vikingTON Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 (edited) A common but rarely qualified question: which job in Scottish football is really the most perilous gig for a manager? Which football club has gone through the most managers in the modern era and which clubs have proven to be the most gentle, glorified retirement homes? The parameters for this obviously have to be set on an equal basis. For modernity and simplicity's sake, I'd use managerial posts held since the year 2000 as an objective benchmark: as that's one full generation to the present day. A trickier and largely subjective element is how to judge interim management positions. I'd include any interim manager who either i) was kept in place beyond the reasonable needs of the recruitment process or ii) indicated their desire to be considered as a candidate for the vacant post. So in the case of Greenock Morton, Anton McElhone would be included in the list because he was left (and confirmed) in interim charge from December 2020 until March this year; Joe McLaughlin would also qualify for the 2004-05 season because his caretaker role was openly considered as an audition for the vacant post at that time. Whereas the Chris Millar/Jim McAlister effort at the end of the 18/19 season - when Jonatan Johannson flounced off hours before kick-off - wouldn't count because it was a makeshift role with no desire to continue it going forward. Let us begin. Edited March 14, 2021 by vikingTON 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 Greenock Morton: Billy Stark (2000) Ian McCall (2000) Allan Evans (2000–2001) Ally Maxwell (2001) Peter Cormack (2001–2002) Dave McPherson (2002) John McCormack (2002–2004) Joe McLaughlin (2004) Jim McInally (2004–2008) Davie Irons (2008–2009) James Grady (2009–2010) Allan Moore (2010–2013) Kenny Shiels (2013–2014) Jim Duffy (2014–2018) Ray McKinnon (2018) Jonatan Johansson (2018–2019) David Hopkin (2019–2020) Anton McElhone (2020-21) Gus MacPherson (2021–) I'm quite possibly overlooking a couple of eligible interims as well, but that's a solid 19 managers at a single football club in just over 20 years to kick us off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 (edited) We're ruled out of the running in the 20 year stakes due mainly to settled tenures of Gus MacPherson (2003-2010) and Danny Lennon (2010-2014). However between Danny Lennon leaving and Jim Goodwin joining, we were in serious revolving door territory. From Lennon's last day on 12 May 2014 to Goodwin's first day on 28 June 2019 - a period of just over 5 years, Goodwin became the ninth person to take that role up full time. 1. Danny Lennon (Contract ended 12 May 2014) 2. Tommy Craig (May 2014 – December 2014) 3. Gary Teale (December 2014 – May 2015) 4. Ian Murray (May 2015 – December 2015) 5. Alex Rae (December 2015 – September 2016) Not Included. Allan McManus - (September 2016 – October 2016) (Caretaker) 6. Jack Ross (October 2016 – May 2018) 7. Allan Stubbs (June 2018 – September 2018) 8. Oran Kearney (September 2018 – June 2019) 9. Jim Goodwin (Joined 28 June 2019) But for the sake of adding us to your rankings, over the period of 21 years from 2000, then we will sit on 12 as we only had an additional 3 managers in the 2000s prior to Danny Lennon joining: Tom Hendrie (1998-2002) John Coughlin (2002-2003) Gus MacPherson (2003-2010) We had 4 managers in over 16 years from 1998 to 2014, and then twice as many as that in the following five years. Edited March 14, 2021 by djchapsticks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 We're on 14, with 5 caretakers. Dodds did 1 game (which we won); Bowman had the longest caretaker reign in terms of time, but also only had 1 game (which we lost); Gordon Young won 2 and lost 1 after we had already been relegated; and Laurie Ellis had two caretaker gigs, winning 2 from 2, and losing 1 from 1 respectively. 1. Paul Sturrock (5 Sep 1998-7 Aug 2000) 2. Alex Smith (8 Aug 2000-7 Oct 2002) 3. Paul Hegarty (7 Oct 2002-30 Jan 2003) 4. Ian McCall (30 Jan 2003-14 Mar 2005) 5. Gordon Chisholm (14 Mar 2005-10 Jan 2006) Billy Dodds (10 Jan 2006-16 Jan 2006) 6. Craig Brewster (16 Jan 2006-29 Oct 2006) 7. Craig Levein (30 Oct 2006-23 Dec 2009) 8. Peter Houston (26 Dec 2009-28 Jan 2013) 9. Jackie McNamara (30 Jan 2013-28 Sep 2015) Dave Bowman (28 Sep 2015-14 Oct 2015) 10. Mixu Paatelainen (14 Oct 2015-4 May 2016) Gordon Young (5 May 2016-15 May 2016) 11.Ray McKinnon (16 May 2016-24 Oct 2017) Laurie Ellis (24 Oct 2017-8 Nov 2017) 12. Csaba László (8 Nov 2017-30 Sep 2018) Laurie Ellis (30 Sep 2018-8 Oct 2018) 13. Robbie Neilson (8 Oct 2018- 21 June 2020) 14. Micky Mellon (6 July 2020-Present) If you extend it back a bit, since Jerry Kerr took over in 1959, we have had 19 permanent managers and 6 caretakers. Since Wee Jim retired in 1993, we have had 17 permanent managers and 6 caretakers (Ivan Golac, Gordon Wallace as caretaker, Billy Kirkwood, and Tommy McLean round out that list). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 47 minutes ago, djchapsticks said: We're ruled out of the running in the 20 year stakes due mainly to settled tenures of Gus MacPherson (2003-2010) and Danny Lennon (2010-2014). However between Danny Lennon leaving and Jim Goodwin joining, we were in serious revolving door territory. From Lennon's last day on 12 May 2014 to Goodwin's first day on 28 June 2019 - a period of just over 5 years, Goodwin became the ninth person to take that role up full time. 1. Danny Lennon (Contract ended 12 May 2014) 2. Tommy Craig (May 2014 – December 2014) 3. Gary Teale (December 2014 – May 2015) 4. Ian Murray (May 2015 – December 2015) 5. Alex Rae (December 2015 – September 2016) Not Included. Allan McManus - (September 2016 – October 2016) (Caretaker) 6. Jack Ross (October 2016 – May 2018) 7. Allan Stubbs (June 2018 – September 2018) 8. Oran Kearney (September 2018 – June 2019) 9. Jim Goodwin (Joined 28 June 2019) But for the sake of adding us to your rankings, over the period of 21 years from 2000, then we will sit on 12 as we only had an additional 3 managers in the 2000s prior to Danny Lennon joining: Tom Hendrie (1998-2002) John Coughlin (2002-2003) Gus MacPherson (2003-2010) We had 4 managers in over 16 years from 1998 to 2014, and then twice as many as that in the following five years. Whatever happened to Teale, he was a definite improvement on Craig and if Kenny McLean had not been sold on the last day of the Jan 2015 transfer window who knows? He kept us within touching distance of Well & County who were our fellow strugglers that season until a couple of heavy defeats against them in H2H matches just prior to the split scuppered his chances of getting to rebuild in the Championship. I still felt he would get another gig somewhere but it just hasn't turned out that way for him. It seems to be the way now that most clubs give new managers less than 2 seasons (length of their initial contract?) nowadays. Goodwin just coming up to 2 seasons with us is now in the top half of long serving managers. Obviously this is in poor taste but I reckon the recent restart of the roundabout is a sign that the worst of Covid is past and JG will move further up the long servers list before next season starts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdinburghLivi Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 2 Ray Stewart 1 August 1997 15 March 2000 121 61 33 27 50.41 Second Division(1998-99)[2] Sacked[3] [4][5] 3 Jim Leishman 15 March 2000[3] 4 June 2003 147 67 32 48 45.58 First Division(2000-01)[6] Became Director of football[7] [8] 4 Márcio Máximo 4 June 2003[9] 14 October 2003 9 3 3 3 33.33 Resigned[10] [11] 5 David Hay 15 October 2003 1 June 2004 39 15 11 13 38.46 League Cup(2003-04)[12] Contract Expired[13] [14] 6 Allan Preston 4 June 2004[15] 25 November 2004[16] 18 4 3 11 22.22 Sacked[16] [17] - Alec Cleland 25 November 2004 30 November 2004 1 1 0 0 100.00 Caretaker[16] 7 Richard Gough 30 November 2004[18] 22 May 2005[19] 25 8 5 12 32.00 Resigned[19][20] [17] 8 Paul Lambert 1 June 2005[21] 11 February 2006 32 5 7 20 15.63 Resigned[22] [23] 9 John Robertson 15 February 2006[24] 15 April 2007 49 15 8 26 30.61 Sacked[25] [26][note 1] 10 Mark Proctor 22 May 2007[27] 3 June 2008 43 13 10 20 30.23 Sacked[28]) [29] 11 Roberto Landi 11 June 2008[30] 1 December 2008 22 12 1 9 54.55 Sacked[31] [32] 12 Paul Hegarty 5 December 2008[33] 27 April 2009 19 6 5 8 31.58 Suspended[34] then contract expired[35] [32] 13 John Murphy 2 July 2009[36] 14 August 2009[37] 2 0 0 2 0.00 Moved Back to Goalkeeping Coach[38] 14 Gary Bollan 14 August 2009[39] 5 February 2012 108 62 22 24 57.41 Third Division(2009-10)[40] Second Division(2010-11)[41] Sacked[42] [43][44][45] 15 John Hughes 14 February 2012[46] 13 November 2012 29 13 5 11 44.83 Became manager of Hartlepool United.[47] [48] 16 Gareth Evans 22 November 2012[49] 28 February 2013 14 6 3 5 42.86 Sacked.[50] 17 Richie Burke 28 February 2013[51] 12 September 2013 16 4 4 8 25.00 Resigned.[52] 18 John McGlynn 12 September 2013[53] 16 December 2014 58 22 9 27 37.93 Left by Mutual Consent.[54] 19 Mark Burchill 16 December 2014[55] 21 December 2015 45 14 8 23 31.11 2014-15 Scottish Challenge Cup Sacked.[56] 19 David Hopkin 22 December 2015[57] 96 51 14 31 53.13 2016-17 Scottish League One 20 Kenny Miller 30 June 2018 20 August 2018 Left by mutual consent 21 Gary Holt 23 August 2018 26 November 2020 Resigned 22 David Martindale 26 November 2020 I wouldn't count the Alec Cleland period in charge but the rest were all permanent managers. We have stabilised considerably since Hopkin took charge but I imagine 20 managers will take some beating. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 (edited) 1, Bobby Williamson (1996-2002) 2, Jim Jefferies (2002-2010) 3. Jimmy Calderwood (2010) 4. Mixu Paatelainen (2010-11) 5. Kenny Shiels (2011-2013) 6. Allan Johnston (2013-2015) 7. Gary Locke (2015-2016) 8. Lee Clark (2016-2017) 9. Lee McCulloch (2017) 10. Steve Clarke (2017-2019) 11. Angelo Alessio (2019) 12. Alex Dyer (2019-2021) 13. Tommy Wright (2021-) A fairly low number, but we only had two in the first decade and eleven in the second decade (twelve if you count Jefferies being in charge for about three days of the 2010s) which suggests an obvious trend. Hopefully Wright might stick around for a while if he does reasonably well (even if we go down). Edited March 14, 2021 by craigkillie 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Aberdeen: 1 July 1999 29 November 2002 Ebbe Skovdahl 130 40 31 59 157 214 31% [22] 2002 2002 Gardner Speirs 1 0 1 0 1 1 0% [23] 11 Dec 2002 24 May 2004 Steve Paterson 57 18 11 28 62 86 32% [24] 1 June 2004 24 May 2009 Jimmy Calderwood 190 79 49 62 236 214 42% [25] 1 July 2009 1 Dec 2010 Mark McGhee 53 13 12 28 51 83 24% [26] 1 Dec 2010 10 Dec 2010 Neil Cooper Neil Simpson 1 0 0 1 0 5 0% [27] 10 Dec 2010 6 Apr 2013 Craig Brown 93 27 29 37 98 107 29% [28] 6 Apr 2013 8 Mar 2021 Derek McInnes 337 180 68 89 514 342 54% [29] 8, 2 of whom were caretakers 3 managers managed 16 years between them, so the other 3 averaged 1 and a bit years each. I can imagine that's the pattern for the future. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 7 hours ago, Jacksgranda said: Aberdeen: 1 July 1999 29 November 2002 Ebbe Skovdahl 130 40 31 59 157 214 31% [22] 2002 2002 Gardner Speirs 1 0 1 0 1 1 0% [23] 11 Dec 2002 24 May 2004 Steve Paterson 57 18 11 28 62 86 32% [24] 1 June 2004 24 May 2009 Jimmy Calderwood 190 79 49 62 236 214 42% [25] 1 July 2009 1 Dec 2010 Mark McGhee 53 13 12 28 51 83 24% [26] 1 Dec 2010 10 Dec 2010 Neil Cooper Neil Simpson 1 0 0 1 0 5 0% [27] 10 Dec 2010 6 Apr 2013 Craig Brown 93 27 29 37 98 107 29% [28] 6 Apr 2013 8 Mar 2021 Derek McInnes 337 180 68 89 514 342 54% [29] 8, 2 of whom were caretakers 3 managers managed 16 years between them, so the other 3 averaged 1 and a bit years each. I can imagine that's the pattern for the future. Stunned Cooper and Simpson didn't get the gig full time with that caretaker record tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 (edited) Hearts under Vladimir Romanov were pretty mad were they not, without putting in even the half hearted effort of checking Wiki they're the first name that sprang to mind as being one of the favourites for this off the back of that... edit: I had a look to sate my curiousity there. Something rings a bell with Burley going despite them being top or joint top of the league at the time (protesting The Riccarton Three getting sold behind his back or something like that. 16 years ago roughly ) Jim Jefferies Scotland 1 August 1995 8 November 2000 242 108 57 77 44.46 Scottish Cup Winners 1998 [3] Peter Houston Scotland 8 November 2000 1 December 2000 4 2 2 0 50 (Caretaker)[4] Craig Levein Scotland 1 December 2000 29 October 2004 170 74 41 55 43.53 [5] Peter Houston Scotland 29 October 2004 1 November 2004 1 1 0 0 100 (Caretaker)[4] John Robertson Scotland 3 November 2004 9 May 2005 35 13 9 13 37.14 [6] Steven Pressley & John McGlynn Scotland 11 May 2005 29 June 2005 2 0 0 2 0 (Caretaker) Joint Managers George Burley Scotland 30 June 2005 21 October 2005 12 9 1 2 75.00 [7] John McGlynn Scotland 21 October 2005 8 November 2005 4 3 0 1 75.00 (Caretaker)[8] Graham Rix England 8 November 2005 22 March 2006 19 9 6 4 47.37 [9] Valdas Ivanauskas Lithuania 22 March 2006 23 October 2006 28 14 5 9 50.00 Scottish Cup Winners 2006 [10] Eduard Malofeyev Russia 23 October 2006 14 November 2006 4 0 2 2 0 (Caretaker)[11] Eugenijus Riabovas Lithuania 14 November 2006 1 December 2006 2 0 1 1 0 [12] Valdas Ivanauskas Lithuania 1 December 2006 2 March 2007 14 7 3 4 50.00 [10] Anatoly Korobochka Ukraine 2 March 2007 1 January 2008 33 13 14 6 39.40 (Caretaker)[13] Stephen Frail Scotland 1 January 2008 9 July 2008 21 8 5 8 38.10 [14] Csaba László Romania 11 July 2008 29 January 2010 58 23 20 15 39.66 Jim Jefferies Scotland 29 January 2010 1 August 2011 58 25 22 11 43.10 [3] Paulo Sérgio Bento Brito Portugal 2 August 2011 7 June 2012 47 20 11 16 42.55 Scottish Cup Winners 2012 John McGlynn Scotland 26 June 2012 28 February 2013 34 10 10 14 29.41 Gary Locke Scotland 28 February 2013 12 May 2014 54 17 10 27 31.48 Robbie Neilson Scotland 12 May 2014 1 December 2016 106 62 22 22 58.49 'Head Coach' Ian Cathro Scotland 5 December 2016 1 August 2017 30 7 9 14 23.33 'Head Coach' Craig Levein Scotland 28 August 2017 31 October 2019 106 42 28 36 39.62 'Head Coach' Daniel Stendel Germany 7 December 2019 21 June 2020 17 5 5 7 29.41 Robbie Neilson Scotland 21 June 2020 Present 27 19 3 5 70.37 Edited March 14, 2021 by Thistle_do_nicely 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 16 different managers including three that have had two shifts. Derek Adams twice outright, Steven Ferguson as caretaker and co-manager, Stuart Kettlewell as Co-manager and then mananger outright. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 1 hour ago, Thistle_do_nicely said: Hearts under Vladimir Romanov were pretty mad were they not, without putting in even the half hearted effort of checking Wiki they're the first name that sprang to mind as being one of the favourites for this off the back of that... edit: I had a look to sate my curiousity there. Something rings a bell with Burley going despite them being top or joint top of the league at the time (protesting The Riccarton Three getting sold behind his back or something like that. 16 years ago roughly ) Jim Jefferies Scotland 1 August 1995 8 November 2000 242 108 57 77 44.46 Scottish Cup Winners 1998 [3] Peter Houston Scotland 8 November 2000 1 December 2000 4 2 2 0 50 (Caretaker)[4] Craig Levein Scotland 1 December 2000 29 October 2004 170 74 41 55 43.53 [5] Peter Houston Scotland 29 October 2004 1 November 2004 1 1 0 0 100 (Caretaker)[4] John Robertson Scotland 3 November 2004 9 May 2005 35 13 9 13 37.14 [6] Steven Pressley & John McGlynn Scotland 11 May 2005 29 June 2005 2 0 0 2 0 (Caretaker) Joint Managers George Burley Scotland 30 June 2005 21 October 2005 12 9 1 2 75.00 [7] John McGlynn Scotland 21 October 2005 8 November 2005 4 3 0 1 75.00 (Caretaker)[8] Graham Rix England 8 November 2005 22 March 2006 19 9 6 4 47.37 [9] Valdas Ivanauskas Lithuania 22 March 2006 23 October 2006 28 14 5 9 50.00 Scottish Cup Winners 2006 [10] Eduard Malofeyev Russia 23 October 2006 14 November 2006 4 0 2 2 0 (Caretaker)[11] Eugenijus Riabovas Lithuania 14 November 2006 1 December 2006 2 0 1 1 0 [12] Valdas Ivanauskas Lithuania 1 December 2006 2 March 2007 14 7 3 4 50.00 [10] Anatoly Korobochka Ukraine 2 March 2007 1 January 2008 33 13 14 6 39.40 (Caretaker)[13] Stephen Frail Scotland 1 January 2008 9 July 2008 21 8 5 8 38.10 [14] Csaba László Romania 11 July 2008 29 January 2010 58 23 20 15 39.66 Jim Jefferies Scotland 29 January 2010 1 August 2011 58 25 22 11 43.10 [3] Paulo Sérgio Bento Brito Portugal 2 August 2011 7 June 2012 47 20 11 16 42.55 Scottish Cup Winners 2012 John McGlynn Scotland 26 June 2012 28 February 2013 34 10 10 14 29.41 Gary Locke Scotland 28 February 2013 12 May 2014 54 17 10 27 31.48 Robbie Neilson Scotland 12 May 2014 1 December 2016 106 62 22 22 58.49 'Head Coach' Ian Cathro Scotland 5 December 2016 1 August 2017 30 7 9 14 23.33 'Head Coach' Craig Levein Scotland 28 August 2017 31 October 2019 106 42 28 36 39.62 'Head Coach' Daniel Stendel Germany 7 December 2019 21 June 2020 17 5 5 7 29.41 Robbie Neilson Scotland 21 June 2020 Present 27 19 3 5 70.37 25 in 20 years! And Craig Levein did 6 years in two stints, leaving it 23 in 14 years! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said: 25 in 20 years! And Craig Levein did 6 years in two stints, leaving it 23 in 14 years! yeah, the 6 caretaker/joint managers bit stood out to going by the rest of the thread numbers. At least 3 caretakers during the Romanov era alone, suggests a fair few unplanned/unexpected departures, mutual consentings or sackings in there! edit: legit can't mind when he got involved at the club so possibly more than 3. At a minimum starting from Burley's stint in charge, ending wiiiith... Shabba? Edited March 14, 2021 by Thistle_do_nicely 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Caley Thistle aren't historically much of a poisoned chalice but think that might change, sadly. We are on our 11th manager in 27 years. Name From Until Played Won Drawn Lost Win % Honours / Notes Sergei Baltacha 1994 1995 40 13 10 17 32.50 Player/Manager of Caledonian F.C. prior to merger. Became manager after Inverness Thistle F.C. manager turned down offer. Player/Manager at ICT, made 9 appearances for ICT. Steve Paterson 1995 2002 329 147 92 90 44.68 Longest serving manager in Inverness CT history. 1996–97 Scottish Third Division Champion. 1998–99 Scottish Second Division Runners up and Playoff winners. 1999–2000 Scottish Challenge Cup Finalists. John Robertson 2002 2004 84 44 13 27 52.38 2003–04 Scottish First Division Champion. 2003–04 Scottish Challenge Cup Winners. Craig Brewster 2004 2006 50 17 18 50 34.00 Charlie Christie 2006 2007 67 24 18 15 35.82 Craig Brewster 2007 2009 64 22 7 35 34.38 Second Spell. Terry Butcher 2009 2013 209 87 58 64 41.63 2009–10 Scottish First Division Champion. 2009–10 Scottish Challenge Cup Finalist. John Hughes 2013 2016 122 50 31 41 41.30 2013–14 Scottish League Cup Finalist. 2014–15 Scottish Cup Winners. Richie Foran 2016 2017 45 11 14 20 24.44 John Robertson 2017 Present 137 65 34 38 47.45 Second Spell. 2017–18 Scottish Challenge Cup Winners. There's a couple of errors in that, from Wikipedia - we were promoted as runners-up in 1999 rather than play-off winners and the figures for Craig Brewsters first spell are wrong. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheJTS98 Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 11 hours ago, Thistle_do_nicely said: yeah, the 6 caretaker/joint managers bit stood out to going by the rest of the thread numbers. At least 3 caretakers during the Romanov era alone, suggests a fair few unplanned/unexpected departures, mutual consentings or sackings in there! edit: legit can't mind when he got involved at the club so possibly more than 3. At a minimum starting from Burley's stint in charge, ending wiiiith... Shabba? Chris Robinson agreed to sell to Vlad in August 2004 when Levein was getting to the end of his first spell, but I don't think the actual deal was concluded till early 2005. So Levein had already left to go to Leicester and Robbo was in charge. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Cabbage Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 For the Hibs; 1. Alex McLeish 98-01 2. Franck Sauzee 01-02 3. Bobby Williamson 02-04 4. Tony Mowbray 04-06 5. John Collins 06-07 6. Mixu Paatelainen 08-09 7. Yogi Hughes 09-10 8. Colin Calderwood 10-11 9. Pat Fenlon 11-13 10. Terry Butcher 13-14 11. Alan Stubbs 14-16 12. Neil Lennon 16-19 13. Paul Heckingbottom 19-20 14. Jack Ross 20- 14 permanent and 8 caretakers (Donald Park, Gerry McCabe, Mark Venus, Mark Proctor, Tommy Craig, Alistair Stevenson, Billy Brown, Jimmy Nicholl and Eddie May.) I’m actually surprised it’s that low we’ve changed managers really regularly tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Jocky Scott (2)February 1998June 2000 Ivano BonettiJuly 2000July 2002 Jim Duffy (2)July 2002August 2005 Gerry Britton*August 2005August 2005 Alan KernaghanSeptember 2005April 2006 Barry Smith*April 2006April 2006 Alex RaeMay 2006October 2008 David Farrell*October 2008October 2008 Jocky Scott (3)October 2008March 2010 Gordon ChisholmMarch 2010October 2010 Barry SmithOctober 2010February 2013 John BrownFebruary 2013February 2014 Paul HartleyFebruary 2014April 2017 Neil McCannApril 2017October 2018 Jim McIntyreOctober 2018May 2019 James McPakeMay 2019Present 16 changes in total. 3 Temps Jock Scott x2 A really who's who of utter melts and Jocky Scott. We can only pray for number 17. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 1. Alan Maitland 98-02 2. Alan Kernaghan 02-04 3. Billy Reid 04-05 4. Graham Roberts 05-06 5. Joe Miller 06-07 6. Colin Hendry 07-08 7. John Brown 08-09 8. Cowboy McCormack 09-10 9. Stuart Miller 10-11 10. Jim Duffy 11-14 11. Barry Ferguson 14-17 12. Jim Chapman 17 13. Danny Lennon 17- present Not as many as I thought we'd had to be honest. Duffy, Barry and Danny took our average up as we were going through a manager a season until 2011 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qpsnapper Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 QP with just the seven managers since 2000: John McCormack 1998 - Dec 2002 Kenny Brannigan Jan 2003 - Aug 2004 Billy Stark Aug 2004 to Jan 2008 Gardner Speirs Jan 2008 to Dec 2013 Angus MacPherson Jan 2014 to Sep 2018 Mark Roberts Sep 2018 to Dec 2019 Raymond McKinnon Jan 2020- date Gardner Speirs and Angus MacPherson with almost eleven years between them. Three of those who left went because they had been offered other jobs; McCormack (return to full time at Morton), Stark (Scotland U21s) and MacPherson St Mirren DoF). Only Brannigan (fighting with a supporter during a game) and Roberts (poor results) were sacked, Speirs leaving by "mutual consent". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mugen_power Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Just the 10 for Ayr...assumed it was more 1995–2002 Gordon Dalziel 2002–2004 Campbell Money 2004–2005 Mark Shanks 2005–2007 Bobby Connor 2007 Neil Watt 2007–2012 Brian Reid 2012–2014 Mark Roberts[6] 2015–2019 Ian McCall 2019–2021 Mark Kerr 2021– David Hopkin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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