The Swan and Cemetery

Genuinely think I’d prefer Bananarama to take charge.

Seems to be growing clarity that on first team footballing matters, the board (to the extent we have one), had a choice between going with the views of Pearson or Tinnion and chose… Tinnion. In no footballing sense is that anything other than ludicrous, so must have come down to a smoke blowing contest, which Tinnion was always going to win comfortably. No money to spend, followed by King vs youngsters, followed by let’s go into the free agent market, is making it increasingly seem as if we’re all stuck in some Truman Show-esque remake of W1A or The thick of it. If someone wrote it as a script it would be rejected for being too far fetched.

Don’t think people will be anti (say) Eustace given NP has now gone, that doesn’t stop fans being hacked off about NP going and how it’s been done.

Of those three, Eustace only, the other two make me reach for the Pepto Bismol.

Nathan Jones gets a decent slug of the Scott money cos he knows how to ‘do a Luton’ (just not a Stoke, Southampton or anywhere else). Couldn’t make it up.

Not sure why having someone in role would stop fans protesting? Don’t think protests would be about an excess of vacancies at the club.

Indeed, wonder if Yeboah’s ready for the manager role? Seems to fit the criteria for some.

I don’t. I think he wants things to be his way and that’s all that matters. Narcissist who wants to be loved and think he deserves it by spending some of Hargreaves his vast wealth on us.

What are you thinking? Promote from within and see if Lyle Taylor can make the step up?

His LinkedIn profile states he’s an elite level sycophant?

Getting paid double time for working on a Sunday?

Okay, I’m fine with everything about the football, given the cards NP was dealt. Would I like City do be doing better, yes, and in my view we would be if the owner had supported him.

Strong analytical effort having joined OTIB within the last hour. Gold incident call at Bristol Sport?

Not sure those who want NP to stay are after perennial survival, maybe competence and lots of progress, given the circumstances he was working under. If you’re of the view that AN Other manager would have handed Cardiff a hammering with the injuries/subs bench, I’d be very keen to get access to your supplier.

Really annoying aspect is can see the replacement getting a war chest that was never afforded to NP. Eustace/someone else may well spend that war chest wisely and up the table we go, but will rankle forever that NP wasn’t given that chance given all he’s done to right the ship.

But they’re more likely to stare at results than delve into the context of those results. Based on league position we’re not much further forward than when he started, but anyone with a clue as to the circumstances (generally City fans), will understand that’s probably the equivalent of at least one promotion.

Reuben McAllister on Rightmove looking for bedsits in Withywood?

“With our recent results”?!? Seriously?? World’s gone mad.

Indeed, a reasonably odd position to take if genuine. Anyone vaguely objective can see NP is being dealt an awful hand, but someone joins to get stuck into him on the thread about a potential new manager. Mind you, if it is the SL/JL PR machine, it’s being run with the same subtlety as the rest of their comms - weird attempts to gaslight the fans into thinking NP should have us wrestling for 1st place with Leicester, whilst ‘doing a Luton’.

Not saying NP has outwitted every other manager this season, but as an example, switching things vs Cov seemed to work (but accept there’ll be other examples where NP has lost out, just not convinced he’s consistently losing the tactical battles).

Think more that some teams have better players than us.

If he’d have been less honest and gone down on the first contact, decent chance (with a vaguely objective referee) it’s given, after that was all a bit arms and legs/six and two threes.

It’s never too soon to judge on OTIB.

Fear not, there’ll be someone out there with a few PowerPoint slides about how they’re inspired by Billy Beane and use sabermetrics to go for a piss. SL/JL will lap it up.

The stat that matters most was worse wasn’t it?