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Wonder if we will form part of Derby's defence against Wycombe? "Well Notts didn't sue anyone?" Saying that, we were also a financial basket case. I'm starting to think relegation from league 2 is now based on finance? Probably a reason why clubs going up into league 2 generally due well? They have their ducks in a row generally whilst those at the bottom are in financial meltdown?Quote:
Originally Posted by tied_up_in_notts
Bart Simpson???Quote:
Originally Posted by queenslandpie
https://i.postimg.cc/Y9dSvFd9/Bart.jpg
Speaking of Wycombe, they are the one major success story of a club that few had ever heard of being promoted from non-league and becoming part of the furniture*. They've only once finished in the bottom 9 of the 4th tier in 27 years since coming up and I think, if they go up this season, would be the first non-league club - having been promoted into the FL - to get promoted into the 2nd tier on two separate occasions. Very distinctive kit as well and a nice badge, unlike all of those other clubs we've mentioned who all play in red.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chicken Balti Pie
Seems absolutely bonkers that Blackpool don't have great crowds despite their incredible history and they are now having to compete with Fleetwood and to a lesser extent Fylde for bums on seats. I do wonder if those two clubs benefitted form Oyston's time at the Tangerines and the boycotts. Fleetwood might be on their way back down though now after peaking at 4th in tier 3. I hope we get to play them again because we currently have a 100% loss rate against them, the only club in our entire history that we have a zero PPG record for.
*Wigan, Wimbledon, Oxford and Posh etc. were all elected rather than promoted of course.
Mercifully Hardy showed him the Butterfinger.Quote:
Originally Posted by countygump
The worse thing was probably Hardy taking us over, did he save us from liquidation, not sure. It was a vanity project for him, he was deeply out his depth, so was Nolan as a manager, but this happens everywhere in football.Quote:
Originally Posted by queenslandpie
After 39 league & play off games, the amount Burchnall has now had in charge, Nolan's PPG was 1.82. He left with 1.53, still one of the highest we've had at that level, so I don't think it would be fair to say he was out his depth. Yes it ended badly, but that's true for almost all managers unless they are poached. To finish 16th after looking dead certs for the drop and then go on to finish 5th the following season was pretty good going. If he'd left for another club before the start of the 2018/19 season and not overseen the next 5 games then he'd almost certainly be considered one of our better managers.Quote:
Originally Posted by matt_magpie
We shouldn't be leaving Darren Fletcher out of the equation either, who was overseeing recruitment that summer.
Funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by countygump
It was very much a vanity project. Nolan just went off the rails. He started off fine as we all know. Literally as soon as the big red face interviews started appearing and his tracksuit pants started becoming a lot tighter results deteriorated rapidly as well. I wonder if there was any truth in the rumours that Hardy met with Nolan with a view to reappointing him after the Kewell debacle. I was personally disappointed he didn't work out as I was hoping for a pre season tour of Australia! Another one who has shown his true colours since and will never manage at a decent level in the UK again. God we had some rubbish at the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by matt_magpie
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Originally Posted by queenslandpie
Nolo did OK with the system he employed, but once we failed in the P/O's and Hardy got involved in player recruitment Nolo's ''vices'' got the better of him. Shame really, but there you go.