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9 hours ago, CambridgeDon said:

Very good article with interviews with Micky and Dicko - fortunately, it doesn't mention Smurthwaite!

Would be inappropriate in an article titled "deep thinker".

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His programme notes were akin to reading an academic paper at times; the bloke was clearly intelligent.

I knew a couple of lads in the youth academy at the time and they loved him; knew every youth player by name, would ask about family, how they were doing at school etc. Just a top lad.

In his only full season he had us in 12th in League 1 with AJ Leitch Smith, Danny N'Guessan, and JJ Hooper leading the line. He signed Foley, Grant, Purkiss, Streete, Alnwick, Uche and Inniss in his only summer window. That's an outstanding record in recruitment. We were a few points off the League 1 playoffs, but I think that's the year Norman refused to spend on a striker and asked fans to contribute. There were undoubted negatives to his managerial style but under him we were in the best position (good league position, young manager, youngish squad, good recruitment) we've been in since the early 2000s.

I get angry at what Norman did that summer and wonder what might have been, but our implosion under him was inevitable considering the sheer lack of intelligence he possessed. We were doomed from the moment he took sole control, it was just a matter of when.

 

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