13 years ago today - Magilton sacked 10:59 - Apr 22 with 3741 views | BlueBlood90 | Magilton and Gorman Sacked 22nd Apr 2009 12:07Town have terminated the contracts of manager Jim Magilton and assistant boss John Gorman, just one day into Simon Clegg's reign as chief executive. 1 Can't believe it's been 13 years since Jim Magilton was sacked. I often wonder what path we would have taken if we'd kept Jim or at least replaced him with somebody other than Roy Keane. | |
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13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:10 - Apr 22 with 2540 views | Garv | A day into Clegg's job. Bloody hell. | |
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13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:14 - Apr 22 with 2526 views | ZXBlue |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:10 - Apr 22 by Garv | A day into Clegg's job. Bloody hell. |
All this time to start recovering from that one awful decision. | | | |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:22 - Apr 22 with 2498 views | PhilTWTD |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:14 - Apr 22 by ZXBlue | All this time to start recovering from that one awful decision. |
Was it an awful decision? As much as Jim is a club legend, we were 12 points off the play-offs when the decision was taken having had one of the division's bigger budgets. The awful decision was the subsequent appointment! | | | |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:22 - Apr 22 with 2484 views | tractorboy1978 | The job he did here is seriously underrated and I always loved watching us. The way he was dismissed here is arguably the biggest stain on Evans for me. | | | |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:30 - Apr 22 with 2453 views | chicoazul | And lo, the Banter Era did begin. | |
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13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:34 - Apr 22 with 2454 views | Lord_Lucan |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:22 - Apr 22 by PhilTWTD | Was it an awful decision? As much as Jim is a club legend, we were 12 points off the play-offs when the decision was taken having had one of the division's bigger budgets. The awful decision was the subsequent appointment! |
Was it Soton when we got dicked 0 - 5 or something like that? I was sad to see him go but I am very biased as I was always a big fan of him. I still think he would have done a job here - and the way he was sacked was shameful. As for Keane, I think it's fair to say that the vast majority of fans were pretty overwhelmed by his appointment - although looking back it was obviously a disaster. | |
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13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:35 - Apr 22 with 2442 views | ZXBlue |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:22 - Apr 22 by PhilTWTD | Was it an awful decision? As much as Jim is a club legend, we were 12 points off the play-offs when the decision was taken having had one of the division's bigger budgets. The awful decision was the subsequent appointment! |
It was an awful unjustifiable decision. Yes. | | | |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:38 - Apr 22 with 2421 views | Garv |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:34 - Apr 22 by Lord_Lucan | Was it Soton when we got dicked 0 - 5 or something like that? I was sad to see him go but I am very biased as I was always a big fan of him. I still think he would have done a job here - and the way he was sacked was shameful. As for Keane, I think it's fair to say that the vast majority of fans were pretty overwhelmed by his appointment - although looking back it was obviously a disaster. |
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13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:38 - Apr 22 with 2428 views | BlueBlood90 |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:22 - Apr 22 by PhilTWTD | Was it an awful decision? As much as Jim is a club legend, we were 12 points off the play-offs when the decision was taken having had one of the division's bigger budgets. The awful decision was the subsequent appointment! |
Hard to disagree with that. I don't think many people would've had an issue with sacking Jim if we'd gone on to make a sensible appointment to replace him. Although we were 12 points away from the play-offs I think we had a decent squad that just needed tweaking in the summer with a few quality signings. Then also throw in the emergence of Jordan Rhodes from the youth academy and we were in a solid place to kick on the season after. Such a shame how it all panned out. | |
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13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:39 - Apr 22 with 2422 views | ZXBlue |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:38 - Apr 22 by BlueBlood90 | Hard to disagree with that. I don't think many people would've had an issue with sacking Jim if we'd gone on to make a sensible appointment to replace him. Although we were 12 points away from the play-offs I think we had a decent squad that just needed tweaking in the summer with a few quality signings. Then also throw in the emergence of Jordan Rhodes from the youth academy and we were in a solid place to kick on the season after. Such a shame how it all panned out. |
I think that is a bit revisionist. I really dont think there was a majority in favour of sacking at the time. [Post edited 22 Apr 2022 11:40]
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13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:45 - Apr 22 with 2379 views | EastTownBlue |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:10 - Apr 22 by Garv | A day into Clegg's job. Bloody hell. |
That was a strange week. Clegg appointed on the Tuesday, Magilton sacked on the Wednesday and Keane appointed Thursday. | | | |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:46 - Apr 22 with 2368 views | PhilTWTD |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:35 - Apr 22 by ZXBlue | It was an awful unjustifiable decision. Yes. |
I thought it was justified on the failure to get near the play-offs after a fair amount of money was spent, while sad that it didn't work out. Also there were a fair few relationships broken, among them with the local media.
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13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:48 - Apr 22 with 2327 views | BlueBlood90 |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:39 - Apr 22 by ZXBlue | I think that is a bit revisionist. I really dont think there was a majority in favour of sacking at the time. [Post edited 22 Apr 2022 11:40]
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I wasn't in favour of sacking him at the time. What I meant is if we'd have gone on to have success with a new manager afterwards then I don't think many people would have felt the same way about the whole situation as we do now. It's also crazy to think he was sacked after beating Norwich a few days before! [Post edited 22 Apr 2022 11:50]
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13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:52 - Apr 22 with 2290 views | gazzer1999 |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:46 - Apr 22 by PhilTWTD | I thought it was justified on the failure to get near the play-offs after a fair amount of money was spent, while sad that it didn't work out. Also there were a fair few relationships broken, among them with the local media.
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Sounds like a familiar theme "Also there were a fair few relationships broken, among them with the local media." Every manager since him as well, seems like ITFC managers get more scrutiny and stick than the Prime Minister, and we are all supposed to be on the same side. | | | |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:55 - Apr 22 with 2278 views | itfcjoe |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:39 - Apr 22 by ZXBlue | I think that is a bit revisionist. I really dont think there was a majority in favour of sacking at the time. [Post edited 22 Apr 2022 11:40]
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There definitely was amongst all my cohort, which at the time was 20 or 30 of us travelling all over the country - maybe a couple of dissenting voices in that. We weren't waving bed sheets, but I think most fans thought his time was well and trukly up as we'd gone backwards despite spending a fortune | |
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13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:56 - Apr 22 with 2260 views | SitfcB |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:45 - Apr 22 by EastTownBlue | That was a strange week. Clegg appointed on the Tuesday, Magilton sacked on the Wednesday and Keane appointed Thursday. |
After beating Norwich on the Sunday. | |
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13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:57 - Apr 22 with 2257 views | gazzer1999 |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:55 - Apr 22 by itfcjoe | There definitely was amongst all my cohort, which at the time was 20 or 30 of us travelling all over the country - maybe a couple of dissenting voices in that. We weren't waving bed sheets, but I think most fans thought his time was well and trukly up as we'd gone backwards despite spending a fortune |
I saw a twitter clip a few weeks ago of Bedsheet Rich saying he should be sacked. | | | |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:59 - Apr 22 with 2257 views | ZXBlue |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:55 - Apr 22 by itfcjoe | There definitely was amongst all my cohort, which at the time was 20 or 30 of us travelling all over the country - maybe a couple of dissenting voices in that. We weren't waving bed sheets, but I think most fans thought his time was well and trukly up as we'd gone backwards despite spending a fortune |
Then your cohort was not reflective of the mood on here, and was more alligned with rich and his bedsheet. Not an accoldate tbh. We hadn't gon ebackwards, he had turned the side round from a huge downward spiral, on virtually no budget, and then was judged on not getting promotion (despite being in contention until late on) after one full season, whilst trying to integrate new players and shift the balance of the team. It was stupid. | | | |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 12:05 - Apr 22 with 2205 views | davblue |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:59 - Apr 22 by ZXBlue | Then your cohort was not reflective of the mood on here, and was more alligned with rich and his bedsheet. Not an accoldate tbh. We hadn't gon ebackwards, he had turned the side round from a huge downward spiral, on virtually no budget, and then was judged on not getting promotion (despite being in contention until late on) after one full season, whilst trying to integrate new players and shift the balance of the team. It was stupid. |
you need to go back and check your facts. He got sacked in his 3rd season and we were never really in contention to go up that year. 1st season we finished 14, then 8th and i think we were 12th when he was sacked. The atmosphere around the ground had turned, i recall the team being booed of a fair few times. The football that season was turgid after a couple of season of entertaining football. | | | |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 12:05 - Apr 22 with 2198 views | mylittletown |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:10 - Apr 22 by Garv | A day into Clegg's job. Bloody hell. |
Clegg was a disaster. And it was utterly predictable. A blowhard bullsh1tter. | | | |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 12:09 - Apr 22 with 2174 views | PhilTWTD |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:52 - Apr 22 by gazzer1999 | Sounds like a familiar theme "Also there were a fair few relationships broken, among them with the local media." Every manager since him as well, seems like ITFC managers get more scrutiny and stick than the Prime Minister, and we are all supposed to be on the same side. |
I think the coverage Jim got in some quarters was very unfair, I said that at time time. | | | |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 12:10 - Apr 22 with 2166 views | PhilTWTD |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 11:59 - Apr 22 by ZXBlue | Then your cohort was not reflective of the mood on here, and was more alligned with rich and his bedsheet. Not an accoldate tbh. We hadn't gon ebackwards, he had turned the side round from a huge downward spiral, on virtually no budget, and then was judged on not getting promotion (despite being in contention until late on) after one full season, whilst trying to integrate new players and shift the balance of the team. It was stupid. |
We weren't in contention, that was the issue. I would agree with you that the mood on here wasn't one which was widely calling for his departure though. The TWTD Forum was staunchly behind Jim to the end. | | | |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 12:14 - Apr 22 with 2128 views | BLUEBEAT | the beginning of the Dark Ages. | |
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13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 12:16 - Apr 22 with 2108 views | mutters | Sadly it was time for him to go. | |
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13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 12:17 - Apr 22 with 2102 views | tractorboy1978 |
13 years ago today - Magilton sacked on 12:05 - Apr 22 by davblue | you need to go back and check your facts. He got sacked in his 3rd season and we were never really in contention to go up that year. 1st season we finished 14, then 8th and i think we were 12th when he was sacked. The atmosphere around the ground had turned, i recall the team being booed of a fair few times. The football that season was turgid after a couple of season of entertaining football. |
'Turgid' - Christ, if only we knew what was about to come for the following decade. Magilton was an inexperienced manager that inherited a pretty dross side - Royle knew he couldn't take us forwards. The 14th and 8th finishes with an FA Cup run to the 5th round whilst playing several academy kids was something to be proud of. He wasn't wise with some of his spending when Evans came in. It's notable though that his two big ticket signings (Norris and McAuley) were still two of our best players through the Keane and then early Jewell eras. Walters being the other. And Civelli we got really unfortunate with. We will never know now but he'd have fared far better than Keane, I can say that for sure. I thought he deserved another crack at the time and I stick by it. | | | |
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