I'm not sure where we were in Dec. tbh, I remember us being hard to beat and getting the ball out to the wingers asap, very direct, top half of the Championship until Nov/Dec.
Then as you say, it went tits up big time until the end of the season and Thorn stepped in.
Also as wingy points out, the board didn't help matters, sold Juke in January too, I think?
Yeah I thought it was weaker than that! Was definitely loads of changes to the strongest league side at the time I'm sure there was!
Just looked up the game. BBC Sport - Football - Morecambe 2-0 Coventry
Stronger team than I remember, but largely a team of Crocks, and youngsters still.
SHFWF. Looking back 7 years our fans now see a team with the likes of Bell, McPake, Hussey, Baker, Platt and ROD as a reasonably strong side. Ironically although as is noted these players were mostly from the fringes of our squad that day, the following season they were all part of our 'strongest XI'. No wonder we got relegated that year.
It does still make me cringe to read the match report and see the references to ROD missing various chances - he really was pony and trap, how on Earth did even CCFC see fit to hand him a multi-year pro contract?
SHFWF. Looking back 7 years our fans now see a team with the likes of Bell, McPake, Hussey, Baker, Platt and ROD as a reasonably strong side. Ironically although as is noted these players were mostly from the fringes of our squad that day, the following season they were all part of our 'strongest XI'. No wonder we got relegated that year.
It does still make me cringe to read the match report and see the references to ROD missing various chances - he really was pony and trap, how on Earth did even CCFC see fit to hand him a multi-year pro contract?
Must have just seen him in the pre-game warm ups and thought he was messi.
I remember every single game in the pre-match shooting session, he would score every single chance. Yet whenever he played he would miss every chance.
I even remember him going around the keeper that season and having a tap in yet somehow he still managed to miss. He truly was shit.
Yep game we lost 1-0 but it was 0-0 at the time he missed the chance I think...He did that against 'Boro I think the season after and missed in a "Torres v Man U"-style way. But that was in an actual league game where we were fighting for points against a decent side, in a game I think we lost narrowly.
With Eastwood sitting out the season through eating too much and being unfit (not injured!!) despite us paying for him to go to fitness camp at Lilleshall, Platt being a lower league journeyman totally outclassed at Championship level, and ROD being ROD, it's even more criminal that we sold Juke, our top scorer and one decent striker, mid-way through that season. He was only hope and we flushed it down the toilet to bring in money and cover financial losses. The whole thing reminds me now of us selling Sordell last season - he was our top scorer and the only one looking like getting enough goals for us to turn it around. Total fail.
For those thinking of going train tickets currently £20 adult and £10 junior with Virgin, not a bad price at all.
It's a bit of a blur around them relegation years!No juke was sold a year later, halfway through our relegation season, to be replaced by the one and only Alex Nimley.
Not the best but it's a far more appealing place to visit than Blackpool. Can never understand why anyone likes going there.
It really isn't, felt bleaker even than Blackpool. This time I am going to spend some time in Lancaster as Morecambe (or certainly the seafront area) is very run down.
Looking forward to it my nephew is on loan at Morecombe so it should be easier to get a pass out to watch him.
Yep, never 'got' Blackpool, even as a kid.Not the best but it's a far more appealing place to visit than Blackpool. Can never understand why anyone likes going there.
Football then pub then 2p machinesYep, never 'got' Blackpool, even as a kid.
We'll all chip in to bribe your nephew to have a stinker/or crock their main 'stars' in training
Pleasure Beach decent and arcades. Weather usually shite.Yep, never 'got' Blackpool, even as a kid.
From your Nephew or Beavon? :emoji_smiley:If he scores I will never hear the end of it
From your Nephew or Beavon? :emoji_smiley:
I personally won't let you hear the end of it if Beavon does score!Both more likely my nephew in fact my nephew is more likely to score for us than beavon this year
Football then pub then 2p machines
Both more likely my nephew in fact my nephew is more likely to score for us than beavon this year
Who's your nephew? Or can you not say?
There is an excellent chippy in Blackpool and.......errr....I like that chippy.
It isn't all glum up north. We have our own climate where I live. I have been here 11 years now. Only had snow twice. All gone within a couple of hours. But when you get onto the mainland there is snow everywhere. Frequently have it where people on here are saying how bad the weather is and I am too hot in a tee shirt.
But in winter the wind comes. Even in summer it can get a bit breezy. It is a kite surfers paradise. We don't get holidaymakers come here. You don't visit the lake district to sit on a beach. So we don't have the problem of rowdy holidaymakers.
People call Blackpool crap. It is. But most seaside towns are. It is Cornwall or nothing for me.
As kids we must have been 'spoilt' by Holidays predominantly in Weymouth and North Wales - Such happy memories. I was 15 the first time We went to Blackpool for a weekend and well, it just wasn't Weymouth or North Wales! Too big, brash and loud.Won't be going there - just bought a carvan (never towed one before), so Cornwall is a non-starter! To be fair I think Dorset has a few nice areas (Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch etc)?
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