Is Russell Slade the greatest manager EVER?

[Bluejuice]

You can't argue with the form we've shown of late AND he has a big shiny head

 

[defrocked priest]

I wunder would have Jim Gannon have done better?

 

[Stat Brother]

(Sitting here putting my tin hat on)

No

I can't help thinking, should RS stay, The Great Escape will become quickly forgotten. RS will find himself on the recieving end of some serious booing by Sept, just like he was in March!.
He's done wonders in galvinizing (sp) the team, after a couple of false dawns, behind OGH and Lloyd. But I can't help thinking he's just 'got the ball rolling' as our squad should never have been where they were in the first place.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Best thing since sliced bread. The King is dead, long live the King.

 

[O Lads]

(Sitting here putting my tin hat on)

No

I can't help thinking, should RS stay, The Great Escape will become quickly forgotten. RS will find himself on the recieving end of some serious booing by Sept, just like he was in March!.
He's done wonders in galvinizing (sp) the team, after a couple of false dawns, behind OGH and Lloyd. But I can't help thinking he's just 'got the ball rolling' as our squad should never have been where they were in the first place.

I'd have to disagree. He's too good to be deserving boos at the start of next season AND he hasn't 'just got the ball rolling'. Our squad was/is absolute shit. How he's got them playing like champions is nothing short of a miracle.

 

[The Uninvited Guest]

Too early to even consider. He is doing a fab job but remember Steve Gritt achieved what most thaught impossible and was sacked the following season. Coppell is the best manager this club has had (so far)

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

He is quite clearly the single greatest manager in the universe.

with NO exceptions.

 

[Mendoza]

I often wonder if he is the greatest man alive on this planet, not just manager, but he is probably better than Barack Obama, Jenson Button and Jan Age Fjortoft

 

[judewri]

but look at what he's using to get these results.... not many of the players adams got in a

 

[Skint Gull]

Of course he is

 

[drew]

How anyone can say Coppell is the best manager we have ever had is truly beyond me. He was here for a year and 2 days and not even a complete season. He failed to save us from relegation from the Championship. There are far better candidates.

Alan Mullery. Yes, he inherited a good team from Peter Taylor but he took us to the top flite of English Football.

Billy Lane. Achieved our first ever promotion which meant we remain the reigning Division Three (South) champions to this day.

Charlie Webb. Probably the best candidate as he spent, I think, 47 years with the club as both player and manager. Scored the winning goal that effectively made us champions of England.

I know this is a forum to stimulate debate but I sometimes feel that half the threads on here are started by goldfish.

 

[seaford]

If you are judging the greatest manager as the person who has got us out of the biggest trouble, then shame on you for thinking that RS is above Steve Gritt. Even if we do go down we will still be in the FL, and RS has had a non-hostile Chairman, and Chief Executive. Gritt had to contend with ensuring that we did not get relegated to the Conference, and with Bellotti and Archer. No contest I am afraid - Gritt it is.

 

[Winker]

Slade left Yeovil after 'differences with the board' - that just about guarantees his exit from this club as well.

 

[folkestonesgull]

Is Steve Gritt still at charlton as their academy manager? He would be great to bring into that role next season....

 

[henfield bloke]

Steve Grit FACT

 

[NMH]

(Sitting here putting my tin hat on)

No

I can't help thinking, should RS stay, The Great Escape will become quickly forgotten. RS will find himself on the recieving end of some serious booing by Sept, just like he was in March!.


He's done wonders in galvinizing (sp) the team, after a couple of false dawns, behind OGH and Lloyd. But I can't help thinking he's just 'got the ball rolling' as our squad should never have been where they were in the first place.

For the first paragraph, that's always a possibility - but looking at the reality he has applied to each match, and the squad in general, he's a little less likely than most to allow such a forecast coming true.

Second para - you just outlined reasons to say why he is a good manager!

No I wouldn't put the house on it - but the indications are excellent.
It's a great foundation from which to push on, and next season will begin without the desperate slipstream that we have been caught in since Adams was here.

 

[Steve Foster]

RS has yet to achieve anything yet at BHA until hopefully on Saturday when we stay up.

I always liked Mike Bailey. The team didn't play attractive football yet we finished mid table in the top flight - our best ever league position. It is at the end of the day about results?

Adams (first time round), Gritt, Mullery, Melia & Coppell are all currently ahead of RS at this moment IMO.

 

[OzMike]

Not yet, saving us from League 2 is one thing, but saving us from Conference obscurity will have to take it I'm afraid.
Now promotion to the Premiership in time for Falmer will make me reconsider, I would have thought.

 

[Easy 10]

I would say on balance that Russell Slade is without a shadow of a doubt the baldest manager we have ever had. For sheer unadulterated slapheadedness, we have not seen such vast expanses of full-on cranial exposure since the days of Jimmy Melia.

 

[NF9]

Yes, yes he is!
Long live the king!