Major Isewater Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 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 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiderEyed Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Completely agree with the whole Gary Collier episode in being our worst mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malago Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Moving from St Johns Lane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciderbeans Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Not playing bolasie on the left wing with adomah on the right. Wasted opportunity and could have kept us up. That being said, we wouldn't then be in the positive position we are in now so swings and roundabouts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 The long contacts that almost killed the club nothing else come close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenBall Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 In recent times giving our 2008 squad long contracts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formerly known as ivan Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Bringing in Benny Hill and letting John Ward leave. Think Ward was onto a good thing at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Wilson not picking Lita in the Brighton PO Final. McInnes not signing a CB in the season that we went down. Allowing Pulis to spend big money and give big contracts to old, injury prone journeymen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One BCFC Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Not having a sell on fee for Andy Cole. Letting Bob Taylor go. Giving 07/08 squad long contracts. Signing David James and bringing in Steve Coppell. Having Tony Pulis as Manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I am the mole Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Not appointing Steve Cotterill years ago when applied the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Not appointing Steve Cotterill years ago when applied the first time. It's not as simple as that - a lot depends on circumstances. For us and him it's a case of right man right time. May not have worked out as well if he came in instead of McInnes for example Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedHalf Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Gary Johnson not signing a prolific striker in the January transfer window of our 2008 play off final season! We were crying out for a goal scorer and had we splashed 2-3 million on one in that window I think we would have gone up automatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westonred Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 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 !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Letting Joe Jordan go. We should have made him an offer he couldn`t refuse. Also not investing in a quality striker in Jan 2008 (although I had a lot of time for Dele). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City fan 1982 Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 andy cole sell on, not strenghening the side the year we lost to hull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse With No Name Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Not taking off Bradley Orr in the play off final after his facial injury. I will forever wonder if a substitute defender would have been closer to Windass and thrown himself in the way of the shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Appointing Pulis over Moyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superjack Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Ditching the Robin and Suspension Bridge badge for the dull, unidentifiable monotony of the return to the god-awful crest. Or letting black onto the shirt the season before last. As soon as that happened we were relegated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexukhc Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Appointing Pulis over Moyes Who did we appoint over Peter Taylor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Who did we appoint over Peter Taylor?[/quote Wilson I think, or they maybe the other way around I can't remember! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Appointing Pulis over Moyes THAT is going to hurt me forever. :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fat Controller Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Dean someone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Actually, wasn`t it Ray Lewington? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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