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Return of the Mac


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Just now, ramsbottom said:

Apart from Dawkins, Whitbread & Cisse weren't the rest of those Steve Evans (spit!!!) recommendations???

 

We can't really tell who are and aren't Mac's buys.

Maybe the new recruitment team who came in after Evans can get us some decent sigings from the Dutch leagues which McClaren seems to know about.

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I am happy with this.... The team under Pearson gave every indication of having been to no coaching sessions in their lives. Mcclaren is a top quality coach which is what we need, and surely a mcclaren Powell combo will be better than Powell on his own? 

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Never a dull moment being a Rams Fan!

Mac was a great appointment last time round. A renowned coach with a worldwide reputation, with a proven premier league record, titles abroad and Man U triple winners on his CV. He took a young hungry team put together by Clough who had never played in the Prem, and he harnessed that enthusiasm and hunger to great effect. His contacts in the game saw us attract more hungry young loans from premier teams and the football was ooo soooo shexy. We came so close, you could almost taste it.

Those two seasons under Mac, although ultimately ending in no promotions, were the happiest days that many young Rams fans have experienced. Yes we got promotion under Billy, but was it as enjoyable?

We will never know the full ins and outs of Mac leaving. Did the Newcastle interest unsettle players? Did it really derail our promotion?

Personally I don't think it did, had a combination of Thorne, Eustace, Mascarell, Martin and Bent stayed fit, I think we would have been promoted as Champions, so injuries did play a major part.

Injuries aside however there was another reason we went from top spot and shoe-ins for promotion to not even getting into the play offs and that was Mac's perseverance with 4-3-3 regardless of personnel available.

We have just got rid of a coach with an outstanding record in this division basically because he persevered with a formation that we just did not have the players to execute.

Our downfall in 2014/15 was exactly the same. When the injuries kicked in, when we lost our CDM's to injury, Mac persisted with the same 4-3-3 that everyone is now clamouring for. Steve Warnock for CDM anyone?

It's going to be very interesting to see what happens next. The same young, hungry players are now not as young, and if there is any truth in some of their reported contracts are likely not to be as hungry either.

Mac has also recently failed in the Premier League. Will he be able to repeat the magic of his last stint?????

Buckle up, here we go again.....

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