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You can bet, whoever the next manager is will be a lap dog to the board and Lansdown. It's no secret that SL doesn't get on with SoD... this is his doing imho. I have no faith in this board or SL anymore... in fact I've always doubted their footballing knowledge...not their money. I feel sorry for the next manager having to work with this lot... I hope the fans realise it's the board killing this Club and not the managers.

I am furious. Same old City. No learnings from the past whatsoever. And to do it when we FINALLY look like we're beginning turning the corner on the pitch. Gobsmacked.

What's interesting is the level of criticism of the board and the support for SOD which that implies. What's been more prominent on the forum for much of the season is anti-SOD sentiment, until now. It tends to confirm what many people have said in the past - that moaners are by far the most noisy section of the forum membership and the fan base in general, whereas there is a substantial but largely silent majority who see the sense in retaining SOD and in the overall, long term strategy. I haven't been this despairing or as furious with a City board since Les Kew allowed Joe Jordan to leave without putting up a fight to hold on to him, an episode that preceeded a slow, inevitable decline that it took years to reverse. Lansdown & Co have done the exact opposite of what they've been preaching all season. It indicates an alarming lack of nerve and susceptibility to fan pressure. It bodes ill for the future of the club.

I dont get our club no wins in 13 and he stays then 1 loss in 7 and he gets the sack... unbelievable

Incredibly disappointed with this. Just goes to show we learn nothing as a club. Another costly parting of ways. Another recruitment process. JET will go.

I cannot wait for this wave of disappointment from the brainwashed lot to dissipate. Its beyond belief really. I thought we were supporters of BCFC not SODFC. He won 2 league games this season. That is piss poor and embarrassing. Clearly the board think so too, lets move on.

Absolute travesty of a decision, there is nobody on this planet who would get anything more out of this young bunch of players than sod could of. Watch us replace him with someone who hasn't got one iota of sods football knowledge or know how. Yes we have been very poor this season, but we were improving albeit performance wise not results wise, had we stuck with sod I have no doubt in my mind we would have come good. Completely disillusioned with this club at the moment.

I am very disappointed that he's gone.Top,Top bloke ,who treats us fans fairly and honestly.He evidently has made mistakes but i felt it was just coming together. Thank you Sean and good luck for the future. As for us ,i am worried,very worried.if the board clock it up this time we are in it up to the neck.

Ship another one out, bring another one in. Einstein's definition of insanity - doing exactly the same thing over again and expecting a different result... Starting to think the club is rotten.

Just adding my comment before moving on. I think the board have called this wrong and am disappointed with it. For me we needed to stick with Sod as I believed he had turned the team around after ridding us of deadwood. I think this is a knee jerk reaction and can not see us getting anyone better in. That said i will get behind the next manager and team as i always do. No use sulking now decision has been made.

He also made videos about how much he doesn't like us and has been quoted in the press as saying that managing us would be "selling his soul to the devil". People's support of Holloway as our new manager is a representation of everything that's wrong with modern football. **** the tribalism, **** the history, who's going to get us to the Premier League quickest

The Fourth Division beckons - but City can do it without me. The Board is showing once again that it knows frack all about organisation, frack all about the fans and frack all about football. City will win a couple of games under New Manager Syndrome and then plummet like a stone. Well, they can do it without me. I've had enough of incompetent suits fracking up my matchday experience and fracking up my football team. O'Driscoll was the one chance of putting back together the club that the suits had ruined. The club is, to coin a phrase, doomed. Frack off, Lansdown, and take fracking Lindley's with you.

Within that "1 in 7" were still utter horsesh1t performances and a load of draws. His term with us has been one of failure. Some of the worst standard of football I have seen down there in years.

we will now lose pemberton and burt who came to work with him. Jet will also leave as he prefers to work under SOD who is the only man who knows how to get the best out of him. back to square one just as we were about to turn the corner. Who ever the new manager is will not play the youth and will not get on with JET. Very bad ecision by the board again and I can only see it getting worse. Disgraceful decision.

If you had spent season after season watching that scrawny little fxxxxxr playing against us,whinging,cheating, disputing every decision,trying to referee every game in the late 80's early 90's,you may have a clue about how a lot of us feel about him. But you obviously didn't ,so don't underestimate just how much some of us hate him. This is a person who won't wear the colour RED because it's our colour. Some of our support need to wake up. Edit, here's a couple lines from a piece I just found about the bloke,when he was manager of Blackpool. Holloway next faces the team he rejected as a boy in favour of rivals Bristol Rovers (he still dislikes red, Bristol City's colours).

The point is that if you want Holloway to be manager at Ashton Gate, there is an equivocation between you and a red flag-waving Cardiff fan; you're sacrificing the tribalism of club football because you feel it's a shortcut to the big time. If that's what you want there are hundreds of pubs across Bristol showing Premier League matches at 1.30 and 4 on a Sunday and you might be more at home there If we forget these tribal boundaries- City vs Rover or whatever it is in whatever town- then football as we know it is dead. Holloway is too much "one of them" for me to accept him

Could hardly have put it better myself. What a total and utter shambles. I have kept largely quiet on the board of our club but this decision is, in my view, one that illustrates we are being run by people who say one thing and do the opposite and really have little idea of what they are doing or what they really want. Of all the platitudes the board came out with and with a significant upturn in recent results and then they stun us with this news. Would you believe anything they tell us from here on? I will be taking a huge amount of it with a pinch of salt. If someone like Di Canio comes in you will have absolutely no chance of seeing the same sort of football, the same sort of philosophy or someone who will give a rats arse about the 5 pillars nonsense. Yes, we will probably see a short term bump although we already started that but you may as well right off another season because that person will want to tear up the squad yet again, may very well be hampered in doing so and either fail or walk. The board really have dropped an almighty clanger unless they intend to quietly tear up what they are publicly telling us and somehow splash the cash and risk a fine or transfer embargo or both. Insane is too mild a word for it and if we should give the board any benefits of the doubt they should come out and tell us the truth... someone has had a huge bust up with Sean and his position became untenable. Don't wrap it up in the crass explanation we have been given because to cut a wage bill in about half, bring in a virtually new team (sorry... a completely new team) and expect or demand better at this early stage in a long term strategy is insulting every single person's intelligence.

That'd be me gone forever.

I would be ashamed to turn up if I was her!

SOD was willing to put up with large financial restrictions, cut the squad, cut this, cut that, he played our academy players. No manager will take us on with our record

We made the last one Vice Chairman.

Well he was right about some weeling and dealing but this wasnt what i suspected. Well at least we dont get this new defender now ! I heard rumours of this ore match Tuesday which is why I haven't posted anything at all since, I was told the board expected us to lose and he would be sacked after the match, of coarse we played peob the best ive seen them this year so that didnt happen directly after the match. Not at all happy to hear this today though And as said it has to be a time critical issue especially with the Crawley job up for grabs as well now Cheers Mark

Just as the Del haters got their wish. And the Millen haters. And the Johnson haters. It has nothing to do with people hating him, and everything to do with a record that reads 7 wins in 38 games.

Didn't take long. That's the day my season ticket goes back.

One thing is for sure, it's the first time ever that a managerial sacking has left me feeling no positivity about the future. His record was abysmal, but who's gonna make it any better? Paying him off has removed how much from the FFP budget?

Good. His record speaks for itself....the Board had no choice in my opinion.

Yes, it's true: I've also just received the email from Lansdown. They've got it wrong yet again in my opinion and caved in to the pressure and negativity from a section of the fanbase. Stupid, stupid, backward step and another indication of the weakness at board level. This will cost more money the club can ill afford and cause more upheaval and discontinuity. Further evidence for me of the dysfunctionality at the heart of the oprganisation. They had better get the new appointment right or this will disrupt everything we've been trying to do and could be as likely to take us backwards as forwards. Well done to all the moaners: you've got your way. You'd better hope it works. I won't be holding my breath.

Was not expecting that. Signs of improvement recently. What a joke we are.

About ******* time. Stuck with all the crap he's signed

I'm pleased city have acted as was not impressed by him at all, however I am shocked they actually did it.

All these sorts of arguments are the same as when Rangers signed Mo Johnston-I'll never watch them again, burning season tickets etc, but the crowds still came and on life goes. Holloway was on the recieving end of some really vile stuff from City fans in his playing days so nothing to be proud of there on both sides. Looking at the current list of contenders he stands out a mile for me.All the arguments against are basically 'he is a Gashead'. Holloway for me.

Spot on Spudski. And I recall you and I agreeing with more or less all these thoughts a couple of managers ago. Quite how the Lansdowns escape near universal criticism is beyond me. We only owe them money as a club because they've run up the debts. They have an atrocious record of managerial appointments barring GJ. When JL talks of progress made in recent months in his youtube piece I scratch my head to think of anything that will truly improve the experience of Bristol City followers...unless we're in the realms of promises of jam tomorrow. And in those realms the Lansdowns have form. SL has been long on big talk and short on delivery. I have no hope or expectation that they'll find a better manager this time. Or indeed that they are following a strategy. The five pillars thing is infant class management consultant speak. With no independent voice on the Board it's all about the whims of one man, whose track record suggests he's not very good at running football clubs. I feel sorry for his son who looks completely out of his depth. I feel more sorry for those supporters who bought the Lansdown promises yet again and invested in STs up front.

I'll remember SOD for doing two things... 1. Talking loads of sense. 2. Losing loads of games.

Amazes me he doesn't post on OTIB, given those qualifications.

Didn't say he was the best in the world, I meant these boys apply themselves and put in 100% effort, so no other coach out there will get anything more out of them, its a young squad slowly improving, sod was the right man to oversee this and nurture them, this may even regress there progress now as stability is key, and you can tell from the players reactions it is not a popular decision.

The arrogance is astounding. It's a massive IF that we will get someone in who will accumulate more points in the remainder of the season than SOD could have. If we went down would you stand by your views? Probably not. Mind you, neither would JL probably. It would be someone else's fault no doubt.

And I thought the key was stability.

So many people fall into a trap of not LISTENING when a speaker is not very animated or attractive.It is precisely when presented with this type of person that one should pay more attention to the content because this type is not one to court the limelight And rarely speaks without having something worthwhile to communicate. Gobshites are ten a penny and empty vessels make the most noise. Now,anyone else want to embarrass themselves by calling O'Driscoll boring ?

The whole things a mess now. Back to square one. Just who is there out there? It's going to be the same for the next manager and he won't get the time he needs either I doubt. I wanted it to work for SoD but in all honesty he has been given as long as possible to turn this around. Can anyone say he has started to turn it around? Sadly it's a result based business and as much as I wanted him to stay it's almost impossible to argue against this. Surprise surprise the board have got it wrong again.

Oddly, it seems that the players are gutted at his sacking, but I'm sure you know better, being on the inside, like.

I've been out all morning with no Internet access and poor mobile signal. My son texted me to say Sod had gone, i texted him to ask how he knew and he said email from JonL, i told him it must be a wind up. i really didn't see it coming. Then frustratingly I couldn't find out more until I got in a minute ago. I am still staggered, so off to read this and other threads to see if other people are as shocked as I am.

No they haven't (shown some balls, that is). They've done the exact opposite - bottled it. And contradicted everything they've been saying in the process. As for making sure it's for the long term, wasn't that what this was supposed to be about? If ten months in the job is long term, then God help us. The chaotic state of things at the top is now truly frightening. There has been a leadership vacuum ever since SL took a big backwards step (which he's entitled to do - I'm not criticising him for that). We also lost Colin Sexstone soon after. I wasn't his greatest fan, but he was a very experienced sports administrator and a strong personality. In their place we have have SL's inexperienced son (and I'm afraid I would have to question SL's judgement on that one) and the invisible Keith Dawe. To cap it off, they've now dispensed with a very experienced manager who was very slowly beginning to produce signs of improvement in what was effectively a completely new team this season. Too slowly for some, obviously. This is a panic move - precisely the sort of thing we've been blaming our current plight on. More of the same. If you were worried before, frankly you should be soiling yourself now.

Holloway can't possibly be given the job - the appointment would be too divisive amongst fans... the Board cannot risk alienating sections of the fans when they have already aliented a large portion by their mismanagement of the club and their incompetence in allowing the club to slide to the depths it has - Holloway would be too risky... Personally, I think he is an overrated charlatan who loves the sound of his own voice, and he doesn't fit my criteria of a manager who would be good for BCFC...

Correct decision. Could see us going down under him, clearly the board felt the same way. Now this gives us a chance to actually improve.

Holloway is not the answer... the man is a publicity-loving goofball...

I would have Holloway...we have to get over our small minded-ness...

I don't think Holloway hates City, I think he has always had a grudging respect for City and their support. To be honest, I'd be happy with anyone but Di Canio. Now that would be a disaster waiting to happen.

Just got the email from Lansdown now. Best email I have received this year.

I despair of City, I really do. Watch JET follow ...