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James worth a place in the top 3 too. Also a Mr Consistency with his ability to help control the midfield . We’re so much worse without his calm authority. really really hope he gets that extension.

Yep, good to have cause for optimism with improved performances and good use of subs and tactics last 2 games. Perhaps a ray of light for manning at least. Fundamental issue is the total lack of experience, contacts, vision and know how in those above Manning. No football club leadership nouse whatsoever with JL, BT and GM, which means that we’re still likely to suffer with poor decisions and strategy- likely this will impact recruitment , contract extensions and even minor annoyances like communications, the splat robin and kit debacles . Gonna be stuck with this in the short and longer term. Can’t see how this will change either.

This is the biggest issue Spike. All these incompetent individuals taking the club in the wrong direction. We went from Gould and Alexander - proven execs to this over promoted lot. All a cozy club probably on big salaries doing jobs they have no experience or actual skills in. So annoying!! Probably only relegation would result in a clear out of these hapless execs and no one wants that so we’re stuck with them!

It’s the ineptitude of our board that’s the most desperate aspect of the club. Woefully inadequate and wholly inexperienced people JL, Marshall, BT, Knights. It’s a joke . To entrust such unproven, incompetent people to lead any business is asking for failure . Feels like there is nothing we can do about it, but I’d be all for loud vocal protests against the board. They need to feel the heat and the feelings of fans. Lansdown Snr has to be compelled to act somehow. It’s our club too. As for Manning, clearly out of his depth with the team regressing but not our biggest problem imo.

Wasn’t it just . My point was u do see a lot of our younger fans joining in so fair play to em. Not to everyone’s taste then. enjoy the game u reds.

Bet your kids like it tho !

Bounce around has been going for nearly 20 years so a whole generation of young uns knows it, and it has history of sorts. At least it generates atmosphere- West Ham and Plymouth good recent home examples . Dont mind it myself , better than some generic dirge that all other teams sing like Allez allez allez .

Surely it wouldn’t be a contentious point that both tinnion and Nige had a big part to play in the development of Semenyo and Scott from raw youths into elite level footballers? Very few discovered/signed talent achieves potential in this way, so huge credit to all academy and first team staff in this (as well as the lads themselves obvs) Back to topic, I quite liked Timnions interview . Grounds for cautious optimism. If the players are enjoying the coaching then it’s possible LM could build on the Nige foundations … hope, of course, can be a dangerous thing…we’ll soon find out .

It’s good he’s not been called up. Can get on with training with the new coaches and be focussing on our defensive shape and play. Needs some work in his decision making and distribution - the one or two really dodgy passes out per game will cost us sooner rather than later!!!

Agreed. Would be a positive outcome to have sone continuity of approach, thanks to the culture and standards developed by Nige but also involving tins (in terms of an academy pathway and integration) and others such as RG, the senior players and the coaching staff. A lot of mentions of that Swansea game getting on for 20 years ago, which really isn’t relevant to Tins current role or our position. Some of the posts do have a touch of a mob witch hunt about them imo, like a Monty python sketch- burn ‘im!!!! Folks digging into his LinkedIn profile and that. one of the genuine success of the club in recent times is the Academy and Tins, to his credit, has played a big part in this- of course not as big a part of Nige who actually gave so many of our talented youngsters an opportunity and a first team environment in which to flourish! Also, our appalling injury crisis does merit deep scrutiny - it’s far worse than other teams, so it’s right that this is analysed in depth. Needs some critical and measured analysis and it’s not wrong to raise it imo. The Rennie replacement is obviously also a crucial hire. Can we get that right?!

By most accounts Nige was leaving training to his coaches, so whilst the players will be impacted by the ridiculous sacking, during the week at the training ground, there might not be too much that’s different- the transition to just Curtis might not have that much of an impact compared to when the new head coach comes in. Lets hope he gets them all really fired up and focussed on getting a big 3 points on Saturday. We need an energetic start and performance from whoever we have left that’s fit!!! The senior players have a role too- the group we have were lauded by Nige many times for setting high standards - I trust them to carry this on. He certainly did.

When was it free to watch city? I missed that! I guess the biggest issue is, no one wants to buy us, so can he sell? Posted elsewhere that it would help find investors if we didn’t have such a random organisational structure and various other underperforming sports teams all tied up in the BS BS. Let’s hope it can be disentangled somehow.

Sums it up perfectly. For balance, he was on a hiding to nothing. We’re angry and p’d off so it would have needed to be some statement to provide any positives. However, JL is patently not capable and does not have the leadership, communication, experience or any of the skills required to be in an executive position. His old man would never have put him in charge of his main stockbroker business. a statement like that is as much as he is capable of.

Nathan jones Ffs. Things couldn’t get any worse. Please let this not be a serious rumour.

Totally agree with this . And he’s surrounded himself with sycophants. Seems the super rich can’t bare to have anyone challenge them. Now we have no CEO , no manager - where’s the football leadership? Who is setting the strategy and standards? How we identifying players for the transfer window . This won’t change with a new head coach either . Be the same ol thing . I used to be glad we had a local business owner, but agree with other posters in that SL has taken us for a ride on his own narcissistic journey ; We don’t own our stadium and have to share it with a rugby team- this provides no benefit for BCFC We have a bunch of associated sporting teams in a convoluted ownership structure- this provides no benefit for BCFC The same ownership have a grand sporting quarter planned and own a load of land in ashton vale - this provides no benefit to BCFC For balance the training centre has been a great benefit , but even there we’ve seen no sign of the Semenyo and Scott money to help the team. And now they’ve got rid of the people that were actually installing standards and cohesion into the team, having cut huge costs. Will happily voice my displeasure on Saturday but we’re stuck with SL and his incompetent son until they decide to go. Guess all we can do is loudly make our feelings known and hope they do one .