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bringbackrattles
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When Jimmy Hill took over we were a lowly third division club with no aim and going nowhere which sounds similar to our current status.but he had his dream of a Sky Blue revolution and he turned us into a first division club. Sadly he's suffering with dementia I've heard,but he would be like all of us depressed and bewildered at the state of our club.
You mean he would try and get CCFC noticed, maybe through new ideas. Maybe try and get the city interested in what was going on in the stadium as regards in the court room? Revolutionary thinking, even more needed now than in the 1970's.
cloughie
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He had reason to ride around the pitch .......its called winning games something the sisu regime are incapabale of
Doubt you were around then when some us became proud of our team!
I was around in the early 80s when people protested on the pitch after a game shouting "Hill Out" - we don't like to remember that though do we?
cloughie
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I am sure that would have been you in that group but a few of us were there a long time before and appreciated what he achieved.
Without him where would we be who knows where ............................................
Probably where sisu are taking us
But you are OK with that
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No, I don't remember it, but I do remember waving my rattle in Broadgate celebrating promotion to the first division. A bit more of a memory than watching City in Northampton.
yeah funny that.
blueflint
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Pete in Portugal
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Two big differences between then and now: Jimmy Hill was given financial support to buy players by the Chairman Derrick Robbins. And generally speaking he was successful in bringing in better players than we already had in the team - something which SP has not done. Whether this is due to his poor judgement, or whether it's due to the constraints he's being forced to work with, we'll probably never really know. Maybe a bit of both?
stupot07
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To be fair it was the era before the Bosman ruling so you had to pay for players even out of contract, It was also the era before transfer windows. I think that makes a big difference in terms of scouting, taking your time to get players in and not panic buying. I remember hearing Hill on the radio being interviewed, he talking about that and also that he had his own version of the bomb squad, if a player didn't perform as expected he'd just bin them off into the reserves, sell them and get a replacement in. With the transfer window always open it gives you far more options
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Pete in Portugal
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To be fair it was the era before the Bosman ruling so you had to pay for players even out of contract, It was also the era before transfer windows. I think that makes a big difference in terms of scouting, taking your time to get players in and not panic buying. I remember hearing Hill on the radio being interviewed, he talking about that and also that he had his own version of the bomb squad, if a player didn't perform as expected he'd just bin them off into the reserves, sell them and get a replacement in. With the transfer window always open it gives you far more options
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You're absolutely right - I'd overlooked the difference in the transfer environment. I think the current transfer system means that if a manager is operating under additional severe internal constraints, (in terms of transfer fees, signing on fees, wages and contract length for example), then they really are going to struggle to improve the squad. And I think we'd all agree that SP has ended up reducing both the quality and size of our squad. The question therefore is whether this process can be reversed under the current owners?
TheOldFive
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I remember "Kill Kill Jimmy Hill" chanted by mobs of the disgruntled, and lads running on the pitch ripping up STs and throwing down shirts in front of the Sky Blue Stand. Early Eighties, when we were in a near-Sisuesque death spiral Jimmy having spunked our dosh on NASL & The Washington Diplomats. About 5-6 years later saw our finest hour. Worth remembering and having some hope.
Mmm. Might put the Cup Final DVD on at the weekend rather than schlep all the way down to Yeovil. Don't judge me.
well luckily for me I missed that bit because I was working in London and abroad and there was no internet. Came back more often at the time we won the cup. Remember the losing of the money though, and the personal guarantee to pay it back should things go wrong - which they did and JH didn't honour the guarantee. The cup final dvd seems a better idea than a cold wet day in Yeovil.
rupert_bear
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One .of the tragedys is Jimmy Hill is not well enough to have become involved in what I will call the SISU affair, he would have nailes Fisher good and proper and would have spearheaded the Sixfields protests very publically. It annoys me how other influencial sky blue figures have just appeared to have sat on their hands while Fisher and friends have just run a mock
italiahorse
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It's all relative though.
I listened in to Everton fans after the 0-0 West Brom match this week.
Calling for Martinez Out, we need to buy 6 players etc
How low have we sunk ?
Or the money he took out the club but people do not wish to believe.
Posters talking about Hill wouldnt of allowed this to happen or back in the day this would not of happened, well back in the day the fanbase would of not allowed this to happen, instead everyone is just soft cunts letting the trust talk shite, and any hint of a proper protest is frowned upon.
This is the real reason why SISU will never leave, because everyone is past caring for this club and is happy to be suckered into Fishers bullshit.
This is the real reason why SISU will never leave, because everyone is past caring for this club and is happy to be suckered into Fishers bullshit.