[Albion] Would Glenn Murray and Craig Mackail-Smith have worked...

[Soul Finger]

... as a strike partnership?

I think it would have.

Just popped into my mind. I'm sure it must have been discussed on here before?

 

[maresfield seagull]

... as a strike partnership?

I think it would have.

Just popped into my mind. I'm sure it must have been discussed on here before?

I concur
Had GP seen the benefits of retaining GM and adding CMS alongside We may have got promoted sooner

 

[Flounce]

I concur
Had GP seen the benefits of retaining GM and adding CMS alongside We may have got promoted sooner

And Palace would still not have made the PL. f*** off Gus

 

[Triggaaar]

Yes

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Yes definitely, Murray could probably make Obika look capable

 

[ROSM]

I thought the poyet Murray thing was caused by how the club at the time (and john stephenson) wanted to structure the budget with wages and transfer fees as two separate budgets. Keeping Murray used wages (signing on fee also came from wages) but was too much whilst cms was tfr budget and his signing on fee came from that budget too as a new signing.

Poyet was being belligerent to prove a point

 

[AZ Gull]

I thought the poyet Murray thing was caused by how the club at the time (and john stephenson) wanted to structure the budget with wages and transfer fees as two separate budgets. Keeping Murray used wages (signing on fee also came from wages) but was too much whilst cms was tfr budget and his signing on fee came from that budget too as a new signing.

Poyet was being belligerent to prove a point

That Poyet explanation about the different budgets always sounded like bollocks to me - he came out with it in the Argus the day before 4th-placed Palace played at the Amex (with CMS out for the season and Murray the division's leading scorer with 30 goals).

I've posted this before, but Adam Virgo was very good friends with Murray. Virgo spoke at a meeting of the BHA Heritage Society ten years ago. His view was that "[Poyet] Getting rid of [Murray] was probably a matter of personal pride." (because Poyet couldn't control Murray in the way he wanted).

I'll never understand why Poyet wanted CMS in the first place as he was completely the wrong type of player for Poyet's system, something even CMS referred to when interviewed for the club programme during his first season with the Albion.

 

[Guinness Boy]

To answer the OP, yes, absolutely.

Although, given that Murray, Barnes and Wood all went on to decent Premier League careers we probably should have just tried to sign Wood permanently and stick with the title winning strike force.

 

[ROSM]

That Poyet explanation about the different budgets always sounded like bollocks to me - he came out with it in the Argus the day before 4th-placed Palace played at the Amex (with CMS out for the season and Murray the division's leading scorer with 30 goals).

I've posted this before, but Adam Virgo was very good friends with Murray. Virgo spoke at a meeting of the BHA Heritage Society ten years ago. His view was that "[Poyet] Getting rid of [Murray] was probably a matter of personal pride." (because Poyet couldn't control Murray in the way he wanted).

I'll never understand why Poyet wanted CMS in the first place as he was completely the wrong type of player for Poyet's system, something even CMS referred to when interviewed for the club programme during his first season with the Albion.

The stephenson story I was told didn't come from poyet but from another club senior non playing figure.

Cms was a marquee signing and I suspect wasn't entirely a poyet decision

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I concur
Had GP seen the benefits of retaining GM and adding CMS alongside We may have got promoted sooner

Unfortunately Gussie had an arse ceiling.

 

[AZ Gull]

The stephenson story I was told didn't come from poyet but from another club senior non playing figure.

Cms was a marquee signing and I suspect wasn't entirely a poyet decision

What do you mean, the story didn't come from Poyet? I've linked the Argus article with quotes from Poyet

 

[Weststander]

That Poyet explanation about the different budgets always sounded like bollocks to me - he came out with it in the Argus the day before 4th-placed Palace played at the Amex (with CMS out for the season and Murray the division's leading scorer with 30 goals).

I've posted this before, but Adam Virgo was very good friends with Murray. Virgo spoke at a meeting of the BHA Heritage Society ten years ago. His view was that "[Poyet] Getting rid of [Murray] was probably a matter of personal pride." (because Poyet couldn't control Murray in the way he wanted).

I'll never understand why Poyet wanted CMS in the first place as he was completely the wrong type of player for Poyet's system, something even CMS referred to when interviewed for the club programme during his first season with the Albion.

I knew a senior Albion official throughout that period. Virgo’s recollection is spot on.

Poyet had a pretty much free rein until PB arrived, he ruled transfer matters. He took a personal dislike to Muzza just because he was shy, ‘different’ and had “the temerity” when we were flying in 2010/11 to ask that his next contract should we get be promoted pay a Championship striker’s pay rate. That angered control freak Poyet. Muzza would have loved to stay in his adopted city, 365.

 

[ROSM]

What do you mean, the story didn't come from Poyet? I've linked the Argus article with quotes from Poyet

I am saying that when I first heard it just before the 1st game at the amex it wasn't poyet I heard it from. Surely it wasn't that confusing?