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Super Mark McGhee
- Thread starter Zesh Rehman
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Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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Poynings? Henfield? I always sort of assumed that these were made up place names. Like Pende. Or Narnia.
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Why can't we all get along?
(I'm guessing here, but seems so much more fun if we don't)
The lassie may have her hair brassy, but she's nae so smart and sassy
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SICKASAGULL
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- Aug 26, 2007
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Think McGhee and Coppell,perhaps we had the right managers but the wrong board,think about it!
dougdeep
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No need to.
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Firstly, if we didn't have this board, we wouldn't have a club for them to manage!
Secondly, if we DID exist with a different board, Coppell may have just either stayed under duress, until his contract expired, or have renegged and walked anyway.
Even worse, another board might have hung onto McGhee until the even-more-bitter end - then we'd have no fans, no players other than the old chestnuts who we couldn't sell, and be staring down another battle against extinction.
portslade seagull
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Oh cheesus, are you suggesting some imaginary millionaires who 'should' have been Albion's saviours, but somehow just didn't appear to exist?
We are getting into the territory of little green Martians beaming down 10 George Bests and a Gordon Banks, and re-atomising to an Old Trafford-style stadium on an island that suddenly rises just off the beach
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No co-incidence then, that the people who wish for a different chairman to DK, and (in many cases) wanted to keep Magoo, are the ones who have struggles with reality.
British Bulldog
The great escape
- Feb 6, 2006
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In fairness the current board did keep saying there was money to buy a striker and Dean Wilkins proved it, If I remember rightly the board even stumped up a £25k short term loan fee for GNW to try and help McGhee.
portslade seagull
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Just some support in the transfer market would have been nice....much better to be playing in the Championship than the 1st div as they are now finding out with lower crowds....it will take far longer to entice the fans back then it did to lose them .....or maybe thats what you want..even lower crowds so you can have the ground all to yourself
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Well then o wise one, why d'ya think the dosh wasn't splashed out?
Do you imagine DK kept the club in existence on a tighter budget than your imagination allows a chairman to normally avail?
Crikey, that suggests he practically worked MIRACLES to keep The Albion alive.... and had discipline that didn't allow a bank to plunge us into such debt we'd go into administration or wind-up order due to the impossible credit hole he could have dug.
Sensible to off McGhee then, who would only sell players but not replace them with like, or anyone as capable as the one sold. Plus, he couldn't get the best out of the talents he did have (even N.Jones has done well since leaving, and why didn't we keep Wayne Gray who's excelling for Orient?), alienated players, and didn't hardly dip into the youth squad at all. No wonder DK was handing out elongated contracts to aging players and injured.
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1. If you sell players for £2.5million (Virgo, Harding, Knight, Currie and Cullip) and are given none of the proceeds to buy players, you are not going to replace like with like
2. Wayne Gray was signed during the Peter Taylor era, and did okay, but nothing special for us. MM did want to sign Iwelumo, but DK would not agree to his personal terms.
3. As for youth squad, MM gave Virgo, Robinson, Gatting, Hinshelowood and Harding regular games. Coppell gave no youth team players a chance, and had a far bigger budget than MM.
4. Leon Knight could get alienated in a phone box, as has been proved by his popularity at Swansea, Sheffield Wed and Huddersfield. CKR also had 'issues' at Bury.
5. Coppell gave the contract to Dean Blackwell for a season, who was both aging and injured, and never played a single game under the contract. I personally think he did the right thing.
MM is not the spawn of Beezlebub that you make him out to be, and your vitriol, bitterness and one-eyed approach is so unbalanced that it destroys the valid comments that you have to make
Uncle Spielberg
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But apart from the above he was a lardy jocko clown.
Rougvie
Rising Damp
Its LUCK with Motherwell, they are about the only side in SWEATY with decent youth players coming through, added to some imspired signings by his predecessor.
Its laughable that he is being touted as a potential Scotland manager.
Its laughable that he is being touted as a potential Scotland manager.
Zesh Rehman
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Its not LUCK with Motherwell, its the GENIUS and MASTER MIND of MARK MCGHEE
Uncle Buck
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Still going then?
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He is the spawn of beelzebub, Saddam McGhee.
If you would stop loving him so much you would have his babies, then you would realise the truth - he was not going anywhere with the squad - and all your rubbish about "he wasn't ABLE to because he didn't get ANY MONEY" is made ABSOLUTE AND UTTER BULLSHITE . BULLSHIT by the far more interesting football that Dean Wilkins has already enabled with that same terrible BUDGET!!
ffs.
Anyway, I only respond, to mcghee lovefests from people who weep softly at his departure. It doesn't do justice to DW to BLITHER on about how great MM was, when he really wasn't, or to suggest that he should have stayed, because he shouldn't. This was agreed upon by the man at the top, lest you "quiet majority" forget. DK was right.
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Dean Wilkins has already PROVED that magoo was rightfully given the big 'E', by serving up some decent football DESPITE being left with no great squad and having no money either.
It's better with Wilkins - FACT, QED, & END OF.
It's better with Wilkins - FACT, QED, & END OF.