Best And Worst Head Coach Since Pozzos

Marco Silva best
Worst QSF 2 or Wilder. Thought Ismael was awful as well but didn’t cause much damage relative to QSF.

 

Snake - best
Hodgson & Wilder - joint worst

 

Oh yeah Hodgson. Good grief.

 

Hodgson by a long way. At least Wilder tried.

 

Silva and Joka the best. I liked Zola but not sure he very tactically astute. Worst was Hodgson by miles

 

Hodgson showed such disdain for us, it was almost funny, but has to go down as the worst manager in terms of the person.

I think QSF 2.0 was the worst appointment given the context and ultimate outcome, Hodgson was just a bit of a Hail Mary and whoever we appointed probably would’ve had the same outcome, he was just a ****, but QSF 2.0 had disastrous consequences.

Best: Silva pre Everton approach.

 

Best - Javi Gracia. FA Cup final and best league position in the Premier League.

Too close to call for the worst, there has been a few ropey ones.

 

Zola I think for the charisma, a lot of the football, and the fact that back then everything under Pozzo was new and felt fresh, radical and exciting.

Honourable mentions for Slav and Xisco as they got us promoted, Silva as he was clearly a good coach, Gracia, and I’m even going to say TC up to Dec 27 too.

Worst by a long way would be Hodgson. Charmless and useless, a fatal combination. I wasn’t a fan of Beppe either, or Ranieri, while the Garcia then McKinley business was strange too. I didn’t like Ismael or Ivic much either.

Alonso would most likely be my least favourite should he be appointed.

 

Hodgson

Only one who I would call a **** to his face

 

Objectively best - Marco Silva

Only one with a very clear plan. Thanks Everton.

 

Best: Gracia

Worst: Hodgson. A wholly unlikeable, arrogant, rude old ****.

 

Best: Silva
Worst: Hodgson.

Therefore, welcome back to the Vic for a 2nd spell Roy!

 

I'm very surprised by the number of Silvas appearing as the best. We won 1 of his final 11 league games, and given our trend of performances under him, I believe we would have had about a 70% chance of relegation had he stayed. He was every bit as sullen, unlikeable and ultimately ineffective as Hodgson was after Everton came calling.

 

Zola gave us some beautiful memories and false dawns
Sannino gave us Italian hoofball and insanity
Oscar Garcia gave us another head coach to add to the stats. We gave him a heart attack.
Billy McKinlay gave us 2 matches. Or was it one? We gave him an unbeaten managerial record, and utter humiliation
Joka gave us 5-0 at Craven Cottage and promotion. A poor sacking, no matter what Duxberry said about contract negotiations and wage demands.
QSF1 gave us solidity and got lucky with the strikers. He binned off peak Vydra, never forget that. I liked him though, first time round.
Mazzari gave us gravitas, tobacco breath, an admirable refusal to speak English, and 2 goalkeepers
Silva gave us some great football and disastrous egoism
Javi Gracia gave us heaven, hell and a swift return to earth
QSF2 gave us less than nothing
Nigel P gave us something different and could have done more. Watford 3 Liverpool 1 (or was it Liverpool 0?) and the hope that killed came hand in hand with mythical stories about wolf killing. A dramatic and disastrous sacking.
Hayden Mullins gave us a night against Man City which was only a drubbing, not a complete gang rape.
Vladimir Ivic gave us joyless wins, draws and a respectable points total.
Xisco gave us a smile, a happy squad, a promotion, and alarming moments thereafter.
Title winning Claudio gave us a new level of disappointment and signs of significant ageing
Roy Hodgson gave up before he arrived. Retired from football management, he joined us as a pisstake.
Rob Edwards gave us a notoriously poor pre season, and an unconvincing start of season. But a strong jaw and hairline. (And a more poetic riposte to Gino’s sacking than anyone could have imagined.)
Slavan Bilic gave us some good wins (including 4-0 against the Bedfordshire bubonics?) and the possibility of more. Undone by injuries, undermined by Gino. A very poor sacking.
Chris Wilder gave us proof, if needed, that the club was broken.
Valerian Ismael gave us the falsest dawn in August, then Rajovic. A contract extension and continued decline.
Tom Cleverly gave us the unexpected, the unedited, the expected, and the inevitable. And pushed Pozzo to the edge, eliciting not 1 but 2 statements from the silent one. He gave his heart and left many heartbroken …sheep without a shepherd, and a broken Baah. A poor but predictable sacking.

 

I'd vote Jokanovic as the best and Ismael as the worst, by far.

The worst decision was sacking Bilic.

 

Snake best
Owl worst

 

King Marco and Frankie Zola were the best. Made my cold dark heart flutter like never before.

Worst were Ismael and Hodgson. Devastating, dreadful appointments that might as well have been made by a Luton fan.

 

Fave: Joka - Silent menace and a promotion

Worst: Hodgson - described by someone on here as "an insufferable chode", which was quite good

 

That’s why personally I said Pre-Everton. His record and how we played before the approach, coupled with he’s record since clearly show he’s a more than capable manager.

The Everton approach coupled with the fact we didn’t give him what he wanted player wise are the clear context for the 1 win in 11.

What I do agree is odd is so many people are going for Hodgson based on personality, which by the same logic would mean far less people should go for Silva given he wanted out of our club at the first opportunity.

If we’re basing it on talent and outcomes, Hodgson is definitely not the worst but Silva is up there as the best, though.

 

If that was the case he double-crossed them by losing to Derby and Stoke, causing them to drop!

 

Jokanivic Best

Worst - to many to mention!

 

I know it's post Pozzo but I'm including all the ones I've seen.

Best
1. GT (of course)
2. Ken Furphy (got us to the heady heights of the second division and that FA Cup quarter and semi).
3. Tom Cleverley (maybe a bit because of fresh memories, but a great servant to wfc both as a player and a manager. I liked his clear and honest as possible communication too.)
4. Walter Mazzari (greatly underrated. Even kept Deeney in line. A good tactician. Surly. A smoker. A lot to like about him.)
6. Zola (entertaining football perhaps given a shine by the influx of quality new players at that time).
7. Joka (not a great communicator, but a decent manager and tactician)
8. Quique Sánchez (some exciting football on occasions and famous flamenco auntie)
9. Beppe Sanino (we saw his face on the pitch, but then he got upset and 'threw the apron' as we working classes say).
10. Malky McKay

Worst in no particular order
Mike Keen
George Kirby
Hodgson
García (DNS)
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and way worst of all:-
Dave 'bloody' Bassett

 

Joka the best for me. Zola was fun, but we probably should have been promoted with that squad...

Hodgson & QSF 2.0 the joint worst for me.

 

Must need an even bigger watch.

 

Best Jokanovic
Worst Hodgeson

 

Best - Gracia. Did an incredible job with a fairly average group, a group that was fighting to stay up when he came to the club and took over from Snake!

Worst - Hodgson. Say no more.

 

Best: Walter Mazzari for avoiding relegation:

Watford (4-2-3-1): Gomes; Janmaat (Eleftheriou 39), Behrami, Holebas, Mason; Cleverley, Doucoure; Amrabat (Deeney 58), Capoue, Niang (Pereira 75); Okaka.

Worst: Rob "Buy my motivational speaking course" Edwards

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_Watford_F.C._season

Mazzari is the most underrated Watford manager of all time

 

Best - Javi
Worst - Roy

 

Joka, QSF v1.0, Mazz, Silva, Gracia were all superb appointments, made at the right time.

Every appointment since 2019 (excl maybe Pearson) has been poor. QSF v2.0, Ranieri & Hodgson the worst.