Worst ever manager

[winteriscoming]

I felt sorry for Levein and Kelly. Both had no money and had to play shit players. At least they kept us in the championship. Holloway was a disaster who spoke nonsense after matches. 

[HighPeakFox]

My answer is 'yes'.

[LestaFox92]

12 minutes ago, lanefox said:

Judging by the 92 we’re the same age and he was the reason we stopped having  season ticket so dull and boring

Yeah pretty much it quite literally bored you to death up until that point supporting Leicester had never been boring to me kind of killed my love for football as well for a while.

[CheeseHead]

You can tell by this thread that most FTers weren't around during the McLintock years..

[SouthStandUpperTier]

1 minute ago, CheeseHead said:

You can tell by this thread that most FTers weren't around during the McLintock years..

Or that they just think Peter Taylor was worse.

 

(It's Peter Taylor. The correct answer is Peter Taylor).

[urban fox]

9 minutes ago, CheeseHead said:

You can tell by this thread that most FTers weren't around during the McLintock years..

Thankfully, the McLintock years only lasted 10 months. just seemed like years.

[Danno]

Sven not included? All that money and he managed to sign a team of absolute dross 

[evil jack]

Peter Taylor.

I can't even look at his stupid, arrogant face without feeling incandescent rage.

[urban fox]

Statistically, McLintock is our worse ever manager. over 40 games he had a win ratio of only 12.5%. Taylor actually had a decent 35.19%, not far behind MON at 38.29% The difference being that under the latter we had a poor start and steadily improved winning promotion and trophies on the way having built a decent squad. Taylor was the complete opposite however.

For comparison, the best ever manager in our entire history statistically is none other than a certain B Rodgers who has a win ratio of 53.04 followed my Nigel Pearson at 51.40 during his first spell (div 1 season). 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

All the managers listed above were awful. It really is splitting hairs to pick one over the other in terms of on-field product. But only one sent us to the brink of extinction.

[Raw Dykes]

1 hour ago, LestaFox92 said:

Yeah pretty much it quite literally bored you to death up until that point supporting Leicester had never been boring to me kind of killed my love for football as well for a while.

Quite literally.

[Freeman's Wharfer]

Taylor for sure in terms of what he destroyed and where we were when he left vs when he arrived.

 

But I’ve never felt so unenthusiastic about going to watch Leicester as I did under Puel. Absolutely dire. Almost to the point you were thinking “I’d rather see us have a go and lose than this drab approach and draw”.

[Heathrow fox]

No mention of Bryan Hamilton?

[poggypogpog]

Was torn between Taylor and Holloway.

 

The decider was Taylor replacing Lennon with Junior Lewis. No amount of Barry Hayles can beat that.

[davieG]

No one has a worst record than McLintock 12.5% win rate.

 

https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/history/managers/?mid=7

NAME                                          PERIOD GAMES WINS DRAWS LOSSES WIN %

Frank McLintock

1977-78

40

5

12

23

12.5%

 

 

Players Sold

Alan Birchenall		Notts County	Unknown	September 1977
Frank Worthington		Bolton Wanderers	Unknown	September 1977
Carl Jayes		Northampton Town	Unknown	November 1977
Steve Earle		Peterborough United	On loan	November 1977
Steve Yates		Southend United	Unknown	November 1977
Jon Sammels		Vancouver Whitecaps	Unknown	January 1978
Jeff Blockley		Derby County	On loan	February 1978
Steve Earle		Detroit Express	Unknown	March 1978
Brian Alderson		New England Tea Men	Unknown	March 1978
Steve Kember		Vancouver Whitecaps	On loan	April 1978
Larry May		New England Tea Men	On loan	April 1978
Dean Smith		Houston Hurricane	On loan	April 1978
Keith Weller		New England Tea Men	On loan	April 1978
Peter Welsh		Houston Hurricane	On loan	April 1978

 

 

 

Players Bought

PLAYER		CLUB	FEE	DATE
Eddie Kelly		Queens Park Rangers	£50,000	July 1977
Dave Webb		Queens Park Rangers	Unknown	September 1977
George Armstrong		Arsenal	Unknown	September 1977
Lammie Robertson		Exeter City	£8,000	September 1977
Alan Waddle		Liverpool	£45,000	September 1977
Geoff Salmons		Stoke City	£40,000	October 1977
Billy Hughes		Derby County	Unknown	December 1977
Roger Davies		Club Brugge	£250,000	December 1977

 

 

 

[Zear0]

Taylor was abysmal, but I can't look past Holloway taking us down to the 3rd tier for the first time in our history. 

[Arriba Los Zorros]

Holloway / Hollowank / Hollowords for me. He was a total clown and worried more about creating media sounds bites than keeping us up. Taylor might have been worse but for hateabillity Holloway is right up there with Wise.

[The boy Linacre]

2 minutes ago, davieG said:

No one has a worst record than McLintock 12.5% win rate.

 

https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/history/managers/?mid=7

NAME                                          PERIOD GAMES WINS DRAWS LOSSES WIN %

Frank McLintock

1977-78

40

5

12

23

12.5%

 

 

Players Sold

Alan Birchenall		Notts County	Unknown	September 1977
Frank Worthington		Bolton Wanderers	Unknown	September 1977
Carl Jayes		Northampton Town	Unknown	November 1977
Steve Earle		Peterborough United	On loan	November 1977
Steve Yates		Southend United	Unknown	November 1977
Jon Sammels		Vancouver Whitecaps	Unknown	January 1978
Jeff Blockley		Derby County	On loan	February 1978
Steve Earle		Detroit Express	Unknown	March 1978
Brian Alderson		New England Tea Men	Unknown	March 1978
Steve Kember		Vancouver Whitecaps	On loan	April 1978
Larry May		New England Tea Men	On loan	April 1978
Dean Smith		Houston Hurricane	On loan	April 1978
Keith Weller		New England Tea Men	On loan	April 1978
Peter Welsh		Houston Hurricane	On loan	April 1978

 

 

 

Players Bought

PLAYER		CLUB	FEE	DATE
Eddie Kelly		Queens Park Rangers	£50,000	July 1977
Dave Webb		Queens Park Rangers	Unknown	September 1977
George Armstrong		Arsenal	Unknown	September 1977
Lammie Robertson		Exeter City	£8,000	September 1977
Alan Waddle		Liverpool	£45,000	September 1977
Geoff Salmons		Stoke City	£40,000	October 1977
Billy Hughes		Derby County	Unknown	December 1977
Roger Davies		Club Brugge	£250,000	December 1977

 

 

 

Yep, we had 6 brilliant years under Jimmy, Mclintock put us back 20 years.  Frankie Wortho was a League title runner up with Southampton in the 80s & of course “THE Bolton goal”.

The club went yo-yo with good players at times, 80-81, 84-86, 94 but not top half again till Martin.

We went down so fast that year it made your head spin!! Scary😫

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Scenes when this thread eclipses the Best Manager thread. Who says FoxesTalkers are a negative bunch?

[SpacedX]

Holloway took us down to the third tier for the first time in our history. Pleat bought in Ricky Hill before managing to get arrested for curb crawling in Highfields. Taylor decimated our side and is remembered for Junior Lewis - but it's very hard to forget or look beyond the double disaster-**** that was Lammie Robertson and Roger Davies. Davies was our record signing at the time ffs. 

 

No idea why Hamilton hasn't made this list? 

[don_danbury]

1 hour ago, DanNDH88 said:

Sven not included? All that money and he managed to sign a team of absolute dross 

konchesky, schmeichel and nugent were decent tho

[Matt]

Glad people have chose Peter Taylor by a landslide!

 

Over the years so many people have said "Ian Holloway's our worst manager ever!".

 

No, he took us to our lowest level but he's no where near the level of Peter Taylor, Holloway was by no means good and he can be involved in the worst ever manager discussion but the damage had already been done for Holloway, he was always fighting a losing battle.

 

Peter Taylor was the cause of the slide and downward spiral. Cunt.

[SpacedX]

Always liked Micky Adams, but Peter Canero has to be another of our worst signings in history. 

[oxford blue]

I guess most are too young to remember how bad Mclintock was. In charge for a season (77-78) in which we finished bottom, winning only 5 league games, and going out in FA Cup to Walsall. 26 goals in league all season. Another season when we bought a dud striker for city; Roger Davies who cost £250.000 ( a very large fee) was perhaps the first signing of the run that continues today of spending big money on strikers who rarely score for City.

[enmac]

1 hour ago, urban fox said:

Statistically, McLintock is our worse ever manager. over 40 games he had a win ratio of only 12.5%. Taylor actually had a decent 35.19%, not far behind MON at 38.29% The difference being that under the latter we had a poor start and steadily improved winning promotion and trophies on the way having built a decent squad. Taylor was the complete opposite however.

For comparison, the best ever manager in our entire history statistically is none other than a certain B Rodgers who has a win ratio of 53.04 followed my Nigel Pearson at 51.40 during his first spell (div 1 season). 

Has to McClintock. Thanks for the stats. My heart said that and now my head does. If he had not been sacked, there's a good chance that we'd now be a non league team.