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Short memory syndrome again. In the league he rarely if ever entertained, people on C and B constantly called for his head. Which is fair enough but don’t slag a manager for a style which you defended another manager for playing.

 

We were 4th after the Arsenal game people weren’t making the excuse of a cup run then.

Put it another way what excuse did he have when he won 1 in 21 the season after? Imagine a run like that now!

 

Bowyer's style isn't even in PP's ball park. I wasn't a fan but we kept it solid for an hour and at least had a go in the final half hour. Bowyer doesn't even have a go. Don't know what you were watching but the full backs were always an outlet and we had plenty of width further forward in Reid/Thompson/Yeates/Hines. If you think this is the same style it's not even close. Bowyer hasn't created an identity or a game plan/system that works. It's not even comparable.

 

There were plenty of games under Parky we didn’t have a go. One in 14/15 against Chesterfield stands out when a win would have seen us end in the playoffs. We lost with a McKenzie own goal, and made little effort to come back. Oh and the loss at home against Colchester the year after when he subbed Wes Thomas off and was booed for subbing a striker off. But you remember tho ha how you want lol

 

His end product improved under McCall. Some argument that when you’re proven wrong. Who can remember him dropping Meredith for Sheehan or playing to RBs on the right. Yeah real overlapping wing play.

 

Love a bit of Harrogate Town and their virtual tickets don't you? Up the Sulphurites.

 

I can't honestly believe you don't think Meredith was an overlapping fullback under Parky. Good grief.

 

I can’t believe your own comeback was his end product improved under McCall. He did the odd overlap as does wood now. But he wasn’t someone who constantly did it as under McCall, not a chance.

 

If you’re going to make a statement like his end product improved then at least back it up with a statistic or 2.

 

I was replying to the stat you provided. 2 goals in 4 years under Parky, 2 goals in one season under Stuart. It was always accepted that Meredith's problem under Parky was his final ball, not that he didn't get forward enough. This is genuinely the first time I've heard this argument.

 

True about the 1 in 21, but by 15/16 season the fans had started to turn. Booes in games like Colchester and Bury and who can forget the famous Fordy relegation thread that season which had plenty of interest and wasn’t simply dismissed. He was most likely let off more likely due to the season before. However go back to the summer of 2012 after we’d just stayed up plenty called him Plonkinson and said he wasn’t the man to take us forward. You’ve said yourself we played our best this season when Donaldson played at the top of a 4-2-3-1. If Parkinson didn’t have a target man for the amount of time Bowyer bad can you say it wouldn’t have been as bad?

Bowyer should be working on bringing another in though if he’s going to continue with this style. Parky was rarely short of an extra target man.

 

Like wise

You must be the only person who thinks Meredith got forward as much under Parky as McCall.

 

Parky had Reid who was an out and out winger in front of him and did get forward and support him very effectively

 

Yet the stats prove Meredith was far better under McCall, go figure...

 

Well, I never said that. I said Meredith overlapped his winger under Parky and his end product improved under McCall as it did with other players.

 

Your first comment was overlapping full backs you didn’t mention him at all I brought him up, but we’ll leave it there or we’ll be getting called Cougar esk

 

£3 million quids worth I believe was a figure mentioned elsewhere on here,

 

They were very lucky it was not declared illegal because as you say the club was not making any money to pay dividends and may have used bank borrowings to finance it

 

Such a wonderful man though Den, always with the club at heart.