Bristol City manager Steve Cotterill has received praise from his captain Sam Baldock after taking the Reds out of the relegation mud and guiding them safely to mid-table. Cotterill was appointed in December, at a point when City were in immediate danger of back-to-back relegations, but has taken his side to the 50-point mark and if only games from February onwards applied, the club wouldâve been fifth in the league with a 7-5-3 record in that period. The club captain Sam Baldock has expressed his satisfaction with the job Cotterill has done: âWe had a long spell in the bottom four and after going through the same thing last season it was demoralising. But the manager came in and immediately got us more focused on what our goal wasâ, he told Football-League.co.uk. âHe stressed what deep trouble we were in and that we had to react positively straight away, playing with more tempo than we had been and cutting out the mistakes that had cost us a lot of points in the first few months of the season. Our primary objective was to secure League 1 survival, and although weâve not absolutely achieved that yet weâve certainly turned our fortunes around on the pitch and the manager deserves a lot of credit for our climb up the table.â Baldock deserves his part of the credit as well, after scoring 23 times in his 50 appearances this season, including the 1-0 winner away at Walsall at the weekend. http://footballleagueworld.com/2014/04/16/bristol-city-captain-hails-manager/ Very interesting to read that if the season would have started when cotterill took over we would be 5th! Roll on next season and lets hope we and cotterill can continue our good form
Fair play to both of them, and the rest of the troops that have finally found some consistency under Cotts and have hauled us towards safety. Up the City !
