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The most unpopular manager?

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  1. billingham mackem 1984

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    Is Steve Bruce the most unpopular Sunderland manager in the past 20 years.
     
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  2. safc1978

    safc1978 Well-Known Member

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    No.

    Howard Wilkinson for me but SB is getting ****ing close
     
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  3. jerseymackem

    jerseymackem Active Member

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    Definitely not
     
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  4. Billy Death

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    No he isn't but he's getting there.
     
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  5. Gil T Azell

    Gil T Azell Well-Known Member

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    safc78. Did you really really really have to mention that name, ffs
     
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  6. bonnybobbypark

    bonnybobbypark Well-Known Member

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    Here's something else to pin on him.

    I think he cost Niall Quinn his job.

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  7. talcnturnip

    talcnturnip Well-Known Member

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    Not yet.
     
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  8. Bizarreknives

    Bizarreknives Well-Known Member
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    As above. Wilko for me.
     
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  9. Dorset

    Dorset Well-Known Member

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    Who? Howard Wilkinson? ;)

    He gets my vote <ok>
     
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  10. MrRAWhite

    MrRAWhite Well-Known Member

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    Wilkinson for me...
     
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  11. blackcatsteve

    blackcatsteve Well-Known Member

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    Lawrie McMenemy for me

    He left Southampton on 1 June 1985, but made a return to football five days later when he was named manager of Sunderland, who had just been relegated to the Second Division. At the time he was the highest-paid manager in English football, but his time on Wearside was not a success and he quit in March 1987 - just weeks before Sunderland fell into the Third Division for the first time in their history.
     
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  12. Steven Royston O'Neill

    Steven Royston O'Neill Well-Known Member

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    caught you, caught you, thats more than 20 years
     
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  13. parkersafc

    parkersafc Active Member

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    If theres any defending Wilkinson he took over a sinking ship that no man would have saved. Bruce is into his 3rd year and has played with millions of pounds and overhauled the squad over n over. Wilkinson was a goon but almost comedic. Bruce boils my piss, i didn't even stick around yesterday to hear what excuses he came out with
     
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  14. blackcatsteve

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    In 1985 i was 13, so young enough to just getting into the fever, old enough to know he was a twat and what a terrible appointment it was.
     
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    Mackemenemy must surely go down as the worse and most unpopular manager amongst Sunderland fans
     
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  18. froggy1973

    froggy1973 Well-Known Member

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    Bobby don't think that you can pin that on Bruce think it was always the intention of Shorts intention to take over and for Niall to step down as Chairman.
     
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  19. Disco

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    ****ing ridiculous question, short sighted stuff like this makes us look like ****ing morons.

    I'm not a fan but he hasn't disappointed in terms of league positions at the end of the season (yet). If he get's us relegated he's as bad as Mick, Howard, Roy and so on and so forth. Until then it's a ridiculous question.
     
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  20. Commachio

    Commachio Rambo 2021

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    Most unpopular?

    Not by a long way (at the moment)

    Popularity is fading though as at present he is failing to live up to the expectation that we had for this this season, after finishing 10th last season, and were hoping to push on.


    Maybe in the coming weeks he can restore some of his credit, but time and patience is running out for him. (already has in my eyes).
     
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