I agree with almost all of this. The exception being, "sacked by a jealous board". Sacked by a suckered, stupid board AFAIC. I'm as certain as I can be that Aberdeen were champing at the bit to get Fergie. IF the board hadn't been so stupid as to fall for sacking him, Fergie would have, IMO, still moved on at the time he did, but, Saints would have got some cash for the move. The draw of Aberdeen was just as strong for Fergie as it was for Goodie and Robinson.

Frewboy knows Teams like QotS,East Stirling,Airdrie,Montrose,Clyde were taking 5 or 6 goals off us on a regular basis home and away Crowds were around 1000/1100 and the stadium was crumbling Fergie arrived in 74 and within a couple of seasons crowds were up and Love St was a fortress Fergie went around the Town with a loud hailer encouraging people to come to LS and very quickly crowds of 5 figures were quite common I have no doubt if it wasn’t for Fergie we’d be playing in the basement of Scottish football……….or worse 

When fergie came to us we were in the doldrums, could not beat carpets. I remember a game at Love Street against Queen  of the South. We’re 3.0 down at half time  we lost 5.0 but the Q o S players were making fools of us. It was like that most weeks then fergie came. Brought pride back, great young players, bought wisely, Jackie Copland, Jimmy Bone etc. within half a season we were a completely different team. If fergie had not been sacked by a jealous board we would have won the league as it was were a force to be reckoned with for a couple of more seasons due to the foundations laid by him. Best manager by a mile.