[spireitematt]

E. Timmeus (1891–1895)
Gilbert Gillies (1895–1901)
E. Hind (1901–1902)
Jack Hoskins (1902–1906)
W. Furness(1906–1907)
George Swift (1907–1910)
G. Jones (1911–1913)
R. Weston(1913–1917)
T. Callaghan (1919)
J. Caffrey (1920–1922)
Harry Hadley (1922)
Harry Parkes (1922–1927)
Alec Campbell (1927)
Teddy Davison (1927–1932)
Bill Harvey (1932–1938)
Norman Bullock (1938–1945)
Bob Brocklebank (1945–1948)
Bobby Marshall (1948–1952)
Ted Davison (1952–1958)
Duggie Livingstone (1958–1962)
Tony McShane (1962–1967)
Jimmy McGuigan (1967–1973)
Joe Shaw (1973–1976)
Arthur Cox (1976–1980)
Frank Barlow (1980–1983)
John Duncan (1983–1987)
Kevin Randall (1987–1988)
Paul Hart (1988–1991)
Chris McMenemy (1991–1993)
John Duncan (1993–2000)
Nicky Law (2000–2001)
Dave Rushbury (2002–2003)
Roy McFarland (2003–2007)
Lee Richardson (2007–2009)
John Sheridan (2009–2012)
Paul Cook (2012–2015)
Dean Saunders (2015)
Danny Wilson (2015–2017)
Gary Caldwell (2017)
Jack Lester (2017–)

Norman Bullock and John Duncan 1993-2000 are the longest serving managers with 7 years each unless you add both John Duncan's spells which mean he is the longest serving manager with 11 years.

The average manager lasts about 3.2 years at Chesterfield.

[Devongone]

Tony McShane was the worst manager I can remember ......... until Gary Caldwell.

I'd like to find a way to help jack succeed, but at the moment he doesn't seem to be doing much to help himself.

[spireitematt]

Tony McShane was the worst manager I can remember ......... until Gary Caldwell.

How did he last 5 years in the job then?

[Devongone]

Sheer inaction at the club Matt. We never really threatened to get anywhere. But then it seemed he had to start with a whole bunch of free transfers every season to be fair to him.

We were fourth division. It was very hard to lose your league status at that time as the other clubs voted you out ...... which they were unwilling to do as next season they could be the ones struggling. You could just settle for being a poor team that was going nowhere. AND managers tended to last longer in those days. I imagine (can't remember) that McShane was a bright and rather affable man. His son was the year below me at Grammar School and he had no interest whatsoever in sport!

[spireitematt]

Sheer inaction at the club Matt. We never really threatened to get anywhere. But then it seemed he had to start with a whole bunch of free transfers every season to be fair to him.

We were fourth division. It was very hard to lose your league status at that time as the other clubs voted you out ...... which they were unwilling to do as next season they could be the ones struggling. You could just settle for being a poor team that was going nowhere. AND managers tended to last longer in those days. I imagine (can't remember) that McShane was a bright and rather affable man. His son was the year below me at Grammar School and he had no interest whatsoever in sport!

Too many managers get sacked too soon nowadays. I thought Roy McFarland did a good job with a small budget in L1. Lee Richardson did alright in L2 but he should have done better especially with the squad we had in L2 with the likes of Lester, Fletcher, Ward, Kerry etc. John Sheridan did a good job at getting us out of L2 and winning the JPT but struggled in L1 because we lost Tommy Lee and I remember Jack Lester did his arm in against Orient. Paul Cook spoilt Chesterfield fans especially with how we played, the team we had and with winning L2, making the JPT final and getting in the L1 playoffs. I don't know why we ever chose Dean Saunders as manager and that will always puzzle me. Danny Wilson did ok. Gary Caldwell was the wrong choice, I thought he came across too negative in his post-match interviews.

[Devongone]

Caldwell always blamed someone else. That's what did for me.

He never seemed to get that it wasn't that the players were incapable of understanding a system, but that the system didn't actually suit them. And then he was incredibly stubborn - he'd recruited the young loanees and he was never gonna recognise they would never make him a team!

Mostly though I'm happy with giving managers time. Over time most of those with impressive records regress to the mean, and many of the unsuccessful ones improve their win ration. It's just that with Jack I can't see the green shoots. I thought recruiting Dodds was going to be part of improving our goals for total, but he has barely had the chance to settle in, even when not injured. And I'd have expected some sign of added solidity at the back and in midfield ........ and none of those things have happened.