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chicaneuk
April 17, 2017, 8:54pm
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Think Bignot deserved more time.
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This thread and poll is a joke... right?


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So many bad managers but i'd plump for Lyons because not only was he totally useless as a manager, he actually thought playing himself up front was the answer. He was a proper clueless manager.
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Lyons without any shadow of a doubt - runner up Newell. In third place Bignot.
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He will go down as a massive failure but Neil Woods is the worst manager in the history of football. Nobody comes close
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So many bad managers but i'd plump for Lyons because not only was he totally useless as a manager, he actually thought playing himself up front was the answer. He was a proper clueless manager.


Maybe, but I will never forget his first game in charge at home to league leaders Portsmouth.   There was an incredible atmosphere, we won, and to hear Alan Ball still ranting at his players over half an hour after the game finished was priceless.

Groves was just as clueless but managed to pass this off as the ITV digital fault
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Neil Woods, at least all the other candidates didn't lead us into the abyss in a poor league.


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Neil Woods, at least all the others candidates didn't lead us into the abyss in a poor league.


Mike Newell had set us well on the way though.


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This thread and poll is a joke... right?


Just wanted to get the thoughts of the fishy as I still don't understand why he got the boot
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So many bad managers but i'd plump for Lyons because not only was he totally useless as a manager, he actually thought playing himself up front was the answer. He was a proper clueless manager.


I agree Ginny, that sticks out in my mind too. Play himself up front even though we had Kevin Drinkell on the books and 2 England U21 strikers in Gary Lund and Paul Wilkinson.

He'd taken over a team that had finished 5th in what is now the Championship and left us with an awful team that got relegated.

Around that time, not sure if it was during his reign or just after, but we had given the Pontoon to the away fans and home fans were sat in the Osmond.  Seeing Hull fans jumping around in that stand when they had scored just didn't seem right.  

Also remember sitting in the Osmond during one game when were getting beaten by Bristol City at half time something like 3-0 and our form had been awful for the previous year.  The guy who operated the tannoy must have had a sense of humour cos he played the Bee Gees track 'You Win Again' at half time.  

Definitely Lyons down as our worst manager for me for the way he destroyed that team.
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