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In theory probably an ideal candidate but his Rovers heritage swings it to a no for me.

 

Besides, we would be on a hiding to nothing with the Gas. If he is successful, we would never hear the end of how it took a Rovers legend to do the business for us, if he failed, we would never hear the end of it as it would be well done agent Holloway.

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An overlooked "benefit" of Mr Holloway's integrity is his insistence on shaving off his contractual cut of transfers fees.

Other benefits?

His passion failed to inspire CPFC and Leicester City.

His loyalty sees him being a serial walker away from contracts

A toxic relationship with Citys more vocal support.

Amusing if anything else the topic.

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don't like to admit it but i have total respect for the guy, especially after what he did at blackpool but also because he's an honest down to earth guy who isn't scared to speak his mind and is great at motivating players. saying that there is no ******* way he could ever manage this club for the reasons already mentioned.

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I don't want to believe the text I've just received via a source at Palace...

 

Apparently according to them ( they being part of the coaching set up ), that Holloway was approached by us, after he got the sack their.

 

So who knows... I wouldn't put anything past this board now...

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I've just got a job back in Bath after 4.5 yrs working away - could I have your season ticket please if you decide to get rid !!??

 

Im serious...your loss would be my gain.

 

Thanks.

 

By the sound of it you might be better off waiting until he is appointed and then going on trade it.co.uk where you might find a few dozen available.

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"I think he's a hilarious bloke - a real character and one of the few true Bristolian who's ever made it to any level of achievement in any walk of life. "

 

I was having a bad day until i read this nugget!

 

Pure comedy gold.

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

Why what is wrong with it? If you love, care and want the best for BCFC, he has got to be a contender, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are in now, and might possibly still be a championship side if he could've and would have been appointed a while back, I, and I know many season ticket holders who sit round me wouldn't have a problem with him being appointed,and probably a lot of true supporters wouldn't, I know a lot of people who post on here prob do, but I think that if we held a ballot of fans at A.G, more would come out in favour of him being manager than not, at least he would bring some passion to the side and ground.

What is your problem with him,?ok, he's said a few things, and wound people up, but that's all part of the game, The past is just that the past, and he's proved what a good manager he is,time for you to move on.we had, Pulis, Ward, Cooper, would he be worst than any of those?

Do you think that if he was appointed he would come in and not give it his all, and best shot then? Out of all the managers names mentioned he's got my vote.

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Holloway?!

 

Yeah, why not. And while we're at it we could employ Stevie Wonder as the bus driver, Nigella Lawson as our community liaison officer for drug education, get Jimmy Savile in to do a few kids coaching courses & get the Lostprophets to do us a fundraising concert.

 

Jesus Christ! Some people are REDS and some people are BLUES. End of.

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I normally agree with what you say mate. and I don't post that much anymore as you normally say what I think so no need to repeat it, but, I disagree with you on this.  To me, football and sport is about winning.  That is it.  If my Holloway can bring us success, then so be it.

"My Holloway"?

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There is only one reason I would not want him at this club and that's because he once said "the only good city fan is a dead city fan" I'm from a family where bcfc runs through our blood, many of my family members are now no longer with us. Holloways previous comments Say to me that he's happy their dead, a couple of less city fans in the world. If he was appointed I would be done with this club. First off I would be down at Ashton Gate within 10 minutes voicing my displeasure. Any City fans that would support his appointment are a disgrace to this club. The guy is absolutely vile and it would turn into another pulis situation.

So none of us have ever said anything like i could kill him .we dont really mean it do we he was young and he played fir rovers i expect even you might have said something similar and didnt mean it seriously come on .

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NO NO NO. Yes, I think he would do a good job if he got the job.

 

However, where is the pride people? This is Holloway - gas through and through. For goodness sake, stop all this friendly stuff. Its embarrassing that our fans now clap him. Shows whats wrong with modern football - no passion and no pride from the fans. Would he have got this reception 30 years ago? No. Time machine please, I want some passion, fans freedom and atmosphere back in my club.

 

Good manager but definitely not for us.

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Guest ernie goodthing

He could never manage City, just as Johnson could never have gone to Rovers.  At the first sign of anything going wrong, the fans would be on his back.  The other thing is, he is not just someone who was once associated with the gas.  He supported them as a boy, played for them, managed them and used an open top bus tour to insult City.  Oh, and at the moment only two-thirds of Bristol football fans hate him.  Take the City job and all Bristol football fans would hate him, for different reasons.

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Ffs...we need to stop all this small minded crap. He would do a good job if appointed

Unbelievable, you call it small minded and are obviously oblivious to the history and his comments full of vitriol towards us. As for doing a good job, I can't see it, he'd alienate many fans who would no longer set foot in AG, those that managed to, but with severe reservations would make his life hell for every defeat, odd substitution etc.

Its a no brainer, he would be the most devisive Manager that could be appointed, he would be at risk of continual verbal and possibly, physical assault should things not improve. He strikes me as the sort of character who doesn't cope with that well, whereas someone like Warnock seemed to thrive on it.

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Holloway?!

 

Yeah, why not. And while we're at it we could employ Stevie Wonder as the bus driver, Nigella Lawson as our community liaison officer for drug education, get Jimmy Savile in to do a few kids coaching courses & get the Lostprophets to do us a fundraising concert.

 

Jesus Christ! Some people are REDS and some people are BLUES. End of.

move on !!
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Three pages on Holloway?... seriously?

I don't think that there is anyone 'lined up', but although I haven't got a clue who the next guy will be, the board would have to he suicidal to appoint Hollowhead... and he wouldn't be stupid enough to come here... just IMO btw.

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don't follow your logic there, fella

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

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Oh no, Mr Holloway said something nasty about my football team, boohoo.

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).

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over the top? I don't appreciate my deceased relatives being ill spoken of, you may but I certainly don't.

Come on bud, these are words said in jest by a young man 25 years ago, probably in response to some idiots saying something sh1tty about his kids. Holloway is a fierce competitor but if you think he would be happy to hear about a city fan dying for real, you are out of your mind.

For what is worth, he would be an ideal appointment in terms of his cv, and style of management in my opinion, but I am not sure that the board would take the risk.

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That is unbelievably over the top!

The guy is a professional football manager and if he wants the job he should get it.

He'll be a lot better than the idiot we just sacked.

You just don't get it do you.

The bloke has BRISTOL ROVERS running through his veins.

FFS,don't you and others actually understand who this "professional football manager" actually is????.

I'm now beginning to understand what happened at Cardiff, football fans have gone soft, and it seems will now accept anything and anyone at there football club.

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You just don't get it do you.

The bloke has BRISTOL ROVERS running through his veins.

FFS,don't you and others actually understand who this "professional football manager" actually is????.

I'm now beginning to understand what happened at Cardiff, football fans have gone soft, and it seems will now accept anything and anyone at there football club.

Bill, Chill........all said n done, it,s only foootball.......thats all it is

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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.

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We are Bristol City FC

we are not some souless plastic entity with no history.

If you want Holloway are you sure you are a city fan?

I want Holloway (or Warnock) as manager.

I've been watching the club for 34 of my 41 years.

I'm a season ticket holder.

I make a 450 mile round trip to watch home games.

You tell me - am I a fan?

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I would have Holloway over any one of the names on the bookies list I saw.. The guy is now a middle aged family man, he has grown up! I think he's always had a grudging respect for us, and if we did get him I think it would be a bit of a dagger in the heart for gasheads because I know that they would love to have him back there!

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There's too much history.

This argument that the only problem is that he's a sag is akin to saying the only problem with Linda MaCartney running a slaughter house id that she's vegetarian, the only problem with Neil Lennon taking over the church of England is that he's Catholic and the only problem with Boris Johnson taking leasership of the Labour party is that he's Boris.

He's not just any old sadsag.

My only grudging respect for him is in the words of that 442 article. Even he knows it'd be selling his soul coming here.

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It had to be the day that a gashead got a 4 year ban for 'an agressive gesture' towards City fans is the day people are seriously talking about him for our top job. WTF has happened to football that people are even contemplating appointing Holloway as CITY Manager?

 

Please god, no!

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I know you're 'old school' Aiz that's why I was shocked when you said you were a fan of the man people called Mr Gas!

The logic in appointing him makes sense and even the likes of Arny seem to welcome it (???) but it just can't happen IMHO. We all wanted to rip his head off 23 years ago FFS!

It would be an absurd and divisive decision - just the sort of thing I'd expect from our board. Fortunately Holloway has more sense than to accept it.

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Holloway?!

 

Yeah, why not. And while we're at it we could employ Stevie Wonder as the bus driver, Nigella Lawson as our community liaison officer for drug education, get Jimmy Savile in to do a few kids coaching courses & get the Lostprophets to do us a fundraising concert.

 

Jesus Christ! Some people are REDS and some people are BLUES. End of.

Not going to happen. Savile is dead.

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so all the people who don't want him cause the gas link would rather end up in basement footy rather than having a successful candidate?

cutting your nose to spite your face springs to mind :-/

As much as I don't like the bloke I'd rather him for the good the club.

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so all the people who don't want him cause the gas link would rather end up in basement footy rather than having a successful candidate?

cutting your nose to spite your face springs to mind :-/

As much as I don't like the bloke I'd rather him for the good the club.

Its for the good of the club that he shouldn't even be mentioned as a candidate, he would tear the fanbase apart, I am 100% in the camp that would not set foot in the Gate until he and the board that appointed him had gone. Its irrational and illogical, but thats football.

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so all the people who don't want him cause the gas link would rather end up in basement footy rather than having a successful candidate?

cutting your nose to spite your face springs to mind :-/

As much as I don't like the bloke I'd rather him for the good the club.

Holloway has 3 relegations on his cv, don't kid yourself he wouldn't make it 4,if given the chance.
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Its for the good of the club that he shouldn't even be mentioned as a candidate, he would tear the fanbase apart, I am 100% in the camp that would not set foot in the Gate until he and the board that appointed him had gone. Its irrational and illogical, but thats football.

 

Dead right. I'm in the opposite camp, but still think it would be a disaster for the fans. Prolly be announced tomorrow, then :(

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Holloway?!

Yeah, why not. And while we're at it we could employ Stevie Wonder as the bus driver, Nigella Lawson as our community liaison officer for drug education, get Jimmy Savile in to do a few kids coaching courses & get the Lostprophets to do us a fundraising concert.

Jesus Christ! Some people are REDS and some people are BLUES. End of.

I don't really think you've thought about this, trying to be funny but failing quite miserably, well done!

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The heart says -absolutely no way -never!  :gasmask: I smell GAS!
The head says is their an available manager with a better record or the passion required! :blink:
 

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Surely the moment he takes the job he's no longer a gashead? He's a former gashead. If anyone should be furious when he gets the job it is the Rovers fans - how would we feel if, say, Tinnion turned up at theMinimal Ground?

 

 

a bit like Alan Walsh scenario I'd imagine ?!

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Danny Wilson managed both Sheffield clubs and played for Wednesday. I can understand some fans objections, but at least he is Bristol through and through. I mean what managers are available, that will come, and can do a job. There are few that don't have baggage because that is the nature of the job. he has done well at many clubs with few failures. I gave up considering that Rovers even exist ten years ago. 

 

Wilson was never taken to heart by the Blades fans. It was an inconvenient marriage. 

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I gave up considering that Rovers even exist ten years ago.

And so did I, but I bet Hollowhead hasn't, for this reason he would be poison to this club, you can see how devisive SO'D and his sacking has been, I am pretty certain, that if for some unimmaginable reason the board appointed the stereotypical Bristol bumpkin, the devisiveness of the current situation would look like a group hug of the paciifist society, against what would follow a bad run of results from Hollowhead.

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If Holloway was ever accepted City manager I would not only give up on this club, but with football in general.

 

If somebody like that could be welcomed in and cheered by the Ashton Gate crowd, then football as I know it would be dead. While we're at it, why don't change our kit to Pink and Yellow spots and go and play in Cornwall. Because at the end of the day nothing really matters does it?

 

What do we stand for as a club? Because if Holloway could ever be our manager, then I would argue we stand for absolutely nothing. I simply do not understand what the people that want him here see in football in the same way I will never understand Cardiff fans that are happy to play in red.

 

There are plenty of candidates for this job that I don't like and/or think are poor managers, but should they be named I would be fully behind them. But not him. Never.

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If Holloway was ever accepted City manager I would not only give up on this club, but with football in general.

 

If somebody like that could be welcomed in and cheered by the Ashton Gate crowd, then football as I know it would be dead. While we're at it, why don't change our kit to Pink and Yellow spots and go and play in Cornwall. Because at the end of the day nothing really matters does it?

 

What do we stand for as a club? Because if Holloway could ever be our manager, then I would argue we stand for absolutely nothing. I simply do not understand what the people that want him here see in football in the same way I will never understand Cardiff fans that are happy to play in red.

 

There are plenty of candidates for this job that I don't like and/or think are poor managers, but should they be named I would be fully behind them. But not him. Never.

 

I'm adding Warnock and Cloggerill to your list of one.

 

I've never felt so disillusioned with BCFC as I do now and that's not helped by JL's insistence that an intangible attribute like 'passion' is at the top of his priorities for the manager... 

 

If they get this wrong it's gonna take something odd to happen for me to feel the same way about the club and those destroying running it.

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