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Some utter nonsense being talked on here about John Hughes. He gave us two 7th placed finishes in the SPL, attacking football and some great signings(Latapy, Stokes, Aafjes, Schmeichel). 

Anyone who thinks he was a bad manager for us needs their head examining.

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Some utter nonsense being talked on here about John Hughes. He gave us two 7th placed finishes in the SPL, attacking football and some great signings(Latapy, Stokes, Aafjes, Schmeichel). 
Anyone who thinks he was a bad manager for us needs their head examining.


You need a job soon John.
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10 minutes ago, EdiBairn said:

Some utter nonsense being talked on here about John Hughes. He gave us two 7th placed finishes in the SPL, attacking football and some great signings(Latapy, Stokes, Aafjes, Schmeichel). 

Anyone who thinks he was a bad manager for us needs their head examining.

He also laid the groundwork that saw us going down, spent lord knows how much time trying to get himself another job. Signed an amazing volume of shite and fucked off when he realised he'd made an unrecoverable arsehole of it. He's been a bad manager, full stop, over pretty much his entire career. Took over a good team, took the plaudits when it was going well, jumped when it wasn't. Sacked by Hibs. Left Livi. Sacked by Hartlepool. Won a cup at Inverness with someone else's team, jumped ship. Relegated Raith and currently can't buy a job. He talks a good game, and you've clearly bought the Kool Aid. 

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14 minutes ago, EdiBairn said:

Some utter nonsense being talked on here about John Hughes. He gave us two 7th placed finishes in the SPL, attacking football and some great signings(Latapy, Stokes, Aafjes, Schmeichel). 

Anyone who thinks he was a bad manager for us needs their head examining.

Anyone care enough to post a list of Yogis signing s and we'll see how good they were? 

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Some of these may be a bit off though.

 

2003-2004:

 

Kieran McAnespie

James Sharp

Marc Twaddle

Russell Latapy

John O'Neil

Brent Rahim

Neil Scally

Jason Lee

 

2004-2005

 

Mark Campbell

Manuel Kante

Alan Kernahan

Craig McPherson

Daryl Duffy

Danny McBreen

Pedro Mouthinho

Andy Thomson

 

2005-2006

 

Mark Howard

Karl Dodd

Craig Ireland

Lecsinel Jean-François

Kenny Milne

Jack Ross

Tiago

Liam Craig

Paddy Cregg

Stephen O'Donnell

Densil Theobold?

Vitor Lima

 

2006-2007

 

Jeroen Lambers

Bobby Olejnik

Kasper Schmeicel

Dean Holden

Chris Mitchell?

Cedric Uras

Travis Andersen?

Alan Gow

John Stewart

Steven Thomson

Graham Barrett

Carl Finnegan

 

2007-2008

 

Tim Krull

Shane Supple

Gerard Aafjes

Arnau Riera

Stephen Bradley

Michael Higdon

Kevin McBride

Billy Clarke

 

2008-2009

 

Dani Mallo

Lee Bullen

Jackie McNamara

Steven Pressley

Erik Schultz-Eklund

Sean Lynch

Neil McCann

Steve Lovell

 

 

That last season...

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Pretty sure Chris Mitchell and Marc Twaddle were products of the academy as for Yogi no one will touch him with a barge pole how many good players did we lose because of his ego, there was an article a while back about him and his agent cant work out why he cant get a gig but pretty sure the response was because of his attitude/ego.

Yes we did have a bit success under Yogi but the same time as mentioned he is partly responsible for the mess we are in, "The Next level" was Yogis version of "Our Time" only more of a spending spree on players that were over the hill but would have been good signings in there prime.

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29 minutes ago, DeeBairn said:

Some of these may be a bit off though.

 

2003-2004:

 

Kieran McAnespie

James Sharp

Marc Twaddle

Russell Latapy

John O'Neil

Brent Rahim

Neil Scally

Jason Lee

 

2004-2005

 

Mark Campbell

Manuel Kante

Alan Kernahan

Craig McPherson

Daryl Duffy

Danny McBreen

Pedro Mouthinho

Andy Thomson

 

2005-2006

 

Mark Howard

Karl Dodd

Craig Ireland

Lecsinel Jean-François

Kenny Milne

Jack Ross

Tiago

Liam Craig

Paddy Cregg

Stephen O'Donnell

Densil Theobold?

Vitor Lima

 

2006-2007

 

Jeroen Lambers

Bobby Olejnik

Kasper Schmeicel

Dean Holden

Chris Mitchell?

Cedric Uras

Travis Andersen?

Alan Gow

John Stewart

Steven Thomson

Graham Barrett

Carl Finnegan

 

2007-2008

 

Tim Krull

Shane Supple

Gerard Aafjes

Arnau Riera

Stephen Bradley

Michael Higdon

Kevin McBride

Billy Clarke

 

2008-2009

 

Dani Mallo

Lee Bullen

Jackie McNamara

Steven Pressley

Erik Schultz-Eklund

Sean Lynch

Neil McCann

Steve Lovell

 

 

That last season...

There was a useless LB, Dermot McCaffrey, as well, in about 08 or 09. I remember reading he'd been released by Hibs and thinking "Yogi will have that one lined up already".

Sure enough.

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1 minute ago, gav-ffc said:

Signing Graeme Barrett on a 2 year deal when he was recovering from a season long injury he got just before signing. 

 

Wild.

Spending the biggest playing budget the club had ever seen on four of your pals and a striker with one knee. 

 

 

Truly a club legend. 

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4 minutes ago, Bairney The Dinosaur said:

All that and he’s still the most successful manager in my time watching the club.

Because we are by and large, a pishy local team that has the odd good season? 

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13 minutes ago, Bairney The Dinosaur said:

All that and he’s still the most successful manager in my time watching the club.

By an absolute mile. Anyone who's watched us over the last 10 years who has a go at Yogi is a brain donor.

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At best he was a mixed bunch. Was given a level of funding that would bankrupt us if we went down, and spunked it on an absolute cluster of retirees. And then jumped ship like he had been wanting to do for a few seasons. If not wanting to hero worship him for all that makes me a brain donor, then so be it. Have fun with the red dots ya pathetic troll. 

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8 minutes ago, DeeBairn said:

At best he was a mixed bunch. Was given a level of funding that would bankrupt us if we went down, and spunked it on an absolute cluster of retirees. And then jumped ship like he had been wanting to do for a few seasons. If not wanting to hero worship him for all that makes me a brain donor, then so be it. Have fun with the red dots ya pathetic troll. 

Won the First Division twice, finished 7th in the SPL twice, first ever qualification for Europe in our history, victories over both the Old Firm, players like Latapy/Stokes/Riera/Schmeichel/Krul etc etc etc, no relegation from the top flight, Scottish Cup final. None of it is "a mixed bag", he was a huge success.

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Just now, Marshmallo said:

Won the First Division twice, finished 7th in the SPL twice, first ever qualification for Europe in our history, victories over both the Old Firm, players like Latapy/Stokes/Riera/Schmeichel/Krul etc etc etc, no relegation from the top flight, Scottish Cup final. None of it is "a mixed bag", he was a huge success.

Only if you ignore all the shite signings, the falling out with players, the constant press releases saying he was using the club as a stepping stone. Then the last season where he saw what a c**t of it he made and fucked off. We are still dealing with his shit, so no, it's not a huge success at all. 

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