Worst Manager in GTFC history?

Quoted from realist

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

He still managed to keep us up the previous season though realist so not completely clueless.  Bringing in Andy Todd made a huge difference, and wish we'd been able to see what difference Martin Pringle would have made.

Neil Woods while a good coach particularly with youth players didn't cut it as a manager by a long shot, some of the worst games I can remember were under his tenure we looked all over the place lots of terrible loan signings and while everything was going wrong around him he just stood there on the sidelines with no ideas.

Mike Newell came in with a good reputation and had experience but what we got was like a washed up drunk who didn't give a toss about the club and just turned up to pick up a pay cheque. I guess he did keep us up for one season when it looked hopeless.

Quoted from realist

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

I remember being there, night game if I remember, I was a wee young lad in the Pontoon.

Quoted from Cayman_mariner

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.

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

Remember too that Wilkinson, Lund & Drinkell plus Gary Henshaw and John McDermott and all three Moore brothers came through a youth system that was based on players being comfortable on the ball and playing the game the way it should be played.

Watching the first team play lump ball at BP was bad enough but the saddest thing I remember from those days was watching Lyons' youth coach, whose name I forget, drilling school kids in exactly the same whack the ball methods and choosing first year pros from them on the basis of physique. That's why Lyons set us back years as a club and was by far the worst and most damaging manager we've ever had in my day.

What is scary going through this thread is that we've only had four managers (Buckley, Hurst, Laws? and Slade) in the past thirty odd years that have been relatively successful or decent. A sad indictment of the calibre of manager the board have appointed in that time.

Stupid thread...

Neil woods by a country mile . Although the board are as much to blame for giving him way too much time

If the poll was for best PR manager then Bignot would win, we waited years for a manager to actually engage with the fans it's been done to death on here many of times, and then when we finally get one he gets the sack for results being average in his first 5 months.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Remember too that Wilkinson, Lund & Drinkell plus Gary Henshaw and John McDermott and all three Moore brothers came through a youth system that was based on players being comfortable on the ball and playing the game the way it should be played.

Watching the first team play lump ball at BP was bad enough but the saddest thing I remember from those days was watching Lyons' youth coach, whose name I forget, drilling school kids in exactly the same whack the ball methods and choosing first year pros from them on the basis of physique. That's why Lyons set us back years as a club and was by far the worst and most damaging manager we've ever had in my day.

Was it Terry Darracott?

Quoted from Cloudy

Was it Terry Darracott?

No Cloudy, Darracott was the reserves manager & assistant, this was another bloke who came in with them.