There was more SAFC supporters at Preston than was left in Stokes ground when they did their lap of honour/dishonour at their last game of the season . Think you had a major error of judgement !!!
Rather than fvck you .... id say thank you We have a better manager now who plays unreal football and fits our vision so much better than Neil did
It was all very exciting but that excitement clouded reality to some degree imo. The key players, in that team, were already there when he arrived and still are. Sunderland were two points off top when he arrived ... we finished eight points off top. We beat Sheff Wed who failed to be promoted automatically again this season and Wycombe who have even failed to make the playoffs. Wigan, who went up as champions have been relegated. Just because he was arguably better than Johnson doesn't make him the genius he thinks he is. I doubt we'd have made sixth with him this season. In short, f**k him.
Got us promoted Left under a cloud Brought in a better manager Knocking on the door of the Premier leauge ANs new team playing s**t. I'd say we're even with some f**k you mixed in.
IMO we would have been nowhere the playoffs under AN, we would of reached our goal of just staying up. I’ll be surprised if he’s still in the job come the new season
Aye AN did us a huge favour. Without even thinking about league positions there is no way AN would have had them playing the football we have seen under TM. TM who seem to relish working with exciting young players.
I too (sort of) want to thank Alex Neil. He did help get us out of the hell of division one and to be fair we should all be grateful for that! Then even better, he graciously stepped aside when he knew he wasn’t up to the job, and gave us the chance to progress, grow and play some beautiful football under the better equipped, gruff, down-to-earth Tony Mowbray
Proof that the grass isn't always greener. He'll have more money in his pocket right now, but his earning chances in future will be curtailed. It's not like playing where It's a short window to earn as much as you can, it can be thirty years or even more. When Roy Hodgson started at Northwich Victoria, did he go to Burton Wanderers for two guineas a year more in 1896? No, and look at him now.
Alex Neil was the right man for the job last season. We were more than good enough to go up, but with a manager who wasn't up to the task It's easy and maybe a bit salty to say so, but going up was the bare minimum we expected of him and he had more than a bit of good fortune (last min goals v Burton, Oxford, Gillingham & Shrewsbury) but he got us there, he kept everyone calm and we did it. He left for more money/control over transfers and that felt like a hammer blow at the time, but it was probably the best thing that could have happened us - even though it didn't feel like it at the time. I don't believe we would be in the play offs with Neil in charge.
Dear Alex, I wrote you but you still ain't callin, I left my page, home and cell number at the bottom, I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not have gottem, but anyway f**k, what's it like in mid table, how's the potters goin?
I bet that hurt him to say that. Must have felt as though his balls were in a vice that was getting tighter and tighter
