Memory Lane 2005-06 Season - 20 years on

[Left Wing Cross]

Did Talbot go on to manage anyone else after us?

I seem to remember he went to Malta

 

[brinyhoof]

I seem to remember he went to Malta

Yep, as referenced in our Brians quiz at the end of this Oxblogger podcast:

 

[Marked Ox]

Ultimately it was the start of our traditional shite January window, clearly our worst ever with only the Taylor/Smith/Konate one coming close..

Ultimately, 3 things sent us down.

1) Brian Talbot having one plan of Burgess creating for Onandi Lowe. With Craig Davies as an alternative that could work. When you fail to sign Lowe and trade Davies for Neville Roach you genuinely should just be relegated automatically at that point.

2) Ian Atkins doing an incredible job. Genuinely almost a miracle, but again with good organisation and players knowing their role. We missed a trick not making the call.

3) the return of Jim. Anybody who has spoken to any players from that time will share that whilst the aura remained, perhaps some of the methods had dated a little. To a team of weak individuals like Andy Burgess, that was never going to work. In a relegation situation you bring in trusted league 2 performers, as Atkins did at Torquay, and as proven with Smith and Ntoya. You can’t take risks with Andrea Guatelli, Liam Horsted etc.

That first year of the conference was great fun. Our absolutely mad dependence on Rob Duffy (pen) was always going to be risky though.

Corrected for you.