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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?

The biggest OGs have been hiring the clueless muppet as manager, and then not sacking him immediately after the Forest match.

So let me get this straight. The smarmy fraud smugly told us that he sees things behind the scenes about Jones that the rest of us don't, which is why he won't sack him, but he doesn't even go to the bloody match?? Holy shit. Ankersen and Jones out!!!

@Convict Colony gave this. https://alexsports.site/101/ch8.php

Agreed, a "plucky" 1-0 defeat probably won't change Ankersen-The-Fraud's mind. So while I don't want us to lose and would be delighted if we get 3 points, if we are going to lose, and given the choice between a 1-0 and a 5-0 defeat, I'd take the latter to surely guarantee the end of the muppet.

I'm sure that's exactly how Ankersen views the muppet, just like Reed saw Pellegrino as the new Pochettino. And like Reed did with the Clown, who didn't want to sack him when everyone and their dog knew he was out of his depth, the same is happening with Ankersen and his Welsh muppet. And in both cases they cling desperately to the belief that bringing in new players justifies giving their disastrous cock-up choices more time to prove themselves. The parallels are startling and depressing. This difference is that this time we don't have three crap teams below us to save us.

Good grief, he's still around? How old is he now, 60?

Bugger. There goes the bloody huge deposit I paid for this.