Nucasol Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Paully said: Four years today since our worst ever managerial appointment! Happy Cabbage Day flip! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Kinnear and Carver both in the mix as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Paully said: Four years today since our worst ever managerial appointment! The day I thought, "what's the point anymore". I thought after Rafa we'd get maybe a good young European manager who didn't know any better but would still relish a challenge here, or even Arteta who we were linked with. Bruce being appointed though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggys First Goal Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Paully said: Four years today since our worst ever managerial appointment! Worse than Kinnear? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 I mean, I always knew that Rafa was sticking plaster over a disastrous wound, but it was difficult to have it confirmed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 2 hours ago, Paully said: Four years today since our worst ever managerial appointment! Richard Dinnis ? Bill McGarry ? Joe Kinnear ? John Carver ? And I'd make an argument for Bruce being no worse than Fat Sam. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 (edited) For all the shit Sam gets, he’d done a great job at Bolton and was expected a go at an ambitious club. Carver and Kinnear might be worse football managers, Souness was a terrible choice and v impactful, but Bruce was the biggest kick in the teeth in my lifetime , just a real statement of ‘we’re shit and it’s all you lot deserve and are ever getting’ Edited July 17, 2023 by Superior Acuña Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheInfiniteOdyssey Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Souness by far the worst in my lifetime. It was a complete sliding-doors moment for the club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Bruce might not have been the worst manager (easily up there) but he was probably the worst appointment in my lifetime, which is what Paully said. Just an incredibly dark moment in the club's modern history. Souness disastrous too of course but it avoids the title on the basis that it was an actual (incredibly flawed) football decision with the club's best interests - as a sporting entity - in mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 19 minutes ago, TheInfiniteOdyssey said: Souness by far the worst in my lifetime. It was a complete sliding-doors moment for the club. But it was still made for football reasons. As Yorkie said, it's the depressing admission that we never want to achieve anything that marks Bruce out in particular. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Prontonise Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Bruce because of how much he tried to use the media to justify us being shite etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 1 hour ago, madras said: Richard Dinnis ? Bill McGarry ? Joe Kinnear ? John Carver ? And I'd make an argument for Bruce being no worse than Fat Sam. Carver was actually the worst manager I can remember in recent memory, he just struck me as a charv who had somehow landed a coaching role. For some reason I can't get the image of him walking home with a carrier bag of cheap lager from his local off licence out of my mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 39 minutes ago, Yorkie said: Bruce might not have been the worst manager (easily up there) but he was probably the worst appointment in my lifetime, which is what Paully said. Just an incredibly dark moment in the club's modern history. Souness disastrous too of course but it avoids the title on the basis that it was an actual (incredibly flawed) football decision with the club's best interests - as a sporting entity - in mind. At least there was a theory behind the Souness appointment. Tough guy to sort out the problem players. It was bollocks obviously but there was something behind it. Bruce though. There was absolutely nothing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBG Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Bruce is the worst for simply toeing the line all the while playing on his local routes and "love" for the club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Amazing that how terrible McClaren was consistently gets overlooked. Yes, he was a fair bit more likeable than many of the others, but getting that squad relegated was scandalous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack j Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Not sure if Bruce is the worst but he Is definitely the one I dislike the most in my lifetime. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Bruce is my most hated manager of ours but McClaren was the most incompetent when not counting Carver due to him being a caretaker. Benitez proved in his final 6 games that there was a decent side there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groundhog63 Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 (edited) I'm 59 so, you can imagine, have seen some right dross managing my club. Joe Harvey was the manager when I first got on board (aged 7) and I can safely say only Gordon Lee was a cunt* until the post Keegan years. *I was only 12 and running Bensham so wouldn't have used language like that The likes of Dinnis and McGarry were just shit much like McClaren and Pardew. Joke appointments like Carver and Kinnier but hands down for being a cunt, shit and precious as fuck, Bruce tops the hate list. Managers like Sourness, Dalglish and Gullit were, at least, prominent at the time. Best NUFC manager of all time? This kid never lost a game..... https://www.soccerbase.com/managers/manager.sd?manager_id=5210 Edited July 17, 2023 by Groundhog63 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 McClaren's likeable factor wore off pretty fast for me when every week we'd be absolutely dominated by the other side, get dusted by a clear margin, and he'd stand in front of the cameras and say we were "magnificent" and "play like that every week and we'll be fine". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 2 minutes ago, Pilko said: McClaren's likeable factor wore off pretty fast for me when every week we'd be absolutely dominated by the other side, get dusted by a clear margin, and he'd stand in front of the cameras and say we were "magnificent" and "play like that every week and we'll be fine". With a cup of tea in his hand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 2 minutes ago, Pilko said: McClaren's likeable factor wore off pretty fast for me when every week we'd be absolutely dominated by the other side, get dusted by a clear margin, and he'd stand in front of the cameras and say we were "magnificent" and "play like that every week and we'll be fine". "Judge me after 10/15/20/25 games..." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 (edited) You can’t hate Kinnear because the whole thing was just so hilariously insane. Carver annoyed me because he should have known better. I still think McClaren could have been decent but he lacked the bollocks to stick to his plan when we kept losing. Edited July 17, 2023 by AyeDubbleYoo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HaydnNUFC Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Gayle winner v Norwich (H) 2016 or winner v Forest (A) season just gone for me. The feeling both goals gave me, especially for the latter with being in the away end, is exactly what I imagine a shot of heroin is like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 5 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said: Gayle winner v Norwich (H) 2016 or winner v Forest (A) season just gone for me. The feeling both goals gave me, especially for the latter with being in the away end, is exactly what I imagine a shot of heroin is like. Probably Dabizas at the mackems. I was absolutely desperate to see us win against them, having never due to different divisions, the Roker ban etc. Really wanted to at their place too. Then for him to score at our end, and I was in the second row right behind the goal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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