Quote Originally Posted by laddo View Post
Agreed they haven't. My question is which ones have? Hardy? Trew? Pavis?
Trew spent a bomb on managers, certainly on the compo when he sacked them all. Hardy wasn't shy with the cash either. Pavis only really got it right once with Warnock so I'd say Jack Dunnett was the best picking Sirrel then Howard Wilkinson, who Sirrel recommended.
I think there's a balance to be struck, managers need time as well as a budget but the good ones tend to affect positive change pretty quickly, certainly after a close season.
Martin Allen was the worst sacking for me, he was clearly building something but was hamstrung by having contracted players sitting out their contracts but I believed he'd have taken us up the following season if we're stuck with him.