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Thread: Worst City manager?

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    Worst City manager?

    Durban,Hibbitt,Slade,Solskjaer.There has been a few over the years. Who takes the title?

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    Trollope sprung to mind.

    Worst line up goes to last night tho.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2b2bdoo View Post
    Trollope sprung to mind.

    Worst line up goes to last night tho.
    Lol. Forgot about him

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    I heard today that Ole has had 400 million to spend at united. I wondered for a minute where we would be if Tan had given him that much….

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2b2bdoo View Post
    Trollope sprung to mind.

    Worst line up goes to last night tho.
    I liked trollope, he was at least trying to play some decent football, and was pretty unlucky with injuries in key positions for the formation we were playing. Our results under him were terrible though.

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    Trollope would have been a good manager if we had the players.

    Mike Mccarthy has done it including managing the Republic of Ireland. But he is not replicating his previous success with us.

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    In my lifetime , Durban

    2 relegations

    His wife ran off with a tennis coach poor sod

    At another defeat down the vetch the travelling thousands packed behind the goal sang ....

    Durban, Durban , where's your wife ?
    Durban , where's your wife ?

    And we thought Mick had it rough from the crowd last night !

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    Goodfellow , Mullen

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    Has to be Durban, although we had a head coach/manager called Graham Wiliams in the early 80's who was just as bad. Honourable mentions for Phil Neal and Russell Osman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goats View Post
    I heard today that Ole has had 400 million to spend at united. I wondered for a minute where we would be if Tan had given him that much….
    Bankrupt.

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    Its Durban in my time.

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    I remember being at an away game and one of the lads kept on chanting Corky out. Next morning i phoned him up to tell him the news he was longing for,Corky sacked. He was over the moon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alfie View Post
    I remember being at an away game and one of the lads kept on chanting Corky out. Next morning i phoned him up to tell him the news he was longing for,Corky sacked. He was over the moon.
    Statistically, Cork is one of our more successful managers.
    Durban was lied to about what was available at the club - he walked into a disaster.
    If you're talking worst ever manager, then it has to be that arse Terry Yorath - no-one else even comes close.

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    In my time, George Swindin

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    Quote Originally Posted by islandblue View Post
    Has to be Durban, although we had a head coach/manager called Graham Wiliams in the early 80's who was just as bad. Honourable mentions for Phil Neal and Russell Osman.
    Yeah Neal and Osman were my go-to answers. Hibbitt has to be considered for the pitch narrowing thing.

    One area where Swansea have absolutely battered us in the last decade or so is managers. They had a few really good ones and very few bad ones.

    Managers who took our team forward since we got out of the bottom two divisions were LL, Dave Jones and malky. Warnock worked a miracle which he quickly undid. MM started well but it was all honeymoon ahead of a terrible marriage. The rest are too mediocre to even name.

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    On an unrelated point: how many clubs have as many managers with two stints as us? I can think of hibbitt, Eddie may, Frank burrows, Len ashurst, and that is just in my lifetime.

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    Re: Worst City manager?

    Quote Originally Posted by alfie View Post
    Durban,Hibbitt,Slade,Solskjaer.There has been a few over the years. Who takes the title?
    There is so much competition here.

    OGS or Harris in recent memory for me. Both appalling.

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    What was Terry Yorarths win percentage?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Armitage Shanks View Post
    What was Terry Yorarths win percentage?
    Not up to date but it answers your question:

    https://www.managerstats.co.uk/clubs/cardiff-city/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hilts View Post
    Its Durban in my time.
    Odd thing is he had a very successful spell at Shrewsbury and they regard him as one of their best managers.

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    Durban for me. I've been watching City since 1968 and he took us from Division 2 to Division 4 in two seasons. Graham Williams was really poor too but he was technically head coach as noted above. It was dismal under those two, in front of crowds as low as 2500 in the second tier.

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    Durban for me too

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    Quote Originally Posted by Armitage Shanks View Post
    Trollope would have been a good manager if we had the players.
    .
    If that was the case why isn’t he a good manager now?

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    Gabbs and Scott young was pretty awful

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    Durban no doubt

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