In general I'm against naming stands after former managers. If Curbs gets one and I'm not saying that he shouldn't. That leaves two. In twenty years we name one after SCP leaving one. This club is going to be around a long time and hopefully in the many years ahead we will have more great managers than stands to name them after.
In general I'm against naming stands after former managers. If Curbs gets one and I'm not saying that he shouldn't. That leaves two. In twenty years we name one after SCP leaving one. This club is going to be around a long time and hopefully in the many years ahead we will have more great managers than stands to name them after.
Well after a 113 year history, we've only got one named after a manager.
In all seriousness, isn't there a bust of Curbishley in the Valley reception area? Sure I've seen it and certainly recall Murray saying he would get one done when Curbs left.
In all seriousness, isn't there a bust of Curbishley in the Valley reception area? Sure I've seen it and certainly recall Murray saying he would get one done when Curbs left.
There is a bust of both Seed and Curbs. I think they are outside the boardroom now.
I'm judging him purely on what he did for Charlton on results. I wouldn't say Alex Ferguson was Mr Personality but he did the business and so did Curbs. If he wanted to be West Ham manager at some stage, so what ? There's loads of people doing jobs who wish they were elsewhere !
How many other managers can you name that got Charlton the same sort of success ? The 3 mentioned namely Jimmy Seed, Lennie Lawrence & Alan Curbishley have been the only managers who , and this is only my opinion, who deserve recoqistion
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In this era there are few managers that remain in one job for so long.
however I think it needs to be in 5 years time at a minimum, when he definitely has finished managing.
but like Oggy says you have 4 stands 1 already has been named after the one who one the only major trophy we will ever lift
that leaves 3
now any 3 managers with the right financial support could achieve what Alan C did in the next 50 yrs so then all 4 are named what then
build an octagonal ground ??
"His name is Alan Curbishley, he's got no personality" and he always wanted to be Wet Spam manager not ours
He did well for us but
He did his job
What about all the other managers that got us some sort of success ?
Their doing their jobs!
:-)