Bob The Badger Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 For those of you old enough to remember. Maxwell leaves and sails off into the sunset for an evening swim never to return and Pickering comes in. Suddenly we go from transfer stagnation to transfer insanity with Cox bringing in one big signing after another. It seemed every time we got to the point where I thought that was it I'd pick up the DET and low and behold he'd splashed out again (a bit like Maxwell). Exciting times, but ultimately the expectancy and anticipation was never fully realized. Maybe I'm naive, but I think it will be with Frank. I was neither in favor nor against his appointment, but now he's delivered Christmas in August, I'm all for it. I just hope they can offload the dead wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jono Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Spot on ! .. but yeah .. somethings got to give and Frank now has to stitch them all together .. going to be a great next 4 or 5 games loving it but my sensible head keeps looking at the numbers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kevin Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Unfortunately it skint Lionel lets hope it works out better for Mel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FindernRam Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Has Mel got a boat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 1 hour ago, FindernRam said: Has Mel got a boat? Well, I’ve heard he’s taking a cruise up some creek next season if we fail to get promoted. Not sure if it his boat or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 6 minutes ago, Boycie said: Well, I’ve heard he’s taking a cruise up some creek next season if we fail to get promoted. Not sure if it his boat or not. With or without a paddle?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritstone Ram Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 2 minutes ago, HantsRam said: With or without a paddle?? Without Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millenniumram Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Gotta love the insanity of having all the players we do, I’m loving it personally, imagine some of the lower clubs looking at our squad on Wikipedia at the moment! Got about 8 proven championship strikers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Nah. It's not even close to 92. I understand that most people are delighted because we were told we weren't bringing anyone in, but (potential Waghorn deal notwithstanding) we've got some very good loans and paid three transfer fees that barely beat the total Pickering paid out nearly 30 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duracell Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Wasn’t 2015 the new 1992? If that wasn’t, I don’t know what is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaffsRam Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Still gutted that that Johnson/Kitson/Gabbiadini front line never got to the promised land together. Ultimately it was failure until we moved to the next phase after that squad, but boy it was exciting along the way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raich Carter Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 2 hours ago, StaffsRam said: Still gutted that that Johnson/Kitson/Gabbiadini front line never got to the promised land together. Ultimately it was failure until we moved to the next phase after that squad, but boy it was exciting along the way! But we had the DPFG/Carsley combo which was a great pairing. Those two to win it, give it Ace, score. That's how my rose-tinted specs remembers it and I won't be told otherwise! :)) When DPFG thought he could play football for a while, I remember Ace looking at the bench in a strop 'cos he'd ran off into a dead-end (as he often did) rather than give it Ace (my favourite flair player). Whilst I'm at it, I remember Tommy getting one on one with the keeper and just blazing it into the Ossy end so, so many times... awful finisher when given time. Always suffered with nerves bless him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector was the best Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 2 hours ago, StaffsRam said: Still gutted that that Johnson/Kitson/Gabbiadini front line never got to the promised land together. Ultimately it was failure until we moved to the next phase after that squad, but boy it was exciting along the way! Had my hopes up many a time......Hope this time it's for real Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rample Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 On 07/08/2018 at 13:56, Bob The Badger said: For those of you old enough to remember. Maxwell leaves and sails off into the sunset for an evening swim never to return and Pickering comes in. Suddenly we go from transfer stagnation to transfer insanity with Cox bringing in one big signing after another. It seemed every time we got to the point where I thought that was it I'd pick up the DET and low and behold he'd splashed out again (a bit like Maxwell). Exciting times, but ultimately the expectancy and anticipation was never fully realized. Maybe I'm naive, but I think it will be with Frank. I was neither in favor nor against his appointment, but now he's delivered Christmas in August, I'm all for it. I just hope they can offload the dead wood. Kitson, Johnson, Short, Pembridge etc. Ultimately a really bad start cost us play offs that season, then the following year when they had bedded in we reached the final. Of course then we sold a few of them, went down the bargain basement route, and entered mediocrity, and with the appointment of Smith and a cut costs and get top half mandate, that is exactly where I expected to stay. Wonder what would have happened if we had never signed Igor? Would probably have bumbled around the division a lot longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob The Badger Posted August 8, 2018 Author Share Posted August 8, 2018 1 hour ago, Rample said: Wonder what would have happened if we had never signed Igor? Would probably have bumbled around the division a lot longer. Shudder. Don't say that. Sadly Arthur was one of those managers who couldn't handle money. A genius at wheeling and dealing. I can remember when he sold Kevin Wilson when he was the top scorer in the division and I was like WTF!!!! Then he used the money to buy Micklewhite and I think George Williams, although I may be wrong about George and I'm too lazy to look it up and we never looked back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roboram Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 5 hours ago, Duracell said: Wasn’t 2015 the new 1992? If that wasn’t, I don’t know what is. Yes it was. 2018 is the new 1995. New management (back then it was Jim Smith/Steve Mac) inheriting an overpriced/overpaid squad. Coming in & freshening things up, moving the system around & bingo.....promotion to the PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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