Disagree. He had riches compared with Pressley. His team wasn't all that.Eric Black in 2003–2004. This was at the apex of the post-Richardson austerity era. There was no money, the squad was generally accepted as being rotten, and nobody was shocked the team was in a relegation battle. Black took over and managed to turn them into a free-scoring, playoff-challenging team -- and that was without a McGoldrick/Wilson/Clarke goalscorer.
Disagree. He had riches compared with Pressley. His team wasn't all that.
Don't get all the Eric Black obsession to be honest. Yes, good at the time, but unproven really. Who knows how he would have faired given more time?
He was only in post for 4 months. Having only been appointed in January. He had 2 weeks to pay a fee for a player.Aside from a nominal fee for Delomoueaux, I don't think Black paid any transfer fees.
Pressley had a moderate budget last year. He said himself: "It [was] an average budget in League One ... There’ll be eight or nine teams on the same." That and the fortune of having two brilliant goalscorers. Frankly, any claims of SP working a miracle last season are gross overstatements.
Don't get all the Eric Black obsession to be honest. Yes, good at the time, but unproven really. Who knows how he would have faired given more time?
'Good at the time' being the key phrase for the subject of the thread.
Has to be John Sillett and George Curtis, turned what looked on paper a pretty poor squad into a good side. We stayed up the previous season by the skin of our teeth and were relegation favourites yet again think we only bought Keith Houchen and Iain Painterin the close season, became difficult to beat and of course the cup and all that
The Painter signing seemed suspicious to me, missed the pen for Stoke that would have got us relegated, then we sign him, and he played 3 games.
Gould did a great job with no resources - some famous results and some good football (hard to believe I know). Robins to a point until he ran away, and at the moment Pressley, based on on last season
Edit: Gould's first time around. Second time he had the brainwave to drop Oggie for his son, and had the tactic of hoofing the ball up to Quinn (there was the good start to the season I suppose)! I was there for his last game - the 5-1 at QPR and was relieved when he stepped down after the game
I was at that QPR game, sitting in traffic after the game and the news came over the radio that he'd resigned. It's only now when I think about that, but I do think he did resign, none of the 'mutual consent' stuff you hear now.
If he really did resign, that's a pretty decent thing to do isn't it. Have any other managers accepted they weren't doing well enough and resigned without being pushed?
...with a year in between.
Incidentally, despite all that actually thought his second spell was better.
After the Don Howe dark days, thought we were certs for relegation the next season - we couldn't score, the football was dire, we had no money and were resorting to signing quick postmen from the lower leagues and playing Terry Fleming at fullback.
Despite this, we saw some cracking games in his second spell, saw goals and it was fun to go up. Sure, it went off the rails from time to time, but the unpredictability was part of what made it fun!
...with a year in between.
He quit because he claimed Richardson had agreed a deal to sell Ndlovu...
Who then stayed for a couple more seasons, while we then got 'investment' we'd never dreamed of previously.
Richardson, meanwhile, claimed the furor after his resignationm put off one of those good ole Arab billionaires we always hear so much about.
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