Dean Holden Short Listed

[RoystonFoote'snephew]

I don't believe it will be Holden. I just think City may have felt obliged to at least give him an interview. 

If the unthinkable happened would I walk away. Of course not, true supporters support their team through thick and thin not run away throwing their toys out of the cot as they go. 

[One Team]

1 minute ago, Red Army 75 said:

Probably the only candidate to be willing to be told what to do . Other candidates have other ideas. This surely can’t happen after 4 ******* weeks 

Of course it can happen this is Bristol City!

[Roger Red Hat]

2 minutes ago, Southport Red said:

DID Holden impress in the last 5 games?

No. Boro game was good, and thats it.

[southvillekiddy]

13 minutes ago, harvey54 said:

I will scream and scream and scream until I'm sick 

Steady on there Violet

[Southport Red]

1 minute ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

I don't believe it will be Holden. I just think City may have felt obliged to at least give him an interview. 

If the unthinkable happened would I walk away. Of course not, true supporters support their team through thick and thin not run away throwing their toys out of the cot as they go. 

After supporting this team for over 50 years, only five of which have really seen us successful, I am not quite ready to be told I am not a 'true' supporter, or that I am 'throwing anything out of anywhere'.

We cannot hear from the Lansdowns that PL football is the ambition in the very near term and then appoint one of the co-architects of our current situation.  True supporter or not, after half a century I AM entitled to say FFS I can find better things to do.

[Davo370]

I'll always support City but Holden tainted by the dire football over last two seasons for me.

[southvillekiddy]

Might be worth it just to see what Ashton says after he's appointed

2 minutes ago, Southport Red said:

We cannot hear from the Lansdowns that PL football is the ambition in the very near term and then appoint one of the co-architects of our current situation.  True supporter or not, after half a century I AM entitled to say FFS I can find better things to do.

Me too brother.

[Southport Red]

Having thought about it, it could be this.

1). They are going to appoint Cook

2) They know the majority want Hughton, so

3) Leak that it could be Holden and everyone organises an impromptu street conga when Cook is acnnounced,

 

#strategy

[Wolf Island]

45 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

According to GMG.

And he has "important support"...(Holden not GMG)

Said this on another thread. Could happen I think

[Son of Fred]

36 minutes ago, ashton_fan said:

He did a reasonable job in the final few games so don't see why this would be a bad thing, SL has made internal appointments in the past and he'd have the advantage of knowing the squad strengths and weaknesses. Time is on his side with the new season not that far away

Ok Dean,,,no need to milk it..........

[The Coach]

LJ as Holden’s number two 

[SBB]

After taking the Hummel hoodie I ordered for my nipper out of the bag and having a look.... I didn’t think today could get any worse, city wise.

Of course I was wrong. 
 

Cheap and nasty all round. 

[Dastardly and Muttley]

My main annoyance with this would be the month’s wait. I could understand if they said that they wanted to keep a progression model for coaches as well, and have it to Holden soon after LJ left.

However, to have been linked to Gerrard, Hughton and Cook, before Holden gets mentioned as a serious candidate, just shows he’s the fall back option.

[Bedred31]

Don’t think the issue is coaching, modern or otherwise. Everyone says LJ is a good modern coach. It’s man management this squad needs. Players tend to respond to experience and a history of success, the reliable but scary father figure, or young but proven internationals, players who were better than them and who walk as well as talk. That was part of LJ’s problem and DH is hardly likely to fare better.

[daored]

I think the issue may be the club want to keep Holden on as part of the coaching set up 

[southvillekiddy]

Just now, Redpool said:

LJ as Holden’s number two 

Sod as no. 3, McInness as no.4, Mrs Mills as no.5

[Suffolk Red]

Usually have a lot of time for GMG, but the way he "bigs up" Holden in this article is frankly ridiculous.

Fair enough if the board out of courtesy interview the guy but a serious contender, on what logical basis? 

[JoeAman08]

45 minutes ago, JonDolman said:

I wonder if he had a different 3 in midfield, how good we may have looked under Holden.

I was not that keen on the Fam and Wells strike force either.

So a few changes in who plays in that system, and I wonder how good we could have looked.

But I wouldn't want him. Did a decent job though. Boro away was a superb performance.

You don’t always have to try and put a spin on it 

I would definitely cancel my DD if they appointed Dean Holden **** that nonsense

[Isawjonshaw]

9 minutes ago, One Team said:

Of course it can happen this is Bristol City!

As much as I want to laugh it off, you’re right!  Please be wrong!!

[CodeRed]

24 minutes ago, harvey54 said:

I will scream and scream and scream until I'm sick 

it's thick

[RUSSEL85]

This sounds like media manipulation and lowering of expectations. If he was appointed as manager or head coach, that would be me finished in terms of putting money in the club. Hiring someone who was part of a failed regime would be disastrous.

[Top Robin]

Please NO!!!!!

[Red Exile]

12 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

I suggested that Mark Ashton & Jon Lansdown might want to Google Jimmy Lumsden & Keith Millen if they don’t know who they are.

Are we seriously suggesting appointing someone because they beat Boro? (as let’s face it, everyone beat Hull).

Probably only Mike Flynn has been a worse serious idea than this.

Agreed. How could an extensive trawl of potential managers to take the club to the next stage yield the name Dean Holden? 

I could just about see how either Hughton or Cook might fit...but as anything other than a courtesy nod Holden is surely some sort of wind-up? 

[pride of the west]

[Red Army 75]

2 minutes ago, Dastardly and Muttley said:

My main annoyance with this would be the month’s wait. I could understand if they said that they wanted to keep a progression model for coaches as well, and have it to Holden soon after LJ left.

However, to have been linked to Gerrard, Hughton and Cook, before Holden gets mentioned as a serious candidate, just shows he’s the fall back option.

Have a season ticket for next season. If they appoint DH. They will never get another penny from me  . No ambition what so ever . Just nodding donkeys 

[Phileas Fogg]

I don’t think we’re going for him. It would be good courtesy to give him an interview given his respectable performance as caretaker.

Important support could mean the players - or perhaps Ashton.

[Smokey]

Probably interview Jamie Mac tomorrow

[Mike Hunt-Hertz]

30 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

If this happened, that would be me, after 55 years, time to call time !

Gloucester City is looking a lot more tempting, for me!

[Redrascal2]

Just as I thought this recruitment farce could not be worse, this news appears. Holden. Surely not even Lansdown could be that clueless. The great hope of Hughton and then to appoint Holden. Let's hope it will never happen. To appoint the cheap option who has won nothing and learned his trade under Johnson. Madness.

[Robbie C]

The only possible justification for appointing Holden is if Lj had done a brilliant job and been poached by a PL club.  But he AND his coaches did an awful job with the resources they had. If Holden had no part in that, what was he doing at the club?