| Magilton as a manger 15:06 - Apr 5 with 1370 views | MaySixth |
personally I thought he was average at best
over-emotional, tactically naive
good player |  |
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| Magilton as a manger on 15:16 - Apr 5 with 1343 views | WD19 |
Does it spoil your afternoon of trolling if I come along and agree with you!?
As a player he was much better than good. |  | | |
| Magilton as a manger on 15:39 - Apr 5 with 1298 views | Dubtractor |
Give us a couple of examples of how him being over emotional caused us a problem. |  |
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| Magilton as a manger on 15:46 - Apr 5 with 1275 views | Herbivore |
Not up to it as a manager. He did a fairly mediocre job here overall and hasn't really done much since, other than get sacked for (allegedly) headbutting one of his players. |  |
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| Magilton as a manger on 16:06 - Apr 5 with 1248 views | BLUEBEAT |
Was he better away as a manger? |  |
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| Magilton as a manger on 16:14 - Apr 5 with 1240 views | MaySixth |
| Magilton as a manger on 15:39 - Apr 5 by Dubtractor |
Give us a couple of examples of how him being over emotional caused us a problem. |
Ruining the players in public after defeat at home to Wolves in the first game of the season - which he then apologised for. Too late by then.
 Jim: I Was Too Harsh on Players 29th Aug 2008 16:27Boss Jim Magilton has conceded that he may have been too harsh in some of his players when commenting on last week's 2-0 defeat to Wolves. The Town manager was particularly scathing about Danny Haynes's display having replaced Liam Trotter in the side.  0
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| Magilton as a manger on 16:23 - Apr 5 with 1213 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Magilton as a manger on 16:06 - Apr 5 by BLUEBEAT |
Was he better away as a manger? |
In one season, in another he was better at home.
All in all he's a proper legend! |  |
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| Magilton as a manger on 16:46 - Apr 5 with 1179 views | tractorboy1978 |
You'd chew someone's arm off for 13 consecutive home wins now wouldn't you? And a league season where we only lost once at home. |  | | |
| Magilton as a manger on 17:09 - Apr 5 with 1144 views | ITFC_Forever |
Cheap option at a time when Sheepy was skint. |  |
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| Magilton as a manger on 17:44 - Apr 5 with 1104 views | patrickswell |
| Magilton as a manger on 16:06 - Apr 5 by BLUEBEAT |
Was he better away as a manger? |
Not if your main exposure to watching the team was going to Away matches in 2007-08.
I saw us play 11 times over his 3 seasons and we never managed a win. The inability to put together a consistent winning or unbeaten run did for him, though if Evans hadn’t come in, he would probably have been with us for another season or two, I suspect. Unfortunately, he was just as inconsistent with money to spend as he had been when working on a budget. It “only” needed to someone to get us performing better by another 10-15% on Evans’s money and we’d have been set. But apart from McCarthy’s better years, we’ve been performing at a level way below what we could do under Jim for over a decade now. [Post edited 5 Apr 2020 17:45]
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| Magilton as a manger on 18:05 - Apr 5 with 1080 views | Mach_foreignBlue |
Miss him as a player. Not as a manager though.
Large number of people really appreciate the job he did for us. What for? Give Joe Royle money Magilton would spend and with a decent manager in Royle we would have been a Premier League team.
He had started the rot that was accerelated by Keane and particularly Jewell. In his last season with us we were a dreary, declining, average midtable outfit. People underline that 3-2 win over Norwich but no-one mentions that 0-2 defeat to them, us 'fookin loaded' team against the army of loanees Norwich were. 12 points from the top 6 after spending loads of money !!! We had been no threat for the top teams in the league. And some people imply he would have got us promoted had he stayed longer. Why? What has he done in management to say he would have been a success for us.
Blamed everyone and everything except himself when things were going wrong. Plenty of poor signings but he wasn't open to criticise his own decisions. https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/jim-i-ve-never-made-a-bad-signing-1-168822
He's done nothing in management. [Post edited 5 Apr 2020 18:07]
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| Magilton as a manger on 18:10 - Apr 5 with 1067 views | pointofblue |
I thought Magilton was a very good manager under Sheepshanks, when he was working on an exceptionally tight budget. He was pretty poor after Evans took over; he seemed to struggle with the expectations which is why his appointment at Queens Park Rangers took me by surprise - the pressure was even greater there. | |
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| Magilton as a manger on 18:11 - Apr 5 with 1062 views | Swansea_Blue |
I'd be happy with just 'average' now! |  |
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| Magilton as a manger on 18:30 - Apr 5 with 1031 views | Pendejo |
| Magilton as a manger on 18:10 - Apr 5 by pointofblue |
I thought Magilton was a very good manager under Sheepshanks, when he was working on an exceptionally tight budget. He was pretty poor after Evans took over; he seemed to struggle with the expectations which is why his appointment at Queens Park Rangers took me by surprise - the pressure was even greater there. |
I can't help feeling he was developing nicely. He had worked under some good coaches / managers, and as you say seemed to get the most out of a limited budget and it was the "lottery win" of the Evans money that was the beginning of the end.
I'd happily settle for a rewind to the days of Jim and give him another season. |  |
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| Magilton as a manger on 18:32 - Apr 5 with 1025 views | Churchman |
Not a great manager for me. His subsequent efforts show that it really wasn’t his thing. Good player though! Who can ever forget his play off performance against Bolton. He was really good for the club from a playing perspective. |  | | |
| Magilton as a manger on 19:05 - Apr 5 with 993 views | jeera |
| Magilton as a manger on 16:06 - Apr 5 by BLUEBEAT |
Was he better away as a manger? |
I thought he was about to burst into song. |  |
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| Magilton as a manger on 19:34 - Apr 5 with 967 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
| Magilton as a manger on 16:06 - Apr 5 by BLUEBEAT |
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I,m sure the baby Jesus would be able to answer that. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Magilton as a manger on 21:23 - Apr 5 with 886 views | stonojnr |
| Magilton as a manger on 15:39 - Apr 5 by Dubtractor |
Give us a couple of examples of how him being over emotional caused us a problem. |
he was very much still in player/captain mode, rather than manager mode, so he kicked every ball on the pitch, and would go ballistic if a player did something wrong on the pitch that he felt he could have done better.
cant remember who it was must have been one of the older players who'd played alongside him though in an interview saying they got so fed up of Magilton shouting at them from the touchlines, that they just started to ignore him, and thats the problem, Magilton went from being one of the senior pros in the dressing room, to being the boss, he'd probably have been far better going off as per his original plan to manage a different club somewhere else, clean slate, no baggage etc whilst always perhaps with an eye on coming back one day once he'd proven his managerial credentials. | | | |
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