Football All things Football

Seriously, It would massively raise eyebrows if your new owners see him as the man for the job.

I'd describe him as promoted way beyond his capabilities.

He was well placed as our academy loans manager and then later academy director.

Since he's moved up to DoF most of our signings have been suspect. The two strikers he signed (all be it with Manning's approval) were terrible. So much so that one was sent out on loan back to Austria and the other dropped.

We payed massively over the odds for Twine, blew our transfer budget on poor planning such that we had no.money in January and it's believed that this may have been a factor in convincing an ambitious Manning that his future was better elsewhere.

Tinnion has made numerous gaffs in radio and social media including getting his knickers in a twist during interviews and revealing confidential transfer information to prove a point.

He was a legend as a player but was an atrocious manager. His last game in charge was a 7-1 thrashing by Swansea.

This picture is of him sat long after the final whistle in the away dugout at the Liberty stadium because he wouldn't go down the tunnel to face the team:

post-463-1216993828_thumb.webp


Who knows, he may be absolutely brilliant for you, free of our chairman and owner. It's possible because the last man who was this unpopular at Ashton Gate went on to take Ipswich from League 1 to the top flight and is now their chairman.

I strongly doubt it though.
 
sounds like you rate this guy as much as we rate Ivor Grbic LOL

it would be interesting because we must be the last big team in top 2 leagues. that have never had a director of football or head coach. but after the disaster of tom cannon the last thing, need is a very expensive striker flop we got plenty of them
 
Honestly, ask most City fans 4 years ago what they thought of him and they would have said "a club legend who tried and failed as our manager, came back a few years later and has since then done a really good job with the academy."

Ask them now though and after the word academy in the above statement they'll almost all go on to not have a good word to say about him.

As I said it would be a really, really strange appointment for a club who I would say are bigger than Bristol City and where he hasn't managed to do anything of note in a DoF role.
 
well there no stranger to it, Ruben Selles for Chris Wilder is very strange appointment. but i feel have to have seen something that we havent. because this like sacking parkinson at wrexham, pep at man city or klopp at liverpool. if your getting rid of the an extremely popular manager. you have zero room for error. because the pitchforks will be out if it goes wrong

i was seeing youve got another strange appointment at yours a ex barnsley manager from 5 years. to replace liam manning
 
Exactly what we had when they inexplicably sacked Nigel Pearson. Brian Tinnion was the face of that decision and that's when his reputation really fell apart but it was already sinking fast from the moment he was appointed DoF.
 
i hope he is success & we have a great season next yr. wilder will likely go down as my favourite utd manager & its hard but i think they might be right that its time for a fresh start. im not going to praise or be critical of the new guy. ive learnt my lesson.

i called paul heckingbottom cheap option & he got us promotion, took us to a fa cup semi final

i couldnt have been more against the sacking of big sam & the appointment of gareth southgate was a disgrace & he became greatest english manager since sir alf ramsey

it seems also ruben selles couldnt be more polar opposite to chris LOL

CW - You can Stick your data where you want to stick your data.

Selles - We need to embrace data & new technologies,

 
Interesting opening day fixture in the championship.

I guess we'll be able to measure how far we've come after the previous two hammerings.
 
Interesting opening day fixture in the championship.

I guess we'll be able to measure how far we've come after the previous two hammerings.
i was just thinking that, how pleased would bristol city be, to start the season after how we ended your season so definitively. & interesting for us because we have no idea what to expect next season. new manager, potential new style, how many of those that played in may, will play in august
 
Back
Top Bottom