Best Manager?

[Stadt]

[Golden Fox]

To allow for any comparison, table would really needs to be split into which division they were competing in.

 

Or which League Cup... sorry Garry)

[murphy]

 

You can't really argue with that.

[Fox92]

Stats can be percieved however you want. Martin O'Neill was here for 5 years so his stats will be less having played more games.

[Max Wall]

1 hour ago, Markyblue said:

1 Martin O'Neill, built a side on peanuts and won 2 league cups.2 Pearson drove us from our lowest point to the premier league. 

For 1 season the Italian gentleman who made dreams come true not our best manager but the one that I most like to say thank you to.

After being so inconsequential for so long, the Martin O'Neill era was absolutely brilliant. 

[Foxey id]

Surprised Bloomfield's % is so low.

[l444ry]

Has to be Ranieri. But would love to have seen where Martin O'Neill might have taken us with the current Owners. Other than that, Jimmy Bloomfield and Jock Wallace.

[The Horse's Mouth]

ONLY ONE NIGEL PEARSON

[Foxaholic ME]

2 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

Martin Allen 50% win ratio, end of argument and no need for a poll! I now Pearson was slightly higher but that was in League 1.

#Allenin

agreed  premier or old first division should be only ones to count.As an  OAP  like most of my contempories think Matt Gillies  supreme  when we entertained as well as getting results

[mozartfox]

Matt Gilles was my first Manager and considering we had a fair sprinkling of Scots in the Team at the end of his era, he did quite well.  Jackie Sinclair was a wonderful winger.

[Fox92]

25 minutes ago, mozartfox said:

Matt Gilles was my first Manager and considering we had a fair sprinkling of Scots in the Team at the end of his era, he did quite well.  Jackie Sinclair was a wonderful winger.

Whenever I look back - obviously not being born at the time but I like the work Gillies did and always rate him highly. A shame we never did win the league under him.

[dooflip]

Ranieri hands down. Other managers with higher ratios managed us when we were in the championship so it’s hard to compare that to Claudio’s premier league stats.

[john ridley]

Jock Wallace for me , not the most successful, but we thought we could do anything  with him in charge , looking back we obviously  couldn't but he couldn't half get the crowd  going. 

[murphy]

33 minutes ago, john ridley said:

Jock Wallace for me , not the most successful, but we thought we could do anything  with him in charge , looking back we obviously  couldn't but he couldn't half get the crowd  going. 

Ah Jock Wallace.  It was his team that I first started watching.

 

I met him once as a seven or eight year old winning a competition for the Junior Foxes. 

 

I couldn't understand a word he said and he genuinely scared the life out of me.

[bovril]

I liked Pearson and appreciate what he did here more as time passes. In the end he did well to keep us up but let's not forget we had a talented squad (which he assembled, of course) that were rooted to the bottom for a long time. I think at PL level, at that time at least, he had his limitations.

I suppose you have to go with Ranieri for winning the Premier League although for a third of his time here we were pretty woeful. O'Neill won trophies and from what I've read Gillies was maybe the most revolutionary in terms of changing the tactics of the team and culture of the club. Bloomfield by all accounts played the best football. Thinking about it, have we ever had a manager that has been universally loved from start to finish? 

[Clever Fox]

3 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Whenever I look back - obviously not being born at the time but I like the work Gillies did and always rate him highly. A shame we never did win the league under him.

Yes, we really should have won it under Matt Gillies in 61 I think it was.On top with 3 games to go and came unstuck.

There was a lot of talent in that team with Banks,Gibson, Lockheed, Sinclair etc. 

[Strokes]

1 hour ago, bovril said:

I liked Pearson and appreciate what he did here more as time passes. In the end he did well to keep us up but let's not forget we had a talented squad (which he assembled, of course) that were rooted to the bottom for a long time. I think at PL level, at that time at least, he had his limitations.

I suppose you have to go with Ranieri for winning the Premier League although for a third of his time here we were pretty woeful. O'Neill won trophies and from what I've read Gillies was maybe the most revolutionary in terms of changing the tactics of the team and culture of the club. Bloomfield by all accounts played the best football. Thinking about it, have we ever had a manager that has been universally loved from start to finish? 

No, I don’t think we have.

Id say Micky Adams comes closest in my memory, although some of them feelings are of pity.

[davieG]

34 minutes ago, Clever Fox said:

Yes, we really should have won it under Matt Gillies in 61 I think it was.On top with 3 games to go and came unstuck.

There was a lot of talent in that team with Banks,Gibson, Lockheed, Sinclair etc. 

62'63 I believe could have done the double.

 

These two came a bit later Lochead & Jackie Sinclair scored 50 goals in 100+ games and was related to Tommy Wright

[LCFC FOX]

Nigel Pearson. Look at the win ratio and look at what he built for us.

Edited 7 August 2018 by LCFC FOX

[Carl the Llama]

Does the question really need asking? 

[winteriscoming]

Don't care what fans say levin and kelly did well with the shit at their disposale. Then holloway come and took us down. 

[winteriscoming]

Obviously I would say o'neil or ranieri for what was achieved are the frontrunners. 

[TheSomersetFox]

Nigel by a country mile.

 

Ranieri handled the press brilliantly - i’ll always remember the ‘We are champions league man’ conference, took a shit ton of pressure off of the situation - he chose a system that worked perfectly and had the players drilled brilliantly defensively for the second half of THAT season especially - but part of me will always feel that he piggybacked off of Nigel’s great work and when it got tough he didn’t have a clue how to sort it out. Set the tone poorly at the start of that season saying we’d be happy to stay up again and it just carried on getting worse from there.

 

Will always be grateful for what he did that season but he doesn’t come close to Nige in my heart of hearts really. Dunno why.

[boots60]

11 hours ago, shock0ng said:

Don't know if this has been posted previously...

 

I know everyone has an opinion on who our best manager was, but it's interesting to see the stats...

 

Manager	From	Until	Hons	GpH	W	D	L	Total	Win%
Claude Puel	2017	Now	0	n/a	10	8	10	28	35.71
Craig Shakespeare (caretaker)	2017	2017	0	n/a	10	6	7	23	43.48
Claudio Ranieri	2015	2017	0	n/a	36	22	23	81	44.44
Nigel Pearson	2011	2015	1	182.00	85	38	59	182	46.70
Mike Stowell (caretaker)	2011	2011	0	n/a	1	0	2	3	33.33
Sven-Göran Eriksson	2010	2011	0	n/a	24	14	17	55	43.64
Paulo Sousa	2010	2010	0	n/a	4	2	6	12	33.33
Nigel Pearson	2008	2010	1	107.00	55	30	22	107	51.40
Ian Holloway	2007	2008	0	n/a	9	8	15	32	28.13
Gerry Taggart (caretaker)	2007	2007	0	n/a	1	2	2	5	20.00
Gary Megson	2007	2007	0	n/a	3	4	2	9	33.33
Martin Allen	2007	2007	0	n/a	2	1	1	4	50.00
Nigel Worthington (caretaker)	2007	2007	0	n/a	2	0	3	5	40.00
Rob Kelly	2006	2007	0	n/a	21	19	23	63	33.33
Craig Levein	2004	2006	0	n/a	20	26	26	72	27.78
Dave Bassett (caretaker)	2004	2004	0	n/a	0	4	0	4	0.00
Micky Adams	2002	2004	1	110.00	41	37	32	110	37.27
Dave Bassett	2001	2002	0	n/a	4	8	16	28	14.29
Garry Parker (caretaker)	2001	2001	0	n/a	0	0	1	1	0.00
Peter Taylor	2000	2001	0	n/a	19	9	26	54	35.19
Martin O'Neill	1995	2000	1	223.00	85	68	70	223	38.12
Mark McGhee	1994	1995	0	n/a	16	14	21	51	31.37
Kevin MacDonald (caretaker)	1994	1994	0	n/a	1	1	2	4	25.00
Brian Little	1991	1994	1	178.00	76	43	59	178	42.70
Gordon Lee	1991	1991	0	n/a	7	2	11	20	35.00
David Pleat	1987	1991	0	n/a	49	44	60	153	32.03
Bryan Hamilton	1986	1987	0	n/a	21	15	35	71	29.58
Gordon Milne	1982	1986	1	183.00	63	41	79	183	34.43
Jock Wallace	1978	1982	1	189.00	69	51	69	189	36.51
Ian MacFarlane (caretaker)	1978	1978	0	n/a	1	0	4	5	20.00
Jimmy Bloomfield	1971	1977	1	287.00	86	104	97	287	29.97
Frank O'Farrell	1968	1971	1	139.00	65	43	31	139	46.76
Matt Gillies	1959	1968	1	457.00	186	109	162	457	40.70
David Halliday	1955	1958	1	145.00	64	27	54	145	44.14
Norman Bullock	1949	1955	1	231.00	91	64	76	231	39.39
Johnny Duncan	1946	1949	0	n/a	56	42	57	155	36.13
Tom Mather	1945	1946	0	n/a	0	1	1	2	0.00
Frank Womack	1936	1939	1	124.00	48	30	46	124	38.71
Andy Lochhead	1934	1936	0	n/a	36	20	41	97	37.11
Peter Hodge	1932	1934	0	n/a	34	27	41	102	33.33
William Orr	1926	1932	0	n/a	101	50	89	240	42.08
Peter Hodge	1919	1926	1	312.00	125	84	103	312	40.06
John W Bartlett	1912	1914	0	n/a	29	11	40	80	36.25
Andy Aitken	1909	1911	0	n/a	43	10	45	98	43.88
James Blessington	1907	1909	1	84.00	32	26	26	84	38.10
George Johnson	1898	1907	0	n/a	114	72	115	301	37.87
William Clark	1896	1897	0	n/a	13	4	13	30	43.33

Not done their homework have they.

Alan Evans with a 100% record.

2-1 against Arsenal.

[Albert]

People have short memories....

 

Stepped upto the plate when called upon & masterminded the memorable 0-0 draw away at Plymouth Argyle in 2007 & also the emphatic 3-1 win away at Burnley in 2011. 

 

#clublegend