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Jacki last won the day on April 29 2022

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  1. What a load of absolute turd this is. Stop the world, I want to get off….
  2. This whole debate has completely baffled me and the reaction to the ‘flag’ has been as predictable as it has been depressing. In the modern, ridiculously binary world we live in, it seems so obvious to me that you’re going to get a section of society foaming at the mouth with fury about something like this. And then you’re going to get politicians wading in about how disgraceful it all is in a calculated way so they appeal to the angry audience. Maybe that’s what Nike wanted. But as others have said, there really are far, far more important things to worry about than a tiny emblem on the back of a football shirt. I have honestly never been less bothered by anything in my entire life.
  3. Jacki

    Emotion

    I think I know what Manning is trying to say when it comes to emotions… I think he means saying in control and not ‘losing it’ depending on what happens in games. There is some merit in that However, as others have said, emotion is a huge part of football and for fans that’s literally what it’s all about. I want to lose it with the officials irrationally. I want to be furious when I feel like someone has wronged us. I want to lose my mind and leap around like a lunatic when we score a goal. I understand that the players have to be more controlled than I want/need to be, but they’re not effing robots. They need to connect with the fans, they need to get around each other in adversity, they need to respond to the emotion in the stadium. If they don’t, what is actually the point? And how will performances ever be different to the robotic borefests we’re watching at the moment?
  4. Can you be specific about what these positives are? I’m a pretty balanced person and my posting history will bear that out, but we only seem to be heading one way, performances and the style of play are getting worse not better, individual players are regressing…. I could go on. What, specifically, are the positives you speak of?
  5. Yep, it really is. I often find myself nodding along to your posts and this one is no different. I absolutely love this football club but I was chatting to some mates the other day and saying how utterly pointless we must look to fans of other clubs. We’ll most likely stay up this season and finish somewhere towards bottom of the middle third of the league for the umpteenth year in a row. We achieve nothing tangible at this level and, eventually, we have a dreadful season and end up in division 3 having to rebuild again. It feels like that’s exactly what is going to happen now. I’ve been supporting for 41 years and it’s always been the same. Yes, it has been worse. And yes, there are way worse owners out there than the ones we currently have. But it could also be so, so much better and it’s so depressing to see us falling into this doom spiral yet again with nobody at the club who will a clue how to run the club to change things for the better. Heavy sigh.
  6. I can understand that prices need to go up with rising costs etc, and they have been pretty reasonable for years now. It does feel like a kick in the knackers though. My 3 tickets will go up £100. Terrible football which is getting worse, best players sold year after year (Conway most likely to be the latest), lesser replacements coming in with a manager (or ‘head coach’) who is learning on the job… Doesn’t exactly feel fantastic does it? I’ll most likely renew but I’ll hold my nose when I do it, and will only do so because I like seeing my mates. The thought of the actual football makes me shiver a bit to be honest.
  7. I think some have… but honestly, these kids give their teenage years and their lives to these academies and the higher up you go, the more of a blow it is when it all comes to an end. At least treat them with a bit of respect and dignity.
  8. I listened back again this morning and it was a worrying interview. He was indiscreet and seemed angry throughout, and said things (the McKenna stuff and some academy information) that are simply not true. I thought the way he spoke about some of the 21s missing their chance was a hugely disrespectful way to speak publicly about people who don’t know what the future holds for them after 10 plus years in the academy system as well. The transfer fee stuff also blew my mind. He couldn’t wait to divulge the information and it sounded like he was a doing it because his beans were going and he was out of control - he wanted to sound like his finger is on the pulse. It was bizarre. He kept talking about how hard people are working and I don’t doubt it for a minute, but there is a difference between blind hard work and long hours and being effective, efficient and doing what’s needed. We’re clearly on the wrong side of that at present. Unlike many on here, I quite like Tinnion and have no axe to grind with him. He is clearly passionate and wants to do well. But as I’ve said before, his job is far too big for one person and he is just not suited to the ‘first team department’ part of his job. He just doesn’t have the communication skills, intelligence and gravitas required for it. It’s a real shame but we really have created an unholy mess for ourselves and shot ourselves in both feet. God know how it ends.
  9. I’m really not sure what we’re trying to do. Desperately dull, shapeless rubbish.
  10. To be fair to Tinnion on the Semenyo comparison…. Yes, dozens of others HAVE gone on loan to places like Bath and not been seen again, but might that be because they weren’t good enough?
  11. I actually think that the Yeboah move makes sense for everyone. He’s not playing here and he will benefit from playing a good standard in front of decent crowds where results really matter. I know a lad Ephraim’s age in another academy who has made a similar move and he benefitted from it hugely. There is a lot wrong at the club at the moment but I do feel like some people are falling into the trap of criticising absolutely everything they do.
  12. This is exactly how I see it. Credit where it’s due, in my experience Tinnion is excellent with the academy and his knowledge of the players is extraordinary. I’ve said on here before that if you asked him who the U12 centre back is he’d be able to tell you, and he’d be able to describe the type of player they are and their strengths and weaknesses. He’s very good at that stuff and he’s always very visible up there. There are 2 problems with him as technical director though. The first is that he just has far too much to do…. Overseeing the academy and everything else is way too much for one person. The second is that he just doesn’t have the contacts or knowledge in the game, at this level, to be as influential as he is at this club. He’s in the job because the Lansdowns like, know and trust him, not because he’s the right person for it, and many of his public utterances are just nonsense. As a result of his appointment and Pearson and co’s departure, there is absolutely nobody at the top end of the club with the slightest clue of how to run a successful Championship football club. Which is why I would really worry about our current situation getting worse and leading to relegation either this season or next.
  13. I know, I totally get that and I’m one of the many posters who have absolute respect for the job that Pearson did. I never called for his head when he was here and was (still an) furious with the way he was treated. All I was saying was that there were times during his tenure when results took a dip that, at many clubs, would have led to him being sacked, regardless of context. I wasn’t for one second suggesting that he should have been, just illustrating the point that we tend to give managers time. Given that Manning is a pet project of JL and BT, I think he’ll be given more time than most.
  14. I don't disagree with the logic here but I can't see them sacking Manning even if we lose to Swansea. We tend to support managers through poor runs of form (LJ and Nige both benefitted from that), and there is no way that Tinnion and JL are going to want to admit they've got it so horribly wrong this quickly. IMO anyway - I just can't see it. I think Manning will stay until after the international break, and they'd only get rid if we really did look like we were going down. Which is entirely possible the way things are going at present.
  15. For the first 65 minutes or so that was a really decent display. But the last half hour was desperate stuff. They wanted it more and just absolutely ripped us to shreds at will. We can now add Wes Burns to the long list of players who’ve left us who are better than what we have left. Utterly depressing.
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