Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
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
Prior to Goldstone, he was with us for 9 years with little or no financial backing from the Dewey brothers, so it was always going to be a struggle but towards the end of the 60's our league position started to improve and but for the Toshack sale, who knows how far he may have taken us.

Interestingly, we mentioned Foggon in an earlier post so I thought I'd google him. I was astonished to find he netted 45 times in 115 games for Middlesbrough after he left us. Something not quite right there.