Do you guys reckon he will get the job if he beats Brum. Two good scalps in Boro and Brum if it did happen. Or does SL want to go outside of the club and bring a high profile manager in,especially after Ashton said you will be surprised by the high calibre of applicant. This is a big big job for the right guy. The Job of taking city up a notch has to be very appealing.
Yep, think he may get the job till the end of the season, beat Boro, lost to West B with a weakened side, lost to Leeds when we should have won, signed some good players, albeit with some help, made us harder to beat, ok its only three games, tomorrow will be a better guide against an inform side, JP comes across as someone who knows what he wants, hope for our sake and his he does the business, best of luck JP.
The rhetoric he spouted about how unlucky we were and that we should have won the game after Leeds was exactly what SC would have said. If Pemberton stays in charge until a permanent and experienced (at this level or better) Head Coach is appointed then fair enough. But I have doubts over the longer term and he is the 'easy option' which is what the club have a nasty habit of taking.
Well in all fairness to Pemberton, what he said was fair comment, they had one shot on target (which was a lucky deflection of a player), fair enough he scored, but we had some great chances and should have won the game, ok we didn't, and goals win games, to say he sounded just like SC is way of the mark, he gave an honest answer in accessing the game, you can't do no more than that.
Think he will get the job if we win, if we lose then we will probably look Think he will get job if we win, if we lose someone else gets it.. Question is what happens if we draw, does it mean this episode of who the next manager is drags on??
Surely we are not going to make a decision based on a couple of games - either he was the right person for the job or he wasn't
Everyone has to start somewhere - as I said before, look at Jose Mourinho. If he is chosen, it must be on a genuine assessment of his tactics, organisational and motivational skills and dressing-room authority, and NOT because he's a cheap option. We would be foolish not to consider him, along with the other applicants. Maybe the selection process is dragging to deliberately give him a chance?
I'm not convinced that we are seriously looking and would be shocked if we announced a top class manager has joined us. Bristol City rarely participate in good shocks but rather tend to take the easy way out and that would mean Pemberton, in much the same way as Keith Millen and Brian Tinnion were hung out to dry. I'll have some of what you're smoking bcfcredandwhite, or would you prefer some of mine?
The whole 'Fred Karnos' surrounding the dismissal of Cotterill smacks of utter incompetence. The Board are a laughing stock. Pemberton would not be my choice, however the longer it goes on the more likely he will be offered the job. It's all to comfortable at Ashton Gate.
The old boy's club where if you say yes many times you will be accepted but if you rock the boat you will walk the plank. What a way to run any club, yet alone ours.
July 2004-September 2005: Brian Tinnion September 2005-March 2010: Gary Johnson April 2010-August 2010: Steve Coppell August 2010-October 2011: Keith Millen October 2011-January 2013: Derek McInnes January 2013-November 2013: Sean O'Driscoll December 2013- January 2016:Steve Cotterill January 2016: John Pemberton? Why can't we sign up a quality, experienced, known name, we have had enough low priced options as managers.
I agree that this is how he started that interview. The difference for me was that he actually said that and then said shouldn't have happened, bollocks, (not literally) its gone and we move on. I like the bloke and I think he is savvy so I wouldn't be disappointed if he got it, Pearson would be great though...
With all these new signings the icing on the cake would be Pearson named as manager. That would be a fantastic bit of business.
Mike I meant 'must' as an instruction not a belief. Perhaps I should have said 'it has to be'. The challenges of interpreting written text - in my job it happens all the time !!!
As far as I can tell appointing a manger is a bigger gamble than signing a player. A manager does not cost a transfer fee does not get top player wages and can be sacked immediately so he is relatively inexpensive. Having said that if we look at the 100% of a game what contribution does he make on average 15%?? via tactics.. My point is that buying the right players is far more important than choosing the right manager. Gone are the days when he literally ruled the roost. We have appointed some on paper good managers and they have all failed (apart from SC last year), so having thought about it I am not too fussed who we appoint as it is the players who will get us out of the mire (I hope) .
