Originally Posted by
ramAnag
Yes, I agree it can be a Catch 22 situation.
You’re absolutely right, I should have included Dyche but by the same token, haven’t Norwich just shown that ‘rare example of faith’ you speak of?
Are four sets of playoffs in the last 13 years really the best we can hope for these days? We are surely a club of at least the same ‘stature’ and potential as Southampton, Palace, Burnley, Fulham, WBA, Leicester, Wolves and Sheffield United?
Clough stabilised the club and made some great signings. It was a bit ‘dreary’ but, again with the benefit of hindsight, one has to wonder - thinking of all the money spent since on players and compensation for sacked managers - what would the difference be now if he’d stayed?
Unanswerable I suppose, but I think I’d back a team of cast offs from the last nine or ten years against the current crop.