New ex-players (and managers) thread
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SJN-Fox
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Interview with Emile Heskey
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/feature...gland-was-toxic-it-could-be-very-intimidating
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/feature...gland-was-toxic-it-could-be-very-intimidating
Mike - True Blue Tinter
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MON leaves/sacked from Ireland job.
I think we will stick with Puel.
I think we will stick with Puel.
SJN-Fox
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Along with Steve Guppy
SilverFox
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I feel bad for MON. There is an expectation there that is unrealistic. They don’t have a Shay Given, Damien Duff, or a Robbie Keane. Who do they have even remotely close to decent PL quality? No one, and isn’t like you can just buy someone in. Are there any ROI players we would covet for our first team? I can’t think of one.
jb5000
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They’ve not looked like a MON team, or any kind of a team, recently though. They’re also suffering from comparison to what Michael O’Neil has achieved with even less in the north of Ireland. That said, theres no national scheme to develop players, which would be the responsibility of the man who just sacked MON and Keane, and until there is they will always relay on English academy products with an Irish nan
SilverFox
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Harsh
tedfoxxx
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On Hume. Matt Mills on the other hand.....
Blaarev
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Shit! A few minutes too late.....
homer
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Micky
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Seeing him on Match of the Day is going to be painful. A little like seeing that ex girlfriend who left you and broke your heart.
City Fan
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Except that he didn’t leave us. We dumped him after he gave us the best shag we’d ever had.
City Fan
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Absolutely, and I still think it was the right decision.
Sadly we then made two terrible appointments afterwards.
Championship
| P | Pld | Pts | |
| 1 | Leicester | 44 | 94 |
| 2 | Leeds Utd | 45 | 90 |
| 3 | Ipswich | 44 | 90 |
| 4 | Southampton | 45 | 84 |
| 5 | Norwich City | 45 | 73 |
| 6 | West Brom | 45 | 72 |
| 7 | Hull City | 45 | 70 |
| 8 | Middlesbro | 45 | 66 |
| 9 | Coventry City | 44 | 64 |
| 10 | Preston | 44 | 63 |
| 11 | Bristol City | 45 | 62 |
| 12 | Cardiff City | 45 | 62 |
| 13 | Swansea City | 45 | 57 |
| 14 | Watford | 45 | 56 |
| 15 | Sunderland | 45 | 56 |
| 16 | Millwall | 45 | 56 |
| 17 | QPR | 45 | 53 |
| 18 | Stoke City | 45 | 53 |
| 19 | Blackburn | 45 | 50 |
| 20 | Sheffield W | 45 | 50 |
| 21 | Plymouth | 45 | 48 |
| 22 | Birmingham | 45 | 47 |
| 23 | Huddersfield | 45 | 45 |
| 24 | Rotherham Utd | 45 | 24 |
