Sacking a manager in November (sic)

I looked at the last time [2000/01], and I was stunned. Stunned I tells ya.

Hamilton - 20 games, 20 pts, -9 GD. Had just lost five on the bounce.

I remembered that Worthy came in, dumped a load of wasters and turned it around.

That really wasn't the case.

NW's first 20 games? 26 pts, -3 GD (inc a 4-defeats sequence)

So not a very big uptick at all (sides like Tranmere & QPR got a load worse, helping our rise up the table)

As for personnel changes, again not really.

Derveld disappeared, Jackson came back into defence, Dalglish & Notman & McVeigh were more involved, Abbey returned from l-t injury, and the loans dried up.
[Drury & Holt were only signed in late March]

But the rest of the line-up remained much the same (Marshall, Sutch, Flem, Malky, Mulryne, Marshall, Forbes, Llewellyn & Roberts. And the likes of Cottee and Walsh had only peripheral roles for Hammy).

This, obviously, has only minor relevance to the current era, but thought I'd put it out there.

Posted By: Henclrikus, Nov 8, 09:43:51