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Right then over the last 5 years who has been in your opinion our worst manager? I am going for Iffy

Iffy.

Followed by King.

Malpas shouldnt be counted yet

 colin todd

Mike Diamandis (General Manager)

To be fair to Iffy though he was working with pratically both his hands tied behind his back at the time.

Colin Toad has to have a special mention though for realising the job was gonig to be harder than he thought and bailing out

Going back slightly further I'd go for McMahon as he managed to not only alienate the fan's in the end but the players as well.

You should have asked "have we had a good manager in the last 15 years" as they've all been pretty much dross.

Iffy ONUORA
P W D L Sc Co
40 10 15 15 40 56 44%
Dennis WISE
P W D L Sc Co
17 9 5 3 24 14 66%
Paul STURROCK
P W D L Sc Co
52 26 11 15 71 51 61%
Maurice MALPAS
P W D L Sc Co
31 10 8 13 43 42 45%


Just saw this did not realize that Malpas has managed nearly as many games as Iffy did :eek:

It was Colin Todd. Signed a load of shit then fucked off pretty sharpish.

Wins a special award for paying £300k for the shit that was Gary Alexander.

How about Kim Heisenberg. Alexander looked like Ronaldo compared to him. Colin Todd is a classic example of why Swindon shoould be a Scum free zone. We only paid £150k for Alexander - the second installment was picked up by Hull City. Alexander should also be congratulated for his reaction in front of the Scummers when Robinson scored the 1st at the Manor.

5 years?

Sturrock

Just cos I hated the stupid prick

Iffy, without doubt.  Clueless in every department.  Backroom staff didn't help either tbf.

King. He was a complete waste of space. How he managed 4 years here is beyond me. And that was just his second spell.

Got to be Onuora, totally useless

Managers like King and MM still have produced some good performances, I honestly can't think of one entertaining decent result under Iffy.

Swindon 4-2 Bournemouth. That was a good one. Peacock's first home game for us.

 We beat the Shitheads 2-1 live on Sky...never a bad scoreline to have on your CV.

 A very sweet Friday night

Was that under Iffy?  The City match?  I can't remember the Bournemouth match, must have missed that.

Todd
Iffy
Evans

Yeah i was going to mention the City match as well. It was under Iffy. Johnson had just taken over for them as well. That was a great first half. One of the few we actually looked good in that season.

 Oh yes...Iffy did alright for tyro manager taking on a difficult task...he was basically fucked though when we sold Fallon. Losing Paul Smith and then losing at home to Rotherham is what royally screwed us.

What are those percentages supposed to represent?

what about the Colchester match under Iffy where Fallon scored the last minute winner. We completely outplayed them that game and they got promoted.....still reckon if we had kept Fallon we would have stayed up as he was on fire at that stage.

Nah because that doesn't fit.

Points % of total possible?

We drew ourselves into contention with the win over the Gills, only to slump badly. Everyone except me blames Cureton.

 After that we rose to 16th had that previously mentioned Rotherham game, were 2-0 or 2-1 ahead and then just imploded. Losing 3-2...the morale sapping consequence of that ws teh infamous Forest game. Why did it happen...we'd just one 3 out of 4 with a decent point in the other?  Fuck knows, but we never recovered.

We were 1-0 ahead and then 2-1 ahead and yes we imploded and showed no bottle. Rottherham were on th brink financially then as well. That was the turning point. Then there was Franchise at home which we lost 1-0 with them famously scoring a minute after Shakes missed an absolute sitter one on one with their keeper.

 Of course Rotherham have paid the penalty for getting together a side which they couldn't afford...that was one season where by his own admission Diamond Mike tried to balance the books....hence a string ofloan players and a cheapskate managerial appointment when King paid the price...

Just saw it and copied it,is it wrong then?

For me king......any manager who smokes cigars during a match is a fukin joker!...probably better than Iffy and co but the guy just rankled me.

That was brilliant ,especially as we had beaten Johnson a couple of games previously when he was Yeovil boss,the "Tea Towel "game was very entertaining,going 1-0 down after 60 seconds and coming back to win 4-2 with Heaton saving a pen,if I remember rightly

Yep,he was shite-play off or no play-off.Total fucking buffoon

I know its not within 5 years, but I proper fucking hate that Cunt (Note the capital C) McMahon.

ady williams

yep,the Williams/Hunter dream ticket was spectacularly unsuccessful.

That was a cracking game! Teeeaaaaa towelllllll!

Absolutley spot on...the game he co-managed with Machin need never be mentioned again (I apologise for mentioning it now).

Success rate %

1 for a win, 0.5 for a draw, 0 for a loss. Then divide by number of games.

Would probably be fairer to assess points gained out of those available. In which case, using the stats provided:

Iffy = 38%
Wise = 63%
Sturrock = 57%
Malpas = 41%

those stats are looking a bit worrying.considering what iffy had to cope with and inherited i dont think he could really show what he could do.the malpas stats are what we should be worried about as they are barely any better.

I'm finding myself unable to disagree, Arriba. Which is a shame as I wanted to call you a cunt and be accused of being in a clique.

hahahaha.class response si.

Not that class he is still a cliquey cunt

Thanks it was bugging me, stupid system, % points won is much better

King:
P      W      D      L       F      A
193    71    48    74    265    263 = 45%

I guess it stems from the era when a win was worth 2 points.

Bit worrying though that percentage. Hope he turns it round though

Of course those stats include cup games, so pure points doesn't work as such. 49% using the "success" system.

Todd was 8 years ago now! But other people have included him, and he is by far the worst manager weve had this decade.

Worst Todd
Then Iffy
I dont want to say who I think our third worst is.  :unsure:

Adi Williams was a disaster, but he never had it full time.

colin todd
Andy king.

Think that was the game when some bloke climbed on the town end roof too.

Andy King was by far and away the worst manager but when he first started his second spell he had a decent back room staff around him. They soon left and our results got worse....no co-incidence.

Iffy on reflection wasnt as bad as the results suggest but then I dont think he was a brilliant manager either, however unlike King at the start Iffy had a piss poor back room staff & never got a pre-season and was always playing catch up.

Steve McMoan..............should never have been relegated in the first place.........won the league but at the cost of the club being smashed to pieces by him and Rikki *unt!

Sacked Trollope, Pissed off Jan the Man ( A bad apple at the time but the only player capable of keeping us up)....

Onura, Quinn just didnt have the resources!