Player for player

Do people think we have a better squad now compared to the squad we had under Ritchie?</p>

Not the team as a whole, but player for player</p>

E.g Muller or Colgan?</p>

Foster or Reid?</p>

McCann or Anderson?</p>

etc etc etc
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This isn't really open to debate as the only player from the Ritchie era who would get in the team now is McIndoe simple as that

As I said in the other thread it would be interesting to see what signings Ritchie would have made if he had been backed to the hilt like Davey

 

But surely a lot of the money this summer at least, has come from the cup run that Davey very much played a part in?</p>

I know last summer he spent a lot, but many have said Ritchie turned down the money he was offered</p>

 

a lot of the big fee/wages players were brought in before the cup run - we've only really brought Hume in since then

I can't believe that any manager would turn down new players or funds but if Ritchie was turning down ***** like McCann, Mattis and Eckersley you can't really blame him

 

Player for player we have a better squad now

And so we bloody well should have with all the money that's been spent. Ritchie's team was put together on 10 bob and a conker. Davey's has cost millions. However, there's very little difference in the way the two teams perform and I reckon I preferred watching Ritchie's. Ritchie's team certainly had a lot more heart.

By the way, McCann or Anderson? Grant McCann made his debut for Barnsley on the 25th November 2006 in the 1-0 victory over Ipswich when he got the late winner. This was 4 days after Andy Ritchie was sacked! It was Simon Davey's first match in charge.

 

RE: Player for player we have a better squad now

Shows what I know eh? </p>

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In future

Don't waste your time talking to Owen Blackadder. I'm sure you've got far more fulfilling things to do. Like scraping your **** down a rusty cheese grater for instance.

That's my tip of the day.

 

RE: In future

Annoyingly I kept telling myself to stop because I have my theory test tomorrow and it was interrupting my revision. Never mind, good tip though!
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All i shall say is Marc Richards goals total is better than KO's and he had far less games at this level!