AshtonGreat Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 OK here's a question: imagine every City manager in your lifetime had our current squad of players, and were managing them in this season's League One campaign. Where do you think each of their teams would finish up at the end of the season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingswoodactor Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 All other managers in my lifetime of watching City (1988 onwards) would finish below Cotts with this squad. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor10 Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 Good question this. I have been watching City regularly since 93' and I can safely say every manager would be below Cotts with this side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 The problem with trying to assess previous managers with this squad is that they all preferred to play different formations. Therefore they might not be as successful as Cotts, as the current squad suits a 3 5 2 formation, but might not fit their preferred style of play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsofclay Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 I first seen City in 1970 so Dicks was my 1st manager, however, Fred Ford was the manager prior to Dicks and thus in my lifetime. From what I've been told he did bawl a lot and could match Dame Clara Butt on the decibel scale. So I reckon the current squad would've finished the season at the hearing aid specialists under Fred Ford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 The problem with trying to assess previous managers with this squad is that they all preferred to play different formations. Therefore they might not be as successful as Cotts, as the current squad suits a 3 5 2 formation, but might not fit their preferred style of play. The formation (decided by the manager) depends on what said manager thinks suits his squad best. Over time said manager can recruit players that he thinks/knows would be able to adapt to his preferred formation and those two factors separate good managers from ordinary ones. No doubt SC is playing the most effective formation to suit his squad. If Cotterill had had the same squad as previous managers then he'd played to their strengths as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roe Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 Impossible to say. Timing is a huge factor in football/sport/life and no doubt Cotterill has had the timing perfect in order to shape the squad we have today and he's done/doing a fantastic job to get the best out of them. All I could say is that I'm not sure any of our previous managers could have done better with the team we've got now. Ie, you can't do much better than being in a (minor) cup final and a mile clear at the top of the table! Long may it continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanderingred Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 Under Danny Wilson, our minor blip vs Sheff Utd and Colchester would have extended into a 7 or 8 game winless run and we'd be about where Swindon are. We'd make it to the playoff final and lose to the team in 6th. Under Johnson, we'd have a few points less by siting back and conceding a few late equalisers rather than killing the game off in games such as the Fleetwood and Donny ones. He'd take us up but probably as runners up again. Jet would have been sent packing in the summer so thats a few less goals we'd have too. Under Pulis....wow I dread to think how he'd have butchered this team. We'd probably have signed someone like Akinfenwa as a lone striker with Flint ordered to hoof balls for him to chase. We'd be mid table with a record of W 6 D 20 L 8. Sixteen of those draws being 0-0s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 The formation (decided by the manager) depends on what said manager thinks suits his squad best. Over time said manager can recruit players that he thinks/knows would be able to adapt to his preferred formation and those two factors separate good managers from ordinary ones. No doubt SC is playing the most effective formation to suit his squad. If Cotterill had had the same squad as previous managers then he'd played to their strengths as well.I agree with the logic of this, but the question from the OP was what would previous managers do with THIS squad. This squad is put together to play 3 5 2, which doesn't suit the way previous managers liked to play. For example, Terry Cooper liked to play 4 4 2 with 2 wingers so he might struggle with this squad as he would either be forced to play a formation that was alien to him, or to somehow adap it to play 4 4 2. The same could be said about Alan Dicks. Things were different in the 70s and he was a traditional 4 4 2 manager. Although successful, I'm not sure what he would do with this squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucksred Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 Cotts would get the best out of any squad in my lifetime of watching City...and he wouldnt have pissed off the squad like at least one other manager. cotts would have got Robbo off the sauce, got Lee miller scoring for fun, made Leeeeroy the top striker in the division, god knows what hed have done with Allison, Bob Taylor, jacki, Paul Hartley, Rob Newman, Louis Carey, Bradley Orr, Brennan, Thorpey, Agostino, Ivan, Shaun Taylor, Flapper, Basso, David James and loads of others. Our best manager for ****** years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar BS3 Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 Interesting question ! I don't think any previous manager would get as much out of these players. Nor do I think that previous managers would have attracted some of these players here in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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