speedie87
Well-Known Member
I've been thinking about our current position and i've come to the conclusion that a lot more of the blame should be Ray Ranson than is often spoke of.
The way i see it is as follows;
He comes in as the man to run the football club onbehalf of SISU. He would have therefore advised SISU as to what the best plan of action is.
His plan i seem to remember him saying was to buy young promising players and build on a 3 year plan to at least back the playoffs etc. - he's then obviously involved in brining in Thorn as a scout and heavily involved in the signings of Dann & Fox.
One of the first things he does is sack the current manager (Dowie) - lets don't forget that came as a shock to us, we weren't all exactly screaming for Dowie's head at this point.
He then appoints Chris Coleman -and we just stay up after the debacle at Charlton.
Various promises come out that we will never be in that position again.
The policy of buying young promising players continues with the signings of Westwood and Gunnarsson and the 1 big money signing of Eastwood. High wages are then used to sign the likes of Morrison.
Season goes ok, good cup run, until a really poor run at the end of the season.
Now this is when all the action happens - we sell Dann & Fox. By all accounts this occurs because SISU accept bids for them against Ranson wishes. However even if they hadn't accepted the bids so early would we still have been able to keep hold of them, i personally think not. They both would have known of the interest and wanted to move - thus potentially being left we players who didn't want to be there.
Now at this point this is where my theory that its extremely difficult to build a team up over 3 years slowly these days comes in, as with all the power with players its difficult to keep hold of them that long.
Ranson does the right thing and try's to stick with his man Coleman. He gives him the whole of the next season - and again we are nowhere.
Time for a change the last throw of the dice so to speak - change of manager.........who does he appoint.....Aidy Boothroyd.............by this point funds have dried up.........and we all know the rest.
I can't help but feel that the 3 big decisions Ranson made..........sacking Dowie and his 2 appointments have had a much bigger impact on where we are now than people think.
The way i see it is as follows;
He comes in as the man to run the football club onbehalf of SISU. He would have therefore advised SISU as to what the best plan of action is.
His plan i seem to remember him saying was to buy young promising players and build on a 3 year plan to at least back the playoffs etc. - he's then obviously involved in brining in Thorn as a scout and heavily involved in the signings of Dann & Fox.
One of the first things he does is sack the current manager (Dowie) - lets don't forget that came as a shock to us, we weren't all exactly screaming for Dowie's head at this point.
He then appoints Chris Coleman -and we just stay up after the debacle at Charlton.
Various promises come out that we will never be in that position again.
The policy of buying young promising players continues with the signings of Westwood and Gunnarsson and the 1 big money signing of Eastwood. High wages are then used to sign the likes of Morrison.
Season goes ok, good cup run, until a really poor run at the end of the season.
Now this is when all the action happens - we sell Dann & Fox. By all accounts this occurs because SISU accept bids for them against Ranson wishes. However even if they hadn't accepted the bids so early would we still have been able to keep hold of them, i personally think not. They both would have known of the interest and wanted to move - thus potentially being left we players who didn't want to be there.
Now at this point this is where my theory that its extremely difficult to build a team up over 3 years slowly these days comes in, as with all the power with players its difficult to keep hold of them that long.
Ranson does the right thing and try's to stick with his man Coleman. He gives him the whole of the next season - and again we are nowhere.
Time for a change the last throw of the dice so to speak - change of manager.........who does he appoint.....Aidy Boothroyd.............by this point funds have dried up.........and we all know the rest.
I can't help but feel that the 3 big decisions Ranson made..........sacking Dowie and his 2 appointments have had a much bigger impact on where we are now than people think.
