You must admit he was given a hell of a lot of backing, he did ok, but considering the backing he had he didn’t do great. We always seemed to fall by the wayside whenever we got close, seemed like a lack of belief to me. He just didn’t have what it took to get us over the line. I believe with a more experienced manager we’d have made the playoffs at least once.
Don’t forget we had one of the highest budgets in league one at the time!! Didn’t have his best players sold off either!!
That’s because we got promoted the year they arrived, I don’t imagine Scott would have left this year if we were a PL club. None of the players we sold went to high ranking PL clubs, so had we been promoted under LJ chances are they wouldn’t have left either.
It goes without saying, you need to keep your best players to progress or replace with equal quality, which didn’t happen imo under LJ.. I wonder if Nige thinks the same!!
As long as we produce players purely in order to sell them at a profit we won’t progress. There’s a difference between producing players in order to progress the team, but accepting that at times the better ones will be sold, than producing them to sell them at a profit. It’s a subtle difference, but an important one and I’m afraid we fall into the former category.
We do now and we did then.. I hope Nige is a good enough manager to work with what’s there and we progress as promised back in 2020..
I know the haters refuse to believe.. But I hope Nige’s reign with us is a great success, I actually believe he’s doing a decent job.. I like the way overall the way he’s assembling the squad, especially the way he involves the young players coming through.. I also like the style of football he’s trying to achieve, although I have mixed feelings in his strategy when we’re either up against a quality team ie Leicester or when we take a narrow lead in a game.. ie sitting back or abolishing our pressing game.. but that’s my opinion..
Mate there is no doubting your words, I enjoy our differences but with regard to Bristol City FC we are all are as one but that's just my opinion...
There was no necessity for Steve Cotterill to sell players as the clubs losses were easily serviceable and the squad size was kept deliberately lean. Post Steve Cotterill the squad bloated to 30+ players, players bought for millions were not in the XI, or match day squads, wages tripled, losses increased, significant debt accrued and so players had to be sold as a necessity.
The quality players were sold for what the club thought was too good to ignore, what the club then went and done was to panic buy inferior players....quantity rather than quality......I'm not convinced those decisions were down to our head coach..I can't believe for a minute he was happy to lose players that he was trying to gel for his team......but I'm sure the haters to believe otherwise..
The difference between me and you RP, is you would have HATED LJ to have been successful and got us to the Prem... you would have been fuming! I on the other hand have criticised as with any man in charge if I felt he'd made a mistake in his setup, etc but I have always been respectful of him....Praised when IMO was deserved and even said on many occasions how I've warmed to him and complimented how he's assembled the squad.. I genuinely hope he's successful in his time with us and he delivers the progress that was promised ...
I think we can all agree - the person responsible for hiring, funding, and interfering. He is both angel and demon at the same time. We (I) am immensely grateful for his investment and funding, but frustrated about his (apparently) ‘hands-on’ insistence of controlling things.
