Stive Pesley Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 The story itself is not that interesting, it just illustrates what we've all known a long time (that Wee Billy was nuts!) - but what struck me was the clip from the WBA play-off final as the camera pans down our starting line-up....jesus we looked like a Sunday League pub team! How did we even get to the final, let alone win it!? Still one of the best days of my life mind you ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rammieib Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 I actually remember that day being so disappointed when he started lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 The last great manager we had... brilliant man management Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 6 hours ago, StivePesley said: The story itself is not that interesting, it just illustrates what we've all known a long time (that Wee Billy was nuts!) - but what struck me was the clip from the WBA play-off final as the camera pans down our starting line-up....jesus we looked like a Sunday League pub team! How did we even get to the final, let alone win it!? Still one of the best days of my life mind you ? The story is nuts. I like the idea (very much) of wrong footing the opposition by saying a player's injured and out of contention, but Billy did it to his own players - and6in the playoff final. Surely you should be training and drilling your team so that everyone knows what they're doing, rather than having your own players discover late in the day you'd told one of them to feign injury? Moronic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 BD didn't have that many options in his squad. Barnes was struggling with injury. Maybe the pesch story was also related to that. Perhaps he knew that barnes wouldn't be starting and didn't want to give WBA the psychological boost of knowing that, which they might infer from knowing that pesch was playing instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannable Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 30 minutes ago, RamNut said: BD didn't have that many options in his squad. Barnes was struggling with injury. Maybe the pesch story was also related to that. Perhaps he knew that barnes wouldn't be starting and didn't want to give WBA the psychological boost of knowing that, which they might infer from knowing that pesch was playing instead. Or just don’t bomb Lupoli out because he’s agreed to sign for Fiorentina… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srg Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 9 hours ago, rammieib said: I actually remember that day being so disappointed when he started lol. I spent the whole game moaning he was playing because he was rubbish (never rated him), and that Giles Barnes should've been playing. Some guy in front eventually told me to shut up (I was like 16ish at the time), but then gave me a little cuddle when Giles Barnes set up the winner. Lesson taught... I am a tactical genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 5 hours ago, Carl Sagan said: The story is nuts. I like the idea (very much) of wrong footing the opposition by saying a player's injured and out of contention, but Billy did it to his own players - and6in the playoff final. Surely you should be training and drilling your team so that everyone knows what they're doing, rather than having your own players discover late in the day you'd told one of them to feign injury? Moronic. Moronic....? Did it pay off? Did we win...? genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsbottom Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 Here we ducking go. Another thread about to descend into a "Was Billy Davis brilliant or not?" argument... My two cents worth - He wasn't... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted November 7, 2018 Author Share Posted November 7, 2018 Still his only success in the play-offs? His curious style has failed more than it has been successful He's only 54 and not worked in football management for nearly 5 years now. Draw your own conclusions. On the subject of Pesch stories though - my missus was a student in Sheffield during the early 2000s and he was allegedly a regular at the student clubs. Always seemed quite keen to help the nursing students with their dissertations ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 there are probably no more than 2 people in the World who believe BD was brilliant and I'm not convinced that BD actually believes it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 You can mock Billy all you like but as someone mentioned earlier...have you actually seen the line up we had that day...? He managed to get a team with Pearson, Pesch, Leacock, Bywater, McEverly etc etc etc to get promoted...!! Promotion....Something that only Jim Smith and Arthur Cox have done for us in the last 30 years...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smyth_18 Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 4 hours ago, StivePesley said: Still his only success in the play-offs? His curious style has failed more than it has been successful He's only 54 and not worked in football management for nearly 5 years now. Draw your own conclusions. On the subject of Pesch stories though - my missus was a student in Sheffield during the early 2000s and he was allegedly a regular at the student clubs. Always seemed quite keen to help the nursing students with their dissertations ? Depends what you would class as success/ failure. Can you remember Preston, Derby and Forest being promotion contenders before he arrived? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo jones Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 13 minutes ago, Smyth_18 said: Depends what you would class as success/ failure. Can you remember Preston, Derby and Forest being promotion contenders before he arrived? Can’t have been much more than 3 maybe 4 years since Burley took us to the play offs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted November 7, 2018 Author Share Posted November 7, 2018 38 minutes ago, Smyth_18 said: Depends what you would class as success/ failure. Can you remember Preston, Derby and Forest being promotion contenders before he arrived? I class success in the play-offs as winning the play-offs obviously! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 28 minutes ago, jimbo jones said: Can’t have been much more than 3 maybe 4 years since Burley took us to the play offs. ...and did Burley ever get us promoted....?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 42 minutes ago, jimbo jones said: Can’t have been much more than 3 maybe 4 years since Burley took us to the play offs. Wasn't it two. Burley left after the play offs, then Phil Orange and Westley, then Billy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 I think Billy's a right nob, but I've never heard a player say a bad word about him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Key clubber Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 Didn’t “King Billy” try a similar thing with Claude Davis , only this time telling him to play as though he was injured ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaaLocks Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 18 hours ago, StivePesley said: what struck me was the clip from the WBA play-off final as the camera pans down our starting line-up....jesus we looked like a Sunday League pub team! How did we even get to the final, let alone win it!? You shouldn't have worried, it just needed Rob Earnshaw, Claude Davis and Benny Fielhaber to make sure everything would be alright. Wait a sec... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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