DaveInSA

Now even I can understand and more importantly actually read those 3 charts Fevs. A decrease in 1&2 leads to an increase in 3, which in turn equals an increase in the excitement. Very good.

On screen that looks like you have Pring wide on the right. Almost on another pitch. Brave move. Don’t think Manning will go for that.

My brother was worried about relegation, but to me it wasn’t on the cards. Manning isn’t going anywhere - so I’ve lessened my “Manning Out” crusade, because, I can’t control that (and never could to be fair). So now I’ve resorted to prayer. Much more productive and real. And I’m praying: that Manning becomes adaptable, that he gets the players he needs, and we can have some excitement at AG for the first time since W-S M were tearing opposition defences new a$$holes

Someone at the club would have approved that yellow colour. These things don’t “just get made”. And if the colour in production came out as different to the standard, then the club would have negotiated a discount and taken the stock or they would have had the opportunity to cancel the order. Happens all the time in retail - it’s standard terms.

It’s Steve Lansdown. He’s the problem. He wouldn’t be able to recognise a window of opportunity if it painted itself red, and chased him around the golf course in Guernsey saying “Hey Steve, I’m a window of opportunity, I’m a window of opportunity”. In addition to the above he hasn’t one clue about how football clubs should be governed and run int he 21st century. There hasn’t been a consistent approach in what we do from a footballing strategy ever. Hence we don’t know if we’re overachieving or not, whether momentum is with us or not and whether to take a risk to achieve something. It’s pathetic. And amateur.

I’ve been getting e-mails from Hargreaves Lansdown for weeks. Almost every day saying “get your ISA allowance advantages for the 2023/4 tax year”. It’s now 2 April. I’ve got my ISA set up finally. And I want to pay money in. I’ve already done one transaction today. And I can’t do another one into my nominated account until Thursday, because of…. procedures. I can’t change my nominated account to my new ISA account because of…. procedures. So, I’m very likely to miss out on my ISA allowance for 2023/4. Partly because I am a nob and didn’t get organised fast enough. And partly because of annoying governance (which is way beyond what is regulated I believe). Why is this in the football forum? Well because - Governance. HL is (IMHO) over governed. Why can’t I do two transactions in a day - I’m hardly laundering money am I? Where is the risk? It’s utter madness. Compare that with BCFC. Where we have Jon, Brian and Manning making all the footballing decisions. With no oversight nor accountability. Overseeing millions of pounds of transfer business. How can both of these entities be part of the Steve Lansdown empire (I know he’s not involved actively with HL anymore )? It’s like chalk and cheese. And quite frankly demonstrates how seriously Steve takes the “asset” that is BCFC. It’s his plaything. A little annoying toy that makes a squeak now and again. Rant. Over.

7 more wins and we make the play offs?

Unfortunately we don’t play against teams that will take the game to us every week. Manning needs to absolutely find a way to deliver better results against those teams. its nigh on ridiculous if you can only beat the better teams in the league and will only lead to one thing. Mid table.

Yer man places too much emphasis on belief. When in actual fact, it was the method of playing, which improved the belief, which then led to the performance of the season against Southampton.

Why? In my opinion (which I spelled out), this is a slow motion train crash waiting to happen. So let’s rather fast forward the process. Fire Manning. Redeploy Tinnion. Bring in proper people to run the football side of the club and appoint a manger who can progress us upward rather than downward. If you’re happy to see us relegated next year then good for you. Because that is our current trajectory. And a summer won’t change that, because we can’t afford to buy a new squad of players to play the perfect football match.

I’ve experienced negativity in my time. And then there’s now. I’m a glass half full kind of person. But there’s literally nothing to be positive about at BCFC right now. I’ve changed my mind - hope we get battered today. We’re sleep walking into disaster, so let’s rather speed it up.

And a statue - replacing Atyeo.

But we don’t? We fire managers so infrequently. And partly because of this we often (always :laugh:) back the wrong horses, who then land us with a load of players who are surplus to requirements. We’re a cushy club (Marley “training is too much like hard work” Watkins for example). I don’t want to mention the lord god our saviour Nigel Pearson over the Easter weekend and all, but whatever you thought of him, he changed the culture of the club. We were no longer cushy Bristol City. And now, with JL and BT looking after footballing matters, we’ll be cushy again. Thus the cycle repeats under cyclical Steve. It’s all so predictable.

On the one had a massive defeat could hammer another nail in the Manning coffin. On the other hand I hate seeing us lose games and would love us to beat the best team in the division at home. And on my other foot Manning won’t be fired this year regardless.

Anyone bought an actual season ticket for next season? Because you’ll have this until at least October.