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This has all the makings of them doing a total 180 on it

Pretty much rushed/heavily nudged out by MA after realising we had about 8 CMs to try and fit into a 2 man CM partnership after his ego brought in Nagy & Massengo. Doubled his salary at Cardiff, didn’t need to uproot his family. Absolute no brainer!

Marlon going ‘home’ to captain his boyhood hometown team to promotion. Fairytale.

Had 3 days in Porto & 4 days in Lisbon last month, very jealous! Here’s my list I put together of where we wanted to try before. Neighbourhood, Musa, Dois Carvos, and Bonjardim would be my ‘really try and go’ picks. Try and do a walking tour too. We do them everywhere we go now, and it’s easily the best way to see the best parts of the city no matter where you are.

He’s the best player out of Ireland, so the EFL wrote to Tinnion and said it’s not fair for him to play u21s. McKenna tried to sign him after he lost 6 in a row at Ipswich. This is all true, do not fact check.

Found it an odd vibe in there personally, went in just before Christmas. Food was nice enough, but every waiter/waitress acted like we were bothering them whenever we asked to order more drinks/sides. Am going to Rassay myself on Friday!

Be handy if it said where they were performing so people could find them - On the pitch? Outside? In the concourse?!

Finger on the pulse!

He’s had an ‘open invite’ onto radio Bristol for the entire season and they’ve had nothing. More chance of Mebude starting a game than hearing from him before the season ends.

Yeah, Nutmeg is lush. Would be in my top 3 Indians in Bristol for sure. Was a favourite of LJ’s in his time as manager too!!

It’s been a real mess of a season from every angle, when you look at it properly objectively. - Board to not agree on whether to sack and replace current manager and coaching staff over the summer, before pre-season starts. Dily dally, leave it too late, have to stick with. - Sell best player after the season starts (I have no real gripe with, Alex wanted to go, was inevitable he was going to). Don’t allow money for ANY replacements. - Owner appears on local business podcast in his place of residence to discuss the deal. Allow that to be the only time he’s publicly heard from all year. - CEO leaves by ‘mutual consent’ after basically flagging he has no idea why he was brought in because the owners son is allowed to do whatever he wants, to the commercial detriment of a club in commercial difficulty. - Publicly say ‘we don’t actually need a CEO with the new structure’. Appoint someone who’s essentially a good accountant as Group CEO of three sporting clubs. - Ask manager to resign when sitting 7th (?) in the table. Are shocked he doesn’t want to. Cause him to go nuclear in the press, because no one at the club can string a sentence together when speaking externally. - Sack relatively popular manager after spirited performance in the middle of an enormous injury crisis - Realising you’ve massively misread the room, make things even worse and double down on saying the team should be pushing for promotion, trying to look ambitious to get the fans excited. Fans react by saying that’s unrealistic and naive. - Roll out the Chairman who knows nothing about medical or physical performance, to explain why the most senior and experienced medical professional the club has ever had has also been dismissed. Proceed to pick up more muscle injuries than you had before sacking. - Say we have a clear playing identity from ‘first team to u11s’ which is front foot, high press, and aggressive. Proceed to appoint a head coach who built his teams to be very methodical, slow in their build up and keeping possession as much as possible. - Magically make budget available in January that wasn’t available in the summer in trying to bring in an attacking midfielder, key to the head coach’s style of play despite saying the squad is the best we’ve ever had at this level and just needed a better coach to move us on. - Lose out on number 1 target, so loan in a player for 4 months with no buy option, because you didn’t want to pay the fee that the parent club will probably still demand in the summer. - Sign a relatively unknown youth prospect with an option to buy. Blame lack of game time in Belgium due to mysterious (or made up?) visa issues. Proceed to not play him. - Sign 2 players on a permanent, but loan them back to their parent clubs, not strengthening the squad depth or quality in any way. - Sign a very promising young player from Ireland. Lie & say he is currently doing a 3 month ‘mini pre season’ to hide that he’s injured and can’t train or play. - Head coach near enough admits he can’t play the way he wants to, and way he was brought in to, with the squad he has. - In the middle of very poor run of results and performances with ST renewals on the horizon, Technical Director to appear on local radio and disclose confidential information as he can’t answer hard questions. Interview to have corrections added to it when published in local written press. - In the same poor run, head coach is clearly concerned for his job so out of nowhere implies the squad is weaker than last years, so maybe expectations should be lowered. - To get people excited for new year, use main striker who Technical Director has publicly admitted has rejected 3 contract offers in pictures and videos for ‘more of this to come next season’ comms. Have I missed anything?

The cynic in me suggests they are starting to plan for life without him early, so are phasing his minutes out.

Also having to post this for people to know, as god forbid our own club update us on our academy lads….

Them being dog shit in the other 45 games may also have a say in them going down mind