robin_unreliant Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 I wasn't keen when he was appointed but what a fantastic season he gave us. Good, open football and winning most weeks. Will always remember it fondly. Cotts and Gary Johnson - will always think we'll of the pair of them. Couldn't argue with the decision to move on either time though ( just the timing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfOfWestStreet Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Disgusted at your treatment Steve. Best thing to happen to the club in years, put actual silver in the cabinet. Shame we don't have a proper chance to say goodbye. **** off Keith Dawe you *****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickolas Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Thanks SC. I feel your stubbournness is what brought about your eventual end. However i also feel you are the scapegoat for an amateur, naieve and frankly out of their depth board of directors, including the one Chairman who we have now been given this bad news by. Good luck for the future. I have loved the brand you gave us and hope i see one of your teams play this way against us in our shiny new stadium some day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SODS_LAW Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Hated him when he come I now love him, gutted he's gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Exile Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Gave me the best season in my 40 odd (mostly very odd) years supporting City. Thanks for that Steve. Made us all feel like winners. Don't take a backward glance at the pitiful shower who've released you. Sadly we're stuck with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDPJ Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Didn't want SC as manager - but he proved me wrong! Wonderful season 2014/15. Thanks for everything, Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingswoodactor Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Huge thanks Steve. Last season was out of this world, playing some of the best football I've ever seen any Bristol City side play in the last 10-15 years IMO. To win the title and our trip out at Wembley will forever remain in my memories and heart. I'm truly gutted for you, and the fact that it's just not worked out in the way we were all hoping it would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledRobin Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 What a season last year! Always got the sense that he created a fabulous dressing room togetherness. I still think he would have turned it around. Cheers Steve, all the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldstandrobin Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Thanks for everything Steve, hope you get a job where the board know a little bit about football because they b*****y well dont here , All the best and thanks for last year, in over 55 years going down the gate it ranks in my top 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InCider Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Thanks for the best season in my time of supporting the club and the work you did prior to that. All the best in your next job. You'll always be remembered for what you achieved here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrumpty Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Thanks Steve. Gone, but will never be forgotten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Thank you Steve for probably the best season we will ever have supporting this club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Hitler Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Thank you Steve for our first league title in sixty years and for putting your heart and soul into the job. I hope you go on to have a fantastically successful managerial career elsewhere; you certainly deserve it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash the Bash Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Read this for the first time from some gobby Gashead on Facebook, for some reason I was quite surprised despite the clubs situation at the moment. Surely only a handful of clubs have sacked a manager mid-January? We'll never know the full details but the club have obviously messed up a bit here, I assumed they were backing him by giving him the January transfer window. Anyway, as with many others I'll always have respect for Steve for what he achieved here. From an unimaginable situation where we were heading towards League Two to the Championship and winning two trophies along the way. He settled the club so well and brought in some class players last season. It was the first time for a while I'd stand there with a massive smile on my place because of our style of play, it was a great feeling going to the Gate expecting us to win almost every game. I was working away a lot up in Herefordshire where Bristol City were getting many mentions much to my approval, I felt so proud to be a fan. Always remember rushing back from Hereford for the Swindon home game, so worth it. Wembley was of course great, despite the cup being a bit of a joke to a lot of people I always feel a sense of awe seeing us at these grounds. I always remember watching the first game last season away to Sheff Utd in a Utd fans bar in Spain of all places and thinking 'this'll be a special season' and that following summer - League One champions! Not much to cheer about this season but one game I did particularly enjoy was WBA the other day, felt like ages since I'd really went for it in a celebration which is what I did to full effect after our second. It’s time to focus on the positives of his time and forget all the other stuff. We should move on and support the next manager whoever he may be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welcome To The Jungle Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 50 minutes ago, Lew-T said: Top man is Steve, will always be very well regarded at Bristol City FC. Thankyou for the great times! Good luck for your future Get That Man A Flag! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew-T Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 The best night I've had supporting this club. Thank you again Steve! https://youtu.be/wsB0tCqfJqs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDBS36 Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Thank you Steve last season one of the best I can remember , so proud to be a City fan and all the other clubs running scared of us football wise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SotonRed Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Don't really post on here, but in this situation I feel compelled to. Thank you Sir Steve for giving me the best season I can remember last year. The decision tonight is unbelievably harsh in my opinion - getting sacked having won 46% of your games is madness. I think he deserved more time, although our league positioning may look worrying, performance-wise we've looked a hell of a lot better than that this season. Our young talented team is still learning and adjusting to this step up and are all still very much behind the manager. We don't look like a team in despair, he took over with us in a desperate state in league one and has instilled a new passion within the club. Thank you for all you've done, I'm sorry our club hasn't given you the respect you'd earnt, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRidingHood Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 As others have said, totally underwhelmed by his appointment but what a season we had last year. Best in 20 years of supporting City. Hope he finds a new club quickly. Thanks Steve. But thanks also to SL for having the courage to make the decision now rather than allowing continuing loyalty to cloud your judgement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon uk Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 All the best to cotterill, he did a tremendous job for us and will go down in the history of the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristol south end Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Thank you SC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lager loud Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 40 minutes ago, TheCulturalBomb said: Making him do a pre-match press conference earlier. I didn't realise that: appalling - unless there was some sort of bust-up later. Thanks for 2014/15 Steve - as others have said, the best season I've ever witnessed at City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Cotterill was magnificent. Keeping us up, shrewd recruitment in short term 13/14 and summer 14 especially, the whole last season and what a season! Further to this, lest we forget when we went down it was very plausible we might have taken years to get out of League One, certainly isn't usually as quick of that. Under O'Driscoll we were going nowhere at all. I think the club collectively underestimated big time the Championship. But that's for another thread. Thank you. Steve Cotterill, best of luck...sacked far too soon!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slack Bladder Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Probably the most popular manager ever to be sacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
man in the middle Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Only god can help us now. Thanks Steve! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedUn Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 48 minutes ago, Olé said: Thousands of miles away and amazed this has happened. Echo Fordy's comments. Unbelievable really that it has got to this after two seasons of unprecedented success. I'm gutted about this. Unless there is a sub story no one knows about, Cotterill is carrying the can, I hope someone else at the club is feeling suitably ashamed right now. Ask a man to make bricks without straw then sack him! In fact I can't think of another example of a manager being expected to compete in a higher league with a smaller, less-experienced squad than he came up with. I bet the phone is ringing off the hook with decent managers wanting come here ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelts Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Saved us from relegation. Won a cup. Won a league championship. Lots of unanswered questions from pre season regarding transfer activity. Sadly he has lost the plot and had to go. Still the most successful manager in my watching time at the gate. The board have a lot of explaining to do over the coming weeks. Cheers Cotts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBCFC Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Thanks for everything Steve, good luck at your next job (except when you play us of course!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddogkev Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 A true Bristol City legend, thanks to Steve Cotterill for the memories. This season is nothing other than a steep learning curve. Can't wait to see where SC goes next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 13 minutes ago, Lew-T said: The best night I've had supporting this club. Thank you again Steve! https://youtu.be/wsB0tCqfJqs Wouldn't you have loved to have Tavernier in this squad? 6 minutes ago, Slack Bladder said: Probably the most popular manager ever to be sacked. Yet who would have believed that when he was signed on in a storm of apathy from the fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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