Russell Slade sacked by Grimsby Town

[genesimmons]

Just had a look at this list and it is indeed a whos who of out of work managers that have done the rounds. Lee clark anyone?
http://www.thesackrace.com/teams/grimsby-town

 

[GTFCfish]

Saddest thing about Slade being sacked is that he will miss out on the very warm welcome he would surely have received when we play Coventry away.

 

[GTFCfish]

His spell at our club will go down in history and he alone set the club back so far we still haven't recovered.
His win rate of just 5% must go down in history as the worst m anergerial spells ever.
We skyblues warned fish town what to expect and we've been totally correct on that.
Fish Town FC may just have saved their season

Let me guess, in the other 95% of games he said you were unlucky and were the better side?

 

[BlackHaddock]

Glad he's gone, but why a week after the transfer window?

He allowed our best player and three midfielders go and replaced those four with dross, it's still going to be a struggle but at least the fans 'should' get behind the team now.

 

[GTFCfish]

Garry Hill is available.

He's turned it down, he said this is the second worst Grimsby team he's ever seen.

 

[Bottega Don]

What a shame, I for one loved the job he was doing.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Glad he's gone, but why a week after the transfer window?

He allowed our best player and three midfielders go and replaced those four with dross, it's still going to be a struggle but at least the fans 'should' get behind the team now.

Agreed - but the Board sanctioned deals - scarcely believable level of combined incompetence - and from the Board (ie Fenty) it goes back to the immediate aftermath of promotion. Even allowing for the sale of Bogle we could have had this team turning out...

McKeown
Davies Pearson Toto Mills
Arnold Summerfield Osborne Dembele
Amond Jones

Instead any incomer has a totally unbalanced squad made up of rag-tag mix of mostly dross under contract and inexperienced loanees... but it's time to get behind them...

 

[Leewilson]

Grimsby fans routinely berated Hurst when they were in the Conference. They'd have him back in a heartbeat now.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Grimsby fans routinely berated Hurst when they were in the Conference. They'd have him back in a heartbeat now.

True - me included. Don't forget he / we were very, very lucky to get to Wembley; losing 1-0 on aggregate circa 10 mins left of the second leg and a very stupid shirt pull from the Braintree defender in front of the ref in the box - we hadn't looked like scoring in open play, although we were dominating possession. Alot of Gy fans felt he gave up too easily on automatic promotion - our expectations were high (too high perhaps) after Operation Promotion
However, he said we would win at Wembley and we won well and it's clear he has progressed really well with more managerial experience. Also Fenty's antics behind the scenes were a prime reason he left - reneging on a deal to bring in a conditioning coach.

 

[GodsGift]

To be fair I was fairly critical of Hurst during his time at Grimsby as well. I always maintained he's the perfect manager for a side with minimal expectations, i.e. staying up or a mid-table finish, because he'll get the most out of fairly average players. But when he's in charge of a team who are expected to win the league or at least challenge for the title, as he was at Grimsby, he struggled. To his credit, he eventually got them up but there was more than a bit of fortune involved.

 

[PaulHaddock]

To be fair I was fairly critical of Hurst during his time at Grimsby as well. I always maintained he's the perfect manager for a side with minimal expectations, i.e. staying up or a mid-table finish, because he'll get the most out of fairly average players. But when he's in charge of a team who are expected to win the league or at least challenge for the title, as he was at Grimsby, he struggled. To his credit, he eventually got them up but there was more than a bit of fortune involved.

Makes you wonder how he’s doing so well now!

I never actively wanted Hurst out but we only challenged for the title for about 3 months collectively in his 6 years. His tactics might be dodgy but he’s brings in good honest players and a fantastic team spirit, which is now showing at Shrews.

With regards to our current problem, Phil Brown is the favourite atm but a few of our fans want Robbie Stockdale.

 

[The Reverend Skyblue]

Let me guess, in the other 95% of games he said you were unlucky and were the better side?

Absolutely correct.
Every game we lost he said I can't believe we got nothing from that, it was so frustrating.
The bloke surely will never manage a league club again. I'm going to research if his record at Cov was the worst manergerial record in the history of world football.
Bloody clueless clown, good thing is you have just saved yourselves from certain relegation and your club can now start to move in the right direction on and off the field

 

[Bobbin']

Russell Slade is comfortably in top 2 worst managers we've ever had, for me.

Just searched his stats and found this site that quotes:

'Russell Slade has managed 793 games for 10 club(s) and has 0 honours to his name.'

EDIT: Just looked and only 3 managers in our history have a worse win percentage.

 

[MrGloverLover]

We sacked Slade over a dodgy laundry expenses claim during a pre-season tour. Well that was the club's line anyway. Everyone thought at the time they were just trying to get rid of him any way they could.

I was speaking to someone on Saturday who used to interview him for local radio when he was Yeovil manager. Says he was a horrible person, very aggressive and made people feel very uneasy.

 

[Davidimp]

Mr Perm-a-tan says he wants the job, out of the frying pan....

 

[Clarkey_GTFC]

To be fair I was fairly critical of Hurst during his time at Grimsby as well. I always maintained he's the perfect manager for a side with minimal expectations, i.e. staying up or a mid-table finish, because he'll get the most out of fairly average players. But when he's in charge of a team who are expected to win the league or at least challenge for the title, as he was at Grimsby, he struggled. To his credit, he eventually got them up but there was more than a bit of fortune involved.

Exactly this. I always said he'd be a good manager in the Football League where there is less pressure and more promotion slots as he would consistently keep us up there but he just straight up didn't have it in him to take us right to the very top. We limped into the playoffs pretty much every season we made them and from there it's a lottery. If we'd played a full-time team in the semis who didn't lose their legs in the second leg, we could still easily be a conference side right now. Hurst was and clearly still is a good manager but the pressures of the conference having one automatic slot is very hard to deal with and as fans it got to the point where playoffs weren't good enough. Maybe it was our fault for having high expectations but ultimately it scarred the relationship between Hurst and fans. In the end you'll do well to find a Town fan who isn't very grateful for what he did for us and let's pray we never end up down there again because I don't know if we'd survive another stint in hell.

There aren't any candidates at the minute that give me much confidence. I think we'll end up with Brown but I hope not.

 

[gijsbert_bos]

Mr Perm-a-tan says he wants the job, out of the frying pan....

There's nothing like a manager on the up, and he's nothing like on the up.

 

[Bobbin']

We sacked Slade over a dodgy laundry expenses claim during a pre-season tour. Well that was the club's line anyway. Everyone thought at the time they were just trying to get rid of him any way they could.

I was speaking to someone on Saturday who used to interview him for local radio when he was Yeovil manager. Says he was a horrible person, very aggressive and made people feel very uneasy.

Yeah, he is an egotistical twat who sulks like a child anytime he comes under any type of criticism.

He snapped at our own media chap on a couple of occasions during post-match interviews.

One time when he was questioned about any incoming transfers he just started saying stuff like 'You cant just sign anyone. I want a certain type of player so I have to be patient. Can you see how patient I'm being?' Hard to convey how abrupt he was on here but he certainly didn't show any patience in that interview!

The worst for me was when we conceded late against Port Vale to draw the game and he started sulking and moaning about the fans for chanting 'you don't know what you're doing'. He wasn't asked about it in the interview but brought it up himself with something like 'They're singing at me like its my fault. I missed chances did I? I conceded a last minute penalty did I?' No I didn't, but its all my fault'

He refuses to take any responsibility for his failings, of which there have been a lot.

Terrible manager and even worse bloke, never disliked a Charlton manager so much.

 

[The Terminator]

Have to say as much as I admire the bloke for what he did for us - He led my club to its highest ever finish in my 23 years of supporting them (says alot about us!), But I can safely say all his short comings brought up here are correct. He's very, very stubborn and he was lucky he wasn't sacked by Barry Hearn back at the end of the 2012 season, when we lost something like 11 of our final 14 games and SOMEHOW survived and limped over the safety line in League One and his poor form continued into the next season, he FINALLY changed formation which suited the players we had and we went on a decent run - Which led us to the playoff final back in 2014. In 3 of his 4 seasons with us we finished 7th, 7th and 3rd.

However, along the way even in the good seasons we had his stubborness lost him some friends shall we say amongst our fanbase.

He is a good impact manager to have, maybe on a short term basis to help you stay up at the end of the season like he did for us and Brighton or to hold the fort like he did at Cardiff.

But clubs with high expectations and fanbases like Brighton, Coventry and Charlton are not for him long term, you can bullshit a few thousand Orient/Yeovil fans who mainly consist of old men who take it for what it is, but bigger clubs with higher expectations and a more broad fanbase won't be so supportive of a stubborn manager.

Having said all that, he has done an awful job this season at Grimsby - This is IMO his first sacking where he has to say he has fucked it up himself, Coventry and Charlton have bigger problems than him.

 

[The Terminator]

We sacked Slade over a dodgy laundry expenses claim during a pre-season tour. Well that was the club's line anyway. Everyone thought at the time they were just trying to get rid of him any way they could.

I was speaking to someone on Saturday who used to interview him for local radio when he was Yeovil manager. Says he was a horrible person, very aggressive and made people feel very uneasy.

I heard myself (Not sure how true though) that he fell out big time with John Fry overpayments he was meant to receive, from the sales of Chris Cohen and Aaron Davies to Nottingham Forest. They both couldn't agree on something and Fry got fed up and just wanted him gone - From memory, you beat Peterborough 3-1 away, your 4th win in a row in Feb 2009 and by the middle of the following week he had been sacked out of nowhere!

Don't know the full ins and outs, and it may not even be true to be honest. But he did similar here as well I think, we sold a few of our better players and I think he received a percentage of the transfer fees from the deals. Again, that was the word around, but it could also be bullshit!

 

[gijsbert_bos]

It's alright lads, according to some wag on the Fishy, Fenty has a cunning plan - they're going to poach the 'other' Cowley (the one who just watches videos all day)

https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1518458961/s-10/

 

[Luke Imp]

To be fair I was fairly critical of Hurst during his time at Grimsby as well. I always maintained he's the perfect manager for a side with minimal expectations, i.e. staying up or a mid-table finish, because he'll get the most out of fairly average players. But when he's in charge of a team who are expected to win the league or at least challenge for the title, as he was at Grimsby, he struggled. To his credit, he eventually got them up but there was more than a bit of fortune involved.

I kinda understand that, but were Grimsby ever really set-up to win the league? I mean, there was Crawley (very high points total and ££), Fleetwood (see Crawley), Mansfield (see Crawley) and Luton (can't remember that season) and then came up against Bristol Rovers in the PO's who motored their way through the second half of the season.

They always seemed to be about 'par' and at that time, from memory, other teams were streets ahead of them in terms of the title challenging ones. It wasn't a case of getting a bit more out of the players he had, but needed more than that.

Yeah, he is an egotistical twat who sulks like a child anytime he comes under any type of criticism.

He snapped at our own media chap on a couple of occasions during post-match interviews.

One time when he was questioned about any incoming transfers he just started saying stuff like 'You cant just sign anyone. I want a certain type of player so I have to be patient. Can you see how patient I'm being?' Hard to convey how abrupt he was on here but he certainly didn't show any patience in that interview!

The worst for me was when we conceded late against Port Vale to draw the game and he started sulking and moaning about the fans for chanting 'you don't know what you're doing'. He wasn't asked about it in the interview but brought it up himself with something like 'They're singing at me like its my fault. I missed chances did I? I conceded a last minute penalty did I?' No I didn't, but its all my fault'

He refuses to take any responsibility for his failings, of which there have been a lot.

Terrible manager and even worse bloke, never disliked a Charlton manager so much.

I'm sure Matt Dean thinks the same!

 

[Davidimp]

It's alright lads, according to some wag on the Fishy, Fenty has a cunning plan - they're going to poach the 'other' Cowley (the one who just watches videos all day)

https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1518458961/s-10/

And he's probably watched plenty of video nasties of our friends up the A46 to put him going there more than once a season.
7 day approach, seriously????
Boston's manager is favourite....

 

[GTFCfish]

It's alright lads, according to some wag on the Fishy, Fenty has a cunning plan - they're going to poach the 'other' Cowley (the one who just watches videos all day)

https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1518458961/s-10/

If it's come from the Fishy then its gospel, I expect to see Cowley unveiled any day now then.

 

[GTFCfish]

I kinda understand that, but were Grimsby ever really set-up to win the league? I mean, there was Crawley (very high points total and ££), Fleetwood (see Crawley), Mansfield (see Crawley) and Luton (can't remember that season) and then came up against Bristol Rovers in the PO's who motored their way through the second half of the season.

They always seemed to be about 'par' and at that time, from memory, other teams were streets ahead of them in terms of the title challenging ones. It wasn't a case of getting a bit more out of the players he had, but needed more than that.


I'm sure Matt Dean thinks the same!

I think the problem at lot of fans had with Hurst wasn't that they expected to win the league (some obviously did but most of us were more realistic) but it was the way he was always more than content at just reaching the play offs every year, rather than seeming to really go that extra mile and actually try and have a real go at winning it one season. In the end we obviously managed to go up via the play offs but given our previous play off efforts I don't think many of us expected to win them that year but as has already been said on here, were it not for one stupid shirt tug we'd have lost out in them again.

 

[Davidimp]

If it's come from the Fishy then its gospel, I expect to see Cowley unveiled any day now then.

Fenty won the lottery too to pay his buyout clause?

 

[DarkSithLord]

John McDermott at 12/1?!

He is a disaster waiting to happen!

 

[GTFCfish]

John McDermott at 12/1?!

He is a disaster waiting to happen!

He'll only be on that list as he's an ex player.
Before we appointed Bignot, Adkins and then Cowley were both odds on to be next manager, betting markets at this level usually mean jack shit.

 

[AdamStag]

I think the problem at lot of fans had with Hurst wasn't that they expected to win the league (some obviously did but most of us were more realistic) but it was the way he was always more than content at just reaching the play offs every year, rather than seeming to really go that extra mile and actually try and have a real go at winning it one season. In the end we obviously managed to go up via the play offs but given our previous play off efforts I don't think many of us expected to win them that year but as has already been said on here, were it not for one stupid shirt tug we'd have lost out in them again.

I'd say Grimsby were better than par, it just happened to be (as you mention) the league has better sides in it. The league the season fleetwood won it (Wrexham finished on 99 points, us on 90 odd) few would have had a chance. The season we won it, both us and kiddy went on ridiculous runs and few would have had a chance to caught up

Had Grimsby been in the conference with the type of side they had then in comparatively weak leagues - both last season and this are poor by recent standards, they'd have had a realistic chance of going up.

 

[MrGloverLover]

I heard myself (Not sure how true though) that he fell out big time with John Fry overpayments he was meant to receive, from the sales of Chris Cohen and Aaron Davies to Nottingham Forest. They both couldn't agree on something and Fry got fed up and just wanted him gone - From memory, you beat Peterborough 3-1 away, your 4th win in a row in Feb 2009 and by the middle of the following week he had been sacked out of nowhere!

Don't know the full ins and outs, and it may not even be true to be honest. But he did similar here as well I think, we sold a few of our better players and I think he received a percentage of the transfer fees from the deals. Again, that was the word around, but it could also be bullshit!

Yeah that's about the size of it. The expenses claim was a watered down version as the real reason would have got us into trouble. Everyone smelled a rat because of the good run we were on, it was all very distasteful.