SpikeJohnPCooper was a manager who could get a team of ok players playing lovely football. I remember going to Palace in the cup when they had lots of great players and we were Div 3. We outplayed them but think it was a draw in the end.
Yeah, we should have beaten Palace in the first game and the replay. They scored very late equalisers in both.
We lost the second replay 2 1.
You're right, that was a good Palace side and we pushed them to the wire.
John Paskin’s career highlight in that home game. Looked a superstar.
Edit - actually I might be confusing games. Spike?
?its probably only us and Hull fans who would have anything decent to say about Steve Bruce tbf, not great when you consider how many clubs he's been at
Early Bruce - great
but then it gradually got a bit weird - remember when he named Furlong (?) as a sub when he was at a hospital up north waiting for his wife to give birth and to make it to the game she would had to give birth early and PF then would need to leave immediately
... him naming his own son ahead of England international Nicky Butt in midfield .... now Butt wasn't great - but compared with Alex Bruce ?
Cooper - a lovely man and i had some great times following his side.
Fry - it was a genuinely exciting time for the club with the new owners, new stand etc and i didn't miss a game home and away for a few years
Hughton - the last season i actually enjoyed
People also forget with Fry that even though we had half the country's professionals on our books at some time he did make a VERY decent profit overall on his transfers
I don’t Think we can say whether a manager was universally respected because it’s all about personal opinion. For me Barry Fry was great fun and we played some good football under him. I would be really happy with that from Mowbray
SpikeSheep2SpikeTam- was it a home defeat against Peterborough? He was a good bloke.
Tranmere I think.
We had three successive heavy home beatings of Bristol City, Forest and then Tranmere.
Are you ok?
Bristol City was away, open terrace in very heavy rain.
It was Forest, Portsmouth and Tranmere at home (I've looked them up)
Well, looking them up is bloody cheating innit?
We had a 3-0 at home against Cambridge as well but I think that was when Mackay got sacked and Macari came in maybe. Claridge scored for Cambridge with a shinned cross.
Was the 3-0 beating at Bristol the one where Cole and Rosenior slaughtered us? Or was it the Wayne Allison hat-trick? We had some dickings at Bristol around then. Didn't we have two sent off in the one game? Rowbotham was one of them.
The 1993 3-0 was Wayne Allison. A hideous night. I am a big fan of roofs on stands in bad weather.
Cole and Rosenior was the year before I think.
Following the 1993 disaster we didn't lose there again until 2019.
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John Paskin’s career highlight in that home game. Looked a superstar.
Edit - actually I might be confusing games. Spike?
No, Paskin was earlier than that I reckon.
Sturridge scored in the first game - Gleghorn in the replay, Peer in the third game I think.
Rags?its probably only us and Hull fans who would have anything decent to say about Steve Bruce tbf, not great when you consider how many clubs he's been at
Early Bruce - great
but then it gradually got a bit weird - remember when he named Furlong (?) as a sub when he was at a hospital up north waiting for his wife to give birth and to make it to the game she would had to give birth early and PF then would need to leave immediately
... him naming his own son ahead of England international Nicky Butt in midfield .... now Butt wasn't great - but compared with Alex Bruce ?
Was Heskey who was the incipient dad iirc
Rags?its probably only us and Hull fans who would have anything decent to say about Steve Bruce tbf, not great when you consider how many clubs he's been at
Early Bruce - great
but then it gradually got a bit weird - remember when he named Furlong (?) as a sub when he was at a hospital up north waiting for his wife to give birth and to make it to the game she would had to give birth early and PF then would need to leave immediately
... him naming his own son ahead of England international Nicky Butt in midfield .... now Butt wasn't great - but compared with Alex Bruce ?
Alex wasn't even a midfielder.
That was at West Ham. There was a young CB Latka who had a bad game there and Bruce blamed him for everything. Even though we were generally useless.
Sheep2
The 1993 3-0 was Wayne Allison. A hideous night. I am a big fan of roofs on stands in bad weather.
Cole and Rosenior was the year before I think.
Following the 1993 disaster we didn't lose there again until 2019.
Yes I do remember that rain.
I remember thinking it couldn't get any worse than Wayne Allison scoring a hat-trick against us.
At least Cole was ace and Rosenior was a good handful as well. But Wayne Allison?
I think I just kept muttering on the way home "Fecking Wayne Allison scored a hat-trick..."
From memory, the one goal he got played through on on one, stumbled, fell over the ball, got back up, half fell over again and still nobody got near him before he stabbed it towards goal and it barely dribbled over the line. It was like a slow motion nightmare.
Rags?its probably only us and Hull fans who would have anything decent to say about Steve Bruce tbf, not great when you consider how many clubs he's been at
Early Bruce - great
but then it gradually got a bit weird - remember when he named Furlong (?) as a sub when he was at a hospital up north waiting for his wife to give birth and to make it to the game she would had to give birth early and PF then would need to leave immediately
... him naming his own son ahead of England international Nicky Butt in midfield .... now Butt wasn't great - but compared with Alex Bruce ?
Was Heskey who was the incipient dad iirc
You are absolutely correct - my apologies ... and of course we signed Heskey from Liverpool which is why it was a northern hospital.
As i typed it i thought to myself - "why was it a northern hospital for Furlong when he was iving in London due to his Chelsea days ?" ... hence the (?) after his name to illustrate my doubts
RagsRags?its probably only us and Hull fans who would have anything decent to say about Steve Bruce tbf, not great when you consider how many clubs he's been at
Early Bruce - great
but then it gradually got a bit weird - remember when he named Furlong (?) as a sub when he was at a hospital up north waiting for his wife to give birth and to make it to the game she would had to give birth early and PF then would need to leave immediately
... him naming his own son ahead of England international Nicky Butt in midfield .... now Butt wasn't great - but compared with Alex Bruce ?
Was Heskey who was the incipient dad iirc
You are absolutely correct - my apologies ... and of course we signed Heskey from Liverpool which is why it was a northern hospital.
As i typed it i thought to myself - "why was it a northern hospital for Furlong when he was iving in London due to his Chelsea days ?"
He may have borrowed Savage's satnav, I suppose.
RagsRags?its probably only us and Hull fans who would have anything decent to say about Steve Bruce tbf, not great when you consider how many clubs he's been at
Early Bruce - great
but then it gradually got a bit weird - remember when he named Furlong (?) as a sub when he was at a hospital up north waiting for his wife to give birth and to make it to the game she would had to give birth early and PF then would need to leave immediately
... him naming his own son ahead of England international Nicky Butt in midfield .... now Butt wasn't great - but compared with Alex Bruce ?
Was Heskey who was the incipient dad iirc
You are absolutely correct - my apologies ... and of course we signed Heskey from Liverpool which is why it was a northern hospital.
As i typed it i thought to myself - "why was it a northern hospital for Furlong when he was iving in London due to his Chelsea days ?"
No need for apologies mate, just glad my brain is working today
Mowbrays Toe & KneeIf you look back a lot of the issues are around how they left -
Monk - tapping up Bellingham
Rowett - Flashing his knickers
Hughton - F'ing up the playoffs
Mcleish - Going across the expressway
Bruce - Wigan ????
Up until then we probably would have remembered them fondly - So it has to be the likes of Fry, TF, Cooper - all left with dignity and still kept a place in their hearts for us
Hughton didn't leave because of the playoffs, he jumped to Norwich once he saw how bad the off the pitch crap would be the following season, then Pannu appointed Clark!
Yes but I blame him for not reaching the final due to the way he set up against blackpool. I loved him up until his final game. Didn't blame him for leaving.
TamRagsRags?its probably only us and Hull fans who would have anything decent to say about Steve Bruce tbf, not great when you consider how many clubs he's been at
Early Bruce - great
but then it gradually got a bit weird - remember when he named Furlong (?) as a sub when he was at a hospital up north waiting for his wife to give birth and to make it to the game she would had to give birth early and PF then would need to leave immediately
... him naming his own son ahead of England international Nicky Butt in midfield .... now Butt wasn't great - but compared with Alex Bruce ?
Was Heskey who was the incipient dad iirc
You are absolutely correct - my apologies ... and of course we signed Heskey from Liverpool which is why it was a northern hospital.
As i typed it i thought to myself - "why was it a northern hospital for Furlong when he was iving in London due to his Chelsea days ?"
He may have borrowed Savage's satnav, I suppose.
Bad idea thinking Emile could have moved out of the delivery room quickly anyway. Would have felt a twinge in his thigh or something.