Blades managers league table last 25 years.

[derfblade.3]

Arrange top to bottom....or best to worse.

Chris Wilder	12 May, 2016	Present
Nigel Adkins	02 Jun, 2015	12 May, 2016
Nigel Clough	23 Oct, 2013	25 May, 2015
Chris Morgan	11 Oct, 2013	23 Oct, 2013
David Weir	10 Jun, 2013	11 Oct, 2013
Chris Morgan	10 Apr, 2013	10 Jun, 2013
Danny Wilson	27 May, 2011	10 Apr, 2013
Mickey Adams	30 Dec, 2010	12 May, 2011
John Carver	15 Dec, 2010	30 Dec, 2010
Gary Speed	17 Aug, 2010	14 Dec, 2010
Kevin Blackwell	14 Feb, 2008	14 Aug, 2010
Bryan Robson	22 May, 2007	14 Feb, 2008
Neil Warnock	02 Dec, 1999	16 May, 2007
Russell Slade	23 Nov, 1999	02 Dec, 1999
Adrian Heath	15 Jun, 1999	23 Nov, 1999
Steve Bruce	02 Jul, 1998	17 May, 1999
Steve Thompson	03 Mar, 1998	02 Jul, 1998
Russell Slade	02 Mar, 1998	09 Mar, 1998
Nigel Spackman	27 Jun, 1997	02 Mar, 1998
Howard Kendall	12 Dec, 1995	27 Jun, 1997
Dave Bassett	21 Jan, 1988	12 Dec, 1995

 

[Bruce Wayne]

You mean we have to spend time working this out for ourselves?

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Top five.

1. Wilder
2. Bassett
3. Warnock
4. Kendall
5. Blackwell

All much of a muchness after that.

 

[Bladezz]

Was expecting a win percentage table clearly explaining it all.

 

[Silent Blade]

Top five.

1. Wilder
2. Bassett
3. Warnock
4. Kendall
5. Blackwell

All much of a muchness after that.

For me since 1970

1. Wilder
2. Harris
3. Bassett

 

[Carlton Blade]

Wilder
Bassett
Warnock
Meh

 

[8lade]

Fuck me! 6 seasons ago we couldn't buy a win under Weir now we're not allowed to sell one to Villa for 10 million quid. Stupid EPL and their ridiculous rules.

 

[ZoneManWilf]

Top five.

1. Wilder
2. Bassett
3. Warnock
4. Kendall
5. Blackwell

All much of a muchness after that.

Agree with your list, the only point maybe for discussion is Spackman or Blackwell for 5th, I'd go with Blackwell too.

As for bottom 5, much more difficult... Top dog has to be the man who set us back multiple years due to the wasting of a very talented squad. Very tough to rank the shiteness though, they all had their own individual special 'attributes', I'd probably go:

1. Robson
2. Weir
3. Adams
4. Heath
5. Adkins

 

[Geordie Blade]

If it’s ‘the last 25 years’, that would only count the last six months of Bassett’s reign.

In which case, this is @Pinchy’s chance to get in a possibly legitimate dig...

 

[Harry's Game]

Are we the only club to have three different managers with the name Nigel?

 

[DronnieBlade]

Wilder top, Blackwell bottom.

The rest is just details !

UTB

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Wilder top, Blackwell bottom.

The rest is just details !

UTB

Blackwell was Guardiola compared to Weir.

 

[8lade]

Wilder v Bassett:
posn-tier
1-3(p) v 2-3(p)
10-2 v 2-2(p)
2-2(p) v 13-1
7-1 v 9 -1
tbd v 14-1
tbd v 20-1(r)
tbd v 8-2

and so based on achievement I'm going
Bassett
Wilder
Warnock

 

[Blade58]

Contentious, but putting aside the very short time he was with us as manager, under Nigel Spackman the football was so very entertaining. Deane and Fjortoft, McGrath, Borbokis. I can't remember how much he inherited from Kendall in terms of players and whether all the credit should lie with Kendall alone,, but loved watching us during that spell. Shame it all went tits up when both strikers went on TDD and Spackman later resigned. I still believe had we been able to hang on to that squad throuhout that season, we would've been promoted

 

[Gin&Juice]

Contentious, but putting aside the very short time he was with us as manager, under Nigel Spackman the football was so very entertaining. Deane and Fjortoft, McGrath, Borbokis. I can't remember how much he inherited from Kendall in terms of players and whether all the credit should lie with Kendall alone,, but loved watching us during that spell. Shame it all went tits up when both strikers went on TDD and Spackman later resigned. I still believe had we been able to hang on to that squad throuhout that season, we would've been promoted

The second XI that season was probably stronger than 80% of teams in the division that season.

 

[SB_90]

ill give top 5 & a bottom 5 because there are a few duplicates & caretaker manager. so it might be too tough to figure out who is 10th best & who was 11th best.

1 - Bassett
2 - Wilder - but beat arsenal & likely will be no 1, as a cup run is only thing missing but typical we finally get cup run & we cant go
3 - Warnock
4 - Spackman
5 - Wilson

19 - Heath
18 - Weir
17 - Adkins
16 - Robson
15 - Adams - although I think he was good manager at a bad time

Blackwell is always a tough one for me because yes he wasn't a good manager & even worse man manager. but in 2008 he saved us because robson was dreadful we had 1 game in 10 lost the derby & 6pts off relegation. then Blackwell came in turned us around, we finished 9th only 4 pts off the play offs & that spell over 46 games was 88pts. the champions that season WBA only got 81. then next season we finished 3rd & got to play off final

 

[BettingBlade]

Top five.

1. Wilder
2. Bassett
3. Warnock
4. Kendall
5. Blackwell

All much of a muchness after that.

We must have had some shite if Blackwell makes the top 5

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

We must have had some shite if Blackwell makes the top 5

We have.

 

[CrookesBlade]

Contentious, but putting aside the very short time he was with us as manager, under Nigel Spackman the football was so very entertaining. Deane and Fjortoft, McGrath, Borbokis. I can't remember how much he inherited from Kendall in terms of players and whether all the credit should lie with Kendall alone,, but loved watching us during that spell. Shame it all went tits up when both strikers went on TDD and Spackman later resigned. I still believe had we been able to hang on to that squad throuhout that season, we would've been promoted

The aftermath of that 97 play off final felt pretty bleak with Howard Kendall jumping ship for Everton at the first chance. To come back stronger the following season with Nigel Spackman in charge, who was not well liked as a player (think possibly Barry Robson or even Dean Hammond) playing attractive football had a similar feel to when we hit our stride under Wilder....like we'd just stumbled across a managerial genius with things having felt hopeless just a few months earlier.

Obviously the squad was sold from under him and the rest is history but hindsight though I can't put him in a top 5 of our best ever managers. I've seen a few bits and pieces on here which suggest he took a fairly "relaxed" approach to managing the club and was carried by the experienced coaching team around him. I seem to recall performances tailing off after Willie Donachie left, I also wonder how much of a hand he actually had in recruitment. I believe most of the players we signed in the summer were done deals when he took over and he'd inherited a strong squad that had been built by Kendall over the previous 2 seasons.

I'm not saying he was a 'fraud' but you do have to look at the fact he failed to complete a season at the other two clubs he had a crack at management with.

 

[BettingBlade]

We have.

Looking at it from a purely results perspective he looks like a great manager. Didn’t he break the record for the longest unbeaten away run at the time? Think he had one of the best win percentages as Blades manager as well.

Said this on a thread a while ago but sacking him when we did was the catalyst for the downward spiral into league one. He’d definitely missed his chance to get us up to the Premier League but as bad as it would have been to watch I don’t think we’d have gone down if we’d have kept him.

He’d have had to have gone at some point though. The shite football is almost always overlooked when we’re winning but once that stops it’s only a matter of time.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

How can Weir not be bottom of everybody's list?

He's the worst manager we've EVER had by a million miles.

He's not even a manager, the bloke never managed in the game ever again. He was so far out of his depth it was painful to watch.

He won one match out of thirteen and took us to 22nd in League One.

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

1. Bassett
Managed us for 394 games, and had a win ratio of 38.1%
Got us promoted from League 1 (at 1st attempt as R/U) and the Championship (at 1st attempt as R/U).
Got us to an FA Cup Semi Final & FA Cup Quarter Final
Got us a 9th place finish in the Prem, and kept us in the top division for 4 seasons
Lost a Play Off Semi Final and got us relegated from the champ and got relegated from the Prem
Achieved all this on a limited budget.

2. Warnock
Managed us for 388 games, and had a win ratio of 42.5%.
Got us promoted from the Championship as R/U.
Got us to an FA Cup Semi, League Cup Semi & Play Off Final.
Got us relegated from the Premier League after 1 season.
Achieved all this on a limited budget.

3. Wilder
Managed us for 184 games, and has a win ratio of 52.2%
Got us promoted from League 1 (at 1st attempt as Champs) and the Championship (at 2nd attempt as R/U).
Got us to FA Cup Quarter Final
Currently sit in 7th place in the Prem
Achieved the majority of this on a limited budget (actual), although now enjoying largest ever SUFC budget (still relatively limited).

To my mind the margins between the top 3 are very fine. Obviously, the 1st two's achievements are cast in stone & can't be improved. CW's star is still on the rise, and as long as he stays another season, he'll move up to 1st place. He'll bypass NW at the end of this season, by virtue of staying up.