Red-Robbo

Tell you what, that Khadra is just the sort of loan signing I wouldn't mind seeing here. Almost impossible to get the ball off him.

The main improvement for me was I didn't spend the last 15 minutes terrified. We stopped dropping too deep after Wells came on - you could see a visible lift in the side after he had his very good chance on goal. Some of this I think was Blackburn happy to settle for an away point, but there was definitely more intent shown by us.

Thought he had some of that Massengo-like fancy footwork, but like Han when he first came here was a bit lightweight and easily pushed off the ball. That will change.

As good an owner as he may have been, if you think Srivaddhanaprabha gained the franchise to run all Thai duty-free shops without extensive jiggery-pokery (to say the least) then you don't know how businesses operate in Thailand.

BCFC's latest coach meets the team to discuss tactics:

I'd wear this:

Cryer by name. Crier by nature.

Could be worse. You could think your club had been taken over by an Arab billionaire only to find he's about the 2,000th richest man in the second poorest country in the Middle East and you're in L2.

This is true. It would just be handy at a football club. Not suggesting they are breaking company law or owt.

It's real. It's where the Gas website is written.

My hope is we are normally playing decently, then an international break comes along and when we return to the fray we play like absolute dogshit. This time we were crap before the international break, so maybe the reverse will happen.

I know what he's saying - which makes a change - but football didn't just begin in 1992, Joey. Some of us can remember going to watch City in what was then England's premier league.

I haven't watched any of the qualifiers and won't go out of my way to watch the Qatar games. I see a few might be played in our evening, so I may accidentally catch sight of some down the pub, but that's it. Dunno how I'll feel if we make the final though. ?

He has all that, but he doesn't seem to bring any ability to score goals, unless it's into an empty net. I just don't think he should play as a striker. We've had 70 games now to form that conclusion.

I think I've found a picture of the other one:

Lord 'elp us! One was bad enough.

At least it quashes the silly rumour about "enforced gardening leave". Hopefully give people who believed that one pause for thought about believing everything they see on social media.

Yup. Listed twice for some reason. My point about having employees as directors still stands though. I think one of the problems with BCFC is the composition of the board: the owner's son and a bloke who has the profile of the invisible man, plus two people employed by the owner. Where's the oversight? Where's the expertise? Who was there to say, "I don't think Dean Holden is ready to manage at this level", for example? Where is an independent voice? We'd be much better with it, which is why I welcome new investment in the club. New stakeholders should mean the cosy consensus is challenged.

Just listed as secretary in that Companies House listing: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03230871/officers I'm not for suggesting that Steve doesn't take major decisions. He's not hands-off in that he doesn't know what the board are doing. I use that phrase in that he has, by his own admission, "stepped back" from day-to-day running of BCFC and he lives a long way away and doesn't attend board meetings. Which is why he made Jon his proxy in effect.

This is the worry. He's the kind of bloke who must hate admitting he's too ill to do the job well. But it appears in the run-up to his enforced absence, that may well have been the case.

It is if he's 100% recovered. As I intimated earlier, I think the team's collapse in morale and on-field competence may in part be explained by Nigel not being able to give his all to the job.

I think you'll find SL isn't a director of BCFC any more. Gould is listed as a director, but as an employee that hinders his ability to disagree with any decision taken by the Lansdown family. Marshall is company secretary, not a director. Look at most other clubs and you'll find more than two non-employee directors.

I agree. You have to wonder just how long NP has felt ill. "More than a month" has been mentioned. How many games when we thought he was in the driving seat has he not been able to give his all because he's suffering from the aftereffects of this repeat infections. Were the club hierarchy aware of how illness was impacting his ability to manage? Did they just assume he'd be able to muddle through? I don't know the answers, but it all ties in to the sort of questions asked in the KITR thread today.

That is the line that is somehow staggering and not surprising at the same time. Certainly, no one outside football would be able to understand it.

It tells you everything about how tiny the Gash's horizons are now that beating Oxford United in the first round of the FA Cup is a "giant-killing" for them. Tinpot overstates it. More like an ill-fitting Tupperware container. As plastic as most of the Mem.