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Maybe he was insisting the first team played the same way as the u21s

But, but, but, wouldn't that mean SL backtracking on his previous approaches

Nope, we definitely are going for promotion. Our Chairman and Tins both said the squad should be top 6!

Correct. Tinnion has gone on record as saying that our shopping list will be from the lower leagues, with youthful players who have a point to prove, and have played a great deal of games and looking to step up a level.

...AND we're still waiting for the club to announce what their memory\tribute to Terry Cooper will be? I suppose in the words of Wally, these things take time!

Oh dear, the more time that goes by, the more I see Ali Hines being promoted up from the u21s, especially after Tinnion was wax-lyrical over their "losing" performance against Tottenham!

Crikey, I just watched that video, and there will probably at least 5 coaches all piping up with instruction's!

So he was wearing stilts as well???!

Come to City and learn how to turn that into 75goals and a -117 goal difference !!

That'll bring on a few heart attacks with Naismith at the back, and Atkinson due to come back !!

...and SL was complaining the other day that he wants a higher salary cap in Rugby, but wont spend on the football team !

So what formation did the U21s play against Tottenham that Tinnion was lauded it over?

Nope, we've got the perfect squad, and once we get the correct head coach in, we'll storm to promotion without any recruitment being required !!

BINGO!!! "Front footed, fast paced, pressing football" - we're getting all that now, or was getting that with NP !! Jeeze, are they expecting the next manager to feed the players nitroglycerine to get them pressing any harder???!

I also wonder if SL is spreading himself too thin? He obviously has the Bristol Sport Umbrella with all the associated sports teams, he has the golf club development in Guernsey, he has his Botswana interests, he has a large stake in that specialist WiFi company, didn't he also have a stake in a large screen company that provided the big screen to Rovers? He's still got a stake in Hargreaves Lansdown, and probably has a lot more portfolio investments dotted about. I do question why the need to try and keep making all this extra money? He's way past the traditional retirement age, his family are set up for generations with the money he's made, and yet he still wants more!! From the beginning, he wanted to leave a legacy, but that legacy is going to be severely tested over the coming months\years. Wouldn't surprise me that the rate this is going, the club will get bought out and the first think that'll happen is the Lansdown stand will get renamed the Terry Cooper stand!

All time record EVER for Bristol City wasn't it?! ....and he still held his position.

I wonder if SL has his eye on Steven Gerrard again?

I see Dave Rennie has left also. Is that because he's standing by his mate, NP, and decided to walk also? Or has he been let go by the club because they blame him for all the injuries??

I'm giving him a only because of my gallows style humour !!

One of the things I've really liked about NP being manager, is the way he describes where we are, where we're going to, and how long it's going to get there. He has\had a vision, and appreciates the constraints he's under, but still has a clear plan on how he intends to get there - even when the rug is being pulled from beneath his feet !! In LJ, I never had a sense of a clear plan or identity, or what we needed to do to get there - it was always buy another player! Under NP, he said it'll take him 3 years. He's also mentioned a couple of times down the line that we're not progressing as fast as he'd thought, but he also went on to explain that its things in the background he's trying to sort out. In the early days, he persisted with wing backs, and counter attacking football, as he said that's the best formation for the players we had. He then went about releasing players from their contracts earlier than were due to end, and he also sold Semenyo to create finance to enable us to bring in other players to move to a more possession based side. All the while, he's changing formation to a 4231 (give or take) which he prefers. He's not pulled the wool over our eyes, he's not quoted buzz words, he's explained it clearly and concisely, and in my eyes I can see a clear plan. Admittedly it's not been brilliant football all the time, but you can see a clear plan in action. We press from the front, we're fit, we're strong, and we're difficult to play against. Aside from Steve Cotterell persisting (stubbornly) with wing backs when we got to the championship, NP is providing the clearest plan of what he's trying to deliver, and the last thing I want to see if a new coach come in, rip up the rule book, buy some "clubs in the bag" and rinse and repeat the last couple of decades!!

Completely agree. We only need to look back at previous attempts to cut costs and keep us in the Championship, and other managers we've employed have failed miserably when asked to do so. Sean O'Driscoll a prime example where we went down with a whimper. Not only has NP kept us in the division, he's done so comfortably whilst bedding in academy players, whilst off loading highly paid senior pro's, and then having the academy players sold whilst he's been trying to build a team around them.

Also, how do they paint that on the pitch? Is there a special stencil that gets sent to our ground staff along with the correct branding colour paints? or does the RFU send a specialist team along to paint it?

Some amazing pictures of the Shelf and the construction of the whole stand just here http://www.iansapps.co.uk/football/whl.html I find those stadiums designs so much nicer than anything today. Oh to go back to terracing

Can anyone confirm if a match day programme is still included seeing that the club no longer produce one?

Its what I've been attempting to say further up, if the club want it, then JFDI !! Something other City's within the Country do. I know its sly, underhand, and just not cricket, but sometimes if you want something done, get on with it! We're all laughing at Rovers and their lack of planning for the South Stand, but at least they're taking the bull by the horns. TBH, I'm non-plussed either way as I won't be buying a flat at Ashton Gate or watching the basketball. I only go to watch City. Personally, I'd be happy if Wickes was knocked down and a nice boulevard was put up with a decent club shop, snacks bars, coffee shops and outdoor space, but money talks and so a profit needs to be squeezed from every single avenue.