Rank Our Managers

[northwalian dragon]

Originally Posted by Ruabon Red

The words ‘non-league era’ must be amongst the most depressing ever mentioned in connection with Wrexham Football Club.
Who would have thought when we fell through the trapdoor that it would become an era???

8% of our entire history has now been in Non-league

[Red Dragon Froomie]

1. Ricketts
2. Saunders
3. Wilkin
4. Keates
5. Morrell
6. Little
7. Davies
8. Mills
9. Barrow
10. Hughes

[LWR]

Regardless of you opinion on Keates.

If you've got Little above Keates. Then you're not being objective.

[Haruki]

Originally Posted by LWR

Regardless of you opinion on Keates.

If you've got Little above Keates. Then you're not being objective.

I have little above Keates. And if i am honest i think i was being very generous putting Keates as high as number 7. Keates is a one dimensional manager who can only play back to the walls, try and nick a 1-0 win football, You don't get promoted playing that way.
Let me show you how i "objectively" put Little above Keates. Little had a poor time at Wrexham but he had previously been a successful manager at all levels of the game, Premier League and non league. Keates has a track record of failure. He had a worse record than Gary Mills in his first half season, had a reasonable run for a few months then tailed off badly in his second before he left. Relegated Walsall then returned to us and failed to improve what Hughes had done and took us to the bottom of the National League, the worst position in our history, At least there is something there with Little to know he had a good managerial background, there is just nothing at all with Keates.

AcCtually responding to you makes me question why i didn't put Barrow ahead of Keates for the same reasons.

[andy buckley]

Apart from Morrell and wilkin they are all rank 😊

[Vorporix]

1. Saunders
2. Ricketts
3. Wilkin
4. Morrell
5. Keates
6. Little
7. Davies
8. Mills
9. Barrow
10. Hughes

[northwalian dragon]

Ricketts - P24 W13 D8 L3 = 1.96PPG
Morrell - P140 W73 D31 L36 = 1.78PPG
Saunders - P155 W64 D44 L47 = 1.52PPG
Wilkin - P61 W23 D21 L17 = 1.47PPG
Mills - P64 W26 D13 L25 = 1.42PPG
Hughes - P29 W11 D7 L11 = 1.38PPG
Keates - P102 W35 D32 L35 = 1.34PPG
Barrow - P12 W5 D1 L6 = 1.33PPG
Little - P11 W4 D2 L5 = 1.27PPG
Davies - P9 W1 D4 L4 = 0.78PPG

[OneLoveWrexham]

Keates record is looking grim but he’s cheap.....

[davewilli]

Originally Posted by northwalian dragon

Ricketts - P24 W13 D8 L3 = 1.96PPG
Morrell - P140 W73 D31 L36 = 1.78PPG
Saunders - P155 W64 D44 L47 = 1.52PPG
Wilkin - P61 W23 D21 L17 = 1.47PPG
Mills - P64 W26 D13 L25 = 1.42PPG
Hughes - P29 W11 D7 L11 = 1.38PPG
Keates - P102 W35 D32 L35 = 1.34PPG
Barrow - P12 W5 D1 L6 = 1.33PPG
Little - P11 W4 D2 L5 = 1.27PPG
Davies - P9 W1 D4 L4 = 0.78PPG

Good statistics but is only part of the picture and I guess Darlo's stats would stand up. Morrell inherited our best NL squad with a winning mentality and to some extents so did Ricketts who was quick to acknowledge he had inherited a solid spine to a team. Saunders achieved the most but had more time to experiment and to finally get the quality needed make us a consistant top 5 side.