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The "do they mean us?" thread pt 4

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5 minutes ago, KIRBYFOX93 said:

Have fans forgotten that rodgers took us around europe multiple times, and brought us silverware. Yes, he should of gone earlier last season, but show him some respect. He’s done a lot for the club. 

Have you forgotten the damage he's done to this football club? 

 

He can rot in hell 

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4 minutes ago, KIRBYFOX93 said:

Have fans forgotten that rodgers took us around europe multiple times, and brought us silverware. Yes, he should of gone earlier last season, but show him some respect. He’s done a lot for the club. 

 

I agree. 

 

The last 18 months with Rodgers were ****ing dire. Utter crap. But the first 2.5 years we played sensational football and won a trophy. 

 

Lest we forget we used to be this good. 

 

 

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I think, given time, Brendan might be remembered fondly.

 

The FA Cup really was our holy grail.

 

And we fvcked up the big clubs for 2 years.

 

If it wasn't for Covid, I genuinely think we'd have made the top 4, qualified for the Champs League and taken the club to the next level.

 

A real sliding doors moment.

 

I still don't think he'll be as fondly remembered as Little, O'Neill, Pearson and Ranieri though.

 

Even though he achieved more than 3 of those and two of them jumped ship.

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4 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

I think, given time, Brendan might be remembered fondly.

The FA Cup really was our holy grail.  And we fvcked up the big clubs for 2 years.

If it wasn't for Covid, I genuinely think we'd have made the top 4, qualified for the Champs League and taken the club to the next level.  A real sliding doors moment.

I  still don't think he'll be as fondly remembered as Little, O'Neill, Pearson and Ranieri though.

 

Even though he achieved more than 3 of those and two of them jumped ship.

 

Does Brian Little really belong in that company?

 

That list reminds me a bit of Del Boy'a van:

 

Paris, Milan, Peckham...

 

 

 

 

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Just now, murphy said:

 

Does Brian Little really belong in that company?

 

That list reminds me a vit of Del Boy'a van:

 

Paris, Milan, Peckham...

 

I'm 44 years old. I started watching us under David Pleat.

 

For me, and I'd guess anyone around my age, Little gave us hope.

 

He turned us from the brink of the old division 3 to almost taking us to the promised land.

 

Arguably the man that started it. Even though we had over a decade of shite in the noughties.

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5 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

 

I'm 44 years old. I started watching us under David Pleat.

 

For me, and I'd guess anyone around my age, Little gave us hope.

 

He turned us from the brink of the old division 3 to almost taking us to the promised land.

 

Arguably the man that started it. Even though we had over a decade of shite in the noughties.

Little did take us to the promised land and then jumped ship as soon as Villa approached (after saying he wasn't going anywhere). 

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7 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

 

I'm 44 years old. I started watching us under David Pleat.

 

For me, and I'd guess anyone around my age, Little gave us hope.

 

He turned us from the brink of the old division 3 to almost taking us to the promised land.

 

Arguably the man that started it. Even though we had over a decade of shite in the noughties.

But do you remember how much he was hated when he left, the feelings among most supporters were way worse towards little and they are towards Rodgers.

Over time, people have relaxed and realised the immense work he did to turn the club around and get us back to the top flight.

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26 minutes ago, KIRBYFOX93 said:

Have fans forgotten that rodgers took us around europe multiple times, and brought us silverware. Yes, he should have gone earlier last season, but show him some respect. He’s done a lot for the club. 

 He had the opportunity to be remembered fondly by walking away before it was too late and by not coming out with comments against the club and supporters which only intention was to ensure he was fired with a pay off.

 

There is definitely blame on the board for not acting sooner but Rodger’s made his bed by not walking and only acted in self interest, undoing his own legacy week by week until the damage was insurmountable.

 

For that he will never have a legacy here.

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3 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

 

I'm 44 years old. I started watching us under David Pleat.

 

For me, and I'd guess anyone around my age, Little gave us hope.

 

He turned us from the brink of the old division 3 to almost taking us to the promised land.

 

Arguably the man that started it. Even though we had over a decade of shite in the noughties.

I know, I was there too.  And i remember the acrimony.

 

I just don't believe that any achievements or 'almosts'  were on the same scale of legends like MON, Don and Nigel.

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4 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

 

I'm 44 years old. I started watching us under David Pleat.

 

For me, and I'd guess anyone around my age, Little gave us hope.

 

He turned us from the brink of the old division 3 to almost taking us to the promised land.

 

Arguably the man that started it. Even though we had over a decade of shite in the noughties.

I’ve often said this, took a club that was on its knees and turned it round on the tightest of budgets, started the momentum that led to all those Wembley finals and O’Neil, yes we slumped for a period but the club had changed, we’d got a new stadium had had success which changed the outside worlds perception of us which allowed us to spring forward again when the conditions were right.

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6 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

 

I'm 44 years old. I started watching us under David Pleat.

 

For me, and I'd guess anyone around my age, Little gave us hope.

 

He turned us from the brink of the old division 3 to almost taking us to the promised land.

 

Arguably the man that started it. Even though we had over a decade of shite in the noughties.

Agree with this.

 

I started watching under Brian Hamilton. Despite the Filbert Street passion we were a nothing club going nowhere.

 

Little restored the hope and the excitement. The Wembley trips started then, followed by O’Neill and the League Cups. I really think it was the higher profile that we gained then that ultimately helped us following administration. Just as our PL win and FA Cup give us a much higher profile now 

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28 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

I think, given time, Brendan might be remembered fondly.

 

The FA Cup really was our holy grail.

 

And we fvcked up the big clubs for 2 years.

 

If it wasn't for Covid, I genuinely think we'd have made the top 4, qualified for the Champs League and taken the club to the next level.

 

A real sliding doors moment.

 

I still don't think he'll be as fondly remembered as Little, O'Neill, Pearson and Ranieri though.

 

Even though he achieved more than 3 of those and two of them jumped ship.

Not by me.

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14 minutes ago, murphy said:

I know, I was there too.  And i remember the acrimony.

 

I just don't believe that any achievements or 'almosts'  were on the same scale of legends like MON, Don and Nigel.

 

Like I said, we had a decade of utter dross, but I don't believe we'd be where we are without Little.

 

He made us believe what was possible.

 

And looking back, with hindsight, I can't blame Little or O'Neill for going. Boyhood clubs.

 

Easy to say as a middle aged man, much harder to take at the time.

 

But, we had the last laugh, didn't work out that perfectly for them.

 

It's still raw that Brendan took us down, but see where we are in 3/5 years...

 

The club is always bigger than any man.

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11 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

 

It's always like one of those:

 

Would you prefer England to win the World Cup or your team to win the league?

 

People answer it seriously like only one could ever happen lol

T’is the very nature of a hypothetical question or proposition, especially those of an unsavoury nature

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9 minutes ago, ARTY_FOX said:

The offer was never there to accept though

This is precisely what irritates me when this conversation comes around. When we do well following a relegation people come out of the woodwork talking about “blessings in disguise” and “getting the club back”. They forget about the whole jeopardy that relegation brings.

 

Turn one way and you’re straight back up.

Turn the other and you fail in the playoff lottery, lose revenues, get stuck in the Championship and become one of the litany of clubs like West Brom, Sunderland, Sheff Wed, Watford or Norwich. Just bobbing around in the division hoping that this is the year they happen upon the magic formula to get them out the league. You could get stuck for a generation. 
 

If relegation does prove to be a “blessing in disguise” with Maresca coming in and a new trajectory. It’s still a fairly irrelevant conversation. You’d never plan it as a strategy. You’d never gamble the clubs existence in the way described above. 
 

I’d much rather a history where we sacked Rodgers earlier, stayed in the Premier League, appointment Maresca and started our rebuild from a position of strength. 
 

We were an established Premier League club. We didn’t need relegation to force a reset. To think anything else is a hangover of the small club mentality we’ve grown up with being historically a yo-yo team. 
 

(And I don’t even hate Rodgers like some do and blame the club for not acting earlier, to some extent, when it was obvious that he was presiding over a terminal decline) 

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