cityfan1958

The difference is football is a competitive sport. There is an opposition. You can’t control outcomes relating to the opposition, the goalkeeper who pulls off a worldly save, or a defender get a toe in as a shot is being made. What you can control is the processes, positions pass rates, movement off the ball etc that create passing opportunities which create goal scoring opportunities. The better the processes the more scoring opportunities, and therefore the more goals. The same also applies to defensive processes preventing scoring opportunities.

Workshy, really ? I think you will find he was prepared to delegate to his staff, and trust them to carry out their roles without interference. Exactly what all good managers do. And if reports are to be believed those above him might want to learn that.

The only worth while protest is not to go. Anything else is a waste of time An empty stadium is the most powerful message.

To underscore what others have said. The loudest protest will be a silent stadium.

My boyhood hero. The only person I have ever got an autograph from. I remember, some time in the late ‘80’s, being in the White Heart at Congresbury. The place was packed and rocking. Chris came in with a lady and tripped over a mat. The place went silent, and then erupted in one of the biggest cheers I have ever heard. I was sat at the bar all evening and I know he had to pay for nothing that night.

Thanks for that. Saw the Facebook post as I was dashing out to collect a family member from a very long day at work, and put the comment on as I was walking out the door, hence not reading the whole thread. I post very infrequently, and you just reminded we why. Won’t make that mistake again.

Bolton News on Facebook saying he’s at Bolton for medical. Sorry if already posted, didn’t have time to read whole thread.

Warm up at Cheese and Grain ??

Read this quick, for a second thought you were saying he played well for England because he was stoned.

Can’t point to anything exact, but a few quotes I have seen from Nige leaves me to think, win, loose or draw, we may be his last managerial job.

If nothing else it’s going to be entertaining this season. We are going to score a lot of goals, and also conceded more than a few. Didn’t/don’t we have the record for the number of goals in a season for one of the divisions (3rd, in old money ? ) but finished mid table because we conceded nearly as many ?

Who ever goes up this season, or any other, will need luck, parachute payments or not, with injuries and refereeing decisions, so no chance for us then. As mentioned before we have a far more balanced squad than last season, and we are no longer carrying players who are never going to play, so that’s two, and arguably three, players better off than last season. Also given the history over the last couple of seasons it’s highly likely that another of the younger players will have a break through season. As far as I am aware we have not had any, remotely, acceptable offers for any of the current squad. The most likely movement will be some team panicking and making a last minute silly offer, and that’s more likely to be for a fully proven player, so most likely Wells. Outside of the above, this is our squad until January, or when ever the window is this season.

The level of his current employer would seem to tell the story. Having Said that I hope he makes a good career for himself.

This summer is about who goes, as much as who comes in. The nightmare scenario was losing our quality younger players, and not shifting those we need to go, Palmer etc. If the move for Bakinson goes through you have to say the management are batting 100%. This takes the pressure off should a late bid come in for one of the starlets, and those who have come in, or re signed, improve us in areas that needed it. Whilst I don’t see us as promotion candidates there is no reason not to expect a better season this year.

Stuart Adamson, R.I.P. such a waste to loose him so young. Superb song writer and front man, and as you alluded to a genuine ‘ man of the people’.

Appointing the best qualified person for the job, not someone who’s main qualification is being one of our ex players.

Most important transfer of the summer. I really thought we would struggle to get him gone. i have no knowledge of the deal, but I would guess, minimal fee (enough to cover admin legal fees etc). With no transfer fee Coventry can give him a signing fee, and then lower wages over the 3 year period of the contract. A player who was ‘King of the Academy’ but can’t/won’t step up to the full man’s game.

The couple of games I have seen with him my overwhelming reaction was how much he reminded me of Marcus Stewart when he came to city. Ran around a bit, lots of pointing, and a few flicks and tricks but actually contributed very little to winning a game

Daniel Sturridge is also at Perth, not the player he was …

Sat here in Hamilton NZ watching the high lights from the Aussie A league. Game involving Perth Glory came up, and the name Andy Keogh made my ears ***** up. A Google search showed he was on loan, 9 games, with us in 2011, from Wolves ? Commentator made a comment that it was his last game for Perth, my assumption was that he was retiring, but maybe not. Just a minor city connection on a slow news day.

Is it just me, they fail to pay between 20 and 30 million in tax, and then the tax payers buy’s their ground for them, a ground that was “sold” as a means of cheating to start with, un real !

I was taking Palmer in isolation, because I feel the club as a whole needs him to go, even if he is not actively undermining the squad, his mere presence, imo, is. Obviously funds from other transfers or sell on clauses will make this a more or less likely.

Palmer is the one that paying up a proportion of his outstanding contract is likely to be worth while. if for example we can sign a decent right back for half of the money Palmer is on, we could pay up half of Palmers contract as a sweetener to go and have a player filling a position we need to fill, and loose the “dead shirt” we currently have. The down side being that, short term, the over all finances don’t improve.

First, the comment is just managing expectations of wholesale changes this summer. I see Palmer as the most important move. Having him hanging around and not playing, whilst on top money is a constant distraction from the job in hand. I don’t know what he is like as a person ie. Is football just a job, or does he have a real passion for playing the game. If it’s the former he could just see out his contract, or wait and see if there is a change of manager who might play him. He might also be thinking that in another 12 months football finances will improve and he will get a better contract than moving now. The down side is he wasn’t pulling up any trees last season, has not played this, and there is no expectation of him playing next season. If he waits out his contract finding another club on any sort of decent money is pretty close to zero. So there is pressure on him to move, if he is actually bothered about playing. I think the reality is, for Wells as well, we will have to pay up a proportion of his outstanding contract to get him to go.

Normally just laugh at the thought of either of these two coming back. What worries me slightly is NP comment a few days back about city being an odd club, or words to that effect, so I wonder if something was mooted ?