As I sit here almost 10 months to the day since I last posted on this blog, and as I look back the past does not easily mesh well with the present, but upon closer inspection the foundation that was laid when 'Super Mick' first stepped over the bare bones and wreckage of the end of the Hoddle era.
Even the mention of the name of our last manager still causes bile to swarm up my throat in incredibly rapid fashion.
As we make the rotation to a real Premier League team (in the mold of Reading when they went up, yet not expecting the same results) from that embarassing mess mentioned earlier, the change is quick and resonating yet unoticable if not paying attention. Let me explain. The recent situation with Mark Davies, our 20yr old (as recently as this pre-season still being dubbed one of our super prospects, by some sections of our supporters) midfielder, who has recently signed a five year deal with Bolton and started the game after was signed for less than 1mil quid. Now two years ago, before Mark encountered all of his nagging injury problems, he was a star with the Academy and was primed for success with the first team. Meanwhile, fast forward to now. We have successfully seen that 'Super Mick' did not agree with the valuation of some sets of supporters and that he has brought in multiple midfielders which have all subsequently passed Mark during his time out injured. Mark was offered a new contract here and declined instead putting in a transfer request and subsequently joining Bolton. In my eyes this shows that the squad we have now, which he couldn't break in to mind you, should be good enough to hold their own in the Premiership, if we make it.
Especially with the Stearman-Berra partnership with Foley and Elokobi bombing forward and Kighly and Jarvis taking on defenders and Vokes and Ebanks-Blake scoring freely....
One can dream can't they....
Monday, February 2, 2009
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