Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
Harry, God bless him, took us from 6th in D1 to 1st in D1. Credit to him for that, but it was a level playing field financially, and we had arguably the best scouting and youth development set up in the country. Sean took us from midtable in the Championship into the PL and Europe, operating under enormous financial constraints and without any functioning youth development programme to assist him.

I'm not even convinced that Klopp or Pep could have done what Dyche did, never mind Harry.
I need to point out that Harry took us into the "European Cup" which is now the champions league, Sean never did scale that high. While Sean had Garlick to contend with financial hardship. poor old Harry had to contend with Bob Lord.

I am not sure who had the biggest burden to be honest. However I don't think Sean would have survived nine year under Bob Lord.

In comparison Harry did inherit a good squad of players assembled by Allan Brown whereas the one inherited by Sean from Eddie Howe was not as good.