Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
Unfortunately that team finished 18th with 36 points and with a goal difference of -18 (from 34 games only due to the league being suspended)

the following season they were relegated.

He has comfortably the worst managerial record of any of the people we've interviewed (Ramsey aside).
I think we need to put his time at Rochdale in context. He took over in April 2019 and got them out of the relegation positions to survive (having only just survived the previous season too). The next season they finished 18th, then they went down to League Two in 2021. He then resigned, and they survived one season in L2 before dropping down to the National League where they've been since, fighting against liquidation this year. It's a small club with very limited resources that did well to survive in L1 as long as did.

Appointing him is more of a gamble than some of the others linked, but I think there's more to him than someone who got Rochdale relegated.