Hang on though, he wasn’t the sporting director

He was the MD.

Responsibility for football matters sat primarily with the manager.

Now mcnally might have been responsible for not ensuring the very best infrastructure around scouting was in place, but he wasn’t the guy going out scouting players.

Also, absent his recruitment of lambert, f**k knows where the club would be now. I doubt we’d be debt free though - we were in a right mess when he took over.

That period of 3 years (league 1 to the end of our first year in the prem when the debt was repaid) has provided the foundations for everything that has followed.

We didn’t spend much last year, but our football budget (wages etc) is still massive compared to Ipswich for example, and that has everything to do with the likes of McNally, Bowkett and co.

Posted By: SimonOTBC on May 8th 2019 at 17:45:36

Message Thread

McNally Tweets (NCFC) - duke of york, May 8, 15:45:56
- What's with the 'shagger' comments???? (n/m) (NCFC) - Mozzer, May 8, 18:46:36
- Bitter, twisted (NCFC) - Old Man, May 8, 18:28:54
- any word from Jez Moxey? (n/m) (NCFC) - dr fanta, May 8, 17:06:40
- Cheers shagger (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, May 8, 16:47:49
  - Come round (n/m) (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 17:04:44
  - What's all that about then? (n/m) (NCFC) - Trent_Canary, May 8, 16:59:20
- Good to see; he certainly deserves his share of the credit (NCFC) - Mecagoenti, May 8, 16:05:00
  - I would estimate his share of the credit to be approx 1% (NCFC) - pab, May 8, 16:12:33
    - Hang on though, he wasn’t the sporting director (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, May 8, 17:45:36
      - the credit has to be shared equally among many (NCFC) - Henclrikus, May 8, 17:54:37
        
        Im not saying he was solely responsible (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, May 8, 17:59:57
        
        He arrested a terrible slide after a long period of deterioration. (n/m) (NCFC) - norway, May 8, 18:04:35
        
        Goodness knows where the club would be now without that intervention (n/m) (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, May 8, 18:05:45
        
        Before McNally, you had Delia and Michael saying things like "well who else is out there?" (NCFC) - lurd, May 8, 18:20:21
        
        Would Maddison, Lewis, Aarons, Godfrey, Cantwell (NCFC) - duke of york, May 8, 17:58:09
        
        At least they were here to be given the chance! (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 18:05:37
        
        (as above, I think Aarons joined post-McNally) (n/m) (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, May 8, 18:20:59
        
        Recruiting schoolboys not really CEO's remit (NCFC) - Henclrikus, May 8, 18:35:59
        
        Erm, indeed, just saying he shouldn't get particular credit for Aarons. (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, May 8, 18:44:43
        
        purely a statement of fact. (n/m) (NCFC) - Henclrikus, May 8, 19:07:51
        
        (and Cantwell joined as a 13-year old or whatever - not sure what role (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, May 8, 18:26:39
        
        we will never know (NCFC) - Henclrikus, May 8, 18:05:01
    - Don't forget we nearly signed Alderwierweld, Van Dijk and Koulibaily... (NCFC) - Waz, May 8, 16:35:10
      - Quagliarella.... (n/m) (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, May 8, 18:05:11
      - And Biglia... (n/m) (NCFC) - Kangol Canary, May 8, 17:24:06
    - yes, he made poor signings (NCFC) - Mecagoenti, May 8, 16:14:53
      - Webber said that we had spent 4 seasons in Premier but ignored investment in Colney etc (NCFC) - pab, May 8, 16:22:29
        
        Webber says a lot of things.... (NCFC) - Men without hats, May 8, 17:29:43
      - Lewis, Godfrey and Maddison all joined when he was here (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, May 8, 16:19:14
        
        Deserves proper credit for those signings. Easy to criticise when .... (NCFC) - Saucerer, May 8, 16:36:35
        
        I don't necessarily disagree, but his legacy will be tainted by the following... (NCFC) - Waz, May 8, 16:55:13
        
        Making us hard to deal with? (n/m) (NCFC) - Men without hats, May 8, 17:30:42
        
        Resigning while drunk on Twitter was great bantz though (NCFC) - duke of york, May 8, 17:06:58
        
        I thought it was Bowkett that fell out with Lambert (n/m) (NCFC) - A new PC Mr Creosote, May 8, 17:05:18
        
        We should be thankful for Moxey (NCFC) - duke of york, May 8, 16:39:00
- I wonder if Webber will become the antichrist in the future? (n/m) (NCFC) - Men without hats, May 8, 15:58:29
  - He'll be looking for (NCFC) - Old Splat, May 8, 18:10:44
    - Exactly - he gives as much 'a fuck' as Lambert did. (n/m) (NCFC) - Men without hats, May 8, 19:19:09
    - The alternative of course, being someone happy to plod along (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, May 8, 18:13:32
  - Probably (n/m) (NCFC) - A new PC Mr Creosote, May 8, 15:59:01
- No reference to his assertion that we were embarrassing last season? (n/m) (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, May 8, 15:56:09
- That's nice. (NCFC) - A new PC Mr Creosote, May 8, 15:51:00
  - So do i, he was 'the next big thing' now Webber is. (n/m) (NCFC) - Men without hats, May 8, 17:27:50
- I'm waiting for the dig - assume that comes next (n/m) (NCFC) - Waz, May 8, 15:50:17
- I thought he was the 👿 (n/m) (NCFC) - Men without hats, May 8, 15:50:00

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