Worst Saints Manager

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Who was our worst ever manager?

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Ralph would 100% have got more points than Jones, from those fixtures.

For me it was a toss up between Redknapp and Jones. I’ve gone with Jones as I think it was the most ludicrous and suicidal appointment I’ve ever seen. At least Redknapp was actually a PL level manager, he just didn’t fit here because of his skate history. NJ, as mentioned above - zero redeeming features. Shocking
 
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Change username to Billy said:
There are 38 games in a season. The 8 or 9 games NJ had, whilst horrific as they were, hasnt IMO cost us our PL status.

Our decline started under Gao with RH in charge and got progressively worse. But Ralph, for a year (or 18 months) was a major issue.

Now lots of blame apportioned to the new owners.

Im not happy to be in the Championship, but will provide my support as always.

As for worse manager, they are all pretty much a muchness. They can all f*ck off.
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It’s true we declined under Gao, but we have nose-dived under SR. We’re rooted to the foot of the table and don’t look like climbing one place.

Jones has to be the worst. Tactically inept, naive and arrogant. And he didn’t conduct himself well at all in the press.

Branfoot days were miserable, but he kept us up and we were battling.
 
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Pellegrino for me.

1 win in 17 and £20mil on Carrillo. His track record prior to appointment wasn't particularly good either. What were our board thinking?
 
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St.Jerome said:
Pellegrino for me.

1 win in 17 and £20mil on Carrillo. His track record prior to appointment wasn't particularly good either. What were our board thinking?
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I think they were trying to repeat the Poch success.


He was the last one before Jones I actively wanted sacked from the job.
 
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I voted Nathan Jones purely because he was so personally disagreeable and of course the most recent. I really don’t remember Wigley & Gray from a football perspective. I don’t recall anything ugly about their football. It was probably more naive.
Sturrock, Branfoot & Jones bought hoof ball and that’s always a big crime in my eyes.

Branfoot is a close second for me and has usually always taken the number one spot.
This is after all a man who inherited a team with two premier league and Southampton legends in Le God & Shearer, and somehow made them unwatchable and hopeless
 
Jan Poortvliet out of his depth in the Championship. The dumb thing was that Mark Wotte was a decent manager but Rupert Lowe in his wisdom put a manager who even had poor in his name in charge with Wotte leading the youth team I think.

I think Harry Rednapp would be next for making a decent team monumentally unfit before quitting before we got relegated.
 
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Jones was horrendous, but only manged us for nine premiership games - that really should not make or break our season.

I just had to go for Branfoot. He took over an exciting team (albeit on a downward trajectory).

He sold Alan Shearer for a record British fee (£3.6mm - how things have changed) and pissed up on the wall on David Speedie, Perry Groves and another striker I can't remember doing **** all. Then he thought it would be a really good idea to put workers in midfield like Terry Hurlock and not play the most skillfull player in a generation. That some player scored 25 premier league goals and a large number of assists under his first full season under Alan Ball. But Branfoot in his football wisdom dopped him or sat in on the bench until fan pressure and two worldies at Newcastle forced Branfoot to eat humble pie. Just for that - he was so much worse
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I agree, regardless of anything else, Branfoot’s stubbornness in not playing MLT, who was without doubt head and shoulders above almost every other player in the league and who was a guaranteed proven match winner, was absolutely unforgivable.
 
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I agree, regardless of anything else, Branfoot’s stubbornness in not playing MLT, who was without doubt head and shoulders above almost every other player in the league and who was a guaranteed proven match winner, was absolutely unforgivable.
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At the time it was outrageous, but playing devils advocate MLT did have issues with fitness and weight. Maybe he was trying to improve his discipline?
 
Lovelocum said:
At the time it was outrageous, but playing devils advocate MLT did have issues with fitness and weight. Maybe he was trying to improve his discipline?
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I do agree, but a fat Matt Le Tiss was still better than every player IMO in that position. A true football genius, that sadly has tarnished his reputation now with his mental theories about stuff.

That said, I think a fat Matt Le Tiss at 54 could still do a job on the pitch, such is his level of genius and skill. Quite simply IMO the most talented footballer I have ever seen in the flesh.
 
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