by WoodleyRoyal » 09 Feb 2015 13:40
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by notloyalenuffroyal » 09 Feb 2015 20:28
WoodleyRoyal tom jones broken leg at elm park you heard the snap from the southbank shudders
by Tony Le Mesmer » 09 Feb 2015 20:30
Elm Park Kid Without a doubt McDermott getting fired in March 2013.
We would have still gone down, still sold players and still might have ended up firing him. But at least we could have shown the man some respect.
It would have saved us from the Adkins period and Brian from the mess at Leeds.
by Man Friday » 09 Feb 2015 20:39
Tony Le MesmerElm Park Kid Without a doubt McDermott getting fired in March 2013.
We would have still gone down, still sold players and still might have ended up firing him. But at least we could have shown the man some respect.
It would have saved us from the Adkins period and Brian from the mess at Leeds.
Agree with this. What made it even worse is that so much of our support wanted him out. He and the 2012 champ winning players massively over achieved yet that wasn't good enough for some. It was almost as if they were embarrassed by him. He was mocked by his own supporters during his last game v Villa and summed up painfully how much RFC has changed in the last decade. You knew he would get the chop after that and that's pretty much the day that I fell out of love with the club after 30 years.
by leon » 09 Feb 2015 22:55
by bcubed » 09 Feb 2015 23:50
Hoop Blah The day(s) that the club bottled out of getting into Europe.
by under the tin » 10 Feb 2015 07:59
bcubedHoop Blah The day(s) that the club bottled out of getting into Europe.
Yeh good shout
I said "failing to invest causing relegation first time round," but this was where the rot set in.
by Handsome Man » 10 Feb 2015 08:20
bcubedHoop Blah The day(s) that the club bottled out of getting into Europe.
Yeh good shout
I said "failing to invest causing relegation first time round," but this was where the rot set in. And it must have been deliberate policy - I remember discussing with a Bolton fan at the time, about four games from the end and he just assumed we were in Europe already
by Winchester Royal » 10 Feb 2015 09:07
Handsome ManbcubedHoop Blah The day(s) that the club bottled out of getting into Europe.
Yeh good shout
I said "failing to invest causing relegation first time round," but this was where the rot set in. And it must have been deliberate policy - I remember discussing with a Bolton fan at the time, about four games from the end and he just assumed we were in Europe already
If only we had decided to win against Blackburn...
by tidus_mi2 » 10 Feb 2015 09:35
by Vision » 10 Feb 2015 10:10
by Royalwaster » 10 Feb 2015 10:16
Vision Coppell got a bit spooked talking to George Burley at Ipswich who claimed qualifying for Europe ruined his young Ipswich team. That said any suggestion we deliberately didn't try in the last two games so we failed to qualify is on a par with the "Madejski told the players not to beat Bolton in the Wembley play-offs because he couldn't afford promotion" nonsense.
I can see the point about the message not taking the Intertoto spot sends out but I think it's overplayed as a factor with regards to our relegation that season.
I think the biggest single factor (in reality relegations happen for a number of reasons rather than just one defining one) was we lost our nerve in the 2nd half of the season. I put that down to the 6-4 defeat at Tottenham. The Portsmouth game could have been attributed as a one-off thing that can happen from time to time but when it happens a second time then it becomes ingrained in the players. We had built success on attacking wide play, full backs bombing on and attacking with absolute conviction. After that Tottenham game the majority of players just went into their shells and the full backs barely crossed the half way line.
So if I could erase just game then I think that Spurs game would be the one.
by Hoop Blah » 10 Feb 2015 12:40
Vision Coppell got a bit spooked talking to George Burley at Ipswich who claimed qualifying for Europe ruined his young Ipswich team. That said any suggestion we deliberately didn't try in the last two games so we failed to qualify is on a par with the "Madejski told the players not to beat Bolton in the Wembley play-offs because he couldn't afford promotion" nonsense.
I can see the point about the message not taking the Intertoto spot sends out but I think it's overplayed as a factor with regards to our relegation that season.
I think the biggest single factor (in reality relegations happen for a number of reasons rather than just one defining one) was we lost our nerve in the 2nd half of the season. I put that down to the 6-4 defeat at Tottenham. The Portsmouth game could have been attributed as a one-off thing that can happen from time to time but when it happens a second time then it becomes ingrained in the players. We had built success on attacking wide play, full backs bombing on and attacking with absolute conviction. After that Tottenham game the majority of players just went into their shells and the full backs barely crossed the half way line.
So if I could erase just game then I think that Spurs game would be the one.
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