Nigel Pearson appointed Bristol City manager

[Mike Oxlong]

Colin W@nker possibly being lined up for the Bristol City job (but only according to the Sun)

 

https://www.bristolworld.com/sport/football/bristol-city/neil-warnock-linked-to-bristol-city-and-cardiff-city-but-timing-is-odd-as-ex-boro-boss-looks-for-new-post-3545579

Edited 28 January 2022 by Mike Oxlong

[Leicesterpool]

For me its starting to get selfish from Neil, hes had a great management career over forty years but time to step aside and let some of the youngers guys come in and have a go. Best thing for Warnock to do is either retire or maybe take up a director of football to help support and advice a new upcoming manager.

[Freeman's Wharfer]

8 hours ago, Leicesterpool said:

For me its starting to get selfish from Neil, hes had a great management career over forty years but time to step aside and let some of the youngers guys come in and have a go. Best thing for Warnock to do is either retire or maybe take up a director of football to help support and advice a new upcoming manager.

He can’t be wired right to want to keep working at that age…

 

It seems like a pretty all-consuming job, he’s a millionaire and he takes these gigs miles away from his family home. Same with Hodgson.

 

I get it’s a passion but just go and live the last part of your life enjoying the money you’ve made from the game!

[Nalis]

16 hours ago, Leicesterpool said:

For me its starting to get selfish from Neil, hes had a great management career over forty years but time to step aside and let some of the youngers guys come in and have a go. Best thing for Warnock to do is either retire or maybe take up a director of football to help support and advice a new upcoming manager.

Hodgson's replacement in April?

[Super_horns]

7 hours ago, Nalis said:

Hodgson's replacement in April?

Well he did say it’s a good job to get !

 

3 months or so then a pay off .

[Asha]

On 28/01/2022 at 15:06, Leicesterpool said:

For me its starting to get selfish from Neil, hes had a great management career over forty years but time to step aside and let some of the youngers guys come in and have a go. Best thing for Warnock to do is either retire or maybe take up a director of football to help support and advice a new upcoming manager.

Yeah there’s a bit of an obsession with experience in football.

 

Let’s get Roy Hodsgon back. Yeah… Neil Warnock, a lifetime of experience. But half of that was before the offside rule in the days when they used tape as a crossbar. How good is he still at relating to players who are young enough to be his great-grandsons? 
 

I get the value of a manager who knows what he’s doing rather than a 34-year-old starting out on Day 1, but surely the value of experience is eventually overcome by the weakness of senility? 

I know this sounds a little ageist but I really can’t understand why dragging on with these guys in their mid 70s, or having a president in term into his 80s, makes absolutely any sense. 
 

I’d be extremely underwhelmed to be a Watford fan and see Hodgson toddle in.

 

Luckily it won’t be for long. (Because they’ll sack him, not because he’ll die soon)

[Col city fan]

As I said, Bristol will be barmy if they offload Pearson too quickly. 
He needs time to get everything his own way plus a very strong back room team.

If he gets both, I have no doubt Bristol will get promoted either next season or more probably the season after that 

[Corky]

Getting Colin in when you are mid-table is pointless. If you are well adrift or in a serious battle to stay up, or behind the play-off teams and need a burst of something new, I get it more. Bristol City aren't likely to do anything at either end of the league so stick with Nige or go for someone fresh and long term.