Slack Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 Anyone thinking Steve may go full Ted Lasso ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimpton Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 30 minutes ago, Shockwave said: Hasenhutl for me Would really like him here but realistically can’t see him going to any champ club let alone us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrizzler Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 If people obviously in the know on here are correct in saying the decision to get rid of NP was taken after the Leeds game, does no one think it's rather a coincidence that Gary Rowett left Millwall by "mutual consent" 10 days later?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolman_Stand Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 Not enamoured with Eustace or Rowett to be honest, always liked Nathan Jones at Luton but ruined his reputation a bit at Stoke then shot it to pieces at Saints so would have reservations now. Of the names in the betting list Scott Parker stands out and has won two promotions but with far greater tools than Lansdown is likely to provide, Warnock could be worth a wild ride until the end of the season but would seem odd to move one experienced manager on to appoint another up to the same point as the first was contracted to anyway.....what then? Dean Smith or Chris Wilder have proven records with more success than failures so would be solid options, outside of that I would be thinking left field I.e. abroad or possibly try and find the next Kieran McKenna but given we have nobody with any real contacts at senior level who would do the finding?? In short I have no idea and very little faith we'll improve on what we had anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiderEyed Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 Tin hat on, Warnock in 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishy Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 Following the promise of an experienced manager coming in and ending up with Holden I wouldn't be surprised if Scott Murray gets the nod. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingswood Robin Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 1 hour ago, Jeez said: Thought he was on about 6 million a season at saints Well, if you want someone bionic implants, you've got to pay the money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingswood Robin Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 1 hour ago, Slack said: Anyone thinking Steve may go full Ted Lasso ? The Thick of It springs to mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiderEyed Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 58 minutes ago, Kingswood Robin said: The Thick of It springs to mind He really is as useless as a marzipan dildo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 Neil Warnock please - unrivalled record of getting teams promoted - he’d get us charging to the premier league very quickly, then we could pay him the bonus he deserves to retire in Cornwall and appoint a manager who could cope with the premier league ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38MC Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 3 hours ago, Slack said: Anyone thinking Steve may go full Ted Lasso ? No. I’m more concerned though when his chips are down he looks to his mate - LJ post SC. I honestly would not put it past him to put Tinnion in charge as caretaker and give him a budget. He’s easily sweet-talked - Scott and Semenyo was all me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Red Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 5 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said: Neil Warnock please - unrivalled record of getting teams promoted - he’d get us charging to the premier league very quickly, then we could pay him the bonus he deserves to retire in Cornwall and appoint a manager who could cope with the premier league ... Would never in a million years happen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 10 minutes ago, Bris Red said: Would never in a million years happen. I haven’t given up! Neil could be 92 and I’d still call for his appointment ... - all joking aside, our club has always seemed strangely scared of actually ‘making it’ - since Steve Coppell we’ve appointed a string of managers that no-one has really heard of, or thought of as being managerial material - hence the predictable lack of progress - we’ve had a born winner staring us in the face on a few occasions but we’ve been scared to appoint him. Warnock, no one in the game has more promotions on their CV than him - and he’s often mentioned us as a club he’d be interested in managing - and, having spent a couple of hours in his company in a pub in Cornwall, I can only say, what a guy, what a genuine bloke - he cannot believe how all the prats (there’s plenty on here) fall for his pantomime villain routine which is well-practiced and obviously designed to mislead the media and deflect any attention away from his players - wherever he has been. How people still fall for that is just amazing. Still, you’re probably right, we’ve had the chance to appoint the guy, who holds the record for the most promotions ever, on several occasions - but, being Bristol City, we preferred to go with the likes of (in no particular order) Keith Millen, Lee Johnson, Dean Holden, Derek McInnes, Sean O’Driscoll, John Pemberton ... Cotts was the exception and he gave us an incredible season that I won’t ever forget - but that was still only in division 3 ... we’ve now binned the guy who laid the foundations for Leicester City’s epic Premier League Champions season - he signed Riyad Mahrez for £450k and he spent a whole Sunday afternoon at Jamie Vardy’s house persuading him to sign for Leicester instead of Blackburn - shades of Brian Clough - Nigel Pearson - a great manager - I’ll miss him ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shauntaylor85 Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 (edited) The Notts Country HC…..don’t be shocked. Think he’s liked and was here before. However who knows…..! Whole thing is a joke that we are even talking about a new manager. Edited October 30, 2023 by Shauntaylor85 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted October 30, 2023 Report Share Posted October 30, 2023 I was having some thoughts about Rowett. Whilst I know his style of play has been generally disliked - even by Millwall fans, who generally haven’t ever been bothered at being a ‘lump it’ team, I was reminded of their game against us, very early in Rowett’s tenure at Millwall. They came to Ashton Gate on a Tuesday night and I was expecting the usual Millwall physicality and lump fest. But I was actually quite taken aback by the way they had set up against us. They were ‘officially’ in a 3-4-3 but the 2 wing backs were playing so high that it looked more like a 3-2-5. I was actually quite impressed. And they won the game, 2-1. I don’t really know too much about how things ended up being a style that even Millwall fans didn’t like, but I know that in that game at AG that night, I was really quite impressed by the ballsy way they played us. It honestly looked like they had 5 forwards - it was like something from the 1950’s! The pics below are 1) The official line up and 2) the heat map of the 2 wing backs. They were basically advanced wingers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted October 31, 2023 Report Share Posted October 31, 2023 Was the first time I saw Molumby. Basically Jon-Dadi, Bradshaw and Jed split our 4 defenders when we had the ball, and Molumby was tasked with ratting out any balls that were played into midfield - Williams more his cover (but high) if we did penetrate…which we rarely did. As they pinched ball high up, their wingbacks were well placed to overload us. I don’t recall getting much ball into our wide players. This was I think the game where we went 3 unchanged and Massengo and Nagy looked knackered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shauntaylor85 Posted October 31, 2023 Report Share Posted October 31, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, BS4 on Tour... said: I haven’t given up! Neil could be 92 and I’d still call for his appointment ... - all joking aside, our club has always seemed strangely scared of actually ‘making it’ - since Steve Coppell we’ve appointed a string of managers that no-one has really heard of, or thought of as being managerial material - hence the predictable lack of progress - we’ve had a born winner staring us in the face on a few occasions but we’ve been scared to appoint him. Warnock, no one in the game has more promotions on their CV than him - and he’s often mentioned us as a club he’d be interested in managing - and, having spent a couple of hours in his company in a pub in Cornwall, I can only say, what a guy, what a genuine bloke - he cannot believe how all the prats (there’s plenty on here) fall for his pantomime villain routine which is well-practiced and obviously designed to mislead the media and deflect any attention away from his players - wherever he has been. How people still fall for that is just amazing. Still, you’re probably right, we’ve had the chance to appoint the guy, who holds the record for the most promotions ever, on several occasions - but, being Bristol City, we preferred to go with the likes of (in no particular order) Keith Millen, Lee Johnson, Dean Holden, Derek McInnes, Sean O’Driscoll, John Pemberton ... Cotts was the exception and he gave us an incredible season that I won’t ever forget - but that was still only in division 3 ... we’ve now binned the guy who laid the foundations for Leicester City’s epic Premier League Champions season - he signed Riyad Mahrez for £450k and he spent a whole Sunday afternoon at Jamie Vardy’s house persuading him to sign for Leicester instead of Blackburn - shades of Brian Clough - Nigel Pearson - a great manager - I’ll miss him ... Imagine being someone who built a PL winning squad, only to be apparently binned by a failed former BCFC manager who is now technically your boss. Wow! Only in BS3!! Edited October 31, 2023 by Shauntaylor85 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italian dave Posted October 31, 2023 Report Share Posted October 31, 2023 19 hours ago, old_eastender said: Dean Smith did a good job at Brentford on a small budget, had them playing good football too. Pre-Luton, weren’t Brentford the side SL always used to talk about? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted October 31, 2023 Report Share Posted October 31, 2023 6 minutes ago, italian dave said: Pre-Luton, weren’t Brentford the side SL always used to talk about? yep, but he never got them promoted…Frank did. Smith did get Villa promoted, although I think Jon Lansdown could’ve done that! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted October 31, 2023 Report Share Posted October 31, 2023 (edited) Smith did alright at Brentford but don't think he did anything amazing there. Maybe laid a couple of foundations. Frank took them onto a new level and had more variety tactically and though Smith probably but not definitely had a better PPG than Frank with their respective PL clubs. Aston Villa budget surely significantly outstripped that of Brentford up there Norwich was more comparable and Smith and his record there hmm. Smith wouldn't be the worst of all time but wouldn't enthuse me either. Edited October 31, 2023 by Mr Popodopolous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidercity1987 Posted October 31, 2023 Report Share Posted October 31, 2023 13 hours ago, Davefevs said: Was the first time I saw Molumby. Basically Jon-Dadi, Bradshaw and Jed split our 4 defenders when we had the ball, and Molumby was tasked with ratting out any balls that were played into midfield - Williams more his cover (but high) if we did penetrate…which we rarely did. As they pinched ball high up, their wingbacks were well placed to overload us. I don’t recall getting much ball into our wide players. This was I think the game where we went 3 unchanged and Massengo and Nagy looked knackered. I don't know why that game stood out for me so much but it did A team of inferior individuals (aside one or two exceptions) dominated the whole game against us and Molumby was tremendous 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cityboy1954 Posted October 31, 2023 Report Share Posted October 31, 2023 On 30/10/2023 at 15:11, Taxi for hunt said: surprised Allardyce isn't on the radar, certainly not a yes man though so rules him out Not with his salary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted October 31, 2023 Report Share Posted October 31, 2023 On 30/10/2023 at 12:08, Nugget said: Wouldn’t rule out Curtis getting it if he has a good start We could, and most probably will, do worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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