Its official folks. NW, has taken the club to new heights already. An incredible 50% win rate after 10 games and achieved at our highest ever level and in our most dire of cir***stances make him the undisputed winning wonder of wobbley wellie ball w-ever.
It might only be 10 games but could it also be the best ever return from the first 10 games in charge.
Whatever, there is no doubt that something remarkable is happening in this moment and so Im celebrating.
Also, very good to see the mighty millers overalll have won more than lost over our history...and that really is worth being c-o-c-k-a-hoop about.
-- Edited by ian on Friday 8th of April 2016 12:12:50 PM
1. Whatever happened to Emlyn Hughes?
2. Strictly speaking, by your measure, Darren Patterson is Rotherham's greatest ever manager with a whopping 75% win rate
I'm not a lover of win ratio stats Ian. They never tell the whole story. You could have a win ratio over a season of 0% and stay up by drawing every game and getting 46 points (most extreme of examples but it illustrates the point). As S8 points out, over a short period of time stats can be skewed.
I think I am right to say that by the win percentage method, in his second spell at Palace (over about twenty five games or so) Warnock was statistically the worst manager with more than five games in charge (ie other than caretakers) they have had in their entire history. Read into that what you will.
One thing we can surely all agree on, by any measure Warnock and his staff have done a fantastic job to get us into the position we now find ourselves in and more power to them. An amazing job not quite finished yet! Him and us seems to be combination that just works.
It was also done with a squad of players which was largely of Poterfield's making with the addition of Gow, McBride, (who can forget the hillsborough divot) and himself. He also brought in Mimms but if memory serves Mountford remained in goal that season
Unlike some, he was wise enough to keep a winning side together and only strengthened with a bit of Div 2 /Championship experience, where the experience was in his view needed.
Strange how it all went belly up the following season
