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City's Biggest Mistake


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Every club makes mistakes ,some very costly,some plain incompetant what do you think was ours ?

For me it was the over reaction to the Gary Collier situation placing all our players on excessively long contracts to stop them leaving for nothing like the aforementionned defender .

This very nearly put us out of business for good as we all know .

After this what do you think was the worst mistake ?

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It's difficult to disagree with the long contracts fiasco, but here is an option.

Failure to spend a little bit of money to strengthen the team. when City were pushing for promotion to League One in the 60s. It was much easier to become established in the top division in those days. If City had gone up things could have been very different.

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Bringing in Benny Hill and letting John Ward leave. Think Ward was onto a good thing at the time.

i thought john ward came out and said "he didn't know what he was doing"

Then Benny turned it around playing some good football and giving the young uns ago!

In fact I'll go as far as letting Benny go and replacing him with tiny penis was one our biggest mistakes!

That and the whole subsitution fiasco that cost us the 1909 f.a cup!

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In fact I'll go as far as letting Benny go and replacing him with tiny penis was one our biggest mistakes!

I'll go along with that. Even if we continued with what I think was a mistake in getting rid of Benny, to think we could have had Moyes or Peter Taylor then...

Close contender for me would be McInnes replaced by SOD. DMc made some big mistakes granted, but he'd just lost the rag with the players letting him down (his biggest mistake - that took too long) and was about to give them a huge dressing down and drop them. We binned him off before he could do that and brought in (IMO) the worst manager since I've watched and I include Pulis in that.

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Not signing Trevor Francis when he had school boy trials at Ashton Gate. Footballs first million pound player was shown the door at BS3 because he was to small and was told he would never make it as a professional footballer  Whoops !!!!!

Thats not what happened! He told the club he was home sick, went back to Plymouth and then only weeks later signed for Birmingham. After that Dicks put clauses in all the triallists contracts that we would have first refusal on them if they were looking for trials again.

 

I would agree with Collier situation and taking Pulis on as Manager, but the latter is because Moyes was waiting in a hotel in Bristol to be interviewed when we signed him up.

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i thought john ward came out and said "he didn't know what he was doing"

Then Benny turned it around playing some good football and giving the young uns ago!

In fact I'll go as far as letting Benny go and replacing him with tiny penis was one our biggest mistakes!

 

 

I'll go along with that. Even if we continued with what I think was a mistake in getting rid of Benny, to think we could have had Moyes or Peter Taylor then...

 

I could be totally wrong with this, but my understanding is that JW asked for help, so Benny was brought in as a "Director of Coaching" or something similar. JW had been consulted on the general idea of having a Director of Football (or similar) but not specifically with regard to BL, and as a result, chose to resign. BL reluctantly took on a Head Coach role when he would have been far more suited to working with someone else (as he had originally been brought in to do).

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I could be totally wrong with this, but my understanding is that JW asked for help, so Benny was brought in as a "Director of Coaching" or something similar. JW had been consulted on the general idea of having a Director of Football (or similar) but not specifically with regard to BL, and as a result, chose to resign. BL reluctantly took on a Head Coach role when he would have been far more suited to working with someone else (as he had originally been brought in to do).

Didn`t Ward want that fella from Fulham (name escapes me), but club wanted Benny the Ball.

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I could be totally wrong with this, but my understanding is that JW asked for help, so Benny was brought in as a "Director of Coaching" or something similar. JW had been consulted on the general idea of having a Director of Football (or similar) but not specifically with regard to BL, and as a result, chose to resign. BL reluctantly took on a Head Coach role when he would have been far more suited to working with someone else (as he had originally been brought in to do).

My recollection is Ward asked for a DoF and asked for a specific bloke (escapes me who, but I think he was ex gas). Anyway, board said you can have one but actually this is the bloke (Benny) and Ward threw his toys out of the pram.

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