Here's my list of the best to worst burnley managers in my life time (born 1987). Started watching Burnley under Jimmy Mullen.

Dyche
Ternent
Coyle
Mullen
Heath
Howe
Cotterall
Laws
Waddle


What's yours?

I'd be interested to hear from the older posters because apart from Potts I know very little about the managers from Potts to Mullen

I would personally put Cotterill above Heath. He worked a miracle keeping us up in that first year he took over.

You've missed one out.

Howe has he managed to miss one out...?

Oh yeah haha I will edit

How about these not in any particular order

Cliff Brixton
Alan Brown
Billy Dougall
Harry Potter
Jimmy Adamson
Now I am struggling until we get to
Stan Tennant
Owen Coyle
Sean Dyche

Remember the good old days of Tommy Cavanagh & John Benson?

lancastrian wrote:How about these not in any particular order

Cliff Brixton
Alan Brown
Billy Dougall
Harry Potter
Jimmy Adamson
Now I am struggling until we get to
Stan Tennant
Owen Coyle
Sean Dyche

I don't recall Harry potter ...

tim_noone wrote:I don't recall Harry potter ...

Yeah i think we got him off Hogwarts.

Yes...I recall him now through the mists of time and exotic cigarettes.

Can't remember the Tennant chap

John Haworth
Harry Potts
Sean Dyche

The top three.

Quicknick wrote:John Haworth
Harry Potts
Sean Dyche

The top three.

Potts dyche adamson.

BEST

Harry Potts
Jimmy Adamson
Sean Dyche
Jimmy Mullen
Stan Ternent
Adrian Heath
Steve Cotterill
Eddie Howe
Owen Coyle

WORST

Joe Brown
John Bond
John Benson
Martin Buchan
Tommy Cavanagh
Chris Waddle
Brian Laws

tim_noone wrote:Potts dyche adamson.

How can you not include Haworth? He took us up, won the cup and won the first division.

Not sure how Adrian Heath can be on anyone's best manager list , when it was John Ward who did all the hard work .

joey13 wrote:Not sure how Adrian Heath can be on anyone's best manager list , when it was John Ward who did all the hard work .

Apart from falling out with people right, left and centre, Heath was a disaster without John Ward.

tim_noone wrote:I don't recall Harry potter ...

It was a magic time

BEST

Harry Potts
Jimmy Mullen
Stan Ternent
Sean Dyche
Jimmy Adamson
Steve Cotterill

WORST

Adrian Heath
Eddie Howe
Joe Brown
John Benson
Martin Buchan
Tommy Cavanagh
John Bond
Chris Waddle
Brian Laws
Owen Coyle

Can only go off my lifetime;

Adamson
Dyche
Coyle
Mullen
Howe
Heath
Cotterill
Potts
Miller
Waddle
Bond
Ternent
Laws
Brown
Benson
Buchan
Cavanagh

Quicknick wrote:How can you not include Haworth? He took us up, won the cup and won the first division.

How can I not include Haworth ...even my mutha who's 87 is to young to remember him!!

I was very Young when Heath managed us and he was one of my favourite players at the time.

Tim Noone, you don't have to do. His record is the best.

tim_noone wrote:I don't recall Harry potter ...

Poor bonus system in those days even the best players only got a quid each.

And a bag of popcorn...

Best Dyche (although I absolutely love Ternant)

Worst Cavanagh

Dyche (obviously)
Coyle (Love or loathe him, he achieved the impossible and had us walking on air)
Ternent (not much to say, love the guy)
Mullen (started the comeback)
Howe (built a promotion winning side)
Cotterill (see Howe)
Laws (not the anti Christ people would have you believe. He had no chance of keeping us up when the club's heart was ripped out and left us around the top 6)
Waddle (awful season that improved dramatically when he stopped listening to Roeder. Two great signings in Creaney and Payton)
Heath (as above, useless without Ward).

Best: Adamson & Dyche.
Worst : Benson & Cavanagh

claretfern wrote:Worst : Benson & Cavanagh

If anyone was around at the time it is impossible to disagree with those two.

Think you should add Buchan into that mixture - it was a desperate time.

Fretters wrote: Howe (built a promotion winning side)

He didn't though.

What he did was bring some very decent players to the club with the help of some very decent money to work with. The problem was that he couldn't build a promotion winning side.

It took the current manager with the help of his free transfers in Heaton, Jones and Arfield to build a promotion winning side.

There was only one man who built that promotion winning side.

Bin Ont Turf wrote:He didn't though.

What he did was bring some very decent players to the club with the help of some very decent money to work with. The problem was that he couldn't build a promotion winning side.

It took the current manager with the help of his free transfers in Heaton, Jones and Arfield to build a promotion winning side.

Fair point. Mee, Tripper, Shackell, Ings and Vokes were superb signings though. He seemed to have a blind spot with midfielders, although I liked Stanislas who played his part in that promotion.

Heath praised Burnley for everyone in the town being behind Burnley.......and he was a great player....but didn't he get get sent off for lobbing the ball back to the opposition keeper after they were awarded a free kick, who let it over his head and Heath got sent off .....

Jimmymaccer wrote:Heath praised Burnley for everyone in the town being behind Burnley.......and he was a great player....but didn't he get get sent off for lobbing the ball back to the opposition keeper after they were awarded a free kick, who let it over his head and Heath got sent off .....

He did. It was Boom Shaka Laka Hislop v Reading.

Reading the above, Frank Casper seems to have been erased from our history?

Adamson
Dyche
Mullen
Coyle
Potts
Cotterill
Miller
Howe
Heath
Laws
Casper
Ternent
Bond
Waddle
Brown
Benson
Buchan
Cavanagh

NCClaret wrote:It was a magic time

Wanderful

Casper was another manager who built a title winning team which Mullen took up , my best managers would be dyche and potts different managers in different eras but both achieved miracles and miller must be given credit managed 3 times under tough circumstances but it is hard to see past Cavanagh and Benson as worse tho I hated heath thought he was an arrogant knob

Best - Dyche

Worst -Heath- back stabbing poison dwarf who sowed discontent everywhere he went

For me it's all about the managers who left the club in a better place than when they took over. From that respect you'd say that Dyche is on course to be the best of my time by far. Coyle, Howe, Cotterill, Stan and Mullen all did the same. Laws, Waddle and Heath didn't. Casper sits somewhere in the middle. It was a desperate time back then; just staying in business was a success!

Wilsdenclaret wrote:Can only go off my lifetime;

Adamson
Dyche
Coyle
Mullen
Howe
Heath
Cotterill
Potts
Miller
Waddle
Bond
Ternent
Laws
Brown
Benson
Buchan
Cavanagh

Coyle, Mullen, Howe, Heath and Cotterill above Potts? I presume you're basing this solely on Harry's 2nd spell as manager?