Quote Originally Posted by blueblade View Post
You can easily forget how great our football was back then.

As much as we were outfought by Blackpool, we still played some lovely stuff with Chopra making those darting runs down the channel, Whitts & McPhail gracefully pinging passing around, Ledley with those late charges into the box and McNaughton tackling everything (even his own players!)

I looked at that line up and I can't see that any of our current team would get into that side (maybe Wilson for Ledley ?), even the much maligned Kelvin Etuhu was better than Moore & Glatzel.

It hit home how very average we are as a Championship squad, Dave Jones' (who I despised) squad were excellent at this level and we still failed to get over the line.

I remember after that Blackpool game that it took about 2 hours for one of my mates to mention the game and his words were "typical of us to save our worst performance of the season for today". Even with that, so- called worst performance, it was still far easier on the eye than what is being served up currently.

Why did you hate Jones out of interest?

As you say, he really had the team playing football that was easy on the eye (contrast to the absolute garbage that we play now) but ultimately unsuccessful, where success is determined by fine margins - losing a Cup Final, missing out on promotion in the cruelest of manners.

I haven't watched the game back but didn't it turn against us when Bothroyd went off?