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Roygbiv said:
I don't recall him having a great start. I remember the televised game at QPR when he was appalling. Looking at the fixtures we failed to win the next 8 games after he joined though in fairness we had won for the 7 previous either
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The losing culture started with that run.
 
PeteBlade said:
Personally I think it started with Warnock surrendering at Aston Villa.
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Except we a good run under Blackwell to the play off final, only a draw with Forest at the Lane late on stopped us getting up auto in the long run.
 
PeteBlade said:
Personally I think it started with Warnock surrendering at Aston Villa.
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a convenient yet slightly fanciful rewriting of history

Implying that had warnock been more attacking we would have won but conveniently forgets that villa were a much better team than us that season and in front of a full house in party mood they took us apart but dont let that get in the way of a good story
 
judge said:
a convenient yet slightly fanciful rewriting of history

Implying that had warnock been more attacking we would have won but conveniently forgets that villa were a much better team than us that season and in front of a full house in party mood they took us apart but dont let that get in the way of a good story
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What's party mood got to do with anything? Our entire set up for that game was a complete joke. We rolled over and had our bellys tickled.

Sorry if it upsets our Neil, but it's true.
 
PeteBlade said:
What's party mood got to do with anything? Our entire set up for that game was a complete joke. We rolled over and had our bellys tickled.

Sorry if it upsets our Neil, but it's true.
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It was their european cup win anniversary
They were all given free scarves and it was a sell out

If warnock had gone 2 -4-4 are ypu saying we would have won ?

Because we played defensive and got battered so that kind of doesnt make sense
 
judge said:
It was their european cup win anniversary
They were all given free scarves and it was a sell out

If warnock had gone 2 -4-4 are ypu saying we would have won ?

Because we played defensive and got battered so that kind of doesnt make sense
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What a nonsense response.

Few scarves and a few old players at the ground has bugger all to do with the result.

As for 2-4-4, not worthy of a reply.
 
judge said:
Less , i cant understand why you are talking so much shit
Were you really pissed ?
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I'd rather have been pissed than watch us bend over for Villa.

You seem to have rose tinted glasses for memory.
 



PeteBlade said:
I'd rather have been pissed than watch us bend over for Villa.

You seem to have rose tinted glasses for memory.
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You seem to have anti-warnock tinted glasses on.

Each to their own of course but it went wrong after sacking him.

This thread was about the signing of Collins, that very season as we were getting relegated NW took QPR up and absolutely tore us apart home and away. He was the man to take us back up.

That premiership season we got 38points and 9 out of 10 seasons that would have kept us up (yet he was negative). He did get us there in the first place, without him there would have been Premiership season. He deserved the following season, if not longer in my opinion.
 
knockoffnigel said:
You seem to have anti-warnock tinted glasses on.

Each to their own of course but it went wrong after sacking him.

This thread was about the signing of Collins, that very season as we were getting relegated NW took QPR up and absolutely tore us apart home and away. He was the man to take us back up.

That premiership season we got 38points and 9 out of 10 seasons that would have kept us up (yet he was negative). He did get us there in the first place, without him there would have been Premiership season. He deserved the following season, if not longer in my opinion.
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I'm not anti Warnock in the slightest, i have some excellent memories of the Warnock era, but me eyes are open to his mistakes too.

Him interviewing for the Portsmouth job and almost derailing our promotion, his lack of tactical ability which cost us dearly in the final run in when we should have been safe, his releasing of Unsworth and his playing of Jags out of position against Wigan.

That being sad, after our relegation, I agree that he would have been the right man to take us back. And would have been 100% better choice than Robson.
 
Ricky said:
Bjorn Helge Riise.

Remember him being our only spark at Preston but thick Mick substituted him for missing a chance.
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On loan from Fulham wasn't he? Good player
 
PeteBlade said:
I'm not anti Warnock in the slightest, i have some excellent memories of the Warnock era, but me eyes are open to his mistakes too.

Him interviewing for the Portsmouth job and almost derailing our promotion, his lack of tactical ability which cost us dearly in the final run in when we should have been safe, his releasing of Unsworth and his playing of Jags out of position against Wigan.

That being sad, after our relegation, I agree that he would have been the right man to take us back. And would have been 100% better choice than Robson.
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Lot's of people say we messed up the run in, well in truth we only really messed up at home to Wigan. We beat Watford and thrashed West Ham while getting a good point at Charlton (The noise when that Stead goal went in was unbelievable).

Fact is we did enough over the course of that season to stay up. Had West Ham not cheated or gone on an unprecedented run or Rafa not put the kids out against an awful Fulham then we would have stayed up. In fact Liverpool and Man Utd piss me off more than West Ham to be honest. Totally fucked over - just like when Segers had an 'off day'. Same old for us, we'll have our day sometime.
 
Bladepicker said:
Lot's of people say we messed up the run in, well in truth we only really messed up at home to Wigan. We beat Watford and thrashed West Ham while getting a good point at Charlton (The noise when that Stead goal went in was unbelievable).

Fact is we did enough over the course of that season to stay up. Had West Ham not cheated or gone on an unprecedented run or Rafa not put the kids out against an awful Fulham then we would have stayed up. In fact Liverpool and Man Utd piss me off more than West Ham to be honest. Totally fucked over - just like when Segers had an 'off day'. Same old for us, we'll have our day sometime.
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It's embarrassing to blame our failure to stay up on others like bloody Rafa above.

The fact is, we didn't do enough to stay up.

We needed to draw with a shit Wigan side at home and instead the player we let go sent us down instead.
 
PeteBlade said:
It's embarrassing to blame our failure to stay up on others like bloody Rafa above.

The fact is, we didn't do enough to stay up.

We needed to draw with a shit Wigan side at home and instead the player we let go sent us down instead.
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It's not 'embarrassing' to say that we went down because others cheated. It also isn't embarassing to say that there were lot's of things out of United's control that conspired against us.

Yes we should have drawn against Wigan but, however you try to put it, we shouldn't have had to. We were cheated.
 
The 2010-11 season was absolute dogshit, both to be a Blade and personally.

To cut a long story short, it was the season where i went through divorce and relegation in the same season.
 
Bladepicker said:
It's not 'embarrassing' to say that we went down because others cheated. It also isn't embarassing to say that there were lot's of things out of United's control that conspired against us.

Yes we should have drawn against Wigan but, however you try to put it, we shouldn't have had to. We were cheated.
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Yes, it's incredibly embarrassing to say we went down because others cheated. Other fans laugh at those among us who make such statements.

We went down because we didn't get enough points.
 
PeteBlade said:
Yes, it's incredibly embarrassing to say we went down because others cheated. Other fans laugh at those among us who make such statements.

We went down because we didn't get enough points.
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I agree to an extent. While there were a lot of things that contrived against us (We would not have settled for £20m from West Ham if we weren't cheated), we still had 38 games from which to amass 40 points from.

We failed to beat Villa at home despite being 2-1 up

Claude Davis failed to remember that he was a professional footballer when we were 1-0 up at home to Portsmouth

Warnock failed to strengthen the squad appropriately in January, thus the Hulse injury impacted so much.

We scored something like 3 goals away from home until January (which unbelievably contributed to 3 wins), while one of those goals was well offside (Webber v Watford).

We should have beaten Charlton away but instead missed chances and had to settle for 1 point.

I would say we contributed to our relegation a whole lot more than anyone else, mainly those in board level positions down to the management set up.

Copy and paste that last statement for 2010/11's glorious season.
 



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