cannable

Yeah, always felt Oakley was tainted by association. As good as Idiakez was in his first season he wasn’t that great in his second. Oakley’s a promotion winning captain, who was Man of the Match in a play-off final, and the only player THAT season that looked good enough for the Prem.

Jay Mac played for Scotland!

Ah, Ince Sack off Idiakez and Howard for Ince and Smith

Grant Brayford Barker Shackell Malone(😂) Thorne Hughes Oakley Idiakez Hulse Howard Would’ve liked to have included Tommy Smith but can’t think of another winger

But we are agreed that George Thorne’s better than Rodri?

Is City going to pot reminding anyone else of when we lost Thorne, Eustace and Mascarell to injury? I don’t know what the solution is, but it certainly isn’t playing Stephen Warnock in midfield 😂

He sort of helped create the vibe we’ve had that got us up. The fan base had become toxic from the back end of 14/15 onwards. 21/22 turned it around. We’ve been galvanised ever since. Rooney played a significant part in that. Not to sound like a gimp, but yeah, maybe he was a bit shitty at times, but life’s about being happy. He gave us the best relegation ever and helped turn the fan base around. That’s enough for some lovin’ from me.

One that always stuck in my mind was in his first five months here, Cyrus Christie would regularly cut inside onto his left-foot and float a cross back post. Never did it from about January 2015 onwards. Like it was coached out of him.

Clough’s last full season we had the fifth best home record in the league and the third worst away. If we’d have had the 12th/13th best away record we’d have made the play-offs. Then the season after, when Clough was satisfied we were a good side, we started battering teams away. The issue was, everyone had clicked on that we were good at home and would just do us on the break. I think we need to look for more control in away games. Be more confident that, even if we’re newly promoted, we’re a decent side.

He’s a bit of a weird player. He has one spell of amazing form a season but either side of it he’s average. Cardiff’s promotion, he’d got 5 goals and 5 assists in the first 17 games. He only scored two more and set up another after that. Eight goals and nine assists in his first season with us but only one goal and one assists coming in the last 16 games of that season. Even last season, slow start, unbelievable mid-season, tailed off at the end. It’s like it takes him so many games to get going but then he knackers himself out. So you get one golden-patch a season where you make the most of him.

Signed by Jewell just before he was sacked

Tamas Priskin

Nick Blackman… up there as one of our worst signings ever?

Wisdom was a favour because McClaren allowed Brendan Rodgers to spend a week at Twente with him after he’d been sacked by Reading.

I mean… yeah with hindsight… but I suppose at that time we already had Tyson and Theo as pacey strikers and intended on playing Ward up front as well.