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New Manager Syndrome - Fact or Fiction?


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New Manager Syndrome - Fact or Fiction (Your Opinion)?  

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  1. 1. New Manager Syndrome - Fact or Fiction (Your Opinion)?

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Has our record against clubs with new managers actually ever been scientifically recorded?

 

Please list below any instances you know about and we'll test the theory to destruction. I'll add them to this post.

 

Season 2010-11

 

Plymouth - Peter Reid - lost 0-1

 

Notts County - Paul Ince - won 3-1

 

Season 2009-10

 

Colchester - Aidy Boothroyd - drew 0-0

 

Brighton - Gus Poyet - lost 1-3

 

Orient - Russell Slade - won 2-1

 

Season 2006-7

 

Coventry - Iain Dowie - lost 1-2

 

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As far as our manager's first game in charge goes (thanks Lighthouse) -

 

Wigley lost to Bolton

Redknapp drew with Boro

Burley lost at Watford

Dodd and Gorman beat Bury (first league game lost to Norwich)

Pearson lost against Plymouth (he only took over a couple of hours before, his first real game in charge was a draw at Scunny)

Poortaloo lost at Cardiff

Wotte drew at Norwich

Pardew drew with Millwall

Adkins lost to the Dons.

 

That's 6 defeats and 3 draws since a Saints manager last won his first game in charge

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To believe there is some sort of mystical, magical effect, brought on by some higher being that a manager always wins against us on his first game is fiction.

 

To believe that it just happens because it happens is fact. It's happened so bloody often.

 

But no kids, there is no god and there are no special beings with magic powers.

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Sturrock beat Liverpool

Wigley lost to Bolton

Redknapp drew with Boro

Burley lost at Watford

Dodd and Gorman beat Bury (first league game lost to Norwich)

Pearson lost against Plymouth (he only took over a couple of hours before, his first real game in charge was a draw at Scunny)

Poortaloo lost at Cardiff

Wotte drew at Norwich

Pardew drew with Millwall

Adkins lost to the Dons.

 

That's 6 defeats and 3 draws since a Saints manager last won his first game in charge.

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To believe there is some sort of mystical, magical effect, brought on by some higher being that a manager always wins against us on his first game is fiction.

 

To believe that it just happens because it happens is fact. It's happened so bloody often.

 

But no kids, there is no god and there are no special beings with magic powers.

 

There is a God, FACT.

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The only reason we lost to Plymouth was because they had new manager syndrome, we don't win on the opening day of the season, Plymouth were our bogey team, and the game was on Sky. It was nothing to do with the performance or the fact we missed chances, facts were always going rear their ugly heads.

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