http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...d-Bristol-City-manager.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Whether or not you believe the Mail is debatable but it's what they're reporting.
From excitement to getting O'Driscoll to dissapointment who else is in the frame http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Sean...l-contenders/story-17845809-detail/story.html
Whoever gets the job, Sean O'Bristol or Steve Frampton-Cotterell, we will have to be united in support and get behind them!
His odds on the next Blackpool job are drifting out, and falling rapidly on us so if the bookies are anything to go by he should be installed soon.
SOD lost out to Del last time around so surely if he wasn't good enough then why would he be now?? Lets hope the board LEARNS by their mistakes and to not have another kneejerk reaction.
I do rate SOD as a very good manager however I have to wonder if he is the right sort of bloke for the job with this little time to work in. It takes time to impose a style of football on a squad and I am not sure we have enough players with the quality in midfield to do it anyway. I think that what we need a nice but ruthless bastard which might sound like a contradiction but you can have both, my boss being a prime example. Well respected and popular figure but you know that if you don't do your job properly, you get one warning then you know what is coming... DM's mistake was to keep selecting those who didn't perform which I suppose must have lead to contempt from both the player wrongly selected and the ones not. Di Canio would be my choice, players wouldn't mess with him but I think he is very passionate about finishing the job at Swindon
Gary Megson might be justy the kind of tough talking manager we need, at least for the next 20 games.
I think if SOD comes in it will be long term, regardless of relegation. So he would have time to hopefully build the type of team he wants. If Kilkenny can't perform under SOD and the style of football he likes then he never, ever will.
I don't want to see Kilkenny ever again in a City shirt, he has got good vision but he is so ill disciplined that he tries to drop back into a defensive cover when he can't tackle to save his life. He done it to Millen and to McInnes and will do it to the next manager. When I was at Watford this season he came on played forward looked ok he started to drop back again and I think McInnes choose to put Morris on to scare the prick back up front again, and then he nearly scored a winner.
I do like the sound of Di Canio Prem, but I would worry a little about his temperment.....he is hot and cold and at anytime could leave us in the brown warm and smelly stuff!
We all did that with DM, look where that got us. I don't want either of those two, as they are both sh!te and proven not good enough to take clubs forward let alone get them out of a tight spot! I am with Premiershiporbust, we need someone with fire in his belly and who the players wouldnt dare give anything less than 100% for otherwise they would be ripped to shreds, someone the can respect, love, but be equally afraid of. Thats Di Canio all the way. He is becoming increasingly distressed with the lack of ambition and financial support, we have both in our owner! If you want to get serious Lansdown, get Di Canio, he WILL deliver, not just passion, but players of the right calibre
Whack some money on Di Canio as he is not even featured on the odds at the moment. I would love to see him here, I voted for him on the poll here and OTIB. To me he ticks all the boxes would rip the **** into the twats we have here and if they don't preform he wont pick them simple as. Could you imagin Fontaine and Gherkin going in at half time yesterday, they would be too scared to even get into the changing room if that is they were still on the pitch.
O'Driscoll has a bit of Jordan/Cooperesque football about him. The type of football that should be coached into BCFC from academy nine year olds to first XI. Technique. Skill. Flair. Bristol City FC the West country FOOTBALL academy.
I want to see a philosophy ingrained into the club. No more short-termism. Sean O'Driscoll is a long term thinker and exactly that type whose teams are based on keeping the ball to feet. No point spending 800k a season and putting in a set up costing millions for bringing on young players from an early age if the first team appoints a manager that requires athletes v players. Weight training, cooper tests and tread mills for big lunged runners you can get at Bath university far cheaper if that is all City aspire to.
