Don Mackay

[F(f)CUK]

Just read the article in the Thursday Fulham Stuff re Don Mackay.

I talked to Jimmy Hill about the moment he went into the Orient game dressing room and I know where my sympathies lie.

The team were being mismanaged at the time, with the team complaining that Mackay was not even talking to them.

Hill had major issues with the training methods and felt he needed to change things from top to bottom.

Unfortunately he then brought in Alan Dicks.

[F(f)CUK]

Should point out that this was a discussion from the time, went on for over an hour and I forget much of the detail.

[AnotherVicHalomLoveChild]

Just read the article in the Thursday Fulham Stuff re Don Mackay.

I talked to Jimmy Hill about the moment he went into the Orient game dressing room and I know where my sympathies lie.

The team were being mismanaged at the time, with the team complaining that Mackay was not even talking to them.

Hill had major issues with the training methods and felt he needed to change things from top to bottom.

Unfortunately he then brought in Alan Dicks.

"Dicks out!!" - ahhh the old ones are the best
Maybe MJ isn't so bad after all?!

[keith]

The thing is, we thought he was great at first. "Don Mackays Black and White Army". "Dicks Out", ha ha, yes, that was good. "Campbell out" was another one.

[Captain Peacock]

I was at the game and clearly something was very wrong. I saw JH walking down from the Directors Box at HT and into the dressing room, something was up!

[Alan]

I thought Branfoot was after Mackay...

Anyway, as Hill was walking down, my Dad shouted "Do us all a favour & sack him!". Having said that, it may not have been quite so clean, but, I was still young. He still tries to take the credit for it...

[F(f)CUK]

I thought Branfoot was after Mackay...

Anyway, as Hill was walking down, my Dad shouted "Do us all a favour & sack him!". Having said that, it may not have been quite so clean, but, I was still young. He still tries to take the credit for it...

Sorry - you're right it was Branfoot next.

This makes sense as Branfoot would then fit the bill for the type of manager that Fulham were looking to bring in.

[VB]

Without Branfoot, no Adams...
without Adams, No promotion
without that promotion, no Fayed and all that followed


like one of my favourite lyricist once said,

'wheels within wheels in a spiral array, a pattern so grand and complex,
time after time  we lose sight of the way
are visions cant see there effects'

[Lighthouse]

Always thought Mackay did a good job all things considered.

[TonyGilroy]

Always thought Mackay did a good job all things considered.

He seemed like a REAL manager but Simon Morgan was absolutely scathing about him.

[Rupert]

Always thought Mackay did a good job all things considered.

He seemed like a REAL manager but Simon Morgan was absolutely scathing about him.

Yes, Morgs had little good to say about Pleat either (from his time at Leicester) but did give Pleat credit where it was due. I don't recall him giving Mackay credit for anything at all.

[Banstead White]

He may never have been "right" but he took his job seriously. I recall watching the reserves at he cottage once and could hear him berating the ref from the cottage balcony.....Never seen or heard that since.
R

[Sir Alec of good Stock]

Great chant of

"Stop the rot, sack the Scot"

[LBNo11]

...the nicest thing I can say about him is that he talked the talk, but he didn't walk the walk...