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  1. 8 minutes ago, TV Tom said:

    We're better off without "fans" like you, i expect we'll find you down at Yeovil being as they're top of their league

     

    Aww bless. I’ve barely missed a city home game in 25 years, ever since I passed my driving test and could travel from Yeovil area. If you’re not intelligent enough to read between the lines of why I haven’t been since Pearson was sacked then jog on little Tommy. 

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  2. That’s my view. It’s the only kind of logical (although still insanely illogical) conclusion I can come to why NP has been given the boot.

    I was amazed but absolutely over the moon when he was appointed, he was totally what we needed (and still do), but he was last person I’d thought SL would employ given our owners track record. With that, I expressed to all my footballing chums down here in sunny Yeovil, I’m going to be treading on eggshells as this could end sourly at anytime.
    I’d pretty much threw the towel in hoping for any mediocrity of success for our football club after the Holden appointment debacle. Then only a few months later, SL delivered a dagger to my heart when he came out publicly to say how he was massively in favour of ‘Project Big Picture’ (link below for reference) Subjective maybe, but to me that idea would’ve eradicated any remnants of romance left in the game, and more to the point, why would you strive to play at the elite level of domestic football only to be told what to eat when you’re finally sat dining at the top table. To me this added gallons of fuel to the smouldering rumours that SL didn’t want top flight football.

    The wheels were already wobbling on team performances. Shortly after they completely came off. Games after game the fans cheering a rare corner kick like we just smashed one in from 30 yards to go 4-0 up. The astonishment of having more than a few seconds of possession inside the oppositions half. We were completely and utterly rudderless. 
     

    Then Nigel Pearson happened. I was buzzing at the appointment. Not just because he’s a top manager in my opinion, it was more to do with maybe….maybe……just maybe our owner had finally learnt to let go of the strangle hold of all things football orientated, and finally let someone with real experience in the game get on with it. 

    Looking back on NP’s tenure since he took the reins two and a half years ago, and all the pre/post match interviews with the media. I’d lost count the amount of times I thought, crikey, SL isn’t going to like hearing that. The number runs into the dozens. However, week after week Nige was still here, and after each time the maybe…just maybe feeling was steadily developing into a belief that a Leopard can actually change its spots. How wrong (or duped) was I to feel that way. 
     

    It’s taken this time for NP to get the boot purely because the hierarchy knew he was/is doing a fantastic job. We all know Mr Lansdown loves a stock, and one of the majors in his portfolio was taking a nosedive. NP was the person to not only stopped the free fall, it’s now fully recovered and on an upward trajectory making substantial gains. Good business can be the only reason why SL made himself bite his lip and keep the sheath on his dictatorship of an axe for so long. 

    In my view, this decision was made a long time ago. All the signs and evidence have been there for a while. My blind love for the club I chose to ignore them, and I’ve been dreading the last few weeks as it was all coming to the fore.

    The way NP has been treated is shocking. The way it’s been delivered is lower than a snakes belly. Unless the only way the Lansdowns follow the club now is a quick glance at the results whilst browsing The Sun on a Sunday, then the use of results being a reason is totally bullshit. Don’t be surprised to now see a reemergence of our egotistical owner, coupled with a light loosening of the purse strings now he’ll have more input on his hobby of footballing matters. 

    Thanks for another dagger to the chest Steve. 26 years a season ticket holder. I won’t be back until you’ve sold. 

    Vote with your feet people. 
     

    https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/steve-lansdown-favour-project-big-4681008.amp

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  3. 34 minutes ago, Olé said:

    To this day one of the most defining moments of the club since we got back to the Championship was an SL interview with Radio Bristol when in doing what he thought was attempting to draw fire away from LJ, he clumsily bigged up the fact that he would actually have calls with LJ on the Friday night before a game and on the Sunday after to debrief, as (his words - or at least something along these lines) a means for LJ to have someone to discuss his plans with.

    At the time I thought it was very very odd and was quite surprised more wasn't made of it, I'd love to find the transcript again. It's why the appointment of Dean Holden was completely predictable and is why Nigel Pearson has always had a limited lifespan at Ashton Gate and he knows it (hence the constant comments about whether or not he is the one to finish the job or someone else will do so). NP knows very very well what SL wants from a manager - sorry Head Coach.

    Pearson has done everything this club has badly needed - shed the bloated squad of indulged signings and average squad players, brought though youth, and created a tight unit and culture that we haven't had since the last promotion side. I also think he's created a sense of leadership and accountability that now runs through the footballing operation (whether explicitly or just by exposure to his standards). None of that is as important as the access that SL is missing.

    Thanks for the chat and taking on board how things should be done Lee, here’s some more pocket money to spend.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Harry R said:

    Not really defending the Lansdowns here, but I imagine the 'previously' in relation to Andy King's selection refers to the time when he was being picked at centre half ahead of Rob Atkinson in the middle of a bad run of results. If you were the owner, you might reasonably have asked about that.

    Seems pretty obvious that it wasn't about King's selection yesterday.

     

    And Rob Atkinson came back a better player for it, he stated that himself. 
    It wasn’t the first time NP done this with a player who he feels aren’t reaching their potential, and it won’t be the last. 
    Tough love but excellent man management. Players resting on their laurels is main ingredient for inconsistency. 
    NP is changing the culture of our forever present achilles heel of being a soft touch, and his methods should not be questioned by the hierarchy.

    After Holdens appointment in 2020, then the comments from SL a few months later (which have been totally swept under the carpet) about how he was massively in favour of Project Big Picture, I’d lost all faith of any kind of relative success for our football club. 
     

    NP was the last person on earth SL would employ. I was back on board and buzzing again, not just because NP was top of my list, but it was also a massive indication that SL (11 years on since the last proper manager we had,Steve Coppell) may have finally learnt his lesson. Obviously not according to all this.

    Im well up for something visual and vocal in support of NP over the next few games, or however long it takes. If he goes, then after 26 years a season holder I’m gone too. 

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  5. In Naismith I see a player who has so much self belief it’s almost knocking on the door of arrogance. The way he plays, the way he commands, they way he speaks in interviews. I’ve rarely seen another player in a city shirt akin to him if ever. 
    We can all see what he brings to the team playing wise and I’m not saying he shouldn’t be dropped altogether if continues to cost a goal every other game, but he’s an epitome of a leader. His character influences the rest of the team in a positive way which is not to be underestimated. Taking him out the middle of a central 3 would be a mistake imo.

    Only his 3rd full season playing at the back? 
    He’s still learning himself. I believe he’ll reduce/eradicate the mistakes, and I have absolutely no doubt he believes that as well. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, spudski said:

    True...as I said in my last sentence. 

    However...you still need all the other things ive stated for it to work.

    You've only got to look at teams who struggle or get relegated to league 1, even with parachute payments, to see just having money doesn't buy you success.

    Being able to buy quality players who aren't prone to individual errors on a regular basis, with all I've stated...goes a long way to success.

    We don't have that benefit. 

    How many times over the seasons, have we conceded goals due to individual rather than collective error!!!

    Going slightly off topic...but as a collective, not individual, regardless of manager and playing staff...there has been one theme that I can't get my head around. The fact that we often sit back and let teams come at us...rather than being on the front foot and breaking up that situation. We just let it happen and get deeper and deeper.

    And it's happened for many seasons, under different staff etc.

    It really is a conundrum?

    Is it a mindset within the Club? Which doesn't make sense...as the Club is defined by the people in it.

    Is it a reflection of what the players feel coming from the fans? Maybe...

    In all my years...a nervousness rather than positive vibe is often felt in the presence of our support. 

    We are going to concede or lose is often felt rather than we are going to win or dominate.

    A passing thought...

     

    (In Bold) Deserves its own thread.

    In the final third of games, especially at home, if our nervousness was converted in to positive vocal support we’d be the loudest fans in the country.

    I feel there’s a general mindset in the stands, quite possibly and understandably driven by years/decades of failure where fans are waiting for us to concede, and it must have an effect. 

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  7. 15 hours ago, Logical-City said:

    Slightly odd thing to bring up but hey ho

    Self awareness of where you want to be from such a young age, what’s good or what’s bad for you, not doing the normal and different from what all your mates are doing etc. I suppose could be deemed a bit odd in itself. 

    There are plenty examples of up and coming players wasting their talent, thinking they’ve already made it, or get their head turned by new riches and level of attention, or even lose their drive to improve for whatever reason. The point is I can’t see any of that happening with this lad. He’s a young’un but he’s totally focused, and has his head firmly screwed on. 


     

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