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What game started the snowball to the current situation?

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  • UEAAddickUEAAddick
    edited December 19
    Powell having money pulled from him after winning league 1. We were onto something special and I still believe we could have done a back to back promotion. Huge opportunity missed. Can't really tie it down to one game, but there are moments when chances to do something have gone.
  • thai malaysia addickthai malaysia addick
    1991-2006 - 2 managers in 15 years (and one of those the whole period) - Curbs and Gritt
    2006-2021 - 21 managers in 15 years

    Not the whole cause, but...
  • BaileyBailey
    edited December 19
    Our demise in the premiership was almost inevitable. We were struggling to replace some exceptional players, Parker, Jensen, Di Canio, Smertin and replacements such as Murphy, dropped by Curbs, Ambrose and Rommedahl failed miserably. Add to that we couldn't find a goalkeeper good enough to replace Dean Kiely, Thomas Myre kept ten clean sheets in Curbs last season but Dowie brought in Scott Carson. Couldn't find a partner for Darren Bent, Francis Jeffers and Marcus Bent never cut it. Apart from the Carson choice most of the above happened under Curbs, he spent the Parker money on Rommedahl Ambrose, Jeffers and Murphy, they all failed and he knew it, I will always believe that Curbs left because he was finding it harder to create a new team, it would have taken a very very good manager to reinvent this club in the premier, but we went with Dowie, Reed and Pardew. Murray in my opinion used Dowie, firstly he was the only option after Billy Davies at Preston, had refused our job offer because he was not going to be responsible for players coming into the club, this was the responsibility of general manager, Andrew Mills, in Murray's new three tier management structure. It was the reason why I always thought that Dowie, shit manager though he was, never brought in Hasselbaink, Traore, Pouso, Amdy Faye and Diawara, he wasn't at the club long enough to set some of those deals up, Gibbs was signed at the end of the previous season, but it suited Murray to blame others when it all went horribly wrong. 
  • ElfsborgAddickElfsborgAddick
    It was criminal that we appointed Dowie, or anybody else for that matter with so little experience in the Premier League.
    We were a reasonably established club and should have been bringing in somebody with a lot more experience.
    Aside from that, Curbishley should have been allowed to stay and oversea his successor.
  • guinnessaddickguinnessaddick
    edited December 19
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    It was criminal that we appointed Dowie, or anybody else for that matter with so little experience in the Premier League.
    We were a reasonably established club and should have been bringing in somebody with a lot more experience.
    Aside from that, Curbishley should have been allowed to stay and oversea his successor.
    As bad a decision of appointing Dowie, sacking him and replacing him with Reed was worse.
  • ElfsborgAddickElfsborgAddick
    guinnessaddick said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    It was criminal that we appointed Dowie, or anybody else for that matter with so little experience in the Premier League.
    We were a reasonably established club and should have been bringing in somebody with a lot more experience.
    Aside from that, Curbishley should have been allowed to stay and oversea his successor.
    As bad a decision of appointing Dowie, sacking him and 
     replacing him with Reed was worse.

    We should have at least given Dowie till the new year, slowly he was beginning to turn things around. 
  • BaileyBailey
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    guinnessaddick said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    It was criminal that we appointed Dowie, or anybody else for that matter with so little experience in the Premier League.
    We were a reasonably established club and should have been bringing in somebody with a lot more experience.
    Aside from that, Curbishley should have been allowed to stay and oversea his successor.
    As bad a decision of appointing Dowie, sacking him and 
     replacing him with Reed was worse.

    We should have at least given Dowie till the new year, slowly he was beginning to turn things around. 
    Wasn't Dowie's sacking forced on Murray by the other directors ? 



  • ElfsborgAddickElfsborgAddick
    Bailey said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    guinnessaddick said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    It was criminal that we appointed Dowie, or anybody else for that matter with so little experience in the Premier League.
    We were a reasonably established club and should have been bringing in somebody with a lot more experience.
    Aside from that, Curbishley should have been allowed to stay and oversea his successor.
    As bad a decision of appointing Dowie, sacking him and 
     replacing him with Reed was worse.

    We should have at least given Dowie till the new year, slowly he was beginning to turn things around. 
    Wasn't Dowie's sacking forced on Murray by the other directors ? 



    No idea.
  • Dazzler21Dazzler21
    Honestly I think the issue started the moment Slater and Jiminez sold up. As I said before, it has been nothing to do with the on field shite, but the progressively shitter and shitter owners. 
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