The Bondsmen???????????

[hateutd]

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

John Bond

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

John Bond

...we love you, John Bond, we do.....

 

[isab23502]

Did people actually genuinely like Bond?
On the City video he comes across as a complete tool.
The sort of bloke who leaves yu cold.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Did people actually genuinely like Bond?
On the City video he comes across as a complete tool.
The sort of bloke who leaves yu cold.

We were bottom of the league when Allison / Book were sacked. Bond came in and we won immediately (Birmingham at home I think) and then Gow / Hutch and Bobby Mac came in and we get to the semi final of the League Cup (robbed of a place in the final by an appalling decision to disallow Reeves 'goal' at Maine Road and were 10 mins away from lifting the FA Cup, to be denied by a cruel own goal and we finished mid table.
The following season, with a fit Trevor Francis, we'd have gone far..... so yes.... as a manager of City he is certainly fondly remembered by me.

 

[isab23502]

We were bottom of the league when Allison / Book were sacked. Bond came in and we won immediately (Birmingham at home I think) and then Gow / Hutch and Bobby Mac came in and we get to the semi final of the League Cup (robbed of a place in the final by an appalling decision to disallow Reeves 'goal' at Maine Road and were 10 mins away from lifting the FA Cup, to be denied by a cruel own goal and we finished mid table.
The following season, with a fit Trevor Francis, we'd have gone far..... so yes.... as a manager of City he is certainly fondly remembered by me.

Yes - I agree with you. Those were my thoughts at the time too.

However - it can't be denied that :

a) Within 2.5 seasons of him taking over we were relegated with his team;
b) His dealings meant we had a small squad with a lot of aged players;
c) Bringing in the players he did (Boyer, Hareide, Francis, Hartford, K. Bond, Baker, Cross) broke the back of the parlous finances;
d) Hutch and Gow (who played such a big role in 80/81) were finished at City in not more than a year after joining (arguably losihg us several 100k).

So - simply in terms of outcomes - I do wonder (without suggesting an answer) if in the long run (and ignoring the sticking plasters of 1981) we might have been better sticking with Allison and his kids! At least it wouldn't have put the club further in debt. And they might have managed to stay up.

However - my question was more aimed at Bond as a person. He doesn't come across well at all for me in the City video and other ones. And I got the impression a lot of the City players (Reid/ Ranson etc) weren't keen on him - although that might have been to do with money.

 

[hateutd]

We were bottom of the league when Allison / Book were sacked. Bond came in and we won immediately (Birmingham at home I think) and then Gow / Hutch and Bobby Mac came in and we get to the semi final of the League Cup (robbed of a place in the final by an appalling decision to disallow Reeves 'goal' at Maine Road and were 10 mins away from lifting the FA Cup, to be denied by a cruel own goal and we finished mid table.
The following season, with a fit Trevor Francis, we'd have gone far..... so yes.... as a manager of City he is certainly fondly remembered by me.

Agree! besides our nickname it is The Citizens ,I have Great Respect for John Bond... R.I.P

http://www.mirror.co.uk/opinion/football-opinion/a-football-man-to-the-end-steve-stammers-1344802

 

[isab23502]

That Stammers article has a few howlers in it : that Bond bought Steve McKenzie for 1 million pounds!

 

[xgorton]

We're on the march with John Bonds army we're all off to Wembley,when we win the f a cup,all together now.

 

[isab23502]

"The Bondsmen" - what a lame nickname.

Thank God Alan Ball didn't take us to Wembley : "The Ball-ocks" or summat.

"The Articled clarks?"
"The Royleists?"
"The Pearcings?"