he wanted to go as we had signed Nick Pickering and wasn't getting regular football,downs was also playing well at left back.
Leeds were in Div 2 then
Good guy Micky Adams, inspired signing in Dennis Wise and a decent finish of 8th in the Championship.
Cheers deano. He must have been gutted in the semi final against us.Done ok for us as a manager.Thought he was unlucky to get the sack although he did sign Chris burchill not his finest signing
tried to clear Houchens goal in semi off the line but couldn't.He signed 12 players in close season 2006-07View attachment 1929
The man who signed Kevin Kyle and Wayne Andrews..didn't help himself did he
Lots' of poor players signed by lots of managers.
He has Mcsheffrey sold with 2 days of the transfer window remaining and had to sign fast. He bought Kyle and McKenzie.
Kyle was widely ridiculed and McKenzie not. Neither were good.
He was a reasonable manager poorly treated.
Like most managers at Coventry
We would have had to have been very unlucky to have had that many bad managers.
No we have had many many bad managers -- one that gets the team to 8th place isnt one of them.
An average manager who was past his sell-by date at the time of his sacking.
His final 14 games gave us an 0.85 points-per-game average, a goal difference of -10, and plummeting down the table. This was amidst strong rumours, regularly reported by the media, that he'd lost the changing room.
The 8th place finish is one of the great red herrings in our modern era. Three of the wins in the final four games were against mid-table, nothing-to-play-for opposition, and we jumped three places on the final day.
The likes of Hutchison and Wise carried whatever success he had, but it's a real stretch to credit Adams with that. We're not talking about revelatory players plucked from obscurity in the Irish leagues - they were premium players who would have bolstered the stats of any manager.
He was alright. He wasn't hapless like Thorn, but didn't bring anything exceptional to the job either, and he was played out by the end.
Says the man who clamours for Eric Black off of a 5-6 month spell 9 years ago.
I just feel bad for you when I see a response as insecure, lazy, aimless and feeble as that one. You ought to stay away from discussion if your ego cannot handle dissenting opinion.
The 8th place as mentioned above is a huge red herring, we were 12 pts off the play offs!
Still did better than the messiah Black on a similar budget.
He had a much much better side than black.
Nothing feeble about it when you play down one manager's achievements for reasons which could easily be applied to the one you still want hired.
Still did better than the messiah Black on a similar budget.
An average manager who was past his sell-by date at the time of his sacking.
His final 14 games gave us an 0.85 points-per-game average, a goal difference of -10, and plummeting down the table. This was amidst strong rumours, regularly reported by the media, that he'd lost the changing room.
The 8th place finish is one of the great red herrings in our modern era. Three of the wins in the final four games were against mid-table, nothing-to-play-for opposition, and we jumped three places on the final day.
The likes of Hutchison and Wise carried whatever success he had, but it's a real stretch to credit Adams with that. We're not talking about revelatory players plucked from obscurity in the Irish leagues - they were premium players who would have bolstered the stats of any manager.
He was alright. He wasn't hapless like Thorn, but didn't bring anything exceptional to the job either, and he was played out by the end.
Strange when Micky was at Sheff U - Port Vale dropped from the play off
positions to below mid table, he comes back and they are back in the playoffs
and promotion position - just a coincidence is it not.
Use this logic and Bournemouth should have sacked Eddie Howe after the 5 straight defeats (which took them off the top and out of the playoff positions) - no they had patience which was rewarded with 8 straight wins and promotion with one to spare.
No wonder this club is sliding down the league - perhaps it's just rewards for such hire and fire policy adopted by CCFC.
8th position a failure, no our best result in 11 years in the championship.
Micky has done the unbelievable with a club that spent the early part of the season in Administration, losing players last summer etc etc.
Strange when Micky was at Sheff U - Port Vale dropped from the play off positions to below mid table, he comes back and they are back in the playoffs and promotion position - just a coincidence is it not.
Don't believe all the managers were that bad they have had no money have had their best players sold from under their feet, and then were made scapegoats by the mismanagement at the top.
Still did better than the messiah Black on a similar budget.
Who, honestly thought they'd be looking back on Micky Adams era in 2013 thinking "Better days"
Sod that, I miss the days of Pickering and Rennie! That squad was probably paid less than our present pile of garbage, too...
Good guy Micky Adams, inspired signing in Dennis Wise and a decent finish of 8th in the Championship.
Black's budget was practically non-existent; he certainly didn't have the luxury of bringing in high earners like Wise and Hutchison.
As for doing better: Adams averaged 1.26 points per game; Black averaged 1.54 points per game.
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