Your clubs most impetuous managerial dismissal decision

[tackler7]

A post in another thread got me thinking...

Wullie wrote:

littlewiggy wrote: Len [Ashurst] was a left-back as well wasn't he? Certainly was. Bit of a legend. Also took the team to the League cup final as a manager but like so many , was sacked after losing two games on the trot. Who would be a manager ? That's for another thread....

...What was your clubs most impetuous (and with hindsight poor) managerial dismissal decision?

As a Wednesday fan I could start off with Stuart Gray - took Wednesday to their highest league placing for years and then was sacked by our new owners - or - before him Gary Megson after beating Sheffield United and taking Wednesday to third place in the league.

[blackburncollector]

the pune-atic (fellow Rovers fans will see what I did there) decision to sack Sam Allardyce and bring in Steve Kean back in December 2010


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[Wullie]

Where do we start ? Sadly you have to blame the fans 99 percent of the time. Football fans are so fickle . David Moyes was the perfect example. He never stood a chance unless he was lucky to win the league in his first season. Steve McClaren. Sacked by Derby now in the Premiership. If they held on to him they would have got some money. Fans expectations are too high . A run of bad results and you're out. I'm glad Hull kept faith in Steve Bruce. I like the guy. Very unlucky at Sunderland. Still two defeats and he'll be gone no doubt. It's a joke really. Probably two, maybe three world class managers in the Premiership. After that it's pick and mix. As I said before. You don't need a good manager. You need a lucky manager...

[bigearl79]

Russ Wilcox. 28 games undefeated, promotion and then sacked not much more then a dozen games later. Not the chairman's choice and sacked him as soon as he could. Decent guy who should, I repeat should do well at York this season.

[pafcprogs]

Our owner made the point that only in football would the decision that is so critical be criticised because you haven't found the key management appointment in less than a week!

He took a longer term approach when making our current appointment...and of course the guy is in post a fortnight and the " fans" are up in arms because Messi and Ronaldo haven't arrived yet...

Luckily I think both new appointment and chairman a re thick skinned enough to get on with it...

Of course lose the first three games and it will be Adams out...

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[pompeypete]

Wullie wrote:

Where do we start ? Sadly you have to blame the fans 99 percent of the time. Football fans are so fickle . David Moyes was the perfect example. He never stood a chance unless he was lucky to win the league in his first season. Steve McClaren. Sacked by Derby now in the Premiership. If they held on to him they would have got some money. Fans expectations are too high . A run of bad results and you're out. I'm glad Hull kept faith in Steve Bruce. I like the guy. Very unlucky at Sunderland. Still two defeats and he'll be gone no doubt. It's a joke really. Probably two, maybe three world class managers in the Premiership. After that it's pick and mix. As I said before. You don't need a good manager. You need a lucky manager...

We had a 'Lucky manager'......'arry rednappp

Lucky he was found 'Not Guilty'........
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[wandererpaul]

You could, in a way, say Mark Warburton of Brentford FC, but he wasn't sacked. He was on a rolling one year contract, he didn't want to follow the owners and co-directors of football philosophy on the way forward for the football club and so decided to leave at the end of his tenure. Shame, as he will be a good manager, potentially an England manager alongside Eddie Howe in my opinion. Hope the Rangers gig works out for him.

Every other manager over the past 40 years have left at the right time or moved on to another club themselves.
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[gatfb]

Brian Mears not giving Eddie MCcreadie a company car after gaining us promotion with a rebuilt side of kids and veterans that played some lovely football.

Eddie Mc then resigned and we went back to the doldrums for a few more years.

Not the worst decision Mears ever made, that was selling our ground to property developers but certainly the most impetuous.

[DySporting]

Steve Eyre at Rochdale - Dale tried to get the next Keith Hill when he left to join Barnsley, appointed Eyre a youth team coach at Man City and Dale fell apart. It became clear that even though a very nice bloke he was out of his depth.

Dismissed after half a season and now coaching the development squad at Huddersfield

[Karb]

Probably Billy Elliott. Took over in 78-9 season when Jimmy Adamsin went to Leeds, and got to within one point of promotion, but was sacked for not getting us up. Both of his successors, Ken Knighton and Alan Durban, I felt were unfortunate to be sacked too.

Ashurst on the other hand made a number of bad decisions in the transfer market and got us relegated. Despite Wullie's protestations, I don't think he was unlucky at all.

[RoddyN]

gatfb wrote:

Brian Mears not giving Eddie MCcreadie a company car after gaining us promotion with a rebuilt side of kids and veterans that played some lovely football. Eddie Mc then resigned and we went back to the doldrums for a few more years. Not the worst decision Mears ever made, that was selling our ground to property developers but certainly the most impetuous.

There has been a TV programme on Eddie McCreadie recently. The story about the company car was not at all true. Brian Mears made a derisory offer to him for the 1977/78 season to which McCreadie said that he would need to think about it. Mears told him that there was nothing to think about as this was the Club's final offer. The offer was out of Mears' hands because at the time the Accountants were running Chelsea as they were very close to going out of business in the 1970's. In the early 80's Mears contacted McCreadie in the US and met him and apologized for his actions explaining that he had no power to negotiate a reasonable deal with him, which he would liked to have done in view of his success in the 1976/77 season.

[gatfb]

Interesting and I would've liked to have seen the programme but I don't believe for a minute the offer was out of Mears hands from what I remember.

If you find a link for the programme please post it up.

[overlap]

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/.....-1-3307268

"it was nothing to do with a car" - eddie mccreadie last year