Derek McInnes sacked by Bristol City

Absurdistan

Another one bites the dust.

Bristol City have sacked manager Derek McInnes following Saturday's 4-0 defeat by Leicester, which left them bottom of the Championship.
The Scot, 41, had won one of his last five games and endured a club record-equalling seven-game losing run earlier in the season.
Football managing director Jon Lansdown said: "This is a decision we felt we had to make for the good of the club."
Assistant boss Tony Docherty has been put in charge of training.
Robins under Derek McInnes
Played: 63
Won: 17
Drawn: 14
Lost: 32
McInnes arrived at Ashton Gate from St Johnstone in October 2011 following the departure of Keith Millen, with the club languishing at the bottom of the Championship with just one win from their opening 12 fixtures.
However, following an eight-match unbeaten run at the end of the campaign McInnes guided Bristol City to safety with a game to spare.
But after an encouraging start to this season, with early wins over promotion chasers Crystal Palace and Cardiff, City have since slipped down the Championship table and they now find themselves eight points adrift of safety.
The Robins are the only club in the Football League still without a clean sheet this season.
Lansdown told the club's official website: "Derek has been a pleasure to work with; he's disappointed but he understands the decision.
"We want to give ourselves the best possible chance of getting out of the situation we are currently in and we've got 20 games to do that."
A former Rangers, West Brom and Millwall midfielder, McInnes's only previous job in management was with St Johnstone, who he guided to the Scottish First Division title in 2009 and promotion to the Scottish Premier League.

Oggy Red

Surprised he's lasted so long in the job.

Their local press thought he was doomed after our 2-0 win there back in November.

Oggy Red

Anyway, he's played for Millwall - so no sympathy from me.

Danny Addick

Can we have Baldock now then please

GretnaGreenAddick

They look destined to go down whoever is in charge, poisoness atmosphere from the fans, which on top of poor showings from the team only leads one place.

Absurdistan

By my calculation thats the 10th club to change their manager in the championship this year. WTF.

Crystal Palace
Nottm Forest
Burnley
Blackburn
Blackpool
Bolton
Wolves
Ipswich
Barnsley
Bristol City

Have I missed any?

bolloxbolder

3 of those though had their manager poached.

Oggy Red

GretnaGreenAddick said:

They look destined to go down whoever is in charge, poisoness atmosphere from the fans, which on top of poor showings from the team only leads one place.

The team has no confidence and their own crowd are hostile to them.
Feeds a downward spiral.

With that atmosphere around them - relegation certainties.

We've seen it ourselves a few seasons back.

Amos on the wing

Oggy Red said:

Anyway, he's played for Millwall - so no sympathy from me.

This

Oakster

Curbs?

MuttleyCAFC

Not a surprise -he put a good run together last season to keep them up and was backed this season -but he bought strikers and neglected his defence. Was a dead man walking for some time.

ShootersHillGuru

Oakster said:

Curbs?

Can't see Curbs wanting to have all the hassle of a relegation battle which might well end in relegation and then having to rebuild the club. I think Curbs thinks that he has served his apprenticeship and wants the chance to actually do something. If he could have survived at West Ham for a further season I think he might have achieved something quite good there. Not sure he will ever get the chance again now. What a waste.

tangoflash

ShootersHillGuru said:

Oakster said:

Curbs?

Can't see Curbs wanting to have all the hassle of a relegation battle which might well end in relegation and then having to rebuild the club. I think Curbs thinks that he has served his apprenticeship and wants the chance to actually do something. If he could have survived at West Ham for a further season I think he might have achieved something quite good there. Not sure he will ever get the chance again now. What a waste.

I think Oakster was maybe being a bit tongue in cheek?..................

ISawLeaburnScore

Absurdistan said:

By my calculation thats the 10th club to change their manager in the championship this year. WTF.

Crystal Palace
Nottm Forest
Burnley
Blackburn
Blackpool
Bolton
Wolves
Ipswich
Barnsley
Bristol City

Have I missed any?

The stat looks worse when you factor in that Blackburn and Blackpool have changed their manager twice and Wolves and Nottingham Forest both started the season with entirely new managers!

rananegra

What's more amazing is that CP is now one of the longest serving managers at a Championship club - only Kenny Jackett, Nigel Clough, Gus Poyet, Tony Mowbray and Darren Ferguson (by 4 days) have been in the job longer.

killerandflash

If there is such a thing as a 'deserved' sacking, then this is probably one of them. I'd be surprised if it made much difference to Bristol City's fate though.

Dansk_Red

Bristol City have confirmed the appointment of Sean O'Driscoll as their new head coach after sacking Derek McInnes.

ISawLeaburnScore

Best possible appointment for them.

Redhenry

They cannot afford to be relegated as they have a wage bill of £18.6 million and have lost £25.85 million over the last two seasons.
Financial fair play is due to come into force next season and by 2015/16 season the losses at a Championship club can be no more than £5m.

Kap10

Redhenry said:

They cannot afford to be relegated as they have a wage bill of £18.6 million and have lost £25.85 million over the last two seasons.
Financial fair play is due to come into force next season and by 2015/16 season the losses at a Championship club can be no more than £5m.

What happens if they are? Can owners subsidise clubs with donations?

Absurdistan

By all accounts Blackpool have had permission granted to talk to the Dundee manager.

killerandflash

Absurdistan said:

By all accounts Blackpool have had permission granted to talk to the Dundee manager.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21011729

It's Dundee united actually
Scottish manager - tick
Bald manager - tick

Lincsaddick

Merry go round and round and round ..... O'Driscoll takes over

Redhenry

Kap10 said:

Redhenry said:

They cannot afford to be relegated as they have a wage bill of £18.6 million and have lost £25.85 million over the last two seasons.
Financial fair play is due to come into force next season and by 2015/16 season the losses at a Championship club can be no more than £5m.

What happens if they are? Can owners subsidise clubs with donations?

I think it was £3m. There was a story on the BBC website

Oakster

tangoflash said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

Oakster said:

Curbs?

Can't see Curbs wanting to have all the hassle of a relegation battle which might well end in relegation and then having to rebuild the club. I think Curbs thinks that he has served his apprenticeship and wants the chance to actually do something. If he could have survived at West Ham for a further season I think he might have achieved something quite good there. Not sure he will ever get the chance again now. What a waste.

I think Oakster was maybe being a bit tongue in cheek?..................

Would miss Curbs sparkling wit and controversial opinions every Sunday on TV over here if he ever got a managers job. Is he on TV on Sundays for the 4pm live game in the UK or is this just a North American thng..??

Red_Pete_in_Dubai

Oakster said:

tangoflash said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

Oakster said:

Curbs?

Can't see Curbs wanting to have all the hassle of a relegation battle which might well end in relegation and then having to rebuild the club. I think Curbs thinks that he has served his apprenticeship and wants the chance to actually do something. If he could have survived at West Ham for a further season I think he might have achieved something quite good there. Not sure he will ever get the chance again now. What a waste.

I think Oakster was maybe being a bit tongue in cheek?..................

Would miss Curbs sparkling wit and controversial opinions every Sunday on TV over here if he ever got a managers job. Is he on TV on Sundays for the 4pm live game in the UK or is this just a North American thng..??

He appears on the Premier League TV programme, which is shown all around the world except in the UK. I certainly get to enjoy him & Andy Townsend every Sunday evening (here).