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Title: Stolen managers
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 06, 2013, 10:24:50 pm
If I'm not mistaken, today is only the 2nd time in 50 years that another club has headhunter our manager - the other one being Bremner to Leeds in 85.

That probably reflects how shit most of our managers have been...
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: jonnydog on January 06, 2013, 10:26:05 pm
Didn't Blunts headhunt SOD though?
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: MachoMadness on January 06, 2013, 10:27:47 pm
Aye, as the old parable goes:

"O'Driscoll said no, O'Driscoll said no;
Sheffield's a shithole, O'Drsicoll said no."

Profound.
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: idler on January 06, 2013, 10:30:21 pm
Stan Anderson
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: Dagenham Rover on January 06, 2013, 10:32:36 pm
Laurie McMenemy  Southampton or Grimsby or somewhere nice, or did we sack him its all a blur
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: Filo on January 06, 2013, 10:34:56 pm
Stan Anderson

Did n`t we sack him and Bremner was his replacement
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: idler on January 06, 2013, 10:38:34 pm
No he went to Bolton or some Lancs club but by then we'd lost a few good players.We should have been promoted with most of that team. I think a lot of fans thought that him getting another offer was a blessing.
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 06, 2013, 10:38:46 pm
McMenemy was sacked.

I thought Anderson left us a good while before he joined Bolton. Might be wrong though.
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: Bentley Bullet on January 06, 2013, 10:40:06 pm
Laurie McMenemy  Southampton or Grimsby or somewhere nice, or did we sack him its all a blur

McMenemy was sacked by Rovers. He then went to Grimsby and led them to the fourth division title.
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: idler on January 06, 2013, 10:40:49 pm
You might be right BST. I wasn't too let down when he left.
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 06, 2013, 10:42:20 pm
Just come back to me. Anderson went to Bolton as No2 to Ian Greaves, then replaced him when Greaves was sacked. So I don't quite count that as a managerial headhunting. (It's MY thread and I'll make the kin rules thank you very much.)
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: wilts rover on January 06, 2013, 10:43:10 pm
Without looking - who was caretaker manager for a short spell before Bremner took over - people were singing his praises all over..
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: Jonathan on January 06, 2013, 10:44:41 pm
How did Ian Atkins leave? Only one from my lifetime I can't really remember going.
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: wilts rover on January 06, 2013, 10:45:03 pm
Laurie McMenemy  Southampton or Grimsby or somewhere nice, or did we sack him its all a blur

McMenemy was sacked by Rovers. He then went to Grimsby and led them to the fourth division title.

Just reading Terry Curran's book at the moment, says McMenemy was the worst manager he worked under - and he had quite a few did Terry.
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: Bentley Bullet on January 06, 2013, 10:45:13 pm
Joe Kinnear?
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: wilts rover on January 06, 2013, 10:46:27 pm
Nope - but close
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 06, 2013, 10:49:28 pm
Without looking - who was caretaker manager for a short spell before Bremner took over - people were singing his praises all over..

Nice one Wilts
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: wilts rover on January 06, 2013, 10:51:10 pm
Without looking - who was caretaker manager for a short spell before Bremner took over - people were singing his praises all over..

Nice one Wilts

Cheers BST, sorry for nicking your thread but you can have another one soon
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 06, 2013, 10:54:00 pm
That awful decent son.
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: Filo on January 06, 2013, 11:08:12 pm
Without looking - who was caretaker manager for a short spell before Bremner took over - people were singing his praises all over..


Was it Cyril Knowles
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: AbsolutDRFC on January 06, 2013, 11:26:40 pm
Laurie McMenemy  Southampton or Grimsby or somewhere nice, or did we sack him its all a blur

McMenemy was sacked by Rovers. He then went to Grimsby and led them to the fourth division title.

Just reading Terry Curran's book at the moment, says McMenemy was the worst manager he worked under - and he had quite a few did Terry.

We bumped into Lawrie McMenemy in Sapporo Airport in 2002.
Andy Liney went up to him, as he'd met him years before.
Needless to say, Andy was furious when Lawrie didn't have a clue who he was.
And to be fair, we weren't even sure if Lawrie remembered managing us. He rambled on about Southampton until I commented that I only remembered him "assisting" Graham Taylor, badly!

I think he was looking for his marbles at the time (& probably didn't find them)!
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: BobG on January 06, 2013, 11:31:13 pm
I sort of avoided bumping into him in the hospitality lounge at the County Ground  a good number of years ago now. He's effing huge!

BobG
Title: Re: Stolen managers
Post by: Mike_F on January 06, 2013, 11:38:09 pm
Jonathan, Uncle Ken showed Atkins the door allegedly because he wouldn't move closer to Donny.