Worst Manager since premier league relegation (2 Viewers)

hill83 · Nov 23, 2018

Steve when I worked at Gala Bingo in 2003

Liquid Gold · Nov 23, 2018

Slade's our worst manager ever. Next question.

Dimi_Konstantflapalot · Nov 23, 2018

God there are so many. On record it's Thorn, but Coleman for me was dreadful considering the resources he had available and the players he managed to attract. Honourable mentions for McAllister, Reid and Slade.

pastythegreat · Nov 23, 2018

Russel Slade. Close thread, move on

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skybluesam66 · Nov 23, 2018

pastythegreat said:
Russel Slate. Close thread, move on

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Ignoring the spelling - put these in the order of choice

Coleman
Venus
HArbin
Slade
Thorn
Shaw

Monners · Nov 23, 2018

Slade, Reid,Thorn Coleman, Boothroyd......... - Christ, this is depressing, I'll stop there I think

ajsccfc · Nov 23, 2018

Andy Thorn. I hated Slade but at least you can look at his career and see signs of a manager in there, we just let the scout have a go.

ccfcway · Nov 23, 2018

Slade, with a very notable mention for thorn

Liquid Gold · Nov 23, 2018

ajsccfc said:
Andy Thorn. I hated Slade but at least you can look at his career and see signs of a manager in there, we just let the scout have a go.

Tat's why it's Slade and not Thorn in my view. Thorn was thrust into the job by inept owners and fans proclaiming he was the savoir when he clearly wasn't up to the job, not his fault so much. Slade was supposed to be a proper football manager bought in who could turn us around and improve things and the way he failed was so miserable, if you take out cup games his win ratio is something like 4%.

SkyBlueCRJ · Nov 23, 2018

IMO it's out of Slade and Coleman. Thorn wasn't a manager and was simply a cheap appointment by SISU to cut costs. Blame shouldn't be directed towards him really as he was set up to fail.

Slade: Took over an already abysmal side so didn't stand much of a chance. However his January signings were the nail in our coffin.

Coleman: The side he had a was probably one of the best in the Championship. Criminal how we didn't at least reach the play-offs.

I_Saw_Shaw_Score · Nov 23, 2018

My top 3-

Coleman (with that squad 17th!)
Slade
Thorn

Nick · Nov 23, 2018

The thing with Slade is that he inherited loads of shite from a dodgy transfer window in the summer so then had to try and fix it in January. Not doubting he was awful but there has probably been worse.

As said, Coleman was throwing silly money around at the time and did nothing.

pastythegreat · Nov 23, 2018

skybluesam66 said:
Ignoring the spelling - put these in the order of choice

Coleman
Venus
HArbin
Slade
Thorn
Shaw

From worst to best
Slade
Coleman
Thorn
Shaw
Venus.

Wouldn't necessarily put Venus in a list of bad manager tbf. He done an ok job with a pile of shit team Mowbray left him with.

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Nick · Nov 23, 2018

pastythegreat said:
From worst to best
Slade
Coleman
Thorn
Shaw
Venus.

Wouldn't necessarily put Venus in a list of bad manager tbf. He done an ok job with a pile of shit team Mowbray left him with.

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Surely if Venus is excused then Slade would be as well?

skybluesam66 · Nov 23, 2018

for me it has to be Richard shaw

5 games 5 defeats with a budget at the top end of league 1 - and virtually killed any hope of promotion that year
Robins did very well in trying to turn it around before he jumped ship - and then there was the points deduction

but they were 5 bad games

Crewe Alexandra 1–0 Coventry City
Coventry City 1–2 Stevenage
Tranmere Rovers 2–0 Coventry City
Shrewsbury Town 4–1 Coventry City
Coventry City 1–2 Carlisle United

Sick Boy · Nov 23, 2018

Thorn by a country mile, if we had got in Robins then I don't believe we would have gone down but there would have been outrage had not listened to the fans.

steve82 · Nov 23, 2018

Reid
Thorn
Shaw
Venus
Slade

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JulianDarbyFTW · Nov 23, 2018

For me it's Pressley. He made me fall out of love with football for the best part of a year. Yes, we did well at Northampton, but I didn't get to see that, and when we came back to the Ricoh it was pure, unadulterated dross. Plus his post-match interviews made me want to punch myself in the face so I'd lose consciousness and not have to hear his utter claptrap.

fernandopartridge · Nov 23, 2018

For once we've got an embarrassment of riches

Reid - turned a team that appeared to be improving the season previously to relegation fodder
Slade - he inherited an atrocious squad but his signings made it worse, e.g. Clarke
Coleman - he had one of the better squads we've had post relegation (it wasn't as a brilliant as some say) but he didn't get us any higher than where we were when he took over

Add to that, worst assistant / director of football:

Jim Smith - the decision to bring this dinosaur in completely derailed the season (probably alongside the sale of Lee Carsley), our squad in the first season in Division 1 was strong enough to go straight back up. Once we'd failed at the first attempt the writing was on the wall for the long term

fernandopartridge · Nov 23, 2018

I wasn't a fan of Thorn but don't blame him, honest bloke out of his depth. The owners should have stepped in in the middle of that season and could have saved our Championship status.

pastythegreat · Nov 23, 2018

Venus was given what he had, slade had a transfer window and chose to bring in Stuart Beavon

Nick said:
Surely if Venus is excused then Slade would be as well?

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skybluetony176 · Nov 23, 2018

Slade, Thorn, Boothroyd. In that order.

Dimi_Konstantflapalot · Nov 23, 2018

pastythegreat said:
Venus was given what he had, slade had a transfer window and chose to bring in Stuart Beavon

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Foley, Rawson, Yakubu and Clarke were far, far worse signings than Beavon was

steve82 · Nov 23, 2018

pastythegreat said:
Venus was given what he had, slade had a transfer window and chose to bring in Stuart Beavon

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Venus was a active part of the whole summer recruitment still.

Beavon didn’t turn out to be what we hoped or needed in terms of goals but he added something slightly more than what we had in pressing from the front.

Both windows were poor but I put the summer slightly worse than January one

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Sick Boy · Nov 23, 2018

fernandopartridge said:
Jim Smith - the decision to bring this dinosaur in completely derailed the season (probably alongside the sale of Lee Carsley), our squad in the first season in Division 1 was strong enough to go straight back up. Once we'd failed at the first attempt the writing was on the wall for the long term

Yeah that was dreadful, am I right in thinking our second season was when we signed Adebola, Suffo et al?

Nick · Nov 23, 2018

pastythegreat said:
Venus was given what he had, slade had a transfer window and chose to bring in Stuart Beavon

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Venus was in charge of recruitment though?

skybluetony176 · Nov 23, 2018

I thought I had the worst three nailed on. Then you start reading through the thread and the names mentioned and F me we’ve had it bad.

usskyblue · Nov 23, 2018

Ccfcisparks said:
Go!

Don’t remember him m8

steve82 · Nov 23, 2018

Venus was involved in too many windows

Paul Anthony · Nov 23, 2018

For me, Coleman.

We underperformed drastically under him, with the squad we had at that time. It was surely reasonable to think we could have been at least in the top half of the table with that team. Yet it remains some of the most dour, dull and depressing football we've played. And, when we really needed to win to stay up, we were saved by a Stoke goalkeeper, because we put in a disgraceful performance.

covcity4life · Nov 23, 2018

mowbray

fernandopartridge · Nov 23, 2018

Sick Boy said:
Yeah that was dreadful, am I right in thinking our second season was when we signed Adebola, Suffo et al?

In the summer of 2002 we appointed McAllister, we didn't sign Adebola / Suffo til 2003. We still had Joachim on the books as well as Bothroyd at this point.

steve82 · Nov 23, 2018

covcity4life said:
mowbray

Finally....

Think your being harsh on him. ;-)

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ajsccfc · Nov 23, 2018

Liquid Gold said:
Tat's why it's Slade and not Thorn in my view. Thorn was thrust into the job by inept owners and fans proclaiming he was the savoir when he clearly wasn't up to the job, not his fault so much. Slade was supposed to be a proper football manager bought in who could turn us around and improve things and the way he failed was so miserable, if you take out cup games his win ratio is something like 4%.

Good point that, changing my answer to match

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