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#41 User is offline   Johnnyspireite7 

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Posted 11 August 2014 - 10:17 AM

View Postsemi130497, on 11 August 2014 - 09:26 AM, said:

Ally McCoist - Rangers

Bit unfair that one, not his fault they spunked all their money up the wall!
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 11:11 AM

Of all the Town appointments mentioned, I reckon Richardson was the worst in context.

'Shades' Randall was pretty useless, but that was in the third tier and against a backdrop of Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard being bare.

I thought Paul Hart did okay in taking us to a play off final whilst working under the eccentric Norton Lea.

He was reportedly stabbed in the back by his assistant (McMenemy), though, who got into that same Chairman's ear convincing him he was the right man for the job.

He wasn't, and after Richardson probably the biggest pretender to get the gig.

Giving Duncan the third contract was a massive mistake, as admitted by Lea later on.

Rushbury? A desperate yet understandable appointment by a CFSS Board without a tin to tiddle in.

McFarland performed relative heroics with very limited financial support. The football he played, the signings he made, and all whilst having his budget cut...well, he deserved better.

Then Richardson >sigh<.

Look; nowt against the bloke - infact friends who knew him tell me he was a top geezer - but what possessed Hubbard to see him as some sort of personal protégé was and still is beyond me. He'd didn't win a single game whilst covering for the ill McFarland, then when 'given a chance' (the then Chairman's words) with nine games to go and Town outside the relegation zone took us down with a whimper rather than any kind of roar. However Hubbard disembarked a plane from the Caribbean (he'd not even witnessed our demise) and handed him a two year gig - much to the disbelief of punters and pundits alike. The next few months saw both Manager and Chairman admit he was one of the better backed fourth tier gaffers, to the point of the former declaring he'd 'deserve the sack if he didn't get this Club promoted' and the latter stating 'anything but promotion would be failure'. Yet two years later he'd finished a full nine points outside the play offs, delivered our lowest placing in the last twenty years, and left a squad populated by has been's, never been's, and never will be's on sometimes ridiculous contracts.

I've often thought there's a sign above some Boardroom doors saying 'Remove Brain Upon Entering'. The Saltergate one was no different.
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 11:18 AM

View PostMDCCCLXVI, on 11 August 2014 - 11:11 AM, said:

Of all the Town appointments mentioned, I reckon Richardson was the worst in context.

'Shades' Randall was pretty useless, but that was in the third tier and against a backdrop of Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard being bare.

I thought Paul Hart did okay in taking us to a play off final whilst working under the eccentric Norton Lea.

He was reportedly stabbed in the back by his assistant (McMenemy), though, who got into that same Chairman's ear convincing him he was the right man for the job.

He wasn't, and after Richardson probably the biggest pretender to get the gig.

Giving Duncan the third contract was a massive mistake, as admitted by Lea later on.

Rushbury? A desperate yet understandable appointment by a CFSS Board without a tin to tiddle in.

McFarland performed relative heroics with very limited financial support. The football he played, the signings he made, and all whilst having his budget cut...well, he deserved better.

Then Richardson >sigh<.

Look; nowt against the bloke - infact friends who knew him tell me he was a top geezer - but what possessed Hubbard to see him as some sort of personal protégé was and still is beyond me. He'd didn't win a single game whilst covering for the ill McFarland, then when 'given a chance' (the then Chairman's words) with nine games to go and Town outside the relegation zone took us down with a whimper rather than any kind of roar. However Hubbard disembarked a plane from the Caribbean (he'd not even witnessed our demise) and handed him a two year gig - much to the disbelief of punters and pundits alike. The next few months saw both Manager and Chairman admit he was one of the better backed fourth tier gaffers, to the point of the former declaring he'd 'deserve the sack if he didn't get this Club promoted' and the latter stating 'anything but promotion would be failure'. Yet two years later he'd finished a full nine points outside the play offs, delivered our lowest placing in the last twenty years, and left a squad populated by has been's, never been's, and never will be's on sometimes ridiculous contracts.

I've often thought there's a sign above some Boardroom doors saying 'Remove Brain Upon Entering'. The Saltergate one was no different.

remind me, which of our managers signed Jack Lester?
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 11:47 AM

View PostMDCCCLXVI, on 11 August 2014 - 11:11 AM, said:

Then Richardson >sigh<.

Look; nowt against the bloke - infact friends who knew him tell me he was a top geezer - but what possessed Hubbard to see him as some sort of personal protégé was and still is beyond me. He'd didn't win a single game whilst covering for the ill McFarland, then when 'given a chance' (the then Chairman's words) with nine games to go and Town outside the relegation zone took us down with a whimper rather than any kind of roar. However Hubbard disembarked a plane from the Caribbean (he'd not even witnessed our demise) and handed him a two year gig - much to the disbelief of punters and pundits alike. The next few months saw both Manager and Chairman admit he was one of the better backed fourth tier gaffers, to the point of the former declaring he'd 'deserve the sack if he didn't get this Club promoted' and the latter stating 'anything but promotion would be failure'. Yet two years later he'd finished a full nine points outside the play offs, delivered our lowest placing in the last twenty years, and left a squad populated by has been's, never been's, and never will be's on sometimes ridiculous contracts.

I've often thought there's a sign above some Boardroom doors saying 'Remove Brain Upon Entering'. The Saltergate one was no different.

Chris, you're doing yourself no favours, let go, he's gone, its over.

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PS: Imagine the uproar on here, if he'd have pipped Steve kean to the Blackburn job, instead of the other way round.
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 11:54 AM

Glenn Roeder. Just...... Glenn Roeder.
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 11:57 AM

View PostXerxes, on 11 August 2014 - 11:18 AM, said:

remind me, which of our managers signed Jack Lester?


How much did he have to do with it though?
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 12:18 PM

View PostXerxes, on 11 August 2014 - 11:18 AM, said:

remind me, which of our managers signed Jack Lester?

Think that had more to do with then assistant manager Alan Knill rather than Ricco.....Damn fine drummer less than average manager!
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 12:37 PM

Failing to get play offs with Ward, Lester and Fletcher as your strike force *shudder*
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 02:04 PM

View PostXerxes, on 11 August 2014 - 11:18 AM, said:

remind me, which of our managers signed Jack Lester?


Remind me - which of our managers signed Martin Gritton?


View PostSammy Spireite, on 11 August 2014 - 11:47 AM, said:

Chris, you're doing yourself no favours, let go, he's gone, its over.

:rolleyes:

PS: Imagine the uproar on here, if he'd have pipped Steve kean to the Blackburn job, instead of the other way round.
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 02:06 PM

View PostJohnnyspireite7, on 11 August 2014 - 10:17 AM, said:

Bit unfair that one, not his fault they spunked all their money up the wall!


I'm talking about his performance since they went bust. The amount he has spent to beat teams no better and oftenb worse then alfreton is amazing. If you visit bears den her http://forum.rangers...pic=272029&st=0 you'll see what I mean
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 02:24 PM

View Postsemi130497, on 11 August 2014 - 02:06 PM, said:

I'm talking about his performance since they went bust. The amount he has spent to beat teams no better and oftenb worse then alfreton is amazing. If you visit bears den her http://forum.rangers...pic=272029&st=0 you'll see what I mean

But would they be in that position if they hadn't screwed up so royally they would've been challenging Celtic as ever. Now the complete mismanagement of the two Edinburgh clubs on the other hand......
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 03:24 PM

Rushbury.
Ricco.
Randall.
McNem.
McShane.
Barlow.(great coach though,too nice a bloke).
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 04:16 PM

MDxx xx is correct Richardson was an idiot of a manager and clueless...you could have got some mansfield inbred off the streets slapped a suit on him and stuck him on the sidelines and he would have done a better job, how could you not go up with Lester and ward it's impossible but Richardson managed it he even favoured Adam Smith over ward one cold night in Grimsby a decision and a formation that looked like it had been made by the fat kid that gets picked last in the playground...woeful.
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 04:30 PM

View PostMDCCCLXVI, on 11 August 2014 - 02:04 PM, said:

Remind me - which of our managers signed Martin Gritton?




Hold on, mate - it wasn't me that started the thread or first included LR.

I'll hold my hands up to that Chris..he was an appalling choice for manager!
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Posted 12 August 2014 - 07:55 AM

View Posta kick in the balls, on 09 August 2014 - 03:41 AM, said:

Alan Ball - anywhere


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Posted 12 August 2014 - 09:34 AM

Anyone mentioned John Barnes at Celtic or Howard Wilkinson at Sunderland? Or that Scottish bloke who moved from Birmingham to the Villa job a few years back.
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Posted 12 August 2014 - 09:41 AM

View PostOscar Tone, on 12 August 2014 - 09:34 AM, said:

Anyone mentioned John Barnes at Celtic or Howard Wilkinson at Sunderland? Or that Scottish bloke who moved from Birmingham to the Villa job a few years back.


yes all 3 the Scottish bloke being McLeish :)
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Posted 12 August 2014 - 09:49 AM

Christian Gross
Roy keane
Souness
Brian Kidd
Santini
Sammy Lee
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Posted 21 August 2014 - 09:03 PM

View Postsemi130497, on 09 August 2014 - 10:28 AM, said:

But surely no-one can beat ....PAUL GASCOIGNE AT KETTERING!

Speaking of whom, he just signed as a player in the Bournemouth Sunday League, division 4!!
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Posted 21 August 2014 - 09:14 PM

View PostSammy Spireite, on 21 August 2014 - 09:03 PM, said:

Speaking of whom, he just signed as a player in the Bournemouth Sunday League, division 4!!

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