One of our most reviled ex-players joined Boro as Wee Gordon's first signing on October 30th.
Since then they have won only one in seven and have plummeted from 4th to 11th.
Are the two events perhaps related?
As an aside, who else reckons Boro will be in the third-tier within two years?
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bent was chuff in the small amount i saw yesterday he partnered lita
cardiff's skipper is hudson 3rd in the table they are, we certainly get the worst out of some of our players
Something in what you say there, Ooh Aaaargh.
We signed Hudson because he was the skipper and rock in a Palace defence that conceded the least goals in the division.
But as always, it's always about getting the right combination of players and confidence in a team.
That's the manager's job.
bent was chuff in the small amount i saw yesterday he partnered lita
cardiff's skipper is hudson 3rd in the table they are, we certainly get the worst out of some of our players[/quote]
Hmmmmm, I don't think we hated Hudson in the same way as we did Bent!
Although, you are right, he is playing very well for Cardiff, much better than he did for us.
Nothing changes :-)
Marcus Bent is the opitome of what went wrong with Charlton.
Just seeing the irony behind what I'm reading. Like to paraphrase a couple of years ago ......
"I think Watford are in more danger of the third tier if they go down than Charlton tbh. Pardew is a good manager and I think will get it right there. ..."
Not taking the piss at all, Dan, just seeing perhaps how other club's fans may have seen us at the time(!)
Could happen to Strachan and Boro - or anyone.
It happened to us.
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Boro seem to have a hell of a lot of the same things going on at their club as we had at ours when our decline started.
You get the feeling that the players there were very unhappy about Big Nose getting the sack and it seems to have dragged the club right down.
They have a lot of young, home grown players who were brought through by Southgate and that could be a factor.
The CCC is a very competitive league and any frailities get exposed very quickly as we found out last year.
Yep, especially if you can't defend and you can't score either.
A split dressing room hardly helps.
Especially also if you've got a megalomaniac manager.
As we found out last year.
The CCC is a very competitive league and any frailities get exposed very quickly as we found out last year.[/quote]
Yep, especially if you can't defend and you can't score either.
A split dressing room hardly helps.
Especially also if you've got a megalomaniac manager.
As we found out last year.[/quote]
Yes, I bet Wee Gordon is finding out that life in the CCC is just a bit harder than the Glasgow Annual Two Horse Race....
like it or lump it, aliadiere is currently the best striker we have by a mile
aliadiere
then lita
then i'm guessing chris killen
then emnes
then luke williams
then after danny coyne marcus bent
For those who don't know Danny Coyne is a Boro goalkeeper!
Marcus Bent - I honestly don't know how he's been a pro for so long at such a high level
He's SHIT, no sorry - his attitude and workrate is shit and god knows how top level managers don't see that when I can
In January 2006, it was announced that Bent had signed for Charlton Athletic in a deal worth £2.3 million. When Curbs signed him, he said that he had been chasing for a long time. Everton manager David Moyes said "It represents a good profit for us for an average player". Bent had only cost the Toffees £450,000 from Ipswich Town.
What was David Moyes secret.....?
Re-running the video in my mind, I seem to recall the year before Everton had a storming season, finishing top 4 or 5, with Tim Cahill driving midfield in a 4-5-1 and Mucus Bent ploughing a lonely furrow up front.
But the defining point was ...... our old chum Mucus worked his sphericals off for the team cause.
He might have scored only 7 goals himself, but chased everything and created the space for midfielders to rack up goal after goal.
That was the M Bent that Curbs had watched, no wonder our manager decided to get him - regardless of cost.
Good workrate and 2 goals in his first 3 or 4 games for us was enough effort expended, and he would be coasting after that .......practically the only time he scored was in a hotel room with some old strumpet.
Curbs had a reputation for getting the best out of average players - but he couldn't with Mucus Bent.
David Moyes did. So what was his secret .....?
Why buy a player for near his biggest ever fee, when he'd been shit all that season? At least players like Davies and Zamora put the god damn effort in whatever. Bent battled in front of a very good mifield for a season, then became absolute atrocious whilst Everton fans couldn't believe the dog shite drop off in form. Like Boothroyd if you get him for free fine, he may just about do a job. Most likely he won't. Whether Curbs was involved in agreeing the fee it was his fault for allowing such a ridiculous price to be justifiable. I remember Moyes's press conference, you could hear the surprise in his voice. Macrus Bent is the classic example of many managers judging a player on what he could do with his impressive physique not what he has consitently not done all through his career.
Second to Amdy Faye in my most dislike players list.
Obviously he's past it now but he's been ok for some clubs in the past.
anyway, he's a muppet.
Curbs only managed him for 3 or 4 months and he was injured for some of that time.
Not Curbs best signing for sure but forced upon him because of a longterm injury to Bartlett.