[Albion] 12 years ago today 2009

Poojah said:

Ah Russell Slade, one of football management’s true enigmas. He holds the interesting achievement of managing all the way up from the Conference to the Championship, without winning a single promotion - at which point he appears to have stuck his career in reverse and slammed his foot on the accelerator.

The first time we had him at Grimsby (2004 - 2006) he did pretty well, taking us within a gnats hair of promotion back into League One, only bottling it and signing a deal with Yeovil before the playoff final instead.

The second time was an absolute disaster. By this time it seemed the man had truly lost his marbles, which he duly confirmed when he humiliated himself at a fans forum, after which he would fail to win a game in the two and a half months he would remain at the club.

I know he did a decent job in keeping Brighton up all those years ago, perhaps at a time when he still had something in his managerial locker, but I nevertheless find the fact that he has managed the best part of 1,000 games in league football without so much as a crumb of tangible success quite remarkable.

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Poojah said:

Ah Russell Slade, one of football management’s true enigmas. He holds the interesting achievement of managing all the way up from the Conference to the Championship, without winning a single promotion - at which point he appears to have stuck his career in reverse and slammed his foot on the accelerator.

The first time we had him at Grimsby (2004 - 2006) he did pretty well, taking us within a gnats hair of promotion back into League One, only bottling it and signing a deal with Yeovil before the playoff final instead.

The second time was an absolute disaster. By this time it seemed the man had truly lost his marbles, which he duly confirmed when he humiliated himself at a fans forum, after which he would fail to win a game in the two and a half months he would remain at the club.

I know he did a decent job in keeping Brighton up all those years ago, perhaps at a time when he still had something in his managerial locker, but I nevertheless find the fact that he has managed the best part of 1,000 games in league football without so much as a crumb of tangible success quite remarkable.

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Terry Butcher Tribute Act said:

Does that mean we won at Milwall that afternoon? Bloody weird day that was, finding out Adams had been sacked at 11am in an early opening London Bridge pub.

Would love to know how much of a Bloom decision that was.

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timbha said:

But Slade did keep us up, validating the decision

Never go back!

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Herr Tubthumper said:

What happened at the Fan’s Forum?

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Jim Van Winkle said:

MA MKII was the pits. The only highlights were coming from two down to beat Leicester 3-2 at the Withdean. Also, the JPT Southern Section Final away to Luton was fun even though we lost (maybe that was all the ale).

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Jim Van Winkle said:

MA MKII was the pits. The only highlights were coming from two down to beat Leicester 3-2 at the Withdean. Also, the JPT Southern Section Final away to Luton was fun even though we lost (maybe that was all the ale).

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Frutos said:

Don't forget knocking Man City out of the League Cup four days after losing to the nine men of Walsall - both extremes of the Albion spectrum in the space of 96 hours.

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Lenny Rider said:

Dick Knight met Micky Adams at the Little Chef, no Olympic Breakfast and Micky left the restaurant minus his job.

FWIW I still don’t believe Micky would have taken us down that year, obviously DK and perhaps more significantly Tony Bloom did, Russell Slade came in but himself was gone within 9 months.

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