| Had derby not ballsed up 21:16 - Jan 21 with 4758 views | textbackup |
And we finished 7th I wonder if he'd be held so highly by some people? Because losing and playing as bad as we did vs Blackburn in a must win game sums his time up here for me |  |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 21:20 - Jan 21 with 3889 views | thebooks |
[Shrugs] He got us to the play offs over a 46 match season. He also turned us round when we were heading to relegation and made us a competent team again. On the whole, he´s done a great job. But he he´s reached the end of the line with this squad. |  | | |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 21:25 - Jan 21 with 3860 views | J2BLUE |
I think some of the more rabid outers are trying to rewrite history because they are so frustrated with current events. I argued the other day we scraped 6th by the skin of our teeth and were lucky which I stand by but he did an amazing job to save us in his first season and regardless of how he did it he got us top 6 so I hope he goes with our good will.
Really he has paid for the mistakes of Keane and Jewell. He deserved better from Evans. Not that he is blameless of course, he has a lot of faults. |  |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 21:28 - Jan 21 with 3838 views | textbackup |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 21:25 - Jan 21 by J2BLUE |
I think some of the more rabid outers are trying to rewrite history because they are so frustrated with current events. I argued the other day we scraped 6th by the skin of our teeth and were lucky which I stand by but he did an amazing job to save us in his first season and regardless of how he did it he got us top 6 so I hope he goes with our good will.
Really he has paid for the mistakes of Keane and Jewell. He deserved better from Evans. Not that he is blameless of course, he has a lot of faults. |
It was the skin of teeth stuff, no two ways about it | |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 21:29 - Jan 21 with 3819 views | SitfcB |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 21:28 - Jan 21 by textbackup |
It was the skin of teeth stuff, no two ways about it |
...and even then it was effectively a f'ck up 'cos we were 2nd at Christmas, two points off top. |  |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 21:31 - Jan 21 with 3805 views | thebooks |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 21:28 - Jan 21 by textbackup |
It was the skin of teeth stuff, no two ways about it |
Yes, it was, but given the resources he had ¨skin of the teeth¨ play offs over a season is still impressive.
I think he should go, but he did a grand job. | | | |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 21:32 - Jan 21 with 3795 views | gt81 |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 21:29 - Jan 21 by SitfcB |
...and even then it was effectively a f'ck up 'cos we were 2nd at Christmas, two points off top. |
Was that the year we beat Charlton 3-0 at home?
Went with my sister's partner who is a Gooner, and he wasn't all that impressed, and neither was I, despite the scoreline making that game look more comfortable than it was. |  | | |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 22:48 - Jan 21 with 3661 views | TractorWood |
It was a much needed nose bleed up the table. We were quality in the first part of that season, a high point was Brentford away when we played them off the park to briefly go top on Boxing day. After that our form fizzled slightly to stumble into the playoffs.
It was a decent season given the financial model and by comparison to recent years. In reality though we didn't achieve anything and at no point did show any serious evidence that we might go up. The amount of fans I talk to who's only frame of reference for us a side is 'playoffs!' |  |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 22:59 - Jan 21 with 3626 views | pointofblue |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 21:28 - Jan 21 by textbackup |
It was the skin of teeth stuff, no two ways about it |
It was nice getting into the Play Offs by the skin of our teeth rather than avoiding the bottom three by the same margin. Mick managed that whereas Keane and Jewell got nowhere near. Even two 7th places in a row should have given him some respect from the fanbase for his efforts here.
Whether the transfer window of January 2015 was his choice or Evans' not to strengthen the squad, that's where we fell apart. We've never properly recovered. | |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 23:47 - Jan 21 with 3555 views | MVBlue |
We made the playoffs on merit with Murphy on fire. If Berra hadn't been sent off V Norwich then penalties would have been most likely outcome. Won those then we would have faced a Middlesborough who turned up 20 minutes before kick off and Norwich won straight forward, would have been us. We'd have been in for a £70million windfall and could've kicked on.
Instead Berra got sent off and we've gone South. Gone sour. [Post edited 21 Jan 2017 23:49]
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:09 - Jan 22 with 3332 views | J2BLUE |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 23:47 - Jan 21 by MVBlue |
We made the playoffs on merit with Murphy on fire. If Berra hadn't been sent off V Norwich then penalties would have been most likely outcome. Won those then we would have faced a Middlesborough who turned up 20 minutes before kick off and Norwich won straight forward, would have been us. We'd have been in for a £70million windfall and could've kicked on.
Instead Berra got sent off and we've gone South. Gone sour. [Post edited 21 Jan 2017 23:49]
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I assume Berra got sent off because that was the only body part he could put between the ball and the goal. If he hadn't have been sent off we'd have been 1-0 down. | |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:12 - Jan 22 with 3307 views | The_Romford_Blue |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:09 - Jan 22 by J2BLUE |
I assume Berra got sent off because that was the only body part he could put between the ball and the goal. If he hadn't have been sent off we'd have been 1-0 down. |
But we might have come back as we had done a fair few times that year when conceding first
Either way, a massive overachievement even getting that far |  |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:15 - Jan 22 with 3301 views | jeera |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:09 - Jan 22 by J2BLUE |
I assume Berra got sent off because that was the only body part he could put between the ball and the goal. If he hadn't have been sent off we'd have been 1-0 down. |
As you say, the deficit would have still been there.
You could argue at least we'd still have the full 11 though.
But the guy didn't have time to think did he? It was just reaction and sh1t happens. |  |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:19 - Jan 22 with 3282 views | jas0999 |
We were really poor from mid January onwards. Yet again not helped by the owners lack of investment in the playing squad. I still to this day feel that a couple of million pound quality additions would have made all the difference.considering the circumstances MM did a brilliant job that season and it shouldn't be taken away from him. Evans less so. [Post edited 22 Jan 2017 18:21]
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:22 - Jan 22 with 3261 views | taximan |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:19 - Jan 22 by jas0999 |
We were really poor from mid January onwards. Yet again not helped by the owners lack of investment in the playing squad. I still to this day feel that a couple of million pound quality additions would have made all the difference.considering the circumstances MM did a brilliant job that season and it shouldn't be taken away from him. Evans less so. [Post edited 22 Jan 2017 18:21]
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spot on
as a few of us have pointed out many times | | | |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:24 - Jan 22 with 3249 views | jas0999 |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:22 - Jan 22 by taximan |
spot on
as a few of us have pointed out many times |
I'm one of them!! | | | |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:25 - Jan 22 with 3248 views | jeera |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:19 - Jan 22 by jas0999 |
We were really poor from mid January onwards. Yet again not helped by the owners lack of investment in the playing squad. I still to this day feel that a couple of million pound quality additions would have made all the difference.considering the circumstances MM did a brilliant job that season and it shouldn't be taken away from him. Evans less so. [Post edited 22 Jan 2017 18:21]
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"I still to this day feel that a couple of million pound quality additions would have made all the difference.considering the circumstances "
No sh1t? | |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:26 - Jan 22 with 3236 views | jeera |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:24 - Jan 22 by jas0999 |
I'm one of them!! |
That an opportunity was missed that January?
So just you two and possibly everyone else then. | |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:27 - Jan 22 with 3225 views | bournemouthblue |
If my auntie had b0ll0cks she'd be my uncle
If we'd missed out with 78 points we'd have been fecking unlucky? |  |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:35 - Jan 22 with 3199 views | jas0999 |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:26 - Jan 22 by jeera |
That an opportunity was missed that January?
So just you two and possibly everyone else then. |
Eh no, I was just replying to the other post, saying I was one of them (like everyone else). Not suggesting otherwise. | | | |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:47 - Jan 22 with 3168 views | RoyKeanesDog |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 21:29 - Jan 21 by SitfcB |
...and even then it was effectively a f'ck up 'cos we were 2nd at Christmas, two points off top. |
That post is misleading though, we were 2nd, but there were about 6 teams separated by just a few points.
We were one of a few challengers who burnt out after not investing in January. Despite having a squad that cost 110k, we qualified for the play-offs.
If we had Douglas and his goal scoring record that season, I think we would have probably finished top 2. |  |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:51 - Jan 22 with 3153 views | The_Romford_Blue |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:47 - Jan 22 by RoyKeanesDog |
That post is misleading though, we were 2nd, but there were about 6 teams separated by just a few points.
We were one of a few challengers who burnt out after not investing in January. Despite having a squad that cost 110k, we qualified for the play-offs.
If we had Douglas and his goal scoring record that season, I think we would have probably finished top 2. |
Ooooh you stirrer you ;) | |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 05:20 - Jan 23 with 2958 views | Benters |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:19 - Jan 22 by jas0999 |
We were really poor from mid January onwards. Yet again not helped by the owners lack of investment in the playing squad. I still to this day feel that a couple of million pound quality additions would have made all the difference.considering the circumstances MM did a brilliant job that season and it shouldn't be taken away from him. Evans less so. [Post edited 22 Jan 2017 18:21]
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January 2015 was our chance and we blew it. |  |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 06:24 - Jan 23 with 2925 views | horsehollerer |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 18:19 - Jan 22 by jas0999 |
We were really poor from mid January onwards. Yet again not helped by the owners lack of investment in the playing squad. I still to this day feel that a couple of million pound quality additions would have made all the difference.considering the circumstances MM did a brilliant job that season and it shouldn't be taken away from him. Evans less so. [Post edited 22 Jan 2017 18:21]
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Yes, I agree that ME missed a golden opportunity to strengthen the team at that time and push us over the hill.
But I disagree that from mid Jan we were "really poor". It may have felt like we were struggling because we dropped out of the top two, we certainly looked wearier after Christmas, and we missed the injured McGoldrick and Williams... but the results were still pretty good overall.
E.g. in our final 10 home games from mid Jan, we won 6, drew 3, and lost just 1. We also picked up away wins at Millwall, Fulham and Watford during that time.
IMO it's a common misconception that we completely crumbled from Jan onwards. |  |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 07:15 - Jan 23 with 2874 views | Benters |
| Had derby not ballsed up on 06:24 - Jan 23 by horsehollerer |
Yes, I agree that ME missed a golden opportunity to strengthen the team at that time and push us over the hill.
But I disagree that from mid Jan we were "really poor". It may have felt like we were struggling because we dropped out of the top two, we certainly looked wearier after Christmas, and we missed the injured McGoldrick and Williams... but the results were still pretty good overall.
E.g. in our final 10 home games from mid Jan, we won 6, drew 3, and lost just 1. We also picked up away wins at Millwall, Fulham and Watford during that time.
IMO it's a common misconception that we completely crumbled from Jan onwards. |
Well not crumbled we did slip down from 2nd to 6th (still id take that this season) ! | |
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| Had derby not ballsed up on 09:09 - Jan 23 with 2784 views | SomethingBlue |
What about games where we played well and Derby didn't perform? As I recall, that season was played over 46 games. | |
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