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Not really. Mon by a mile.Tough one?
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Not really. Mon by a mile.Tough one?
I have another 20 on you and he's still probably the worst ! (After McMenemy obviously!)In the 20+ years i have supported SAFC, i have to say Howard Wilkinson has to be there worst, he was a steaming pile of dog shite
MON easily. i thought he would be canny n all.Tough one?
Neither as bad as Wilkinson, Sbragia, McMenemy
Dennis smith was canny.TBF the only one who has been any good in the last 50 years has been Stokoe and Reid. Other than that successive managers have promised loads but delivered little of note.
Buxton and ButcherNeither as bad as Wilkinson, Sbragia, McMenemy
I agree 100% with this. MON inherited a desperately poor squad, much of which we'll be stuck with for the foreseeable future. I would love to know the reason(s) why SAFC/MON didn't change more of the squad last summer when it was pretty obvious by then that, for instance, we had the worse central midfield players in the top-flight. I think,however, that in the end simply the the task of resurrecting SAFC was too much for MON and he was looking increasingly weary in his last few weeks. I'm still desperately disappointed that things didn't work out for him here.I think Bruce did the worse job.
Bruce inherited a more favourable situation and had more time. Lots of time to plan, a young star who hadn't yet played for us but would go onto be an England player, loads of cash and a blank template to create a proper team. He failed. In one summer of craziness he let Steed, Zenden, Gyan, Mensah, Onuaha, Henderson, Muntari and Welbeck leave and signed Gardiner, Vaughan, O'Shea, Brown, Wickham, Bendtner and McClean to replace them. Wow. He also openly criticised the fans, a criticism that the media have latched onto and made it just that little bit harder to attract players in the post Bruce era.
MON inherited a desperate situation. Clearly he got a bit lucky to begin with. But ultimately MONs record was quite simply - he didn't turn around the shite Bruce left us with. MON utterly failed to put any kind of imprint on the club - he just looked to defer relegation by a year. MONs football was as bad as I've ever witnessed. But he took over a sit situation and left a similar situation.
I remember getting slated on here after the West Ham away game last year telling people we were shit and would do well to stay up whilst also saying I still believed MON was the best man for the job. Bed wetter, knee jerker, WUM etc. Sadly I feel the same one year on about the di Canio regime. I think he's got good ideas and I'd like to see how they play out and I love the guys passion - but we're in another battle here. If we get to 40 points we've done exceptionally well.