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  1. 17 minutes ago, Kingswood Robin said:

    I'm really only watching them now because my own son, also 13 likes to go. Once he's older and starts going on his own I'll probably find something else to do.

    Just fed up with the lack of dynamism leading the club. Fed up with hearing "ultimately we want to do this or that". Any fool can say that. What about setting some proper targets and some dates when these things are going to be achieved, like the rest of us in the working world.

    If and when I do renew, I'm going to leave it to the last minute...

    That'll teach them to mess with my head! 🤪

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  2. Well, I'll probably renew, as I have the last 20-odd years, but...

    I'm as royally cheesed off as I ever have been this season; and to cap off a really disappointing season, that looked interesting, and has been turned to ratshit by senior management, my 13yo son has started coming to matches this year, and I couldn't buy him a season ticket in the South Stand if I wanted too! 

    Might just not bother.. 

    I'm feelling really apathetic, such a damn shame. 

  3. On 26/11/2023 at 03:46, joe jordans teeth said:

    We all know this club is a job for the boys and don’t get me wrong scotty probably gave me my second best day behind Mansfield but is it not time to say goodbye and become professional 

    I know what’s coming by the way 

    WTAF 

    😄👏

  4. 58 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

    Not a chance Matty James is on £27k a week.

    Not saying he’s not well paid but never that much.

    Fair enough, that was just the rumour. Point probably still stands about something like that being his point though. Smoke and mirrors and all that.

  5. 31 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

    We are back to the Swansea model.  And ( that you mentioned Laudrup!

    I have no probs with that at all.  As you say recruitment of players can be more efficient.  Getting the right manager in future (whether sacked or poached) shouldn’t be hard, it’s not like we are specifying a unique way of playing is it.

    I’m as gutted as anyone Nige isn’t gonna be here to follow up on his foundation laying and strategy setting, but he’s left it in a good place for his replacement.

    I’ve been crying out for a DOF type person to bridge the gap between manager and board for ages.  Not just reporting lines but role responsibilities too.  Much as Nige did more than just be the first team manager, he’s not one to get engrossed in recruitment or budgets so bringing in Tinnion was a good choice.  We had a gap.  That gap was weak and exploited during the Mark Ashton reign, and not just MA to blame.

    It appeared we had the perfect set-up this time last year when Nige, Richard and Tins gave us a really good fans forum.  Tins had not been appointed at that point but someone asked a question on my behalf that with Richard having just announced he was going, would there be an opportunity to create a different structure.  And they answered that they would be looking for any opportunities to improve the setup.  A little while later Tins was promoted to Technical Director.

    All seemed good.

    So I think the structure is right.  It’s just we now need to wait and see how they perform, perform together.

    As for not getting excited - it’s always hard when the outgoing manager was largely popular and a sacking felt harsh.  We had that with Cotts.  We didn’t have the set-up right for LJ…see above.

    I made the mistake of not being excited by Gary Johnson.  My bias and comparison to other managers was that he’d find it hard to step up to our level and manage players with egos.  I was wrong.  I vowed to give every manager going forward tye benefit of doubt.

    When a new manager is rumoured, you can frame any set of pros and cons to suit your argument, but none of us know how they will do.  Some click, some don’t.

    As always, I agree with the vast majority of what you say Dave.

    But...I think with the previous guys you quoted, for varying reasons, most fans, at the time felt these decisions were on balance, at least valid, at the time. I don't always think the appointments have been right in the past, but generally still had a positive feeling about them as it was a "fresh start", new broom and all that. 

    This time because NP's tenure has ended prematurely - he was absolutely set up to fail his employers vision of success (promotion!? none the less) and we all think we know why.

    It's difficult to get excited, nothing to do with the new HC, just that he will be one disagreement with SL away from funds being withdrawn, and silence from the club again. That, I'm afraid is just a feeling I haven't really felt before when were recruting. 

    Oh, I am quite happy to try a new approach by the way, so its not just a better the devil thing, I could even see some of the ideas Benny L had were very interesting! (Yes, I've been a season "ticket" holder that long! ) 😄 

    I hope by Saturday I'll have a bit more of a feel good vibe, but I'll still join in with any NP and critical SL chants!

     

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  6. To be fair to Eustace, he wouldn't be the worst appointment the club have made.

    It's just so underwhelming, isn't it?

    I think we all know what's happened. Our club got in the sh1t financially due to Covid (and our risky transfer policy). We got Nige on board to straighten us out. SL tolerated NP, even though NP is not his "type," a means to an end if you like.

    Don't get me wrong, I was not convinced for a while, and like most, I was struggling with supporting the manager at the tail end of 2022. BUT, I think we can all see Nige turned it around somewhat. Perfect football? nope. Promotion chasers? Nope. Frustrating performances at times? Yes! But I'm sure the majority of us agree that Nige deserved to see the project out. He'd earnt that after following the brief and the budget after all. And I did grow to like the guy, seems to have decent principles.

    Now, it's seems clear, maybe I'm wrong, but we now want a "head coach" (not someone telling the Lansdowns how to run a "business"), rather than a manager.

    BT is the new mouthpiece of SL, the intermediate that will translate SL's idea of a football club to the real world. Hell, BT was even well respected by the fans! Most of us have been calling for a DOF for years, so there is no real problem with that. Just not like this...

    Whoever gets the head coach's job will get most fans' support for the honeymoon period, after all it's not their fault, out of work managers (sorry head coaches!) Take the work where it is. It's just gonna take a while to get the bitter taste out of my mouth from "our" football club.

    Makes it hard to get excited about any appointment, no?

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  7. 8 hours ago, Ivorguy said:

    Yes, but that is why Wells is there - to score goals !

    You really don't appear to understand as much about football as you think. Some (most?) of your posts are just so negative. It's a team game. Yes, it would be great to see NW net some goals, his play deserves it, but he brings so much more to the table! Your world appears very black and white. Shame.

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  8. I think, something that has been overlooked when Harry was signed is, that (and I'm pretty sure I didn't dream this!)  NP said that (me paraphrasing) we look for value in players - we try to see things other teams have missed about players, and to coach them to be able to do a "different" role than they may be used to. This means we can hopefully afford to have a player playing in a posistion we may not be able to afford, at the time, otherwise (sorry, hope that makes sense). I therefore  believe Harry has been bought to play a different role than he was at LTFC, this would have worked better if, as intended, he was bought in the summer, and behind closed doors, and friendlies, coached to his new role. I agree he is struggling, and is not the player we want him to be at present...but he's not as bad as some are portraying. He's just learning "on the job" so-to speak, getting invaluble minutes with the team. Please bear this in mind when judging him. He may indeed turn out not to be what we need, but he's obviously giving his best out there, and that's all we can ask, surely? 

    If it doesn't work out, he'll move on...thats the nature of his chosen profession, but he's doing all this infront of 20k crowds most weeks. I don't bloody envy him (even on his wage, I couldn't do it), and fair play to him for taking up the challenge.

    Best of luck Harry!

     

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  9. 8 minutes ago, Robbored said:

    Hmmm………..my mum gave be some sound advice when she said ‘never debate religion or politics because people have fixed views’

    I’ll add football to that piece of advice………..……:cool2:

     

     

    Well, some people have fixed views that's for sure.

    I wonder what made your mother think of that when adrressing you?

    I wonder.......

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  10. 24 minutes ago, Robbored said:

    I’ve already said that most of us go to football to be entertained and imo the best football that I’ve seen at AG for over 30 years was under DW - the likes Murray, Tinnion, Peacock et el were a joy to watch - I’ve seen nothing like it since but hopefully Nige will provide us with some attacking and exciting football before too long.

    Yeh, we got the "you like to be entertained bit" you've rammed it down our throats for long enough. You think we all don't too?

    Time has just muddied your mind, as good as some of the games were under Wilson, just as many, if not more were frusterating and disappointing.

    His last season here was absolute horsecrap as I recall.

    Gary Johnson served us up some good stuff, some horsecrap too; but at least there was some success to his tenure, unlike DW. Something your too blind to see.

    Your blinkered, and keep spouting the same old stuff, no more relevant now than it was after the first 50 times Robbored. A lot of us watched those eras too, and have our own oppinions, we just don't feel the need to insist our opinion is the only valid one.

    Tedious, very tedious.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Robbored said:

    Unfortunately DW achieved nothing at City but he did produce some thrilling and exciting  football. Football is supposed to be entertainment for us fans and and DW certainly provided it.

    I have a positive feeling that Nige will start to produce the same level of entertainment this coming season.

    Certainly hope your right about NP,  we do appear to be heading in the right direction, recrutment wise. More than happy to have him here and let him run with it. Euell seems another good appointment - from what is being said.

    Not sure why you think NP will supply you with the scintillating football your craving though; always seemed to me his teams are effective, well drilled and hard working rather than flamboyant like the early Wilson teams were. I'd be delighted to be proven wrong though.

    Your just spouting your usual self indulgent nonsense as far as I can see. Your a strange poster, thats for sure!

    Shame really, there are times when you do actually talk some sense. ?‍♂️

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  12. I think, in response to a few earlier posts; the number shown as infected will increase sharply for the foreseeable. Two reasons for this:

    Firstly; More people are getting it, we all know infection rate hasn't peaked yet.......BUT.....the sooner people take isolation seriously, the SOONER infection rates WILL PLATEAU.

    Secondly; the Govt are ramping up testing, ALOT more people will be tested from here on in. Hopefully the retrospective tests that are soon to be rolled out will show more people have had the virus than currently estimated, though this is not probably too likely in reality - hoping I'm wrong on that.

    It's a very difficult situation to manage. We all want to keep deaths of of friends, colleagues, family and loved ones to an ABSOLUTE MINIMUM, but also we need a world we can all enjoy and live in after, without rationing and the incredible hardships that a great depression would bring. (Not just luxury items, make NO mistake, get it wrong and we could end up with food and clothes shortages to name but two) for many years to come. It's hard for me to fathom that my 9 and 11 yo kids could still be suffering from the fall out of this when they leave the education system in many years time.

    Really tough choices for our leaders, I for one, don't envy them one bit. History will judge us all on these coming months for sure. 

    We all must do our bit.

     

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  13. 19 minutes ago, NOTBLUE said:

    I also used to told off for wiping my nose in my sleeve,I was a true street urchin me.

    What!?!

    Are you saying I've got to carry a pack of tissues around with me now I'm a grown up?

    Maybe I'll just carry a reusable, snot filled hanky stuffed up my sleeve, like my Granny!!

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  14. 1 hour ago, CotswoldRed said:

    Assume your issue is with the timing alone? Don't tell me you'd get all offended if someone stated "this place looks like the Blitz"? 

    Yes of course. 20 odd confirmed dead and dozens still unacounted for. If after a week people were making jokes about Salas and his pilot, there would have been outrage. I just don't see the difference, sorry.

    I'm  not overly sensitive as a person, but people's fathers, mothers, wives, gf's sons and daughters etc are dead or still missing.

    Anyway I'll not say anymore about the subject, I think I made my point, however pointless most seemed to find it on here.

  15. 1 hour ago, WessexPest said:

    “Magnificent stadium”?!? What are you babbling on about, man! What’s his yardstick for impressive buildings - has he just come back off holidaying in the Bahamas or summat?

    With the greatest respect people died in that hurricane.

    Tact obviously not your forte.

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