Quote Originally Posted by Romanis View Post
The manager that has to break or rebuild from a great side tends to be hugely unpopular and under pressure from the get go.
Which is why Dave Mackay will never get on this list. No-one could have been more unpopular or under greater pressure when he took the job, and he took the decision to remodel not rebuild (possibly because he knew the true colours of many of the players having captained them), and took us to glory again. Docherty had the same resources but lacked the patience