Quote Originally Posted by Moodybluebird View Post
Absolutely right. Strange for TOBW to highlight players signed by Scoular in his last year as our manager. Even more so when you consider the plethora of good/great signings he made before then: Murray, Harris, Gibson, Lea, King (?), B Jones, Woodruff, Warboys, Clark, Farrell etc etc. And neither Powell, Vincent nor Smith could be deemed bad signings. Vincent for instance scored 11 goals in 66 appearances from midfield. Very odd !
Vincent and Powell were injured an awful lot, Smith was hopeless for us. Scoular decided to break the team up at the start of 72/73 and with David Goldstone coming on to the Board, there was quite a bit of money to be spent, McCulloch and Anderson were good signings, but the team didn’t really improve over the next year, despite all of the new signings, hence his sacking. Scoular made some excellent signings in his time, but it’s a fact that we spent more time struggling against the drop in his nine years with us than we did going for promotion - his short time at Newport after leaving us was a bit of a disaster as well