| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had 23:50 - Mar 9 with 9867 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
to pick from ahead of the Nodge game in 2009, immediately before he was canned. Its horribly clear the scale of downgrading that has happened at the club over that last 10 years.
1. Richard Wright
2. David Wright
4. Gareth McAuley
5. Alex Bruce
7. Owen Garvan
8. Tommy Miller
9. Pablo Counago
10. David Norris
11. Kevin Lisbie
12. Jamie Peters
14. Jon Stead
15. Pim Balkestein
16. Chris Casement
17. Dean Bowditch
18. Danny Haynes
19. Jon Walters
20. Giovani Dos Santos (Loan)
21. Ivan Campo
22. Moritz Voltz (Loan)
22. Alan Quinn
26. VeliÄe Å umulikoski
27. Shane Supple
28. Bartosz Białkowski (Loan)
30. Matt Richards
33. Ben Thatcher
35. Tommy Smith
36. Liam Trotter
38. Jordan Rhodes
40. Connor Wickham
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| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 13:35 - Mar 10 with 1041 views | Moisha |
The big mistake with that squad was not pushing the boat out and signing Gio on a season long loan the following season.
He’d have torn the league up like Taraabt did for QPR. |  | | |
| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 13:36 - Mar 10 with 1041 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
Interesting!! Some names I'd forgotten in there. Interesting to see where some of them are now on Wiki! |  | | |
| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 14:16 - Mar 10 with 1005 views | JammyDodgerrr |
| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 12:53 - Mar 10 by nodge_blue |
Yes that squad looks pretty strong on paper. Light years better than what we have.
Most interesting thing - I didnt realise that Bart was on loan with us back then! |
Came on a loan, played a game in the reserves and got sent off and we sent him back IIRC |  |
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| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 14:20 - Mar 10 with 999 views | The_Last_Baron |
| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 07:56 - Mar 10 by hampstead_blue |
Now that is a huge squad!
Very good squad. |
Good first 11 but a lot of dead wood. |  |
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| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 14:37 - Mar 10 with 971 views | reusersfreekicks |
That's a pretty poor squad tbh. Magic really did badly with the increased funds. Full of players who were poor for us:
Lisbie
Balkenstein
Campo
Å umulikoski
Thatcher |  | | |
| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 14:38 - Mar 10 with 971 views | hampstead_blue |
One question looking at that squad.
How much a year were we losing?
There are some punchy players there. |  |
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| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 19:36 - Mar 10 with 913 views | Oxford_Blue |
| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 06:20 - Mar 10 by WeWereZombies |
Seeing the squad in the OP and reflecting on what has happened since it does raise the suspicion that Marcus Evans came in with the primary aim of trimming the wage bill and success on the pitch as a secondary thing. I doubt this is his modus operandi for hospitality but that is the business where he is the one cleaning out other people's pockets and not having his cleaned out. |
How on earth would that have helped Evans?
Clearly he thought the opposite. He thought by spending £12-20m, he could get a premiership brand. | | | |
| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 22:07 - Mar 10 with 874 views | WeWereZombies |
| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 19:36 - Mar 10 by Oxford_Blue |
How on earth would that have helped Evans?
Clearly he thought the opposite. He thought by spending £12-20m, he could get a premiership brand. |
I think back then many of us were more sceptical of hefty outlay on transfers and wages than we are now, but even £12 million to £20 million were not always enough to get into the Premiership (as Evans found out). And we can always cite Derby as the classic splurge and fail.
Anyone who was employed in a multinational during the nineties no doubt came across a Human Resources director who favoured 'churn' and dismissed tenure for all but the most vital employees. Continuity was placed behind the constant search for new, and yet to find their feet in terms of wage bargaining, talent. I can see familiar patterns at work in what has happened at Town in recent seasons. Cheltenham's list has caused me to think on the first year of Evans' reign too. The appeal of a well known name (Campo, Volz, Richard Wright, Thatcher) probably counted more for him than unknown potential. Hence goodbye Magilton, Hello Keane.
I am not saying any of this would have helped Evans but I am saying that his business instincts drove him, tentatively at first and with a hiatus for 'Roy Keane's Ipswich', to increasingly concentrate on cost cutting. |  |
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| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 22:12 - Mar 10 with 864 views | PhilTWTD |
| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 14:16 - Mar 10 by JammyDodgerrr |
Came on a loan, played a game in the reserves and got sent off and we sent him back IIRC |
Wasn't sent back after the red card, although I remember Jim calling him a "big lummox" in a press conference. He stayed to the end of the season and was set to sign permanently until Roy decided to look elsewhere for a keeper. |  | | |
| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 22:16 - Mar 10 with 848 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| When you look at the squad Jim Magilton had on 22:12 - Mar 10 by PhilTWTD |
Wasn't sent back after the red card, although I remember Jim calling him a "big lummox" in a press conference. He stayed to the end of the season and was set to sign permanently until Roy decided to look elsewhere for a keeper. |
He did a cracking job of looking elsewhere too. Brian Murphy, Plug and Aaran Lee-Barratt all started between the sticks that year. And then we had Begovic too. | |
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