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Not a sacking club
Posted by Hatman on 11/11/2024, 7:28:22
In the last 20 years only Blackwell and Buckle were given less than a year. Both got the best part of a year.
Re: Not a sacking club
Posted by Three Wheels On My Wagon on 11/11/2024, 9:52:55, in reply to "Not a sacking club"
Didn't Buckle resign to take up a job in the US ?
Re: Not a sacking club
Posted by Pilkinhio on 11/11/2024, 7:32:31, in reply to "Not a sacking club"
Him too. But the point stands, we don’t have a reputation as a sacking club: 2020 and the fans give managers a chance, and we’d be an attractive bet for a manager.
It usually ends in tears though. In the nearly sixty years I’ve been going ( Allan Brown excluded as I can’t recall where he went) only three of our managers have been successful enough to be poached. Haslam and Jones failed miserably once they moved on and only Pleat went on to better things. So presumably the other dozen or so were sacked in the end.
was it Allan Brown who we permitted to have a job interview at Leicester? he didn't get the job so we sacked him. Of course, I could be completely wrong. but I am sure someone will know.
Re: Not a sacking club
Posted by Cotteridge Hatter on 11/11/2024, 9:31:23, in reply to "Re: Not a sacking club"
If memory serves me correctly that was Harry Haslam.
Allan Brown was a lovely man, had a curry with him once (organised by Blackpool Hatter, anyone remember him), he was sacked to make way for Alec Stock.
That was certainly an unjustified decision
Re: Not a sacking club
Posted by Three Wheels On My Wagon on 11/11/2024, 9:43:04, in reply to "Re: Not a sacking club"
Allan Brown did indeed apply for another job, (Leicester). He didn't need permission from the club. There were no protocols about such things in 1968.
He failed to get the job and was sacked a few days later. The Luton chairman Tony Hunt who had made a fortune in insurance was an ambitious and impatient man. He saw Brown's action as disloyalty and jeopardising the clubs plans. So he sacked Brown and appointed Stock who had recently left QPR.
Tony Hunt, was that the insurance company that went bust overnight leaving thousands without car cover?
Re: Not a sacking club
Posted by Three Wheels On My Wagon on 11/11/2024, 10:28:48, in reply to "Re: Not a sacking club"
Yes it was. V&G
Hunt was a city tycoon, albeit one of then new breed of unorthodox and aggressive outsiders. However I think his ambitions for the club were genuine- I believe he had been a luton supporter from the 1950s first division days and got involved once the club plunged down to the fourth division.
Since 63 you are correct. I believe in the 1966/7 season George Martin was sacked after an 8-1 defeat at Lincoln.
Re: Not a sacking club
Posted by Three Wheels On My Wagon on 11/11/2024, 9:49:33, in reply to "Re: Not a sacking club"
George Martin had gone about a month before the 8-1 debacle. Allan Brown was in charge for that game which finally persuaded the club they needed to loosen the purse strings.
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