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Inspired by Hazy's comment about Charlton's sacking of Curbishly "Taken them as far as he could" and Patrick Blue's comment that "It couldn't be topped," I got thinking about some of the almost suicidal decisions that "dear old City" have made over the years.

Suggestions;
Allowing the rags to use Maine Rd after WW2, giving them access to our huge following and the finances to fund their post war rise.
Selecting Alan Ball as the Messiah to start the rebuild after Swales.
Bringing Peter Swales into the club as a peace maker between two rival City factions, that saw us slowly, very slowly bleed to death over the next 10 years.
And not to mention some of the supposed superstars that we chucked tons of cash at for no good reason.
The Steve Daley affair.
Finding out that the fire was no better than the frying pan, from whence we jumped, as Frank Sinatra's billions had been frozen by the Thai government and we were back in the shite again.

Sorry Patrick Blue Mate but your challenge that Charlton couldn't be topped can be destroyed by some of the masochistic shite that City have done.

Oh, the memories, heart ache,stress, worry and the self inflicted misery that City have put us through over the years.....But we survived....I think.

HAVE FUN!!!!!!

All of those could have worked out for the best, apart from the Alan Ball thing.

I think we all knew that was a cock up from the outset.

I always liked Mel Machin and the way he was building (albeit having to) a new side from the youngsters.

I know we were near the bottom of the table at the time, but I always thought his sacking was premature, when cooler heads should have possibly prevailed.

Hard cash plus Paul Walsh for Gerry Creaney.

Nicky Summerbee for Craig Russell.

Big Mal ripping apart Tony Book's team in 1978/1979

Out: Hartford, Tueart, Watson, Barnes, Royle, Kidd, Doyle, Owen, Donachie, Deyna (A bit later)
In: Stepanovic, Caton, Daley, Robinson

Some of his inclusions were reasonable, but overall a disastrous loss.

Rocastle for david whyte? I remember been gutted over that.

I'd argue against Frank being a cockup, him buying the club triggered the sequence of events that led to sheiky taking over

Frank Sinatra buying the club was fricking awesome!

It was those crystals he put in the ground that changed our fortunes.

Signing Rodney Marsh. Cost us a League title. Biggest cock up ever.

Dead right frank started the whole dream.

Speaking of cock ups... Garry had quite a few in his time here.
Remember how the rags laughed when he said "united" instead of city at a supporters event?

Remember how they stopped fucking laughing when he sold us to Sheikh Mansour?

Garry you legend

Wooders wrote:I'd argue against Frank being a cockup, him buying the club triggered the sequence of events that led to sheiky taking over

Unless you mean Frank Clark...................

The get rid of Peter Reid, John Maddock saga. Alan Ball RIP Get it in the corner, Halifax Town away FFS. Beating Stoke 18-0 ?!?! and getting relegated........

BookJunior wrote:Big Mal ripping apart Tony Book's team in 1978/1979

Out: Hartford, Tueart, Watson, Barnes, Royle, Kidd, Doyle, Owen, Donachie, Deyna (A bit later)
In: Stepanovic, Caton, Daley, Robinson

Some of his inclusions were reasonable, but overall a disastrous loss.

Amen to that BJ.

The team, at that stage, was just starting to need rebuilding but the process could have been engineered more gradually in stages. Big Mal came in like a veritable volcano and seemed intent upon ripping everything to shreds overnight and we got rid of a lot of quality and experience all at one go.

As they say, the rest is history and it felt heartbreaking to witness our consequent implosion which set the scene for an entire decade in the eighties.

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:

BookJunior wrote:Big Mal ripping apart Tony Book's team in 1978/1979

Out: Hartford, Tueart, Watson, Barnes, Royle, Kidd, Doyle, Owen, Donachie, Deyna (A bit later)
In: Stepanovic, Caton, Daley, Robinson

Some of his inclusions were reasonable, but overall a disastrous loss.

Amen to that BJ.

The team, at that stage, was just starting to need rebuilding but the process could have been engineered more gradually in stages. Big Mal came in like a veritable volcano and seemed intent upon ripping everything to shreds overnight and we got rid of a lot of quality and experience all at one go.

As they say, the rest is history and it felt heartbreaking to witness our consequent implosion which set the scene for an entire decade in the eighties.

Well John Bond came in, replaced the experience we'd lost and took us to the FA cup final.

Players like Tommy Caton, Steve Mackenzie and Dave Bennett could and would have been phenomenal.

As you say it's all history now.

dazby wrote:Frank Sinatra buying the club was fricking awesome!

It was those crystals he put in the ground that changed our fortunes.

Scary thing is that I'm sure you actually believe in those crystals.

Anywayzz, happy birthday Darren.

Dazby still thinks Narnia is based on a true story.

carl_feedthegoat wrote:Dazby still thinks Narnia is based on a true story.

I thought it was that left back we were after. The fuckin wardrobe would defend better than our other options as well.

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:

dazby wrote:Frank Sinatra buying the club was fricking awesome!

It was those crystals he put in the ground that changed our fortunes.

Scary thing is that I'm sure you actually believe in those crystals.

Anywayzz, happy birthday Darren.

Shame he didn't put them in Maine Road a few years earlier, and get rid of that gypsy curse!

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:

dazby wrote:Frank Sinatra buying the club was fricking awesome!

It was those crystals he put in the ground that changed our fortunes.

Scary thing is that I'm sure you actually believe in those crystals.

Anywayzz, happy birthday Darren.

Yeah, that and the shitload of good players we bought. They sure helped.

And Sparky. Can't forget Sparky NQDP!

Well on this day 19 years ago this happened: