Cast your minds back to March 2005, coming towards the end of our time at Highfield Road. It may seem like a different era, but it was only five and a half years and five complete seasons ago.
Today I stumbled across a programme from our home game on 12th March 2005 against Cardiff City. I very nearly threw it away, but then wondered who was in the team that day. I wonder, thought I, how many of the squad then were still on the books now?
We had one manager and thirty players on the squadlist on that Spring day. How many of the 31 are still with us as we enter our tenth season in the Championship?
Three.
How many have been with us without interruptions?
One. Take a bow Mr Isaac Osbourne. Michael Doyle went off to chase whippets, McChef went off down the A45 for a rest.
I know we've not had much of a settled team, but that strikes me as excessive to say the least.
Out of that 2005 squad, who could we have seen proudly stumbling around like a drunk at closing time?
In goal - Ian Bennett
At the back - Steve Staunton, Robert Page, Ady Williams and Dean Leacock
In midfield - Tim Sherwood, Neil "made of" Wood, Graham Barrett and Craig Pead
Up front - Trevor Benjamin and Eddie Johnson
OK, we also had Stern, Dele, Richard Shaw and Stephen Hughes, but there wasn't half some real rubbish playing.
On that basis, we've moved on in five years. PUSB and thanks to Arson Yarn.
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