10 years ago (15/16) (1 Viewer)

[PUSB-We_are_going_up]

Going into the first game of that season we had this as a starting 11

Lee Burge
Jordan Willis
Reda Johnson
Sam Ricketts
Chris Stokes
John Fleck
Romain Vincelot
Jim O’brien
James Maddison
Ruben Lameiras
Adam Armstrong

and we beat Wigan 2-0 opening day at home, looking back to then shows how far we’ve come still score loads of goals but suspect at the back! Some big names we had in that season likes of Joe Cole, Jacob Murphy, James Maddison, Ryan Kent, Adam Armstrong, and of course who could forget Darius Henderson.

Feels crazy that this is about a decade ago

 

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[Ccfcisparks]

I remember going to the Nuneaton game the week before and Armstrong looked hopeless and like a boy against men.

Was expecting the worst going into this game and then he put in THAT performnace.

 

[lord_garrincha]

After the Gillingham 1st half... who would have had us out of the top 2, let alone the top 6, at the end of the season?!!

 

[Robinshio]

the team the following season was a lot more scary

 

[rob9872]

Going into the first game of that season we had this as a starting 11

Lee Burge
Jordan Willis
Reda Johnson
Sam Ricketts
Chris Stokes
John Fleck
Romain Vincelot
Jim O’brien
James Maddison
Ruben Lameiras
Adam Armstrong

and we beat Wigan 2-0 opening day at home, looking back to then shows how far we’ve come still score loads of goals but suspect at the back! Some big names we had in that season likes of Joe Cole, Jacob Murphy, James Maddison, Ryan Kent, Adam Armstrong, and of course who could forget Darius Henderson.

Feels crazy that this is about a decade ago

Remember that game. Good side tbf for L1.

 

[KenilworthSkyBlue]

Not all that surprising that team fell away to be honest. Recruitment in January was appalling and there was no depth whatsoever.

 

[Wyken Sky Blue]

Joe Cole ruined it for me, tried accomodating him into the team and it upset the balance

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[rob9872]

Joe Cole ruined it for me, tried accomodating him into the team and it upset the balance

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I think Kent going back, Murphy's lack of form in the second half of the season, Maddison not quite performing at the level after he was loaned back and RCC in goal were more contributory than Cole's cameos. We had him at a time we were doing better. It was a miserable Jan / Feb period that cost us and won something like 4 or 5 out of last 6 games to take us up to 8th with play-offs out of reach well before then.

 

[skybluelee]

the team the following season was a lot more scary

I was going to say the same. That 15/16 line-up looks quite good!

 

[Winny the Bish]

Shout out fake Swedish international Martin Lorentzson

 

[SBT]

I remember going to the Nuneaton game the week before and Armstrong looked hopeless and like a boy against men.

Was expecting the worst going into this game and then he put in THAT performnace.

Was that the year where we didn’t score a single goal in pre-season or something weird like that? This forum was predicting disaster but we ended up fine.

 

[clint van damme]

Not all that surprising that team fell away to be honest. Recruitment in January was appalling and there was no depth whatsoever.

Mowbray predicted how the bad weather and deteriorating pitches would affect our style, but he didn't bother coming up with a plan B to counteract it.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Was that the year where we didn’t score a single goal in pre-season or something weird like that? This forum was predicting disaster but we ended up fine.

Believe so

 

[TomRad85]

Shout out fake Swedish international Martin Lorentzson

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[ptr]

Genuinely feel like this was the season we started to win a few fans back only to lose them again thanks to the abysmal end.

Murphy, Maddison and Armstrong were a joke at times at the start of the year. Biggest under achievement in our recent history.

 

[pusbccfc]

Joe Cole ruined it for me, tried accomodating him into the team and it upset the balance

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Cole was great in the second half of the season. Others down tools and he worked his arse off.

 

[baldy]

The glorious heady days of Proschwitz & Hunt towards the end of that season - eurghhh

 

[ovduk78]

The glorious heady days of Proschwitz & Hunt towards the end of that season - eurghhh

Darius Henderson?

 

[baldy]

Darius Henderson?

Him too (Proschowitz definitely played for us too though - christ what was Mowbray on?)

 

[Irish Sky Blue]

Him too (Proschowitz definitely played for us too though - christ what was Mowbray on?)

Proschowitz was the season before and not brought in by Mowbray. He would have been a Pressley signing

 

[PUSB-We_are_going_up]

Martyn Lorentzson
Peter Ramage
Andy Rose
Bailey Cargill
Aaron Martin
Vladimir Gadzhev
Stephen Hunt
Marc-Antoine Fortune
Marcus Tudgay
Darius Henderson
Lateef Elford Alliyiu
Jordan Turnbull
Farrend Rawson
Nathan Clarke
Kevin Foley
Callum Reilly
Charles Vernam
Stuart Bevon
Jack McBean
Yakubu
Kwame Thomas
Andre Wright
Dan Agyei
Michal Folivi

So many shit players between 15/16 and 16/17

 

[clint van damme]

Martyn Lorentzson
Peter Ramage
Andy Rose
Bailey Cargill
Aaron Martin
Vladimir Gadzhev
Stephen Hunt
Marc-Antoine Fortune
Marcus Tudgay
Darius Henderson
Lateef Elford Alliyiu
Jordan Turnbull
Farrend Rawson
Nathan Clarke
Kevin Foley
Callum Reilly
Charles Vernam
Stuart Bevon
Jack McBean
Yakubu
Kwame Thomas
Andre Wright
Dan Agyei
Michal Folivi

So many shit players between 15/16 and 16/17

Thought Cargill was decent at that level. The rest is a smorgasbord of dogshit

 

[RoboCCFC90]

Losing Ryan Kent was pivotal to our season, I think if Kent stays for the season we go onto win L1 that season.

 

[Fergusons_Beard]

I would also add that losing Ben Turner to injury also curtailed that season as we were awful at the back.

Must say it really galvanised a lot of fans as probably one of the most entertaining seasons since we’d been relegated from the top flight.

Young technically gifted players who enjoyed football.

Shame they ran out of steam towards the end of the season and didn’t really have the tactical nous to sustain the model Mowbray wanted.


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[alexccfc99]

That team should have gone up lets be honest and was a monumental capitulation that it didn't

I have been critical of Mowbray in the past and do believe whilst his hands were undoubtedly tied he left us in the lurch the following summer but life is too short to hold a grudge, zero doubts he loves the game and hope he is recovering well from his illness

I genuinely thought there was absolutely nothing stopping us after we spanked Crewe 5-0 on NYD - Then we played Walsall and Burton at home in the space of a couple of days who I believe were in and around the top 2 with us at the time - conceded a late goal to draw to Walsall then got completely done by Burton and it all went tumbling downhill from there

Don't agree signing Joe Cole affected us, Klopp recalling Ryan Kent just after he got the Liverpool gig to not even play him and a very average choice of goalkeeper let us down that season for me

 

[Dimi_Konstantflapalot]

Thought Cargill was decent at that level. The rest is a smorgasbord of dogshit

Rose and Reilly were ok. Definitely agree about the rest, disgraceful list of names