The Large One
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SOME of the ridiculous posts in support of Gus suggest otherwise.
I would ask you to go and find them, but someone as obsessed and gullible as you are would probably go and do that.
SOME of the ridiculous posts in support of Gus suggest otherwise.
If Gus had had a comparative budget.
I do appreciate what he achieved but wouldn't class it as brilliant.
How does it compare with Paul Lambert taking Norwich straight through two divisions and then consolidating in the PL. Thats pretty damn impressive. Nigel Adkins got Saints straight through as well after the ' ten point deduction ' season. Poyet's feat was to turn us around so quickly, from Div 1 strugglers.
Maybe its a case of expectation. Norwich and Soton expected and demanded PL football. A lot of our fans seem happy with Championship football and therefore to consolidate in the upper reaches, represents high achievement in their eyes.
Each to their own.
He did.
Of course, Mullery spent a lot on Teddy Maybank, too much it can be argued, although that was comparable with Poyet's CMS signing.
My memory is a little fuzzy on amounts and maybe even who actually signed them, some may have been signed by Taylor
Lawrenson
Foster
Micky ****ing Thomas
Horton
Poskett
Sayer
And probably a few more, I do remembered that we signed some very good players during Mullery's time and he also inherited a decent squad that had just missed out on promotion from the third the previous season.
Mickey Thomas, the waste of space, was signed by Mike Bailey....
As covered in a previous thread, here is Mullery's transfer record up to the point Brighton won promotion to the First Division:
In
Steele £19,000
Lawrenson £112,000
Ruggiero £30,000
Potts £14,000
Williams swop
Clark £30,000
Maybank £238,000
Poskett £60,000
Sayer £100,000
Ryan £80,000
Chivers £15,000
Total: £700,000
Out
Beal free
Kinnear free
Morgan £15,000
Cross Swop
Wilson Swop
Binney Free
Towner £65,000
Ruggiero Free
Potts £37,000
Mellor £30,000
Fell Swop
Total 147,000
Keep convincing yourself of that, as you're not convincing anyone else.
I would ask you to go and find them, but someone as obsessed and gullible as you are would probably go and do that.
Anyone know how that compared to the other teams in the division?
I know that we were reasonably big spenders,I'd be interested to know what a match ticket price was back then, the crowds were very similar to what we have now I seem to think? I can't help thinking that we were in a better position to go out and buy players back then but it is difficult to even guess our income back then compared to now. What is a fact is that chasing the dream helped in our later demise, it seems that history will not be repeated on that front.
Gullible? Not me. Suggest you back that claim up...
Arguably you could say the real hero was Bamber and not Mullery.
Quite right. Would have Mullers been able to achieve what he achieved without Mike Bamber's open cheque book? For the last manager to achieve promotion without spending big money we have to go right the way back to Billy Lane in the 1950's. I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned him yet, although l guess not many were around in his day.
You've been told a part of a story by one person with a vested interest, and swallowed it whole - uncorroborated and unchallenged - and broadcast it as you knowing 'enough'.
Quite right. Would have Mullers been able to achieve what he achieved without Mike Bamber's open cheque book? For the last manager to achieve promotion without spending big money we have to go right the way back to Billy Lane in the 1950's. I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned him yet, although l guess not many were around in his day.