dazby wrote:I noticed Peter Reid sitting with Capello at the swamp yesterday.
Ted Hughes wrote:Swales said publicly that our finances were in great shape & that Reid had £6 million to spend. Reid mentioned when we hit a sticky patch that he was glad to hear about the £6 million, then was sacked & the £6 million mysteriously disappeared, never to return.
Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:Swales said publicly that our finances were in great shape & that Reid had £6 million to spend. Reid mentioned when we hit a sticky patch that he was glad to hear about the £6 million, then was sacked & the £6 million mysteriously disappeared, never to return.
Typical Swales.
Do people remember that Swales was ALWAYS hinting about this and that WORLD CLASS signings around may (incidentally when people were renewing their season tickets), only for none of those rumours ever turning out to be true.
Ted Hughes wrote:Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:Swales said publicly that our finances were in great shape & that Reid had £6 million to spend. Reid mentioned when we hit a sticky patch that he was glad to hear about the £6 million, then was sacked & the £6 million mysteriously disappeared, never to return.
Typical Swales.
Do people remember that Swales was ALWAYS hinting about this and that WORLD CLASS signings around may (incidentally when people were renewing their season tickets), only for none of those rumours ever turning out to be true.
Remember it well! The biggest rumour at that time was Dean Saunders, who seemed to be ready & willing to come to City but ended up at Liverpool. City's history would have been changed if he'd been paired with Quinn up front in that team.
Dunnylad wrote:Yes didn't we finish 5th (basically a Kendall inherited team), 5th and 9th, but that last season we had a terrible run - memories of Martyn Margetson playing dreadful against someone like Bolton? Memory isn't what it used to be - didn't he get subbed and we let in 5? Anyway after a really bad run, we started the next season in equally poor form and the excuse was that Reid lost x number of matches on the trot...
Mind you're right about the football, was terrible for most of that final season, we had no need for a midfield, was like watching a game of tennis and yes Sam Ellis was probably to blame - least that's where everyone pointed the finger.
As for Reid only need to see that Premier Passions (?) programme - management style is to rant and rant, works well (for some) in the short-term, but unless you have the ability to change that style (and Reid didn't) it ends up becoming ineffective in the long run (same when he managed Sunderland - cracking couple of seasons in Premier League).
Manx Blue wrote:Dunnylad wrote:Yes didn't we finish 5th (basically a Kendall inherited team), 5th and 9th, but that last season we had a terrible run - memories of Martyn Margetson playing dreadful against someone like Bolton? Memory isn't what it used to be - didn't he get subbed and we let in 5?
I think that last game was against Everton? lost 5-0 or something at Home, and they didn't do a lap of honour in case there "was a riot"
Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:We lost five two. We had one just four games from February onwards and our 'style' of a big punt to Quinn with the lighning fast White playing for flick ons had been well and truly rumbled. Reid had no other answer. The start of the next season saw us get a point against Leeds but even a draw was robbery with violence. After four games we still only had that one point and hadn't added to the goal on the opening day. We were shit to watch and we were losing....not a happy combination.
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