Andy Thorne in charge for the season! (2 Viewers)
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SkyBluesAndy
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I was watching sky sports news while the game was on and Scott Minto was watching our game - all he did all game was say how great we were playing! Andy Thorn has a chance to prove himself until the end of the season, if he can get us playing and winning games then who knows?
BenInTurin
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If he does a good job, I don't see why he shouldn't become the manager, especially if we play like we apparently did last night. He played it down after the game saying he was only looking forward to the end of the season so he could go on Holiday!
JimmyHillsbeard
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<< shudder >>
Otis
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Earthquake in the suburbs of Liverpool?
mechaishida
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One of you is responsible for the be-shitted pants I'm wearing - lucky I spotted the date before I started weeping.
Grendel
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New Year same old tripe from you then
Houchens Head
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Who's dredged a nearly 5 years old thread up? 
JimmyHillsbeard
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Sorry it was me. Appeared in the "stories like this" section on the generic tablet underneath the Armstrong here for the season thread. I clicked on it and a chill ran through my body. Apologies to all.Who's dredged a nearly 5 years old thread up?
BlueElephant
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Such a lovely bloke but a terrible manager
Sick Boy
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Haha good memories of what? The worst manager in the club's history?
Broken Hearted Sky Blue
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No I think that accolade belongs to Pressley
Grendel
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BackRoomRummermill
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There were some on here that figured quite quickly how weak his football team management skills were, the biggest shame we hung on to him too long while we sank with him at the helm.
Nick
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They got hammered for not knowing anything for pointing it out.
Broken Hearted Sky Blue
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Forgot it was Thorn who nearly took us into league two
Sick Boy
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I personally received countless abuse from 'the experts'.
Sick Boy
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I'm certain he'd have taken us to the Conference given the chance
Otis
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Simply couldn't see him gaining the two promotions to achieve that Sick Boy, I really couldn't.
JimmyHillsbeard
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ok when Andy Thorn gets a series of European jobs and then takes a struggling side to the top of the Premier League I'll revise my view of him. Deal?
Grendel
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He was sacked before being allowed that opportunity.
I'm sure when thorn said he'd get us out of league one he'd be a man of his word for a change.
His Kidderminster debacle confirmed his managerial ineptitude.
dongonzalos
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Luckily Mark Robins took over. The Missiah. According to you and your other persona he was a genuis who worked miracles with the squad he inherited.
He then went and performed miracles at Huddersfield and is now performing a miracle at Scunthorpe.
I really don't understand how the miracle worker isnot currently managing a Premiership side as we speak.
Then there is the other manager you felt should not have been sacked Boothroyd
dongonzalos
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And with Robins they would have won the champions league by now surely??
Nick
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Anglo Italian Cup at least.
Thorn was nothing but a hero figure for people who didn't like SISU.
mechaishida
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He did here at City, not so much elsewhere; is there a point to this diatribe?
Managers' skills and aptitudes are either allowed to flow or hampered, depending on the club's environment. Sometimes a good manager will turn a crap team around, purely on motivating them - sometimes a good manager won't get the best out of certain personalities in the dressing room, and he'll be pressured by a demanding board.
A good manager is only as good as he's allowed to be, at any given club. A dreadful manager, like Thorn, would struggle to get a top 5 PL team out of the bottom 3.
No disrespect to the guy, he obviously has mettle (from his Crazy Gang days), he's just a useless manager. Boothroyd, on the other hand, is a better than average manager who clearly couldn't cut it under the club's environment.
So, really, your post shows a lack of insight in an attempt to wind someone up.
dongonzalos
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SISU gave him his chance.
I have just always maintained. We accepted rekegation that season. I think that summer was the summer when Joy said not one penny more. We list a lot of key players in the summer. Then sold out remaining best player in January.
The club can find itself in league one. It couldn't in the championship.
Thorn then got three matches . Three draws and was sacked. That's ridiculous.
Robins was lucky he got DMC who Thorn had been trying to sign.
However when you see the signings TM and MV have made this season I am guessing on a similar budget.
That is the workings of a very good managerial team.
Thirn is a scape goat for a lot of bad decisions ( in a fans eyes) good decisions in an owners eyes of accepting the risk of relegation IMO
Nick
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Yes, but when opposition managers tweaked their formation and changed the game and Thorn couldn't react to it. Like when we played Bury and were 2-0 up, all people ever said was that his hands were tied. I think another excuse was that the team needed to gel as well wasn't it?
He didn't have the tactical nous to do anything, I could maybe understand if he had gone on to have a good managerial career it was just a blip but he did even worse at Kiddiminster. He lasted less than 2 months FFS.
Thorn isn't really a scapegoat is he? When you watched his decisions with things like tactics and failing to even attempt to do things footballing wise on the pitch it was self explanatory.
Then we had people saying how managers dont make a difference and Ferguson couldn't have done a better job.
He was worshiped because it was some way to have a dig or prove how anti SISU people were. The same way Joe Elliott is because he sang he wanted SISU out. If there was no SISU in the equation he would have been absolutely hammered.
dongonzalos
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Ferguson proved his worth working in adverse conditions breaking the big firm grip.
If AT had under performed for 10-15 games after signing 8-9 players. I would have no issue.
He drew with Sheff Utd who were the league favourites. He drew with Yeovil away who got promoted. He drew with Bury which was a poor result.
I do feel he had one poor result and was sacked.
I think SISU looked at the risk of relegation from the championship if they balanced the books. I think they concluded relegation was not the end of the world and getting the club funding itself was more important. I felt he made a good fist of trying to stay up under the circumstances.
If you are going to sack him you do it after the relegation a draw against Bury in your third game of the season hasn't told you something you don't know.
The chairman should have sacked him in the summer. Once he didn't he shouldn't have been sacked after 3 games.
The squad wasn't that bad Robins was not the genuis he was made out to be. He inherited an ok squad with a striker playing a level lower than he should be.
We are all now seeing what a real top manager can do.
Kidderminster should never have sacked their manager and AT showed at Kidderminster he is not a good manager
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