We have been far poorer this season than under McClaren. Fortunately we're still in a decent enough position to still go up.
So many things have been wrong over the last 12 months when really we should (and still can be ) be in a great position.
The club have spent a lot of money and we're not as as good as the team that lost at Wembley.
Shackell has been a great signing but the others, hmmm
Weimman - dreadful ever since he arrived
Johnson - started ok but simply awful for a long time now
Ince - hopeless
Blackmann - certainly doesn't look to be any improvement on what we already have
Camara - not seen enough of him
Butterfield - has done ok but not a patch on Hughes
Baird - abysmal
Pearce - not played a league game for us
22 million worth of players there.
Some of those, for example Johnson, have a bit of pedigree, so may still turn out to be ok.
Are these players simply not good enough? Or was it down to the manager?
It's certainly not helped what has gone on behind the scenes.
Obviously it's great that we now have a mega rich chairman. Not so great in my opinion is that he likes the limelight. When a player is signed I prefer to see the photo of the manager shaking hands with him, not the chairman. Going into the dressing room to bollockk players after a defeat isn't exactly great either.
It's also a big doubt that the manager actually signed any of the players. We now have this ridiculous transfer committee and it's hard to blame a manager who doesn't pick his own players.
The lol at Moyes was aimed at Derby not Moyes. Maybe you have lined up Pellegrini for the summer, hence the appointment of your academy coach to the end of the season? Billy Davies? Posted by Phantom66
Who is your favourite ever player for your team? - Paolo Di Canio, crazy genius, Payet could run him close in the next few years though. Posted by jordz16
I remember Stimac pretty well, he was a part of our incredibly famous Intertoto cup winning side! Tyrone Mears was a strange one, I remember him being tipped as a potential England player when he joined us, he then got injured after a couple of months and when he came back it was as if they had replaced him with a ringer.
My favourite player of the 90's was Julian D.icks, he used to sit in the bath with a can of coke and a mars bar up til 5 minutes before kick off and once ruptured his knee ligaments and still played a further 5 games before it was diagnosed after saying he thought it was just a dead leg, you dont get players like that these days.
Had no idea tin man played for your lot. How about Archie Gemmil and Charlie George and the Baseball Ground groundsman (proper football pitch)in the 70's My Sellic faves oldies McGrain, Dalgliesh, Macari oldish Latchford, Mcstay, Burns modernish Collins, DiCanio,Cadete more modernish Moravcik,Larsson, Lambert Today.....pass Posted by HENDRIK62
Don't remember most off these players too young lol but ted mcminn truly a legend beat five people then fall over his own feet brilliant
Back in the day; Andy Morrison, a thug with a questionable lifestyle who dragged us kicking and screaming out of the old division 2.
Weaver. Wembley '99, nuff said. When we signed him from Mansfield, he'd only played one competitive game, and shipped 7 in it, so it was a mild gamble. Worked out ok.
Ali Benarbia. The David Silva of his time. Even better when he teamed up with Eyal Berkovic in the swashbuckling Keegan years.
But there is a clear favourite for me, someone unlikely to ever be surpassed in legendary status. Stand forward, Shaun Goater.
Jordz - I don't think Stimac was ever as popular with your lot as with ours? Mears definitely has ability. Very similar at Derby. He was dreadful at first and then got injured. Came back and was a different player. Had his first name on the back of his shirt when he returned because he thought it might change his luck with injuries.
Weecheez - Intentional dark humour with Ted?
Vespa - Some good 90's Derby names from you there. Morley didn't play for us though!
Stoke - Surely some others in the present team will get close if they stay with you for long? A very different Stoke to what we've been used to. Bojan etc
Some great shouts there Jordz - I don't think Stimac was ever as popular with your lot as with ours? Mears definitely has ability. Very similar at Derby. He was dreadful at first and then got injured. Came back and was a different player. Had his first name on the back of his shirt when he returned because he thought it might change his luck with injuries. Weecheez - Intentional dark humour with Ted? Vespa - Some good 90's Derby names from you there. Morley didn't play for us though! Stoke - Surely some others in the present team will get close if they stay with you for long? A very different Stoke to what we've been used to. Bojan etc Posted by Jac35
maybe so jac but im abit cynical and look at them to be using us as a stepping stone and conna really class them as legends so to speak,smithy played all his career at stoke should of played for england imo
steino although only played for 3 years for us he was a goal machine and it was at a time when i never missed a match all be it in the lower leagues,.oh to be young again eh
ryan well he,s a collosus for us and has been with us since before promtion to the premiership and should at least be in the england setup if not playing but im bias
Stimic was unlucky with us really he just happened to be around at the same time as Bilic, Ferdinand and Potts who were all club legends, as for my favourite player to play for both West Ham and Derby has to be Paolo Wanchope.
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It's really hard to pick just one. I'm going to do top 3 from the 80's 90's 00's and this decade. You'll definitely know of one of them Jordz
Back in the day; Andy Morrison, a thug with a questionable lifestyle who dragged us kicking and screaming out of the old division 2.
Weaver. Wembley '99, nuff said. When we signed him from Mansfield, he'd only played one competitive game, and shipped 7 in it, so it was a mild gamble. Worked out ok.
Ali Benarbia. The David Silva of his time. Even better when he teamed up with Eyal Berkovic in the swashbuckling Keegan years.
But there is a clear favourite for me, someone unlikely to ever be surpassed in legendary status. Stand forward, Shaun Goater.