Cotts is like Nige don’t take any bullshit and the power that be don’t like it. Thats my take on that one.
When you only shop in bargain basements for your coaching staff and players you can only expect mediocrity at best. I always was a believer that if you hired the best you can afford along with players with top football credentials you are least making a commitment to the supporters and then the rest is up to your employees. Bristol City are regular under-achievers and I put that down to lack of due diligence by the owners with special mention made of some of the poorest decisions on hiring practices known to mankind. Basically you only get out what you are prepared to put in and as far as we are concerned we fail badly on making good and correct decisions which is why we will continue to struggle in the messy stuff until someone wakes up to those irrefutable facts. Are you listening???? No - I thought so!
No comparison Cotts brought us up as champions , 100 points, and winning tin pot cup as well he’d deserved time and backing.
pay peanuts-get monkeys and that is a Bristol City trait.Alwatys have been up to Coppell who ran when he saw what he was involved with and Nige who got the boot for telling them what was required and they kicked their toys out the pram.
Agree with all but the deserved time part. He was so stubborn and wouldn’t change his ways, tactics, game plan, and we were plummeting back to L1, so in the end he left SL no choice but to sack him.
Like Nige he was sold a pup. We were promoted early so had time to prepare, unfortunately that never materialised, handled properly we could’ve done what Ipswich are doing.
When you look at teams like Luton, Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton and the troubles they faced along the way with low crowds and stadium issues then why are we such perennial losers that appear like we have no idea what we want to be when we grow up? When you consider our apparent business plan is to sell anything and everybody worth something without re-investing much, if any, of that revenue stream back into improvements how the hell does our smirking owner lose so much money? It looks like each and every season we use the FFP as our defence mechanism to avoid giving the baying crowds what they want and I have to wonder how much of what we are fed is absolute rubbish or even if those monies generated from player sales is disappearing to somewhere not football related. For someone who is listed in the most wealthy people in the U.K. how on earth can he singlehandedly get our Bristol City so mired in debt and confusion? The Premier League are balking at arriving at a deal with the rest of the EFL because they feel that some clubs in the lower leagues are playing poverty games as some owners down there are more than capable of making headway without being financially aided by the elite. Could we be one of those highlighted clubs or is our constant failure not down to the money available but more likely to a lack of desire to make us better?
Is it a coincidence that Ipswich’s upturn in form comes as our form has plummeted when MA left us, and joined them…. , and Ipswich appointed a young upstart of a manager as well to make it happen!!
League 1 - division 3 - whatever you want to call it. Cotts struggled in the Championship and was sacked when we were bottom 3. If we ever enter bottom 3 I’d want Manning sacked.
What about the Gayle, Gray and Maguire bids? I don’t know for sure of course but I’d be astonished if he made those bids without the funds being there.
WE ARE 1 point worse off than last season before tomorrows match after 38 games last season were on 48 points
We had plenty of time to get transfers over the line, none happened, any momentum we had was wasted. We’ll never know what really happened, take Maguire as an example, something very strange went in there, we were just incompetent.
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The Maguire one remains a mystery, and it seems Cotts was hosed over by the club. The Gayle and Gray transfers were on him imo. Yes we had the money, but we didn’t have that stature then as an established Championship, so chasing players of that level just made BCFC look a laughing stock. I think he pi$$ed Sir Steve off with those 2.
Strong rumours have it that the Maguire bid was ruined by someone trying to renegotiate it at a lower price when Cotts was on holiday. The other 2 bids were simply laughed out of town - the players didn’t want to come to us - or play for Cotts - one or both of these. My point was that people are already calling for Mannings head - when we are mid-table - and it would take a bizarre set of results to put us into the bottom 3 the same as it would the top 6. Both are mathematically possible, but both pretty unlikely. We don’t know who would be appointed as his successor but we do know he would be a ‘yes’ man appointed by JL and BT, so I’m not confident it would be a step in the right direction. I believe we should give Manning more time. If we drop into the bottom 3 then yes, sack him because we would have nothing to lose - just what I felt about Cotts.
I get your point about a successor, and I know we can’t go back, and in a way it highlights the issue we have. The decision to sack a popular manager and replace him with an inexperienced one is the problem that needs addressing, the people that made that decision should be held accountable, and until they are our position is unlikely to change.
