| Worst ever Town manager 10:17 - Nov 30 with 3461 views | Herbivore |
Thought it might be interesting to revisit this topic. Back in the day it used to be, for most of us, a straight fight between Keane and Jewell, but then Hurst came along and rendered that debate somewhat pointless by being demonstrably terrible. That said, after 2 years of Lambert it's hard to not consider him a genuine challenger for this crown. Some nice words and deeds in his first 6 months in charge aside, he's proved to be an absolute car crash in every way.
So who edges it for you? It's a tough one. Hurst was clearly a catastrophe but he was only in the job a very short time and his record in the Championship was no worse than Lambert's was. Lambert's statute as a contender has been cemented by him being allowed to damage the club over a much longer period. He's overseen relegation, a midtable League 1 finish, and just over a quarter of a season of further midtable League 1 performances. That's a lengthy record of being terrible. Hurst at least was gone after 4 months and arguably we couldn't be in any worse a state now had we persevered with him. I probably still just about lean towards Hurst because he achieved so much damage in such a short space of time, but it's a tight race now and I never thought that would be possible given how poor Hurst was. |  |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:22 - Nov 30 with 1787 views | hype313 |
Lambert for me, at least with Keane and Jewell we had some highs, albeit very infrequent. We haven't witnessed any progression under Lambert in his time here, he gave up trying to stay in the Championship, also, with the others you could see why they were all brought in, Lambert had done nothing in years to warrant the job here, and bar a few positive ,statements his time here so far has been woeful. |  |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:25 - Nov 30 with 1776 views | itfcjoe |
Could you imagine 2.5 years ago talking about our worst ever manager and not even mentioning Keane or Jewell..... |  |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:26 - Nov 30 with 1767 views | RobTheMonk |
As stated yesterday, Lambert by a hair. Hurst got thrown out quickly which allowed someone to come in and repair the damage. Only the damage never got close to being repaired and has got significantly worse! |  | | |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:31 - Nov 30 with 1740 views | Kropotkin123 |
Yeah, I agree, Hurst just achieved so much destruction in such a short amount of time. |  |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:32 - Nov 30 with 1737 views | Steve_M |
It's Hurst because of what he inherited and what he ruined in the space of one Summer. Lambert has been awful and failed to make the most of what he had but he at least leaves a basis for his successor to work with. |  |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:32 - Nov 30 with 1731 views | Herbivore |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:25 - Nov 30 by itfcjoe |
Could you imagine 2.5 years ago talking about our worst ever manager and not even mentioning Keane or Jewell..... |
It's really depressing isn't it? Hurst was horrendous and we could have done with someone who was a safe pair of hands at that point, they didn't need to be a world beater, just fairly competent. Instead we've ended up with someone who is in the same ballpark of Hurst's level of incompetence. You couldn't make it up. I look back on the days of Keane and Jewell with a warm fuzzy glow. | |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:33 - Nov 30 with 1721 views | Keno |
Surely its Burley, after all he ruined us**
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:33 - Nov 30 with 1712 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:33 - Nov 30 by Keno |
Surely its Burley, after all he ruined us**
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:35 - Nov 30 with 1703 views | Dyland |
It is still Hurst, and I would "like" to think it always will be in my lifetime. Feeling pretty pessimistic about our future though, and think even post Lambert we may be nowhere near our nadir. |  |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:37 - Nov 30 with 1692 views | Herbivore |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:32 - Nov 30 by Steve_M |
It's Hurst because of what he inherited and what he ruined in the space of one Summer. Lambert has been awful and failed to make the most of what he had but he at least leaves a basis for his successor to work with. |
Yeah, that comes into it for sure. Hurst inherited a pretty decent Championship sqaud and decimated it in one transfer window. Lambert did inherit a mess and the squad on paper looks okay now, especially relative to the level we're at. | |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:37 - Nov 30 with 1686 views | MrTown |
As I said, Paul Lambert no.1 - then you dicuss the next.
Damage caused to this club is truly unfathomable. To think 3 and a half years left, on good wages.
Madness, pure madness. |  |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:38 - Nov 30 with 1682 views | JDB23 |
Said it before and will say it again, Hurst was the most destructive but Lambert has proven over a sustained period to very much be the worst manager we’ve ever had. |  | | |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:41 - Nov 30 with 1678 views | gordon |
Hurst and Lambert have been terrible in quite opposite ways - Hurst focussed on coming across as an absolute tw*t from the get-go, being massively insecure and ridden with small-man syndrome, and completely out of his depth with higher quality players. He was determined to smash things up as much as possible in a couple of months.
Lambert on the other hand started out as everybody's mate, just wanted to get the feeling back, make it feel like a proper football team again, but he married that with utterly incomprehensible and awful tactics and team selections. He genuinely appears to have absolutely no idea why we play well or badly.
So for me, it has to be Lambert - he's just an utterly awful football manager; with Hurst we never truly found out how bad he could've been, because his personality meant he was out the door so quickly. [Post edited 30 Nov 2020 10:41]
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:41 - Nov 30 with 1662 views | Steve_M |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:33 - Nov 30 by Keno |
Surely its Burley, after all he ruined us**
copyright NerdyKnowAll aka Voice of Reason about 2005 |
* About 2001-2011 more like. | |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:42 - Nov 30 with 1652 views | Keno |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:41 - Nov 30 by Steve_M |
* About 2001-2011 more like. |
true,
Was he the same as Newmarket_Blue, I never was sure | |
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| That's well put Gorders on 10:42 - Nov 30 with 1653 views | Dyland |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:41 - Nov 30 by gordon |
Hurst and Lambert have been terrible in quite opposite ways - Hurst focussed on coming across as an absolute tw*t from the get-go, being massively insecure and ridden with small-man syndrome, and completely out of his depth with higher quality players. He was determined to smash things up as much as possible in a couple of months.
Lambert on the other hand started out as everybody's mate, just wanted to get the feeling back, make it feel like a proper football team again, but he married that with utterly incomprehensible and awful tactics and team selections. He genuinely appears to have absolutely no idea why we play well or badly.
So for me, it has to be Lambert - he's just an utterly awful football manager; with Hurst we never truly found out how bad he could've been, because his personality meant he was out the door so quickly. [Post edited 30 Nov 2020 10:41]
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:45 - Nov 30 with 1638 views | wkj |
Hurst the worst, Lambert the most hated (for me) |  |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:47 - Nov 30 with 1634 views | PJH |
Hurst is still way out in front for me for the amount of damage he did in so little time.
Lambert now overtaken Keane as second worst but hopefully will not be here long enough to challenge Hurst for top spot.
Jewell no longer comes into the reckoning. |  | | |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:48 - Nov 30 with 1631 views | Dubtractor |
I remember the heady days when John Duncan was the worst, but he'd barely scrape the top 5 these days. |  |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:49 - Nov 30 with 1624 views | hype313 |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:48 - Nov 30 by Dubtractor |
I remember the heady days when John Duncan was the worst, but he'd barely scrape the top 5 these days. |
Duncan has gone from number 1 on that list to number 6 within 6 years. | |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:50 - Nov 30 with 1619 views | Herbivore |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:41 - Nov 30 by gordon |
Hurst and Lambert have been terrible in quite opposite ways - Hurst focussed on coming across as an absolute tw*t from the get-go, being massively insecure and ridden with small-man syndrome, and completely out of his depth with higher quality players. He was determined to smash things up as much as possible in a couple of months.
Lambert on the other hand started out as everybody's mate, just wanted to get the feeling back, make it feel like a proper football team again, but he married that with utterly incomprehensible and awful tactics and team selections. He genuinely appears to have absolutely no idea why we play well or badly.
So for me, it has to be Lambert - he's just an utterly awful football manager; with Hurst we never truly found out how bad he could've been, because his personality meant he was out the door so quickly. [Post edited 30 Nov 2020 10:41]
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That's a decent take on it. Lambert does just seem to be utterly clueless, he doesn't seem to be able to coach or set up a side at all. It seems that coming in and giving everyone a lift is literally his only tangible skill as a manager, but that never lasts and for us it didn't see a bit uptick in results either. It's worth remembering that Hurst's selections and tactics were also erratic and incomprehensible for much of his brief stint as well though. I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking about Donacien at left wing back against Brentford. | |
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:52 - Nov 30 with 1592 views | davblue |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:32 - Nov 30 by Herbivore |
It's really depressing isn't it? Hurst was horrendous and we could have done with someone who was a safe pair of hands at that point, they didn't need to be a world beater, just fairly competent. Instead we've ended up with someone who is in the same ballpark of Hurst's level of incompetence. You couldn't make it up. I look back on the days of Keane and Jewell with a warm fuzzy glow. |
Keane tactically set the team up better than Lambert ever has.
His recruitment and man management were bad! |  | | |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:53 - Nov 30 with 1582 views | Keno |
| Worst ever Town manager on 10:41 - Nov 30 by gordon |
Hurst and Lambert have been terrible in quite opposite ways - Hurst focussed on coming across as an absolute tw*t from the get-go, being massively insecure and ridden with small-man syndrome, and completely out of his depth with higher quality players. He was determined to smash things up as much as possible in a couple of months.
Lambert on the other hand started out as everybody's mate, just wanted to get the feeling back, make it feel like a proper football team again, but he married that with utterly incomprehensible and awful tactics and team selections. He genuinely appears to have absolutely no idea why we play well or badly.
So for me, it has to be Lambert - he's just an utterly awful football manager; with Hurst we never truly found out how bad he could've been, because his personality meant he was out the door so quickly. [Post edited 30 Nov 2020 10:41]
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| Worst ever Town manager on 10:53 - Nov 30 with 1587 views | TNBlue |
All our managerial appointments since ME took over have been disappointing.
Hurst is the worst for setting us on the unstoppable slide. Lambert a close second for not being able to stop the slide into league one and consequently keeping us stuck there. But the real damage was done by Hurst. | | | |
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