Aye the Durban one was a badden, I can’t remember now why Jimmy Adamson left, was that a bad decision?
Yeah I get what you mean and I really hope we pick up some points and my post does look stupid by the end of next week. It's fine margins at the minute in the league and a gamble either way, but it does make sense replacing the manager now rather than mid-feb for example. Especially if there is a manager available who the club have been keeping an eye on (I don't know if that is the case though).
The second half of that season I think only Liverpool took more points than Sunderland and they won the title.
He turned it around spectacularly when, Rowell, Elliot and Arnot were introduced by him after Xmas and we took off as reported above
Hopefully as has been said by a few the time it was released about Mowbray going that the wheels were already well in motion with his replacement I’d like to think the new bloke will be in the stands Saturday and take the reins Monday, Dodds and co for any length of time would be a disaster in my opinion. I enjoyed Mowbrays tenure we played a lot of great football never looked forward to attending matches as much in years so thank you uncle Tony and good luck for the future. As for us it’s onward and upward let’s keep the faith and move on together COME ON
I enjoyed the football under Mogga, looked forward to the matches. The same can be said for brief spells under BSA, Keane, Di Canio and Poyet (mostly revolving around beating the skunks), but you have to go all the way back 23 years to Reid... Pinched from G Force otr, in those 23 years we have had.... "Mowbray Neil- resigned Johnson Parkinson Ross Coleman Grayson Moyes - Resigned Allardyce - Resigned for England job Advocaat - Retired Poyet Di Canio MON Bruce Sbragia Keane Quinn Ball McCarthy Wilkinson Reid The list since the turn of the century. Before Neil arrived we had Johnson, Parkinson and Ross who all failed to get us out the 3rd division. Poor appointments. Grayson & Coleman who were disasters in the Championship. Poor appointments Moyes who didn’t want to be here. Disastrous for us. Allardyce who resigned, Advocaat who retired after being lured back. Poyet who seemed defeated by the end. He never recovered from the 0-8 defeat. Di Canio who we got hammered for appointing. MON who we got 5 years too late Bruce who undid all his early good work, like he does at every club. Sbragia seems to be getting counted in these numbers, as well as Quinn and Ball. Keane who walked out. McCarthy who won 15 premiership points in over 50 games. He’s pretty well liked with his promotion Wilkinson which was a disaster and then we’re back to Reid" ... our best run of two 7th placed finishes in the premier 23 years ago, led by the strike force of SKP and Quinny.
It was. Very memorable day that was. I'd go to some away games back then, and I went to that one with a mate who was at Manchester Uni. We sat in the Bob Lord stand, no tickets then just turn up. He wanted to sit there for reasons I never grasped. Great game, we might have had more sent off IIRC and would have done today as I seem to remember it got very fiesty. During the game, (and sober!) I somehow managed to losea shoe and never found it, had to limp back to his car, and when we got there it had a bloody flat! Took ages to sort out, but we'd still won from behind with mine men. Bonkers day all round, happy days. The lad in question now lives in Singapore!
