The team he played in early 90s (Hillier, Morrow, Dickov, Linighan, McGoldrick, Campbell...) was pretty dire by their standards. Sure there was one year in the first season's of the Premier League where they only stayed up by a few points.
Edit: Sorry thought that was about the Wright comment.
The 1982 through to 86 period is the worst I remember. George Graham came along then and took them to a couple of titles.