http://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/article/20130411-sodtransition-766923.aspx?pageView=full Makes so much sence,what he is saying.i reckon he is here for the long haul,hold on tight for the ride.
RR, I agreed with you on your opinion about Mciness, but your complete ass licking of O'Driscoll is quite silly really.. He's made mistakes, which has no doubtidly pushed us further away from the chasing pack.. says really odd things in the media after every game and seems fairly dismissive of the fans..Don't get me wrong I'm very happy he's here but he doesn't have a halo over his head like you make it out to be.
Lan he was on a hiding to nothing takeing over from Del,if he saved us he would have been a magician,the rot was well and truely set when he arrived.very very hard to change a free falling and stagnated bunch of pusseys that have been in the red shirt. SoD has not become a bad manager overnight and is well and truely respected in the football world. I agree some of his decisions have been strange,but i have every confidence in his management skills.For me next season we will be able to see what he has brought to the table,it will be very interesting seeing what team he puts out for the first game back in league 1. This season was finished before he arrived in my eyes,the damage was too deep to try and rescue it. I would go as far as saying we potentially have appointed a manager that will prove to be one of citys best managers, i did not think he would come here after the kick back when Del was given the job over him.He obviously wanted to come here,that can only be good for us as a club.
Absolutely spot on Red Robin...I firmly believe under sod our future is a bright one, but we have to be very "PATIENT" season after next will see the benefit of his hard work & the hope of a return to the Championship.
Excited no, optimistic yes. I am also intrigued to see how he adapts players who seem to to suit O,Driscoll style of football at former clubs. A starting point he already has over the last manger is an understandable idea of what he wants and experience to do it again. City appear to be his best opportunity to really show what he can do at a club needing change.
Well I for one want some stability at this club, and that means giving a manager enough time to have an effect! I cant say I am overly impressed so far with SOD, but to me its becoming clearer to even the very blind that he is working with some complete rubbish, I want a clear out of the dross (God, how long have we been saying that!!) and the man be given a fair amount of time to effect some changes. So far he has ineffectively been made to make a silk purse from a sows ear, but so was the last manager and he wasn't beyond criticism.
I just hope he is given time to complete the task. We all know it's going to be rough; there will be times when results are poor and youngsters play badly. What worries me about this is that there is a sizeable group of vocal and hystericle fans who take a win or defeat to extreme levels. This group can't be allowed to hound out SOD next season. Next season = recover, regroup Season after = push on
I would say he is acutely aware of the limitations of the squad. An awareness that the previous incumbent lacked. Aspects of team performance highlight sensible improvement. Other elements will take to time to rectify and replace. I find O,Driscoll,s ideas refreshing. As a coach of kids I want to see a BCFC with vision, with patterns of play, with a way, if not the best local kids should be pointed elsewhere.
This I agree with, glad he's here but going on this season's performance since he joined not overly excited. I saw the game against us where Donny looked good, other games they looked ordinary. Won't get overly excited by his game's against us going on that one result. Impressed by his organisation but to me players are afraid to take the game by the bollocks and step outside their zone. Said before, told by a Florest fan good at getting some organisation but too concerned about teams rather than let them be worried about us. Florest were ****e last year so as the fan told me my mum be an improvement. He had good players there so not difficult to make up for last season's shambles. But look what pig face whining twat is doing there now!
This I agree with, glad he's here but going on this season's performance since he joined not overly excited. I saw the game against us where Donny looked good, other games they looked ordinary. Won't get overly excited by his game's against us going on that one result. Impressed by his organisation but to me players are afraid to take the game by the bollocks and step outside their zone. Said before, told by a Florest fan good at getting some organisation but too concerned about teams rather than let them be worried about us. Florest were ****e last year so as the fan told me my mum be an improvement. He had good players there so not difficult to make up for last season's shambles. But look what pig face whining twat is doing there now!
Just listened to SOD's interview and to me it looks like a summer of seeing our best players leave. Hope, is all we have that we manage to keep the likes of Baldock,Stead,Elliot,Adomah,Cunningham and I can only see Stead remaining. Unless SOD can unearth and bring in a few 'Gems' we'll be left with players who won't get City a return to the Championship. We'll have to get used to L1 - end of.
I'm not fully convinced with SoD at the moment, he comes across as being a little to negative, especially away from home, i know he had one hell of a task keeping us in the Championship, but i would rather have gone down with a fight, than a whimper. With the expected clear out in the summer, his task will be even harder, can i see i quick return, no chance, like Redprintt said, find a few gems you never know, but finding them is never easy, will we return to the Championship with SoD, i have my doubts.
I find reading this thread very similar to reading peoples thoughts about religion. SOD is the new messiah, as McInnes was at one time before him, and some will choose to be devouted to him regardless of any mistakes he makes this season. He's got a good vision of where the club should be, but we're relying on a man that performed above and beyond in previous jobs being able to make lightning strike twice with us. Sure, SOD has a vision, but we all forget that EVERY managers vision is based not on the reality of the situation, but on what he believed he will be provided by his bosses, the board. His vision is only as clear as the landscape he is provided by the owners, and our owners have scrapped two capable coaches. I want to be optimistic about us getting out of League 1 next season, but we're kidding ourselves if we think it's going to be easy. If SOD doesn't get the right backing from the start then we could lose a ton of players and not get the replacements we need, and then we're back to square one.
I knew nothing of Mcinnes. Came and left and I was left wondering what he was about. O,Driscoll comes with a clear narrative. I hope to see a large amount of players move on, they have to fully utilise the head coaches skills. O,Driscoll I feel would not be in employment here if his skills did not fit the task. The club needs to go back to square one, the millions are going, quite right too. Progress and expectation should be measured too.
If you compare SOD's home record against McC's record then it is an improvement and at times the football has been somewhat better to watch. Away form more difficult, but I for one am hoping that a clear out and use of some of our youngsters and picking up good quality league 1 and 2 players may give us a chance of a play off place next season. And don't forget The Johnstons paint trophy, we might get past round one in a cup competition for a change. Given a bit of success, I can't see crowds being much smaller than this season (if at all) so am actually looking forward to next season (having come to terms with this ****e season)
I think that redexile comment is about the closest to how I feel that I have read, I don't feel ultra confident in SOD's words after all we've heard variations of a theme 2 or 3 times now, his away record is appalling, no doubt we are better organised but hardly a thing was done to strengthen us and we have still slid in to the lower level. It is a perfect opportunity to keep the quality, move out the excess and start again but what a pity we had to give away our status to start again, we are where we are so lets get on with it and start to climb that hill back to success. There are a lot of us around me in the Williams that are reserving judgement on SOD, we will continue to support our manager but await the start of next season..
Wizered, Looking back over more years than I care to remember and I can't really recall ever feeling confident when watching the Reds. Just used to second class football I suppose, but hey it has been exciting at times and I'm sure that will return again "sometime"
'It is a perfect opportunity to keep the quality' Wiz - If only it was. He/we won't have a choice if clubs comes in for our better players offering good money. We'll be left with the likes of Tangle, Fonts, Anderson, Kelly and the kids. Can't see it being anywhere good enough for a Championship return.
I must confess that our new manager has not impressed me in the slightest and makes me wonder why we passed on him in previous managerial searches. Totally agree that he got us back winning at home and a slight improvement was seen but then that is not unusual when a new man is appointed. Admittedly Sean inherited a poisoned chalice but nonetheless he still had time to bring us back to the fold, but for some inexplicable reason he saw away games as a lost cause and did not allow the same verve that was evident at Ashton Gate to get on the pitch. I am not about to say that Sean is in any way responsible for this debacle but it makes me question as to whether he was told that the script wasn't quite as good as he first thought when he was appointed. The turning point for me was when we gave away the match at Wolves after I thought we bossed the first half and took their crowd out of the game and instead of going for the throat we just sat back in the second half, as usual, and let them take the 3 points. If we had held on to those 3 points I think we could have been looking at a slightly better situation than the one we are in right now. A hidden agenda seems to be the most likely culprit to me for our demise and I would love to be a fly on the wall in the boardroom to hear the lame excuses that might be appearing within that hallowed ground. More importantly I would love to be in the real know by finding out what has led our club down this path and who is responsible, and wonder if perhaps 2 of our many previous managers (you pick who) could shed some light in to what makes us such a dysfunctional football club. BCFC seems very capable of making horrendously wrong decisions and I can't really seeing them change their stripe in League One. You can pick any manger you want to try and take us forward, and although I am not totally convinced that Sean will do that, I think you have to look no further than the top brass at the club to see where the problems really lie. Until a major shift in emphasis and a workable business plan comes rolling out of the boardroom I don't believe the manager, any manager, will be able to produce the goods expected by the suporters. That to me constitutes a major slap in the face for the supporters who have stumped up their hard earned cash to watch a disaster waiting to happen, whilst the board members and the players take home their pound of flesh without any feelings of guilt. Not quite right is it?
