Steve Cotterill

[Cheltfan]

I have come on to your forum to put the case forward for Steve Cotterill as your new manager.
Steve took our club up by the bootstraps and took us from the Dr Martens League to Division Two, beyond our wildest dreams.
The joke that is Bobby Gould is now trying to take us all the way back again, but that is not your concern.
Steve does NOT play long ball, hoof and hope football, so I will kill that myth straight away.
He will build an exciting, functional team, one which will work hard for each other and which will also have a fantastic team spirit. He will make sure they play for the shirt and have pride in the shirt.
Steve is a fantastic motivator, a great coach and one of the best managerial prospects in the game today. He is a winner, and will get the best out of your players, you can have no doubt about that.
He will be loved by the fans if he gets the job, simply because of his passion. He gets involved and will be on the line, in the players' faces every minute of every game - they will not be allowed to slack off.
You also mention his quick move from Stoke to Sunderland.
He is ambitious yes, but if he finds a club where he thinks he can make his ambitions a reality (ie become a Premiership manager) he will stick around.
I know (as I know people who have spoken to him about it) he feels Brighton is that club. He really wants to manage your club, and I know he will also not bugger off if you don't get your stadium as I know some others have done.
I would urge you all to call for Steve to get the job, and to urge Dick Knight to give him the chance.
Steve is your man, and he lives in Bournemouth, so expect to see him at the Fitness First Stadium tomorrow.
All the best for the rest of the season, and I hope your dream of a new stadium becomes a reality.

 

[the right footed denilson]

cheers mate. ive been trying to tell people in here fir weeks.

but, apparentely, he plays 'hoof ball'!!!

 

[227 BHA]

Bring him in now Dick!!

 

[itszamora]

Still my no.1 choice, well it beats Tigana or Hoddle doesn't it!

 

[Trigger]

No it doesn't beat Tigana

 

[Hiney]

Well said Chelters,

Steve Cotterill would be a good appointment

 

[Locky]

Thanks mate, lets hope Dick Knight reads this.

 

[Thimble Keegan]

He sounds like another Mickey Adams, so I say get this man in quick.

The thing with our squad of players that Mickey brought together is the team spirit and togetherness they have. If Steve Cotterill is good at forging team spirits then he should be able to maintain what our squad currently have.

We do not need our team spirit destroyed by a Tigana or Hoddle type character.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA

 

[berkshire seagull]

Don't want cotterill i want dowie!

 

[Citrus]

No it doesn't beat Tigana

 

[bhaexpress]

My problem with Cotterill is simple. I can understand why he left Cheltenham. With all due respect to the them I reckon he felt that he had taken them as far as they could go with their current set up. His moving to Stoke was a step up it has to be said. Why oh why did he so readily jump ship and head towards Sunderland as an assistant manager ? Was he making a career move a la Micky Adams taking over from Dave Basset with him succeeding Howard Wilkinson ? Backfired didn't it ?

Whilst we await the powers that be to give us the green light (or not) about Falmer I would say that assuming Cotterill steered us into Division One (shades of P. Taylor) then what's to stop him doing a Coppell/Adams and heading off to a bigger club at the drop of a hat ?

I'd rather give Bob Booker an extended run, I think he's being underestimated by a lot of NSCers.

 

[glosterseagull]

the phone is not ringing at steve's house

 

[Kenhead]

i don't like the idea of cotterill comeing to brighton as he left stoke for bigger and better things, done it once will he do it again? we need someone with comitment. i know that hes got brighton connections before with hes playing days aswell but that doesn't make me feel 100% conferdient in appointing him

 

[bhaexpress]

Cotterill's Brighton connections are limited to a handful of games when on loan from Wimbledon in the early 90s. Hardly a died in the wool Seagull is he ?

 

[Rougvie]

I have warmed to the prospect of Cotterill, maybe because I am starting to think if Dowie was coming to us, then he would have done it by now. I am also starting to think that Dowie is holding out for a so called 'bigger club' to come in from him.
I don't blame Cotterill for leaving Stoke, the club has been a shambles for years, and he had a good offer to go.
Who is loyal these day's in football, I think I am right in saying that Cotterill had a few good offers whilst at Chelt'm but turned them down, I suppose these gestures are forgotten when everyone remembers what happened at Stoke.
No Dicky, get him in now.

 

[Thimble Keegan]

Cotterill's Brighton connections are limited to a handful of games when on loan from Wimbledon in the early 90s. Hardly a died in the wool Seagull is he ?

Who says they need to have Albion links? I always cringe when an ex-player comes in as manager as it is a chance to destroy the reputation they had whilst playing...Just like Jimmy Case.

I see a Stoke City fan has come on here moaning about Cotterill but I reckon he is just bitter. I think he will slot in perfectly.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA

 

[Cheltfan]

I read what the Stoke fan said, and a lot of that is down to bitterness.
Steve left for many reasons - one being that he could not get on with the Icelandic chairman. If the English board members had been able to rasie the funds to take over the club, he would have stayed (this from the horse's mouth, btw).
But think on it - if you had a job where you did not like your boss very much and got offered a higher-paid post at a more distinguished company where you could better yourself, would you not go?
As it happens, it didn't work for Steve and now he has to prove himself again.
At Cheltenham, Steve turned down approaches from: Swindon (2), Oxford (2), West Brom, Bristol City, Bristol Rovers, Hull City and Doncaster to carry on his job there.
Steve is not disloyal, he is the opposite. He is ambitious, but I know he feels he can fulfill those ambitions with BHA.
AND HE DOES NOT PLAY LONG BALL FOOTBALL!!!
One more thing . . . who is Damian Hilton?

 

[Dez]

It has to be Cotterrill. Get him in quick!

 

[bigc]

I read what the Stoke fan said, and a lot of that is down to bitterness.
Steve left for many reasons - one being that he could not get on with the Icelandic chairman. If the English board members had been able to rasie the funds to take over the club, he would have stayed (this from the horse's mouth, btw).
But think on it - if you had a job where you did not like your boss very much and got offered a higher-paid post at a more distinguished company where you could better yourself, would you not go?
As it happens, it didn't work for Steve and now he has to prove himself again.
At Cheltenham, Steve turned down approaches from: Swindon (2), Oxford (2), West Brom, Bristol City, Bristol Rovers, Hull City and Doncaster to carry on his job there.
Steve is not disloyal, he is the opposite. He is ambitious, but I know he feels he can fulfill those ambitions with BHA.
AND HE DOES NOT PLAY LONG BALL FOOTBALL!!!
One more thing . . . who is Damian Hilton?

you've convinced me.

Damian Hilton was a player who played for us the dark dark days of gillingham in the 1997/98 season and was totally useless