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Les Brechin
April 17, 2017, 8:16pm

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Nicky Law or Mike Newell for me.


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April 17, 2017, 8:17pm
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Has to be Law or Lyons. If memory serves me right Law got the sack from Bradford after getting them virtually relegated and then coming to Town for the last 12 games of the season and doing the same here.
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Wasn't Brian Law the manager when we went top of the Championship?  The day before England won 5-1 in Germany. i will take that version of failure anyday.
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Quoted from TownSNAFU5
Wasn't Brian Law the manager when we went top of the Championship?  The day before England won 5-1 in Germany. i will take that version of failure anyday.


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April 17, 2017, 8:32pm
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Lennie Lawrence wasn't it?
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April 17, 2017, 8:33pm

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I think Bobby Kenedy.


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MB achieved his target for the season of league safety so must be ranked as successful. Whether he was a genius or out of his depth we will never know because his reign was cut short before he could really prove himself.

The worst ever must be Woods and Groves, it is really tough to choose between them.
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It was the right decision to let MB go.
His problem was he came in all guns blazing and a head full of ideas (could fit plenty in that head) which Fenty made the mistake of letting him run with.
Maybe if he had taken time to look at what he had and steadily changing things to his way then things may have been different.

We have had a lot worse here though.
I will have to say Newell..


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Lennie Lawrence


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Hard to say because the circumstances were different for each of them but Newell must be in with a fighting chance of first place. Nicky Law was poor, Neil Woods was out of his depth.

Lenny Lawrence probably gets a special award for wasting the most money. Most of the others were trying to save an already sinking ship. Even Bobby Roberts was on a hiding to nothing and Bobby Kennedy actually assembled most of the team that gave McMenemy his promotion the following season.

My nomination has to be Lyons because he inherited a decent position with good players who knew how to play football and he deliberately taught them how not to play the game. So we started off on a slide that only ended with Buckley Mk1.


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