Probably the best argued case for Worthington to go I've seen

But while people like Steve Walsh and Tony Cottee were good, they were both sadly well past it when they signed a 'bumper' end of career contract with us. I always thought Cottee was an odd signing. Yes he was a class finisher, but he's the kind of player who needed players around him who get the ball in the right place for him, something I think our team lacked at that time. As for Walsh, while he had been a collosus at Leicester for years, he was overweight and unfit when he signed for us. I think he ended up playing non-league football after leaving us.

While it's true we lived off a number of dodgy players between the O'Neill and Worthington regimes, (Mike Walker being responsible for some of the dodgier ones, although he did get Roberts and Fleming) I thought things had reached their worst point under Hamilton, which in a way initiated the input of money as if it hadn't have come I think we may have gone down. It was more the comments which were continously coming out of Carrow Road at that time which made me mental. Hamilton kept on saying how this squad was good enough to win promotion - when it clearly wasn't. It made me insane!

Still there's no denying Worthington has had a little more leverage in the transfer market (notably the Huckerby/Sven/McKenzie triple buy that got us up), he did at least get roughly the same pool of players who played under Hamilton playing as a top 10 team in the Championship with limited signings and even made the play-off final with journey men like David Neilson up front and Clint Easton wide left. But yes he did spend around ?1.5M at the start of that season. Then when he got up, he misused his tv revenue cash and players and ended up back in the Champ, and things have rapidly gone downhill.

Posted By: Poirot, Nov 8, 21:36:50