Weasel
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On the contrary, yes I believe McCabe can win (as can any chairman who has stuck around long enough to have had to make the decision on incoming team managers position on numerous occasions).
He made the appointment of Clough because he was the probably the best that he could bring in at that time. He was still dog shit though in the general scheme if things, but only looked decent to us because he was replacing the likes of Weir and Wilson and Blackwell etc (all imo were bad appointments) and all coming off the back of the Mother of bad appointments (made by McCabe let's not forget) which was the appointment of Robson which was the catalyst of things going down hill and the cost cutting. He gets the appointment right after Warnock left and there's no problem and we are set fair. You didn't have to be a footballing Nostradamus to see what the future was going to be like once we had appointed old alco head.
In truth McCabe was like a gambler who had lost big and was then going for longer and longer odds to try and get back to where he was. Every time he made a bad appointment, the bigger the mess the next fella had to sort out and less money/budget to play with.
I'll give him credit for Wilder I suppose, but it really was last chance saloon for us after Adkins (who I admit might have finally been the right one for us and which very few (if any) on here complained about at the time of his appointment). At best, McCabes record at bringing in the right managerial appointments is poor. In his defence, he has picked up the tab for his mistakes, so this wasn't a pop at McCabe as such. Just my take on it.
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