Peter Reid's programme notes

[Blueboy73]

Redmond and Pointon both went to Oldham in part ex for Holden. Both solid enough players but we spent big money replacing Pointon with Phelan from Wimbledon. IIRC Palace feigned interest in Phelan which pushed his price up. Wimbledon were ground sharing with Palace at the time. Thankfully our transfer strategy is much better now. Always thought Beardsley would have been a good signing for us when he left Livetpool in 1991 but we seemed to spend most summers being linked with Paul Stewart returning.

I remember a figure of £900k being quoted for Holden and £300k and 500k for Pointon and Redmond respectively.
I didn't realise it was part of the same deal.
Royle had our pants down with that one and, after Barratt and Warhurst the club still didn't learn it's lesson.
Holden went back there 12 months later, I can't remember how much but I think it was around half the fee we paid.

I agree about Beardsley and think we would have gone for him had Kendal still been in charge.

Like you said, we're much better now, back then everyone knew who we were linked with which meant we either ended up overpaying or the players went elsewhere as other interested clubs were tipped off.
Thank goodness we're much smarter these days.

 

[NJMCFC184]

Should never have sold Hendry back to Blackburn

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Definitely Norway

It was definitely Denmark because they ended up winning the tournament
Norway was the infamous defeat the previous decade:"Winston Churchill..... Anthony Eden....Lady Diana...."

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

I'd completely forgotten about the whole Arthur Numan saga, but our transfer incompetence in the early 90s, (not just from Swales, but also the way that Reid didn't trust young talent) was a major factor in the mess that followed.

In fact, now that we've regularly been winning trophies for 13 seasons, and not been fighting relegation for even longer, I'm still unsure as to whether we've been successful for longer than we were shite

 

[philiph20]

Apparently Notts County have shit on Dave Watson big time, used to go regularly with his wife and since the previous owner/ceo has gone he's not welcome anymore...???

Let's hope Big Dave is always welcome at the Etihad, a fantastic centre half at club and international level.

 

[NJMCFC184]

Let's hope Big Dave is always welcome at the Etihad, a fantastic centre half at club and international level.

He was there 2 weeks ago

 

[pride in battle]

Let's hope Big Dave is always welcome at the Etihad, a fantastic centre half at club and international level.

Apparently he always is, he was in a box at Wembley for the fa cup final

 

[rogerterry]

Who remembers kare ingebritsen and his hattrick against Leicester in the fa cup?

 

[John Wayne]

Who remembers kare ingebritsen and his hattrick against Leicester in the fa cup?

Certainly do, but the goal to remember from that game was Alan Kernaghan's.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Who remembers kare ingebritsen and his hattrick against Leicester in the fa cup?

I also remember his goal in the abandoned game v Ipswich the previous week.
2-0 after about 40 minutes. I think Vonk got the other