R.I.P. Jim McAnearney.

[Casper64Frank]

http://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/view,former-millers-boss-dies_21911.htm

R.I.P. Jim McAnearney

[Yak]

RIP

Once a miller always a miller.

[BramleyMiller58]

Manager when my old man took me to my first match.
Still remember my Dad saying "Ey up Jim" & Jimmy Mac responding.
It was one of those Wurthers Original moments, I thought our old Fella was so important ........

RIP Sir WAMAW

[gwru]

Remember him manager after Tommy Doc'. Weren't a bad side under him. R I P

[millertop]

RIP Jimmy Mac

[leedsmiller]

Condolences to family and friends.

RIP Jim

[CAMiller]

Like with others he was the manager when I first remember watching (although I think I did see my first game when 'the Doc' was in charge.

RIP and condolences to the family.

[Nardendee]

Sad News. Jack Mansell was the boss when I first started watching followed by Tommy Doc who fulfilled his promise to get us out of League 2 (Championship then) ...unfortunately at the wrong end.

I remember saying to my Dad that after the Doc left I thought we had 3 Managers, Jim, Mac & Ernie.

Played some good stuff under him where players like Johnny Quinn and Carl Gilbert were key players in that period.

RIP Jim

[Nardendee]

Played in all red then. My favourite Millers strip. Could have easily confused us with Liverpool...

[jolly_roger]

Played in all red then. My favourite Millers strip. Could have easily confused us with Liverpool...

Yes indeed. I think at that time subbuteo had Liverpool and Rotherham as the same set.

[millmoormagic]

RIP Jimmy Mac,

The fitness coach who took over the managers job after Tommy Docherty, and did a decent job!

[PeteWaller]

RIP Jimmy Mac,

The fitness coach who took over the managers job after Tommy Docherty, and did a decent job!

RIP

Condolences to all his family and friends

[Muchthemillersson]

Played in all red then. My favourite Millers strip. Could have easily confused us with Liverpool...

We only played in all red in F A Cup games which gained us the nickname "The Red Devils" for the way we played in those matches.

A nickname 'nicked' by Manu fans

[Nardendee]

No we played in all red for 4 years 1968-72. I want to all the home games at the time.

[lbj]

RIP Jim

He had an engineering machinery sales business with his son in Sheffield.

Condolences to his family.

[kempo]

Three really nice fellas!

Think about it!


Apologies to anyone who wishes to take offence re this joke....Please put it back.

[monty_rhodes]

No we played in all red for 4 years 1968-72. I want to all the home games at the time.
Nardendee is spot on. I seem to remember it was Tommy Doc's idea to "emulate Liverpool." I hated the strip but we certainly used it for all home games in that period.

[mikemiller]

Tommy Docherty was viewed as a "modern" manager in his early days - ie open to new ideas, new training methods, etc. Legend has it that a sports psychologist (a rarity in those days) told him that teams that wear a one colour strip appear "bigger" to the opposition. Hence the appearance of the Chelsea all blue kit and then the Millers all red kit (which I quite liked at the time).

Jim McAnearney did try to get the Millers to play attacking football, and was quite successful for a while. He was always more of a coach than a manager though, and later made some poor decisions that led to the Millers being relegated, despite having a reasonably strong squad. Still some good memories about his time with the Millers though.
RIP

[Muchthemillersson]

Nardendee is spot on. I seem to remember it was Tommy Doc's idea to "emulate Liverpool." I hated the strip but we certainly used it for all home games in that period.

OK I was thinking earlier than that, around the early 60s

[Muchthemillersson]

One of the nice things was that when one one Jimmy Mack left, immortalised by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, we got another one in Jimmy McGuigan