The squad now and the squad 2 half years ago.

First team

steele
hassell foster moore kouzluk
jcr colace anderson hammill
gray hume

preece
tieman (don't no much about academy but from the 1 or 2 games Ive seen him hes done OK ) Thompson potter el houmouir
coulson halffredson butterfield RNL
bogdanovic macken.

The team what Davey had when arrived.

colgan
hassell reid kay heckingbottom
hayes togwell wallwork mccann
nardiello knight

lethern
tonge austin atkinson williams
devaney howard healey reid
richards wright

Ritchies team that played MK dons

mannone
tonge kay austin williams
mcparland wroe healey jarman
wright coulson

 

colgan
hassell reid kay heckingbottom
Devaney togwell howard mcindoe
hayes richards


Young mobile defence, a proper left back, a proper attacking central midfielder an in form left winger and strikers that were scoring

 

I really liked Reid

Thought he got a ridiculous amount of abuse from the fans

 

that was not the team when davey came in though was it.

 

can remember heckingbottom playing against Norwich and getting ripped apart.

 

yes it was

That was the team that Simon Davey inherited. The game before davey came in the keeper, defence and midfield were exactly as I mentioned, only the strikers were different but both were at the club and considered first teamers.

Davey brought in players and changed it around immediatly but by very definition of it being davey that brought them in then they weren't there when he came

 

Reid is far more mobile than darren moore and I would be surprised if kozluk is any faster than heckingbottom was

 

a proper left back who was ****
a keeper who couldn't claim a cross or command his area (the exact opposite of Muller who we all wanked over to start with)
2 centre backs who couldn't win a header and were slow
mcindoe was brilliant but would have left anyway
liked toggy, devaney was good then, howard was still overrated and upset the midfield mix
liked hayes - he had ability
richards a workhorse who most hated

now we have a better keeper, foster and 2 pedigreed experienced defenders in moore and kozluk and season on season (before this one) hassell has been getting better so the back 5 should be better than 2.5 yrs ago

midfield now should be better as should the strikeforce. reason it isn't is Davey. we have better players now than before

 

Strikers that were scoring ..... ?

Eh ?

Yeah, they were clattering them in left, right and centre weren't they ?

Marc Richards was just plain prolific if i remember rightly .... and Hayes was nailed on for 6 or 7 a season.

 

RE: Strikers that were scoring ..... ?

I'd take Paul Hayes over Kayode Odejayi and Jon Macken... FACT!

Shouldn't have let him go in my opinion.

 

"howard was still overrated and upset the midfield mix "

Have to disagree. Badly missed IMHO

 

RE: Strikers that were scoring ..... ?

Decent squad player Hayes but out and out striker scoring goals ..... never in a million years.

Your right though, i'd rather have him in the squad than Oddjob.

Not Macken though.

 

In all honesty, we had 3 main strikers back then

Hayes, Nardiello and Richards, combined. Over the two seasons they played for us they played and scored this amount.

Hayes.............................75 (11)
Richards..........................69 (18)
Nardiello (Permanent).......64 (14)

TOTAL..............................208(43)

Since then, only Macken, Odejayi have played a similar amount of times so i've added our other two most prolific strikers since Ricco, Haysey and Nadds left.

Macken (permanent)........68 (15)
Odejayi...........................72 (4)
Bogdanovic......................20 (5)
Ferenczi...........................53 (11)

TOTAL..............................213(35)


Bit of a difference tbh

 

Just look at Odejayi's stats...

And walk away shaking your head... (casualty)

 

So basically the point you're trying to make is that the squad is better??

I should fecking well hope so for the money thrown at it - Ritchie's team costs about £300,000 - 3/4 of what Davey pissed away on Miguel Mostto. Not really too much to expect to improve on a squad that had spent four years in League One.

The only problem is that the squad that came up (by and large) finished 20th - funnily enough the exact same position we finished last year.

 

A very slow one.