Which game still hurts the most

[StraightOuttaCanton]

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Couldn't give a shit what he did at Southampton, same as I couldn't care less what Malky or Warnock has done elsewhere. It's my opinion that Malky won promotion with a poorer squad than Jones had in his last few seasons as our manager, so I rate him as a better manager of us than Jones. I also reckon that our promotion under Warnock was one of the best managerial successes at our club in many a year. Jones's CV with us will always be blighted by failure to win promotion.

You sound like you’d be happy if we played in red with Mick McCarthy managing us as long as we got promoted.

I can’t remember all of the starting XI from Malky’s or Warnock’s team but I can comfortably rattle off Dave Jones’s entire 1st choice team including bench players

[J R Hartley]

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He had a big war chest in wages paid to quality players to do that though

It was well known in football that we were shelling out money beyond our means to get promoted

It certainly wasn't just his managerial qualities that kept us in the mix

We might have been spending beyond our means but that was Ridsdales department.

Jones signed some superb players for peanuts.it wasn’t all about the big names.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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We might have been spending beyond our means but that was Ridsdales department.

Jones signed some superb players for peanuts.it wasn’t all about the big names.

I am not disagreeing but we were not paying out transfer fees it was big wages

He also signed some duds though .....Kevin Campbell was handsomely paid but was totally finished

[J R Hartley]

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I am not disagreeing but we were not paying out transfer fees it was big wages

He also signed some duds though .....Kevin Campbell was handsomely paid but was totally finished

We werent paying out big wages to the likes of Whitts, Chlopra and the Scottish lads when he first signed them. Not every signing was a Campbell, JFH or Fowler.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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We werent paying out big wages to the likes of Whitts, Chlopra and the Scottish lads when he first signed them. Not every signing was a Campbell, JFH or Fowler.

Or Sinclair !

I don't remember him doing anything

Did he score any goals ?

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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He was a good manager and helped elevate this club to a club with premier league ambitions.

I agree with you. It's just a massive shame he never won promotion as I reckon we'd have had our best chance at staying there with him. He shoulders some of that blame.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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I am not disagreeing but we were not paying out transfer fees it was big wages

He also signed some duds though .....Kevin Campbell was handsomely paid but was totally finished

I've heard Jones say that they signed the likes of Hasselbaink and Fowler as a way of raising the profile of the club. Whether that happened or not, I have no idea, but to fans they were, by and large, a waste of wages.

[Tuerto]

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We werent paying out big wages to the likes of Whitts, Chlopra and the Scottish lads when he first signed them. Not every signing was a Campbell, JFH or Fowler.

For me, Jones was a good manager. He established us as a team with real aspirations to go up. He was pivotal in our progress.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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You sound like you’d be happy if we played in red with Mick McCarthy managing us as long as we got promoted.

I can’t remember all of the starting XI from Malky’s or Warnock’s team but I can comfortably rattle off Dave Jones’s entire 1st choice team including bench players

If you read any of my posts you'd spot that I'd love a bit of entertainment from our current side. However, if there is a choice, particularly at the crucial end of the season in a promotion race, would you rather entertainment and miss out or the turgid stuff we sometimes saw from both Malky and Warnock's promotion winners and get promotion, you'd take promotion every time.

Agreed about the names Jones had at the time, though. Me and a mate were trying to remember our squads from some seasons around that time and we remembered far more about Jones' players than anyone else.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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For me, Jones was a good manager. He established us as a team with real aspirations to go up. He was pivotal in our progress.

I'd go further and say he helped create a side that should have been promoted.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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I've heard Jones say that they signed the likes of Hasselbaink and Fowler as a way of raising the profile of the club. Whether that happened or not, I have no idea, but to fans they were, by and large, a waste of wages.

Apparently he signed Kevin Campbell for his dressing room prescence

He certainly wasn't signed for his presence on the pitch

[BlueArmy 86]

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We were much better on the eye under Jones.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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I'd go further and say he helped create a side that should have been promoted.

If people want to blame bulut for the current state of affairs then Jones must be blamed for failing to get us promoted

He definitely had the tools

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Apparently he signed Kevin Campbell for his dressing room prescence

He certainly wasn't signed for his presence on the pitch

Wasn't it Steven Thompson who used to play his guitar in the dressing room?

[insider]

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Luton relegating us in 82
Of our Wembley appearances
I thought Blackpool deserved to win so the Liverpool league cup final hurts the most because we won that final twice in my book when Kenny Miller missed the sitter and 2 up in the pens.
I could have lived off that win forever.