By being unlucky

I was meaning things like Drury's injury, leaving him with Lappin at left back, and especially the most common complaint, that of a lack of creativity in the middle of midfield. He'd signed two creative midfielders (Smith, who I never thought much of, and Fotheringham, who was one of the stars after Grant had left) and both missed the first 3-4 months of the season with injury.

He definitely got it wrong with Brellier - a good player when he wanted to be, but I suspect his attitude stank - and Brown. Chadwick was more unlucky than anything else with his injury against Ipswich. Strivavka looked like a case of right player, wrong time. He deffo had the skills and ability.

In the end, Grant simply had to go because things had reached the point where no matter what he did, it simply wasn't going to get better. It happens. And thankfully he was gracious enough to realise it.

Posted By: Iwan Husarmi, Apr 26, 20:55:54