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Midlands Robin

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  1. "As club captain, I was sent to see the Chairman to tell him you lot thought that yellow shirt with the dead seagull on it was embarrassing and the next thing you know I'm in a taxi on the way to West Brom"
  2. Apart from the goal we've looked OK at the back but I have to say our midfield is all over the place today. They're walking through us when they come forward and it's only the back line and mostly Vyner who have held them at arms length. We're not pressing them anywhere in the middle.
  3. Really sad news. Definitely thinking of Scott and his family.
  4. I'd swan dive into a barrel of petrol with a lit firework clenched in my teeth just to sniff one of his farts. The bloke is a legend.
  5. Warburton could be the best thing since sliced bread and would arrive oven ready. If he did come in, Tinnion would be toast. The trouble is, our board want someone in that roll who can butter them up which leaves us in a bit of a jam.
  6. So I get to the pub and the bloody match is on the TV here.
  7. I'm off up the pub for a few hands of cards. I will be checking my phone every 5 minutes. Please let us win and end this miserable run. We know we perform better against better teams. Let's prove it, bottle it and do it against every team
  8. Referring back to my point, I think I agree with you now Fevs, that Twine was probably a Manning signing, all be it a short term loan. I assumed we'd been looking at Mebude for a while but am probably wrong on that one then. Either way, I still think the lack of strength in the transfer market in January or any sign of a manager stamping his mark on the squad with stronger signings is very strange.
  9. You have to add into the chalice the bizarre January transfer window. Manning arrived at the start of November and therefore had between 8 and 10 weeks to run his eye over the squad and request funds to strengthen his team. What he got seemed to be a continuation of the previously planned January transfer window strategy. It smacks of absolute arrogance that the board felt we wouldn't need to worry about any major signings until the summer. Most clubs considering a manager change take the timing of transfer windows into account. It was discussed on here at the time NP was sacked that a contributing factor would have been not wanting to give Nige money to spend in January when he wasn't going to take the team into the following season. The fact that they also wouldn't give Nige any money in the summer after Scott left supports that point. To sum up then, Manning is brought in to replace a popular manager who had worked hard with very little to develop a hard working squad. The squad kept performing despite the loss of several key players. Manning's managerial style doesn't fit with the agenda set by the board who hired him. Then, he seemingly has no opportunity to inject any of his own signings into the team when he and the club have over two months to adjust the recruitment strategy Poison chalice indeed.
  10. Can we sack the manager now or are the ladies just another Bristol Sport portfolio member who the Lansdowns have because it looks good but clearly don't give a **** about?
  11. An elephant in the room here is the Brentmister General over there in Ipswich. When we discuss the philosophy of a club and buzz word bingo, he always comes to mind. Now I know a lot of people will suggest that even a broken clock is right twice a day but there's a bit more to what Ashton has done than that I wanted him gone as did most of us. Even SL hinted in his post Ashton interview that it wasn't working well. So what did Ashton do? He gets the Ipswich job and repeats almost to the letter everything he did here He sacks an experienced manager with a strong track record He appoints a coach with almost no experience. He floods the team with signings apparently regardless of if they're needed or not. He even goes as far as recruiting 90 percent of the staff he worked with here What does that get him? Promotion to the Championship and the very real possibility of back to back promotions returning Ipswich to the Premier League. What's the difference? McKenna is clearly a better manager than LJ and they have a board focused solely on the success of Ipswich Town football club. That's it really. Whatever our current operating model, we need to stop farting about, get people at the top who are ruthless bastards determined to succeed at all costs and get people below them who know exactly what they're doing within the game. Simple really.
  12. If we can't sack him can we at least take a leaf out of our January transfer window play book and loan him back to Oxford for the remainder of the season?
  13. I'll definitely give it a listen
  14. It could be worse. He could be pushing back the turtle's head.
  15. The "Cider with..." Podcasts that OSIB produced were absolutely superb and are sadly missed. As another poster said, when OSIB fizzled out, I haven't really picked up on another. Robins on the wire was good because although it was Gregor and Michelle so very much a mainstream discussion it gave some great analysis. So you had Robins for the more journalistic opinion and OSIB for the irreverent, run review. Fan led podcasts are great for getting debate going especially as club media is so tightly controlled these days. At the end of the day it's all about choice. You can choose to listen, choose to engage or choose not to. We've come a long way since a write up in the post, Phil Tottle,Ceefax and Club Call.
  16. Honorable mention for John Ward who seems to be a bit over looked here. He took over an average side left by big Joe after a less than brilliant second spell and took it into the play offs and then pushed Watford all the way to get promotion in his second season. Some may argue he was starting to get a tune out of the team in the 98-99 season before he quit because of the Bennie saga. He should certainly be ahead of Wilson even though Wilsons style of play may have been better. Ward got us promoted.
  17. Sadly we can already write the script for this without having to go. Season not gone as we had hoped Plenty left to fight for. Believe the squad is good enough Right behind the team We've invested in the squad and made some key signings The support has been fantastic. We'll fight until we have nothing left to fight for If we do go down we are in a better place than last time we were in the championship Keeping hold of our best players will be important but if big offers come in We can't compete on the same level in terms of finance with the bigger clubs If we go back down to the championship the drop in gates will mean home games will have to return to the HPC You can tick these off as they go through them.
  18. I was going to post this in its own thread but I think it sits qutie well here. I looked back at our possession stats for a number of previous games. On average the less possession we have the more likely we are to win the game. Also, teams that are higher up the table are likely to have more of the ball and we're more likely to play well against them. Its strange but this table seems to show that fact: In this sample range of our last 18 league games, we've never beaten a team when we've had 50 percent or more possession. Team City Possession W/D/L Home / Away Birmingham 64% Draw Away Norwich 61% Lost Home Huddersfield 60% Draw Away QPR 59% Lost Home Milwall 54% Lost Home Preston 51% Lost Away QPR 50% Draw Away Hull 49% Won Home Watford 47% Draw Home Blackburn 46% Lost Away Middlesborough 44% Won Home Coventry 42% Draw Away Watford 41% Won Away Leeds 39% Lost Home Sunderland 33% Won Home Southampton 33% Lost Away Southampton 32% Won Home Middlesborough 30% Won Away
  19. Sounds like I should be pleased I can't get a stream working :laugh:
  20. They were sold on line last week (and quickly sold out) and I believe they're now available in the club shop.
  21. How much better do shirts look without a sponsor all over the front. So much nicer.
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