Stuart McCall's managerial legacy

An unbeaten season at home was a solid achievement in League One. Won’t be many/any who could have achieved that.

Credit must be given for his play off final season, we were 34 mins plus penalties away from promotion to the Championship, something we haven’t achieved since 1996. He bettered Parkinson’s effort the season before.

His League 2 efforts have been woeful though. Bizarre really, compared to how well he did in L1.

 

Pointless thread which proves our inability to move on.
How many McCall threads are needed. I’m not sure Jose Mourinho would be talked about as much at Chelsea and he won them 3 tittles. We need to get over it and quickly.

 

He’s obviously put his heart into it for a club we all care about and tried his best. Not many of us would walk either as we care so deeply for BCFC.

To carry on slagging him after his sacking is uncalled for. Let’s move on

 

Could it not have gone in the McCall gone thread. He hasn’t been a player here for 20 years. Many of our younger fans won’t have a clue or care about the player McCall.
He’s been a terrible manager. Should never have got the job. Do we really care about his win percentage? Let’s look forward, stop talking about Parkinson, banging on about the league cup run and McCall the player and look forward to trying to get of this hole we’re in.

 

The play offs was NOT his team, it was Parkinsons team - the crap we've had in the last couple of seasons is McCalls team and shows how out of his depth he is. Its like he was playing Football Manager, couldnt be arsed with the team so went on holiday and let the players who do whatever they wanted to.

 

Hmmm...Has a recently-banned poster, named after a former player, reappeared?

I know this idea about the playoff side being Parkinson's team has been addressed here before, but I can't find the post I'm thinking of. That idea is simply not true. That side was a nice combination of Parkinsonian carry-overs complemented by players brought in under McCall, either by him alone or with the input of others. A few "homegrown" players also made it into league matches. Simplifying things and just considering under which manager a (non-homegrown) player came to the club:

Those who made 15+ league appearances:

McCall: Law, Knight-Percival, Doyle, Dieng, Vincelot, Jones, Wyke, Hiwula, McNulty, and James Hanson
Parkinson: Billy Clarke, Cullen, Darby, Marshall, McArdle, McMahon, Meredith, Morais

Cullen I suppose could go into both lists.

Those with under 15 appearances:

McCall: Kilgallon, Sattelmaier, Rabiega, Pybus, Vukcic, Gilliead, Penney, Toner
Parkinson: Anderson
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As for the "last couple of seasons", McCall was in post for less than a year, and season, and had exactly one transfer window to work with. And despite previous comments, it seems clear that he knows as well as any of us that the recruitment was not adequate. It also seems reasonable to suggest that there were outside factors influencing that recruitment, and not in a good way. It does seems that he did not have as free a hand as he would have wished.

RCB

 

Agreed, unfortunately he just isn't a very good manager. He never has been nor will he ever be suited to managing in the fourth tier. It's so odd that his teams are mentally and physically lacking when you compare to how he was as a player. You'd think that'd be one of their main characteristics.

It's over, he's had more than a fair shot with us and as you said, overall it's held the club back.

Goodbye Stuart, thanks for the efforts and good luck in the future.

 

He only bettered Parkinson’s effort from the year before because McCall had Fleetwood in the semi and not Millwall as Parkinson had. Had we played Millwall in the semi of 2017 McCall would have suffered the same Fate as Parkinson’s team

 

Just hope Width of a post don’t campaign to bring him back when the next guy gets sacked.

 

Lots of ex players go and manage their old clubs with and without success. He was one of our best players so thanks for the memories Stuart . We need to move forward ands survive this nightmare of a season. We cant keep going backwards.

 

He's gone. Can we stop trying to trash his record, let sleeping dogs lie and let his legend rebuild itself with time in the same way that Ryan McGowan became Bobby Moore because he didn't play.

Let's just move on and hope that the new bod can build himself a new epoch.

 

No, I mean trash, as in pull out all the bad points and elaborate on them. Let's just leave him alone now to rebuild his standing at BCFC,