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| Time to Fall! |
Rodger Should Go Now
By: Rob Sedgwick
Date: 05/11/2006
GRAHAM Rodger is the worst manager in living memory for the vast majority of Grimsby Town's supporters and he should be sacked immediately.
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Statistics show that, after 20 games, Rodger has made the fifth worse start of any Town manager and the four men below him all managed Town in higher divisions.
Not since 1976 when Johnny Newman managed the Mariners in the old Division Three have Town got off to a worse start. The outcome that season was that Grimsby got relegated to the basement division. Tom Johnston in 1962 got off to an even worse start in Division Two, but managed to turn things around sufficiently for the club to finish in 19th place and avoid demotion to Division Four.
Besides Newman and Johnston, only Allenby Chilton in the 50s (Div 3 North) and H N Hickson over a century ago (Division One) have got off to a worse start than Rodger in their managerial careers.
The full table can be seen below, and is based on the current system of 3 points for a win. Only Town managers who survived 20 games are shown.
| Manager | Year | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrie McMenemy | 1971 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 40 | 27 | 40 | 13 |
| George Kerr | 1979 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 27 | 22 | 34 | 5 |
| Bill Shankly | 1951 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 20 | 32 | 7 |
| Tom Casey | 1975 | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 21 | 18 | 31 | 3 |
| Tim Ward | 1960 | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 32 | 26 | 31 | 6 |
| Ron Ashman | 1973 | 20 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 29 | 3 |
| Bill Harvey | 1968 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 24 | 24 | 28 | 0 |
| Frank Womack | 1932 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 31 | 39 | 27 | -8 |
| Mike Lyons | 1985 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 33 | 36 | 27 | -3 |
| Paul Groves | 2001 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 24 | 22 | 26 | 2 |
| Brian Laws | 1994 | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 28 | 27 | 24 | 1 |
| Bobby Kennedy | 1969 | 20 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 18 | 21 | 23 | -3 |
| David Booth | 1982 | 20 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 30 | 33 | 23 | -3 |
| George Fraser | 1921 | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 28 | 30 | 23 | -2 |
| Russell Slade | 2004 | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 21 | 23 | -1 |
| Don McEvoy | 1967 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 30 | 22 | -7 |
| Kenny Swain | 1996 | 20 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 31 | 38 | 22 | -7 |
| Alan Buckley | 1988 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 24 | 30 | 22 | -6 |
| Charlie Spencer | 1937 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 34 | 35 | 22 | -1 |
| Lennie Lawrence | 2000 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 31 | 21 | -13 |
| Bobby Roberts | 1987 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 22 | 27 | 21 | -5 |
| Billy Walsh | 1954 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 23 | 40 | 20 | -17 |
| Wilf Gillow | 1924 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 31 | 20 | -12 |
| Jimmy McGuigan | 1964 | 20 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 26 | 33 | 18 | -7 |
| Graham Rodger | 2006 | 20 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 37 | 17 | -20 |
| Allenby Chilton | 1955 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 18 | 37 | 17 | -19 |
| H N Hickson | 1902 | 20 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 26 | 40 | 15 | -14 |
| Johnny Newman | 1976 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 33 | 12 | -18 |
| Tom Johnston | 1962 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 27 | 44 | 12 | -17 |
With Town not having their next league game for nearly two weeks, the timing is excellent to dismiss Rodger now and have a new manager installed in time for the next league fixture at Wycombe on 18th November.
Grimsby were relegated out of the Football League in 1910, only to bounce back the following year. If Rodger remains in charge Town could be faced with the same prospect after almost a century of continuous league football at Blundell Park, punctuated only by the two World Wars.
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