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So was Phil Brown and Craig Brown.
Davis preferred candidate and Proctor to return (LEP)
So was Phil Brown and Craig Brown.
Phil Brown has achieved more at a higher level than Davies, winning promotion from the Championship and keeping a team in the Premier League. What was your point again?
Davies returning wouldn't be a disaster I'm sure but if the next 2 games go okay then on the basis of MK Dons and Carlisle I'd be happy to see Unsworth given the job until the end of the season then take things from there. In many ways I think we're better off without the return of an ego like Davies.
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I'll not take adviced on managers from the biggest blind faither of all who hero worshipped that useless cunt Irvine thanks.
Billy Davies managed the best side we have had in decades, I reckon anybody who wouldn't have him back because they're still sulking about him leaving last time is a twat.
This is only true if you're very careful with the way you phrase it, though. Billy Davies also won promotion from the Championship - and he wasn't afforded the opportunity Brown was to keep the team in the Premier League. On a different but certainly relevant note, I think Davies has actually reached the play-offs at a higher level than ours with every team he's ever managed - as well as saving one of them from relegation when he first took them over (something Brown failed to do with us).
For me, there's a choice to make between appointing a bloody good football manager who is a horrid little man or a wholly inexperienced football manager who is one of life's good guys. I crave success and for that reason alone I'd plump with the former.
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They got to the play offs with three different clubs?
Not really. Apart from 2 good seasons at Hull, Phil Brown has had a poor record every other time he's been in charge. Craig Brown hadn't managed at club level for a very long time. Proven international record, but not club when we appointed him.
Apart from his brief spell in the Premier League with Derby, when they overachieved and weren't ready to play there, he has brought winning football. Billy Davies is a very good manager.
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Billy Davis? Never heard of him.
As for Billy Davies, the former North End deserter, and bore draw specialist, who inherited a fine squad at Deepdale, I am amazed at the level of love some people have for this man.
I remember attending matches under Davies, and I spent most of the match chatting to my pal than watching, clapping, or cheering any action.
If you want boring, attritional, low scoring affairs, then Billy Davies is your man. Good luck. I'm not paying to support that deserter.
As for Billy Davies, the former North End deserter, and bore draw specialist, who inherited a fine squad at Deepdale, I am amazed at the level of love some people have for this man.
I remember attending matches under Davies, and I spent most of the match chatting to my pal than watching, clapping, or cheering any action.
If you want boring, attritional, low scoring affairs, then Billy Davies is your man. Good luck. I'm not paying to support that deserter.
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He is proven to not be good enough for two of the clubs and to have shat all over the third. Yes, I for one am upset at the fact he jumped ship and took all of his staff with him. If he came back then I guarantee that that sentiment would pollute the atmosphere at deepdale unless he got off to a flier. Any nominal success would lead to newspaper articles linking him with this, that or the other club and nobody would expect him to be loyal in any way whatsoever (as demonstrated). Recruiting him would be short term nonsense for me- we'd be left with nothing but spite towards him.
What? He only managed for seven months before becoming Hull manager.
Couldn't agree more. End of story!!!
Was his record at Derby good? No, that's why he was sacked. Was his final season in charge of Hull good? No, that's why he was sacked. Was his near year in charge of us good? No, that's why he was sacked. Apart from 2 seasons at Hull, he has a poor record.
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Absolutely bonkers.
I suppose the football under Simpson and Irvine was much better was it?? Let's not even mention Ferguson and Brown. I tell you what's boring, getting fucking battered every week like we did under those two.
Paolo, I used to bump into you all the time in the Davies-era and you were full of happiness and delight at wins and good solid performances from PNE, so what has changed your opinion since then?
In my eyes Davies gave us the a combination of grit, determination, will to win and above all else confidence - things we have lacked since. I also remember the games were not bore-draws apart from a bad spell at home at the start of 05/06 until we thrashed Hull 3-0 in November that year. There were plenty of great games over the two years. Away from home, we actually held our own and had a decent chance of winning games. Yes, we drew too many, but I'd take away draws over embarrasing defeats which we have had in the last 3 seasons any day!
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I think Davies slept with his wife bud.
Yeah your right, I hated winning all the time. I also didn't like walking to Deepdale expecting there to be 14-15000 on for a routine league game all expecting us to win. They were dire times indeed. What we want is someone who will come in and say "you score 3, we'll score 4."
How anybody can argue against Davies being given the job is beyond me. I still don't think it will happen for the record but if it does I'll be delighted.
Draw specialist? 4th best win percentage of all our managers since 1950, 2nd best points per game average for the same period. It's called getting results which Billy Davies for the majority of his managerial career has done.
Just out of interest norky,who had the 3 better win percentages?
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