Nixonator
Well-known member
Survived comfortably first season under Lambert until Hughton destroyed us
Am shocked to see he’s even more negative with you boys
Didn’t think it possible
He's only been this negative in the past few games to limp over the line, there has obviously been something going on in the background about formations and style of play since Dan Ashworth came in.
I understand it would have been great vindication and justification for your fanbase's views should we go down, which is looking increasingly unlikely.
Still, even if we did go down you can't amend historical facts. He had us scoring for fun in the Championship with a team on a maximum 15k wage and a maximum transfer fee of 1.7M before Murray and Duffy came in the subsequent season for 2.5M and 4M respectively. No amount of stating our losses (largely down to depreciation on a new stadium, academy costs and promotion bonuses) will change the fact that he is a fantastic 2nd division manager. His accolades in the top tier are still up for debate, even though we survived comfortably and played some decent football in our first season.
Something significant has changed since the turn of the year, and again, you can't ignore the first half of this season. So saying 'told you so' is somewhat inane, considering every manager will eventually stagnate and get the boot.
That all said, congratulations on your promotion. Nothing against Norwich, good away day and I wish the artificial animosity between our fans (just because we have your former manager) would die out.