Don Mackay (1 Viewer)

Fairly sure he was the one who also had a part time job as an insurance salesman on the go at the same time (not allowed to say how I know that!) Canny Scotsman with his money!

Westendlad said:

Bored so watching old City vids on youtube. Watched the game where we had to beat Everton last game in 1985 ( brilliant day ) but 20 mins ago if you told me the manager was was Don Mackay i would of said who !! Have absolutely no memories of him at all.......Was he any good ? !!!

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No he was shite

In a word no. Bloody rubbish along with his sidekick Frank Upton.

Bilge

He was Bobby Gould's assistant during his first spell and took over from him. He managed us through the following season until he was sacked just before the end of the season, when Curtis & Sillett then took over and kept us up in another last game escape when we beat QPR.

How many times has that happened here manager sacked number two promoted and we end up worse,

I think the one positive contribution was signing Brian Borrows

I think to be fair to him he also resigned I believe after a predictable beating at Anfield

Grendel said:

I think the one positive contribution was signing Brian Borrows

I think to be fair to him he also resigned I believe after a predictable beating at Anfield

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He did. You could also argue we were definitely going down the season before until he took over from Gould, too. Didn't he also bring Sillett back to the club as a coach?

NorthernWisdom said:

He did. You could also argue we were definitely going down the season before until he took over from Gould, too. Didn't he also bring Sillett back to the club as a coach?

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That’s true yes as Gould and Sillett hated each other

Was it him who signed that midfield maestro Sandy Robertson ?

Magwitch said:

Was it him who signed that midfield maestro Sandy Robertson ?

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Er no he was signed about 10 years later

Yes, remember him well. Not one of the best choices for manager the club has ever made.

At some stage that season we ended up with Davie Bowman and Jim McInally. Both ended up having pretty decent careers for Dundee Utd - when going to Scotland wasn't the end of the world! Dundee Utd beat Barcelona and reached the UEFA Cup final after all.

I do wonder if they could have been the midfield we were always looking for, given another time and place. Both pretty awful for us, mind.

NorthernWisdom said:

At some stage that season we ended up with Davie Bowman and Jim McInally. Both ended up having pretty decent careers for Dundee Utd - when going to Scotland wasn't the end of the world! Dundee Utd beat Barcelona and reached the UEFA Cup final after all.

I do wonder if they could have been the midfield we were always looking for, given another time and place. Both pretty awful for us, mind.

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didn't think Bowman was as bad as many make out. Remember him scoring, (think it was the winner), away at Luton when it squirmed Burge like under the keepers body.

I think he just went missing at the end. Nobody knew where he was for a few days. Was an odd resignation if i remember correctly

Grendel said:

Er no he was signed about 10 years later

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Mixed him up with Bowman another maestro

NorthernWisdom said:

At some stage that season we ended up with Davie Bowman and Jim McInally. Both ended up having pretty decent careers for Dundee Utd - when going to Scotland wasn't the end of the world! Dundee Utd beat Barcelona and reached the UEFA Cup final after all.

I do wonder if they could have been the midfield we were always looking for, given another time and place. Both pretty awful for us, mind.

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Fact of the day: Dundee United are the only club to have a 100% record against Barcelona. P4 W4 D0 L0.

rondog1973 said:

Fact of the day: Dundee United are the only club to have a 100% record against Barcelona. P4 W4 D0 L0.

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I wonder how many sides have a 100% home win record in Europe

skybluesam66 said:

I wonder how many sides have a 100% home win record in Europe

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Or which club has a 75% win ratio in Europe overall!

Westendlad said:

Bored so watching old City vids on youtube. Watched the game where we had to beat Everton last game in 1985 ( brilliant day ) but 20 mins ago if you told me the manager was was Don Mackay i would of said who !! Have absolutely no memories of him at all.......Was he any good ? !!!

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No!!!!

Magwitch said:

Was it him who signed that midfield maestro Sandy Robertson ?

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Wasn’t that Gould?

Sick Boy said:

Wasn’t that Gould?

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Phil Neal. He fucked about whether to sign Chris Marsden so plumped for Robertson instead.

Cyrille Regis was so disillusioned playing for Mackay that he wanted to leave until Sillett came along and the rest is history

Really dull, safety first (which wasn’t very safe) football. Sillett and Curtis were a breath of fresh air and the shackles were off players like Regis and Bennett.

ovduk78 said:

Phil Neal. He fucked about whether to sign Chris Marsden so plumped for Robertson instead.

Cyrille Regis was so disillusioned playing for Mackay that he wanted to leave until Sillett came along and the rest is history

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I was only around 10 then but still remember being shocked that we didn’t sign Marsden.

Sick Boy said:

I was only around 10 then but still remember being shocked that we didn’t sign Marsden.

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He had just come back from injury and was very good for us while on loan & we wanted to loan him for another month but Wolves bought him instead. I think he had another injury at Wolves but really impressed when he subsequently joined Southampton. Robertson on the other hand was highly rated at Rangers, the new Gazza apparently, but was shit and disappeared without trace after a couple of games

Im sure he was one of the few goalkeepers to become a manager

A funny don mackay story - A coventry based school caretaker was voted as the caretaker of the year at some point in 1985, he got to go on the BBS Saturday morning kids show with some of the pupils and he set a question for the quiz where he mixed up Don with Dave McKay the former Spurs hardman -
Q Which club did the current Coventry manager win the double with in 1961
A - had to apologise the following week as there was no answer

I thought he did OK Part 2 of 84/85 as he kept us up but the sale of Terry gibson and bringing in Alan Brazil as part of the deal was very bad business as was Stuart Pearce's replacement being Greg Downes - they were big boots to fill and he failed

usskyblue said:

Bilge

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Erm. . It's pronounced 'Burge' isn't it?

Otis said:

Erm. . It's pronounced 'Burge' isn't it?

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Nearly, I believe it's 'Bilge m8'?