RedRoss

I was on about both windows.

Come off it Dave, this is 9 pages of discussion about a loan player that hasn't worked out ultimately. Where is the 9 page topic about the rest of our recruitment this season. Like I said to Silvio, this is likely our best window in a very long time however we constantly focus on negatives like this. It's pretty inconsequential and just seems like a repetitive way of bashing the club.

What were they supposed to say when bringing him in? We are bringing in an average player to see if he's any good. It's likely because ultimately he arrived Tins and his staff were bullish about him because they thought he was good. It hasn't worked we'll send him back. You can't selectively look at recruitment. It has to be looked at as a whole. I think we've brought in better players in areas we were lacking (not all areas) whilst keeping fees low. Those players are all fairly young too and will improve. Asides from Dickie who's been a revelation and is only coming into his prime. This has been one of our best value transfer windows since Cotts I would argue.

I really don't understand all the conversations re Mebude. He has come in as a loan player with an option to buy. Likely because we thought he would strengthen us where needed but needed to show us he could before spending money on him. We've clearly taken a look and not interested for whatever reason. Seems sensible to me considering we've not bought him. The rest of our recruitment has been pretty bang on this season.

Noticed you've found your log in details..

Tommy won't sign, he would have signed back when others extended. He's gone in the summer.

Their keeper got MOM, think that shows the game we gave them. We were better.

From top to bottom unbelievable line up.

Another poster stating they won't be attending next season to add to the list. I'll remind them next season when they post they do..

They've linked to their Now TV options for non Sky customers. Its 11.99 for the day or £26 for the month. Not massively different to RTV or iFollow. It won't be three figures a month. Can't see any issue with this, we look to be increasing our revenue with this deal as shown by Dave.

Aren't they just saying you can stream from Sky Sports instead of Robins TV or iFollow for other clubs? Looks like you can use a Now TV day pass or month pass if your not a Sky customer already. As long as the prices are similar it's not a huge difference really just paying someone else? Unless I'm missing something.

They are full of massive contradictions when you provide the context of what he's been posting for months. We've had him saying 'we missed the play offs by not beating teams in winnable games' whatever that means by winnable i.e lower placed I'm guessing. We then beat those teams and he quantifies it by saying 'low block' teams instead. If we beat a better team, it's not because we've played well or set up tactics correctly at all. It's because they were terrible. He talks about playing 3 at the back and this apparently by default means Manning is setting up negatively but when we win this way nothing is said. He slates Manning for not being adaptable but then when he does adapt i.e more pressing. He gets slated again for not doing it quick enough or without apparent prompt. He's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. I could go on and on.. perhaps there is some explanation but it's in an echo chamber.

Why are you talking about 'awards'? We're merely stating who our top 5 best performers have been. Nothing to do with their accomplishments as a team. Hardly handing them a Ballon d'Or. You've decided to get angry and ranted about a completely different point from what this topic is about and I'm the apparent child.

What a strange rant. It's just abit of fun to see everyone's opinion.

He doesn't. He sounds the same.

Dickie, Knight, Max, Pring and Vyner

What is your definition of a winnable game in the Championship? Blackburn beat Sunderland 5 - 1 the other week and we drew with them the next week but then beat Blackburn 5 nil last night. I would argue there isn't a winnable game by default in the Championship. Every team has had competitive spells this season asides from Rotherham.

Didn't know a youngsters loan to Bath would cause such carnage.

So we didn't have a plan B for Southampton? We didn't want it more than them? We didn't show any aggression/emotion when we played one of the best teams in the division? I agree that we need to work on beating the teams the set up like QPR however you never look at the other side of the coin when assessing Manning's performance. That issue is not indicative of just Manning's tenure, that was equally frustrating when NP was managing us. We've had that issue for ages. Whether that's due to the young makeup of the team or some other reason we struggle with that element of breaking teams down, we also struggle with overall game management. I'm not acknowledging it's not an issue but let's not pretend this is a new thing.

Yeah so you should be clocking off soon surely. What do they pay after 6pm? Time and half I'm guessing.

You said Pearsons name 14 times in that post.

If it's fact, Go on prove it.

Thanks for proving the point. Like I said some are as paranoid as the gas of 'ted' infiltration on gaschat. It's very weird.

Summary of this topic. We have a mid table squad yet because the ownership stupidly said we were a top 6 squad (almost everyone disagrees with this) to justify sacking Nigel. Now we're achieving mid table we keep getting Pearson/Manning who would have done better discussions. We are bang average. I'm not sure either manager would squeeze much more out of the squad. If so marginally. Either way it's sort of a non point because we can't just restart again with a new manager and then recycle the discussion. This definitely isn't the elephant in the room it's literally discussed every 5 minutes in this forum.

Don't worry just ignore it. Every new user on here who isn't wholly negative is called a BS employee. Unfortunately this place resembles the paranoia of gaschat when they accuse everyone of being a city fan.