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  • #31
    Re: The World's Most Miserable Managers

    Originally posted by Bobby Dandruff View Post
    Well the defeat was hard to take but let’s not forget that we went there full of confidence, took the lead twice, gave them a good game and lost Bothroyd. So we weren’t exactly battered.
    We should've pissed the league with the team we had that year, never mind made the play-off final. Jones was a perennial bottler and we felt the full effect of that on numerous occasions.

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    • #32
      Re: The World's Most Miserable Managers

      Originally posted by Bobby Dandruff View Post
      Well the defeat was hard to take but let’s not forget that we went there full of confidence, took the lead twice, gave them a good game and lost Bothroyd. So we weren’t exactly battered.
      It was a complete disaster. Cmon gave Blackpool a good game. Blackpool ffs!!!

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      • #33
        Re: The World's Most Miserable Managers

        Originally posted by Bobby Dandruff View Post
        I very much doubt that he bothered to discern between the media in different part of the country. And you cannot blame him.

        Strangely, his time at the club gave me some very joyous moments (play off final, FA Cup final, and very attractive football) so whereas he ultimately failed to get us promoted in some fairly pathetic circumstances, I don’t associate him and his teams with misery in the slightest.

        We could do with a Chopra, Bothroyd, Ross McCormack, McPhail, Burke, Ledley, Roger Johnson, McNaughton now……..


        I will try and explain it again simply for you

        He was a miserable git who would blame everyone else for his own failure as a manager , he was a miserable git

        His players were not miserable , they were on big money and laughed all the way to the bank

        He spent heavily on high waged players who failed to get us promotion

        He fell out with reporters left right and centre , he had the issues , not the reporters

        I associate Jones with misery and failure

        And so do the record books

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        • #34
          Re: The World's Most Miserable Managers

          Jimmy Scoular was Jimmy Scowler, never saw him laugh or even smile. Brute of a player as well, don’t think he was the cracking jokes left, right & centre type of bloke.

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          • #35
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            It's not really a smiling job , just look at Klopp and his stupid bleached white teeth grin ,half the time he looks like he has severe complications below

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            • #36
              Re: The World's Most Miserable Managers

              Originally posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
              I will try and explain it again simply for you

              He was a miserable git who would blame everyone else for his own failure as a manager , he was a miserable git

              His players were not miserable , they were on big money and laughed all the way to the bank

              He spent heavily on high waged players who failed to get us promotion

              He fell out with reporters left right and centre , he had the issues , not the reporters

              I associate Jones with misery and failure

              And so do the record books
              You missed the bit about producing some wonderful footballing moments by allowing gifted players to express themselves, an era where we underachieved but put a smile on faces .

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              • #37
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                The first twenty minutes we looked like we were going to steamroller Blackpool, but then Bothroyd got injured and the rest is history.

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                • #38
                  Re: The World's Most Miserable Managers

                  Originally posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
                  I will try and explain it again simply for you

                  He was a miserable git who would blame everyone else for his own failure as a manager , he was a miserable git

                  His players were not miserable , they were on big money and laughed all the way to the bank

                  He spent heavily on high waged players who failed to get us promotion

                  He fell out with reporters left right and centre , he had the issues , not the reporters

                  I associate Jones with misery and failure

                  And so do the record books
                  I don’t.

                  But I can think of a few other more recent managers who came and went more quickly than he did who I DO associate with misery and failure.

                  How quickly some people forget……

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                  • #39
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                    Originally posted by life on mars View Post
                    You missed the bit about producing some wonderful footballing moments by allowing gifted players to express themselves, an era where we underachieved but put a smile on faces .
                    Thank you.

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                    • #40
                      Re: The World's Most Miserable Managers

                      Originally posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
                      Dave Jones was allowed to spend a great deal on wages and he threw quite a bit straight down the bog

                      If he had a side that was streaking away with the title then I am sure a lot of fans would have been more forgiving . I personally reckon he was here for 2 seasons too long , not including the FACup final run

                      He was treated extremely badly by the justice system and by the press but we were not there to be scorned

                      First two seasons were good but then he became very stubborn and miserable
                      But harsh!
                      He did squander some cash, especially on Fowler who was clearly shot by that point.
                      I'd say Hasselbaink too but he scored one of my favourite goals against Wolves in the cup, and I watched and celebrated that with a mate who is sadly no longer with us so Hasselbaink and that goal is a great memory for me.
                      I'd also point to the fact that he signed both Chops and Whitts, undoubtedly two of our greatest ever signings.
                      He did piss me off in the cup final against Portsmouth though.
                      I think every damn one of us was screaming for Ramsey to be introduced and he left it far too late.

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                      • #41
                        Re: The World's Most Miserable Managers

                        Originally posted by Bobby Dandruff View Post
                        I don’t.

                        But I can think of a few other more recent managers who came and went more quickly than he did who I DO associate with misery and failure.

                        How quickly some people forget……
                        He had loads of cash

                        And failed

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                        • #42
                          Re: The World's Most Miserable Managers

                          Originally posted by Ninja View Post
                          But harsh!
                          He did squander some cash, especially on Fowler who was clearly shot by that point.
                          I'd say Hasselbaink too but he scored one of my favourite goals against Wolves in the cup, and I watched and celebrated that with a mate who is sadly no longer with us so Hasselbaink and that goal is a great memory for me.
                          I'd also point to the fact that he signed both Chops and Whitts, undoubtedly two of our greatest ever signings.
                          He did piss me off in the cup final against Portsmouth though.
                          I think every damn one of us was screaming for Ramsey to be introduced and he left it far too late.
                          It does feel a bit like SOME people have forgotten the mind numbing tedium of the Neil Harris days and the weird Mick McCarthy car crash reign.

                          But let’s fixate on 6 years of ‘misery and failure’ that Jones apparently brought instead.

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                          • #43
                            Re: The World's Most Miserable Managers

                            Originally posted by Bobby Dandruff View Post
                            It does feel a bit like SOME people have forgotten the mind numbing tedium of the Neil Harris days and the weird Mick McCarthy car crash reign.

                            But let’s fixate on 6 years of ‘misery and failure’ that Jones apparently brought instead.
                            Exactly.
                            I hated Jones at times, questioned his tactics, hated him playing players out of position, especially moving Whitts into central midfield after (I think) he'd scored 20+ from wide left the season before?
                            However, as frustrated as I was with DJ at times, he's an absolute breath of fresh air compared to most of what we've had since.

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                            • #44
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                              I'd take my chances with Dave Jones and his squad that failed in 2010 right now. And I would have every day since.

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                              • #45
                                Re: The World's Most Miserable Managers

                                Originally posted by NYCBlue View Post
                                I'd take my chances with Dave Jones and his squad that failed in 2010 right now. And I would have every day since.
                                Not liking the manager (or any player) because of his personality is so childish.

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