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Riddler statement.

edgy said:
So sad about Ian. As we know he lost his wife a good few years ago and made the most fantastic job of bringing the children up
Such a gentle and kind man who never had a bad word to say about anyone
Going to miss you Ian. God bless and rest in peace
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A wonderful family man who worshipped the nobbers...

another gone far too soon..
 
kbd_pne said:
He essentially came back into a worse team.

He had 1 game back under Alan Irvine and then Ferguson came in and didn’t have a clue how to set up a defence. It made all of our defenders look bad.
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That’s right.
But to be fair, even Ledge admits he wasn’t at his best when he came back.
In North End Souls 2 (ahem 🙂 ) he says how he came back to work with AI but then things went wrong when he was sacked after one more game.
In the first book, Mawene says he rang the chairman to protest and Mellor says he was shocked/fuming too.
Whatever we thought of AI (and I’d have been nowhere near sacking him) the players thought it was a terrible move and everything crumbled from there.
Worryingly, I fear it would be the same situation if we ever sacked AN.
 
The sacking of Irvine was a shock to most, although there was some on here crying out for his head, mainly due to wasted money on certain players. I guess the owner thought Ferguson would get him cheap players and a cheap promotion due to his dad. It didn’t help that Maurice Lindsay was also in the picture at the time, who I wouldn’t trust walking the dog.
 
St Ledger was my favourite player growing up, I tried to play like him and I remember how fucking buzzing I was at Sheff Utd away for his first game back for us.

Sadly, he never seemed the same player after that loan.
 
BenPearsonIsGod said:
St Ledger was my favourite player growing up, I tried to play like him and I remember how fucking buzzing I was at Sheff Utd away for his first game back for us.

Sadly, he never seemed the same player after that loan.
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that's because he never got his move to his boyhood team Celtic and spat his dummy after coming back.
 
Jack Daniels said:
Read NES 2...he mentions Villa but no mention of Celtic iirc.

I'm a PNE fan but I would like to play for Barcelona.

See.
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Celtic were in for him when the Boro thing went tits up, they wouldn't pay the asking fee (straight from the top man at Deepdale) and SSL spat the dummy at not getting his move to his boyhood team
 
I know for a fact that Boro pursued legal action against us over that deal falling through, I wonder what happened with that.
 
billymac said:
Celtic were in for him when the Boro thing went tits up, they wouldn't pay the asking fee (straight from the top man at Deepdale) and SSL spat the dummy at not getting his move to his boyhood team
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To be fair if you where being forced to play for Scratchan and work in Middlesbrough every day you would be pissed off too.
 
Staffordwhite said:
That’s right.
But to be fair, even Ledge admits he wasn’t at his best when he came back.
In North End Souls 2 (ahem 🙂 ) he says how he came back to work with AI but then things went wrong when he was sacked after one more game.
In the first book, Mawene says he rang the chairman to protest and Mellor says he was shocked/fuming too.
Whatever we thought of AI (and I’d have been nowhere near sacking him) the players thought it was a terrible move and everything crumbled from there.
Worryingly, I fear it would be the same situation if we ever sacked AN.
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I don't think Irvine was the man for the job at the time but neither were the succession of no-marks who replaced him.
 
mozzchops said:
The sacking of Irvine was a shock to most, although there was some on here crying out for his head, mainly due to wasted money on certain players. I guess the owner thought Ferguson would get him cheap players and a cheap promotion due to his dad. It didn’t help that Maurice Lindsay was also in the picture at the time, who I wouldn’t trust walking the dog.
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I never thought he should be sacked. I thought it was a very harsh sacking but looking back now it was probably a good move for the club. I know we had three shit managers afterwards but sometimes you have to go through the shit to get back to the level you used to be.

I know it’s no where near as bad but Luton had to go through the shit to get them back to this level. But had we kept Irvine we could have ended up like Luton and getting points deducted for over spending.
 
kbd_pne said:
He essentially came back into a worse team.

He had 1 game back under Alan Irvine and then Ferguson came in and didn’t have a clue how to set up a defence. It made all of our defenders look bad.
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True. I remember in our relegation season he passed it back to the keeper and gave it their player instead which made it 3-2 to them. Think it was Barnsley. He never was the same player but I don’t think it helped we had wife beating fergie junior in charge. An absolutely abysmal manager even with daddies help.
 
BenPearsonIsGod said:
I know for a fact that Boro pursued legal action against us over that deal falling through, I wonder what happened with that.
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Presumably fuck all. They tried to game the system by paying for Sean with a massive loan fee and small transfer fee. It blew up on them when the new manager didn't want him and he came back.
 
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