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Pop amazingly kept us up, but then brought in some poor signings when he was trusted with the transfer kitty.

Do you mean Pepe Mel?  The only signing he ever made was Thievy on loan, that January window.  He was sacked in early May, and the summer's transfers were the doing of Garlick/Day/Burton with Alan Irvine at the helm.  (That said, I remain unconvinced that he was the managerial god some still insist, but our bad transfers in 2014 can't be pinned on him).

No, Ska'd. I did mean Pop Robson (as Aries guessed).