Our Worst Manager Ever.

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Who is Southampton's worst manager ever?

  • Russell Martin

    Votes: 10 11.1%
  • Ruben Selles

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • Nathan Jones

    Votes: 26 28.9%
  • Mauricio Pellegrino

    Votes: 12 13.3%
  • Jan Poortvliet

    Votes: 10 11.1%
  • Mark Wotte

    Votes: 3 3.3%
  • Bassett and Wise

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • Ian Branfoot

    Votes: 20 22.2%
  • Steve Wigley

    Votes: 5 5.6%
  • another

    Votes: 2 2.2%

  • Total voters
    90
  • Poll closed .
I've gone Pellegrino. Of the other obvious candidates:

Branfoot was before my time
Jones never given a proper chance imo
Wigley at least got his only win against the skates
Find it hard to blame the championship relegation guys
 
This has made me realise that I always have issues with whoever is managing the club <laugh>

Honestly the only manager i can think of that I actually quite like was Poch, every other manager had something I didn’t like about them

I feel like Lincoln

Nigel Adkins literally did no wrong in his time at the club. Two promotions and had us on course for survival in the Prem.
 
RM ain't ever topping thus list for me; he gave me one of the best days supporting this club and nothing will ever change that.

Jones was a twat. He's top of the pile, closely followed by Pellegrino.

Always find it hard to see the likes of Portvliet and Wotte on these lists as they had such an impossible job.
 
No. Not for me. That might be some weird contrarian take that became popular after he left, but at the time we all adored him.

I can assure you that I didn’t. Obviously did a great job on the pitch so didn’t want him sacked or anything like that but I could never listen to him talk without cringing

Clearly never going to be on this list, just as I say made me realise that the only manager I could tolerate all aspects of was Poch, that’s all
 
Branfoot was before my time. This is still quite easily Jones for me. If we stick with Martin, and break the record, then despite having also achieved something with us last season, he’ll take the crown for me.
 
As bad as Martin is, I struggle to see any of those others getting us promoted last season.

Yeah, it's been very poor this season but at least he has achieved something and is in the club record books plus a 45% win ratio still. I just think he's trying something that isn't possible in the PL with this squad of players.

It has to be Pellegrino for me because he had a decent mid-table PL squad and turned them into strugglers playing the most dull and unambitious football that I can ever remember from a Saints team.

Maybe my memory of Branfoot has got dimmer over time and there was a Wembley cup final and his win % was nearly 30 but he was very unpopular and signed some real donkeys.
 
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As bad as Martin is, I struggle to see any of those others getting us promoted last season.

Yeah you can make a case I think of this being our worst season/spell under a manager. But given how many **** ones we’ve had down the years Martin shouldn’t be in the conversation for his overall time in charge
 
If you actually look at Branfoot's record, his first two seasons don't look all that bad. Certainly no worse than Chris Nicholl before him.

Also weird, is that we finished 7th in 89/90 on 55 points (under Nicholl), but then a couple of season later (under Branfoot), we finished 16th on 52 points!!