Top 5 Best/worst Afc Managers

[BWG]

Had this debate recently at a work's do. Fergie was obviously unanimously voted as the best, but as there was a fairly wide age range the other positions were fiercely contested by names such as Smith, Turnbull and Halliday.

 

Worst manager for me was McGhee but there seemed to be more vitriol spouted towards Miller.

 

Top 5:

 

1. Fergie

2. McInnes

 

-Cannot another good manager in the flesh in my 26 years. Probably was at some Smith games I can't remember though.

 

Worst 5:

 

1. McGhee

2. Miller

3. Paterson

4. Calderwood

5. Aitken

 

(Revised #4 to Caldo. Think I just blotted him out of my mind).

[RAZOR]

Another Summer thread.

[Dal Riata Don]

I've got a suspicion that the average age on this site is too low for a decent account of the best we've had.

[Dal Riata Don]

Another Summer thread.

What % of the posters here regularly go to games?

 

I don't think that it's high - hence stuff like this at a time like this.

[ebbe]

Best Skovdahl

 

Worst Calderwood

[StandFree1982]

Anyone around 30 or under will struggle to make a top 3, let alone top 5. It is much easier to name a bottom 5 though.

[Nelly]

In my time watching the Dons...

 

Best:

 

1. Fergie

2. Smith

3. McInnes

4. W. Miller

5. Calderwood (first 3.5 seasons)

 

Worst

 

1. McGhee

2. A. Miller

3. Aitken

4. Porterfield

5. Calderwood (last 1.5 seasons)

 

Not including useless caretakers like Hegarty & Spiers etc.

[Dynamo]

In my time of watching the Dons would have to say McInnes is the best so far.

 

The worst is a hotly contested spot, obviously there was Paterson - an "alcoholic gambling bastard" as I heard one kid call him when I worked with him. Was very hard not to laugh at the time. Not the worst though IMO. The club were going through massive cost cutting exercises long before some of our peers, hence how shite we were.

Calderwood gets an honourable mention but can't be considered worst, given league positions over his tenure but his cup performances were a major embarrassment to the club. I will say that it would have been interesting (in a masochist kind of way) to see how he would have fared in McGhee's season given the state of the squad that summer...

Alex Miller - Generally considered a joke but can't really remember much about him.

McGhee is the worst hands down. 9-0....1-5 in Europe....we were touch and go re going down if he stayed. An arrogant prick at that.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

 

Alex Miller - Generally considered a joke but can't really remember much about him.

 

Lucky bastard.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Best

 

1. Fergie

2. McInnes

2. Alex Smith and Jocky Scott (Co-Managers)

3. Willie Miller

4. Alex Smith (on his own, after the magic 'tache went to Dunfermline)

 

Worst

 

With the exception of McInnes mentioned above, (and JC to a degree), all managers ot Aberdeen FC since WIllie Miller have been pish. I refer you to our trophy record over 20 years till Deekes arrival.

 

Special mention to Alex Miller for being particularly hopeless. I struggle to rank the others, at least Skovdahl had a comedic element to his tenure.

 

Sacking Willie Miller was a knee-jerk error we took ages to recover from.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Another Summer thread.

 

Awa' and get yer sun lotion, miserable bugger

[Dal Riata Don]

 

Worst

 

1. McGhee

2. A. Miller

3. Aitken

4. Porterfield

5. Calderwood (last 1.5 seasons)

 

Not including useless caretakers like Hegarty & Spiers etc.

Why was he bad in your opinion?

[Dal Riata Don]

Ebbe was the most disappointing for me (I'm 34 btw).

 

When I read what he'd done with Brondby I thought he'd take us to the next level for sure - little did I know it could well have been division 1.

 

Thank you Brockville!

 

I can still recall two back-page headlines (albeit from the Record) after we were thumped by Celtic;

 

One was 'What's he Dane to deserve it?' and the other, in reference to our keeper at that time 'Breach of the Preace'.

 

Pelle would be my number 2 in terms of disappointment. Seeing what he'd done at Calley gave me hope but alas it was in vain.

[360]

McInnes can't be considered to be one of the best.

 

He's a Weegie, Rocket didn't like the look of him, and Karl_Fletcher felt inclined to email the club when he was appointed to make them aware of his disgust.

[StandFree1982]

Interesting that people are placing McInnes above Smith, who won us the double.

[StandFree1982]

McInnes can't be considered to be one of the best.

 

He's a Weegie, Rocket didn't like the look of him, and Karl_Fletcher felt inclined to email the club when he was appointed to make them aware of his disgust.

 

That's pretty much everybody.

[RTYD]

Best

Fergie

Turnbull

Smith

McInnes (will go above Smith soon

W Miller

 

Worst

Alex Miller

McGhee

Bonthrone

Ebbe

Some other cunt

[cruzcampo3]

Best

Fergie

Turnbull

Smith

McInnes (will go above Smith soon

W Miller

 

Worst

Alex Miller

McGhee

Bonthrone

Ebbe

Some other cunt

[rumpus]

In my time watching the Dons...

 

Best:

 

1. Fergie

2. Smith

3. McInnes

4. W. Miller

5. Calderwood (first 3.5 seasons)

 

Worst

 

1. McGhee

2. A. Miller

3. Aitken

4. Porterfield

5. Calderwood (last 1.5 seasons)

 

Not including useless caretakers like Hegarty & Spiers etc.

 

I remember wanting Hegarty to get the job permanently.

 

Very animated on the touchline and always seemed to have lost his voice due to non stop encouragement and direction.

 

He was a good guy doing the best he could with the players at his disposal.

[Guest the shepherd]

Best

1. Ferguson

2. Smith

3. Turnbull

4. McNeill

5. Wm. Miller

 

Worst

1. McGhee

2. Skovdahl

3. Alex Miller

4. Paterson

5. Pearson

[cruzcampo3]

Skovdahl should be no where near the worst, he got us to two cup finals considering the dross after him and for 4 year prior wasn't able to do that either.

[Dal Riata Don]

Is Craig Brown worth a mention on the worst list?

[cruzcampo3]

Is Craig Brown worth a mention on the worst list?

depends what we are considering the worst, he signed some the flare players in this current team.

[Guest the shepherd]

Fair enough he got us to two cup finals, finished bottom of the league in his first season and had inherited a team of 'challenging' players (i am trying to be polite here) bar Eoin Jess from Alex Miller/Paul Hegarty, his defeatist and carefree attitude turned our club into a laughing stock.

[Guest the shepherd]

Is Craig Brown worth a mention on the worst list?

Absolutely no chance. The man's a God. Thank fuck he came to Aberdeen when he did as we would have been playing lower league football by now if he hadn't.

[Nelly]

Why was he bad in your opinion?

 

Just remember the fitba being boring as hell. There were only so many 0-0, 1-0, 1-1 games that a lad in his teens could take before finding something more fun to do on a Saturday afternoon. His signings were pretty gash too.

[Tommy]

Best 5

Fergie

Turnbull

Smith/Scott combo.

McInnes

W Miller

An honourable mention to Ally McLeod and Billy McNeil.

 

Worst

Alex Miller

McGhee

Others annoyed me but difficult to select worse than that two.

[Guest the shepherd]

 

Just remember the fitba being boring as hell. There were only so many 0-0, 1-0, 1-1 games that a lad in his teens could take before finding something more fun to do on a Saturday afternoon. His signings were pretty gash too.

Charlie Nicholas and Peter Nicholas were great signings by Ian Porterfield. However Gary Hackett bar his performance at Parkhead and Tom Jones.......

[fine-n-dandy]

Best.

1. McInnes

 

 

All the rest is in the past, so don't care anymore really.

[tommo1903]

depends what we are considering the worst, he signed some the flare players in this current team.

It was in his jeans to sign them though.