Amber Andy wrote:Sneag wrote:bobbystagsfan wrote:Anderson was sheeeite when he played anyway
Anderson got a lot worse in people's memories once DF froze him out. He really wasn't a bad player.
He was hardly an ever present even for the manager who initially signed him.
Fifteen league starts plus nine sub appearances and a solitary league goal, in the two seasons he was with us.
No league starts for Plymouth just appearances from the bench.
He had basically 3/4 of a season for us before Flitcroft sacked him off. In the time he played he was a steady player, not outstanding but certainly not the liability people want to paint him. We needed cover at RWB and fit and motivated he'd have provided that.
If you've never worked for a gaffer that hates you, you have absolutely no idea how demoralising that is. TBH FD's inability to sit down and thrashout differences with players he clashed with on arrival was one of the reasons I didn't rate him as a manager.
When managing adults surely explaining your ethos is more effective than 'it's my way because I say so & if you don't like it you're sacked'.
Purely supposition on my part, but it wouldn't surprise me if wasted resources were as much as reason for FDs sacking as his tendency to raspberry up promotion run ins.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
