Attendences

[AFF]

This is getting boring, so I'll re-cap.

 

You are looking for the following managers in the all-time Top 10 Hall of Fame at Clarence Park:

 

Joint No 1: Played 1, average points per game:3 [Clue:From the 70s or the 90s. Steve Ketteridge and Bob Murphy are in the list somewhere but they served for longer than one match, so it wont be either of them.]

 

No 3: Played 4, ppg: 2.25 [same clue from above]

 

No 5: Played 13, ppg: 1.92 [Clue: From the 50s]

 

No 6: Played 50, ppg: 1.84 [Clue it's either Bob Murphy or Steve Ketteridge]

 

No 8: Played 27, ppg 1.78 [Clue: as 6.]

 

 

[Oh, by the way. I've just noticed Hardings post. Hold the front page! "Former Chairman admits to trashing his own company car"]

[Iron Webbo]

"Former Chairman admits to trashing his own company car"

 

Yeah righto - even you know what he did.

[Webbo MFI]

Foo?

[Canary Saint]

No.5 Harry Gibson ? (this could be completely wrong - it's too cold to go up in the loft to check old programmes)

 

Is completly wrong ! Harry was manager for more games than that and he might of been the 60's anyway. Think there was Jock somebody before him. Do I get some sort of scarfer award even tho' I'm talking complete b*ll*cks ?

[AFF]

Webbo, you're either being rude to me or you are suggesting Frank Soo who is 23rd in the Order of Merit and was at the helm at the end of the forties/beginning of the fifties.

 

CS. That particular Gibbo was manager for 148 games from 1963-67 and with a ppg of 1.60 stands at 13th in the hall of fame.

 

There's no 'Jock' on my list although I do have a Jack Ball in 47/48.

 

No scarfer award for you CS.. No cigar, either.

 

I'm surprised that no-one has come up with 1st and 3rd. The first guy was appointed manager, played one game and won it and was then replaced. I don't know the other guy in 3rd. He was in the hot seat in March/April 1972. 4 games, ppg 2.25. His successor was Mickey Hunter, but he wasn't appointed until November 1972. It might have been ill-health, perhaps so I'd better not speculate.

 

Here's the final clue for those two in joint 1st and 3rd spots. Their surnames are spelt slightly differently but sound exactly the same.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Clark(e)

 

Was Steve Clark in charge for a game????

[AFF]

Nope

[Craddock]

Alec(Jock)Weir - 1962 to 1963

Billy Williams was fairly successful - 1948 to 1950 and 1952/53.

By the way,Ron Duke was not"Big"

[AFF]

Hi Craddock.

 

Sorry about Ron Duke. It was a play on words, you see. Ron Atkinson was known as Big Ron. So I said Big Ron Duke. A play on words. Never mind.

 

Right. I'm sick to death off this quiz. I blame Zealster for starting it and then disappearing. Now.

 

Billy Williams stands in 20th slot with 1.31 ppg from an impressive 106 matches in the hot seat. [That's another play on words, Craddock. It's not really a hot seat in the literal sense. Never mind.]

 

Alex 'Jock' Weir is 22nd with 1.28 ppg from 60. It's funny how nothing changes. Nicknames. Matt 'Matty' Hann. Alex 'Jock' Weir. perhaps he was Scottish. It's a football thing.

 

Right. The chap in 5th place with 1.92 points from 13 games from the second half of the 1957/58 season was the legend, Ted 'Bunks' Bunker.

 

Shame on you all for not knowing that Bob 'Spud' Murphy was manager for twice the number of games of Steve 'Kettle' Ketteridge.

 

That leaves the two in joint 1st and 3rd place. Same sounding surname, different spelling.

[Bluerat]

If you're sick of the quiz just give the answers and put us all out of our misery.

[AFF]

Look Bluerat. You just don't get it.

 

There's a guy who was the manager of The Mighty Saints for one game. He won it. An average of three points per game for his entire management career. He is now sitting in a retirement home for ex-managers in Eastbourne or somewhere watching SkySports T.V all day and all night. He doesn't say much but a gentlle smile flickers across his face when he sees Sven and Jose on the box. £4 million a year. What have they ever achieved? Not 3 points per game, that's for sure.

 

He closes his eyes and pictures Scott Cousins lifting the Champions League Cup in 2004, as he surely would, after The Mighty Saints continued the way he started and won every single match over a six year period and rocketed through the divisions.

 

Bitter? No, I don't think so. Who else in the eventide rest home could boast a 100% record at the helm. That said, he remembers the words spoken of Bobby Moore. When you're that good, you don't have to tell anyone.

 

The club Ferrari sits gathering dust in the garage, a sleek red reminder of happy days.

 

And you want me to simply name the guy.

 

The misery, bluerat. Enjoy for another hour or so.

[Bluerat]

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AFF said:
Right. I'm sick to death off this quiz.

Personaly i dont give a toss, but you were the one sick of it all.

[GHA EFM]

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Bluerat said:
put us all out of our misery.

All of us?

[Rob_the_Saint]

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AFF said:
The misery, bluerat. Enjoy for another hour or so.

Still waiting...

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[AFF]

Sorry Rob, I forgot!

 

Barry Nevill was at the helm from December 14th-21st 1996 and parted company with the club after one game and a 100% record.

 

In third spot in the Hall of Fame is Dave Neville, who ruled the roost from March 28th - April 25th 1972 and achieved a points per game average of 2.25 points from 4 games.

[Ted Maul]

Glad thats sorted. Can you give us a chart of goals scored per game now for each manager. How about average attendance as well. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[AFF]

Hi Ted. Stranger.

 

No more quizzes! The City held its breath over the week-end and I don't think that the good people of St Albans could cope with as much excitement for a while.

 

Barry Neville was followed in through the revolving door of the managers office by Jimmy Neighbour. Now that's the modern era, Ted, rather than the ancient history of the 1970s. Does anyone know the story of the brief but spectacularly successful reign of Barry 'Bazza' Neville?

 

[i don't, by the way. For the avoidance of doubt, this is not another quiz question.]