The Nest Egg

I initially said Bobby Reid but am changing my mind to say Josh Brownhill. The most complete CM I saw play for us, he made that great 17/18 team click

Was a really fun away day last year and the game itself was more interesting than the score would suggest. Hopefully more of the same, plus two more points!

These seem genuinely interesting and I'm going to give them a look when they come out. 

Clearly a crap game today but Birmingham at home was the worst this season, 2-0 flattered us massively

1 minute ago, Crackers Corner said:

Need to swap roberts for Mehmeti. Pring overloaded currently.

Everyone can see that Pring has been hurt and not himself for weeks now, why Manning continues to insist on starting him I don't know

Sounds absolutely desolate on the radio

1 hour ago, Leveller said:

I’m not sure why you consider O’Dowda dislikeable. Certainly ineffectual, but seemed a lovely lad. To me, at first sight he seemed to have it all - ability on the ball, strong, floated over the ground. But then the courage to use his skill seemed to disappear. I always wanted him to run at players, surge through the middle with the ball - but he didn’t. 
 

I don’t know if he lacked courage, or simply had risk taking coached out of him. I suspect the latter. Modern coaches want to retain possession rather than lose it, even if it is the risk takers that create chances. Callum just seemed endlessly to receive the ball wide, then turn and lay it backwards. But surely we see a lot of that in many players today as well?

I disliked him as he was a crap footballer who stole a living here for years, the winger role may have changed and features more passing backwards but he couldn't even do that on a consistent basis!

9 hours ago, Fordy62 said:

If by ‘always’ you mean once every 10 games then I wholeheartedly agree.
 

If there were an award for worlds most likely player not to turn up when you need him, he’d only lose out in the final to Callum O’Dowda. 

O'Dowda is my most disliked City player ever. I'm sure someone on here will tell me I'm wrong and some random bloke who played for us decades ago was more dislikable but I genuinely detested how long COD got at this club despite being clearly not up to it, bar a couple of months in late 2017.

3 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

It was a truly bonkers time.

Selling Pack & signing both Nagy & Massengo, too.

Absolute absolute shambles.

Dreadful and chaotic transfer window. Any club who ends up with three number 10s for one role by the end clearly has a lot of conflict going on upstairs. It was the turning point for the LJ era even if Covid hadn't happened, since the 18/19 season was actually good.

It's never us, is it?

I wonder who will surpass us next year.

3 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

I absolutely totally agree with you. 

And your post is absolutely brilliant but a very depressing read because you've hit the nail on the head with every single point. 

Tins is well out of his depth. The fact that Jon said he's being primed for the CEO role just makes me want to puke up. 

The point I was trying to make is that BT does have some good qualities in youth development/scouting. But he certainly does not have the qualities important the role he has been placed in. 

Him Jon and Manning all need to go and we need to bring in proper football people.

What's the one thing Jon, BT and Manning all have in common? They have all fluked their way into these positions without any merit. 

I've heard it too, the only reason it hasn't happened yet is that he is still learning how to spell 'CEO'. Hopefully won't be as long as it took to spell 'Technical Director'

The failure of the LJ era broke Steve Lansdown. Has never been the same since, just a reluctant owner at this point

Couple of strange moments in the crowd. I wasn't watching the game from around the 75th to 80th minute as it was kicking off in the Wednesday singing section, several lads got thrown out. Also heard one of our 'fans' make a comment which while I didn't fully hear it was clearly something unacceptable as a lot of our fans turned and made their disgust clear.

57 minutes ago, Jose said:

You have people who will support no matter what. Even after the crap put out today people were stood there clapping at the end. I couldn’t believe it. Unfortunately Wednesdays PA was too load as there was quite some discontent too. 

That bastardised remix of Daddy Cool was strange wasn't it! 

Two main insights from today:

1 - we were absolutely crap

2 - these trams are bloody nice wouldn't mind some of these in Bristol

58 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

Will Exeter (or to a lesser extent ,Plymouth) fans be acting like we would if the same thing was happening to the gash, as I believe there was no love lost between them ?

Not to the same extent. The main rivalry is Plymouth and Exeter. I would place Torquay to them in a similar way that Yeovil used to be for us. Close, but not the main rivals and animosity has never really built up.

I'm not there today but if even Robins TV said they could have had 3 or 4 then it must have been absolutely dire 

2 minutes ago, bexhill reds said:

Has Mubude got anything else in his locker than to turn backwards?

My worry is that if he's quick and strong, surely there must be at least a couple of drawbacks which is why he is playing at our level. Very early days though 

I've just turned over to Five Live now. Get that the RB commentators are excited but you need to actually do your job of properly calling the game

Can they only scream like that on RB if the ball actually goes in thanks

I like it, finding a balance between more modern designs while maintaining some form of tradition is bloody difficult and I think they have done it well

1 minute ago, Silvio Dante said:

Sorry! Done some work in commercial property previously so can’t help myself whenever this subject comes up!

One of the nicest opposing conversations I have had on here in fairness!

1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said:

Just on your anecdote - Villa closed their club shop in Birmingham city centre a few years ago.

I don’t disagree Broadmead is not what it was but here’s an example of a unit to let - not in prime location, and between rent and rates you’re north of £100k before you even get to staff costs. If you assume minimum 3 staff at fully loaded cost of 50k each then you need to make 1/4m net before you break even (and that’s excluding heating, lighting etc). It is, regrettably, a total non starter.

https://m.search-prop.com/83-broadmead-bristol

 

Bugger! Consider myself told then