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If they only offered JM a 6 month contract I don't blame him for turning it down. Why not a one year rolling contract, along with a massive bonus if he keeps us up?

Please no more than a week with a caretaker in charge. Making it permanent would be setting ourselves up for another Wigley and Gray.

Not remotely as mental as appointing Nathan F*cking Jones.

I think they were being generous. I would’ve given him a 3 word send off.

I'm sure all the millions he's getting for being an abject failure will soften the blow.

Looks like that cunning Steve Bruce is initiating a bidding war between us and Leeds for the best possible contract.

Jumping in "in record time" to appoint Jones wasn't the problem, given that we tracked him for 18 months The problem is that it was clearly Ankersen's choice and he's proven to be clueless. Due diligence is important, but keeping Ankersen out of the decision process is what we also need.

I doubt that very much! Most people would rank Jones as the worst PL manager in history, and that includes managers of all clubs, not just Saints. I'm not that keen on Marsch, but I'd take him in a heartbeat over Jones, and over Gerrard and Lampard too BTW.

Um, Ankersen and co. allegedly tracked the recently-sacked out-of-his-depth muppet for 18 months. That's a hell of a lot of due diligence for a disastrous choice.

Chelsea play in the CL on Wednesday, so hopefully that will take something out of them for our less important match a few days later.

For the second one, if he'd buried it we would've got a fairly worthless point, at the expense of probably keeping the clueless numpty in charge for a while longer. I'm not 100% sure that was what was going on inside of his head as he stepped up to take it, but ...

With the other half being crap.

Just like how Jones turned around Luton?

It was a week after the Forest debacle, which was very much Jones's team and tactics. Reports were that the players and Selles had a huge influence in the next few games, which would explain the City (and lesser extent Everton) anomaly. Those wins emboldened the muppet to assert himself back in full control with his "front foot aggression" hoofball, and the following performances and results speak for themselves.

I think they would've stuck with the tosser even if we had drawn. That's why, just after Wolves equalised, I was fervently hoping for one more goal, and not concerned who scored it! Us: three points; them: the wanker finally sacked. A draw would've prolonged the agony for a useless one point.

Corrected for you.

Match day stats (like winning, for example) aren't important to that wanker. The only thing that counts for him are the wonderful things Jones does behind the scenes.

We have one smug idiot here who also fits that description.

I think Ankersen was too busy to go to the match, he was at Staplewood looking at things the rest of us plebs don't see behind the scenes.

Yes indeed, it would be another Wigley-type appointment if he takes over. So I wouldn't put it past the board doing just that. Don't get me wrong, he couldn't be any worse as manger than the clueless muppet, but that could be said of a dirty mop in the cupboard.

You won't be the only one!

I'm having difficulty deciding between those two. Saggy got rid of Beattie, was an obnoxious tit who also threw the players under the bus, finished bottom of the league, and was a skate infiltrator by all accounts (thumbs up to Mad Milan after the Krapnottarf capitulation, and buggered off back to them after the damage was done). True he didn't have as much to spend, but he did have a squad with some decent payers, and by all accounts he did bugger all during training, spending all his time on his phone.

Topic says it all. We've had some appalling ones over the decades. Is N. Jones the worst, or was there someone worse?