biggest pillock to manage nottm forest in the last 15 years

are we looking for biggest pillock as a whole or just in regard to their time at Forest?

several of these dudes for whom pillock is le mot juste

i don't know if i've ever really stared at an actual abyss before having made this poll and seeing them all lined up like that

go for the whole life history imo, thier forest records have probs been expunged from the records anyway

Micky Adams in charge for just one game before he came to Brighton and won them promotion that season, I think you can rule him out.

i... hold on, *checks*... yep, still have him down as a pillock though

He [Adams] wrote himself into the history books, for all the wrong reasons, when he was sent off for dissent on 19 August 1992 against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road, during the second game of the season.[20] His was the first ever red card in the Premiership.[21]

learn something every day

alrighty then.

Steve Cotterill - mediocrity writ large but seems to be turning a corner with Forest now?
Steve McLaren - a pillock for the world stage, contender
Billy Davies - hilarious and kinda talented dude, wd love to have him at the Wolves
Colin Calderwood - meh
Gary Megson - common or garden pillock, wd be a good garden gnome model, contender
Joe Kinnear - when Wimbledon is yr finest achievement you shd probly stay the fuck out of football
Paul Hart - can't believe how many jobs this pillock's been given tbh
David Platt - more of a wanker than a pillock, with a dash of cunt in there too. at least he's recognised that he will never make a manager. still, contender
Ron Atkinson - walking along, jangling his tom. wd probly still be a mildly loveable old pillock had he not outed himself that time
Micky Adams - workmanlike pillock
Dave Bassett - where the fuck is he? archetypal no-nonsense, no football approach

it's between Megson and McLaren for me, leaning towards the latter just for the Dutch accent

i'm glad you didnt get sucked into the "paul hart - avuncular youth coach from bygone age" trap, the guy is a nonperson and deeply disturbing somehow

i guess cos horrifyingly it seems to make more sense hart having a bafflingly long mediocre career in football than him being something more appropriate like a kettle salesman all his life idk

this list is strong support for my theory that most managers don't exert much influence on a team for better or worse

Voted Meggy. Billy Davies is probably a bigger pillock but is less awful at his job. Come to think of it, you could say the same of Cotterill.

Hart is what would happen if Russ Abbot was the star of Facejacker.

Also, I think Cotterill edits his own Wikipedia entry:

Cotterill played a key role in stabilising Portsmouth through some turbulent times which saw the club nearly go bust. Cotterill had performed a highly creditable job whilst working within complete uncertainty almost every day. This drew many suitors during the close season.

Hart is what would happen if Russ Abbot was the star of Facejacker.

lol this killed me dead

think the boneheaded "pragmatism" of cotterill & calderwood leaving full manager's jobs to be assistants higher up the ladder needs further consideration

p sure meggy is better at his job than cotterill too?

this is a good idea for a poll. still unsure of who to vote for.

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guess next time i shall have to think of something to attract more champions league mouthbreathers

I definitely voted for Kinnear

I definitely thought about voting for Kinnear

points in kinnear's favour

i. contrary to pop belief his wimbledon team played some v decent stuff, esp towards the end before his ticker went

ii. you've got to have some love for the "which one is simon bird? - you're a cunt" delivery

iii. boffed counsellor troi

oh wow i've had it wrong - he actually rejected troi

Hammam burst into the dressing- room, brandished a copy of the News of the World, and shouted at manager Joe Kinnear: "You are sacked."

Players, even those harded by the club's history, looked in stark horror. A few minutes away was Manchester United and a full house.

When Joe found his voice, he asked why. "You did not make love to this beautiful woman,"said Sam holding out a story in which Deanna Troi, of Star Trek - former Spurs fan Marina Sirtis - admitted she turned to Graeme Souness when Kinnear rejected her advances nearly 20 years earlier.

gotta be the vilest wag of all time hands down

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Former Forest captain and England international Pearce had initially turned down the job for family reasons.

Former England defender and coach Stuart Pearce has left his wife of 20 years for an FA employee who once worked as a liaison officer for the WAGs.

A close family friend said yesterday that he feared Pearce had suffered a ‘complete mid-life crisis’ after walking out on his wife and two children to be with 39-year-old FA employee Carol Day.

His affair adds another chapter to the FA’s history of unfortunate romantic entanglements – not least the ‘kiss and tell’ affair involving former manager Sven Goran Eriksson and a secretary, Faria Alam, which also involved then FA chief Mark Palios.

Pearce, 51, is no longer an employee after losing his job as England Under-21 boss earlier this year.

Three years ago Pearce tried to motivate the Under-21 squad with a visit to Colchester barracks, where the players and staff met soldiers due to be deployed in Afghanistan.

The group later competed in tests conducted in a battle simulator and the winner was Miss Day. ‘From the 39 people on the coach, Carol – the only lady on board – got the top marks, so that doesn’t say much for the rest of them,’ Pearce said afterwards.

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unconscionable paul hart abuse upthread I shan't have any of

what makes the pearce thing so delicious is his unquestionable club-legend status. the fans will be so confused

ilf has missed a forest fan :(

ya?

manchester city fan a more glaring void

easily flavio's greatest moment was telling that useless pleb hart to piss off after five games (three of which were dour fumbles with sheff utd iirc)

daniel giraffe/rf, m8 xp

hart is bringing thru a profusion of quite astonishingly good youth players for us tbf

Citeh fans all too real to hang around this den of southern noncery

the last city fan i met was a three year old from wandsworth ('his own decision' said pater)

this is the problem with modern parents

^

let's be real tbh, we hate new people

it's not so much hate, more a deep-seated suspicion

the hate kicks in after they've a couple of gauchely enthusiatic posts about some risible NME band

or Chelsea. either way

has Turrican posted on ILF much? iirc he's a very casual Sunderland fan

would you?

I do think there have been newcomers, but the most notable haven't been felt as such. For instance, Windsor Davies has somehow always been here

"Three years ago Pearce tried to motivate the Under-21 squad with a visit to Colchester barracks, where the players and staff met soldiers due to be deployed in Afghanistan. "

What a loathsome piece of shit, I genuinely hope he dies. I have worked with so many cunts like him in the past.

lol

clearly it would be wrong not to take his denials re sharing his brother's political sensibilities at face value, though neither acorn seems too far from the tree

DSP anger is some of my favourite ILX anger. George Lucas post will never not haunt my thoughts

one of the otmest posts in ILX history

When I used to be an electrician, the Stuart Pearce types were the ones I wouldn't bother talking to. I had learned this through a brutal 4 year apprenticeship; don't even talk to these hateful, boring cunts! But yeah they are still good enough for top football jobs :O)

could you supply an archetypical taxonomy of electricians using current or recent football managers?

Ancelotti is a qualified electrician, despite being Italian he doesn't flash racism as much as Pearce. ha ha!of course Powell!

lol true

meant more 'some electricians are like stuart pearce, some like (take a punt here) gareth ainsworth' etc, but that'd probably be reductive

stuart pearce was probably an electrician in the scott walker sense

greg halford all sorrowfully led round the back of the training complex, knowing this will be the final curtain

Would trust a Scott Walker rewire way more than a Stuart Pierce one. Less little cunts getting sent off to die and more just fucking wiring.

Stuart Pierce and his army worship.

I really do mean I hope he dies.

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That's a follow-up poll if ever there was one.

Dave Bassett - where the fuck is he? archetypal no-nonsense, no football approach

― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:01 Bookmark

this list is strong support for my theory that most managers don't exert much influence on a team for better or worse

― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:22 Bookmark

In an interview with FourFourTwo, van Hooijdonk was asked about the reasons why he went strike. The forward said he didn’t like the set up at Nottingham Forest, and revealed they didn’t nothing in training despite winning the Division One title in 1998.

However, van Hooijdonk refused to give credit to Bassett, and suggested winning the league was down to the players.

“We were doing f*** all in training. People say we became champions, but so what? If you were to change all the managers in the league for cats, at the end of the season there will still be one champion and three will get relegated,” said the ex-Holland international.

A lot of economic benefits of employing cats as managers as well. I remember reading about some Reading manager from 20's/30's whose level of preparation was to turn up at training on a friday, between swigs from his hip flask. "Who are playing tomorrow then, lads?".