Young Paul Mariner and who knows where we might have ended up - Sigh!Stan Anderson grew the seed that Jack took over .... Cooper and Murdoch jacks master buys.... failed to sign the CF we needed to push on and challenge for the title .... Cloughs record speaks for itself .... Clough for me
Nothing special with Taylor?Clough was nothing special with Taylor.
When Clough was without Taylor he struggled at Leeds and after 1982 @ Forest was ordinary.
asred, 100% agree with all thatClough possibly greatest manager there has ever been. What he achieved with Derby and Forest is incredible. None of your bag loads of foreign investment in those days. Never be repeated. Game is too tired up on favour of the so called big six now.
Still love Big Jack though our best manager for me.
As usual American lady, a very good, well balanced readBoth legends and larger than life characters and we should be very proud that those great football men are associated with our club.
On results it would have to be the genius that was Clough all day long but sometimes the connection with a club and affinity with the fans can override that to an extent, Charlton always spoke very fondly of his time at the Boro whereas Clough had nothing good to say about the club, which is a shame, and once he settled in the Midlands I don't think he gave the North East a backwards glance.
When you know how close we came to appointing Bill Shankly when he was manager at Grimsby and how highly he spoke of our fan base and the potential within the club, he always said not hearing back from us after agreeing to join was the biggest disappointment of his managerial career.
I wasn’t aware of the Bill Shankly ‘snub’, interesting reading that.Both legends and larger than life characters and we should be very proud that those great football men are associated with our club.
On results it would have to be the genius that was Clough all day long but sometimes the connection with a club and affinity with the fans can override that to an extent, Charlton always spoke very fondly of his time at the Boro whereas Clough had nothing good to say about the club, which is a shame, and once he settled in the Midlands I don't think he gave the North East a backwards glance.
When you know how close we came to appointing Bill Shankly when he was manager at Grimsby and how highly he spoke of our fan base and the potential within the club, he always said not hearing back from us after agreeing to join was the biggest disappointment of his managerial career.