Bristol City head coach Sean O'Driscoll hails team effort following 2-0 win over Middlesbrough
Bristol City head coach Sean O’Driscoll described his side’s 2-0 home victory over Middlesbrough as a “real team effort.”
Goals either side of half time from Albert Adomah and Steven Davies made it five wins in six home games for the Robins, who climbed off the foot of the table and moved above Barnsley and Peterborough.
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But O’Driscoll was forced to utilise his squad after losing midfielder Cole Skuse and winger Paul Anderson before kick-off and then striker Jon Stead just 18 minutes into the game.
Neil Kilkenny and Davies came back into the team, Adomah made an impact from the bench and striker Sam Baldock came on near the end to play his part too.
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O’Driscoll said: “We lost Cole Skuse to a family bereavement and our thoughts are with him. “The first I knew about it was when he came through the door before the match. But family comes before football and there was no way he could play.
“We’ve also lost Paul Anderson to a stomach bug and Jon Stead has gone off early in the game with a groin injury.
“But we’ve adapted really well and those players who came in have fitted in well and done a good job.
“I said when I first came here this would have to be a real team effort between the players, the staff and the crowd and, so far, that is the way it has been.
“The squad has been tested and stretched a little bit, but everyone who has come in has played their part.
“It cannot ever just be the 11 on the field. It has to be the 18 in the squad or the 22 on the training field, because we all know things change. People lose form and people get injured and everybody has to be ready to play when called upon.
“That is a trait of a successful team and we want to be a successful team.”
City are now unbeaten in four games and have kept three successive clean sheets to dramatically improve their chances of staying up.
Hard work and organisation were once again key factors for the Robins, who hardly allowed play-off hopefuls Middlesbrough a shot at goal.
O’Driscoll added: “It is about defending as a team, staying compact, understanding what the opposition are trying to do and solving the problem.
“We are not a team that is going to dominate possession – that is not there yet.
But we are a team that is organised, looks as though it knows what it is doing and is comfortable within that.
“Win lose or draw, performance-wise, I can have no complaints. I’ve been pleased with every single performance since I walked through the door.”
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by ashtonalf
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 11:32AM
“Agreed the three of them are to blame, but Lansdown being the Major one and the business man he is, should have made sure of the site before he agreed to it.As you say hindesight is marvellous thing and he didn't use it.Who knows what Coppell could have done with Nicky Hunt and Damion Stewart had he stayed.Look what Sean O'Driscoll has done to our Central Defenders who have been constantley criticised all season.We will never know Piledriver,but Coppell did a great job in the PREMIERSHIP,and Lansdown never gave the guy a chance.Looks like he Jumped at James,like the Long Ashton Project.We agree but also we'll have to Agree to Disagree.”
by piledriver
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 1:23PM
“@ashtonalf
"Piledriver so we are agreed it was Steve Lansdowns fault asking BCC but not looking into current matters of land issues which we all know about.
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PD: Not entirely.We all know NOW, we didn't then and BCC probably didn't realise how serious the matter was until some clever environmentalist found the loophole.An error I think SL made was in not taking the VG Inspector seriously until her report hit home.Guy Price & Colin Sexstone have played a big part in this as well.
Hindsight is a marvellous thing.
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Regarding Steve Coppell and the Urban Legend of David James, it was in the Reading Eagle where he stated that he did not feel in charge of the club after Steve Lansdown flew David James to Gurnsey and signed him.
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PD:Well if it's in The Reading Eagle, then it must be true.A bit like when he was "in Amercica" then spotted with his son at Brentford after taking the City job!
It's a pity he ddn't leg it before he signed Nicky Hunt & Damion Stewart wasting the thick end of /6m”
by ashtonalf
Monday, March 11 2013, 7:32PM
“Piledriver so we are agreed it was Steve Lansdowns fault asking BCC but not looking into current matters of land issues which we all know about.
Regarding Steve Coppell and the Urban Legend of David James, it was in the Reading Eagle where he stated that he did not feel in charge of the club after Steve Lansdown flew David James to Gurnsey and signed him.
Regarding Wigan?!? they are in the Premership (thanks to Chairman Whelan)
And finally your last quote is as i stated and glad you agree:-
PD:Correct and that's exactly what I said-Austerity is here to stay (It's not the Board, it's SL)”
by piledriver
Monday, March 11 2013, 4:39PM
“@ashtonalf
"Yes glad you mentioned the 90Mill Development Piledriver,Mr Lansdown went into this and bought the land before checking out its potential,with all the trouble its now causing.
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PD:To be fair, he didn't.He asked BCC what and where he should buy to build a stadium and that's where they recommended and what they sold him.
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Most of the debt refers back to his bad signings and long contracts under Johnson,then flying James to the Channel Isles and giving him an incredible contract,hence the departure of Coppell.
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PD:ALL the managers have made poor signings and Coppel mde two of the worst in Hunt & Stewart.James, whilst expensive was part of a team that kept numerous clean sheets and was far from our worst signing, although we paid him to much.
SL asked Coppel if he wanted him and he said yes-What was he meant to do? Say, OK, I won't sign him then?
It's a great story that SL signed James and not Coppel, but it's an urban myth.
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The 40mill you mentioned over 4years,you got it,that needs spending in the summer real money.We know it won't happen,but it could if Mr Lansdown had decided.Had he took this route like the Wigan Chairman ,who knows we may have been established as a Championship side or Premier.
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PD:Ok, let's look at Wigan.
Jewell got them up spending a fraction of what SL has given managers.He also built them a new stadium in a real sporting area, not Bristol which seems to be getting more like Cheltenham by the day.
Where SL could learn is in his selcetion of managers ala Huw Griffiths at Swansea who also walked past us.
I heard Whelan speaking on TV and he said that Wigan were about £130m in debt and he would have to forgive that when he sold the club or died.
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f we survive this season this board will go for another cheap season again as in previous years,you can bet your bottom dollar,and Sean O'Driscoll will be the scapegoat like McInness if we fail.With the new pay system starting its to late."
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PD:Correct and that's exactly what I said-Austerity is here to stay.It's not the Board, it's SL
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by piledriver
Monday, March 11 2013, 4:24PM
“See, you couldn't do it and you're stil so thick you got you're three log ins to up your comment and down mine.
Caps lock broken?”
by royaljoe
Monday, March 11 2013, 1:55PM
“RE PILEDRIVER. RATTLED. WHY DON'T YOU GIVE IT UP.”
by ashtonalf
Monday, March 11 2013, 12:35PM
“Yes glad you mentioned the 90Mill Development Piledriver,Mr Lansdown went into this and bought the land before checking out its potential,with all the trouble its now causing.Most of the debt refers back to his bad signings and long contracts under Johnson,then flying James to the Channel Isles and giving him an incredible contract,hence the departure of Coppell.The 40mill you mentioned over 4years,you got it,that needs spending in the summer real money.We know it won't happen,but it could if Mr Lansdown had decided.Had he took this route like the Wigan Chairman ,who knows we may have been established as a Championship side or Premier.If we survive this season this board will go for another cheap season again as in previous years,you can bet your bottom dollar,and Sean O'Driscoll will be the scapegoat like McInness if we fail.With the new pay system starting its to late.”
by piledriver
Monday, March 11 2013, 12:35PM
“@by royaljoe:
Stop getting your mates to mark me down and you up-It's a dead giveaway.Relax, Breath, Smile and post something interesting that doesn't start with Piledriver.Go on, you know you can.”
by piledriver
Monday, March 11 2013, 1:00AM
“@ashtonalf:
I don't know what you call "real money", Alf?
He's about to spend about £40m on a redeveloped stadium or £90m on a new one and he's wasted,invested.........take your pick, about £40m over the last four seasons that have seen us plummet from a Play Off Final to the bottom of the league.
He'll probably change that £41m debt plus what we lose this fin year, I reckon about £12m after sacking Del/Doc and paying off Stewart etc, into equity so I would say appx £100m/£125m over the next four years one way or another.
The problem isn't the amount, it's who he's trusted to spend it and if you look back on here I listed a load of managerial waste going back as far as GJ and up to Del and they all make 'em.
You then have to sack the people in which you've invested absolute trust and money and, guess what?
More money to pay them off!!!
Perhaps the answer's to give them nothing much as that seems to be working with SD and it worked with Blackpool & Burnley who are still in better shape than us on and off the field.”
by piledriver
Monday, March 11 2013, 12:49AM
“@royaljoe:
I can't think that anything I've said is disrespectful to SD.If I've stated facts that don't align with your myopic view of the World, that's a shame.SD's done very well at home 16/18 and, frankly, very badly away in terms of our players scoring goals and points 1/15 and no City player scoring in 450 mins of football away from AG.
Those are facts not opinions as were the facts I stated on SD's arrival.It fell apart badly for him at Doncaster after he'd got them punching above their weight-Strangely, he made clever use of the loan market with players like JET who is now at Ipswich, so perhaps he learnt a lesson there, hense his reticence here?
I'm hopeful at Wolves and hopeful SD can save us as Del did from exactly the same position last season.
Whether he does or doesn't he will, ala McInnes, get my full support while he's our manager/head coach.
That's the balanced way to look at it and you should try it instead or being a boring, tiresome, one topic poster.”