Andy Thorn favourite for the Kidderminster job (24 Viewers)

Hobo · Mar 1, 2014

Sick Boy said:
It is interesting that his cheerleaders are absent on this thread! Easily the worst manager in the club's history, yet he was being lauded as one of the greatest by the majority on here. I am certain most other managers would have kept us up, yet it seems that many wanted his employment to continue in order for him to get us relegated. It was probably to blame SISU for something else.

One thing I don't understand, surely, as it was claimed before, he was an excellent manager, why were SISU never praised for their brave and visionary appointment? No one else would have gone near him, nor stuck with him for so long.

It is reassuring to that know that I disagree with most of his cheerleaders on here, they are utterly clueless.

I don't think SISU deserve any pats on the back....the majority knew he was just a cheap option. People had seen so many names and reputations come and go, they just thought why not? Most didn't expect him to have a chance of keeping us up. The irony is he almost did.

The annoying thing is he didn't, but got us to a stage where it was in our own hands. We had the easiest run in of all the teams but capitulated.

To me he is just one of a long line of managers who have failed. I see him as no worse than Terry Butcher, Don Howe, Peter Reid, Ron Atkinson, Bobby Gould 2nd time, Gordon Strachan and I could mention more. All have failed in there own way and on varying budgets.

ccfcway · Mar 1, 2014

Grendel said:
Interesting the harriers fans are as alarmed as we were as well and they know if he carries on much longer he will ruin the very fabric of the club..

to be fair, he cant do anywhere near as much damage as SISU

Grendel · Mar 1, 2014

ccfcway said:
to be fair, he cant do anywhere near as much damage as SISU

Disagree. We'd still be in the championship and the Ricoh without him.

Grendel · Mar 1, 2014

Hobo said:
I don't think SISU deserve any pats on the back....the majority knew he was just a cheap option. People had seen so many names and reputations come and go, they just thought why not? Most didn't expect him to have a chance of keeping us up. The irony is he almost did.

The annoying thing is he didn't, but got us to a stage where it was in our own hands. We had the easiest run in of all the teams but capitulated.

To me he is just one of a long line of managers who have failed. I see him as no worse than Terry Butcher, Don Howe, Peter Reid, Ron Atkinson, Bobby Gould 2nd time, Gordon Strachan and I could mention more. All have failed in there own way and on varying budgets.

He almost kept us up? How?

Hobo · Mar 1, 2014

March 31 21st having won last two games
Remaining fixtures were as follows and their league positions as the table stood Peterborough H 17th, Bristol C A 22nd, Burnley A 16th, Millwall H 20th, Doncaster H 24th, Southampton A 1st.

Take out Burnley A and Southampton A as defeats. The rest were games we could look to take results in. It was in our hands. It says as much about the players as Andy Thorne the way we capitulated.

That's how close he got.

Nick · Mar 1, 2014

How many games where we were up did we lose because he didn't know how to hold on to leads? There was one game where they scored 2 after 90 minutes and we lost (Palace rings a bell?)

How many dropped points were there?

skybluesam66 · Mar 1, 2014

i think the biggest error that season was when super captain Carl baker got himself sent off against Leicester. Without that and a win there would have changed the belief around the squad and we would have had a much better 1st half of the season

stupot07 · Mar 1, 2014

Hobo said:
March 31 21st having won last two games
Remaining fixtures were as follows and their league positions as the table stood Peterborough H 17th, Bristol C A 22nd, Burnley A 16th, Millwall H 20th, Doncaster H 24th, Southampton A 1st.

Take out Burnley A and Southampton A as defeats. The rest were games we could look to take results in. It was in our hands. It says as much about the players as Andy Thorne the way we capitulated.

That's how close he got.

We missed out by 8 points ...and what was our league position at the time?

We really weren't that close.

40 points in 46 games.

dongonzalos · Mar 1, 2014

Sick Boy said:
It is interesting that his cheerleaders are absent on this thread! Easily the worst manager in the club's history, yet he was being lauded as one of the greatest by the majority on here. I am certain most other managers would have kept us up, yet it seems that many wanted his employment to continue in order for him to get us relegated. It was probably to blame SISU for something else.

One thing I don't understand, surely, as it was claimed before, he was an excellent manager, why were SISU never praised for their brave and visionary appointment? No one else would have gone near him, nor stuck with him for so long.

It is reassuring to that know that I disagree with most of his cheerleaders on here, they are utterly clueless.

You will find I am absent from all threads since midday. You have not mentioned it on any of the other threads.
I assume they lost then?

dongonzalos · Mar 1, 2014

I have not checked this yet but did AT replace the top scorer who was sold in January?

Grendel · Mar 2, 2014

dongonzalos said:
I have not checked this yet but did AT replace the top scorer who was sold in January?

Yep he's signings have been slated -- the general feeling amongst the fans is it is the best and strongest squad they have ever had.

Nick · Mar 2, 2014

dongonzalos said:
I have not checked this yet but did AT replace the top scorer who was sold in January?

Obsessing about Juke again? Doesn't alter the fact he had nothing in the way of tactics, no plan B and was pretty much clueless when it came to trying to change a game.

dongonzalos · Mar 2, 2014

Grendel said:
Yep he's signings have been slated -- the general feeling amongst the fans is it is the best and strongest squad they have ever had.

Who was the striker he signed to replace lolley?

dongonzalos · Mar 2, 2014

5-1??
May have to admit defeat on this one.
Still don't think u let a manager sign 9 players over a summer and he was trying to get DMC.
Then sack him after three draws!!

They are still muppets and should have sacked him in the summer if they had that little faith in him.

Instead of saying he wasps soberly in their plans

More Fisher rubbish

Nick · Mar 2, 2014

dongonzalos said:
Who was the striker he signed to replace lolley?

So everything revolves around 1 player? Nothing to do with a manager who hasn't got a clue what he is doing?

Nick · Mar 2, 2014

dongonzalos said:
5-1??
May have to admit defeat on this one.
Still don't think u let a manager sign 9 players over a summer and he was trying to get DMC.
Then sack him after three draws!!

They are still muppets and should have sacked him in the summer if they had that little faith in him.

Instead of saying he wasps soberly in their plans

More Fisher rubbish

Should have sacked him months before the season even ended when it was obvious he wasn't up to the job......

dongonzalos · Mar 2, 2014

Nick said:
So everything revolves around 1 player? Nothing to do with a manager who hasn't got a clue what he is doing?

TBF Lolley was pretty dam good I wished we were in a position to get him.

How did we fair after losing Clarke?

Losing your top striker if they are not replaced can surprisingly enough have a negative as oppose to a positive impact on your performance.

I have asked the question as I genuinely don't know if he was replaced or not?

dongonzalos · Mar 2, 2014

Nick said:
Should have sacked him months before the season even ended when it was obvious he wasn't up to the job......

You mean after we sold our top striker and replaced him with an untested kid on loan?

Nick · Mar 2, 2014

dongonzalos said:
You mean after we sold our top striker and replaced him with an untested kid on loan?

I mean before that, when some people noticed how bad he was as a manager and people were raving about our football style because our defenders passed it between them, then back to Murphy who hoofed it because it was like Barcelona.

Grendel · Mar 2, 2014

dongonzalos said:
You mean after we sold our top striker and replaced him with an untested kid on loan?

While the player he signed for half a million couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo?

Freddie ladapo by the way - the fans say he's crap. I think he's signed 3 players and none are rated.

dongonzalos · Mar 2, 2014

Nick said:
I mean before that, when some people noticed how bad he was as a manager and people were raving about our football style because our defenders passed it between them, then back to Murphy who hoofed it because it was like Barcelona.

Philistine

dongonzalos · Mar 2, 2014

Grendel said:
While the player he signed for half a million couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo?

Freddie ladapo by the way - the fans say he's crap. I think he's signed 3 players and none are rated.

Who the heck is that?

Nick · Mar 2, 2014

Don't care what it costs just get rid. The quicker he goes the less it will cost as the longer it goes on the more long term damage is being done.

Precisely - it's going cost us the same whenever, but given Thorn is causing us more damage every week, we need to act now. Please.

4. As previously alluded to, Mr Thorn is inept managerially. We struggled with Burr and his insistance to do things right. I like our style of play, but at times I wanted pragmatism and the odd 'battler' type to reinforce a stronger spine. None of our current squad have that quality. However Burr did give them a system but also instruction. Thorn has changed nothing, but all the players look lost. Arguments abounded on the Salisbury game, and all aimed at poor Gash, who has been left isolated in every game thus far. He lucked out over Posh. But last night not one player looked interested or even instructed to do anything. He stands on the edge of the pitch staring. I don't wish to sound rude, but the guy is a cretin.

I would estimate at least 75 - 80% of fans have accepted Thorn is an unmitigated disaster now. Leaving aside the Burr saga, the Boardroom changes and bullsh*t, even the Strange Case Of The Silent KHIST, it needs to be said loud and clear, and with as much unity as possible - THORN MUST GO.

We can then start to recover and hopefully rebuild, but it can't and won't happen until he's shown the door. Every statement of support for him, be it from the Chairman or whoever, just hastens this club's demise.

He doesn't have SISU to take the attention away now as well

It is interesting the people who spotted early that he wasn't very good and the people that still defend him though.

Otis · Mar 2, 2014

Think most sensible fans on here could quite plainly see that he simply wasn't a manager Nick. Totally out of his depth.

How many sensible fans do we have on here mind?

dongonzalos · Mar 2, 2014

Otis said:
Think most sensible fans on here could quite plainly see that he simply wasn't a manager Nick. Totally out of his depth.

How many sensible fans do we have on here mind?

Oooooh look at me sensible Sally
I remind you Grendel was in your camp....

Nick · Mar 2, 2014

dongonzalos said:
Oooooh look at me sensible Sally
I remind you Grendel was in your camp....

What's that got to do with anything?

letsallsingtogether · Mar 2, 2014

Everything......

Nick said:
What's that got to do with anything?

ccfcway · Mar 2, 2014

Nick said:
It is interesting the people who spotted early that he wasn't very good and the people that still defend him though.

replace the word "him" for "they" and the same rings true of our owners

Nick · Mar 2, 2014

ccfcway said:
replace the word "him" for "they" and the same rings true of our owners

Funny though as some of the people who backed sisu mostly are now their biggest haters and some posters warned against them at the very start are now classed as sisu apologists because they are balanced.

It does show people's judgement

letsallsingtogether · Mar 2, 2014

Balanced Who? name one

No one on here is balanced anymore that I can see.

Nick said:
Funny though as some of the people who backed sisu mostly are now their biggest haters and some posters warned against them at the very start are now classed as sisu apologists because they are balanced.

It does show people's judgement

lordsummerisle · Mar 2, 2014

letsallsingtogether said:
Balanced Who? name one

No one on here is balanced anymore that I can see.

Mentally unbalanced fits a few.

letsallsingtogether · Mar 2, 2014

Easy don't be so hard on yourself

lordsummerisle said:
Mentally unbalanced fits a few.

Nick · Mar 2, 2014

letsallsingtogether said:
Balanced Who? name one

No one on here is balanced anymore that I can see.

I remember Northern Wisdom and Lord both saying how bad SISU would be when we first heard their name (SISU), without searching on the computer later it will be hard to say exact names.

SkyBlue_Bear83 · Mar 2, 2014

stupot07 said:
We missed out by 8 points ...and what was our league position at the time?

We really weren't that close.

40 points in 46 games.

Remember we were actually out of the bottom 3 on March 31st with only 6 games left to play after the 2-0 win at Hull. We also had a favourable run in which we played Bristol (A), Peterborough (H), Milwall (H) and Doncaster (H) as 4 of the last 6 games, all of who were struggling at the time, imo from that position we should have stayed up but we bottled it massively, only got 1 point from those 4 winnable fixtures.

It was the loss at Bristol that pretty much confirmed relegation, if you look at the table had we beaten Bristol then we would have only needed 1 win from the final 5 fixtures and we would have stayed up

stupot07 · Mar 2, 2014

Thanks CCFC, I've tried to erase that season from my memory, so had forgotten about that.

Tbh, we'd already 7 games unbeaten before playing Bristol, I never really believed we had it in us to keep that going.

Millwall had just won 3 on the bounce when we played then, and the Peterborough and bristol were games where we'd dropped points from winning positions, which we'd done consistently all season. I seem to remember Nimely getting injured too for a few games around that time. We also had a lot of younger players in the team.

Thorn was inept, but I just didnt feel we had the experience and know how to keep the run going to stay up. The damage was done pre Juke 19 points from 25 games.

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