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But our recruitment over last three years by this recruitment team has been pretty good. Three summers ago Murray and Duffy to bolster a 3rd place team and get promotion. Two summers ago we got ryan, propper, gross, Izquierdo who were all key in our staying up. Then last summer we got montoya...

i'm sure the players didn't know. I'm sure that Ashworth and Barber did.

Ha! Fair enough but I'm sure he didn't mean it quite that way :lolol: To be honest I still think we needed one more year of CH-style consolidation before branching on, but we're doing it now. Its all very 'Watford' isn't it? And they've done exceptionally well, but were everybody's pre-season...

I guess I saw it as a blip rather than the new reality. A lot went against us, and then it became a malaise that we had to drag ourselves out of. Which we barely did. But Chris can be just as ruthless as TB and I expect he was planning a big clear-out this summer. But we'll never know.

I felt like this when Poyet was sacked. I just couldn't get on board with Garcia at all, didn't enjoy the following season one bit, started switching off from it. Then Sami came in, a breath of fresh air that didn't last very long at all, then Chris - who I was completely un-interested by at...

1. How the hell have we got here? From the euphoria of beating Palace with 10, of holding Arsenal, beating Everton, being 2-0 up against West Ham away........... to this. I blame Arnautovic. From beating Palace again, astonishing come-back against Millwall, going to Wembley in a cup...