maccydee wrote:Last time I remember it long term was under DJ and he used to get so much stick for a variety of reasons. His teams played really good football but were quite soft when it wasn’t going our way. Ole tried to install that as did Trollope and neither of them had much success. We don’t really have the patience I think.
Every manager since then has played functional football. Must be a reason for this.
Any ideas why we know something different to what Malky, Warnock, Harris and McCarthy know?
I think you make a very good point.
To be honest the football under DJ was up there with the very best I've seen in 50 years supporting this lot.
But I know there were plenty on here that didn't like DJ (understandably) but I still say that if we had beaten Blackpool that team had a very real chance of staying in the Prem for a good few seasons. Unlike the Mackay and Warnock promotion teams that simply needed too many additions to keep up the spirit and momentum.
I loved both promotion years.
But Mackay played truly awful, boring football but as it's the first time we got up, those memories will live long in my memory, including doing virtually every away game too. It was a great experience if not great football.
Warnock was different, to be fair, whilst his football was basic and direct there was a degree of excitement because of us just throwing it into the box !! Couple that with the togetherness of the squad that spilled over into the crowd and that was some ride
But nobody would claim it was great football.
At the moment the Warnock's football was like Barcelona with Messi compared
to McCarthy's idea of the "beautiful" game.