Quote Originally Posted by lbj View Post
were to nurtured by top class coaches and Fry & Izzy came for that tuition.

But we are talking about the centre of our defence that incidentally played all season and the goals went in and in record numbers. There wasn't a manager after AS went and Warne is culpable for playing open football when we should have adopted Cloughie's tough to beat tactics as played under Stubbs.

The problem then wasn't the tactics - it was the players who WOULDN'T or COULDN'T get it !

And Wood is front and centre of all that !

Stubbs dropped him and he was right !

Now we've got a mates team - brilliant !

Forget Stubbs - how many conceded - who played most in a key position....do the maths....

What maths do you want doing? PW team let in less goals on average per game (2) than AS team (2.4). PW team had a better win percentage (14.8% ) than AS team (7.69%). PW team had a better points per game (.56) than AS team (.46).

As for mates did Stubbs know Andy Holden before he was his assistant, how many managers don’t know there their assistant beforehand? Also wasn’t Wilson one of Stubbs mates?