He did a decent job for us considering the shit state we were inSorry, cannot go along with Royle being a good manager.
What a load of nonsense. Took on a sinking ship and nearly kept us up. We had a very poor team with no money but he completely galvanized the players and support. Of course there were low moments but without Royle we wouldn’t have come straight back up. The season after was one of the best seasons as a City fan which we completely overachieved and as a result we weren’t good enough for the premier league. I’m not having that.You are forgetting who took us down there to start with and how we struggled by the skin of our teeth to get out of the second division. Games like Macclesfield away, a single goal on 85 minutes and more like that getting us into the play offs and playing badly in that for 90 minutes.
Thanks for sharing this, PB (and @Didsbury Dave).
Really brings the current state of club management in to specific relief, doesn’t it?
Now that you mention it...But I don't recall the club ever running out of chips before HRH's ownership
Amatures
I actually look back on these times quite fondly. No expectations (other than losing), going to the match with your mates was a laugh.
Makes you appreciate these days even more.
To be fair, a lot of the Co-op’s issue stem from the market conditions leading up to their [with hindsight, problematic] restructuring in 2013...It really is laughable how a high profile multi million pound organisation can be so poorly managed
Saying that, look what happened to the CO OP bank!