Managers who turned things around

[King Kev]

So, I am hoping against hope that Lucketti can have some success at Bury and pull us away from the bottom four.
This got me thinking about managers who turned other clubs around.

So go on name your manager who turned your club around for better or for worse. What state was the club in on arrival and then after they left, what highs and lows were experienced? Does said manager deserve the title 'legend?'

Look forward to reading your nominations.

 

[DippyDon]

Robbie Neilson did when he came in. Looking likely to be in a relegation dogfight but we ended the season comfortably midtable.

Just a shame he's been an absolute shower of shit this season and I'm hoping for another guy to come in and turn us around for the long haul this time.

 

[SF_]

We were an utter shambles under Graham Westley and dropping like a stone, i've no doubt we would have fallen into that bottom 4 if he wasn't replaced by Simon Grayson in mid-February.

 

[King Kev]

We were an utter shambles under Graham Westley and dropping like a stone, i've no doubt we would have fallen into that bottom 4 if he wasn't replaced by Simon Grayson in mid-February.

Didn't he bring a host of his Stevenage pals to PNE and tell your players to address him as medal winner? It was that season where I (KIng Kev) had a bit of a spat with him.

 

[SF_]

Didn't he bring a host of his Stevenage pals to PNE and tell your players to address him as medal winner? It was that season where I (KIng Kev) had a bit of a spat with him.

He arrived in the dressing room, introduced himself and said 'my kids call me medal winner'.

He just had a scattergun approach to transfers, no thought process at all, fluked some good signings; Garner, Rudd, Laird, Huntington, Welsh...

But they were completely outweighed by shite like an ancient Lee Trundle, non-league cloggers like Luke Foster, Anthony Elding & Aaron Brown, pathetic Stevenage players like Mousinho, Byrom and Beardsley. I could go on a massive rant about the shit he signed.... Cansdell-fucking-Sherriff.....

That's just transfer business, his tactics and training methods are another story.

 

[MagpieBee]

Martin Allen for us 10 odd years ago, we were in a relegation fight, with almost no chance of survival, only for him to completely turn around our form. Next two seasons we finished in the play offs, went on a couple of long cup runs, and almost got promoted to the Championship (if we'd been able to hold on to DJ Campbell through January, we definitely would have gone up IMO).

He's also done it at other clubs, got a track record of turning things around short term.

 

[Deepcut Cobbler]

Chris Wilder, not just on the field of play.

 

[GFCSludge]

Tony Pulis 95/96-98/99

Took us from half a decade marooned in the bottom half of the basement to the verge of what's now the Championship, by making us incredibly difficult to beat and very tight defensively.

Solid, experienced keepers (Stannard, Bartram), rock hard centrally (Butler, Ashby, Hessenthaler, Ratcliffe) with pace and power up top (Fortune-West, Akinbiyi, Onuora) and the odd sprinkling of quality (Dennis Bailey).

During that period we were strongly disliked by opponents for simply steamrollering sides while giving nothing away and earned the slightly unfair nickname "Gillyhoof".

The last year or so of Pulis' reign we had a bit of cash to splash that saw a bit more skill added to the side such as Carl Asaba (pure class), then the Scally and Pulis relationship became unworkable and off he went, but by that point the foundation for the greatest period in our history had been laid, we'd doubled our crowds and experienced results the like of which we'd not seen for several years.

Whatever people think of him, he was one of the best we've ever had.

 

[Super_horns]

Graham Taylor twice wasn't bad...

Shame twice his replacement basically undid all the great work he did!

Now we don't managers enough time to really turn things around - mind you the same could be applied to a lot of clubs!

 

[Aber gas]

John Ward saved us in 12-13. In December we were 23rd and on the end of a 4-1 defeat by York. Mcgoo was unceremoniously fucked off and took his ludicrous Scottish crocks with him ( my deepest sympathies Barnet) With a rag bag rabble of loan signings and short term deals he got us to 60 points and the dizzy heights of 14th! My abiding memory of that season was a last minute winner from our German Fabian Broghammer against Barnet. The normally placid and gentlemanly Wardy promptly lost his shit and started giving it the big ‘un in front of the Blackthorn

I don’t want to talk about the following season.....

 

[SELatic]

John Sheridan. Twice.

 

[Cornish Piskie]

Manager who turned things around..?

Ian Dowie. We were doing fine under Alan Curbishley and then Dowie turned up.

Yeah.... he turned things around alright. But not for the better.

 

[3Loggerheads]

Paul Hurst
Came in 6 points adrift at the bottom of League One in November 2016 to top in November 2017.

 

[SMH]

Steve Bruce took over almost exactly 10 years ago after we sacked Chris Hutchings with us having got only 8 points after 14 games. We went on to take 32 points from our last 24 games and stay up with a game to spare, finishing 14th. The following season we finished 11th and at one point looked on course to challenge for European football having been 7th with 31 points after 20 games. Then Whelan sold a couple of our best players from under his nose in late January and we dropped off in the second half of the season. Bruce got fed up with the penny pinching which he deemed as lack of ambition and left for Sunderland. Some fans still hold a grudge against him for this, not me. He was ambitious and we weren't willing to share that ambition so fair play to him.

I was and still am a huge fan of Bruce. Rock solid defensively with Cattermole as our midfield pitbull who kicked everything that moved. We always played with width under him, Palacios provided creativity in the middle and Valencia out wide was our X Factor player, delivering individual goals or inch perfect crosses to Zaki and Heskey up top. It wasn't pretty, but it worked and we've probably never been so tough to beat, especially at home. We'd have always been safe in the Premier League under him and had Whelan not sold his best players behind his back we could have gone further.

 

[Hurrikeen]

Sheridan twice.

 

[EricSabin]

Chris Wilder.

Appointed in January 2014 with us 6 points adrift at the bottom of League 2, kept us up. Then had a mid table season in League 2, then absolutely romped to the title despite nearly going out of business.

Wilder himself got the new chairman who saved us from oblivion involved in the club, and his pitchside outburst after winning at Notts County is widely credited with movingly on a stalling chairman who was days away from taking the club under.

There'll never be a manager I like and respect more.

 

[ThisTinpotLeague]

Clotet. After being better than Northampton for the entirety of the time under Appleton, we are now the same sort of bland no-hopers as the rest of you.

In all seriousness, Wilder for us too. Stopped up being a laughing stock in the conference and got the first promotion for a whole generation of Oxford supporters, myself included.

 

[LS Bantam]

Phil Parkinson for us, came in after two 18th finishes in L2, when he left we’d just missed out in the L1 Play Off semi, been to the quarter final of the FA cup, been to the actual flippin’ final of the League Cup as a fourth tier side, biggest FA Cup shock in history turning around 2-0 at Stamford Bridge, beaten Arsenal, beaten Villa over two legs, Sunderland, Wigan (when they were alright and in the Prem), Leeds which is a biggie for us... The football was dire but effective, those few years worth of memories are what some will not see in a lifetime.

 

[DippyDon]

Martin Allen for us 10 odd years ago, we were in a relegation fight, with almost no chance of survival, only for him to completely turn around our form. Next two seasons we finished in the play offs, went on a couple of long cup runs, and almost got promoted to the Championship (if we'd been able to hold on to DJ Campbell through January, we definitely would have gone up IMO).

He's also done it at other clubs, got a track record of turning things around short term.

Allen's sort of done it for us in a way too. He came in after resigning from Brentford after we'd been relegated to League 2 and gave us our first good season as MK Dons. Got us to the play offs (our first in a line of semi final misery) and pretty much brought together the double winning squad of the next year, bringing in probably our best captain in Keith Andrews. Went on to Leicester that summer, which went so swimmingly he left after 4 games.
Different in the sense he had a summer and a full season, but stopped the rot that followed the move from Wimbledon and the rebrand.

 

[ThisTinpotLeague]

Rebrand

 

[SF_]

Disgusting WUMmery there.

 

[MagpieBee]

Allen's sort of done it for us in a way too. He came in after resigning from Brentford after we'd been relegated to League 2 and gave us our first good season as MK Dons. Got us to the play offs (our first in a line of semi final misery) and pretty much brought together the double winning squad of the next year, bringing in probably our best captain in Keith Andrews. Went on to Leicester that summer, which went so swimmingly he left after 4 games.
Different in the sense he had a summer and a full season, but stopped the rot that followed the move from Wimbledon and the rebrand.

I reckon had he not had disagreements with the board over transfers at Leicester, he could have gone on to be a pretty successful manager. Love Martin Allen, would love to see him back at the club in some capacity someday.

 

[Fedora Dale]

Keith Hill is so obvious, that I hesitate to mention him. However, I'm pissed as a fart, and Wetherspoons has free Wifi so what the copulate...

 

[beaufighter]

Two for us. Way back, Tommy Docherty took over and promised to get Rotherham out of the Second Division (Championship) where we had played for 17 consecutive seasons and he did. Downwards.

Then there was the miraculous period recently under Neil Warnock where he took over a Rotherham team looking every bit as doomed as the one that went down the following year, and rattled off an amazing run of 11 wins to keep us up easily, beating the likes of Hull, Brighton and Middlesbrough along the way and finishing up with a thumping 4-0 away wing at MK. That ended up being our last away win until we won at Pompey this season!

 

[King Kev]

Two for us. Way back, Tommy Docherty took over and promised to get Rotherham out of the Second Division (Championship) where we had played for 17 consecutive seasons and he did. Downwards.

Then there was the miraculous period recently under Neil Warnock where he took over a Rotherham team looking every bit as doomed as the one that went down the following year, and rattled off an amazing run of 11 wins to keep us up easily, beating the likes of Hull, Brighton and Middlesbrough along the way and finishing up with a thumping 4-0 away wing at MK. That ended up being our last away win until we won at Pompey this season!

I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Rotherham

 

[SkyBluesRose]

Then there was the miraculous period recently under Neil Warnock where he took over a Rotherham team looking every bit as doomed as the one that went down the following year, and rattled off an amazing run of 11 wins to keep us up easily, beating the likes of Hull, Brighton and Middlesbrough along the way and finishing up with a thumping 4-0 away wing at MK. That ended up being our last away win until we won at Pompey this season!

I'm just curious how do you think you would have done last season if you had kept Warnock for another year?

 

[Reaper]

We would still be in the championship now if we still had Warnock as manager defo.

You only have to look at how Cardiff are doing now with an average team to see how good of a manager he is but we wouldn't pay the wages he was wanting for us to keep him and we ended getting Alan Stubbs instead who wasted the entire budget on a bunch of shite the wank tosser which has come back to bite us on the arse big time.

We should have done everything we could to keep Warnock even if it's paying over the odds because it's not very often we get to attract a manager like that.

 

[hold'um Oldham]

Seen Sheridan mentioned a couple of times in this thread but how about wellens?

The turnaround since his appointment has been nothing short of remarkable

 

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