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Or if Dickov wasn't w*nk.
Well, it was kind of implied that if he wasn't a w**k manager he would've had the nous to have picked up the one point necessary to survive...
For me it's SO'D followed by Penney with the rest nowhere. Rob Jones was mainly responsible for the 2012-13 promotion, though as captain and a leader in the dressing room rather than as a manager.
Quote from: chrisd_123 on June 08, 2018, 04:59:26 pmOn this, something that does become apparent is that we should be a club that managers actively look at when the job comes up.The fact we've only had 6 permanent managers in 15/16 years is staggering in this day and age.Surely managers would look at it as a chance to show their worth at a club who don't sack managers left, right and centre.I remember as a kid reading in a football magazine in 1978 that we’d had more managerssince the war than any other English club. 23 I think it was in 43 years. We had excellent stability with Penney and O’Driscoll - 2 managers in 11 years. But since then we’ve reverted to type - the new man will be the 5th manager in less than 7 years.
On this, something that does become apparent is that we should be a club that managers actively look at when the job comes up.The fact we've only had 6 permanent managers in 15/16 years is staggering in this day and age.Surely managers would look at it as a chance to show their worth at a club who don't sack managers left, right and centre.
Quote from: RedJ on June 08, 2018, 08:34:24 pmOr if Dickov had just parked the bus in one of the final seven games rather than insist on going for the win in every match...Hindsight eh mate.
Or if Dickov had just parked the bus in one of the final seven games rather than insist on going for the win in every match...
He clearly wasn’t Pib, given where he’d managed to get us to with 6-7 matches remaining and taking into account the relentless injury crisis that we had all season.
Dickov never should've been manager here but I'll tell you what, he always came across like a nice bloke.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on June 08, 2018, 10:06:53 pmHe clearly wasn’t Pib, given where he’d managed to get us to with 6-7 matches remaining and taking into account the relentless injury crisis that we had all season.OK - you're entitled to your opinion of course. I watched a lot of Rovers that year though (with my eyes) and it was plain that Dickov didn't really have a clue what he was doing. He took over a side that had just won promotion and we had some pretty decent players who could hold their own at that time.I'll admit - some games weren't bad and we looked pretty good. But for the most part we were dreadful. It was obvious watching us we had no identity, no discernible style. It was management by "throw a load of shit at the wall and hope some of it sticks" and sometimes it did, but mostly it didn't. We were pathetic away from home and probably had more games that season where we failed to create a real chance than any other Rovers season I've seen.We scored the 2nd fewest goals in the division (Yeovil scored more!) and only 2 teams have scored fewer in the Championship since. I'm not saying I expected us to go up and take the Championship by storm (or even necessarily stay up) but we just looked completely rudderless to me.Then when we went back into League One it just got worse. Terrible signings, awful clueless performances and the start of a tailspin that saw us go down again. I can't believe the bloke lasted as long as he did in the job.And just to throw another factor in... look at what he did in management before DRFC, and look at what he's done since.
Quote from: RoversAlias on June 09, 2018, 01:06:39 amDickov never should've been manager here but I'll tell you what, he always came across like a nice bloke.Wasn't he a nice bloke?
I thought that at the time Dickov wanted to keep Macheda and the board brought Billy Sharp back.Dickov got blamed for not playing to Billy's strengths but to be fair he either wasn't fully fit or he had something on his mind. He's never looked like that before or since. Arguably Macheda playing for us may have scored more plus denying Birmingham his goals. We were also doing well against Birmingham until James Husband dithered with the ball on the edge of our area. They then brought on Zigic and targeted Copps at right back twice for two more goals.
Your numbers are wrong by some way Dickos. Easy enough to check. There’s a whole internet out there. Saunders left us on 7 Jan 2013. We were second in the table, level on points with Tranmere and behind on GD. We had 50 points from 26 games. That’s 1.92 ppg. https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-one/07-january-2013/We ended up with 84 points from 46 games. https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-one/2013/So Flynn won 34 points from 20 games. 1.7ppg. The difference equates to 10 points over a season. Saunders’s record was automatic promotion/top of the table form. Flynn’s was mid-play off form. We won the title because a) Tranmere imploded. b) None of the side’s immediately below us when Saunders left had a strong run in. c) The outstanding form team during Flynn’s tenure was coming from a long way back. It’s unarguable Dickos. Saunders had us in a very strong position. Flynn came within a gnat’s knacker of f**king it up and was saved by the most Hollywood-esque season finale that has happened in the history of football.