What are your feelings of gordan strachans time as manager here (7 Viewers)

Evo1883 · 2025-10-22T12:04:19+0100

I was 12 when he was appointed and obviously he was manager when we were relegated and was sacked early doors the season after .

I remember his time vaguely , but more specifically he managed a couple of really exciting teams 97/98 most notibly where we finished 6 points off a european place but were hopeless away , a common theme of top flight coventry years

Do our supporters dislike strachan ? Feels like many rarely mention him with effection .

Intrigued

TomRad85 · 2025-10-22T12:08:04+0100

Evo1883 said:
I was 12 when he was appointed and obviously he was manager when we were relegated and was sacked early doors the season after .

I remember his time vaguely , but more specifically he managed a couple of really exciting teams 97/98 most notibly where we finished 6 points off a european place but were hopeless away , a common theme of top flight coventry years

Do our supporters dislike strachan ? Feels like many rarely mention him with effection .

Intrugued

He was the manager for our 'entertainers' season which was the first season i started going to matches regularly and a season i remember very fondly, in fact i could probably name the results and goal scorers for all the home games at least just from the top of my head.
After that he fucked up the following season, got us relegated then had a poor start in Div 1. So, mixed, i guess. Always enjoyed his interviews though.

Brighton Sky Blue · 2025-10-22T12:10:03+0100

Think I was 6 or 7, but I associate his time in charge with my favourite players of all my time watching the club…Huckerby and Dublin. The 99-00 team really should have learned how to play on the road as the home form was enough for Europe.

Can’t forget going to his last game where Hedman came miles out of his goal, got tackled and Phil Jevons scored from 40 yards. The atmosphere was toxic that day. Always liked listening to his opinions, knows his football and never tolerated nonsense from journalists.

A manager with many ‘what might have been’ moments at CCFC.

TomRad85 · 2025-10-22T12:11:45+0100

Brighton Sky Blue said:
Think I was 6 or 7, but I associate his time in charge with my favourite players of all my time watching the club…Huckerby and Dublin. The 99-00 team really should have learned how to play on the road as the home form was enough for Europe.

Can’t forget going to his last game where Hedman came miles out of his goal, got tackled and Phil Jevons scored from 40 yards. The atmosphere was toxic that day. Always liked listening to his opinions, knows his football and never tolerated nonsense from journalists.

A manager with many ‘what might have been’ moments at CCFC.

Hadji, Keane, Chippo, McAllister was sexy as fuck.

SBT · 2025-10-22T12:14:27+0100

I think the way a manager's spell with a club ends always looms large over their legacy, and the end with Strachan was an especially grim time for the club overall.

I think he was very much a man of a previous era, and was in charge during a time when other teams were professionalising and getting more sophisticated tactically. Relegation seemed inevitable for us at one point or another. But he was a brilliant character, more so than any manager we've had since, and there were some incredibly entertaining sides that he managed. Combined with his brief time as a player I think I feel more warmly towards him than his managerial record probably warrants.

Brighton Sky Blue · 2025-10-22T12:15:52+0100

TomRad85 said:
Hadji, Keane, Chippo, McAllister was sexy as fuck.

Don’t think anyone will displace Dublin as my favourite player of all time. Those players you grow up watching just have a different impact.

On Strachan’s interviews, he had one as manager here where he was asked ‘so do you think you have any chance of staying up?’ and he just replied ‘nope’ with a look of pure condescension towards the reporter. Loved that he made those stupid questions look what they are.

Shannerz · 2025-10-22T12:17:01+0100

The football was often expansive and entertaining, but there's always the feeling that we generally underachieved.

We had some players of genuine quality, and, in Dublin an Huckerby, one of the best strike partnerships in the league. But we never finished above 11th. Yes, we were up against some behemoths of the game, but that still feels like an opportunity lost.

I always feel with a bit more nouse, and more attention paid to getting in quality at the back (Paul Williams? Fuck off), we could have been a consistent upper midtable team for his tenure.

We did play some great football at times, though, and Strachan was always good value. ("A quick word, Gordon?" "Velocity".)

TomRad85 · 2025-10-22T12:17:44+0100

Brighton Sky Blue said:
Don’t think anyone will displace Dublin as my favourite player of all time. Those players you grow up watching just have a different impact.

On Strachan’s interviews, he had one as manager here where he was asked ‘so do you think you have any chance of staying up?’ and he just replied ‘nope’ with a look of pure condescension towards the reporter. Loved that he made those stupid questions look what they are.

I loved Dublin but i have a closer attachment to the players i watched in person more, as i say that was the season i was going regularly as a teenager. It was such a fun season, as a home fan at least.

Brighton Sky Blue · 2025-10-22T12:18:34+0100

SBT said:
I think the way a manager's spell with a club ends always looms large over their legacy, and the end with Strachan was an especially grim time for the club overall.

I think he was very much a man of a previous era, and was in charge during a time when other teams were professionalising and getting more sophisticated tactically. Relegation seemed inevitable for us at one point or another. But he was a brilliant character, more so than any manager we've had since, and there were some incredibly entertaining sides that he managed. Combined with his brief time as a player I think I feel more warmly towards him than his managerial record probably warrants.

He went on to have a decent though not spectacular career in fairness.

Brighton Sky Blue · 2025-10-22T12:20:43+0100

TomRad85 said:
I loved Dublin but i have a closer attachment to the players i watched in person more, as i say that was the season i was going regularly as a teenager. It was such a fun season, as a home fan at least.

I started going to occasional games in the late 90s but my first season ticket was 01/02 which was…unfortunate timing. Comparing Strachan to all the other managers we’ve had in this league since, I’d have preferred him to more than a few.

wingy · 2025-10-22T12:20:47+0100

He's congruent with our squad certainly in Le Coq sportif and beyond era so it was not a particularly bad period from memory but relegation season we were crying out for Big Sam to come in who went to Bolton from cutting his teeth NC.

Shannerz · 2025-10-22T12:21:12+0100

Brighton Sky Blue said:
Don’t think anyone will displace Dublin as my favourite player of all time.

He's without question the best player I've seen play for us.

Moff · 2025-10-22T12:22:30+0100

Evo1883 said:
I was 12 when he was appointed and obviously he was manager when we were relegated and was sacked early doors the season after .

I remember his time vaguely , but more specifically he managed a couple of really exciting teams 97/98 most notibly where we finished 6 points off a european place but were hopeless away , a common theme of top flight coventry years

Do our supporters dislike strachan ? Feels like many rarely mention him with effection .

Intrigued

With the money we had and what he spent we could have done so much better.

I thought some of the football was magnificent, but other times pretty poor. The season you mentioned with Robbie Keane, could have been so much more if we could have won away from home.

We spent so much, sanctioned by the idiots Richardson and McGinnity, and accumulated so much debt, and still got relegated and then had twenty years of pain to get back to where we started when he got us relegated, so I can never look back as well as I could of on that period.

I have met him a few times and he is and has always been polite and engaging and easy to talk to. I think he is still local as bumped into him a few weeks back whilst living the dream at Leamington Tip.

Brighton Sky Blue · 2025-10-22T12:22:41+0100

Shannerz said:
He's without question the best player I've seen play for us.

Such a nice bloke as well. Broke my 8 year old heart when Villa signed him.

TomRad85 · 2025-10-22T12:25:50+0100

Brighton Sky Blue said:
I started going to occasional games in the late 90s but my first season ticket was 01/02 which was…unfortunate timing. Comparing Strachan to all the other managers we’ve had in this league since, I’d have preferred him to more than a few.

My first game was 93/94 and was either Ipswich or Swindon, they were very close together and i can only nail down the season as it was Swindons only year in the Prem, my visits were sporadic with my dad the years that followed but 99/00 i started going with my mates more when dad couldn't make it. Great season, shame what followed up until a few seasons ago was absolutely fucking grim!

RegTheDonk · 2025-10-22T12:27:22+0100

Pretty much what Tom and Brighton said, but I didn't get the love in with Telfer, I convinced myself he got picked because he was great at golf!

clint van damme · 2025-10-22T12:29:05+0100

I genuinely believe he would have got us back up if we hadn't sacked him. But we'll never know

TomRad85 · 2025-10-22T12:30:12+0100

RegTheDonk said:
Pretty much what Tom and Brighton said, but I didn't get the love in with Telfer, I convinced myself he got picked because he was great at golf!

This team, minus Telfer

Brighton Sky Blue · 2025-10-22T12:32:41+0100

TomRad85 said:
This team, minus Telfer

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That Arsenal team has a Brexit back line and a Remainer midfield and attack. Wenger knew his stuff.

Evo1883 · 2025-10-22T12:32:45+0100

TomRad85 said:
This team, minus Telfer

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Telfer was just pure energy wasnt he

TomRad85 · 2025-10-22T12:34:26+0100

Evo1883 said:
Telfer was just pure energy wasnt he

Yeh pretty much, i don't think i had as much of a critical eye then as i do now, i just enjoyed watching us but i definitely felt like Telfer was a level below most the others that made up that team at the time.

alexccfc99 · 2025-10-22T12:36:43+0100

Before my time so not my place to hold an opinion

But one thing is a fact, considering the years of dross that followed we were not better off for sacking him

Evo1883 · 2025-10-22T12:36:58+0100

TomRad85 said:
Yeh pretty much, i don't think i had as much of a critical eye then as i do now, i just enjoyed watching us but i definitely felt like Telfer was a level below most the others that made up that team at the time.

I told strachan to his face when working at the fruit and veg shop at cannon park he needed to drop telfer .. little did i realise they were in a relationship together , i joke , it just felt that way

He wasnt amused

TomRad85 · 2025-10-22T12:39:15+0100

Evo1883 said:
I told strachan to his face when working at the fruit and veg shop at cannon park he needed to drop telfer .. little did i realise they were in a relationship together , i joke , it just felt that way

He wasnt amused

Was he stocking up for his romantic picnic with Telfer by buying a curious amount of bananas and cucumbers?

Evo1883 · 2025-10-22T12:40:56+0100

TomRad85 said:
Was he stocking up for his romantic picnic with Telfer by buying a curious amount of bananas and cucumbers?

He was in the flower shop which was also owned by the fruit n veg shop , buying for paul

Shannerz · 2025-10-22T12:44:13+0100

TomRad85 said:
This team, minus Telfer

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Flattered them, that score.

An absolutely wonderful game of football.

Evo1883 · 2025-10-22T12:45:07+0100

TomRad85 said:
This team, minus Telfer

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Very good arsenal team that

JSL · 2025-10-22T12:45:25+0100

I remember him being assistant to big Ron and that he was deemed a great asset when he played for us at something like 38 apparently due to eating seaweed. I dont remember so much as him being manager, other than him moaning a lot and getting us relegated

TomRad85 · 2025-10-22T12:45:59+0100

Evo1883 said:
Very good arsenal team that

Amazing team.

torchomatic · 2025-10-22T12:46:22+0100

Shit. Relegated us.

Evo1883 · 2025-10-22T12:46:47+0100

torchomatic said:
Shit. Relegated us.

This post Took longer than i thought tbh

wingy · 2025-10-22T12:48:45+0100

alexccfc99 said:
Before my time so not my place to hold an opinion

But one thing is a fact, considering the years of dross that followed we were not better off for sacking him

But we would have been if he went the season before,it needed to change and it didn't,? Sio soured the memory of him.

wingy · 2025-10-22T12:51:19+0100

Evo1883 said:
This post Took longer than i thought tbh

It's quite emotive.

SBT · 2025-10-22T12:51:24+0100

My dad found out which pub that Strachan used to drink at in Morton Morrell and after a big win one Saturday decided that he was going to drive up there and try and befriend him. Unfortunately for some reason him and his mate decided to do so while still wearing replica shirts - apparently Strachan clocked them when they walked in, downed his pint and left immediately. Great story.

Shannerz · 2025-10-22T13:11:58+0100

Brighton Sky Blue said:
That Arsenal team has a Brexit back line and a Remainer midfield and attack. Wenger knew his stuff.

Belgian Cedric Roussel absolutely owned Adams and Keown that day.

Take whatever analogy you like from that.

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