The Birdman
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Highest position the club ever reached by the seagulls maybe it wasn't pretty football but we needed to survive.i liked Mike Bailey.
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Baryy Lloyd Bankrupt
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Highest position the club ever reached by the seagulls maybe it wasn't pretty football but we needed to survive.i liked Mike Bailey.
ewe2
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The sale of Saunders was forced upon him.Tiltman was not a sucess,however taken over the Lloyd period IMO there were more pluses than minuses.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Was forced to sell Saunders as the bank was looking to foreclose of the club's debts. [MENTION=561]Insider[/MENTION] I did an intrerview with him for Scars and Stripes fanzine, and he was a genuinely nice and humble guy. He was royally shafted by the board and circumstances. Whilst he was manager I was too naive to realise that.
TheFatBallBoy
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otk
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Read it in one of GN's autobiographies as it happens. He might have made it up of course...
TheFatBallBoy
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but could only get 60k,oxford expected to pay more and with the left over cash they bought martin foyle
However Foyle missed out on the celebrations, as he was transferred to Oxford United on 26 March 1987 for a fee of £140,000.
BARRY LLOYD total spend was in the region of 800k Could have had 13 Dean Saunders and change left over.
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Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
That is Paul Barber's fault
Peter Grummit
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I was no big fan of Barry Lloyds but in retrospect he did a good job in difficult times with very limited resources. Mike Small was one of the best signings, in value for money terms, we have ever made and Johnny Byrne not far behind. He had no charisma in interviews and that didn't endear him to the faithfull used to Mullers' bullish utterings.
The story about him reimbursing junior players who had monies stolen is to his huge credit. Sounds like he could do with some reciprocation.
PG
The story about him reimbursing junior players who had monies stolen is to his huge credit. Sounds like he could do with some reciprocation.
PG
footychick
Nicola
Barry Lloyd was the manager when I regularly went to matches, oh the memories.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Does anyone else remember that TOE-CURLING interview he gave on Coast to Coast after signing Gotsmanov ?
Interviewer: "Does he speak any english ?"
Baz: "He doesn't speak ANY english !" (manic laughter)..."but then he's russian, so we don't speak to them anyway DO WE !" (continues laughing long and hard, to complete silence on the other side of the microphone).
I died a little bit inside watching that. But looking back, I have a lot of respect for what he achieved at the club, considering the CARNAGE that was going on behind the scenes back then.
Interviewer: "Does he speak any english ?"
Baz: "He doesn't speak ANY english !" (manic laughter)..."but then he's russian, so we don't speak to them anyway DO WE !" (continues laughing long and hard, to complete silence on the other side of the microphone).
I died a little bit inside watching that. But looking back, I have a lot of respect for what he achieved at the club, considering the CARNAGE that was going on behind the scenes back then.
Publius Ovidius
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I once had this conversation with John Vinnicombe ( I used to play cricket with his son and grandson) and John was a firm believer that LLoyd was approached without the knowledge of Mullery and was a stool pidgeon for their attempts to control the business the way they wanted. Certainly events in the future proved that there was a master plan to capitalise on an expensive piece of real estate in a prime position in Hove.
barry once told me the story of Saunders who he was told in no uncertain terms to stop playing as he was approaching a bonus threshold and also they were in negotiation to sell him behind lloyds back and were paranoid he would get injured
I agree with the comment about the football and size of crowds though
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
It was Whitstable last xmas.
Socialist Sid
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I was also told that under those circumstances that we did well to get 60k for him because we would have got rid for nothing.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
The thing with saunders always puzzled me as we picked him up for nowt as swansea didnt want him so he can't have been on mega wages. Mysterious how this story as evolved over the years.