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Your Top 5 Bristol City Managers of all time...

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  1. MassiveAttack

    MassiveAttack Well-Known Member

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    It's over to you....:emoticon-0125-mmm:
     
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    smhbcfc Well-Known Member

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    GJ
    Dicks
    Ward
    Cooper
    Jordan
     
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  3. cidered abroad

    cidered abroad Well-Known Member

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    1. Alan Dicks
    2. Fred Ford
    3. Terry Cooper
    4. Pat Beasley
    5. Gary Johnson/Joe Jordan - I can't split these.

    By the end of next season, Derek McInnes will feature, I hope as high as number 2 or 3.
     
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  4. MassiveAttack

    MassiveAttack Well-Known Member

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    In no particular order

    Steve Coppell
    Benny Lennartsson
    Tony Pulis
    Bob Houghton
    Brian Tinnion
     
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  5. RedorDead

    RedorDead Well-Known Member

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    Alan Dicks
    Gary Johnston
    Joe Jordan
    Terry Cooper
    Can't decide now between 2 because I don't think we had enough time with them
    Dennis Smith (wanted to see much more of him till the club shafted him because he won't sell Cole)
    John Ward (another who was shafted, not just by us but also the gas, he must hate Bristol)
     
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  6. wizered

    wizered Ol' Mucker
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    1) Fred Ford..
    2) Alan Dicks..
    3) Joe Jordan..
    4) Gary Johnson..
    5) Pat Beasley..


    Fred Ford and Joe Jordan for pure hard work,endurance and man management,bringing the team through difficult times with very little funding...
     
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  7. MassiveAttack

    MassiveAttack Well-Known Member

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    ok, now for real and in order.....

    AD
    TC
    GJ
    JJ
    JW
     
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    MassiveAttack Well-Known Member

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    No Terry Cooper? He brought some great players in for nothing or hardly nothing and turned us around...
     
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  9. wizered

    wizered Ol' Mucker
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    I would put him and John Ward at joint number 6..
     
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    tinnion
    coppell
    millen
    pulis
    lennartson
     
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  11. Red Robin

    Red Robin Well-Known Member

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    I can only offer my selection from managers in my lifetime of watching city.

    1- Alan Dicks without doubt

    2-Gary Johnson

    3- Joe Jordan

    4- Terry Cooper

    5- Danny Wilson
     
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  12. Shinycitylad7

    Shinycitylad7 Looking at the stars mate

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    Ive not been around aslong as you lot so here goes

    1 - Gary Johnson

    2 - Derek McInnes

    3 - Danny Wilson (just)

    4 - Keith Millen

    5 - Brian Tinion

    Yep thats all the managers ive seen worthy of a top 5
     
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  13. cidered abroad

    cidered abroad Well-Known Member

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    In my humble opinion Redrobin; There are bad managers who stood no chance of success, mostly listed by Massive above.
    One could also include Peter Doherty but there were extenuating circumstances with a split dressing room caused mainly by HD promising the '55 promo team contract terms in the excitement of the moment.

    But I would say the worst failure was actually Danny Wilson not because he was a bad manager but because he totally failed to get promotion when he had pretty good backing from the board and his totally negative attitude in the play off final against Brighton.

    PS for any Gas reading this; Mark Magoo was equally as negative as the Brighton manager that day. Wait until he goes back in his shell because he was the same at Reading, Leicester and Wolves later on!
     
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  14. BrightredRickster

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    Alan Dicks
    Alan Dicks
    Alan Dicks
    Alan Dicks
    Gary Johnson

    I suggest Alan Dicks for the first 4 because he took the club across that enormous chasm between journeymen and craftsmen, that only GJ has come anywhere near to achieving (which is why Johnson crept in at no.5).
    This is as much a credit to the fans who were around at the time of AD, for their patience and insight during the 9 YEARS it took to turn a third division club into one who could dance with the prima donnas.

    Let us hope McDel can gate crash the party of two, and that the fans of TODAY can exercise a similar level of patience and insight as did those from the class of '76.
     
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  15. wizered

    wizered Ol' Mucker
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    Here is an old one with Terry Cooper in charge...1984...

    [video=youtube;ovZ-Ak3ddKk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZ-Ak3ddKk&feature=related[/video]
     
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  16. Red Robin

    Red Robin Well-Known Member

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    Those were the days,come on rovers where r u now?
     
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    We're behind you! :laugh:
     
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  18. MassiveAttack

    MassiveAttack Well-Known Member

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    If Shiny 'had' been born on the poor side of Bristol as a rovers fan he would of seen this number of managers nearly every season!
     
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    Alan Dicks
    Terry Cooper
    John Ward
    Gary Johnson
    Del
     
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