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Your Fav Blues Manager Of All Time
Topic Started: Jul 5 2011, 01:03 PM (351 Views)
onlybluesandhorses
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Well taking from the post of Fav Player,
Thought it would be good to see who people think was the best manager they feel we have had, not in terms of winning things !!!!, but for their overall way of getting the best out of a team

For me I started with Freddie Goodwin era.
But the fav for me was Jim Smith, came in at a time where TF was unhappy at the club, and did eventually have to sell TF, but he brought in some great players with Colin Todd the most calm and solid defender I can remember, and Archie Gemmil, Frank Worthington.
He got us playing some great football, and loved to attack, and I still feel he was sacked well to early.

So who was your fav?


PS forgot to say Blues managers only
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blueboy75
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I used to like Souness..

I always remember that interview where the reporter asked if his team lacked bottle and committment so Souness invited the reporter to step outside and he would show him bottle and committment lol
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Oh Dear this really is a loaded question. In my life time the manager who has had the most success with Blues is Alex McLeish so he has to get it.

Of course now he has gone over to the other side. I just hope that anytime he competes against Blues in the future he has an absolute nightmare and we can have a laugh at his expense.

If he has any joy against I'll absolutely the hate the ******* at least for that day after that I wont worry about it.

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onlybluesandhorses
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Peter Enckelman
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tony123
Jul 5 2011, 01:11 PM
Oh Dear this really is a loaded question. In my life time the manager who has had the most success with Blues is Alex McLeish so he has to get it.

Of course now he has gone over to the other side. I just hope that anytime he competes against Blues in the future he has an absolute nightmare and we can have a laugh at his expense.

If he has any joy against us I'll absolutely the hate the ******* at least for that day.

:blues:

Though its not only just the success the manager may have brought, but the way he got the team playing.

As it winning silverware, AM and Gil Merrick would be the only 2 (Not counting the Leyland and Auto Windowscreen wins)
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Barry Fry
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Alex before betrayal
Made us compact competitive hard to beat, got us back up 1st time then to 9th looked like we deserved to be a prem team and then he topped it with the carling cup win!!

And then it all went to ratshit...will never understand quite why!!!

KRO
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Older Bluenoses such as meself would say Arthur Turner - 2nd Division Champions, then 6th in the top Division and FA Cup Finalists all in two seasons! And three England internationals - Gil Merrick, Jeff Hall and Gordon Astall plus Welsh international Noel Kinsey. Brought in Trevor Smith from youth ranks who also went to play for England as did Mike Hellawell who cost a mere 4k from QPR!! Ah - the good old days!! :D
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GOTTA BE BAZZA FRY WITH BRUCIE A CLOSE SECOND!! :break:
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tamworth_blue
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Freddie Goodwin

Got us promoted to what was the first division, playing attractive attacking footbal, and played the same team week in week out. If winning, why change
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Trevor Francis :blues: :kro:
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Mallam
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If Alex was still with us I know most votes would go for him.

Mine...Alex Mcleish.
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Alex gave me the best day i could have hoped for watching Blues

Entertainment no doubts !! Barry Fry - I still remember him doing a lap of the pitch fist pumping before his first home game in charge

Then Kenny Lowe - NON LEAGUE Glenn hoddle !! smashed the winner in from 25 yards !!

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Steve Bruce for me
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Freddie Goodwin
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Mallam
Jul 5 2011, 02:52 PM
If Alex was still with us I know most votes would go for him.

Mine...Alex Mcleish.

are you taking the pee? Before he went you were slagging him off left right and centre!
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aghinton
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Freddie Goodwin without doubt. Wow, such great memories!



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Freddie Goodwin and Jim Smith got us playing entertaining attacking football but we were blessed with some great players early 70s.

The managers after Smith were just not good enough although Terry Cooper may have done better if he was'nt taken ill. We'll never know.

Barry Fry made us smile again.

Trevor Francis was/is my ultimate hero and I think he did a pretty good job with the players he had only to miss out. 3 play off semis was it?

I never liked Bruce's way of playing.

Thought Eck was going to be the best and no-one can take that great day at Wembley away from his CV. Winning the cup papered over some cracks and now he is McJudas, gone to the village in the dark side and last Feb seems sooooo far away as if in the distant mists of time.


SO.....

We move on and I truly hope Chris Hughton is going to be the man. I THINK he will be and I trust in him. Just hope the board can back him to BUILD for the future. We'll see. Come on Chrissie Hughton's Blue and White ARMY.



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Freddie Goodwin for me KRO
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I think it has to be Steve Bruce for me, before he lost the plot we had some of our best and most exciting times and played some good football, We may have won the cup with McLeish but we have played the most boring football, good riddance, hopefully we can say CH is our best ever manager in a few years time **thumbup
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BlueBrummie
Jul 5 2011, 01:42 PM
Trevor Francis :blues: :kro:

Why??????
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onlybluesandhorses
Jul 5 2011, 01:03 PM
Well taking from the post of Fav Player,
Thought it would be good to see who people think was the best manager they feel we have had, not in terms of winning things !!!!, but for their overall way of getting the best out of a team

For me I started with Freddie Goodwin era.
But the fav for me was Jim Smith, came in at a time where TF was unhappy at the club, and did eventually have to sell TF, but he brought in some great players with Colin Todd the most calm and solid defender I can remember, and Archie Gemmil, Frank Worthington.
He got us playing some great football, and loved to attack, and I still feel he was sacked well to early.

So who was your fav?


PS forgot to say Blues managers only

Jim Smith is my LEAST favourite manager because, despite as you say, us playing attractive football, he totally wasted the £1m Francis money ( big money in those days ). He spent half of it on a striker who I think was called Whatmore... he was hopeless and we eventually sold him for £25k or so. The rest went on players like Todd, Gemmill , Worthington, etc. They had been very good players, but were all over 30 and so no resale value.
Thus Smith wasted the £1m which should have been enough to move the club forward for years. Managers who followed Smith had to skrimp and save because of that.
My favourite manager would be either Goodwin, or Ron Saunders who had the right approach, in going for younger up and coming players that would increase in value.
( mind you Alf Ramsey must get a mention, for taking a Blue team to Anfield and winning! )
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:ph43r: McLeish
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have to say i agree with your views about jim smith £1 mill might seem nothing today but its the same as us selling a player for 100 mill today.
And, yes he bought a load of players whose best days were behind them who hasd no resale value.
They won us promo but then it was back to struggling in the top div.
Plus he sold Joe Gallagher who was the last link with Freddie Goodwins penguin side.
In Goodwin, yes the football was fantastic but how lucky was he!!! He rocked up here in 1970 to find Bob Latchford Trevor Francis Gary Pendrey Kenny Burns Dave Latchford Malcolm Page Ray Martin all products of the youth set up already at the club while bubbling under were Gallagher Calderwood (Jimmy not Colin) Bryant!
He sold Trevor Hockey & Johnny Vincent two excellant players and replaced them with George Smith & Alan Campell (neither any better than originals) but his icing on the cake signings wee Gordon Taylor and Bob Hatton!

The fact that team didnt win anything is very sad as up front best set of forwards in our history (oops sorry Big Al! mirkwood second best to Cup finalists of 56!)

KRO
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