ohhhshauntaylor Posted June 28, 2020 Report Share Posted June 28, 2020 Pretty simple- LJ, or Cotts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team Posted June 28, 2020 Report Share Posted June 28, 2020 It’s not even a debate, I didn’t want him to leave in the first place! Who knows where we would be if he’d be backed in the same way LJ has? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lez Posted June 28, 2020 Report Share Posted June 28, 2020 Pointless poll dont think either are good enough anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted June 28, 2020 Report Share Posted June 28, 2020 No brainer but it will never happen. Cotts was badly treated and is held in very, very high regard by our support but we're after something different. I hate to say it but if Swindon or a decent L1 side had a vacancy, he would be absolutely perfect. Give him a job at somewhere like Ipswich and they would storm the league as we did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lrrr Posted June 28, 2020 Report Share Posted June 28, 2020 Pointless poll given the results of the other one, better poll would be cotts or someone else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobintheRed Red Posted June 28, 2020 Report Share Posted June 28, 2020 yes would have him back if lansdown gave him half the funds johnson has scuppered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 I'd go and pick up Cotts right now! I'd have him back in a heartbeat as he gave me one of the best seasons ever, with fight, passion, and team tactics and formation pretty spot on. No BS buzz words, like dynamic, and identity, and all the other gibberish we hear. I'd imagine there are so many players under the Bristol City bus at the moment it wouldn't be able to move. Don't recall much of that (I've ****** up again but let's blame the players) from Cott's if any at all. Imagine what he could have done if he was backed with half that money, let alone all of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 18 minutes ago, Sniper said: I'd go and pick up Cotts right now! I'd have him back in a heartbeat as he gave me one of the best seasons ever, with fight, passion, and team tactics and formation pretty spot on. No BS buzz words, like dynamic, and identity, and all the other gibberish we hear. I'd imagine there are so many players under the Bristol City bus at the moment it wouldn't be able to move. Don't recall much of that (I've ****** up again but let's blame the players) from Cott's if any at all. Imagine what he could have done if he was backed with half that money, let alone all of it. It's all academic now, but it wasn't possible in summer 2015, at that time to back big. I would also add for balance, how would Cotts handle the player trading we have seen - it's only fair to judge under similar conditions- that appears to be a necessity in the Championship. For us it began with Kodjia sale in summer 2016- and Ayling though his fee wasn't so big- he may not have liked that! He was generally an excellent man manager though, seemed very driven, focused as well. Shame how it ended! Interim appointment, nothing to lose but don't know if it works beyond that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superjack Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 Lansdown won't work with Cotterill again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cider red Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 With the squad he now would have he would get us playing football again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Brent Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 Neither. Next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordy62 Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 Lansdown did everything possible to sack Cotts, and now he’s doing everything possibly to not sack LJ. LJ had 24m of players on the bench yesterday, Cotts wasn’t allowed to sign Tomlin on loan. The playing field is so far from level it’s untrue. I’d have Cotts back in a heartbeat if it meant getting rid of the current clown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 3 hours ago, David Brent said: Neither. Next. This. I love Cotts for what he did for us, but we've all moved on and going back doesn't seem a good idea. If I had to choose one of them, I'd go with LJ. Just because I have such wonderful memories of Cotts and wouldn't want them spoiled by a horrific second spell. I'm not so fond of LJ and so am used to disappointment with him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordy62 Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 6 minutes ago, BS2 Red said: This. I love Cotts for what he did for us, but we've all moved on and going back doesn't seem a good idea. If I had to choose one of them, I'd go with LJ. Just because I have such wonderful memories of Cotts and wouldn't want them spoiled by a horrific second spell. I'm not so fond of LJ and so am used to disappointment with him! Interesting angle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinmans Love Child Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 That’s like giving me the choice to have my right or left ball chopped off! Neither are good enough to get us to the Prem end of story, both have had more than enough time at this level (Cotts admittedly elsewhere), you should at least have another option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natchfever Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 Neither now. There are surely better options out there. Cotts departure wasn't amicable was it, no tearful presser with Steve which will probably happen with Johnson junior.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redstart Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 Loved it with Cott's in charge, but backed or not, he just doesn't have any decent track record above League One - having him back is not the option to take City forward in this league in my opinion, so it's option 3 - Neither for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 I don't think going back to a former manager is the way forward and obviously there's the breakdown in relationship between SL and SC that makes it an impossibility. What SC did, and this is something we were clearly crying out for yesterday, is played players to their strengths (Afobe on the wing??). He had a set plan of how he wanted us to play and actively recruited for that style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmite Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 The players under Cotts looked as if they were really enjoying their football, playing their natural games. LJ doesn't give them the freedom to express themselves. It's all so sterile and they just dont want the ball. This squad with Cotts in charge would have us drooling with their flair. LJ has coached the flair out of them. Time to go Lee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Red Hat Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 Silly poll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 42 minutes ago, Phileas Fogg said: I don't think going back to a former manager is the way forward and obviously there's the breakdown in relationship between SL and SC that makes it an impossibility. What SC did, and this is something we were clearly crying out for yesterday, is played players to their strengths (Afobe on the wing??). He had a set plan of how he wanted us to play and actively recruited for that style. Spot on. Plus, speaking as a huge Cotts fan, he is a control freak who could never work in our current set up with the hugely overrated (but apparently fireproof) Mark Ashton, who in my opinion should leave now as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatalist Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 A choice between one who ultimately failed by stubbornly sticking to one rigid system, and one who changes the system every week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted June 29, 2020 Admin Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 No You HAD to have a "Neither" option in there too Though a bit odd to include a vote on having someone back and having the current person in the vote . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 I did not vote. I thought the poll lacked depth and sincerity and was not prepared to lower oneself to such god awful choices. p.s. as much as I, like others, did not want Steve C to leave in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonBristolian Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 I don't think LJ can take the club any further and I think Cotts' team played the best football I can remember a Bristol City team playing but I still would rather LJ stayed than Cotts came back. Cotts is a great manager who did a superb job here but the last four months were toxic and depressing. I've no doubt Cotts had justifiable reason to be angry and disappointed about the summer transfer window but the way he let that animosity seep into interviews and affect the culture of the club was massively unhelpful. I don't want a manager who refuses to name subs or sticks to the same side in order to point score. I want someone who tries to win the club games. I think it is easy to forget in retrospect how poor are run was when Cotts left and how terrible we looked as a side, and the way the results lifted immediately with his departure. Cotts was probably my favourite manager in all of my time supporting the club but I really want us to look forward rather than backwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen humphries Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 6 hours ago, Natchfever said: Neither now. There are surely better options out there. Cotts departure wasn't amicable was it, no tearful presser with Steve which will probably happen with Johnson junior.. 5 hours ago, Roger Red Hat said: Silly poll. Stupid question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDOXO Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 SC (blessings be upon him) won our first title in my life. The bloke knew what hey wanted but there was arguments about contracts internally apparently and the p[layers went elsewhere. We couldn’t attract anyone After that and the opportunity was lost. We went on to play with pretty much the same promotion team and Kodjia. As I remember it anyway. We were in the relegation zone after last minute defeat at Reading and the rest is history. As I mentioned yesterday Wilco’s comment was Steve I think feels a bit miffed that he was not backed by SL in the same way as LJ (who has created a ******* great mess) If SL and SC can put aside their differences, he would be perfect for between now and the end of the season, followed by a bit of a chat!!...However never gonna happen. LJ will be in charge on Wednesday and our season will be lost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 Cotts gave us the best season in the last ten years and I want to remember him for that. To have him back now would be like seeing one of your favourite players go on just that bit too long and start to look embarrassing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS13 Robin Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 Cotts was great but he has had his time,we have moved on now and not sure he fits the bill anymore,having said that i also think that Johnson has had his time and it is now time to move on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelts Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 Cotts hasn’t worked much since leaving us . Why ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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