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TTU Awards 2012-13: Manager of the Season

By on June 7, 2013 in the Category TTU Awards with 2 Comments
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Of all the categories this year, our opinion formers were most divided on this. Sure, the collection of silverware is all important but it’s as much about the raw materials and how far they are stretched. Hence, a number of bosses deserve credit for exceeding expectations - those gentlemen who chose to forget this when assessing Nigel Adkins and last year’s winner Brian McDermott would do well to take note. Tiers 2-4 have provided a no more encouraging environment for those playing the long game but with Barnsley written off before the start of every season as relegation fodder, and this…

TTU Awards 2012-13: Flop of the Season

By on June 4, 2013 in the Category TTU Awards with 2 Comments
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It’s been a fine season for flops across the divisions. Unfair though it may be, many a neutral has taken pleasure at the continued turmoil at Blackburn Rovers over the past 12 months and one of our regulars particularly cited Danny Murphy’s role in their ongoing decline. Having arrived with great expectations, the Rovers captain not only failed to lead the Lancastrians back to the Premier League but also found himself stripped of the armband under Michael Appleton. £30,000 a week well invested, Venky’s. Elsewhere, Owen Coyle was given the nod, as were Middlesbrough, Tranmere and Dagenham, all three clubs…

Once More Unto the Breach: The Football League Season Draws to a Conclusion

By on April 26, 2013 in the Category Uncategorized with No comments
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Tonight, Watford travel to Leicester City at the onset of a nail biting weekend of Football League fixtures. With a great many issues still hanging in the balance, our two founding bloggers, Lloyd and Lanterne Rouge convened to discuss the prospects: … Lanterne Rouge: As a Plymouth fan, you’ve mentioned to me that you are still worried about the drop - it’s quite possible mathematically but will take a chain reaction of perhaps sub-nuclear proportions for Argyle to go down to the Football League. Having analysed the various relegation candidates for this blog a few weeks ago, who do you…

Against The Odds, Bolton Might Yet Make The Top 6

By on March 21, 2013 in the Category Uncategorized with No comments
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Bolton’s season, much like the Championship as a whole, has been a tad erratic, Lion of Vienna Suite’s Mark Yesilevskiy writes… A slow start; inconsistency; away woes; points dropped from winning positions; and runs of form have defined the Trotters in 2012-13. All told, it’s been a season of phases. With Owen Coyle in situ, it never looked like Bolton would recover from last season’s relegation. Sporadic wins might have been treated like new dawns under a different manager, but such hope never really emerged under Coyle. One road win in five coupled with only two victories from the same…

How Low Will Phil Brown Stoop Before He Gets a Job?

By on February 3, 2013 in the Category Uncategorized with 6 Comments
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We’ve swung both ways on these pages as regards Phil Brown. In assessing his League One bound Preston side towards the end of 2011-12, my co-editor presented the defence, arguing that he’s “guilty of nothing more than being occasionally annoying”. Give the man a break, dissenters were told. On the other hand, Ben – TTU’s resident Geordie – offered a retort, describing Brown as nothing more than “a varnished Mackem with a hot-air-balloon-sized ego who unleashed his karaoke Sinatra on the pitch in celebration of our relegation is anything less than a prize tosser.” As for this correspondent, my Dad…

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