Much as a rate Beck as a left back the lad Liverpool signed from Bournemouth is a better prospect. He’s got what Beck has got but more of it.

Out Wimbledon'd Wimbledon in the wind up the opposition stakes. I seem to remember things like the away dressing room only having cold showers.

He's going to be a huge problem for the championship

Beck nearly got Cambridge into the first ever Premier League, although if you’re going to be a long ball side, do it with Steve Claridge and Dion Dublin up front. Leicester beat Beck’s Cambridge in the ‘other’ play off semi final in 1992. Otherwise that could have been an even more uncomfortable afternoon at Wembley under an arial barrage.

How is that Eustace 'fucking us over'? Baath - we didn't offer him a worthwhile deal (as far as we know), and Derby did. Beck - not our player. Presumably Liverpool happy with how Eustace used and developed him so makes sense for them to continue that. Whereas they don't know VI and he has form for playing back 3 - even though seems to be playing with back 4 for now. Liverpool mainly play trad back 4, as does Eustace, so again makes sense for them to send Beck somewhere that means he can slot into Liverpool's team if for some reason they need him. I get the frustration that Derby are taking 'our' players but Eustace is merely taking advantage of the situation in the same way anyone else would. Kendall did more damage to us when he went to Everton IIRC.

Brainless shot by Bethell. He's had a poor match. Nerves are jangling, England most not throw this away

Thought Mimms, Livingstone and Dobson were all fairly decent at the time. Without Jack's intervention and the impetus provided by their arrival I've little doubt we'd have gone down without a whimper that season.

Root gone. Starting to look sketchy.

John Beck - former Cambridge manager. Famous and briefly extremely successful but relatively short lived long ball merchant. Players were brick out houses who'd run all day. One of the tactics was to welly the ball forward as quickly as possible towards the opposition corner flags and chase after it.

John Beck was Allardye & Pullis way before they were. Kick and rush specialist.

Former PNE manager John Beck, long ball merchant, grass long in the corners so the ball didn't run out of play after it was hoofed forwards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Beck_(footballer)#Managerial_career

Hackney turned down Ipswich so Boro might not have them money for the transfer any more.

Gotta admit, you've completely lost me there

He's a guy with more experience of that kind of thing than the whole Rovers upper office put together yet again as per usual they didn't listen.

He was never prolific though - his best spell was with Rovers where I think he had a dozen goals in 30+ games. Think he spent over 10 years at Grimsby where he was a 1 in 5 or 6 man.

I’d say his goals certainly helped us stay up, along with Dobson at the back. I also remember Frank Stapleton hat trick at Wolves that season too.

an oil tanker turned quicker than livingston he did`nt half have an eye for goals though,he was always in the right place when the ball arrived in the box

I remember going to Watford away that season in midweek. It was my Birthday. Livingston scored 2. We won 3-1 I think .🤔

Hugely relieved that Dike is injured They have Keeper issues and the sale of Heggem this week is likely to help reduce but not resolve a significant PSR problem.

Does that credit extend if those 3 are simply straight replacements for Brittain, Travis and Tronstad? I wouldn't give too much credit for bringing in inferior players. Obviously if they did turn out to be better, credit would be due. I sort of agree that we seem to appear to know certain players are leaving and we're getting warm bodies in to replace them first. That wouldn't have happened under Waggott imo but it doesn't count for that much if the players coming in are a lot worse.

I didn't see the Stockport v Bolton game but this sounds familiar I might add ACD into that. I imagine people will be saying how good he was but he cost us the first goal and didn’t do the defensive work needed generally. Stockport targeted that side. And they also worked out that we are vulnerable on the transition when he cuts inside and loses it with JDC on the overlap. This is the thing - things can look brilliant pre season but look decidedly less so when under the scrutiny of proper football. https://the-wanderer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=27882&sid=31e3981ecaee6d011972e04223feb43e&start=240

Not the debate the fact he’s labelled a massive loss I disagree when beck started last year we won 8 and lost 8 when beck was out of the team we won 8 lost 8 beck is better and likely to have a better career but we have enough to cover the void as shown above

Strange that we still haven't announced Miller or Boro with Brittain?

Starting to be really irritated by derby. They've got our best fullback from last season and our best centreback. Eustace is really fucking us over