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7 minutes ago, JP Hampton said:

Well how could she referee the game whilst getting the ball kicked in her stomach. You wouldn’t bat an eyelid if a player went to the floor.  If there’d been a foul against us and she didn’t give it cos she didn’t see it would you be happy with that?

Sorry what? 
The ball was kicked into the Huddersfield’s centre half’s stomach, after which we had possession and she decided to stop the game and return the ball to them via an unopposed drop ball. The games gone!

Since when does getting the ball kicked in your stomach warrant stopping the game and the ball being returned to you from the opposition for you to to restart the game unopposed?? ******* joke  

Just listened. Don’t think it was anywhere near as bad as people are making out. Give the man a break. 

On 22/02/2024 at 14:23, downendcity said:

Listened to Talksport briefly today and they were discussing that Torquay have gone into administration.

The journalist they had on was talking about their owner, and he ( the journalist) commented that what fans want from an owner is that they leave the club in a better situation than it was when they took it on.

Given all the negativity surrounding SL and recent events, allied to many fans apparently wanting SL to sell the club and make way for a new owner it got me thinking.

If SL sold up tomorrow do you think that he would be leaving the club in a better situation than when he became the owner?

 

Yes

Any streaming links? Thanks in advance! 

4 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

Nail on head

We are trying to keep possession but we are absolutely shite at it

39% possession for a possession team 

Meanwhile we are forgetting our strengths of direct (not long ball) play which brought us so much success under Pearson 

So much success? Must have missed that 

On 13/01/2024 at 20:08, spudski said:

Couldn't give a shit what you or anyone else thinks. 

How the **** have I been spoilt.

Carry on with your mud pies

 

Just listening to a Reading fan on 5 live and yes, it really drums home just how SPOILT and pathetic much of our fan base sound. 

4 minutes ago, spudski said:

I'm done with Manning already...I find him the most irritating bloke to listen to. He may turn out to be a coaching genius...But..I just can't warm to him. He sounds like JLs and Tins love child...with a massive smattering of LJ. 

Worse than LJ tbh. 

He can stick his bloody 'behaviours' up his arse...5 times mentioned today FFS, in a couple minutes. It's sooooo grating. 

It's epic bullshit coaching bingo lingo. 

Can't stand it. 

How the **** can you be motivated listening to that bullshit everyday. 

With the ' leaders' at the club departing soon, or going sideways ...James, Weimann, Wells, King, what are you left with?

Never felt so disappointed with this club and slowly losing interest. 

I really want the Lansdowns out now. 

Time to gamble with someone else in power. 

 

 

 

Christ, what a spoilt little brat you sound. 

39 minutes ago, Southend Blue said:

Don't dislike us because of one individual.    I never asked Mark Ashton to come on board with us, all right he's now part of a (mostly) successful club side and fans at ITFC have more or less now welcomed or accepted his position but i've rather talk or discuss what occurs on the pitch.

Today was disappointing, don't like noon kick-offs particularly in such pivotal games of this nature but they were value for the win.     Leeds beat us and scored 4 at Portman Road earlier in the season, they've beaten us again at their own ground and scored another 4 times.    That's a promotion team in every sense of the word but we can only concentrate on our own objectives and try to keep in with the automatic promotion places.  

we have Leicester coming up soon and another performance and result like today just won't be acceptable.  Very few teams stop us from scoring over an entire game of 90 minutes but we hardly registered a shot on goal up there today.    Concede too many goals although that's compensated by an attack and forward options that many others in the league simply can't match.     Still in a very good position to challenge though.     So many other teams would jump at the chance to be where we are and the opportunity that goes with it.  

As a club you are completely irrelevant to me. I just hate Mark Ashton and therefore currently your club. Once he leaves I’ll go back to having no interest in you once again. 

4 minutes ago, Lew-T said:

This the time when the “ we should be thankful ” posts come out.

Well…we should 

50 minutes ago, RedRoss said:

Is everyone bitter about them because of Ashton?

Absolutely. The team I now love to see lose the most (above Rovers, Cardiff, anyone). Petty perhaps but c’est la vie 

What an awful club supporting their player after he gets brutally abused. Shame on them! 

Get a ******* life 

1 hour ago, Harry said:

Yep. 
I’ve watched a number of championship teams this season who are streets ahead of us in terms of their style, their quality, their pace, their technicality. We are way behind a number of teams. We are being competitive because we have players with a fair bit of grit, determination, energy. But the way some other teams play - we are way off that still. 

Is that not a reason to sack Nige? 

29 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Get well NP. Good luck 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nigel Pearson

 

@NigelGPearson

 

 

I would like to thank the incredible consultants, nurses, staff and medical students at Kings College Hospital, in London, where I am staying this week, undergoing numerous tests to help determine my future treatment, in the hope of making a full recovery...

How people are unable to put this news together with Nige leaving is beyond me. Imo the club did not feel Nige was fit enough to perform all his duties as manager e.g be out on training field every day. 
 

Due to this they weren’t prepared to offer him a new contract. They decided to pull the trigger now so the new manager can have a say on comings and goings in January. They obviously can’t say this as they could be liable for unfair dismissal. This would all seem fair enough to me. 

The King is dead, long live the King! 

I would feel much more optimistic if Nige signed a new long term deal. If that happens, then I’m more than happy for this season to be another step in our rebuild. I think then the forced use of youngsters could actually be a good thing this year as gives more of them the experience to develop. 

If, however, Nige is not with us next year then this will all feel like the usual Bristol City merry go round of wasted opportunities and predictable failure 

34 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

They haven't gone public and they don't need to that is true. Unfortunately where the "plan" fails is they've forgotten to inform Nige about it too........if you think that's the way to treat somebody you have respect for then all power to you, not for many of us though.

How do you know they haven’t? 

I’m sure this has been said already (I haven’t got the stamina to read through it all), but surely it is reasonable to consider that the club does not think Nigel is medically fit enough to continue in the role? It seems people are jumping to the conclusion that the Lansdowns don’t like Nige, but perhaps they simply don’t think he is fit enough to extend his contract. Nige himself said that it is neurological which is medically defined as disorders that affect the brain and the nervous system. They may not have gone public on this as Nige has his rights to Medical privacy. 

That seems far more Likely than the idea the Lansdowns are desperate to get rid of a manager that’s doing pretty well. Not everything is a conspiracy 

1 hour ago, ChippenhamRed said:

I get that. I just wonder if it loses something when you’ve scaled such heights, achieved the ultimate, and are then miles away from it and very unlikely to ever do it again. A sense of “after the Lord Mayor’s show”.

Football means different things to different people. My instinct - which I accept is personal to me and won’t necessarily be shared by others - is that football would never matter quite as much as it did before.

Fair enough and you are right to state that it will mean different things to different people but for me that’s way too simplistic a view. I reckon if you supported Leicester you may question what it was like to support Bristol City and spend several years stuck in mid-table championship obscurity 

This is real life not champ manager. Football is about more than simply completing an objective. It’s a deep rooted culture and way of life. Football fans, be it Leicester, City or Wherever are in it for life, not just until they’ve won something. You can’t simply ‘complete it’ as there is always a next season to come. 

Why all the doom and gloom when our last away performance was so positive? I think we’ll win today. 
 

Football is won on the pitch not by how much coverage you get on SSN on deadline day. 
 

We have a team full of committed players who give their all. You reds. 

He was excellent. Let’s keep supporting our academy lads as they grow rather than jumping on every mistake. Well done Max 

Very encouraged last night but when you think we now have a cup game on Tuesday and an opportunity to rest some players it presses home just how thin our squad is. Within the midfield 3, we only really have King (who I was hoping would be used more in a coaching capacity this season) and TGW (who Pearson sees as a RB and came in in that position last night). Naismith can play there but I wouldn’t like to risk playing him again in there so soon after a recurring injury - plus if he is our cover at CB, he can’t cover both positions. 
 

We are not far off but desperately need another 2/3 arrivals through the spine of the pitch, otherwise I just can’t see us managing to compete in over a long season. 

Pearson talks about this wage cap, but that is self-imposed. Surely with the 25m + Semenyo sale we have room to make more additions. I’ve always supported Lansdown and am very appreciative of everything he’s done, but if we don’t make signings next week then his time is up.  

Great performance. Well done boys. Deserved to win.

Pring and Knight were excellent