Keith Curle - 16pts from his first possible 18
Harry Kewell - 11pts
Chris Kiwomya - 9pts
Jamie Fullarton - 9pts
Kevin Nolan - 8pts
John Sheridan - 8pts
Mark Cooper - 8pts
Shaun Derry - 5pts
Ricardo Moniz - 5pts
I agree about Curle, and we had our best away record in years under him. We all know and it’s well documented his stubborn refusal to change the home tactics and in my view giving Showumni the No.9 shirt from Lee Hughes were his downfall.
An interesting point there about the great coated one. I did like him and his “schtreets” attitude to football and his “ if they score three we will score four mentality” we’re good traits. It was certainly intesting and I remember one home game where our passing was sublime, I think it was Doncaster? However there was the horrors such as Salford City in the cup that are scarred in the memory. As you say without Branston could things have been different?
Has anyone got comparable stats for Sirrel, Warnock and Allardyce? I have a feeling that Big Sam would be at or near the bottom of that list. Didn’t we go about 20 games under his management before there was a League win?
Jimmy Sirrel, if I remember correctly, had wins in his first two league games.
We were doing okish when JS joined and had had a run of 4 wins on the spin (and a few losses). His record, first 6 games (it got better after that moving from mid-table to 7th by the end of the season)
Sat 22 workington W 2-0 1 916 Barker, Masson
Sat 29 S****HORPE UNITED W 3-1 3 497 Ball(og), Masson, Masson, Smith
Sat 13 Dec CHESTER W 3-0 4 231 Masson, Masson, Barker
Fri 26 colchester united L 1-2 4 759 Gibbs 35, Ryan 42, Gibbs 76
Sat 27 PETERBOROUGH UNITED D 2-2 6 924 Barker, Masson(pen) / Robson, Garwood
Sat 3 Jan grimsby town L 1-2 3 791 Worthington, Brace / Barker
What was Cotterill's first six games in charge like?