TodwickOwl Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 What were your opinions of this guy? Lucky? Deserve to go up? Good manager / or good players? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Brilliant Manager 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justbeanz Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Brought the team, the fans and the club together. I'll never forget Cardiff. Good times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulva Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Right manager, right time. Certain managers fit the club. Brian Laws was the same. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcmigo Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Great manager and a wonderful fella. Lost his nerve in the championship after the wolves friendly pre season when he realised we were miles short compared to rest of the league. He reverted to players he knew and defensive tactics to try and get out of it. That team was a really nicely balanced team but I maintain we wouldn’t have got up without the loan players. O Brien, Jones, rocastle, Bruce, Quinn were immense that season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TodwickOwl Posted August 9, 2019 Author Share Posted August 9, 2019 4 minutes ago, mcmigo said: Great manager and a wonderful fella. Lost his nerve in the championship after the wolves friendly pre season when he realised we were miles short compared to rest of the league. He reverted to players he knew and defensive tactics to try and get out of it. That team was a really nicely balanced team but I maintain we wouldn’t have got up without the loan players. O Brien, Jones, rocastle, Bruce, Quinn were immense that season. Forgot about Joey, another player who was linked with us every year for about 5 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffield_dave Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 (edited) 10 minutes ago, vulva said: Right manager, right time. Certain managers fit the club. Brian Laws was the same. Yep. My main memories of the promotion season were that we weren't all that, but seemed to pull results together when we needed to. A run over Christmas/January, beating Hull away when were clinging onto the top 6 etc. Followed by real struggles in the Championship. But he got us up when we needed it. I stand by that I think a third season in League One at that time might have killed the club as we know it, so Cardiff is all that matters. Edited August 9, 2019 by sheffield_dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonofbert2 Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Just now, sheffield_dave said: Yep. My main memories of the promotion season were that we weren't all that, but seemed to pull results together when we needed to. A run over Christmas/January, beating Hull away when were clinging onto the top 6. Followed by real struggles in the Championship. But he got us up when we needed it. I stand by that I think a third season in League One at that time might have killed the club as we know it, so Cardiff is all that matters. Cardiff was the positive - and the run to get there - UNREAL! Match after he was sacked was the negative - flew home for the game - whole ground was singing “Allen is awanker!” I’m called Alan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musn't Grumble Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 41,000+ at Cardiff... Maclean's penalty with less than 10 minutes to go.... Drew Talbot making sure at the end of extra time... "I've got a shed as big as this".... Great day out and thanks in no small part to Sturrock! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmchairOwl Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Gave him a four year contract then sacked him three games later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justbeanz Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 2 minutes ago, Owling said: Gave him a four year contract then sacked him three games later. Tis the Wednesday way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGaffer Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Viva la revolution! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarn owl Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Brilliant manager and we shouldn't have sacked him. Some times best to give people time rather than get shut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owlZfan84 Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Top manager. That day out in Cardiff will live forever in my memory. Mainly because we were sat right next to the press box, and I got Big Ron to sign my programme with the fattest black marker pen you've ever seen - which I didn't give time to dry before I closed my programme. Which resulted in it looking like summat my 3 year daughter made at nursery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcmigo Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 51 minutes ago, TodwickOwl said: Forgot about Joey, another player who was linked with us every year for about 5 years He came back later in his career for a few matches but was a shadow of his former self Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmJimmers Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Great manager - shouldn't have gone up that season with chuffing James Quinn up front and Craig Rocastle in midfield. Lost the plot a bit, but have good memories of Sturrock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiJ Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Decent manager. He was a bit of a promotion specialist from that division and I remember his Plymouth team giving us an absolute whooping the season before. Probably a bit too negative when we got to the Championship, but he wasn't exactly blessed with the greatest crop of players. Sure I went to game at Coventry (A) and we had Bullen in a front three. Still - we have had far worse managers and he deffo has his part in SWFC history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 1 hour ago, mcmigo said: Great manager and a wonderful fella. Lost his nerve in the championship after the wolves friendly pre season when he realised we were miles short compared to rest of the league. He reverted to players he knew and defensive tactics to try and get out of it. That team was a really nicely balanced team but I maintain we wouldn’t have got up without the loan players. O Brien, Jones, rocastle, Bruce, Quinn were immense that season. Quinn immense......you are joking aren’t you (or confusing James and Alan).....he’d give one of our current forwards competition for a place up front in our worst ever XI.....it’s as though he didn’t know the offside rule......constantly giving free kicks away, mainly for being offside 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royalowlisback Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 One of my favourite managers, along with Big Ron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfox198 Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Brilliant manager, Cardiff will what he will be remembered for, but keeping the team up in the Championship the year after was probably a bigger achievement. Should have not been sacked as at the time we started the season with no fit strikers, which Laws benefited from once Tudgay/MacLean/ Burton got fit. Think his fall out with Allen was more to do with him being sacked as opposed to football results. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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