silverfox wrote:I think we would all agree and are thankful that Accies have progressed in 15 years since the points deduction and all the ramifications therefater.
However, I think it can be difficult to be objective about a season if you constantly measure it against those events.
I make no apology in being disappointed in a season that with better planning, Accies could have been in the top three.
redandwhite1874 wrote:silverfox wrote:I think we would all agree and are thankful that Accies have progressed in 15 years since the points deduction and all the ramifications therefater.
However, I think it can be difficult to be objective about a season if you constantly measure it against those events.
I make no apology in being disappointed in a season that with better planning, Accies could have been in the top three.
Just better planning was required to get top 3? Perhaps if we were lucky and retained all the people we had in place we could have done that. It would have been truly astonishing but maybe we could have. Take out the 4 hardest to replace, and perhaps most effective, people at the club; including 2 people you could say were part of the foundations over a decade and I think it would take far, far more than planning to maintain that.
For me the myth that some investment and an experienced manager would have continued the same level of glory is being repeated to the point of almost certainty for some. For instance third might have been a reasonable goal for a certain club in Lanarkshire at the start of the season; who had stability, some investment (certainly in terms of the kind of wages we have structured around currently) and an experienced manager. We didn't strengthen in the window and that is a reality and failing but the real challenge was getting the club back on an even keel after the turmoil of January and loss of key staff. It would also be interesting know how much guys like MacDonald, Swanson, Pearson etc are on to gauge if they were realistic targets for us?
Many clubs have struggled after the loss of a hugely effective and influential manager; let alone a small club like ours who were already over performing and operating with the smallest first team budget. Man U went for Moyes and gave him cash for example.
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