Did Peter Reid get it wrong after 1999 promotion..


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HitchBerg

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The following two years with back to back 7th place top flight finishes says no to a lot of fans. But why did it go wrong after that.
 
Arguably the North Stand extension shouldn’t have happened and the nigh on £8M it cost spent on a handful of quality players. Can understand Sir Bob’s thinking, he wanted to leave a legacy and he did but he went the other way and we’d had an extra couple of years at the top end of the table probably competing in Europe even just the once or twice, the North Stand could then have been extended and paid for itself.
 
Quinn was instrumental and when he began to fade we didn't replace him or change our style. Losing Hutchison was also a blow that third season and he wasn't replaced.

I reckon whatever we had done though, Sunderland being Sunderland we'd have reverted to being a struggling side sooner rather than later. We've never been a consistent top half side in the top flight since when? The 50s?
 
We were linked with Robbie Keane and Trevor Sinclair loads. Not sure if either were ever close to signing for us
What did he do after us? Went to West Ham but he didn't set the world on fire. Mind he was quality for us. Seemed to be a player that lacked consistency over his career though.
He was great for us but I agree he seemed patchy elsewhere. Didn’t seem to do much for West Ham.
 
What did he do after us? Went to West Ham but he didn't set the world on fire. Mind he was quality for us. Seemed to be a player that lacked consistency over his career though.
He got a bad injury not long after signing for them iirc.
We were linked with Robbie Keane and Trevor Sinclair loads. Not sure if either were ever close to signing for us

He was great for us but I agree he seemed patchy elsewhere. Didn’t seem to do much for West Ham.
We were link quite heavily with Sinclair. If we really wanted him we should have used hutchison as a makeweight in that deal.
 
If we’d have strengthened better when Melville, Ball, Clark and Bridges went in 1999/00 then Bould, Summerbee and Makin the following season we would have been better off. We did get Hutchinson, Thome, Schwarz and obviously Arca came good eventually but were on a downward trend. Can’t remember which season it was but went from a week before Christmas to nigh on the end of March before winning.
 
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