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ExiledAjax

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  1. It's -3 for the initial breach, which Forest accepted. Then a further -3 for the circumstances and size of the breach (basically them holding off on selling Johnson and a relative breach 77% larger than Everton's). Then they got 2 back as mitigation because they co-operated with the investigation. Why would a decision in the Forest case, or any article reporting it, mention a completely different case dealing with a completely different alleged offence, and being considered totally separately from this one. Don't worry, Everton's case and appeal are mentioned extensively throughout the Forest piece. This will still happen.
  2. The award does plenty of comparison to EFL cases and of course to Everton.
  3. The Bill is expected to be tabled (in a weird and possibly desperate throw of the die from the government) to Parliament tomorrow. Aides are briefing journalists today. The wording surrounding any power to impose a financial deal between EFL and PL will be what to watch for.
  4. -3 for breach. -3 for circumstances and scale. +2 for exceptional co-operation. They will appeal. They kind of have to appeal really.
  5. All I've done is summarise the many many great posts and thoughts that everyone posts on here all the time. But thank you.
  6. And, I think there is an argument to say that realistically we only need someone who can get us going for what...35-40 league games? What do we actually need to do to get a top 6 spot and maybe promotion? 70-75 points (70 is probably enough but let's get ambitious). If someone can get us to a point where we turn in 1.9ppg over 38 games we land on 72. So there is a case to say that it's legit to get someone very high calibre in, and give him a season. One season. Put up with the drama behind the scenes, and get the team performing enough to just do it. Ismael? This is probably much much harder to do than it is to write, and it would be at the cost of absolutely all long-term planning or structuring. But the skeleton and underlying position of the Club next season has an awful lot of potential. Would be a shame to waste that.
  7. A top, top, top outlook that made me smile. Well done on having your priorities sorted.
  8. Even so, it will only ever be able to go so far. We saw that with Pearson (and even to an extent with Johnson/Ashton). Yes a manager with the right stuff might be able to perform, and get a song out of the squad, but as you say he'd always be doing it despite the structure and egos above him rather than because of them. These guys have proven their resistance to innovation, to change, to ideas (despite the ironic statements of a desire to emulate [Brighton/Brentford/Luton/Ipswich]). They're like the bad boy that a series of girlfriends think they can "change". They resist, and eventually it's the girlfriend who goes. At some point the two groups - ownership and coaching - will come to blows. This is what I was always getting at when I used to say that Pearson wouldn't get us promoted and would fall out with the hierarchy eventually (especially once the buffer of Gould was removed, Alexander was too like Pearson tbh). He had a record of it, and the Lansdowns and Marshall are primed for it. You have to have true alignment to build long-lasting success. You also have to have people willing to truly delegate powers to those who should wield them. Whilst we have two directors beholden to the ultimate owner, we will not have that. We have a de facto dictatorship and in my opinion within that set up every manager will either become subsumed by the miasma of mediocrity (Manning, Johnson), or he'll die trying to disperse it (Pearson, Cotterill, even Coppell).
  9. I am not this. But, another aspect of modern football that I have heard cited as a reason for this and for the ubiquity of certain styles of football and coaching is TV, and the availability of video analysis. Everyone can watch everyone in excruciating frame-by-frame detail, from multiple angles and with all the AI-stripped data you can want. A far cry from 100 years ago when Chapman's Huddersfield could surprise everyone with the concept of counter-attacking. A far cry even from the 80s and 90s when scratchy VHS tapes were posted to analysts and managers and pored over in sheds. It's one aspect of what is a big issue in modern football, I suspect another may well be what you identify as well - uniformity of education.
  10. Ps..I think this is the most depressing thread on the board right now.
  11. True, true, the plastics that support the top teams will never care about us, just as they don't really care about the other 14 teams in their own division*. But I work/have worked with fans of Sheffield Wednesday, Brentford, Wolves, QPR, Southend, Leicester, Preston, Forest, Leeds, Sunderland, Birmingham, Villa, WBA, and on and on. I'm sure we all have similar lists. Many show some interest in us if we're in the same division, but what is there to say really? "Oh yeh weren't you in the 1909 FA Cup final?" "Oh yeh you've won the Football League Trophy 3 times haven't you!" No one knows this stuff and I don't blame them. There's just not a lot to know really. It's why I'd taken a season, just one season, in the premier league. It's pathetic really but I'd love just 12 months where a lot of people cared about us - even if all they cared about was how many goals they'd stick past O'Leary. *Unusually, the exception that I find to this rule are older fans of Man City. They do tend to have an appreciation for the "joy" of supporting a relatively unsuccessful and unglamorous lower division side.
  12. We're pretty close. I'd say we're almost certainly the dullest club in the top 2 divisions. Personally I believe this because 99% of the time when I'm asked who I support, and I say "Bristol City" I'm met with silence. A blank face. An "oh right...where are you this season?". Unless the person I'm speaking to is particularly versed in the travails of EFL clubs they just have nothing to say. I just find that other fans of football just have...nothing to say about this club. We're not hated, we're not respected, our stadium isn't famous, we've very few nationally notable ex-players, we're neither remembered or loved.
  13. China takes the words out of my mouth. We saw under Pearson that an attempt to "galvanise" those above may work in the short term but ultimately leads to a clash of intentions, a clash of understanding and an end to the relationship. As I say above.
  14. It is. And one of the things I was wrong about when I was fine with Pearson leaving is that I overestimated the ability of the bosses to give good thought to the appointment of the successor. I guess I thought that they had managed to appoint Pearson so should be capable of working out how to appoint someone who could progress the squad rather than a person who would bring a stubborn dogma, and insist that the squad change and be moulded (expensively) into the form he needs. So yeh. I misjudged. Ultimately though I think the Club needs real change, and that will only come from the top. Even the most ardent Nigephile will surely admit that his successes, his culture, was a thin sheet of ice covering and concealing the dark depths of an abyss of talent at board and ownership level. Even were we to appoint someone similar to Pearson, or even him again, the best we could hope for was another sheet of ice. The rest, the real problem, would still be there. So sack the most senior person we can. Change the top. Maybe I'll spend tomorrow calling round some private equity and corporate finance friends to see if anyone's keen?
  15. Logic says Tinnion. 6 more months roughly takes Manning to the first international break in September, approx 10 games into the season. Sack Tinnion now. Means we might have someone better overseeing the transfer window. I'm pretty sure Tinnion has greater influence there than Manning. Manning may sign off the signing, but it's Tinnion and his team who put together shortlists. Then if we're struggling after 10 in 2024/25 at least there might be someone competent in place to guide the Lansdowns (if for just once they might consider taking guidance) to find a replacement manager. If Manning goes now then it's the same three-headed beast appointing and then working with his successor.
  16. Nah. When we had a thin squad he lost games and had a ppg of less than 1. Manning won't get us promoted either but over a whole season we'd stay up under either of them. It's a nice soundbite to say that we're staying up because of Pearson's 18 points, but it doesn't stack up at all imo.
  17. What did he do in the 20 matches before that? I think Semenyo always had the raw potential - the power, the hunger, the desire. I respect that other opinions on Anis are available. But I'm pretty confident in saying the following: Anis Mehmeti will never play a significant role in a team that finishes in the top 6 of the Championship. I don't think he's good enough.
  18. Nah he's had enough chances, under two managers and two systems. He's not it. Mehmeti is consistent. He consistently tries to bite off more than he can chew, do everything himself, and in doing so he consistently sabotages our few attacks.
  19. I fluked a birdie on the golf course last Sunday...but I'm still a shit golfer.
  20. Mehmeti still getting starts. It's always nice to involve the mascot I guess.
  21. But...but Steve said he did the Scott sale
  22. It's been the same ever since RTV became a thing years ago. They're very clear when you sign up - you don't get games selected for TV.
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