Your new avatar is brilliant - one of the best midfielders I ever had the pleasure of watching (even when he tore us eleven new ones in August 1967)
There's definitely some rough patches ahead, it's a crazy league as you allude to. But I don't think you're in any real danger of going down.
Critchley has done an amazing job and there's elements of that season under Holloway, albeit more about tactical nous from Critchley in my view.
I still maintain that it's a relegation battle squad and he's working absolute wonders. There are some decent players in there in Lavery and Yates but for the most part, it's poor at this level. Just shows what a decent manager can do and I firmly believe he's a top manager.
Sadly I only saw him play once, as I was still a young kid and the family had no interest in football! 😏. People of a certain age still talk about him though as the greatest footballer they ever saw play for us at Bloomfield road. He lasted barely 12 months at Newcastle before injury finished him at 26,but again Geordies of a certain age still revere him as a great, so he must've made a big impression with them in his short time there. That was my first football kit(1969)and I still have those socks, with the 2 tangerine bands! My late mum darned the feet so many times that there's more darn than sock! 😂 I won't throw them though... 🙂
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