lordsummerisle
Well-Known Member
The thing is, with the quality that we still had then, we should have been play-offs at least, unfortunately our "football man" Chairman appointed Coleman.
When we took on AB, I realised they had really lost it and were trying to go down the cheap route and I knew it was always doomed.
I just couldn't comprehend that their plan really was throw 6-7 million at players in one go and expect to get up in that season. Then if we dont, plan B was ................. ah there wasnt one.
Unbelievable madness. For a hedge fund entrusted to invest peoples money.
Its just so frustrating to think about it.
Back then Westwood, Dann, Fox and Gunnar in one team
To be fair to the fans who took the survey, at that point we had only sold Dann and that was for 3.5 million. I imagine they though that this money would be used on new signings
Here is more of a breakdown.
http://videos.icnetwork.co.uk/coventrytelegraph/Final sky blues results.pdf
Yea Coleman hugely underachieved we should have been serious play off challengers with the squad.The thing is, with the quality that we still had then, we should have been play-offs at least, unfortunately our "football man" Chairman appointed Coleman.
The thing is, with the quality that we still had then, we should have been play-offs at least, unfortunately our "football man" Chairman appointed Coleman.
Yea Coleman hugely underachieved we should have been serious play off challengers with the squad.
Westwood
Gunnarson
Dann
Fox
Best
Tabb
Ward
6 of them players are in premiership teams now
Instead the wally persisted in playing the likes of Stephen Wright and David Bell :facepalm:
You are forgetting how rubbish we actually were! I don't think a side with Wood at CB and Morrison and Eastwood up front was EVER in danger of making "at least the playoffs"! Coleman or not, those players were not good enough, and SISU had clearly not invested close to enough to be "expecting" the playoffs!
i dont recall ever seeing this survey
Who has? That's why its pointless.
Why dont you email the CET and find out how many did instead of suggesting no one has.
You may find it is 500-1000 people , you may find it is insignificant like you make out ie 50 people or less.
If they supported your view would you still be so critical of the survey?
Someone seems to suggest 700 people voted but I have not seen that yet.
If it is true, that is a good dip sample of Cov fans to me.
Except all of them could be Villa fans having a laugh and 46% of them tick the box that says they are season ticket holders.
I prefer to survey win ratios - do you want to go back to 1917?
Wood wasn't at the club that season, quite a sum invested in Eastwood, which most thought good business at the time(Many decrying "Mad Mick" for letting him go to us, the idiot!)
Your grasp of past events does seem to waver somewhat.
Westwood hasn't been given much of a chance, he seemed to be playing well and was dropped.But realistically, 3 of them are maybe genuine Prem quality in Dann, Best and Westwood: two of them have lost their place, the other got relegated last season.They were all younger and rawer players when we had them, too. The rest are decent Championship players, no more-it's just it's been so long since we had many of them, that that lot suddenly seem a lot better than they were/are!
David Cameron, Margaret Thatcher? Yep the public are always right.
David Cameron, Margaret Thatcher? Yep the public are always right.
In fairness to the great British public, they stopped buying Marillion's diatribe
I guess it will academic if thorn doesn't get the financial backing he wants as he will be off
He never said that apparantly. Sky blue talk have officially re-written history.
Like Winston Smith in 1984? Is Andy Thorn double-plus-good now then?
He never said that apparantly. Sky blue talk have officially re-written history.
He said he agreed to stay on the assurance that he will be helped to get players in.Yep quite a bit of spin used on that quote
He said he agreed to stay on the assurance that he will be helped to get players in.
People are free to interpret that any way they want.
You can t expect him to take another season with literally nothing to work with. Why would he do that?
Come on Macca surely you know...as its super Andy, hero of the Sky blue masses.
oh and of course who else would employ someone with such a dismal record..one of our worst ever.....but at least he gets the lads giving 210% :facepalm:
He is great scout of course, on occasion, but for every good one there has also been a Bell, or a ROD.
Personally I hope he sods off soon along with SISU, I and am sick of it all, and apologise for my childish rant but that is the way I feel.
If anyone wishes to argue this view feel free, but I dont care today, and like a brat will not listen to reasoned arguement. Tomorrow though is another day
Thing is, if he does well in this league, I ll be pleased obviously but it will just show that he was the wrong bloke for the championship
Thing is, if he does well in this league, I ll be pleased obviously but it will just show that he was the wrong bloke for the championship
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