Flash In the Pan Managers

Not G.R

Martin O'Neill. Comes into a club, passes out cocaine and Red Bull, gets everyone super motivated and bouncing off the walls. The big crash happens about a year later when he leaves/sacked, leaving behind a squad the wrong side of 30 and a club 50 million quid in the hole... happens every time.

razorblunt

Roy Evans, coca cola cup and some decent football but then he also had the white suit debacle.

grenache

Frank Clark.

A promotion to the PL with Forest in '94, followed by 3rd and 9th place finishes. Sacked in December '96 after a horrendous start to the season. Went to Man City but only succeeded in helping them slide down the First Division table before being relegated in '98.

Never managed again after leaving City.

BUNK1982

Not G.R wrote: »

Martin O'Neill. Comes into a club, passes out cocaine and Red Bull, gets everyone super motivated and bouncing off the walls. The big crash happens about a year later when he leaves/sacked, leaving behind a squad the wrong side of 30 and a club 50 million quid in the hole... happens every time.

I'm blue in the face from saying this to people about MON!

He's not there yet - but i reckon Ian Holloway will be a flash in the pan manager

COYW

Not G.R wrote: »

Martin O'Neill. Comes into a club, passes out cocaine and Red Bull, gets everyone super motivated and bouncing off the walls. The big crash happens about a year later when he leaves/sacked, leaving behind a squad the wrong side of 30 and a club 50 million quid in the hole... happens every time.

You a Villa fan? Can't argue with you in relation to his tenure at Villa but he did very well at Celtic and he left them in pretty good financial shape, if I remember correctly. SPL and EPL are a completely different beast of course.

BUNK1982

COYW wrote: »

You a Villa fan? Can't argue with you in relation to his tenure at Villa but he did very well at Celtic and he left them in pretty good financial shape, if I remember correctly. SPL and EPL are a completely different beast of course.

He left Celtic in an absolute mess - Gordon Strachan had to clean up that mess and still managed 3 in a row as well as qualification from the CL group stages.

When MON left Celtic you Bobo Balde on 40k a week just as a case in point.

He had success but you must remember that this was with Henrik Larsson in his prime!

COYW

BUNK1982 wrote: »

He left Celtic in an absolute mess - Gordon Strachan had to clean up that mess and still managed 3 in a row as well as qualification from the CL group stages.

When MON left Celtic you Bobo Balde on 40k a week just as a case in point.

He had success but you must remember that this was with Henrik Larsson in his prime!

Ok, not a Celtic fan at all. Didn't realise this. Many thanks for the information.

Not G.R

COYW wrote: »

You a Villa fan? Can't argue with you in relation to his tenure at Villa but he did very well at Celtic and he left them in pretty good financial shape, if I remember correctly. SPL and EPL are a completely different beast of course.

No, Celtic. He left Celtic in an absolute shambles. Gordon Strachan used some kind of sorcery to keep us competitive domesticly and in Europe on a complete shoe string. We're only really financialy stable now, 10 years after he left.

He also left Leister in a mess and didn't leave Sunderland in the best shape either.

With no money to spend I think international management will be his calling.

counterlock

I'm going to throw Paul Jewell into the mix as well. His biggest achievements were winning league one and saving Wigan from relegation on the final day(on goal difference), albeit with a lot of help from Carlos Tevez. He was seen as a Houdini type after that.

He was strongly linked with the Ireland job too before Trap took over despite the fact that it took him close to a year to win a league game with Derby.

geeky

Raf32 wrote: »

Michael Laudrup?

Based on his career so far, Laudrup seems to be a serial pan-flasher - does amazingly for a season, and it all goes pear-shaped.

Lennonist

dreamers75 wrote: »

This

1.28 is fuking heartbreaking for me

Why did you link clips from that match when referring to Wim Jansen? Wim Jansen had already departed Celtic when that tie took place.

grenache

counterlock wrote: »

I'm going to throw Paul Jewell into the mix as well. His biggest achievements were winning league one and saving Wigan from relegation on the final day(on goal difference), albeit with a lot of help from Carlos Tevez. He was seen as a Houdini type after that.

He was strongly linked with the Ireland job too before Trap took over despite the fact that it took him close to a year to win a league game with Derby.

Any manager would have struggled to win a game with that side. They were an average Championship side who Davies somehow got to the PL.

rob316

Brendan Rodgers - to win the league with Liverpool this season and never be heard from again :pac::pac:

bucketybuck

rob316 wrote: »

Brendan Rodgers - to win the league with Liverpool this season and never be heard from again :pac::pac:

Oh don't worry, if Liverpool win the league we'll hear about it again. And again. And again...

Zebra3

losthorizon

fullstop wrote: »

Christian Gross? Was trying to think of his name to post it then read your post!

Very successful manager

pavb2

Zebra3 wrote: »

Speaking as a Villa fan who went to the game yesterday .... Thanks Tony


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Barton_(footballer)

Gael85

Peter Taylor
Tony Mowbray
Glenn Roeder

Fr Tod Umptious

losthorizon wrote: »

Very successful manager

Yea, I misremembered what his story was.
I thought he had arrive at Spurs on the back of being a good Swiss league manager, hung around for a few years and then vanished
I was obviously incorrect
Sorry Herr. Gross.

titan18

George Burley? Had that one amazing season with Ipswich, and then relegated a bunch of teams. Haven't heard his name mentioned in ages. Had decent seasons with Ipswich in Division 1, but nothing close to what he did in getting them into Europe.

Armin Veh? Won the Bundesliga with Stuttgart and not much else to his career

Corholio

Zebra3 wrote: »

He had quite a good reason for not managing very much after that in fairness.

BUNK1982

Martin Jol - soon to be inducted!

Green Giant

The man with the most unpronounceable name in football - Ricky Sbragia!

grenache

eh i dunno wrote: »

Mike Walker

Was just coming on here to mention him! Did great with Norwich, nothing with Everton, and then disappeared.

Dubliner28

dreamers75 wrote: »

This

1.28 is fuking heartbreaking for me

Was there that night as a Pats fan.. Still breaks my heart

Even worse was the 2nd leg. Disgraceful