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Barry Lloyd
- Thread starter Uncle C
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Uncle Buck
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Don't forget the class signings of Les Briley, Gary O'Reilly, Derek McGrath, that keeper McKenna, also the shite he brought from non league.
Yes Lloyd did find some gems in the likes of Small and Byrne, but he signed a lot of shite as well and his treatment of Nelson was a disgrace, especially when it was obvious we would lose Small and Byrne.
Yes Lloyd did find some gems in the likes of Small and Byrne, but he signed a lot of shite as well and his treatment of Nelson was a disgrace, especially when it was obvious we would lose Small and Byrne.
Spreadbetting Seagull
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- Mar 12, 2008
- 180
Glenn Murray......
If I remember rightly, we sold Dean Saunders for £60k which was half sensible money in those days for a lower division striker not too long after picking him up on a free.
Not really the hardest player to 'spot' was he!!
To be honest his role is pretty much a waste of time. The days of picking up a decent player out of non league or someones reserves are long gone. Quality players are all picked up at a very young age now and that is where all the investment and scouting needs to be.
if he rated dean saunders why did he put him on the bench and play titman in his place who scored one tap in in 20 games
he also sold him for shit money
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he also sold him for shit money
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You're having a laugh
Not really. I think we signed him from Swansea for nothing then after about a couple of years sold him to Oxford for £60k. Bear in mind this was 1987 when teams didn't pay £100m for players, especially strikers from teams at the bottom of the 2nd division and who'd only scored 20 goals in two and a half seasons.
Don Quixote
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- Nov 4, 2008
- 8,362
He's rubbish, just another reject Dick Knight has signed as he feels sorry for him.
Can any of the Lloyd critics name one manager of any club who has never signed a dud player! It's all very well listing the likes of Tiltman, Briley etc but at the end of the day Lloyd probably did more than any other at the club to keep us in business and included in that one promotion and one Wembley play off which was a bit more important than last play off final as we would have been in the top flight the season before it became the Premiership.
Uncle Buck
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- Jul 7, 2003
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But he also presided over 2 relegations.
Lloyd never got on with the fans, now in hindsight he was also fighting issues within the club, but he was never a particualy good manager, even if revisionists like to argue otherwise.
Basil Fawlty
Don't Mention The War
supaseagull
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Absolutely 100% agree.
"Barry, give us a wave, Barry Barry give us a wave....BOOOO!"
Also many fans will point to Lloyds appointment and pinpoint that time as the beginning of the clubs slide towards nearly going out of business.
He had a very good scouting system behind him and that helped him no end. Other than that, he was as tactically astute as a rabbit playing tiddlywinks!
Personally, because of the utter contempt he had for the fans, he should never have been allowed anywhere near the club again.
Storer68
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For the 633rd time......
we were told by Barclays bank to realise any assett and offer that we had sitting on teh table at the time. At the time mark Lawrenson (then Oxford manager in Div 1 and bankrolled by Robert Maxwell) had made an exploratory enquiry about Saunders and mentioned £60k. Barclays told Lloyd to take it so we could make the next payment that was owed on the Goldstone mortagage that was enabling the club to exist.
Storer68
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Uncle Buck
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- Jul 7, 2003
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But he did archer a black eye (allegedly)
An Albion fan from Worthing gave Lloyd a black eye, when Lloyd was manager of Worthing...
S'hampton Seagull
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That surprises me if it's the Worthing fan I think you are talking about!
Uncle Buck
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- Jul 7, 2003
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I think he was aiming at somebody else, who ducked and Lloyd was standing minding his own business and took the punch...
The Large One
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