I think you are missing the point I was trying to make, which was a) Bristol City support as a unit fails to get behind managers when they are on a slide, and maybe should exercise patience in future instead of assuming that Bristol City are this huge 'sleeping giant', which is after all utter nonsense and b) Bristol City players and management should concentrate on getting their jobs right instead of gazing at the negative unrest of their fan base through a glass darkly.
People stood by SOD for plenty long enough, despite him taking us down when we were not bottom 3 material last season! There is only so long you can give a man when its clear the players aren't capable of playing his Plan A, and his Plan B is bloody terrible. Wrong appointment after wrong appointment, after wrong appointment, from board room level, through first team affairs level, to scouting levels, its been wrong for a long time. That has nothing to do with the fans as we do not get a say in appointments. You get behind a manager when you can see what he is trying to do will reap some benefit sooner or later. We haven't seen that since the GJ era! I don't get that from this manager, and I didn't get it from the last. I got it a little from McInnes, but the players he had, the inflated wage bill he inherited, left him a bit stuck. I'd have rather of gone down with him than SOD though!
I liked him, thought he lost it towards the end but who knows what would of happened if we rode that storm better. At least he liked wingers unlike the bell end who followed him.
I agree that there seemed little option at the time, but as SOD didn't keep us up and considering our league position now, I just wonder what it would have been like had he of stayed. Maybe we would have toughed it out, cant say that we would be any worse off though
All been said before and there's been blame and finger pointing but the only person that is to blame for the state of the club is Steve Lansdown It's his club and the vast majority of the decisions taken have also been his, and they've been more or less all totally wrong He says he's embarrassed by what he's spent (given that we've achieved nothing at all) and so he should be. Sell up and get out Lansdown before you take us to the oblivion of the Conference because who would bet against a 3rd successive relegation next year ? Not me given the last 5 years
We are sleep walking to another relegation this year with the constant drone of "No, we'll be ok, and reams of stats that suggest we will finish here, there or wherever every time we manage to scrape a lucky win. (Carlisle for Example). SC sorts out the defence, then proceeds to **** it up again, all in the name of being clever, any idiot could put out a 4 4 2 after all.. Sorry but it's been a constant theme for 3 years. I have watched enough football in my time to know a relegated team when I see it and Marv Elliot ain't gonna spring up with 2 goals to save us ever again. and I'll bet strong money on that one.!!
We were League 1 quality last season and fully deserved to go down. We lost a number of our good players and now we're a League 2 quality team. Suggesting that we didn't deserve to go down after punching well above our weight last season is laughable.
To be honest I think we still would have been relegated had McInnes stayed but I think we would be in a much stronger position under McInnes than Cotterill/SOD.
Manchester United stuck by Fergusson for 3 years - look where that got them the knives are already out by some on this board for Cotterill - let's give the bloke a chance.
