Ninja Elephant
Doctor Elephant
- Feb 16, 2009
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Utter baloney. As I say, it was noty hindsight. When Murray went, my friends / family and myself who had seen Murray knew it a mistake but only the coaching staff (those paid to know something about football) had not worked out that we had lost a skillfull, clever goal scorer. It is the most inept and costly decision since equally bad decisions to not give Roy Keane and Ian Wright a contract, but at least Keane and Wright were not our leading goal scorers when those "footballing people" made those mistakes. Lets not forget Murray scored skillfull goals in the third tier when surrounded by donkeys. As we said at the time, he would have been perfect with the Poyert midfield in the Championship behind him. The point I simply am making is that it cannot, by definition be called hindsight because it was predicted and it is no comfort at all to say "we told you to" but we bloody well did.
Captain Hindsight. We made Murray an offer, he accepted an offer from somewhere else. Do many people wish we'd made a better offer? Obviously, yes. Who knows what would have happened had we kept Murray then, we'll never know so it's a mute point but you wouldn't think so when you hear people blather on about it.
I remember being pretty disappointed when Murray left but accepted it because we bought CMS. However, it is baffling that the coaching team didn't realise Murray was perfect for our style under Gus whilst CMS was less than perfect and never got played in his preferred front two.
It is easily the worst transfer decision in recent times.
The purchase of Sam Baldock outranks any other transfer decision in my lifetime. Even worse than the decision to purchase Craig Davies.
Hasn't Eddie Howe said he's being named in his 25 man squad on Tuesday so that would mean all we could hope for is a 93 day emergency loan
A 93 day loan is all we can get because he's already played on a permanent contract for 2 clubs this season, we're timing it so that he can play in a play-off final, should we get there. Rather than get there and not be able to play him because his loan has expired.