Thedelldays Posted 19 January, 2009 Author Share Posted 19 January, 2009 Tony Mowberry - Hibs/WBA Chris Coleman - Fulham Keane - Sunderland - bottom of league to championship/promotion in first season. Vialli - Chelsea Gillett - Chelsea Zola - Italy u21/West Ham Hoddle - Swindon Keegan - Newcastle Venables - Palace Strachan - Coventry Martinez - Swansea Simpson - Carlisle Gannon - Stockport Ferguson -P'Boro Coyle - Motherwell/Burnley McLeish - Hibs/Rangers/Scotland Dalglish - Liverpool/Blackburn i meant to the premiership Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 19 January, 2009 Share Posted 19 January, 2009 completely different... when he had managed St Johnstone 1993-98 dundee utd 1998-2000 plymouth 2000-2004 and when we had appointed him Plymouth had been all but promoted to the championship... where as ince had only got Mk Dons to promotion to league 1 He was still poached from 2 leagues down, and he wasn't even the best manager in League 1 that season because Plymouth were 2nd (behind Luton I think). If we were gonna grab a manager from the lower leagues surely we should have flexed our Premiership muscle and nicked the best one from the Championship? Sturrock was a massive gamble, even Ince could be seen as less a gamble because he actually played in the Prem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 19 January, 2009 Author Share Posted 19 January, 2009 He was still poached from 2 leagues down, and he wasn't even the best manager in League 1 that season because Plymouth were 2nd (behind Luton I think). If we were gonna grab a manager from the lower leagues surely we should have flexed our Premiership muscle and nicked the best one from the Championship? Sturrock was a massive gamble, even Ince could be seen as less a gamble because he actually played in the Prem. it was not luton...but guess who it was....QPR and who was their manager...IAN HOLLOWAY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenilworthy Posted 19 January, 2009 Share Posted 19 January, 2009 Lowe wasn't going so far out on a limb in taking Sturrock from Division One to the Premiership. He had after all seen it work relatively well with Dave Jones who came from Stockport and had a very good first season. Jones' second season was admittedly near disaster, but we did stay up. How it might have panned out from there on we will never know as he was forced out when proving his innocence and running a football club proved too much to handle, and Lowe really had no choice but to bring Hoddle in. I sometimes wonder if, but for a liar in Liverpool, Jones might still be manager now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 19 January, 2009 Share Posted 19 January, 2009 Lowe wasn't going so far out on a limb in taking Sturrock from Division One to the Premiership. He had after all seen it work relatively well with Dave Jones who came from Stockport and had a very good first season. Jones' second season was admittedly near disaster, but we did stay up. How it might have panned out from there on we will never know as he was forced out when proving his innocence and running a football club proved too much to handle, and Lowe really had no choice but to bring Hoddle in. I sometimes wonder if, but for a liar in Liverpool, Jones might still be manager now. Wrong, Stockport were in the Championship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenilworthy Posted 19 January, 2009 Share Posted 19 January, 2009 Under Jones in 96-97 Stockport had finished second in the old second division (ie what is now League One) to get promoted to division one (the Championship) as well as knocking us out of the cup. So Jones had not catually managed at Championship level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 19 January, 2009 Share Posted 19 January, 2009 Under Jones in 96-97 Stockport had finished second in the old second division (ie what is now League One) to get promoted to division one (the Championship) as well as knocking us out of the cup. So Jones had not catually managed at Championship level. Still a pointless risk IMO. How many other Prem clubs get their managers from League 1? Ince is the only other one I can think of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 19 January, 2009 Author Share Posted 19 January, 2009 Still a pointless risk IMO. How many other Prem clubs get their managers from League 1? Ince is the only other one I can think of. indeed....we had a season where we were in europe and lowe mouthed off about saints being one of the most attractive jobs in the land... then we go to league 1 to push on to the next level.....lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 19 January, 2009 Share Posted 19 January, 2009 indeed....we had a season where we were in europe and lowe mouthed off about saints being one of the most attractive jobs in the land... then we go to league 1 to push on to the next level.....lol And he boasted that we had a comparible turnover to Aston Villa and Celtic, a top 10 club in the richest league in the World - and he gambled the whole lot on Sturrock ... then Wigley! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 19 January, 2009 Author Share Posted 19 January, 2009 And he boasted that we had a comparible turnover to Aston Villa and Celtic, a top 10 club in the richest league in the World - and he gambled the whole lot on Sturrock ... then Wigley! he was right with that...LEAGUE FECKING 1.....and some think it was a good idea....jesus christ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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