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What was your expectations when McMenemy first took charge?


Pick Nickering said:
I thought we’d win the league easily,think we lost the first 4 games without scoring a goal then we were losing to Grimsby at Roker , I’ve never heard booing like it just before Swindlehurst scored on the stroke of half time then we conceded straight from the restart! Finished 3-3. I was a teenager then and it still took another couple of months before I could admit Mackemenemy was shite.
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Almost sure that was a Full Members cup tie.
 
Still got all the little newspaper cuttings in a scrapbook. I remember how demoralising it was just flicking through the scrap book seeing defeat after defeat for a fair few pages and not even any goals.
Also very little footage exists of this season as far as I can see. Think I've only seen the two Man Utd cup games and randomly Norwich away near the end of the season and also think a friendly away to Darlo pre season.
 
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Expectations were to win the league.

I was in Benidorm when the 1st few results starting filtering through.
Think we lost all 5 in a fortnight. 😕

Do remember a little run when we beat Carlisle away and Boro home and I thought here we go , get ready for lift off.

Then it just got worse.
 
Fats said:
I was chuffed to blazes, thought the good times would be a given. My dad said on the day it was announced (made national TV) it would be a disaster. Called him a lower league manager who had got lucky at Southampton.

5 games into the season. 5 defeats & no goals scored.....................last time I argued football with my dad.
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Seamus McDonough. f***ing hell
 
This thread brings it all back for me just how bad those days were, from the initial hope & belief to where the club ended up that took some time to recover from - if we have. His legacy on how to ruin a club worked. Over a beer in S'ton a few local llads said that Peter Rodrigues was the person that dictated the team and how they played which all became evident in time.
 
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I'm rarely widely optimistic or pessimistic. I just thought well we've got a decent manager on paper let's see how it goes.

I hate the bloke, absolute fraud.
 
When stationed at Lee on the Solent I used to go and watch Portsmouth and Southampton and had high hopes that he would be a good fit for us. Those hopes were soon dashed.
 
Qwerty said:
McMenemy didn't actually relegate us. Stokoe had plenty games to keep us up.
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f***ing hell, I can't believe I've read that on here.

After "Big Mac" (who turned out to be more of a chicken nugget) had been given two seasons to fuck the place over signing shite players to a squad now bereft of any confidence or established style of play, you'd expect someone to come in with a few games left and turn all that around?
 
Qwerty said:
McMenemy didn't actually relegate us. Stokoe had plenty games to keep us up.
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70s traveller said:
But the capabiliities of what was left by Lawrie made it very unlikely. Mc relegated us.
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Proctor missed vital penalties against Barnsley in the last game and then the home leg of the play offs. Bradford City beat us twice 3-2 within a fortnight or so. We were relegated on away goals counting double. All what ifs, buts and maybes. Stokoe in my view is beyond blame.
SAFCOldie said:
Still got all the little newspaper cuttings in a scrapbook. I remember how demoralising it was just flicking through the scrap book seeing defeat after defeat for a fair few pages and not even any goals.
Also very little footage exists of this season as far as I can see. Think I've only seen the two Man Utd cup games and randomly Norwich away near the end of the season and also think a friendly away to Darlo pre season.
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There is lots of coverage of games on Internet eg play off at Sunderland against Gillingham.
 
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