Lrrr

Clearly does well enough making the case for us if those players then still want to come in

I think part of it comes from the lack of an experienced CEO/COO alongside him, if Gould or Alexander were still here or a replacement hired there may be less of an issue, its that lack of experience working at first team level in the roles people are doing. Brian's main success has been working in the academy, developing players and working on the pathway, that I don't think any City fan really questions that. I also agree when the club are looking for a Technical Director they're probably either looking externally or the most likely internal candidate is probably Tinnion at that point. Personally I don't think our recruitment has been bad for 90% of the players we've brought in since Tinnion has had greater first team influence, people can cite the lack of reinvestment but quite frankly that could be a decision made above Tinnion's station and he's left trying to give a plausible reason to the public, I'm sure he'd love to recruit the best players we can afford with reinvestment. Similar with Pearson's sacking, few people will know the genuine things that happened behind the scenes that led up until that point, I think most people on here acknowledge the reasons given publicly are probably a sham, but again perhaps the real reasons were to be kept quiet and Tinnion/JL left to try and make something sound reasonable to the public. what if it was also a case of it being SL/JL's decision to sack Pearson & Tinnion just had to go along with it. I'm completely working off guess work here, but say Pearson's health issues had reached such a point that it was clearly impacting his work in a negative way but he refused to resign, City can't fire him on that basis and performances are likely cover story, the real reason has to stay concealed and a sham reason in public which people then base their opinions off. A lot of fans don't realise just how much said by managers, CEO's, technical directors etc in interviews is flat out & deliberately untrue, but because its appeared in an interview its taken as gospel at times. This isn't supposed to be a 'Tinnion has been treated too harshly and should be let off' post, but more of a how much has Tinnion had lumped on him from above and had to try and make palatable to the public and therefore he takes the brunt of it. Personally I wasn't really in favour of Pearson going and I'm unsold on Manning thus far but I can factor that not everything can be a matter of cut and dry as it appears.

But Curtis has turned out for their 21’s

Bell is assistant

Lump on Forest Green to do well next season

Probably one of the ones along with Kadji that Tinnion was referring to that had their chance at first team level and didn't take it

Laughable case because if Hamilton was wanted to win they could have manipulated the gap to be so much larger over the course of a season

Yeboah's last game for Bath before the youth cup was over a week before so plenty of training time, he's probably training with the 18's on days Bath aren't training too. So its a bit different to an 18 on the bench for 1st team. Equally Its hard to chuck them on the bench for the first team if they've been training with the 18's, they need to be in training/analysis meetings with the first team to understand the tactics required should they need to go on even if the intent would be not to use them. It sounds like Manning is understanding of the situation even if he doesn't like it, or he may not have put young players on the bench regardless, who knows, but perhaps we need to judge Manning on young players making the bench once the youth cup run is over.

Just on this, I’ll say Yeboah missed the 2 Bath games before the youth cup game to allow him to be with the 18’s squad. Bath have obviously taken him on the knowledge of the youth cup factor and Jerry Gill was probably privately hoping we got knocked out as he’ll probably miss more in the run up to Man City game.

Did Brian really just say we couldn’t be compared to Coventry on the basis of what they’ve invested after selling a player…. Semenyo and Scott not comparable then

If we do get new owners at some point I just hope real due diligence is done on them, the news today that Reading's owner is looking to sell their training ground which was only opened in 19/20 season to fund the running of the club until a takeover can be completed, they don't even have chefs anymore because of how much has been stripped. 777 Linked to Everton have a poor record across the clubs they're involved with. You seem to find a lot more poor to bad owners taking over then good ones. This isn't a pitch of the Lansdowns staying in the long term etc just the worry of how it could go.

There's zero chance of him being here and not even anything to do with steve, we wanted someone out on the grass? Warnock only does Monday & Friday and goes home for the rest of the week before the game

He could get an ACL or his form drop off limiting options in the summer, he secured what he thinks is Championship football with the move, he was obviously happy with us as a club

Then people would complain we don't hear anything from the leadership of the club

Youth cup is the biggest part of U18's football, if you watched the game against Burnley the performance was very different in tactics employed, getting in behind their slower back line was clearly just a tactic employed for this game.

It did happen on several occasions

And yet they won, its cup football so whatever it takes to win

Goes back to the tactic City employed of wanting to spin our quicker players in behind their back line

Swindon weren't protecting a lead

Can't overlook occasion for U18's, quarter final of the cup (trip to Man City at stake) trying to see out a 1-0 lead, maybe the first time a lot of them have played at Ashton Gate too & probably the biggest crowd they've played in front of. Occasion itself would be a lot to effect loads of young players.

Is it whoosh ball if you're playing the balls with purpose? Swindon back line pretty slow in speed & on the turn so trying to spin the ball in behind for the pace of our front line to get onto. The game against Burnley was very different and a lot more technical so clearly was a tactic specially for Swindon.

Well the referee has missed it and it’s a red card offence so could well be a retrospective ban

VAR anyone

Contract length, we won’t want to lose Tommy for just compensation the summer after, regardless to being tight on ffp or not it’s still millions difference

Clubs who spend £100m after promotion are still £100m short of the squad value of those in 17th