HRH's decision or the selection panel again?

[Silent Blade]

Who makes the decision to be our new manager? The HRH or the Selection Panel (Bassett was one of the panel last summer)? Hopefully we will have a manager with experience and is good at deciding the kind of style that brings the best out of our players

 

[puppet]

Remember how headless we were under the last days of DB? Kendall quickly identified where we were lacking and brought in the right kind of players to shore us up. The following season we were one wonder strike away from the PL. Oh for someone with that kind of insight this time!

 

[Kev Gee]

Id rather have bertie bassett

 

[Silent Blade]

Remember how headless we were under the last days of DB? Kendall quickly identified where we were lacking and brought in the right kind of players to shore us up. The following season we were one wonder strike away from the PL. Oh for someone with that kind of insight this time!

Yes, in 1995 Bassett had lost respect from some of the players as more and more of them laughed at his shouting in training sessions (that is what I had heard). Yes, Kendall was able to bring in the right players as soon as he came in but our next manager will not bring in many new players because the transfer window will not re-open in January and the rules preventing us to spend more than we are receiving

 

[blade too long]

welcome to our new manager Abdullah Fai Ben Jahim , former manager of Dubai camel taxis XI

 

[puppet]

Yes, in 1995 Bassett had lost respect from some of the players as more and more of them laughed at his shouting in training sessions (that is what I had heard). Yes, Kendall was able to bring in the right players as soon as he came in but our next manager will not bring in many new players because the transfer window will not re-open in January and the rules preventing us to spend more than we are receiving

I worked at Bramall Lane as an odd jobber that summer. I was cleaning the seats on the Kop when the team held its final pre match sesssion before the Tranmere game. The team lined up as had been selected and the rest of the squad were to emulate Tranmere. I can clearly remember the team talk was thus, though heavily paraphrased:

All Tranmere are is Nevin and Aldridge. The get the ball down the channels to Nevin, he crosses for Aldridge. Job done. What WE need to do is close them down and stop them getting the ball out to Nevin. Some discussion was held as to whether we should be concentrating on marking Nevin and/or Aldridge out of the game. Some typical colourful Harry 'banter' expressed his thoughts on the matter. The game finished 0-2 and Nevin completely destroyed us down the right.

So there is NO January transfer window this season???

 

[Trigger Blade]

Remember how headless we were under the last days of DB? Kendall quickly identified where we were lacking and brought in the right kind of players to shore us up. The following season we were one wonder strike away from the PL. Oh for someone with that kind of insight this time!

I was thinking about Kendall's arrival only yesterday in the context of Weir being completely unable to get decent players to play and how that was the complete opposite of what Kendall did.

He inherited a disinterested rabble, who couldn't string two passes together and turned them overnight into a fluent passing side. Either the 1st or 2nd game at Stoke we passed them off the park, drew 2-2 and I knew relegation was out of the question, where before it seemed inevitable.

Same again would be nice.

 

[puppet]

I was thinking about Kendall's arrival only yesterday in the context of Weir being completely unable to get decent players to play and how that was the complete opposite of what Kendall did.

He inherited a disinterested rabble, who couldn't string two passes together and turned them overnight into a fluent passing side. Either the 1st or 2nd game at Stoke we passed them off the park, drew 2-2 and I knew relegation was out of the question, where before it seemed inevitable.

Same again would be nice.

He made two particularly useful signings in Chris Short and Mark Patterson, neither particularly outstanding but came in and did their job to a tee. The further signing of Gordon Cowans was an absolute master stroke. So yes, something along those lines, please, Kevin.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

He made two particularly useful signings in Chris Short and Mark Patterson, neither particularly outstanding but came in and did their job to a tee. The further signing of Gordon Cowans was an absolute master stroke. So yes, something along those lines, please, Kevin.

They were very good signings. He was also able to spend £2.5M on Hutchison, Katchuoro and Sandford where Bassett had been restricted to signing free transfers and the likes of Beard for £100K.

Ultimately, Kendall and Spackman were showered with riches beyond Basset's wildest dreams and still couldn't deliver a promotion between them.

If Bassett had been backed financially when we were ninth in the Premier League he could have kept us up there and even won a trophy or two.

The pattern repeated itself with Warnock and Robson and again to a lesser extent with Wilson and Weir. We've spurned the opportunity to back a winner and showered riches on their replacements instead.

 

[puppet]

They were very good signings. He was also able to spend £2.5M on Hutchison, Katchuoro and Sandford where Bassett had been restricted to signing free transfers and the likes of Beard for £100K.

Ultimately, Kendall and Spackman were showered with riches beyond Basset's wildest dreams and still couldn't deliver a promotion between them.

If Bassett had been backed financially when we were ninth in the Premier League he could have kept us up there and even won a trophy or two.

The pattern repeated itself with Warnock and Robson and again to a lesser extent with Wilson and Weir. We've spurned the opportunity to back a winner and showered riches on their replacements instead.

When McDonald came in we had the money to splash and at that time, DBs tenure had run its course to be fair. Could Bassett have done better with money? Its debatable really. Managers like Bassett and Warnock tended to build up a personal database of players from the old clubs who they thought 'could do a job', which was usually reflected in their signings. Warnock had two particular strokes of luck in that two players came to Bramall Lane as loanees at other clubs and were the best players on the pitch despite being on the losing side (Brown and Kabba) but his other signings when he had 'money' were often more miss than hit (Akinbiyi, Horsfield, Shelton, Fathi etc) and indeed when 'backed' in the PL, signed players that weren't really the ones to save our PL status. Kendall was a speculative strike away from the PL, Spackman had the rug pulled from under him half way through the season, if we had kept that team together until may we'd have easily won promotion and maybe even the FA Cup.

 

[Kev Gee]

They were very good signings. He was also able to spend £2.5M on Hutchison, Katchuoro and Sandford where Bassett had been restricted to signing free transfers and the likes of Beard for £100K.

Ultimately, Kendall and Spackman were showered with riches beyond Basset's wildest dreams and still couldn't deliver a promotion between them.

If Bassett had been backed financially when we were ninth in the Premier League he could have kept us up there and even won a trophy or two.

The pattern repeated itself with Warnock and Robson and again to a lesser extent with Wilson and Weir. We've spurned the opportunity to back a winner and showered riches on their replacements instead.

I agree on this to an extent but instead of signing players to keep us up & push on Warnock crazily decided to sign players like Shelton.

 

[Kev Gee]

They were very good signings. He was also able to spend £2.5M on Hutchison, Katchuoro and Sandford where Bassett had been restricted to signing free transfers and the likes of Beard for £100K.

Ultimately, Kendall and Spackman were showered with riches beyond Basset's wildest dreams and still couldn't deliver a promotion between them.

If Bassett had been backed financially when we were ninth in the Premier League he could have kept us up there and even won a trophy or two.

The pattern repeated itself with Warnock and Robson and again to a lesser extent with Wilson and Weir. We've spurned the opportunity to back a winner and showered riches on their replacements instead.

I agree on this to an extent but instead of signing players to keep us up & replace Hulse Warnock crazily decided to sign players like Shelton.

 

[Kev Gee]

They were very good signings. He was also able to spend £2.5M on Hutchison, Katchuoro and Sandford where Bassett had been restricted to signing free transfers and the likes of Beard for £100K.

Ultimately, Kendall and Spackman were showered with riches beyond Basset's wildest dreams and still couldn't deliver a promotion between them.

If Bassett had been backed financially when we were ninth in the Premier League he could have kept us up there and even won a trophy or two.

The pattern repeated itself with Warnock and Robson and again to a lesser extent with Wilson and Weir. We've spurned the opportunity to back a winner and showered riches on their replacements instead.

I agree on this to an extent but instead of signing players to keep us up & replace Hulse Warnock crazily decided to sign players like Shelton.