Before we lost Coutts we were flying. Without him we were less than average. Gradually the doom merchants lost faith and hope, and at the same time Billy became a year older and could no longer cut it at this level. Clarke also got slower, older and no longer motivated. We brought in another ageing injury-prone striker who didn't have any pace either. Wilder got found out at this level too. He needed to ditch Stevens; he needed to ditch Basham etc........
The transfer window was another wasted opportunity. Our owners again failed to open their wallets to help bail out our manager.
THEN.................. Paul Coutts V2.0 in the shape of Oliver Norwood replaces Lee Evans, and all the observations by these intelligent soccer analysts is back put into perspective. Probable conclusion............they were talking Bollocks after all.