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  1. As an aside, although I loved Terry Cooper, our performance at that Southend match (Friday 11 March 1988) was dire. I was at university in Essex and ‘treated’ my girlfriend (now wife) to her first match!
  2. Yes seems like too many clubs taking the p (if proven). Leicester nicking one of the top spots this season. Forest putting us out of the cup. Man City beating us in both FA cup and league cup in recent seasons. Starting to feel like we are penalised just for following the rules.
  3. Trouble is I think there is a certain minority who will never be happy with any manager/head coach unless we are winning easily every week. So they won’t like the next guy either!
  4. Yes use it or lose it policy is usually combined with a ticket exchange site which enables you to make your seat available to a POTD fan (which is then classed as using it). See Spurs for example. I guess that costs the club a tidy sum to set up though, although would be ideal.
  5. I assumed it would be an early KO as usual. Don’t know why they don’t just publish the time when they put the fixtures out in June though.
  6. Trouble is some fans were advocating this (I saw it on here) so ironically it looks like the club has listened to these fans. There were moans about fans not turning up and no POTD in the SS plus comments that ticket prices rises in the SS were needed. The actions they have taken look supportive of this view. Of course, this then negatively impacts others.
  7. Yes I’ve been hoping it would happen to see what the authorities would do! Smacks of an assumption that a Championship side would never make the cup final. I was hoping that we would have this problem but I hope Coventry do it now.
  8. That sums up the issue though - no value put on leadership and communication. Hence the car crash communication re Pearson’s dismissal which in turn makes Manning’s job more difficult.
  9. GO. But it was JP who called out there is a leadership vacuum and it was unrealistic to expect Manning, a 38 year old head coach, to perform that club leadership/communication role as well as his coaching duties. P.S. PA wasn’t visible so I’m not saying he was the right person; just replace him though rather than bin off the role.
  10. Agree with this and as Piercy said it was daft expecting Manning to do the club leadership role. We’re lacking a senior, focused, visible football club CEO focused on just City. Someone who is also a good communicator. We may have been OK if Gould had stayed. We don’t know why Alexander left, but even if we concluded that he wasn’t the right person for the job, we could have replaced him. Marshall is not just focused on City - he has a wider Bristol Sport role, plus he is not as visible as Gould was. Personally, at this point, I would spend some money on sorting the leadership role rather than rush to sack Manning. Otherwise, the structure won’t work for his replacement either.
  11. Excellent show. James Piercy got it all spot on in my view.
  12. I’m sure it will come (like Spurs Ticket Exchange) but possibly only when we start selling out more often. The sooner the better. Those other clubs also combine it with the ‘use it or lose it’ threat re season tickets, ie if fans use the ticket exchange (or forward it like we can already do), that counts as using it so no risk of losing your season ticket for the following season. All part of limiting empty seats.
  13. Tinnion as caretaker (perhaps that’s why he’s on the season ticket advert!)
  14. Shows what we all thought though - he’s gone.
  15. Sums up my view precisely. I thought it was clueless to get rid of Pearson but I wouldn’t get rid of Manning so soon. Personally I think you should give manager a minimum of 12 months to truly assess them.
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