
Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
4 is Warnock.
1 is McCarthy. He's got our 3rd ever best away win rate, only lost 5 out of 19 away fixtures, but 3 of those were 3-0 at the Jacks, 5-1 at Blackburn and 5-0 at Sheffield Wednesday. Looking at our results under him again make for some astonishing reading. After that Wednesday thrashing, we went 11 unbeaten, which includes 5 unbeaten at the start of the 2021/22 season. We then lost 10 of the next 11, scoring only 4 and conceded 24. I'd have to check, but I doubt there has ever been such a dramatic change of results in our history.
2 is the Gould. Drew 6 of his 10 games in charge, highest rate of any City manager. Riza is second at present. Had 2 wins, 4-2 and 2-0. Creditable draw at home to Palace in the league cup, where I've just noticed Fan Zhiyi played for the Eagles.
5 is Lennie. Scored 4 at MK Dons, QPR and Wycombe, 5 at Boston and, most memorably, 7 at Oldham. However, due to a cock up on my part, we did score more than 3 several times under Lawrence at home (7 times in fact), so apologies for the error. His record of scoring 3 or more in a home game stands at 18.6% (ranked 23 overall). Immediately above Lennie is (for home games)
22 - Warnock (18.7%)
21 - Mackay (19.1%)
20 - Jones (19.4%)
19 - Neal (20.0%)
17 - Gould (20.0%)
15 - Solskjaer (21.4%)
9 - McCarthy (26.3%)
7 isn't Jones. It's Neil Harris. I think we'd automatically think Jones has the best scoring rate given the number of hammerings his sides could hand out. Only Harris, Cork, Lawrence and Solskjaer (!) since 2000 have higher percentages of scoring 3 or more in a game, Jones lies 15th of all City managers in that respect. In total we scored 3 or more 50 times under Jones, the 5th highest total (bonus points for naming the 4 above Jones). While Jones comes close to the top of all City managers in many stats, 17 managers have a lower rate of failing to score in games. Feast or famine was a phrase I remember being used and the stats back this up.
In all fixtures, Harris's side scored 3 or more 12 times in 62 games, though never scored more than 4. In 3 of those we also conceded 3 and won another 2 games 3-2. We failed to score in 16 games under Harris, the 10th best rate of all City managers.