I have to remind myself of this regularly. I'm not one to start banging on about Hereford and being a real fan but if you told me where we'd be now after some of those Withdean matches, I'd never have believed you.
The general standard and depth of talent throughout the top flight of English football pisses all over the level before 96/97, so we'd have to be stinking the division out with no points or goals at all for that to be a concern.
Agreed although that result against Man City is looking like an under-performance now
Yep.
This is a really good point. It wasn't just the end of Potter's 3rd season, but this was carried into the next season as well. Overall, our run at the end his time as manager was phenomenal - 30 points from his final 14 games!
I'm glad someone has remembered how good the end of his tenure was!
Much as I disliked the way he left, I don't think he gets enough credit for building and developing that 6th-placed team. Sure, RDZ grabbed the baton and ran with it, but I doubt that there's many managers go into a new club with such a balanced team and in such great form as we were at the time. Even aside from the apparent discontent between him and the club board, I think RDZ was found out somewhat in 23-24.
Was that like Mullery adding Horton and Ward to Peter Taylor's team but on amphetamines.
And Ferguson.
I don’t know about you, but after the end of 21-22, I had really high hopes at the beginning of 22-23. None of us were really that fussed about selling Bissouma on the basis that we’d already seen how good Caicedo was.
