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This isn’t aimed at the club, it’s Manager, SL or anybody officially connected to our club for that matter, it’s aimed at many of our so called ‘fans’. I too am disappointed at where we are as a club BUT we all know how we have arrived at this point. Significant numbers this season renewed ST’s knowing full well that we have a small squad lacking general quality. We were always destined to struggle this season and anything above the relegation zone was acceptable come the end - we are where we expected to be, surely? What really annoys me though is the awful, highly personal vitriol spread by many. Football fans now seem to demand instant success and don’t seem to appreciate players and Managers are doing their best plus that they are people after all! They too feel shit after losses and it hurts them badly too. Why do people bother posting negative rubbish on a regular basis, all it seeks to do is help people spiral into even more of a negative world. Life is hard enough without continually slagging people and situations off. People underestimate how important confidence is in any worker and that includes footballers, imagine being told by many people on a regular basis you are shit at what you do, and they then wonder why you aren’t performing. Are some not aware some of our players are actually kids? One window into a three year development journey, all aimed at a much needed rebuild exercise and fans are singing about ex players and that NP is getting sacked in the morning, wtf..? We go again on Saturday when OUR team needs you, and remember if you keep screaming at people that they are shit, they will quickly believe you, I think with the title ‘supporters’ there’s a clue in the title ?.

So, after the worlds longest lockdown finally ended - I could get a haircut. Legally. In a shop. I needed one. At 08.30 am - it was obvious a hell of a lot of other people did too - queues everywhere - 10 long with one barber working was the average Despair was setting in. I live in a 'being - gentrified' area - meaning some parts were still pretty rough, but in 3 yrs time would be 'respectable' - and pricey. I still needed a haircut - badly. Can't go out into town with hair like mine - quite frankly it was a disaster area. Saw a tiny barbers tucked away in a part of this 'not gentrified' area - no queue outside so in I went. It was like walking into a tiny village pub in Norfolk. Silence. Utter silence as every head in the place looked round with pretty much disbelief on their faces. It was pretty obvious, pretty quickly, that the customers and staff were used to dealing with African customers. Most definitely getting the "is this guy lost" vibe... Did I mention I needed a haircut? I sat in silence. No conversation at all. My turn - got in the chair - shook hands, said hello - got a grunt in reply. Not feeling the love. Talk Football. Always safe. Africans LOVE football. Me- 'Did you see on TV the players stopped the game to get help for a guy in the crowd?' 'Yeah' Me - 'Where are you from originally?' 'Eritrea - you have no idea where that is I'm sure' Me - 'Yeah, next to Ethiopia' 'Yeah, thats right' All ears were listening - mood was getting better.. Me - 'Who do you support in the soccer?' 'Arsenal, doing bit better now' The other Barber leans over and says ' hey who do you support - Chelsea, Liverpool?' Me - "Bristol City" The place erupted - by now there were 8 Eritrean guys in there - "Oh man they are so shit" "Have they even won a game" "have you ever won anything?" "You got West Brom - you gonna get dicked man!" "worse team in the championship" "lost at home to Forest - and they are shit too" Ice broken - good time, and a good haircut. Bought a couple of coffees and had a chat. All of them UK soccer-mad (Its called soccer here as AFL and NRL are called 'Football) It was pretty much exclusively an Eritrean Barbers - I was the only non-african guy in there all year - the guys were apologetic about the initial reception, as usually non-africans just walk straight out again, so they were shocked I stayed. Did I mention I needed a haircut? Bristol City - mercilessly mocked all around the world - certainly by the Barbers Of Eritrea! But hey - at least a couple said they might watch the game.....

We get stuffed at the Hawthorns where no sensible City fan expected to get anything and we get an all too familiar knee jerk reaction………… Otib really does make me smile especially when City lose………..

Everyone: “we’re in such a mess, wouldn’t it be great if we could finish outside the bottom 3 this season?” …3 months later… Everyone (while mid table): “quick sack Pearson!”

You're a bell end mate. He's being stretched off and 8 medical staff on so clearly a potentially worrying injury... Responses like this from our own fans are an embarrassment.

NP’s interview was, as usual,realistic. He looked very fed up, as well he might. I like the way he faces us to the reality. The next task is for him to raise the players’ game. I wish him well and certainly don’t envy him. We can’t expect him to make silk purses out of sows’ ears overnight. I just hope he doesn’t get so fed up that he walks.

Just seen that the club has announced that he has been released from hospital. Amongst all the negativity and comments made on here today I haven’t seen any asking how he is or wishing him well. Get well soon Bakes !

Trouble with Lansdown is he’s actually spent a lot of money here but hasn’t always spent it wisely.

Forget last season. I don’t think anyone would of turned that around . A perfect storm of terrible management off the pitch by Ashton which was allowed to happen by Lansdown. Three years of selling our best players & replacing with dross yet increasing the wage bill is laughable. Then having 12-13 players OOC with no sell on value is abysmal . Topped off by publicly saying fam had a very good contract put under his nose & the rest of them hadn’t . How do you think that went down in the dressing room. Plus the injuries. He has to be judged on this season only imo & has a huge job ahead of him. He has at least 5 players who are league one level if not more & the money is not there at the moment. We have to stay up . That would be success this season . Followed by another clear out in the summer.

As the post-match observations begin to appear can we please remember that this season is the first step on a long journey. We have been totally dominated by Bournemouth and WBA in the last week. To be honest we should have lost both games by a bigger margin. Let us please accept that we are miles away from being a top Championship side. Understandably City fans will be frustrated and angry. NP made crystal-clear that the job he faced would take time, so we all need to continue to be patient and show our support. Unlike Cardiff we will, thankfully, stand by our manager and he will be given time. Well played the traveling fans, yet again, making loads of noise despite the result.

Boing! Boing! The original yo-yo team West Bromwich Albion are back in The Championship and are tipped to boing back to The Premiership next year. West Bromwich Albion took part in the first season of the Football League in 1888. They have won Division One on one occasion, in 1920. They are five times FA Cup champions and one time Football League Cup champions. West Brom weren’t always ‘The Albion’ - In 1878, a group of men at Salter's Spring Works in West Bromwich decided to form a football team but they had to walk a few miles up the road to Wednesbury to buy their first football, so called themselves West Bromwich Strollers to remember that historic walk! The name was changed to Albion the following year. Now more likely to be called The Baggies having been so named allegedly by their fierce rivals of the day Aston Villa who gave them the nickname ‘the Baggies’ after taking the mick out of the West Brom fans who worked in the factories and consisted of workmen wearing baggy clothes. Alongside being the home of WBA for over 120 years, The Hawthorns has also hosted a number of England internationals, as well as two FA Cup semi-finals. At an altitude of 551 feet (168 m), it is the highest ground above sea level of all Premier League and Football League clubs. The Hawthorns was the first British ground to use electronic turnstile counters. WBA were the first English team to tour China in May 1978, and won all four games in front of crowds totalling nearly 250,000. One player, when asked if he wanted to see the Great Wall, is reputed to have replied, "If you've seen one wall, you've seen them all" This year has seen the Albion ‘style’ change significantly with the arrival of Big Val from Barnsley – although this is proving successful (most of the time) not all black country Baggies are convinced with the direct pressing game employed and they can sometimes be somewhat one-dimensional and have been caught out by Stoke and Swansea most recently – when it works it’s effective but when it doesn’t they can be vulnerable on the break. Albion boast a significant number of famous fans among their ranks of supporters including: Adrian Chiles, Frank Skinner, Lenny Henry and Liam Payne of One Direction. Continuing the music theme, rock legend Eric Clapton sported an Albion scarf on the cover of his album 'Backless' to show his love for the club. Clapton also sponsored Albion's UEFA Cup tie against Galatasaray in 1978. We briefly employed Chris Brunt last season (he made 14 appearances) upon his return to WBA he has taken up a coaching role with their academy. Another connection involves NP who moved to West Bromwich Albion in November 2004 as assistant manager to Bryan Robson, and took over as caretaker manager when Robson left the club in September 2006. Albion won three and drew one of his matches in charge, before stepping down from the role in preparation for the arrival of new manager Tony Mowbray. Our head-to-head record is lost 22, drawn 15 and won 15. Last time we played them away in November 2019 we lost 4-1 and in February 2020 they beat us 3-0 at AG. They have lost just twice in the league (1-0 away to Stoke and in midweek at Swansea) and are unbeaten at home in the Championship this season (W4, D2). While we spectacularly imploded on Tuesday evening they travelled to Wales and lost to Swansea 2-1 on Wednesday. Although they scored inside a minute in the second half Pato’s assist and late winner turned things around. Swansea demonstrated, several times on Wednesday, that they are susceptible to the long ball over the top including when Pato caught out the WBA high back line for Piroe to equalise. Livermore was booked again in this game so won’t be involved today. Karlan Grant is on fire having scored five in five games. They signed him in October 2020 for an undisclosed fee (rumored to be circa £15m) from Huddersfield Town. Certainly he will need careful marking today. They have scored four in each of the last four league games against us at The Hawthorns! When looking for a bit of hope, it’s worth holding onto the fact it’s away and that Millwall and Derby both managed to draw at the Hawthorns in September. To the traveling supporters, all 2,000 of them, here’s the guide to the ground: https://www.awaygames.co.uk/away-day-guides/west-brom-away/ The Vine Indian grill and curry pub is apparently good for away fans: https://www.thevine.co.uk/ Wherever you are watching from have a great day, cheer us from beginning to end and always believe!

6515 with 1031 Newport.

I will talk about the previous CEO until the cows come home as it’s that bastard that has ruined this club for the foreseeable future. You can keep Pearson, sack Pearson do whatever but this is a long term fix and people had better get their heads round that.

I bore myself saying this. It's genuinely mental how people don't get it.

FFP… By the way, although football is strange, I doubt very much we are planning to sack someone who is currently being allowed to remove the previous coaching set up.

Did anyone realistically believe that we would be West Brom today? Sacking the manager is not the answer. We’d be sacking them every week. Our problems have come from selling everyone with any value and previous regimes taking punts on replacements, Covid and FFP. We will pick up wins, but you wouldn’t expect us to be able to compete with teams who have just come down from the Premier League, especially as we have no strength in depth.

This. When CEO's ruin things they ruin things for a long time. Players can ruin a games, Managers can ruin a season, C level execs ruin things for years, owners can ruin things for decades.

Just let the bloke get on with his job and accept that we’re not one of the big teams in this league. Anyone who says there is no progress since he took over is lying. Had the team not folded against Forest then we’d be saying we’re nowhere West Brom’s level and to move on.

Clash of the Shite 'uns.

A third straight defeat in one week saw the inevitable extension of City's already woeful home form into away fixtures - and with it a toxic atmosphere as those same home fans who made the relatively short trip up the M5 having been starved of good football, were subjected to even worse football and so tore into so far impenetrable Nigel Pearson and his players in a way not previously seen. Within hours of sacking coach Paul Simpson and banishing Keith Downing - before a first return with City to his old club - there was a toxic atmosphere that seemed to affect the players as much as it was reflected among traveling supporters, some of who variously called for Pearson to be sacked as well as targeting players as not fit to wear the shirt - while singing to celebrate former players. West Brom's three goals owed much to just getting the ball down the channel to exploit poor full backs, scoring with relatively ease having got in behind over and over - in fact the Baggies could have scored six or more, Pearson hauling off teenager George Tanner for a loose back pass which nearly provided another goal, though it was his replacement Danny Simpson who did the same for a third. City went into the game introducing fit again Han Noah Massengo for Alex Scott - but his energy was wasted in a game which quickly ran away from the visitors. In just 6 minutes a ball over the top into the right channel put Darrell Furlong into absolute acres of space behind wing back Jay DaSilva and a drilled low ball into the middle was slammed home by Jordan Hugill in behind City's back line. Amazingly the visitors could have equalised immediately as a disguised touch from Andi Weimann put Nahki Wells clear from the far right but having fired into the far corner and spun away to celebrate Baggies protests for an obvious offside led the linesman to raise his flag a long time after the finish - a right decision but executed in timing that would make VAR seem a reasonable intervention. Almost immediately a carbon copy of the goal as Conor Townsend got in behind this time on the left, centering the ball to where Hugill hooked over at close range. The hosts continued to dominate and inside quarter of an hour a recycled corner was lobbed back into the box where Tomas Kalas stretching header was backwards into the path of Hugill who slashed over with Bentley to beat. A game which saw medical emergencies in the stands before both halves would see an ordeal even on the pitch too, as injury prone Nathan Baker appeared to fall to his knees with a serious neck injury, over ten minutes passing before he was stretchered away as Cam Pring entered in his place. The Baggies were all over us and when a shot rebounded to Robert Snodgrass he curled onto the bar. On the half hour Tanner's loose back pass again gave the hosts a clear run at goal as Hugill raced in before curling a low shot just beyond the far post. Pearson's reaction to this mistake - hauling off the youngster for Simpson drew derision in the away end who sung "you don't know what you're doing" at the early change, though in truth the visitors were shifting into a conventional 4-4-2. On 37 Weimann's diagonal run got the City forward in behind the home defence on the right but his cross into the middle was too close to the keeper. It was a brief respite as West Brom again piled forward and from a 41st minute right wing corner Kyle Bartley was allowed to rise unchallenged in front of Bentley in the centre of goal to nod low into the bottom corner for a deserved second. Before the break - which included over ten minutes added on - Simpson found himself miles off yet another Baggies attack and was indebted to Kalas for turning it behind, though the pair argued, the hosts winning a series of corners, and deep into injury time glided easily behind DaSilva again in yards of space to square for Matt Phillips in the box only to miscue with a third inevitable. It was no different after an extended break as one way traffic saw West Brom continue to swarm all over their visitors though a brief counter created City's first shot on goal as Weimann intercepted and raced upfield and threaded the ball into the left channel where Wells return ball was straight to the keeper. Next Simpson stole the ball for Weimann who slid it across but DaSilva's shot was blocked. It felt like City might be starting to fight back but they routinely surrendered second balls from set pieces around the Baggies box and retreated at pace, so it was no surprise that after a City corner was cleared, the visitors rapidly retreated and Simpson slipped a silly back pass from the halfway line that simply put Karlan Grant so clear on goal he had the half to himself, smashing it past Bentley. By now away fans - particularly those which see most of their football at home - tore into players and sung names of those departed. Before the hour City twice got in the way of themselves around the box, first James then Kalas wasting shooting opportunities, each occasion West Brom breaking, the second time Pring lucky to avoid a red card trying to stop a 2 on 1 that should have produced a fourth. City's best move came after the hour mark as our best player - Massengo - jinked past players in midfield and put Wells out on the left, whose well placed cross into the near post found the otherwise anonymous Chris Martin forcing a point blank save off a close range header. From the corner at a second attempt City had players in space from the right but Martin's shot went for a throw in. Calum O'Dowda replaced DaSilva but it was all West Brom moving the ball with ease and running at City, before 70 Jayson Molumby on the run smashed a rising 30 yard shot just over the bar and then the Baggies tore their woeful opponents open again to get in behind, Hugill clear in the box with just the keeper to beat forcing a save from an angle, the hosts unable to turn home the rebound. City had a brief spell of football (by brief I mean strung more than 2 passes together) and Weimann broke on the right and fed to Wells who steered a shot straight at the keeper. With ten remaining Martin brought the ball down in the box and lifted it across the last man to where O'Dowda managed to misconnect a diving header with just the keeper to beat. The jeers just grew louder. The remaining exchanges were irrelevant as West Brom lowered the gears though would still pepper the City goal from corners - and we threw Bakinson on for bundle of energy Massengo (cue more jeers), the away side at least creating the final chance, Weimann heading over a Wells early ball. It did little to soften a toxic capacity away end, some now singing the name of Lee Johnson and others. Nigel Pearson has had a lot of patience and arguably a) we'd always expected nothing today and b) those that turned so rapidly on both players and manager don't regularly see City away, but it is inescapable that sudden coaching changes over the last 24 hours reflect the chaos that then turned up on the pitch - indeed we've been poor for weeks (including our last two wins) and are now in freefall. Bentley 5 Kalas 5 Atkinson 5 Baker 5 Tanner 4 DaSilva 4 James 5 Massengo 6 Weimann 5 Wells 6 Martin 3 Pring 4 Simpson 4 O'Dowda 4 Bakinson

Excellent post ?. Some people seem to think there’s someone out there who could sprinkle some fairy dust on this rabble and turn us into world beaters, all without spending any cash. The class of 2021/22 are a bottom-six outfit. Sack NP and we start over again. More cash wasted and we’re a less attractive proposition. The new man wastes time assessing the squad, the backroom staff, the medical team all while we struggle to be competitive. We’d be odds-on to go down. Stick by NP and we might stay up, offload more of the deadwood in the summer, sign more of the Tanners or Atkinsons and become more competitive next season. They need our support more than ever IMO because one thing we all agree on is relegation is not an option.

Trust me, i’m not happy as to what is happening regarding results, but just sacking him to get somebody else isn’t going to work. This is years & years worth of mismanagement that has been allowed to happen which has led us to this point. We need to be patient with what Pearson is trying to do…….who knows, it may not improve, but he needs to be given time. Look how many windows LJ had, even Holden had more than Pearson has!

Shock horror losing to another parachute funded top 3 team, awaiting the typical OTIB meltdown.

Be careful what you wish for. There are a lot of people involved in football now that I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near our club - even if they brought greater success. I like the fact that we have someone with a genuine affinity to the club and a passion for the city. I wish he’d made some different decisions on the pitch, but the legacy off it is undeniable.

Getting outclassed by West Brom and Bournemouth will not define our season but how well we recover from this week may well do.

Well...I never understood the LJ hype, and we had to put up with that for months, years, after it was clear he wasn't up to it. And have his supposed virtues rammed down out throats by our inept owner. A period in which hope drained away. I think most are grateful someone with Pearson's experience wanted the job. If he's to go I'd love to know who'd replace him.

Ah bless. So you can have a pop at players etc but get called a clown you start crying. ??????????? answer the question. Did you think it would be a constant upward curve with at least half a dozen players that ain’t good enough. whats your plan ? Get someone else in , change the coaching staff again , playing style again ? The players ain’t good enough , it’s as simple as that. pearson said we can’t change the squad straight away. This has been a slow decline thanks to Ashton, Johnson & Lansdown being asleep at the wheel for three years. However you blame the here & now. You rightly deserve your clown tag if you don’t understand where we are as a club right now.

Pearson working his magic then? Anyone want to mention ‘progress’. Sack him tonight.

Is it time for SL to sell up . Obviously Covid and the millions he has spent are taking its toll . Plus his openness for investment. The club is stagnant at this present time. Who would like new ownership. Not a dig at SL by any means but I feel the club needs a new direction

Was one of the worst performances I've seen of City in a long time sadly. It was glaringly obvious within 5 mins or so, with the amount of back passes to Bentley that they lacked the quality and confidence against a very good West Brom team. I can take teams playing better than us, being better than us, but I can't take lack of effort. Simpson when he came on looked useless. Dasilva for the first goal I didn't think tracked back anywhere near as quickly as he should've done. And they could've been 5 up at half time. Talking of half time, the fan who collapsed, hope he recovers, couldn't quite believe what I was hearing when the west brom 'fans' to the left started chanting "he's gonna die in a minute". Truly shocking, unless I misheard it somehow? 2nd half was equally as bad as the first, but they utilised the wings much much better than we did. Their number 5 centre back, Bartley, was an absolute beast. Didn't expect anything from the game, however I do expect effort. Which I felt we lacked in almost every position. Martin up top barely did a thing. We couldn't wait to hoof it or pass back. Calling for Nige to go, still baffles me, for many reasons highlighted over this last week. He's a proven manager, who needs time. He also needs some funds to improve what is a rather shite team. Whether he'll get that, remains to be seen, but feel it's incredibly unfair to judge him when he's dealing with so much crap really. I genuinely can't see how any other manager would get a tune out of this squad. Disappointing to hear the fans getting toxic, it should be aimed at the players way more than the manager, given the money they earn and the woeful performance they've given. Edit - on a positive, had one of the best curries I've ever had in a lush pub called The Royal Oak, which was a pub/curry house. Spoke to some really friendly WBA fans in there too, which is always nice not having to worry about wearing your teams colours etc.

I agree with much of what the OP is saying here. Of course people are entitled to their opinions but my god some of the vitriol and blind fury I heard this afternoon was ridiculous. People booing players, singing about how they want Lee Johnson back, chanting you’re getting sacked in the morning, hurling abuse at certain players every time they went near the ball…. It was pretty pathetic at times today. Am I happy with how things are going? Of course not. We’ve had a really poor week. But boil it down and we’ve lost 2 games we would have expected to lose and had a massive kick in the nuts in a game we should have won on Tuesday night. We’ll struggle this season, but that’s hardly a shock. We’re about where we would have expected to be at the start of the season. Getting on the players’ backs like people are starting to do at the moment is only going to make things worse.

Yep, and it's not just our club either. Mostly people who shouldn't be allowed access to the internet without the supervision of a responsible adult.

Alex Baldwin had more shots on target than us this week

Think it was me that posted that Luke Williams’s job was being advertised at that salary. As for Simmo and Keith I doubt they’re on over £100k p.a. But nothing would surprise me when Ashton is agreeing contracts, but how many signings were what we fans would say were a “snip”. I suspect somewhere between £50k and £100k towards the £50k end imho. If over £100k, then I would imagine it’s their best ever gig!! FA role wasn’t really full-time, so wouldn’t have been high salary, although per hour it might’ve been more (if that makes sense). Im not sure it is Scotty, but if it was, I suspect it’s because his role is more than kitman in reality. He’s an ambassador of the club too, whether official or unofficial and does lots of other stuff too, beyond washing and laying out the kit.

What is your obsession with wanting someone sacked when you know the guy in charge isn’t paying for it and you have no idea who is available anyway? You are just spouting hot air, empty words if you like.

This ain't Fifa or Football Manager.

YAY! And there it is. Took some time but we got there. Do you feel better now? No need to pretend you're supporting him anymore.

There's a stretcher coming on and he took a blow to the head. You're pathetic.

I was pretty underwhelmed to be honest. Saying similar things after Bournemouth and Forest. Everything he said we know. What I don’t get is he talked about passengers after last match. Made 1 change to the XI taking out the Man of the Match and goalscorer alex scott. Sure was Massengo but could someone else not been dropped? Weimann looking very much like a passenger since QPR away. Then starts Tanner and Massengo. Has Scott and Bell on the bench against West Brom who we expect to be a tough match. Then proceeds to say he didn’t want to expose young players too much. Basically made Tanner a scapegoat today when everyone was shit. Then brought on Danny Simpson who can’t run who the proceeded to make the same mistake Tanner did. Pearson is just flat out getting in wrong lately. Matty James can’t play in a 2 in the championship. In general we don’t really have good enough CMs to do this with any combination. Maybe Massengo and Williams but not sure we’ll ever see that. Then playing Weimann behind the strikers. He struggles with the ball at his feet but was asked to be the link between midfield and attack. He runs a lot. Ok how much has that helped the last 3 games? Baker and Dasilva don’t look right next to each other in the 5. Dasilva also never sprints, rarely puts his body on the line and generally looks a shell of the player he was pre shin injuries. Makes the left side very slow. We continue to have no plan of how to start an attack outside lump it up to Martin no matter what. Their 6’5 cbs won 98% of the aerial duels. I just can’t see any plan. Making loads of changes for the sake of it now. I see someone struggling for solutions and slowly the players losing patience. His answers today were box standard say we weren’t good enough. Too many individuals didn’t show up. No shit! It was 3-0 and could have been 5 or 6. Things are starting to crumble and I’d have to see a hell of a performance next weekend to say I am wrong.

If I had a pound…. “Badly wrong”….”downward trajectory”…. The problem is we’ve been going down for about 6 years according to some, and yet still, we are here in the championship. We will stay up, we will give Pearson the season. We will continue to invest when the time’s right. It’s a big transition. There will be bumps along the road - there will be casualties. Sacking Pearson now…not on the table, IMO.

Jesus christ. An expected lose and cue the nonsense. Some of these comments are utterly ridiculous however have been funny to read. Maybe a Jordanian billionaire will buy us and we can carry them down winterstoke road? Not much better owners then Steve and certainly much much worse - be careful what you wish for.

Bristol Sport, of course, is the wider problem - being saying it, with a few others, for years now

We have an owner who has literally lost interest in bailing the club out and actually cannot to a huge extent due to FFFP anyway. His madness in defending the indefensible (I'm talking about that *** Swiss Tony) has literally cost us millions of pounds then you add in Covid and finacially we are ******. I am certain that Pearson has been put on a three year contract to literally get the club sorted out in THREE YEARS (believe it or not) whilst Steve takes a back seat and spends as little money as possible. Anybody who thinks that Steve will keep dipping his hand in his pocket and paying for new managers on the whim of a few bellends on here plus the associated staff changes is wet behind the ears at best, a ******* total clown at worst. We can see with the current coaching changes taking place that he is backing Nige and that is that. This season is about avoiding relegation and small improvement........that's all it is and anybody who disagrees with that is simply in denial of the facts and the situation we were in at the end of last season. None of us want the team to be getting embarrassed on a Saturday but some people are accepting that this is the pain we have to put up with for a while.

in which case, they need to grow-up.

Just more crying babies

Never ceases to amaze me the anger Pearson gets. The anger should be directed at that smarmy ***t Ashton and his sidekick LJ for ****Ing us over so badly that we are left in this position with no money and a weak squad.

In a previous job I got sight of quite a lot of sport scientist/first team coach salaries in the football league, and I can assure you most aren't paid as much as the mooted figures in that Post article. I've also got a friend who has been part of championship coaching setup's for years (working part time, whilst also holding down another full time job), and he literally couldn't afford to take on the job full time as the salary was so low. The salaries of the majority of non-playing staff is scandalous compared to how much the players get paid

Surely he’s on more than £28k. You’ve got me feeling all sorry for him now ??? Got to say he is such a top bloke, I know we all know it, but he is. I think we are lucky to have him.

Was doing the food bank stuff with Scott when that article came out, his words were “I’d be ******* buzzing to be on half of that” ? he was fairly sure it was a made up article as there was nothing to report on sport wise at that point

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