phildownunder
Well-Known Member
Just felt I had to react to sneering remarks about GM on the Proschwitz thread.
IMO Milne was one of the best managers we`ve had in the long time I`ve followed City.
He was an advocate of attacking football at a time when most other teams were obsessed with defence.
Sure, one or two of his signings didn`t come off such as Lloyd and Dave Jones, but no manager gets it right every time. How about some of the others he brought in ; Stein, Hutchison, Cross, Powell, Craven, Gillespie, McDonald, Beck, Holton, Daly, Hunt. Not a bad set of players that.
In his time as manager he put together a couple of teams which many of us believed were only a couple of players away from challenging the top teams of the day. Unfortunately he didn`t get the backing from the board that he should have done and had to put up with the likes of Dennis Mortimer being sold over his head "to balance the books" we were told.
At the time we used to go up to HR looking forward to being entertained and knowing that if things clicked we were capable of beating any team in the league. I have some great memories from those times and although it would have been nice to have won something I certainly don`t look back on his time at the club as a time of failure.
IMO Milne was one of the best managers we`ve had in the long time I`ve followed City.
He was an advocate of attacking football at a time when most other teams were obsessed with defence.
Sure, one or two of his signings didn`t come off such as Lloyd and Dave Jones, but no manager gets it right every time. How about some of the others he brought in ; Stein, Hutchison, Cross, Powell, Craven, Gillespie, McDonald, Beck, Holton, Daly, Hunt. Not a bad set of players that.
In his time as manager he put together a couple of teams which many of us believed were only a couple of players away from challenging the top teams of the day. Unfortunately he didn`t get the backing from the board that he should have done and had to put up with the likes of Dennis Mortimer being sold over his head "to balance the books" we were told.
At the time we used to go up to HR looking forward to being entertained and knowing that if things clicked we were capable of beating any team in the league. I have some great memories from those times and although it would have been nice to have won something I certainly don`t look back on his time at the club as a time of failure.