The Confession Box - opinions you had which were wrong

[Ossydave]

99% of this message board, including myself, can add doubting Mowbray to the list! How very, very wrong we were..... 

[CambridgeRover]

I thought Corry Evans wasn't good enough for League 1 and now he is currently one of our best performers.

[blueboy3333]

23 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Thinking about it I think I would have preferred us to sign Eyal Berkovic instead Tugay at the time. In my defence Berkovic  was a really good player.

So you were right even when you were wrong. 

[blueboy3333]

Mowbray this time last year. I thought he was a bag of negative dull shite. 

And so many more. But not Bowyer. Never Bowyer.All you feckers were wrong about him. Sir Gary is God. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

27 minutes ago, blueboy3333 said:

So you were right even when you were wrong. 

No, I think Tugay was a better player for us than Berkovic would have been. Nice to have the choice though. It'd be great to have a Berkovic now.

[Norbert Rassragr]

Thought Murphy might do pretty well when he signed.

Venkys might do ok once they calmed down and stopped talking about Maradona managing Beckham. That talk was just a bit of hype, and Williams and the board would be listened to.

[BRFC4EVA]

I thought Bellamy would never ever sign for a 'little' club like ours. 

[Stuart]

10 hours ago, Jimbobololo said:

Stuart? We're waiting......

Ok, I’ll be honest, for a brief moment some years ago I thought, given time, you - or one of the stooges that liked your post - would eventually make a worthwhile post.

[deryck guyler's spoon]

I'm quite looking forward to JAL's contribution to this thread.

 

(I should also mention that I opined that Chris Brown was potentially decent for us)

[Oldgregg86]

I posted half an hour before kick off against York that the line up that played that day wouldn't score if they played until Xmas. ... We won 8-0

I thought Danny Murphy and Peter whittingham would be superb signings

By November last year I wanted graham out the club, nyambe out on loan and mowbrary spending Saturday afternoons telling his grandkids about the good old days. 

I thought Adam Henley would be playing premier league football by now.

[gumboots]

I did feel that Kean was being harshly judged at the start and that, however he got the role, he deserved a chance. Soon saw the light though

Edited August 26, 2018 by gumboots

[jodrell]

i have to admit thinking was it worth paying 3m for Shearer. Then saw him against Norwich and he was worth it.

[Stuart]

Amidst the gloating, it would be good to hear from a few of those who backed Kean over the protesters.

Maybe one of those who called me “an enemy of the club”.

Yes, I too have a long memory...

[47er]

5 minutes ago, Stuart said:

Amidst the gloating, it would be good to hear from a few of those who backed Kean over the protesters.

Maybe one of those who called me “an enemy of the club”.

Yes, I too have a long memory...

 

i've got one of yours Stuart. 

In reply to me you said it was wrong to judge Delfuenso on the strength of one game!!!  

 

[Jimbobololo]

1 hour ago, Stuart said:

Ok, I’ll be honest, for a brief moment some years ago I thought, given time, you - or one of the stooges that liked your post - would eventually make a worthwhile post.

Still waiting.....

[Stuart]

Just now, 47er said:

 

i've got one of yours Stuart. 

In reply to me you said it was wrong to judge Delfuenso on the strength of one game!!!  

 

Feel the burn! Probably correct though - although I don’t remember it. Should we have judged Andre Ooijer after his first game? Or Chris Samba?

I usually try to be quite balanced in posts (some will laugh of course) but I will admit to one big one though.

Mowbray.

My gut reaction to the Coventry failure was proven wrong, kind of.

He still frustrates and I do have complaints but he has revolutionised the club and turned us around. He arrested the decline and flipped it 180. His temperament is exactly what we needed. He has a team ethos at the forefront of his decision making and it has and is paying dividends as the team can cope without its so-called stars.

It did help that he got the measure of Jason Lowe early on and allowed him to leave. I’m certain Bowyer or even Coyle would have renewed his contract.

Although he couldn’t save us from relegation - which was the original target - I am very happy that he got there in the end.

”Sometimes you have to take a step back to take two steps forward.” - Steve Kean

 

 

 

 

....’s Great Big Book of Positive Thinking.

[Stuart]

15 minutes ago, Jimbobololo said:

Still waiting.....

Snap.

[StaffordRover]

Being the eternal optimist, I have crashed and burned more times than I care to remember. One that stands out for me is when in conversation with my brother, I said that I was confident that the quiet, self depricating Duffer wouldn't want to leave his tranquil Oswaltwistle home (did he even live there?) for the bright lights and noise of the Kings Road. Imagine my surprise when the next thing I see on SSN is him at an airport legging it away from the rest of the Rovers squad who were preparing to fly out on a pre season tour, so he could catch a taxi to Stamford Bridge. 

[Mattyblue]

Ribble Valley somewhere, wasn’t it?

[pk1875]

I thought Danny Murphy would be a great signing  also Etuhu

[Pedro]

13 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Ribble Valley somewhere, wasn’t it?

Hurst Green

[47er]

1 hour ago, Stuart said:

Feel the burn! Probably correct though - although I don’t remember it. Should we have judged Andre Ooijer after his first game? Or Chris Samba?

 

 

 

Re Oojier and Samba---No! Delfi was in a class of his own!

 

 

 

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Edited August 26, 2018 by 47er

[J*B]

Sad to report I was pushing massively on here for Mowbray to be sacked the second Grayson became available.

Muppet.

[Stuart]

18 minutes ago, 47er said:

Re Oojier and Samba---No! Delfi was in a class of his own!

We’ve had worse.

[47er]

8 minutes ago, Stuart said:

We’ve had worse.

Really?