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McCann was hugely fortunate with us to inherit an excellent, settled squad that Ferguson had underperformed with.MarosiAndrewAndersonButlerCoppingerWhitemanBlairMayMarquisMasonRoweWright.They'd all been with us for a year or more when McCann took over. He added well with Willks, Kane and Downing, but finishing 6th in those circumstances wasn't an overachievement. Folk forget easily how our performances tailed off in the second half of the season, with some baffling selections and aimless performances.And then he left a shambles of an inheritance for Moore.
I wouldn't mind him back.
New man to come in is being reported as Shota Arveladze
Wouldn't it be funny if Moore gets replaced by McCann!?
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on January 24, 2022, 12:35:03 pmMcCann was hugely fortunate with us to inherit an excellent, settled squad that Ferguson had underperformed with.MarosiAndrewAndersonButlerCoppingerWhitemanBlairMayMarquisMasonRoweWright.They'd all been with us for a year or more when McCann took over. He added well with Willks, Kane and Downing, but finishing 6th in those circumstances wasn't an overachievement. Folk forget easily how our performances tailed off in the second half of the season, with some baffling selections and aimless performances.And then he left a shambles of an inheritance for Moore.Look at it another way - we looked nowhere near being able to compete for the play-offs under Ferguson, with, as you say, a similar squad.Also, did anyone expect us to finish in the play-offs in 2018/19? I certainly didn't, and if I had time to go back through the posts on this forum I'd bet few were predicting we would.
Yes, anybody remember the debacle at Luton that season?
Quote from: DonnyBazR0ver on January 24, 2022, 11:33:51 amWouldn't it be funny if Moore gets replaced by McCann!? I’d sooner Wednesday to wait until we’ve played them before giving him the boot
It wasn't just a "sticky patch" Jonathon. We underperformed for most of the second half of the season. We picked up 28 points from the final 20 matches and we often looked out of ideas against ordinary opponents.We carried that into the playoffs - we were dreadful for the first 80 mins of the home leg.The second leg was an all time great night for sure, but overall, I'll stick with my take. We didn't overachieve.
Rumoured to have been sacked by Hulls new owners.
No. Ferguson consistently put together good squads then failed to get the best out of them.It's a low bar to set as a comparison.A better one is what Moore managed in the COVID-hit season the year after. He inherited a disaster from McCann, with the squad shorn of key players not replaced, but by the time the season finished early, the patched up squad was within 1 point of where McCann' side had been at the same point the year before.