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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? 20:08 - May 21 with 2577 viewsMullet

We had so many paper messiahs pre-McKenna it's hard to imagine this feeling is so new innit.

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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:10 - May 21 with 2540 viewsKeno

Wasn’t Lamburk linked somewhere prior to getting 5 year extension?

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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:10 - May 21 with 2539 viewsDubtractor

Its a novel experience isn't it? Probably not been a real risk for any of our managers since Burley.

One of the prices of success I guess, and whilst it is annoying, I'd far rather this than mediocrity!

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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:12 - May 21 with 2510 viewsitfc1108

Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:10 - May 21 by Keno

Wasn’t Lamburk linked somewhere prior to getting 5 year extension?


Sunderland I think.
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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:13 - May 21 with 2493 viewsSitfcB

Super Mick with Ireland?

Wasn’t FORPR linked with someone?

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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:14 - May 21 with 2466 viewsgainsboroughblue

Probably SBR to be honest.

I don't recall Burley being chased by anyone. Even the Scottish job was off limits due to Craig Brown's ten year long tenure. Then again, the managerial merry-go-round was only in it's infancy during the mid to late 90's. Certainly nothing like now, and even less so before that.

Bill McGarry moved on to Wolves in the late 60's from here (i.e. not sacked, chose to go).

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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:14 - May 21 with 2451 viewsle2blue

Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:13 - May 21 by SitfcB

Super Mick with Ireland?

Wasn’t FORPR linked with someone?


Sunderland. Who at the time were also a basket case.
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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:15 - May 21 with 2447 viewsRocky

Paul Hurst was linked with Haverhill Rovers.
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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:16 - May 21 with 2403 viewsNutkins_Return

Lambert I reckon pure agent led. McCarthy was heavily linked with ROI

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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:17 - May 21 with 2402 viewsSteve_M

Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:13 - May 21 by SitfcB

Super Mick with Ireland?

Wasn’t FORPR linked with someone?


Sure there was some club interest in Mick at some point too, back when his achievements were appreciated.

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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:21 - May 21 with 2350 viewsMullet

Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:17 - May 21 by Steve_M

Sure there was some club interest in Mick at some point too, back when his achievements were appreciated.


Fulham and Palace I think you're thinking of. But obviously he got less interest than Cook must have.

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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:26 - May 21 with 2310 viewsThe_Major

As said above, Bill McGarry is, by my reckoning, the ONLY manager we've had who left us for what was considered a bigger club at the time.

S Duncan retired
Ramsey England
Milburn sacked
McGarry resigned to go to Wolves
Robson England
Ferguson sacked
J Duncan sacked
Lyall/McGiven sacked
Burley sacked
Royle "mutual consent"
Magilton sacked
Keane sacked
Jewell sacked
Mccarthy resigned
Hurst sacked
Lambert sacked
Cook sacked

No wonder we're not used to this!
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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 21:14 - May 21 with 2140 viewsNthsuffolkblue

Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:26 - May 21 by The_Major

As said above, Bill McGarry is, by my reckoning, the ONLY manager we've had who left us for what was considered a bigger club at the time.

S Duncan retired
Ramsey England
Milburn sacked
McGarry resigned to go to Wolves
Robson England
Ferguson sacked
J Duncan sacked
Lyall/McGiven sacked
Burley sacked
Royle "mutual consent"
Magilton sacked
Keane sacked
Jewell sacked
Mccarthy resigned
Hurst sacked
Lambert sacked
Cook sacked

No wonder we're not used to this!


We are used to the speculation just not particularly recently and speculation is all it is.

Your point is very interesting. We have always shown faith in our managers (until Evans at least) and that seems to have been appreciated by them too. I am sure McKenna would only leave for something that is clearly better than what he has here. I don't think a quick pay day will be that. I don't think a club with no greater potential than us is it either. Therefore, I haven't yet seen any speculation that particularly concerns me.

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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 07:44 - May 22 with 1852 viewsChurchman

Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 20:26 - May 21 by The_Major

As said above, Bill McGarry is, by my reckoning, the ONLY manager we've had who left us for what was considered a bigger club at the time.

S Duncan retired
Ramsey England
Milburn sacked
McGarry resigned to go to Wolves
Robson England
Ferguson sacked
J Duncan sacked
Lyall/McGiven sacked
Burley sacked
Royle "mutual consent"
Magilton sacked
Keane sacked
Jewell sacked
Mccarthy resigned
Hurst sacked
Lambert sacked
Cook sacked

No wonder we're not used to this!


Jackie Milburn actually resigned. Cobbold tried to persuade him to stay but Milburn knew management wasn’t for him.

McGarry left in the autumn of 68 just after promotion. He felt Wolves offered, as a bigger more prestigious club, more opportunity for success. That aged well.

John Lyall - I thought he retired, but that may be because he was given the tin tack.

Of that list, Ferguson, Duncan, Keane, Jewell, Hurst, Lambert and Cook fully deserved to be booted out. Burley and Magilton were unlucky in my view, though maybe with GB his time had just run out after those rubbish signings 2001/2.
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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 07:54 - May 22 with 1800 viewsStewart27

Lambert to Dortmund.
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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 07:59 - May 22 with 1777 viewshoppy

Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 07:44 - May 22 by Churchman

Jackie Milburn actually resigned. Cobbold tried to persuade him to stay but Milburn knew management wasn’t for him.

McGarry left in the autumn of 68 just after promotion. He felt Wolves offered, as a bigger more prestigious club, more opportunity for success. That aged well.

John Lyall - I thought he retired, but that may be because he was given the tin tack.

Of that list, Ferguson, Duncan, Keane, Jewell, Hurst, Lambert and Cook fully deserved to be booted out. Burley and Magilton were unlucky in my view, though maybe with GB his time had just run out after those rubbish signings 2001/2.
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Lyall ‘moved upstairs’ leaving McGiven in charge of team matters, but don’t think he was sacked, was he?

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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 08:38 - May 22 with 1686 viewspatrickswell

Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 21:14 - May 21 by Nthsuffolkblue

We are used to the speculation just not particularly recently and speculation is all it is.

Your point is very interesting. We have always shown faith in our managers (until Evans at least) and that seems to have been appreciated by them too. I am sure McKenna would only leave for something that is clearly better than what he has here. I don't think a quick pay day will be that. I don't think a club with no greater potential than us is it either. Therefore, I haven't yet seen any speculation that particularly concerns me.


Evans was often criticised for not sacking managers sooner. Keane acknowledged that at any number of other clubs, he would have been sacked for not winning a match until Halloween, while Jewell also could have been removed at least a year before he actually was. Lambert was given a 5 year contract while our promotion challenge was floundering in League One and arguably talked himself out of the job a year later by criticising Evans’s running of the club publicly.

I’ve always said though that, with the exception of McCarthy, Evans’s managerial choices represent the longest run of managerial incompetence in the club’s history. It’s genuinely staggering just how badly organised and coached we were over the majority of his ownership. He must have felt people were doing it deliberately after a while.
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Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 08:54 - May 22 with 1623 viewsChurchman

Who was the last manager we had linked with other jobs whilst here? on 07:59 - May 22 by hoppy

Lyall ‘moved upstairs’ leaving McGiven in charge of team matters, but don’t think he was sacked, was he?


I didn’t think so.

Terrific manager, Lyall. It’s just a shame he didn’t come to USA few years earlier.

That ‘family club’ that ‘looks after their own’, ‘east end geezers’ and all that jazz treated him like dirt. He never forgave them and I don’t blame him.
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