Holden up for monthly award Thursday, October 8th 2020 Dean Holden has been nominated for the Sky Bet Championship Manager of the Month award following an impressive start to the 2020/21 season. Since being appointed head coach in August, Holden has brought in Keith Downing and Paul Simpson as his assistants and, with the help of Chief Executive Mark Ashton, recruited five highly-regarded players – Joe Williams, Chris Martin, Steven Sessegnon, Chris Brunt and Alfie Mawson. Holden and his backroom staff led the squad to three league wins from three in September, keeping two clean-sheets, which leaves the Robins top of the league – level on points with Reading – as we head into the international break. A hard-fought opening day 2-1 victory over newly-promoted Coventry City got Holden’s men up and running and that was followed up with a 2-0 win at Stoke City. Sheffield Wednesday were then the visitors to Ashton Gate and a 2-0 victory saw the Robins maintain their 100 per cent league record. Up against Holden for the accolade is Swansea City’s Steve Cooper, Veljko Paunovic of Reading and AFC Bournemouth’s Jason Tindall. The Sky Bet Manager of the Month judging panel comprises former Barnsley manager Danny Wilson; Sky Sports’ EFL expert Don Goodman; EFL Communications Director Mark Rowan, and Sky Bet EFL trader Ivor Davies. The winner will be announced tomorrow (Friday). please log in to view this image
Good stuff ! Got to be out of Deano or the Reading Manager I guess as we're both unbeaten and have won all 4 league games.
Clean winner and he should be proud of that-Fantastic wins against @stokecity and @NFFC away- lovely seeing @BristolCity top of the @SkyBetChamp
Dean Holden not winning manager of the month could be a blessing in disguise for Bristol City Bristol City boss Dean Holden missed out to Reading's Veljko Paunovic in the Championship manager of the month award, despite the Robins sitting top of the table https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport...holden-blessing-disguise-bristol-city-4592465
Do we always get the brush off when it comes down to the final say? On DAZN over here in Canada the team of Bristol City doesn't exist when you search for possible televised matches and I wonder if that is payback for us not wanting to be part of the group of teams that refused the rights to a Championship wide T.V. package? City and 3 other teams decided to go their own way and hence CityTV was born. It always appear to me that when it comes to national coverage we seem to get second or third tier consideration. Recently there was coverage of 3 out of 4 fixtures in the Carabao Cup and guess who was left on the sidelines? Is it my imagination or are we generally considered a team the doesn't deserve the coverage because of who we are and where we live?
it has in the past had the occasional kiss of death about it only 3 championship games … City edged it on "teams played quality" ?
Maybe just maybe it could be worth an extra point or 2. DH will still have his feet on floor with the knowledge he needs to do better!
