Joe Royle or Kevin Keegan

Joe did a brilliant job to get us back where we belong, especially considering the situation, but he was never the man to keep us there. Keegan flew us back up and kept us up, but only just. I'd say they were equal, as they both gave us good memories, some very good, but ultimately neither were enough to push the club forward.
 
Both of them 'got' City and left the club in a better state than they found it.

I would say that Keegan got us playing the better football and the 2001/2 season was my second favourite after err... it's slipped my mind.

However, every season under Joe ended in relegation (twice) or promotion (twice) and for that reason he would just nudge it. Those three and a half seasons embodied all that is great and all that is (was) awful about this football club.
 
As much as I loved KK and his fantastic football, when you look at the resources available to them for Joe to manage to steer the club to back to back promotions was just incredible.

Ok a couple of relegations thrown in too, but he and Willie Donachie shown great dedication pride and loyalty to do a job at City. That partnership could have gone to dozens of clubs but they stuck by us in our darkest hour.

Makes me shudder thinking about if we had got rid of him before dec 99.
 
Royle for me, he along with Bernstein stabilised the club after it had been in turmoil for a solid 3 years before there arrival. Yes we had to take the hit of relegation to the third-tier but he then did a fantastic job of rebuilding us which lead to promotion to the Premier League in 2000, an unthinkable feat in May of 1998. In the end we were relegated as promotion to the top flight was still a bit to early for us at that time but it allowed the club to believe in itself once again.

Keegan also did a good job, he was the first manager in the Premier League era to establish us in the league and signed some fantastic players who gave us a bit of our seventies swagger back in those first few years. However in the end he wasted to much money on players who were past there prime and after a last pay day, signings which did damage in the long run. Keegan's best achievement was keeping us in the Premier League ready for the move to the Etihad, something which lead to Sheikh Mansour arriving 5 years later.<br /><br />-- Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:54 pm --<br /><br />
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Both of them 'got' City and left the club in a better state than they found it.

I would say that Keegan got us playing the better football and the 2001/2 season was my second favourite after err... it's slipped my mind.

However, every season under Joe ended in relegation (twice) or promotion (twice) and for that reason he would just nudge it. Those three and a half seasons embodied all that is great and all that is (was) awful about this football club.
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I don't agree that Keegan left us in a better state than he found us mate, yes we were in the second tier when he arrived but he spent a lot of money leaving us pretty much skint and had it out with Bernstein over Fowler which lead to Bernstein leaving the club. In hind-site Bernstein was right on that matter and I believe the club would have performed better in the Premier League from 2003 onwards if he'd have got his way.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Both of them 'got' City and left the club in a better state than they found it.

I would say that Keegan got us playing the better football and the 2001/2 season was my second favourite after err... it's slipped my mind.

However, every season under Joe ended in relegation (twice) or promotion (twice) and for that reason he would just nudge it. Those three and a half seasons embodied all that is great and all that is (was) awful about this football club.
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