Monthly Archives: August 2009

The team in 2009/10

Posted on August 7, 2009 by The other Bob Wilson

Time was when you could make a fairly educated guess as to how your team would do over the coming season on the day before their first game, but then along came transfer windows! In many cases now you get sides muddling through with what they have got until the last week in August when you start to see something closer to the squad that you will spend the next eight months and more praising, abusing, defending and attacking in equal measure taking shape. Continue reading →

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2009/10 for Dave Jones.

Posted on August 7, 2009 by The other Bob Wilson

Try to cast your mind back two years to the start of the 2007/08 campaign and think how you would have reacted if somebody had told you that City would reach the FA Cup Final at the end of that season and 2008/09 would see the best league finish in 38 years for the club. If you were then told that Dave Jones was still City manager but was going into the 2009/10 season with online polls showing that a significant minority (around 30/40% in some cases) of supporters wanted him out, how would you react? Continue reading →

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