Walking out of the stadium today I heard a lot of negative comments regarding DM and his ability to drag us out of the mire. I'm interested in what the general consensus is on here. I think if Wood had converted either of his easy chances at 1-0 we would have won. I really don't rate Wood and Stead made him look an average player when comparing the two today. For me I am willing to give him a chance because he inherited a mess. However, I do see us getting relegated so his test will be to have us in the top 6 in league one this time next year. I think I accepted this fact this afternoon. I posted an honest assessment of this time earlier this week and maybe I was in an optimistic mood when I wrote it. In reality a lot of this squad isn't up to championship standard. I would have had Dave Jones when Millen left. Apparently he wanted the job but we couldn't meet his 750k wages. So we went for a cheaper option but wouldn't relegation prove more costly?
Del is not the man to take city forward-Dave jones or Billy Davies should have got the job. How a rookie from a club the size of Cheltenham was the right choice is beyond me. City are going down under the management team,blame the board and SL they are the ones that appointed him. Never thought he was the man for the job from day 1 but I was happy to give him time,he has brought four or five players in and we are no further forward. Definatly not the man for the job.
I was waiting for this thread to start Matt and I'll start you off with my opinion. As usual DM started with a good period which is quite common for new managers and the difference was rather remarkable in the points department. However since that grace period ended the wheels have totally come off the BCFC wagon and relegation has become more of a probability than possibilty. So where does the blame lie? Did City take the cheap option inhiring DM or did they really believe that he was their man no matter what? Clearly there is total anarchy in the dressing room, a situation that has eaten at the heart of our club and just infected every corner during the reigns of Johnson and Millen. I believe that Steve Coppell recognised that immediately and head away fron Ashton gate asap. Our current situation has been left to rot for too long to find an instant cure and I don't believe DM will be around long enough to find the right medication, unfortunately. I lay the blame firmly at the feet of Colin Sexstone for his lack of dedication to the task of changing the inmates running the asylum culture created at Ashton Gate. There isn't a manager around who would take on that sort of task without knowing that the board would back them 100% and the sad fact is that they never have. Our club is being killed from within by forces out of control.
"Our club is being killed from within by forces out of control." no wum, dont give up inver buckle ripped out the heart and soul from our club and thankfully our board acted and got in a proven manager who knows what he is doing and now look at us. the heart and soul is coming back. we got a good thing going on now. the way i see it is your board has to act now and either get 100% behind your manager and prove it by getting in players that are needed and giving your manager go ahead or get rid now and get in jones or someone else - a big name to bring back your fans and save you from the drop. your board has to weigh up what will cost the club more.... 1) the cost of relegation 2) the cost of signing more players backing mcinnes 3) the cost of sacking mcinnes and replacing him with a big name to save you
Stuff Jones, he couldn't get Cardiff promoted even with the millions he spent and like Danny Wilson, he is the "nearly" man who would probably have nearly saved us from relegation... As for the question, DEFINITELY
Dave Jones or Davies would not save us, we'd be in exactly the same state with them as we are now, sacking Mcinnes now would be a disaster
YES HE ****ING IS when are people going to get it in the bloody head that McInnes has INHERITED a ****ing **** team, dave jones and billy davies wouldn't be able to make this current crop of **** do any better than Derek now stop ****ing moaning about a bloke whos doing his best with players who aren't performing!!!! Wood cost us the game today
right man for job he needs time i even remember a few saying even if we go down stick with him it's the right thing to do i think worth playing wood and stead their height caused problems for blackpool defence resulting in unpunished fouls :-@ but back on topic yes he is right man for the job
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Weren't we linked with Woods back in the Trolls days? I always rated if Im honest by dooing well at Brighton and recently, Birmingham
People might have been waiting for this!!! First of all I was never convinced when appointing a manager, that DM was the right man, having said that I stand by, that there is no point now in booting him out as it's far too late for that. However I do blame Sextone and the board for the mess we are in. DM IMO was a cheap option, which could bite the club on the bum if we are relegated. I also said that we should NOT get rid of our best players.......but what did they do??? They gave Maynard a choice, either sign a new contract or we put you up for sale. This put NM in a dodgy situation and some of the fans......who were expecting a large transfer fee. This unsettled the striker and gave grounds for some of the fans to give reason to hound the player out. 1.6m WAS NOT WORTH IT. Big mistake by the board as they should have just left NM to play out his contract......... Guess what.......we are now struggling to score goals.. Concentration by the board should have been focused on bringing in players to tighten defence and bring in a creative midfield player.. If DM didn't insist on the above, then he's not the right man. I nearly give up, SOME of us are able to see the problems but many don't...........including the board. I know we havn't got the best players in the championship, but the problems have been made a lot worse. Relegation is on the cards that's for sure. I have said, we can forget the stadium if we go down, the board, the blinkered fans & the manager are to blame IMO.
hey guys, first post for me after many year 'voyering' on this and bbc's 606, I feel I need to say my piece. I do feel that McInnes is the right man for the job and does need more time to experiment with the full squad to get the right formation. the inclusion of stead, spence and the new boy was a risk but needed given the injury issue and seamed to work for the first 45mins. The weak goal (I use this term based on listening to the 'player' from up here in brum) that pool scored still didn't disgruntle the team, only made them more hungry for a 2nd. The lack of finish from Wood did give me the feeling of wjy have we got another younger stead. Yes he was scoring left right n center from brum, but doesn't have the same impact for us, is DM banking on rep insetad of trusting the current personel? it appears he is willing to take a gamble and paid off but I do believe he still needs time to juggle the entire team to find the right clubs for the 'pro set' I still believe we will avoid the drop, given another handful of games should see us drawing and winning even with the challenging fixtures ahead. it was an unfortunate result but I wil still always believe!!! COYR!!!
I honestly think that Sextone & SL went for Del because they think that there are cheap players to be had from the SPL who could do a job for us and that he would be able to pick them up. The club has been obsessed with the SPL for a while - whether Junior started this off I don't know but I remember GJ going on a number of "scouting" trips up there when he was looking to strengthen. In my opinion CS is a nobody - a puppet chairman, yes man for SL. So, sadly, despite his obvious commitment to the club, I feel the root cause for all this is the approach taken by SL. All along he has wanted to turn us into a PL club but do it on the cheap - it don't work like that. Seriously bad judgement calls - from failing to back GJ with a few key signings when we could have got automatic promotion - appointing Millen - failing to back Millen when he targeted some quality players - appointing a cheap replacement.... sorry but the strategy is all being driven by our "majority shareholder" and he has shown spectacularly bad judgement. He's happy to invest serious money in a ground as it is a tangible asset - unlike the players. I suspect successive managers have identified players who could move us forward but been told they are out of our price range. Hence Coppout sussing the lie of the land in record time and bowing out. When you are operating in the loan market all you get are cast offs and injury-ptone players tring to get back into shape. That's what Del is picking up now. He's doing his best but his options are limited - as were Millen's. Let's face it - it's been building slowly but the inevitable is going to happen and we're down.... sorry if that sounds negative but it is my honest opinion.
