By Cameron Cox

1. Gary Rowett. Burton Albion to Birmingham.

This choice won't come as a shock for football fans within the Championship or for Burton Albion fans either.

Before Rowett took charge on 27th October 2014, Birmingham were languishing in 21st of the Championship on goal difference.

Only five months previously, Birmingham had survived relegation on the last day of the season by goal difference, Birmingham had started the season as they finished the previous season, poorly.

Before Lee Clark was sacked, Birmingham had only won once at home for over a year.

Since Rowett took charge, Birmingham have gone from strength to strength and by the end of the 2014/15 season found themselves 10th in the league.

The 2015/16 season for Birmingham has been a lot more promising and they have finished off 2015 in a very respectable eighth place, and only two points of the play-offs.

The complete turnaround from relegation strugglers to play-off hopefuls proves that Gary Rowett has been working wonders for Birmingham.

2. Tony Mowbray. Coventry.

Now just like Gary Rowett, Mowbray took charge of Coventry in a time of peril.

In late February, Coventry were 21st in League One and were looking fairly likely to go down, on the 23rd, previous manager Steven Pressley was sacked and on the 3rd March, Mowbray was brought in and guided the Sky Blues to 17th in League One.

This may not be as impressive and may not warrant him being the second most positive manager move, but Coventry were hopeless before he took over and he effectively saved them.

This season Coventry are currently impressing in League One and are currently fourth in the league.

What makes this transformation even more impressive was the news surrounding Coventry's finances over the last few years.

They had recently lost their Stadium to the Rugby side London Wasps and in the 2013/14 season had entered administration.

3. Chris Hughton. Brighton.

It may be hard to believe that Brighton are in the position they are currently, fourth in the Championship, especially if you look at where they were this time last year.

Under previous manager Sami Hyypia, Brighton were very uninspiring and were 22nd in the league, and looking like favourites to occupy the last relegation spot come the end of the season.

Hughton took control for the second half of the season and even though the latter stages of the season were poor for Brighton, Hughton had done enough to save them from relegation, but this is not the impressive part.

Brighton in the 2015/16 season of the Championship are currently fourth in the league and have only lost three games, what's more impressive is that Brighton went 21 games without losing a new league record, this came after seven games where they failed to win a game at the end of the 2014/15 season.