The Not606 All Time Saints XI (Manager)

So here it is then, the Saints team that you have deemed to be the best ever....

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Just imagine Rickie feeding off of the pinpoint crossing of Terry Paine, the marauding fullbacks causing havoc, Matty scoring goals out of nothing with Morgan and Spike Armstrong providing the industry and passing in the midfield and of course Micky running all day and never letting the oppo's defense have a moments rest. There are goals galore with a massive 826 scored from the front 6 during their time with the club.
Then there is the Fort Knox central defense of Jose and Killer in front of Antti.

Now, for this special team we require a special Manager to get the best out of them. Just vote for one of them in the list,

 

I note Ian Branfoot was not on the list! Has to be Lawrie

 

Where is Gordon Strachan on this list !!

 

Oh ****!...I knew that I had forgotten someone

Mods, could you replace Dave Jones with Gordon Strachan please?

 

Done.

Has to be Lawrie though. Won us the FA Cup, and nearly the double a few years later. Was also the last manager to stay for more than a couple of years.

 

Without Ted Bates we simply wouldn't be where we are today as a recognized top flight club.
What he did as a player/manager/chairman/president is extraordinary and those foundations meant even when times were tough, we had something for Markus and now Katharina to rebuild the club on.

All the other managers on the list have done great jobs but their tenures were too short to be legacy building.

Lawrie is the obvious choice and until a manager wins a cup or consistently deliveres in the league then he will always be the best

 

Special mentions to Koeman and Adkins but has to be Strachan for me.

 

I agonised for all of 2 seconds over this one, as I am such an admirer of Ronald. But it has to be Lawrie, and not just because he won the Cup, took us back to Wembley for the League Cup, won promotion and then produced a top six team that was 3 wins off the double (no one mention Adrian Heath. FLT and I get a little steamed). He put Southampton on the map as a cultured football team. For all that Mr Southampton did for the club - and it was massive - towards the end of his time he turned out some bloody horrible teams. Lawrie could name Osgood, Channon, Keegan, Ball, Shilton, Watson on various team sheets. The "all stars" team entertained us royally, but then he created a new team with the brilliant Stevie Williams at its heart, and Danny Wallace to terrify any defence.

Had he been given the support he needed the history of this club would have been very different.

 

Strachen for me. Although I'm a big fan of the four that over saw our latest ascent: Pardew, Adkins, Pochettino and Koeman.

I apologise in advance for being born in the 80s.

 

Okay, this is the easy one for now - Big Mac, but I wonder what we might say in two or three years time

 

Are you saying that you needed to have seen a manager manage to tell if he was our best or not?

 

Same as I said to Tom.

 

Look, the fact is I didn't support Saints in 1976 because I didn't exist. That was not, and never will be, my era. I feel I can only vote for stuff that's happened in my era. Quite frankly I have no idea what kind of manager McMenemy was and as result I can't vote for him.

 

Nigel for me, as stated before, it's hard to vote for someone who I've never seen manage, or wasn't alive for when he was our manager!

 

It's a real shame then that you have no knowledge or care little about our history. If you did, you'd know a little about how important someone like key managers were. I can sort of understand the seeing players thing (although I disagree) but with a manager that just seems blind to the past and our history.

I think the thread was about the best Saints, not the best in your era.

 

Go learn more about your club then.

 

I've got a general idea of our history but I can't be ****ed to go back and look at every manager and every player who has ever been at the club. The past is the past, I intend to look forwards not backwards. Look, of course the FA Cup win was a huge thing but as I wasn't alive to enjoy it at the time, it's just a big piece of our history for me and I have no emotional attachment to that day and the players and the manager of that era.

 

You can't be arsed? Sums it up. No more need be said. Very disrespectful post to the history of this club. Shame.

 

I agree with FLT. I was only 3 when he left but it doesn't matter. Everyone should be able to judge past managers and for me the winner has to be Lawrie McMenemy.

 

Jeez, what an overreaction. I really don't know what the issue is here. I am voting for who I think is the best manager who has managed Southampton FC who I actually know anything about. What the **** is googling Lawrie McMenemy going to tell me apart from that he was the manager who won the FA Cup? Thoroughly researching the history isn't going to change my mind.