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ChorltonV wrote:oh yeah, Top Man, glad he has a comfortable easy life, isn't it just dandy how things turned out after he sent our club spiraling out of the league and onto the path of oblivion.

Oh come on, you're not seriously blaming him for the demise of the club are you :roll:

I don't think you can even partially blame him, yes he was the manager who took us down out the league but we were on a downward spiral anyway at that point, maybe if we'd found a good manager we could have stayed in the league a bit longer but I think it would have only been delaying the inevitable really.

Of course I'm not blaming Barry Hunter for the demise of our club! But any suggestion that he was "a great manager" is frankly ridiculous. Who knows where we would be now if we hadn't got relegated, it's all hypothetical and we'll never know, but you can't deny the fact that it was Barry that took us down.

Barry was the best man available to us and gave the players the best morale and fighting spirit that was possible, he was a good manager and the passion he showed when we got a point away at Brighton was 2nd to none. I dont have a bad word to say about him.

mike wrote:Build a Bonfire, Build a bonfire
Put the K*ttering on the top
Put Keith Cousins in the middle and
we'll burn the F***ing lot!

brilliant

mike wrote: .........and the passion he showed when we got a point away at Brighton was 2nd to none.

The game that over half of the travelling faithful thought we had lost 1-0. ;)

Trek wrote:

mike wrote: .........and the passion he showed when we got a point away at Brighton was 2nd to none.

The game that over half of the travelling faithful thought we had lost 1-0. ;)

I will never forget that I remember Gary Biddulph standing up and shouting at someone "It was F***ing Offisde when do you restart from a F***ing free kick!!"

mike wrote:

Trek wrote:

mike wrote: .........and the passion he showed when we got a point away at Brighton was 2nd to none.

The game that over half of the travelling faithful thought we had lost 1-0. ;)

I will never forget that I remember Gary Biddulph standing up and shouting at someone "It was F***ing Offisde when do you restart from a F***ing free kick!!"

I was one who thought we had lost 1-0!

Everyweeker wrote:
I was one who thought we had lost 1-0!

Too many Diamonds fans got used to the luxury of watching home games with a score board and obviously didn't realise that when a goal is scored the game always restarts from a kick off in the centre circle. ;)

Trek wrote:

Everyweeker wrote:
I was one who thought we had lost 1-0!

Too many Diamonds fans got used to the luxury of watching home games with a score board and obviously didn't realise that when a goal is scored the game always restarts from a kick off in the centre circle. ;)

I remember watching the Brighton fans celebrate, and then they were playing again. Then I spent a while getting p****d off at having so many men behind the ball when we were 'losing'!

mike wrote:Barry was the best man available to us....

I'm not sure I even agree with that statement to be honest. I think R&D might be unique in that in the entire history of the club we never once sought applications for the job of Manager and never conducted interviews. Whichever regime was running the club the Managers were appointed via previous acquantence or some pre-knowledge or link to the individual. We missed a trick.