Esoterica
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Suspect that was Mowbray's decision but based on a shitty SISU budget and was eventually a key learning point when they brought Robins in.
Suspect that was Mowbray's decision but based on a shitty SISU budget and was eventually a key learning point when they brought Robins in.Mowbray for his ludicrous transfer targets and whoever was responsible for the short term loan/ contract recruitment model (which may also have been Mowbray).
Not saying Slade did well just that the damage was done. I honestly dont think there is a player from that squad Mowbray assembled who has even played regularly at League 1 level since. Lameires is the only one I can think of.Slade who has failed miserably at every job he's ever had apart from LO? The guy was an absolute catastrophe, he couldn't motivate, made the squad worse and played dire football. You say that the squad was appalling but Robins didn't have us in relegation form did he?
I'll raise you Reice Charles-Cook.Burge
Our record holder for clean sheets in a row.I'll raise you Reice Charles-Cook.
So much worse than Burge!
And the others were successful. Scarborough, Grimsby in crisis but he turned them around. Cardiff had to prune costs all over the place, but he kept them competitive. Yeovil he took to the playoff final when they had no right to be there.I'm going to stick with everywhere but LO thank you
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I do agree it wasn't a crazy appointment as he was a manager with a record in the league but he was just awful, I rank him worse than Thorn for us.
The second point still stands though, Robins was able to get that squad, that he wasn't even able to draft in replacements for, playing lower mid table form.Not saying Slade did well just that the damage was done. I honestly dont think there is a player from that squad Mowbray assembled who has even played regularly at League 1 level since. Lameires is the only one I can think of.
In a moment of rare weakness last week, I happened to click on one of the fan picked 'best in your lifetime CCFC XIs' they've been running on the offal and the poor lad had picked Reice Charles-Cook as his keeper. He was a teenager tbf but still! He must have seen at least one of Westwood, Murphy, Marosi!I'll raise you Reice Charles-Cook.
So much worse than Burge!
I do know that. Very poor keeper though.Our record holder for clean sheets in a row.
Probably replied to a social media message or two...In a moment of rare weakness last week, I happened to click on one of the fan picked 'best in your lifetime CCFC XIs' they've been running on the offal and the poor lad had picked Reice Charles-Cook as his keeper. He was a teenager tbf but still! He must have seen at least one of Westwood, Murphy, Marosi!
Russel Slade was awful – However, somehow he got us through to the Checkatrade Final, or was it the players, either or it was a friggin miracle!
The players as well. End of contract lethargy, poor general motivation and a disregard for the management structure or absence thereof.Having a discussion with someone on Twitter who is stating that all 4 managers in the relegation season had a part to play in us going down.
I for one feel Robins should be excluded from the blame, as at the time of his appointment we were 13 points adrift. Who do you blame in the whole debacle?
I blame Craig Bellamy.
For pretty much everything!
Bigger question is if going to league two actually made the club better off in the long run.
I think sisu learned a lot of lessons in that season and have clearly got football people in place and left them to it since. Also we've been able to instil a winning spirit back into the squad, had Robins come in mid season and just kept us up, seeing survival as an achievement again may have meant we just plodded around mid table for a couple years.
Russell Slade,I’ve never been so embarrassed as that joke of a performance at Bristol rovers on the Boxing Day it was Baltic.
I was gone by 80 mins back in the car think it was 3 or 4 by then!!
Reading that I can't dispel the idea that the oft mentioned renewal plan was implemented .Mowbray - 10 games without a win 6 points
Next 6 games after he left 13 points
1 win in the next 22 under venus and Slade 7 points
Next 8 games 13 points
so our 39 points were split
13 points in Venus 1st 6 games
13 points in Robins last 8 games
13 points in the other 32 games in 2 long periods of dross under Mowbray/Venus/Slade (ok, took Robins 2 or 3 games at the end of that spell, but showed in the last 8 games that it was possible to get points with that team)
Always amazes me the slating Slade takes. Mowbray knew when he resigned that him and Venus had failed miserably with the recruitment that summer. The squad was appalling. I remember going to Swindon away on the opening day and fearing the worst. Slade was brought in January with no budget to try and wheel and deal. He had a stab in very hard circumstances and couldn't improve a really poor side.
Funnily enough my first away game was at West Brom in 82 that cup game lost 2-0 it rained a bit that day!!you clearly didn’t go to the hawthorns in the late 70’s then
Can you remember what was going on around that?In Mowbreys defence he had identified several transfer targets, all agreed with SISU original budget for the season, and then SISU reduced the budget significantly and he had to build a squad at the last minute with 30% reduced budget. Hence the dross they panic bought !
BlmIn a moment of rare weakness last week, I happened to click on one of the fan picked 'best in your lifetime CCFC XIs' they've been running on the offal and the poor lad had picked Reice Charles-Cook as his keeper. He was a teenager tbf but still! He must have seen at least one of Westwood, Murphy, Marosi!
Really? Do we know that?In Mowbreys defence he had identified several transfer targets, all agreed with SISU original budget for the season, and then SISU reduced the budget significantly and he had to build a squad at the last minute with 30% reduced budget. Hence the dross they panic bought !
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