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Lee Johnson


MarcoG said:
We won more points per game under Alex Neil that season than we did Lee Johnson. We had played four games more than Wigan and two more than Rotherham and were still behind them when that tit finally got sacked far later than he should have done.

Our record away from home that season whilst he was in charge;

W - 2-1 MK Dons
L - 0-1 Burton
D - 2-2 Fleetwood
L - 0-4 Portsmouth
W - 2-1 Gillingham
W - 4-0 Crewe
L - 1-5 Rotherham
L - 0-3 Sheffield Wednesday
D - 1-1 Shrewsbury
W - 2-1 Cambridge
D - 1-1 Ipswich
W - 3-0 Doncaster
D - 3-3 Wycombe
D - 1-1 Accrington
L - 6-0 Bolton

In fifteen games he won five against teams that finished 24th, 22nd, 21st, 14th and 3rd. Only top half team there was MK Dons right at the start of the season who won two out of their first six. Five wins and 30 goals conceded in 15 games for a team trying to get promoted :lol: It's all just really great stuff.

Impossible to see anything other than promotion especially if you ignore the pathetic end to the previous season under him that saw us go from three points off top with two games in hand with nine games remaining to then finishing 10 points off 2nd and 12 points off top.

Bloke was and presumably still is a f***ing clown.
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Neil won 8 out of 15 in the league. In Johnson's first 15 matches that season he won 9. Then in his next 15 he won 7. Then was sacked. So he had almost identical win percentage as Neil.

I remember posting some analysis at the time that if you look at our results that season the biggest story was the difference with vs without bailey wright.

I'm still glad we changed manager, because I think Neil was a better manager for the playoffs.

But the narrative of we were shit under Johnson and then brilliant under Neil is wrong.
 
Mowbray Boss Gilet said:
Johnson was miles ahead of Parkinson and just ahead of Ross for me, Ross had a championship level squad in that first season and failed, Johnson improved us from a calamity Parkinson appointment.
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The win % backs this up, Ross 50.7%, Parkinson 35.5% & Johnson 51.3%

My only caveat would be on recruitment. Ross* & Parkinson were in charge of recruitment but Speakman was for Johnson's tenure. *Apart from the Maja/Grigg debacle
 
Mowbray Boss Gilet said:
Some will criticise your opinion, but if he wasn't all Brent then he wouldn't be made out anywhere near as bad as he is.
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Personally I'd argue the opposite, loads get blinded by that sort of stuff. Without it, he would just be crap. He was no better than Parkinson, who had by far the worst team, who is currently a Championship manager and just missed out on the playoffs...
 
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superhans1 said:
Neil won 8 out of 15 in the league. In Johnson's first 15 matches that season he won 9. Then in his next 15 he won 7. Then was sacked. So he had almost identical win percentage as Neil.

I remember posting some analysis at the time that if you look at our results that season the biggest story was the difference with vs without bailey wright.

I'm still glad we changed manager, because I think Neil was a better manager for the playoffs.

But the narrative of we were shit under Johnson and then brilliant under Neil is wrong.
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It was the direction of travel. You don’t lose 6-0 in league 3 and recover. He had no defensive strategy and managed the workload of young players poorly. Neil was miles better and by the time he had taken over we had lost 3 straight games with 10 goals conceded all against teams in the bottom 8 of the division. That was Neil’s starting position and with that in mind his record was way better than Johnson[/QUOTE]
 
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Tbf he did much better than Jack “1-1” Ross and Jurassic Parkinson.

He wasn’t the greatest manager we’ve ever had but he certainly was nowhere near the worst, he did an ok job but that 0-6 defeat to Bolton was unforgivable and he was rightly sacked.
 
I didn't hate Johnson but it was clear he was out of his depth. Played some good football at times but couldn't set up a defence and didn't know how to turn bad runs around.

Wish him well though, he didn't do anything to make me dislike him, just wasn't good enough.

He did start the turn of Wembley luck our way though so I'll give him credit for that even if there was zero fans there to see it.
 
One of my favourite results was when Lee Johnson was involved. The 3-3 Bristanbul game. Mind, he was Bristol City's manager at the time, but still.
 
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