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Walnuts said:
The team between around 98 and 01 was a joy to watch. It had a bit of everything. The best strike force we are ever likely to see with support from either wing. Summerbee was one of the best crosses of a ball I’ve ever seen and Johnson and Gray on the left linked up so well. We had a good goalkeeper and with players like Makin, Ball, Rae and Butler we were up for any fight we found ourselves in. There were just partnerships all through the team that clicked.

Whether by luck or design, Reid put together a hell of a team. It fell apart when Makin, Summerbee and Clark fell out with him or the club and Quinn was never replaced (which was never going to be an easy job). The rebuild was a disaster with players like Wright, Piper, Flo and Babb, to name just a few, brought in.
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We had some players in the Reid heyday, ****ing joy to watch, even if we shipped a few.

All that you’ve mentioned plus folk like Bould for a short while and Schwarz, they were genuine players.

I always say the killer was losing Hutch though, we’d started a transition and he was the key to it all. Yeah he asked for a fortune but he was the epitome of a team hub. I knew when he went we were in trouble.
 
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I suppose if over indulging in drinking and setting a bad example maketh the good manager then sign him up
 
Nads said:
You wonder, did Donald watch Wycombe play ****ing awful football last season and kick us off the park and think ‘that’s the dream’.

If he was any good, would he have been at Wycombe 7 years? Would he ****.
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This would be horrific. Absolutely minging appointment and shocked we're even looking at him.

I'd rather have kept Ross than have him.

If this is the kind of people Donald is genuinely looking at this takeover is absolutely dead in the water.
 
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Nads said:
We had some players in the Reid heyday, ****ing joy to watch, even if we shipped a few.

All that you’ve mentioned plus folk like Bould for a short while and Schwarz, they were genuine players.

I always say the killer was losing Hutch though, we’d started a transition and he was the key to it all. Yeah he asked for a fortune but he was the epitome of a team hub. I knew when he went we were in trouble.
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Bould played 21 games and rarely saw out a full game that season. He was finished.
Schwarz fell out of favour for quite a while also. Neither of them were the legends people make out. I believe it was because they had been big names and came to us.
Another paraphrase...the first casualty of reminiscing are the facts
 
Nads said:
We had some players in the Reid heyday, ****ing joy to watch, even if we shipped a few.

All that you’ve mentioned plus folk like Bould for a short while and Schwarz, they were genuine players.

I always say the killer was losing Hutch though, we’d started a transition and he was the key to it all. Yeah he asked for a fortune but he was the epitome of a team hub. I knew when he went we were in trouble.
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I always thought the same. Losing Hutchinson was the start of the decline.
 
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FulwellBri said:
Bould played 21 games and rarely saw out a full game that season. He was finished.
Schwarz fell out of favour for quite a while also. Neither of them were the legends people make out. I believe it was because they had been big names and came to us.
Another paraphrase...the first casualty of reminiscing are the facts
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Fully disagree. Bould played little, as expected, but he was a cut above even without legs and was a massive help to Reid in helping the back line step up. It wasn’t about minutes played.

I never said Schwarz was a legend, I said he was a player, and he was. Immaculate.

Back to Hutch, if we’d had him a year or 2 sooner I’ve no doubts one of the 7th becomes a 6th and we get in Europe.
 
The Echo are reporting that Steve McLaren has been in touch with the club about the job. So, him or Ainsworth?
 
Jack TheLad said:
I ****ing hope not.

This gets worse and worse as time goes on.

Please come back, Jack. Your tactical ineptitude & turgid football is all forgiven :emoticon-0106-cryin
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There's definitely some **** names being linked. I can't believe the club would give it to anyone like McLaren though. Ainsworth, on the other hand, apparently the odds are shortening on him all the time. Worrying.
 
The Norton Cat said:
There's definitely some **** names being linked. I can't believe the club would give it to anyone like McLaren though. Ainsworth, on the other hand, apparently the odds are shortening on him all the time. Worrying.
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I just don't get it.

On what basis is Ainsworth the catalyst to our automatic promotion push?
 
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Nads said:
Fully disagree. Bould played little, as expected, but he was a cut above even without legs and was a massive help to Reid in helping the back line step up. It wasn’t about minutes played.

I never said Schwarz was a legend, I said he was a player, and he was. Immaculate.

Back to Hutch, if we’d had him a year or 2 sooner I’ve no doubts one of the 7th becomes a 6th and we get in Europe.
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Schwarz was superb! Great footballer - not a club legend as you say but a fantastic player all the same. Agree totally about Hutchison. Didn't they change the rule the year after we scored loads of quick free kicks from him!! Great to watch and, as you say, Europe would've been on the cards had he been here a little sooner
 
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Tbf if we got McLaren he could do a different comedy accent every post game interview and distract us from another beating.

I can see him wanting the job but I can't see us entertaining the idea beyond giving him an interview out of politeness.
 
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Jack TheLad said:
I just don't get it.

On what basis is Ainsworth the catalyst to our automatic promotion push?
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Absolutely no idea. I think he's done a good job at Wycombe, with virtually nothing to spend and a lack of facilities. He's apparently a good man-manager and by all accounts is a nice fella. He's spent his own money on training equipment for them and he's done things like painting the stands himself. All very commendable but it's not what we need. Not unless Stewie is looking to carry on doing up the ground on the cheap.
 
marcusblackcat said:
Schwarz was superb! Great footballer - not a club legend as you say but a fantastic player all the same. Agree totally about Hutchison. Didn't they change the rule the year after we scored loads of quick free kicks from him!! Great to watch and, as you say, Europe would've been on the cards had he been here a little sooner
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He was class mate. That free kick thing was grand, top of head I recall it getting us wins at West Ham and Sheffield Wed.

He’d have been perfect with the wingers we had feeding Quinn & SKP, and gin there in the centre.

So ****ing close man.
 
The Norton Cat said:
Absolutely no idea. I think he's done a good job at Wycombe, with virtually nothing to spend and a lack of facilities. He's apparently a good man-manager and by all accounts is a nice fella. He's spent his own money on training equipment for them and he's done things like painting the stands himself. All very commendable but it's not what we need. Not unless Stewie is looking to carry on doing up the ground on the cheap.
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Agreed, seems to have done a decent job but the expectations are in different universes and I don't think he has what it takes to get us there.
 
Jack TheLad said:
Agreed, seems to have done a decent job but the expectations are in different universes and I don't think he has what it takes to get us there.
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If he has got what it takes to get us there, he hasn't shown it. And we're not in the position to give him the chance to show it.
 
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