He didn't say that, he said "I always had faith in Koemans ability to improve inexperienced players."
Hebrews 1:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
So which one of you funsters is actually taking over the club then? I keep getting disappointed to click on this thread and see new billionaire/yacht/tyre-kicker news. I mean even that blue crowd down the motorway managed to have an entire owner who didn't exist once. Can't we at least make something up?
For me, when Bridge went we also effectively lost, or seriously downgraded, both Marsden and Beattie. Marsden was never the same without Bridge doing the overlaps and a lot of Beattie's effectiveness came from Bridge's crosses. Ings bangs the goals in so has to be regarded as more important, but Bridge was about more than just Bridge at the time. Or my memory is poor. Very possible.
This sums it up better than anything I've read. When we played Norwich it was like playing a medium-level Championship side after the first 10 mins. Arsenal did the same to us today.
And it really does kind of feel like a pre-season friendly somehow. The pace/intensity just isn't there, from us or most of the teams I've seen so far.