Lrrr

There's zero chance of him being here and not even anything to do with steve, we wanted someone out on the grass? Warnock only does Monday & Friday and goes home for the rest of the week before the game

He could get an ACL or his form drop off limiting options in the summer, he secured what he thinks is Championship football with the move, he was obviously happy with us as a club

Then people would complain we don't hear anything from the leadership of the club

Youth cup is the biggest part of U18's football, if you watched the game against Burnley the performance was very different in tactics employed, getting in behind their slower back line was clearly just a tactic employed for this game.

It did happen on several occasions

And yet they won, its cup football so whatever it takes to win

Goes back to the tactic City employed of wanting to spin our quicker players in behind their back line

Swindon weren't protecting a lead

Can't overlook occasion for U18's, quarter final of the cup (trip to Man City at stake) trying to see out a 1-0 lead, maybe the first time a lot of them have played at Ashton Gate too & probably the biggest crowd they've played in front of. Occasion itself would be a lot to effect loads of young players.

Is it whoosh ball if you're playing the balls with purpose? Swindon back line pretty slow in speed & on the turn so trying to spin the ball in behind for the pace of our front line to get onto. The game against Burnley was very different and a lot more technical so clearly was a tactic specially for Swindon.

Well the referee has missed it and it’s a red card offence so could well be a retrospective ban

VAR anyone

Contract length, we won’t want to lose Tommy for just compensation the summer after, regardless to being tight on ffp or not it’s still millions difference

Clubs who spend £100m after promotion are still £100m short of the squad value of those in 17th

There's no way Tommy signs a new contract even if we sack Manning, even if Pearson was still here. He's highly ambitious and he'll want to achieve his goals of playing at the highest level possible whether that's signs for Rangers or Celtic getting European football, somehow a PL club signing him as a squad player or signing for one of the bigger Championship teams who'll help him by utilising his skill set better then we are all of which help his chances of getting to the Scotland senior squad or the PL more than signing a new contract here, the reality frankly is that Tommy will be gone in the summer.

And I’d agree with not selling if the player in question (Conway) didn’t only have 1 year left on his contract after this season, we won’t want to lose him for compensation as it’s highly unlikely we’d be in position to compete for play offs next season so gambling and keeping Tommy is unlikely to do anything other than lose us a good few million we could reinvest.

Point being though Conway staying is not the difference to put us in a position to challenge for top 6, then we don’t want to lose him for just compensation, so it points to selling him in the summer, if he had 2 seasons left sure don’t sell him but he doesn’t

Weirdly we have to sell players to meet FFP restrictions unless you want us to significantly decrease our wage budget

We were never holding onto Scott, you deny him a move to the PL given the level of interest he had and the fees we would have been offered you'd have pissed him off no end, I don't think Alex would have been the type to down tools but you run that risk, equally his sale put a good cushion in our finances which obviously would have been nice for Nige to have been allowed to spend but was equally almost neccessary, Conway you don't have the length of contract that Scott had and I don't see the squad in a position where keeping Conway around (regardless of who head coach is) that pushes us into being a top 6 team. Also how well would our medical department have dealt with Alex's injury he had early season?

Realism is a thing, if we want to get a fee for Conway, rather than compensation which won’t be much and minimal if he went to Scotland, then he needs to be sold this summer as he won’t be signing a new deal

the greater good...

There was never an intention of him ever stepping on a pitch for us he was a training keeper who did some coaching as well, therefore there was no way he could block a pathway for us. Johnson always wanted 4 goalkeepers for every session, this often meant academy keepers being involved however this would often see them miss match days for 18’s/21’s just to be in sessions, which is more pointless hiring a keeper to fill that gap or stop your young keepers getting game time? My guess is it won’t be proportionally too different to what the rest of the wage bills were comparatively, it was just a case of where we as a club and football in general was at the time

Can we get our points back?

Its an issue in hockey atm, schools/leisure centres wanting to lay 3g pitches maximising football income but meaning hockey wouldn't be able to be played there any more.