Had Tommy Doc not been sacked......

How do you think history would have panned out? It was the early days of the
Vermins era, Leeds had waned, and we were looking good...

What do you thing oldsters?

Originally Posted by thatsfuctit

How do you think history would have panned out? It was the early days of the
Vermins era, Leeds had waned, and we were looking good...

What do you thing oldsters?

Liverpool would be chanting "42 years".

we would have won the league by 1980.

Originally Posted by thatsfuctit

What do you thing oldsters?

willie morgan would be a billionaire

I still don't think we would have challenged Liverpool. Two points for a win suited Liverpool's brand of football in that period.

On the plus side we would have been spared Dave 'the entertainer' Sexton.

Originally Posted by elephantstone

we would have won the league by 1980.

I like to think so, we would have been in a position to compete for the best players - big crowds, exciting football, europe most years...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImLywgV0gao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64xzWel40wM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gEYH_3_Qcc

Laurie Brown would have had a few more holidays.

Originally Posted by Zorg

Laurie Brown would have had a few more holidays.

We'd have still come up short as regards the league, doc's attacking style would have still left us conceding too many, forest, liverpool were built from the back, and in them days and still today, to win a league you have to have a strong defence, doc's mentality was go out and score more than them, he'd have taken a 4-3 defeat rather than a 1-0 win. however we'd have probably won a few more cups and maybe a uefa or cup winners cup as well.
And has been said would have been a damn sight more entertaining than sexton's sides were.

Originally Posted by Zorg

Laurie Brown would have had a few more holidays.

tommy doc was a good manager, we'd probably have won the league in a few years. wouldn't have made that much difference long-term, though, it needed someone to come along and do root and branch rebuilding from the youth side up the way ferguson did. tommy doc didn't have the character to do that. can't think of another manager who did tbf.

Had he gone on to be successful maybe we'd never have got Atkinson and Ferguson... a prospect that would be unthinkable now.

it didnt help that his loyal assistant Paddy Crerand was running with stories to the club president. Im a big fan of the Doc whatever he done he done but his legacy should be that he made us reasonably great again

Originally Posted by elephantstone

it didnt help that his loyal assistant Paddy Crerand was running with stories to the club president. Im a big fan of the Doc whatever he done he done but his legacy should be that he made us reasonably great again

best laugh I have ever had at a game ( leeds semi at hillsborough) was in the doc era and for that he will always have a special place in my heart

Originally Posted by elephantstone

it didnt help that his loyal assistant Paddy Crerand was running with stories to the club president. Im a big fan of the Doc whatever he done he done but his legacy should be that he made us reasonably great again

I liked the Doc

1977 cup final still one of my fondest memories.

Remember mouthy little scouse @#%&! in my school saying how they'd hammer us so I bet whoever lost had to wear the winning teams scarf first day back after summer holidays.

Happy days.

Originally Posted by Big Norm

1977 cup final still one of my fondest memories.

Remember mouthy little scouse @#%&! in my school saying how they'd hammer us so I bet whoever lost had to wear the winning teams scarf first day back after summer holidays.

Happy days.

"Have you ever won the treble, have you £#%&!"

Thanks Tommy. He may be a Chelsea @#%&! now but we'll always have the '77 cup.

I remember city fans singing 'he shot he cum all over Marys bum Tommy Doc Tommy Doc'