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  1. I'm still behind Nige. Play that last ten minutes 100 times and we'd win in probably 85 of them, and draw in 14 of them. Just one of those things. I think Pearson is the best manager for us, for now, overseeing this overhaul of the squad and club. Preparing to get slaughtered for this opinion now.
    23 points
  2. Jesus... Ref was crap, thought we played well against probably one of the in form teams in the country. Scott was a revelation, Wells, James, Baker and Kalas looked good. A stupid mistake against Luton and one tonight have cost us. Silly errors no doubt Nige will get these out of us. A game that could've gone either way, sadly it didn't go ours, but even then, I did enjoy it. That team cares and runs and fights. Its been years since i thought that. Its a very young team, nieve in fact, but we are not a million miles off. We just don't have the options up front. Keep this squad together for a few years, with the youngsters coming through, I have no doubt this will bring us success. Breathe everyone. Remember our result against QPR, sometimes it does and will go our way.
    17 points
  3. Got to love him. That’s all
    16 points
  4. Pearson isn’t the problem imo it’s the mess of a squad he’s inherited and lack of budget to address it
    16 points
  5. 14 points
  6. Tonight at 745 pm it’s Nottingham Forest under the lights at Ashton Gate, I reckon it will finish 1-1. NIgel Pearson, who was born in the Bilborough area of the city and attended what was formerly known as the William Sharp School in Nottingham, will be making changes due to injuries and his assessment of Saturday’s game, after which he said, ‘Now there may be opportunities for other players to come out there and get an appearance this week, we’ll see whether they’re up to it.’ Allegedly, Forest have no new injury concerns after their win over Blackpool at the weekend. Apparently 1,400 Forest fans will be in attendance. For stay at home supporters it’s on the red button. Forest are one of many forgotten giants of English football. Even though they have been out of the Premier League for the entire 21st century, Forest were a force to be reckoned with during their heyday in the 70s. During their long and interesting history, they have won one League title, two FA Cups and four League Cups. In addition to their domestic trophies, Forest are one of only two British clubs to claim back-to-back European Cups (in all eight teams have won back-to-back European Cups.) Their glory years were under the management of Brian Clough who took over the managerial role in 1975. Together with his assistant Peter Taylor, Clough transformed Forest into a competitive club with a penchant for attractive football. Even more impressively, it seemed like Forest became a contender overnight; after winning promotion to the First Division in 1977, they won a double the following year by claiming a League title and defeating Liverpool in the League Cup final. After retaining the League Cup in 1979, Forest then went all the way in the European Cup beating Malmö FF 1-0 in the final. History repeated itself the very next season, with Forest once again reaching the final, where they defeated Hamburger SV 1-0 on the back of a tremendous performance by goalkeeper Peter Shilton (who was the first football player to make 1,000 League appearances.) Clough led the club to two more League Cup trophies in 1989 and 1990 before deciding to retire in 1993, thus bringing an end to Forest's glory days. In 1999, the club was relegated to the Championship. Of the many Cloughie quotes my favourite is “I got home late from a midweek away game and my wife Barbara said to me in bed, 'God, your feet are cold.' I said, 'Barbara, you can call me Brian when we are in bed, dear.'" Closely followed by his advice to a physio who was treating a concussed Stuart Pearce, Physio: ‘Boss he’s concussed and doesn’t know who he is’ Clough: ‘Tell him he’s Pele and that he’s playing up front for the last 10 minutes.’ They’ve fielded some impressive players over the years including, Viv Anderson, Trevor Francis, Des Walker, Martin O'Neill, Archie Gemmill, Peter Shilton, Kenny Burns, Neil Webb, Stuart Pearce and Roy Keane. Turning to more recent times their final Championship league position have been: 2019-20 7th 2018-19 9th 2017-18 17th 2016- 17 21st 2015-16 16th They currently are in 16th place with 14 points. Sometime ago they very much joined the manager merry go-round. Last season they appointed Chris Hughton who lasted just shy of year and managed 14 wins in 53 games. Steve Cooper took up the poisoned chalice last month (when they were bottom of the league) and his first four games have resulted in 3 wins and 1 draw, so he’s certainly enjoyed a decent start, when he arrived they had four points from eight games, since he’s taken over they’ve picked up 10 points. He is the 14th manager they have appointed in the past 10 years, since Billy Davies departed in the summer of 2011. If he continues as he’s started they will be replacing the car park signage! They are owned by Evangelos Marinakis a 54 year old Greek media mogul, shipowner, lyricist and member of the Piraeus city council. He is the owner of Olympiacos as well as Forest. If you have the appetite take a look at this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelos_Marinakis for more about him. Our head-to-head record against them isn’t impressive, we’ve won 22, drawn 33 and lost 41. Away from football both them and us once had the tobacco industry in common. For younger fans here’s a slice of history: https://pastinthepresent.net/2017/06/29/up-in-smoke-tracing-the-rise-and-fall-of-bristols-tobacco-industry-as-seen-through-its-buildings/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-27050019 Four Forest facts Samuel Widdowson played for Nottingham Forest in the 1870s and invented football shin pads in 1874. When Forest beat rivals Derby in the FA Cup final in 1898, they swapped their red shirts for their opponents’ white shirts. This was because the photographer was worried the colour wouldn’t show up. When Trevor Francis joined Nottingham Forest from Birmingham City for £1 million he became the first multi-million pound footballer. Former Dr Who Matt Smith (no not the Millwall one) once played for Nottingham Forest’s youth team before the big success on the television. He played alongside Jermaine Jenas at one point, before they both went their separate ways to form a successful career. COYR.
    12 points
  7. I think Pearson has done an important job. He’s largely stabilised us, brought down the size of the squad, bought two quality players from the lower leagues and integrated some younger players and it feels like he has made some changes to the infrastructure too. All of this needed to be done and was going to be a shitshow for whoever did it. In that sense, I think he has been a good appointment and I don’t think it has been a mistake in any sense to give him the job. At the same time, it sometimes proves the case that the person brought in to clear up the mess isn’t the person who gets to enjoy the benefits of the mess being cleared up. I think we saw that with SOD. It is very hard to look back at his time in charge with any fondness but I don’t think Cotterill could have done the job he did if he had replaced McInnes straight off the bat. It may be that Pearson ultimately does not succeed and, if that were the case, I would love to see someone like Ryan Lowe get the chance. But I think, whenever they are appointed, our next manager will be far better placed to succeed with what they inherit from Pearson than they would have been with what Pearson inherited from Holden or what Holden inherited from Johnson. I have no idea if Pearson will succeed in the long term but I think the job he is doing will help the club to do so.
    12 points
  8. I think any manager at this time who accepted the job would struggle at Bristol City.
    12 points
  9. Just for clarification do you mean hare pie. Having just googled hair pie a term I admit I have never heard of, let's just say this seems the most appropriate response.
    12 points
  10. How anyone can criticise Nahki Wells tonight just has an agenda. Played on the shoulder, lovely timed runs in-behind, shot on sight which led to our goal, a post-hit, and a great effort from distance. Also held it and rarely gave it away. We should invest in him. He cost us £5m and we rarely use him wisely and when we do he always looks sharp and a threat. Its the lack of players around him to get the best out of him thats the issue.
    11 points
  11. You're right. Unfortunately if you don't win home games, neither will happen. We allow duff managers to piss money up the wall, then finally appoint someone that can actually do it and he hasn't got a pot to piss in. Stupid, just stupid.
    11 points
  12. Seriously **** this football club. The sooner Lansdown ***** off the sooner we will see progression on the pitch.
    11 points
  13. Right. I now have a pint (in the Sugars, bottom of Christmas Steps), and my slightly more considered view is.... No one was shit this evening, we deserved to go in 1 up at half time, and we were competitive for the huge majority of the match. The ref and his mate dropped a couple of absolute howlers which changed the game. The timing of the Forest goals makes this a more difficult pill to swallow, but I can honesty say that for a side without superstars or any real playing identity, we are becoming more difficult to beat. Am I worried that we haven't won at home in 17 games? Yes. I am. Do I think we will win soon? Yes. I do. Game management needs attention, but tonight - for me - the desire and tempo we never got on Saturday was back. Reasonably good performance, very average officials and a hard defeat to accept.
    10 points
  14. I’d have a think about changing that username if I were you….!
    10 points
  15. Condensed Version Nottingham Forest: Tonight at 7:45pm
    10 points
  16. I’m gonna wear the lucky green gillet from the 2015 win. Im not sure my knees bend that much these days though.
    10 points
  17. I think you might have brought him in too late in a sense. For both yours and his sake, had he been with you when he was at Leuven things probably would have been better all round because he may well have been able to influence a better structure that meant you didn’t spaff millions on some of the dross that you’ve had. Leuven didn’t work out for many reasons, I think he said himself he made big mistakes and took his eye off the football trying to be involved in too much at the club. Leuven fans will also say he was naive to the division and for a long time it was pretty grim - that he almost took them down is pretty bad, had he done that would have been scandalous for their budget in that league. But also he’s clearly taken the wrong jobs. He said he should never have taken the Derby job, and looking at Derby it’s not hard to see why that might be, Watford was never going to suit him (although he did ok there) and Leuven, sits between. Idk whether he can succeed but he has to be given time to stamp his mark on the side. He’s had a summer operating in a structure that has blatantly failed and has only been able to bring in 3 players that can play plus 2 more bodies. Culture was so vital to what he built at Leicester that he will struggle to succeed anywhere where he doesn’t get the chance to stamp his mark in that respect. I’m not saying you’ve got a bunch of wrong ‘uns but he was fortunate at Leicester that he a)had some of his players left from his first spell and b)was able to spend a bit of cash early and add his bodies quickly, getting pretty much spot on too. The home form is rotten, there’s no excuses. It’s worth saying we had some dire spells with him in charge too. 12/13 where we won about 3 games in 20 at the end of the season, bottling promotion and culminating in the Deeney moment. The Great Escape was also not possible without the 3 wins in 26 or whatever it was before that. For me, from what I’ve seen, the squad he has had consistently available just isn’t quite there. Players like Palmer and Bakinson remind me of players like Neil Danns and Matt Mills who Pearson wanted shot of cos they’re just not right for the environment he wants. Players like O’Dowda are just a bit meh. Martin scored a few but I’m not sure what else he offers Having said that I think Williams (not seen a huge amount of admittedly), James and Massengo could be a really decent midfield 3 if they got consistent time on the pitch together, Bentley is a decent keeper, and the options at CB are alright. It’s around that there’s a problem, both in the first 11 and the depth. Just a real lack of pace, power and technique. It’s a squad that is where it probably should be, it’s not miles off but needs some upgrades and the thing is, even with the transfers that didn’t quite work out, I struggle to fault the recruitment during either of his spells at Leicester. Whether that was just right man, right place, right time or whether he can replicate it, idk
    9 points
  18. 9 points
  19. I thought all the back 5 battled hard, the penalty aside Baker was excellent.
    8 points
  20. The crowd- ?"We're winning at home, we're winning at home how sh#$ must you be? We're winning at home!"? ?
    8 points
  21. oh, I see it a completely different way. I think we’re better. Today was hard luck, but generally I think we’ve looked stronger than we did last season. I think everyone largely agreed that we’d be happy to avoid relegation this season while the reshape took place, well… we’re comfortably mid table. I still think the future looks good. The home win will come, mark my words.
    7 points
  22. Post of the night for me! If he gets half the support Johnson did we will do very well indeed!
    7 points
  23. The only positive for me was george tanner what a player dont think he missed a tackle all night how the fuch did we manage to to loose that
    7 points
  24. That is utter nonsense! if anything we’ve tried too hard, that lunge from baker is desperation to win. A cool calm head doesn’t make that challenge - also doesn’t put it in the stand on the halfway line when there’s a man to pass to 5 yards away. The run has got to them massively. Up until 90 minutes we were pretty good tonight, certainly good value for the win. Clearly a desire to win, but mentally it’s a burden.
    7 points
  25. That’s what happens when you put O’Dowda up top by himself at 1-0 up
    7 points
  26. Scooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!! City 1 Rhubarb & Custard 0.
    7 points
  27. Only one man to blame for the mess were in and that’s SL, he can’t stick to a plan and chops and changes his strategy with every appointment. He got Holden so badly wrong that he couldn’t then go and get a Lowe, he was pushed in to his own corner with the NP appointment. However, I’m not moving from my stance that this is a free hit season for NP to sort the shit out that’s needed. Anything other than relegation was acceptable for me This season
    6 points
  28. Easily pleased? Not really, I'm just not deluded, thanks. Sigh. Not sure why I'll bother but I'll bite... We shouldn't have lost tonight like we did, at all. That's all down to the players mentality. Pearson is by far the best manager we've had at the helm in a VERY long time. He's having to try and get the best out of a team that is lacking in quality and depth. We've got one or two promising youngsters, but 4 years of the previous regime isn't going to be wiped out and cleared in the blink of an eye, when he's been told he has no money to spend. And with covid, lots of clubs aren't spending in the Championship due to the losses incurred. Our home record is dire, but there isn't a second that I've doubted Pearson, I'm grateful he's here. Some fans need to get off their high horse and lower their expectations, especially given the circumstances of last season with no fans. The typical over reactions on here are shamefully predictable. There isn't a fan on here that is happy we've lost, we all wanted and expected to not lose come 90 mins. We haven't. You must be out of your mind to want the manager sacked on the back of that. I really do wish some people could see the bigger picture, the long game. But one thing we can agree on, the home form needs to change, and quickly.
    6 points
  29. Not going to fault the players tonight. Sometimes we are not good enough as we all know. But I’m gutted for the players tonight. And the fans
    6 points
  30. Have to agree. Thanks for all you have contributed Steve, but its time to consider an investor who is not afraid of the push to the Premier League.
    6 points
  31. Sorry - you've got the wrong end of the stick. I did indeed want Pearson and think Pearson is doing an ok job in the circumstances. No money and a substandard squad. Amazed we are doing as well as we are. He's rescuing the shambles that LJ & Ashton left us. Pearson, GJ and Cotts are the only decent managerial appointments Lansdown has made...and Cotts was that other chap's suggestion. For all his money Lansdown has made a right bags of much of the past 20 years!
    6 points
  32. Ian Gay is on the radio and he says he has the answer!!
    6 points
  33. Cardiff? Peterborough? QPR? Plenty of fight there. We’re mid table with no money to spend. Don’t understand what people expect this season.
    6 points
  34. This could be an OTIB record for the amount of ****ing asterisks
    6 points
  35. It’s sad but it’s true. We clearly have some good young players, but we also have some absolutely average-to-bad senior pros stinking up the place; need shot of the dead wood asap to be able to get a real sense of things. But honestly; it’s ******* Groundhog Day with these last min goals - and that isn’t just individual mistakes, it’s the coaching; we defend too deep and for too long. I’d rather lose 3-1 trying to go for the jugular than 2-1 to these shitty last minute shockers.
    6 points
  36. Maybe not the time, but which part of FFP don’t you understand?
    6 points
  37. If we do get a penalty, who is tasked with hitting it over the bar?
    6 points
  38. Didn’t think he was that lucky tbf
    6 points
  39. A rejuvenated Forest backed by a noisy following against a pathetic City who can't string two passes together and backed by the Ashton Gate library. Only one way this is ending and might lead to the first signs of visible disgruntlement among City fans. We've barely raised a whimper about this home form and this can't go on. An ironic chuckle at the end of every home interview from NP about a failure to yet again win might start to grate.
    6 points
  40. We Couldn't park very easily, got soaked walking to the ground, probably going to lose. But I still hoping tonight's going to be the 3pts at home we haven't had for so long Otib
    5 points
  41. Removing our source of funding is definitely the solution.
    5 points
  42. Sack Pearson there I have said it he has to go.
    5 points
  43. The woman on Robins TV is quite possibly the best co presenter I have seen on there. Comes over incredibly well.
    5 points
  44. On sky red button. Save your cash, players haven’t earned our money after Bournemouth shambles
    5 points
  45. New episode went out last night. 4 year anniversary of our shambolic first episode today. Mad mad mad waste of my youth! Listen here: http://linktr.ee/osibpodcast
    5 points
  46. OMG now that brings back some memories. Remember wiping my face in the mother in laws curtains last time I had one of those.
    5 points
  47. It's Apples v Oranges Bristol is now very affluent, and the fanbase reflects that. Go back to when AG was a fortress that away fans were terrified to come to unless very mobbed up. The difference - mass unemployment, Miners strikes, Thatcher years, Falklands - plus youth had identity then - not like purely 'chavs' now - skinheads, Punks, Mods,Scooter Boys New Romantics, Goths etc The streets were a cauldron of combat - skins v mods, punks v scooter boys. Us oldies remember Broadmead - Reggie Boys and Punks at Virgin Records, running fights between punks,skins and mods. The huge mod / punk fight on Gloucester Rd (about a 3rd of future CSF lads were at that one) - Cardiff in town every Saturday night., Bristol was an angry aggressive City - the riots showed that - so Football was a release for that rage. England in the 80's was a divided, angry country, socially, politically, racially - and football wise. It can never be the same again, as Bristol has moved on to become a staunchly left / green affluent city. The rage has gone. Certainly though - bung the away fans up in the gods, and let the singers / chanters gravitate to the middle of the SS - hopefully the rail seats will help. But yeah - 'designated singing section' says it all. Dont forget your square to wave your flag in. The future is here, and the future is chardonnay with prawn sandwiches. At least for Bristol Sport.
    5 points
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