Catterick or Kendall

[Kurt.]

Big Sam

 

[Joey66]

….Catterick built two title winning teams so I’d have to go for him as Manager. No doubt, Kendall was the better footballer of the two.

HK won the title twice & liked European football - The Catt seen it as an inconvenience - TBF The Catt used youth players homegrown signed the local & from away as he had great foresight to realise the future stars in football would become unaffordable -

Football wise the late 1960s teams of the Cat the football was mesmerising leading to the title - I used to go home & away as our defence was to attack plus the back four were also superb - I watched our team at away games get clapped off - even stood on the Kop in 1970 - red fans were praising The Holy Trinity as they run the show that day in a 2-0 win for us -

HK won more but as Colin Harvey stated we had four midfielders & not 3 back in his era & only one striker in Joe Royle - really both great teams in different eras & I am sure HK had learnt a lot of Harry Catterick - plus the rarity of a great player that HK was - becoming such a successful Manager - many great players failed .....

 

[Joey66]

Big Sam

I did not realise he was a Rugby manager in your area

 

[Rehnman]

Kendall by a mile on the basis of their enormously different level of expenditure.

 

[LEONARD]

Lucky enough to have lived through both these managers.

Hard to call in terms of who was the greater, but both engendered supreme high standards and excellent football.

God bless em both.

 

[Toffeelover]

Lucky enough to have lived through both these managers.

Hard to call in terms of who was the greater, but both engendered supreme high standards and excellent football.

God bless em both.

Have to into account the players they had available.

 

[Joey66]

Kendall by a mile on the basis of their enormously different level of expenditure.

I would not say by a mile - but HK won more - the 1963 team was mainly purchased but most of it was John Carey's team almost - The Catt was a disciplinary fanatic & soon fetched glory - note two very good chairman led those successful teams too....!

 

[Dario Terracotta]

I think it is a generation thing, more for me though Harry was simply the best as were his teams and the football they played was outstanding against teams that played outstanding football themselves. I enjoyed the success Howard’s’ teams brought and gave us great pleasure but understand why, those who never saw Cattericks’s teams, would vote for Kendalls’sides.

Wouldn’t it be brilliant to see success in the near future so we could all enjoy it together!

Well said mate

 

[Dario Terracotta]

….Catterick built two title winning teams so I’d have to go for him as Manager. No doubt, Kendall was the better footballer of the two.

Yep my dad saw him in action and Harry was cr#p according to him

 

[Dario Terracotta]

I'd recommend the Catterick book by Rob Sawyer to anyone wanting to familiarise themselves with that team.

Yep I've got that Dave,it's an excellent read!!

 

[blue61]

I was born in 1961, so just remember the 69/70 title win. The football was sublime at times. As others have said, the Cat built two title winning sides. But Howie must be given huge credit for winning the title in 87, given the amount of injuries we had in the first part of the season. Perhaps a draw is fair

 

[davek]

Yep I've got that Dave,it's an excellent read!!

That reminds me to get a couple of Rob's other books:

..and...

 

[Eggs]

Yep my dad saw him in action and Harry was cr#p according to him

…yep, I think he was a CF but not a very good one. He played for us, though.

 

[daza_1973]

Jimmy Gabriel at the controls of the battlestar Galactica.

 

[davek]

I was born in 1961, so just remember the 69/70 title win. The football was sublime at times. As others have said, the Cat built two title winning sides. But Howie must be given huge credit for winning the title in 87, given the amount of injuries we had in the first part of the season. Perhaps a draw is fair

...also, Catterick didn't have the nightmare of breaking Liverpool's stranglehold, as they were in the 2nd Division and still on our shoes when Catterick turned up at Goodison.

HK had to get the monkey of Liverpool off Everton's back and then tussle with their best ever teams....which he did....and snotted them.