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Watching now ....Great atmosphere and i still think we had a team that should have won the play offs that season. That Bothroyd injury hurt us badly in final
As soon as he went off I knew we'd loseQuote:
Originally Posted by billy.ronson
It was one horrible moment wasnt it.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNDERHILL1927
If only McCormack was 6 inches taller and he would have fit the big man little man front 2.
And the substituteQuote:
Originally Posted by billy.ronson
Bothroyd was so important to the way we played and Etuhu couldn't play the position as he was more of a wide player. I remember sitting on the coach after the game thoroughly miserable watching Blackpool "fans" stroll past as if nothing had happened.....if we had won we would have been still in the ground celebrating
Half the Blackpool fans weren't Blackpool fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by billy.ronson
There was lots of chat in the pubs before the match of assorted Lancastrians who had got hold of Wembley tickets and an orange scarf and were just at Wembley for a day out. I was with a few die-hard Blackpool hours before and they were saying the club couldn't sell its allocation to genuine fans - they were calling out the imposters!
Maybe not half - but a lot.
There are always hangers on who will associate themselves with any club
This was when Chopra was aggressively assaulted in the box, Pack-like, for the penalty. :getscoat:
The soft centre. No manager's football since was as good. But Malky made us hard to beat. I think we all agree that Jones' team was the best we had in the last 50 years. Hard to believe they didn't make it. We would have survived too. Still hurts.
Yes, I agree with all of that. I have even wondered if the r-word would have happened if we had gone up and established ourselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
As much of a shithole that it was, Ninian Park could well have been a trump card in our survival chances pre CCS. Could have been our horrible Plough Lane helping us consolidate before moving over the road.
Make the Grange End the Grange End. Extend it back keeping a single tier. Keep all the corners. Put away fans in the Canton. Put families in Tan's Folly. On the cheap. Sorted.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Why not call it Ninian Park too?
I’d prefer the away fans stay where they are with our vocal support moving next to them on the Grange End, with a walkway around the ground to allow our fans access. On us getting promoted while at the shithole, I was thinking more about some of the precious superstars putting up with the less than salubrious surroundings backstage.Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
Oh, that's right we have a racist, imperialist (irony alerrt) owner. So as well as not being represented on the union flag, another country is represented on our club crest. And our "billionaire" is supposedly skint.Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
IIRC Blackpool had so few "real fans" they were allowing FOUR tickets per ST holder.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
As for the Leicester semi - Great atmosphere but I can't watch it because of the heartbreak that followed.
And as great as NP was, we lost on the night.
no, it was just a shitholeQuote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
It was at the CCS. Not NP.Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
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Originally Posted by NYCBlue
I dont think it was the best team. Clearly one of the best.Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
With Jones at the helm and the soft centre Im not convinced wed have stayed up.
Pity Malky didnt inherit that side.
Add a bit of steel to the centre. Abandon a rigid 442.
Actually have the players fit and disciplined.
Middlesboro home , Sheff Wed away , Preston away , Blackpool play off final last game at NP.
Too many sh!t embarrassing games to be labled the best.
Malky had the best team in my opinion.
Yeah we spoke to Everton, Leeds and Man City fans out for a day, some looked plain miserable sitting on mini buses going back up north….they didn’t give a sh*tQuote:
Originally Posted by billy.ronson
7 home playoff ties. We've won 1, lost 6. No side in playoff history has such an appalling home record.
2-3
And yet still we hear crap about Cardiff City Stadium being a “fortress” - fact is we have a 100 per cent losing record in the Play Offs when it comes to playing at the fortress!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
the last few seasons we have been woeful at home regardless of manager
I also believe that was a team built for a long spell in the top flight.
01 Marshall
02 McNaughton (Gerrard 74)
05 Hudson
03 Kennedy
07 Whittingham
10 McPhail
11 Burke (McCormack 58)
16 Ledley
23 Blake
08 Chopra
09 Bothroyd (Etuhu 15)
Most importantly most were young/prime age, with a certain Mr Ramsey waiting in the wings
more like waiting in CM for ArsenalQuote:
Originally Posted by chris lee
woops, funny how memories work, well we had have had Bellamy in the wings? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by delmbox
For all of Dave Jones' loyalty to 442, if Anthony Gerrard's story is true about DJ suggesting 433 only for him to be immediately rebuffed by the ego twins, Bothroyd and Chopra, then perhaps he wasn't so fixated after all. A midfield three of Ledley, McPhail and Whittingham might have solved the soft centre problem and given us an exciting attacking trio of Bothroyd, Chops and McCormack. But there we are.
There'll be a crowd kicking off that DJ didn't play Rambo in the playoff final either if you're not careful :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by chris lee
a midfield 3 of ledley mcphail and whittingham has a lot of positives, but solid isn't necessarily one of themQuote:
Originally Posted by Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
I agree it wouldn't be a wall of steel but it would be better than just McPhail and Ledley, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
I think the biggest negative would have been losing Chris Burke. Asking Chopra to provide some width wouldn't have been as effective as him playing on the shoulder and being given license to be the fox in the box.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
That midfield 3 in a 4-3-3 would have meant McNaughton playing more as a wing back. He was a great defender but not that good going forward.
Chopra was excellent that day. Unlike so many who were poor.
Our midfield 2 completely overwhelmed by their 3 and this was not a new one but add that Charlie Adam was completely different class we were in for a struggle.
Bothroyd going off was a disaster for the system. But not bringing on McCormack criminal. As bad a managerial decision you can get.
Looking at the 11 at least 5 would have needed replacing. But the main issue the man in charge.
Add Malky and add Adam to that central midfield and wed have walked the league.
Malky was/is a very overated one season wonder..Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts