Coppell resigns as Bristol City manager

[Once were Biscuitmen]

Him and Cureton were knocking up the daughter of the Bristol Rovers chairman I heard.

As well as Martin Butler's wife?

[Royal Rother]

What a massive bottlejob

It's really not a question of bottle. He's been successful in his life and earned good money - why would you carry on in a job your heart isn't in when you don't have / need to? You have to enjoy a job to be good at it. If you're not then you owe it to your employer to get out quick (especially when you're being paid a few hundred grand a year to do that job!).

People have this strange view that those involved in sport should operate to a different set of rules to the rest of us.

[zummerset]

Copps is a very 'artistic' man - I have loads of love for the guy but he is soo emotional..

[Terminal Boardom]

Managers don't base decisions on whether a club has hooligans for supporters or not, how ridiculous. There are hundreds of arrests and man united, liverpool, man city, chelsea,etc games - do any of those managers give a toss?

You also left out the fact that Millwall fans by all reports more than gave as good as they got. Reports of darts and bottles being thrown from the away end into the home section you've left out.

Only a Rangers fan could come out with a statement like that

[Ian Royal]

bottle job? or man with immense integrity and honesty? He just doesn't have the same drive after achieving massive success at two relatively small clubs and managing for over 1000 matches. It's a far far better thing to back out of a job you aren't up for, than carrying on and doing it badly just to take the money and avoid bad publicity.

Best manager evidence -
Reading in the top flight for the first time ever (something both Pardew and McGhee failed at)
making Reading the 8th best team in the country
two manager of the year awards from his peers
three other promotion challenges with Reading

Not best manager evidence
almost inevitable relegation from top flight given available resources and over achievement in previous two seasons
Royalee & Scarface say so.

[Royal With Cheese]

Royalee - you really are an incredibly bitter and sad little individual.

However, I do grudgingly admire your steadfast refusal to take facts on their face value.

I hope one day we get a more sucesfull Reading manager than Coppell because if that day happens we'll be a Priemership team starting a European campaign.

Untill then, you can take your McGhee's and Pardews and shove them up your arse.

[leon]

Big deal, if he was such a good manager why did he never manage to consistently have a club in the top flight and motivate top players and end up at poxy Bristol City? Oh yeah, because he's a bottle job.

he might be a bottle job - but he's our 106 points best ever manager bottle job. And for that I, and I always will, no matter how many jobs he bottles salute him. So just c*nt off you shallow, self obsessed young man.

[Very near...far away]

You what? People on here are having a go at Coppell? You can *!** right off.

[sandman]

Big deal, if he was such a good manager why did he never manage to consistently have a club in the top flight and motivate top players and end up at poxy Bristol City? Oh yeah, because he's a bottle job.

what a pathetic little tw@t.

Steve Coppell = Legend

[davis69]

coppell is a legend and always will be a legend. No one was having a go at him when he won us promotion.
Before having a go at coppell wait for te real reasons first

[Big Foot]

There was also a lot of crowd trouble when City lost to Millwall last Sat and (unusually) City supporters attacked a Millwall coach and smashed it up. I think that Sir Steve suddenly realised that he had a dysfunctional squad, not much money to buy replacements, an interfering chairman and a set of neanderthals for supporters.

Trying to palm yourself off as some kind of guru, yet you say it's unusual for Bristol City fans to get violent?

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

I think he was being sarcastic BF.

City fans are pussies mostly and get little coverage, however whenever Millwall Cardiff and a few others come along they like to get all retro and try to look big, in the past 70's they smashed everywhere up.

As for Coppell, very sad, at 55 years old just perhaps he realised that football has changed, it has always been a results business, but now they way the game is approached by many clubs is dull and boring. I saw that at Torquay on Wednesday, in all honesty we could have left at HT it was so boring to us.

That is not the case for all fans, but it is the way that it is played that I do not enjoy, not the fact that we were poor, maybe Coppell has just had it with todays game.

FWIW I cannot see hm going to Villa, there is a guy that interferes more than any chairman, yet demands success. You dont get that by selling your best players to your direct opposition.

[Big Foot]

I think he was being sarcastic BF.

City fans are pussies mostly and get little coverage, however whenever Millwall Cardiff and a few others come along they like to get all retro and try to look big, in the past 70's they smashed everywhere up.

They put the windows through on our buses last season, the hard bastards

[Skyline]

Pardew did all the work and it took Coppell 3 years to finish it

Obvious to everyone how ridiculous this statement was, but just to really point it up:

Reading players from the 2005/6 squad who played 10 or more league games, listed by the manager in charge when they signed:

Burns: Murty

Pardew:Hahnemann, Harper, Shorey, Sidwell

Coppell: Convey, Doyle, Gunnarsson, Hunt, Ingimarsson, Kitson, Lita, Little, Long, Makin, Oster, Sonko

[TBM]

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Da ... 53561.html

[savage 4 england]

Tbh James didn't strike me as a Coppell signing. Maybe all the wages are taken up on James and now they can't bring in a striker.

[brendywendy]

8th in the Premiership. You lose.

Relegated from the Premiership and in deeper financial problems supposedly than when he took over over half a decade previously, we lose.

you truly are a moron.

[Hoop Blah]

FWIW I cannot see hm going to Villa, there is a guy that interferes more than any chairman, yet demands success. You dont get that by selling your best players to your direct opposition.

Randy Lerner? Are you sure?

By the sounds of it he's reigned in the budget this summer and O'Neil didn't like it, but I've not heard anything of him interfering with team matters. In fact I'd have said over the few years he's been in charge he's been the ideal chairman.

Have I just missed something?

[brendywendy]

Relegated from the Premiership and in deeper financial problems supposedly than when he took over over half a decade previously, we lose.

before we went up we made ~ a 6 million loss every year.
in fact probably bigger as we had a full stadium for the first time ever after xmas, and still lost 6 million.
we now have more fans, more season ticket holders, have a training ground, and are looking to break even, or close for the 2nd year in a row, after probably never ever doing it at any time in our modern history.


what the oxf*rd are you on about

[sandman]

Pardew did all the work and it took Coppell 3 years to finish it

Obvious to everyone how ridiculous this statement was, but just to really point it up:

Reading players from the 2005/6 squad who played 10 or more league games, listed by the manager in charge when they signed:

Burns: Murty

Pardew:Hahnemann, Harper, Shorey, Sidwell

Coppell: Convey, Doyle, Gunnarsson, Hunt, Ingimarsson, Kitson, Lita, Little, Long, Makin, Oster, Sonko

Plus, Coppell was a greater influence on Sidwell having worked with him at Brentford and Brighton before Pardew signed him for us. So Sidwell can also be considered as a Coppell player even if he didn't sign him.