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Duff
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Alan Waddle
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Duff at least has a sembelence of success to live off. Did well at Cheltenham and Barnsley, wasn't a catstrophic failure with us or Huddersfield.
Martin is the most egregious one - virtually nothing of note apart from play-off promotion with arguably the best squad in the league
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Come on, let's not rewrite history on Duff.
Left us in 18th after 1 win in 8, that after failing to win in his first 7 games.
He was very weird in his media appearances, tone deaf to what the fans wanted, and the football was in its own way as awful as anything Martin or Williams produced.
Should never have been given the job. An Andy Coleman disasterclass.
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Alan Waddle
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I don't think he was good at all here, but hindsight makes you realise how poor that squad was. A lot of people were surprised when he was sacked too, it was quite sudden. It also wasn't as if we were extraordinarily better once he'd left
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He wasn’t the right fit for us, but it was the direction the club thought they wanted to go in at the time so it’s not all his fault. I don’t think for a second that he’s a bad manager and he’ll go on to carve out a decent record at the right club. It was a mis-step but Williams wasn’t any better, he just peddled a semblance of the passing game.
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His Huddersfield side started well and then fell off a cliff due to injuries. Another dinosaur stuck in the 70s who is obsessed by running without the ball (and then wondering why half the squad have soft tissue injuries)
His attitude to the SW Derby stunk
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Totally didn't get it. Underestimated the importance of telling the fans what they want to hear. Fine to play it down behind closed doors if that's what he preferred, but it was suicidal to vocalise it publicly.
He wouldn't be alone in that mind. I don't think a lot of people outside south Wales realise it's on a par with Rangers v Celtic in these parts. Pure hatred, losing is simply not acceptable.
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Throw in that he was talking like David Icke (people talking around corridors etc.)...