Who was our worst manager and why?

[ramboacdc]

Stole it from the Championship Subreddit. 

 

Someone says Peter Taylor, but I am not sure. We have had worse than that haven't we?

[Verumex]

9 home game losses in a row without scoring a goal.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Too young to remember Pleat or McLintock.

 

Toss up between Taylor, Holloway, Sousa, Cooper and RvN for me in terms of how desperate they all felt.

[teblin]

For me it’s Taylor. RVN was bad but Taylor bought lots of crap players too. RVN didn’t do that. 

[KFS]

1 minute ago, Verumex said:

9 home game losses in a row without scoring a goal.

Absolutely crazy how so many of us just got numb to losing and being embarrassed by that team and manager. I was a kid when we were in league 1 and really getting into supporting LCFC, and so I’d heard about some of our all time worst teams and managers. I can’t believe I’ve actually now properly endured one.

 

Let’s never do that again. 

[suffolk fox]

Taylor took a great team and dismantled it.  Mclintock, shockingly bad, was a young kid when he gave a halftime team talk on the pitch at Loftus Rd, Bizarre.  RVN obviously.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Looking objectively at the stats it's clearly McLintock with his 12.5% win ratio.

 

Special mention should go to both Levein and Holloway, who both had a sub-30% win ratio in the Championship.

[sylofox]

8 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Looking objectively at the stats it's clearly McLintock with his 12.5% win ratio.

 

Special mention should go to both Levein and Holloway, who both had a sub-30% win ratio in the Championship.

I don't solely blame Holloway. The main fault for that relegation was mandric  we changed our manager more times that season than some people change underwear.

[LVFox]

Peter Taylor - no other answer.

 

Cooper pushed me close last year mind.

[Gamble92]

For what they did to the club it will always (hopefully) be Taylor. 

 

But there's absolutely no doubt that 12-18 months under Rodgers were the only time I've seen a manager actively put themselves above anything/anyone at the club in order to preserve their own reputation. So for that period I'd argue he was even more catastrophic to what we had built.

 

He's obviously saved from any conversation like this for what he did before that though. 

 

 

[Joe90]

In my supporting city life, it’s Taylor but closely followed my RVN, Taylor absolutely ruined Martin o Neil’s legacy, but the latter 9 homes games  without even scoring is absolutely disgusting, either 1 could be number 1 tbf 

[Joe90]

14 minutes ago, LVFox said:

Peter Taylor - no other answer.

 

Cooper pushed me close last year mind.

I’m stunned you put cooper before RVN tbf

[mozartfox]

Frankie Mac.  Those were dark days.  Eddie Kelly was our midfield dynamo.

[willie-bell-in-rothley]

I would say Mclintock, awful record very poor transfers, however as pointed out before

after Mclintock came Jock Wallace a clearout and the young lads, promotion followed,

exactly whats happening now

[ian__marshall]

Toss up between Taylor and Rodgers for me. Both took well built teams and not only destroyed them but loaded the club with worse players and significant financial burden setting the club back years.

 

Holloway was awful and I hate the fact that he tarnished our proud history by overseeing our relegation to League One, however I do accept that he did take over under very challenging circumstances. 

[Blueman1967]

Peter Taylor, l would have said David Pleat, but he was ahead of his time, and didn't have the players 

[RoboFox]

In my lifetime, probably Tater Peeler. MoN's legendary side was probably coming to the natural end of its cycle, but he completely dismantled it, signed some absolute dogshit, AND massively underperformed with what he had. 

 

Holloway was a shit manager who made some honking signings but it's difficult to say how much of that was down to Mandaric's interference - it's become very apparent when hearing from managers in that era that he thought of himself as a Chairman, DoF and Manager all in one. 

 

Van Nistelrooy was just pathetic and absolutely needs to be in the discussion. 

 

Rodgers is a **** for what he eventually became. His behaviour was disgusting, but it's obviously not him. 

 

 

Edited 4 September 2025 by RoboFox

[MonarchFox]

It's a toss up between RVN and Peter Taylor for me.

 

I think RVN just for his sheer ineptness if judging it on managerial skills.

 

Peter Taylor for virtually destroying our club after taking over from MON and just basically signing complete dross.

 

Special mention for Sousa for literally turning players into a shell of themselves within a few weeks

[Jabbaranks]

It's Tater Peeler all day long. All of the others who are getting honourable mentions (Holloway, Levein, Megson, Please, Cooper, RVN, Mclintock) were all shit under pretty bleak conditions. Taylor managed to dismantle a fantastic side who's stock was high, alienated the likes of Walsh from the get go and had a ridiculously inflated view of his own ability as a manager. His time saw us go from perennial top half PL finishers to relegated and the club financially at its darkest point.

[davieG]

Frank McLintock

 

22	Leicester City (R)	42	5	12	25	26	70	−44	22

 

Meanwhile Forest where walking the league

 

Ousted Worthington , Weller, Blockley

 

Bought in Roger Davies, Alan Waddle, & Lammie Robertson you'd be hard pushed to exclude them from our worst 11.

 

 

 

 

 

[Gamble92]

23 minutes ago, ian__marshall said:

Toss up between Taylor and Rodgers for me. Both took well built teams and not only destroyed them but loaded the club with worse players and significant financial burden setting the club back years.

 

Holloway was awful and I hate the fact that he tarnished our proud history by overseeing our relegation to League One, however I do accept that he did take over under very challenging circumstances. 

When you hear Milan was making Holloway play players like N'Gotty against his will it adds a bit of balance to what he was up against. That was another completely avoidable relegation. What a mess of a season.

 

I can't see him ringing up Pearson the season's after and demanding the same. Maybe he learned his lesson. Then let him go so Vichai and Top could have the "world renowned" Sousa.

[filthyfox]

RVN, no doubt

[Foxes1]

The ginger ninja

[AKCJ]

Brendan put himself before the club and it set us back years. Taylor was awful vs the position of the club at the time.

 

However, while Ruud inherited a club in disarray on and off the pitch, the output was unbelievably bad.

 

1 win, 1 draw, 16 losses between 14th December and 26th April.

 

We went from 8th December to 3rd of May without scoring a home goal.

[st albans fox]

42 minutes ago, ian__marshall said:

Toss up between Taylor and Rodgers for me. Both took well built teams and not only destroyed them but loaded the club with worse players and significant financial burden setting the club back years.

 

Holloway was awful and I hate the fact that he tarnished our proud history by overseeing our relegation to League One, however I do accept that he did take over under very challenging circumstances. 

I think things changed between those coaches

taylor probably bought the players back then but under Rodgers it was much more sophisticated 

yes he probably suggested a few but it would mostly be those identified by recruitment 

 

as a coach, he was way ahead of many we had over the decades 

 

yes it went sour because ultimately it was all about him and we couldn’t afford to indulge him 

Edited 4 September 2025 by st albans fox