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Sammy Chung won his first 3 League games in Aug 94, and then drew 3. Though he lost a League Cup game in the middle of that.Stan won his first 5 games.No other manager of ours has won the first 3 in all games or in just the League, that's going back to Billy Calder in 1920-21.
Quote from: Bristol Red Rover on August 16, 2018, 01:19:58 amSammy Chung won his first 3 League games in Aug 94, and then drew 3. Though he lost a League Cup game in the middle of that.Stan won his first 5 games.No other manager of ours has won the first 3 in all games or in just the League, that's going back to Billy Calder in 1920-21.My recollection of the first season of Sammy was that we were the last league side to concede a goal. It was I see in our seventh league game in mid September that we conceded our first league goal! What a guy.
I believe Jackie Bestall had a successful start in league matches if we discount wartime competitions. He won the first 5 league games of the 1946-47 season - his first league season as Rovers manager.Dave Penney had a fairly successful start in installments, so to speak. First as joint caretaker manager with Mark Atkins in April 2000 he won his first two Conference matches and in total won 3 and drew 1 of their 5 matches in charge.He lost his first match in charge as sole caretaker in December 2001, before winning his next 6 on the bounce and becoming full time manager.
Quote from: Chris Black come back on August 16, 2018, 09:39:48 amQuote from: Bristol Red Rover on August 16, 2018, 01:19:58 amSammy Chung won his first 3 League games in Aug 94, and then drew 3. Though he lost a League Cup game in the middle of that.Stan won his first 5 games.No other manager of ours has won the first 3 in all games or in just the League, that's going back to Billy Calder in 1920-21.My recollection of the first season of Sammy was that we were the last league side to concede a goal. It was I see in our seventh league game in mid September that we conceded our first league goal! What a guy. First goals conceded in a 2-0 defeat at Bury. We had a great team that season but I seem to remember we began disbanding it before the transfer deadline and our chances of doing anything fizzled out.
I remember the start to the 1999/91 season winning first 4 matches - then our next game was at York City, it was the game after the death of David Longhurst & remember putting money into the collection buckets that were doing the rounds on the terraces for his family - the game didn’t seem to matter & we lost the game which didn’t mean anything - I remember thinking we shouldn’t win that particular match anyway