I thought we were refraining from personal insults...? Anyway, wasn't it you who told me not to be selective about what you said yet you've just picked the first 2 and used them to suit your purpose. What about the others....? You know very well the point I was making and it is still valid despite your airy dismissal. Pulis is a classic example, check out his Wiki page to see how he started and how long it took him to build what he did at Stoke (with a break) before thsy reached the heights that they have now. IT TAKES TIME TO REBUILD A FOOTBALL CLUB FROM THE GROUND UP and in the meantime and despite the current poor form, we have more than enough about us to surive...
I picked 3 because it was the first 3, I just said you were talking twaddle, that's not an insult is it? I also feel that you are intelligent to admit that the game has moved on since AD days. As for rebuilding the club, I'm not against it, but it does need a decent management team to kick start it off....It also needs good decisions by the board to make it work. Something at this moment in time IMO we don't have. I've said before Prem, Del, may well prove to be a good manager in years to come, but he's out of his depth right now and IMO will get us relegated. (and will probably leave anyway) We need to give ourselves the best chance to stay in this division, a big decision needs to be made from SL to do something about it. I guarantee that if we go down, all this building will not be instant like Norwich......it will be years away.
Of course the game has movrd on, but in some aspects it remains the same. If you dont have a multinational company to buy you players then you have to make your own, which takes time and needs to be on-going to replace the sold ones. Same as it used to be in fact.
I'm getting a bit fed up with some posters who keep telling us that the "Game has moved on". In what way? It's still eleven against eleven on the pitch. It's still about building team spirit and finding players who gel with each other. It is still about finding and developing young talent, whether local or not. Eg Bristolian Merrick with Glaswegians Gow and Ritchie. Today Bristolians Joe Bryan, Bobbie Reid and Welsh boy Joe Morrell For Harry Dolman and Alan Dicks in 1967, read Stephen Lansdown and Derek McInnes in 2012. Both had/have patience with managers as success does not come overnight and is never built on sand! Changing manager is the last thing a club should do, not the first! And yes I do acknowledge that it may come to that in the foreseeable future if first team results do not improve.
