MadAmster
Vital Squad Member
A lad I grew up with posted this on FB. It is so true............
For all those people calling for Lampard's head after just 3 games, learn a lesson from the past. When Jim Smith arrived at the Baseball Ground with Schteeve McClaren in 1995, I watched one of the worst games of my life, a dull, insipid 0-0 home draw against Port Vale in front of about 10000 fans. The second game wasn't much better, neither was the third & so on. Fans were calling for JS to go & the sooner the better & don't forget, he was a manager with tons of experience.
In that season, Smith & McClaren brought in Dean Yates, Daryl Powell, Ronnie Willams, Russell Hoult, Sean Flynn, Chris Boden, Paul Trollope, Matt Carbon, Snakey Rowett, Robin van der Laan and some bloke called Igor Stimac. Whilst Igor was the catalyst for that side, a side that got dicked 5-1 at Tranmere in Igor's first match, that team then started to gel and the most obvious comparison between that team & Frank's team is the numbers of personnel in.
It will take time, no doubt some more bad results, but when they click and they will, we will be back to form. I doubt we will be promoted this year, but when Frank has his team playing his way & they know what they are doing, we will be a force to be reckoned with. It takes time, not a managerial merry-go-round. Now, I wonder what happened to that 1995 side?
For all those people calling for Lampard's head after just 3 games, learn a lesson from the past. When Jim Smith arrived at the Baseball Ground with Schteeve McClaren in 1995, I watched one of the worst games of my life, a dull, insipid 0-0 home draw against Port Vale in front of about 10000 fans. The second game wasn't much better, neither was the third & so on. Fans were calling for JS to go & the sooner the better & don't forget, he was a manager with tons of experience.
In that season, Smith & McClaren brought in Dean Yates, Daryl Powell, Ronnie Willams, Russell Hoult, Sean Flynn, Chris Boden, Paul Trollope, Matt Carbon, Snakey Rowett, Robin van der Laan and some bloke called Igor Stimac. Whilst Igor was the catalyst for that side, a side that got dicked 5-1 at Tranmere in Igor's first match, that team then started to gel and the most obvious comparison between that team & Frank's team is the numbers of personnel in.
It will take time, no doubt some more bad results, but when they click and they will, we will be back to form. I doubt we will be promoted this year, but when Frank has his team playing his way & they know what they are doing, we will be a force to be reckoned with. It takes time, not a managerial merry-go-round. Now, I wonder what happened to that 1995 side?