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The Clough era can be neatly divided into ton segments.
Part 1 - professing he prefers a small squad, having an initial impact, dragging us up the league after the Weir disaster, cup runs and just missing out on the play offs.
Part 2 - increased expectation, fell out with plenty, built a huge squad of crocks and little ‘uns, nightmare play offs where we had a central defensive pairing of Alcock and McEveley and lost on aggregate to Swindon.
Good Cup runs but he really lost the plot that pre-season.
That second season still haunts me. Home defeats against Fleetwood, Crewe and Peterborough going into the final month and winning none of the last 5 games.
Going out to Swindon in the play-offs barely even registered by then. We seemed defeated long before.