone chucked a cabbage at him and then he fucked off. Good riddance.Di Matteo spent £54m (net £30m) summer 2016. Bruce spent £21m (net £5m) January 2017, £2m (net £-13m) summer 2017, £0m January 2018 (net £0m), £7m (net -£7m) summer 2018. A total of £30m (-£15m)Hogan was obviously a waste of money in terms of fee and wages, but all of the others were relatively low fees. Lansbury has obviously been a waste of wages, but most of the others have served a purpose, or been off-loaded. He generally played the loan market well. I agree that this wasn't sustainable long term, because by the time he left we had a relatively old squad apart from the loanees, had to go out and buy a whole new squad in summer 2019, and if we hadn't been promoted would have been royally fucked. However, someone (Xia?) was sanctioning these transfers, and you'd struggle argue that Hourihane, McGinn, El Ghazi, Taylor, Elmohamady and Whelan (ultimately) weren't good value.I agree that he didn't have a clue about tactics, and that he ultimately failed. However, he was starting from such a low base, with a squad that had been conditioned to lose football matches, and he did start to change this. I am pleased that he is no longer our manager, but I don't understand the animosity towards him.
He came in, spent a shit load of money that we didnt have on players that were not good enough. He had and has no idea of tactics which limited any chance of promotion. He failed miserably blamed everybody else until someone chucked a cabbage at him and then he fucked off. Good riddance.
Bruce was thoroughly shit. He wasn't recruited to 'steady the ship'. His remit was promotion, and he failed in quite the most craven way.
The rot needed to stop first and foremost regardless of who came in.
Well, we stopped losing which was the main thing really. Sunderland will tell you that.
Quote from: Clampy on January 22, 2021, 07:05:48 PMWell, we stopped losing which was the main thing really. Sunderland will tell you that. If our current set up were happy with being better than Sunderland we'd still be in the Championship.