Worst ever manager

[whoareyaaa]

5 minutes ago, hackneyfox said:

Too young to remember Peter Taylor?

Lucky you if that's the case.

I was quite young at the time so wasn't really aware of all the on goings apart from Akinbadbuy

[bovril]

I wonder who'd win this now. I think some of the names in the poll might not even be top 5 now. 

[teblin]

I’d still have Peter Taylor. Started with a good team then dismantled it in 6 months,

[Guy]

No Ruud VN?! 

[Langston]

1 minute ago, Guy said:

No Ruud VN?! 

 

Not sure if joking....

[bovril]

5 minutes ago, teblin said:

I’d still have Peter Taylor. Started with a good team then dismantled it in 6 months,

So would I. 

 

I think Taylor, McLintock and Pleat would probably be lock ins for a top 5 still. Then there'll be plenty of debate about more recent managers who either a) weren't here very long, b) weren't totally to blame for the mess or c) had some success with us at the start 

[An Away Move]

Brendan Rodgers is right up there with Peter Taylor for causing the most damage ever to our club. 

[South Shire Fox]

Peter Taylor destroyed a solid top 10 club in 12 months. Holloway came into a sinking ship with a dodgy owner who had been signing the players

[fox_favourite]

RvN is close. We didn't score for what felt an age. Tactics were terrible and he didn't help himself. 

 

Paulo Sousa was awful as well

[bovril]

If you're talking worst in terms of ability, not worst in terms of damage to the club, I'd say:

 

Cifuentes, who was bafflingly bad.

Taylor

Cooper or RvN, although time may prove us wrong on Ruud

Allen

McLintock

 

 

[Guy]

1 hour ago, Langston said:

 

Not sure if joking....

Well he did preside over our nine straight games at home last season without scoring (and all ending in defeat), so I'm surprised he's at least not in the mix!

Edited 13 February by Guy

[l444ry]

Given how quickly he destroyed what he inherited from Martin O'Neill it must be Peter Taylor.

[It'sblueupnorth]

50 minutes ago, An Away Move said:

Brendan Rodgers is right up there with Peter Taylor for causing the most damage ever to our club. 

A strong board doesn’t allow that though

[inckley fox]

16 minutes ago, bovril said:

If you're talking worst in terms of ability, not worst in terms of damage to the club, I'd say:

 

Cifuentes, who was bafflingly bad.

Taylor

Cooper or RvN, although time may prove us wrong on Ruud

Allen

McLintock

 

 

Honestly, if we're still silly enough to think that Cooper or Cifuentes have had any particularly detrimental impact on the club, other than doing Top and Rudkin's bidding, then there's no hope! They're irrelevances, and never had any serious chance of success (even if they had been the right people for the job, which they weren't).

 

Also, Hamilton, Holloway and Sousa should be on this list. And, if I were to try to get clever (Fossils and Foxes / Foxestalk History in hand), Louis Ford and Tom Mather.

[Langston]

22 minutes ago, Guy said:

Well he did preside over our nine straight games at home last season without scoring (and all ending in defeat), so I'm surprised he's at least not in the mix!

 

The thread was made 5 years ago.....

[CrazyKopCorner]

We were in a mess but RVN was totally clueless

 

Taylor was probably worse as he destroyed what had been built similar to Rodgers.

 

with passing of time that 2023 relegation looks more and more ridiculous 

[Guy]

52 minutes ago, Langston said:

 

The thread was made 5 years ago.....

Only just noticed, lol! Well it needs updating then! 

[Unabomber]

Rodgers so easy 

[Buzzell]

Yeh Rodgers is up there for me.
 

Sometimes wonder whether he fvcked us on purpose because we should of never gone down with that side and some of his decisions were absolutely baffling.

[Groby_Blue]

Yes Taylor. Yes we all know what he did. But he was just rubbish. For me, the manager I really couldn't stand was that utter clown Holloway. Hated the way we'd meekly lose on a Saturday and on the Monday he was doing his column on the BBC website saying what his favourite chocolate was or who his favourite Star Trek character was. 

 

He came across as a carrot crunching nob head who was taking my football club to depths never delved before and still acting like a total buffoon. 

 

So for me, it'll always be him. 

[Unabomber]

5 minutes ago, Buzzell said:

Yeh Rodgers is up there for me.
 

Sometimes wonder whether he fvcked us on purpose because we should have never gone down with that side and some of his decisions were absolutely baffling.

He lit the fuse which blew us up. Top supplied the dynamite 

[String fellow]

Peter Taylor - was he really that bad? In his first season we ended 13th in the Prem and got to R6 of the FA Cup. It all fell apart for him after losing that FA Cup match at home to Wycombe Wanderers. His overall win %age was fairly respectable at about 35. That's better than that of David Pleat, Mark McGhee, Craig Levein, Rob Kelly, Ian Holloway, Paulo Sousa, Claude Puel, Steve Cooper, RvN, and level with Marti Cifuentes. I know that using win %ages isn't necessarily the best metric to use, but if it were, Enzo Maresca would be way ahead of everyone else, including Claudio Ranieri and Brendan Rodgers, arguably our best two ever, based on the silverware they won.

[Foxin_Mad]

I think it’s still Taylor, took a top 10 team, made it crap. Cooper and RVN were bad but dealt a terrible hand in the Premier League. That Marti fellow was also pretty awful but again had a shit show to work with. I also think the latter years of Rodgers were bad. 

[The Year Of The Fox]

Rodgers

 

Caused far more harm than Holloway, Levein and Sousa put together.

 

Those managers were also working with shite too 

[enmac]

People on here must be too young to know about McClintock. He was unforgivable. Sold Worthy, who went on to become the old First Division's leading scorer. Bought a lot of has been mates. Total disaster.