After an FA cup defeat in January that year Bob Lord sacked the Manager and gave away half the team .

For different reasons the club are now letting players leave on perhaps an even larger scale .

I fear as in the first example the result of this will be to tear the heart out of the club let’s hope it doesn’t herald a prolonged period of the depressing times for the club that the first example did .

If that lot down the road walk into the Turf next week and win .
The board I fear will find out just how much confidence the crowd has lost in them and how much they have misjudged the
scenario

You're not allowed to criticise the running of the club, unless you want to be called a 'bedwetter'.

Seen it all before

You are right. A crucial period that could very quickly turn toxic. It would be seen as self-inflicted by Pace and the Board.

Adamson's misguided "Team of the 70s" quote always springs to mind. Lord Bob had other ideas and promptly sold most of them. It has similarities with today's situation unfortunately and many of us older fans know only too well, our years in the wilderness that eventually followed

It was for the exact same reasons. The club had adopted a model of buying young players cheap and selling them throughout Bob Lord's reign.

However, the maximum wage (albeit in the early 60s) and changing fashions meant it was harder and harder to do.

At one point the best players joined smaller clubs to get exposure to first team football and would then look for a big move at the age of 23 or 24 but by the mid 70s it had started to change. It was an end of an era and it took the Lancashire clubs a couple of decades to find their feet again.

Clovius Boofus wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 25, 2024 8:23 am

You're not allowed to criticise the running of the club, unless you want to be called a 'bedwetter'.

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