POLL : Who is the worst Rovers manager whose name begins with “I”?

[Herbie6590]

Have your say…

[Frederick]

Ismael

[arbitro]

Iley and Ince.

[funny-old-game]

All three!! 

[bazza]

Too early to judge Ismael. But it's not looking good.Not a lot of us olduns left who remember Iley but him and Ince were employed by a good football club and they both failed miserably.

Ismael is a pawn in the shocking mess that belongs to Venkys.

Edited Wednesday at 15:50 by bazza
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[GHD]

2 hours ago, bazza said:

Too early to judge Ismael. But it's not looking good.Not a lot of us olduns left who remember Iley but him and Ince were employed by a good football club and they both failed miserably.

Ismael is a pawn in the shocking mess that belongs to Venkys.

Yeah but those in charge then were big enough to put their hands up and admit the error

[johnradfordsubbuteo2]

This is genius and very funny. Thanks for improving my dark mood.

[dingles staying down 4ever]

Isteve IKean

[StHelensRover]

I'm too young to remember Iley, so while I can see his stats in black and white, I don't have to recall memory of watching it. 

I went for Ince, his tenure was dire on the pitch and comical at times off it. Was in way over his head, nothing was ever his fault and he just looked permanently confused. Awful.

As others have mentioned, Ismael has been as bad, but Ince walked into a well run club so arguably had better infrastructure in place to succeed. 

Might have to come back and re-vote for Ismael if we're bottom on boxing day.

[Mike E]

Ince for me. That notepad with ‘shoot’ written on it (whether real or not) just summed up the amateur hour with him there.

Still don’t think he was worse than Coyle or Kean though.

[Leonard Venkhater]

On 01/10/2025 at 08:22, Herbie6590 said:

Have your say…

This made me laugh...and there's no i in team lol

[Roversider]

For those of us old enough Iley was appalling.  The loss of the magician Dave Wagstaffe to Blackpool was heartbreaking. 

[booth]

Paul Ince. Had a decent squad and was backed yet still botched it.

Bringer of Keith Andrews.

[joey_big_nose]

Ince genuinely seemed like he had no idea what he was doing. After he left us he sank back down the divisions. 

I dont know Iley - before my time. But for all his shortcomings Ismael does seem to know the basics of being a manager.

[Andy]

Not old enough to know who 'Iley' is, but I'm pretty confident that Ince takes this title.

He was generally a bit dim, but clearly tactically inept and living on the back of a highly successful on-field career.

It's no coincidence that he's faded into managerial obscurity.

[dingles staying down 4ever]

Iley was the first manager Rovers had that I was brought up on as a seven year old so its a bit vague. Ince was a strange one arrived with a 4-0 win at Everton and it was downhill from there are on in.

Ismael started badly and it ain't getting better so if there was option all equally inept, I would vote for that.

Edited 7 hours ago by dingles staying down 4ever

[Herbie6590]

As the poll inches towards its close, essentially I suspect that if you were old enough then Iley wins this hands down but it’s true that Ince squandered more resources.

[J*B]

I can’t imagine how bad Iley must have been to take a vote ahead of Ince. 

[Parsonblue]

5 minutes ago, J*B said:

I can’t imagine how bad Iley must have been to take a vote ahead of Ince. 

He was bad, believe me.  A disaster from day one.  He got my vote without me having to think about it.  Replacing Dave Wagstaffe with an over the hill John Aston - unbelievable!

[jim mk2]

The truth is they've all been poor managers and it's hard to say which has been worst, though Ismael could yet prove us wrong.

Watched Rovers get tonked 4-0 at West Ham under Iley and we were awful, one of the worst performances I've seen from a Rovers team. He also gets my vote 

[Gav]

51 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

The truth is they've all been poor managers and it's hard to say which has been worst, though Ismael could yet prove us wrong.

Watched Rovers get tonked 4-0 at West Ham under Iley and we were awful, one of the worst performances I've seen from a Rovers team. He also gets my vote 

John Pickering was manager, Iley had been sacked by then I believe.