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Top half is not good enough remember. We need to be in “promotion” positions for set-pieces. The squad is good enough.

Yeah, I know. Was attempting irony based on the scattergun mentality of our board. Must be decent at what he does so good luck to him.

As the dust settles on a bizarre 10 days or so, and as we await the arrival of our new Head Coach, I have read that Pat Mountain will be retained in the new regime. Mountain has now survived the Johnson (Lee), Holden, and Pearson eras. With the brutal chop/change mentality of the board around personnel and strategy, and the “wheel of fortune” approach to culture and “identity”, does this mean: a) Pat is the worlds best goalkeeping coach b) The role of goalkeeping coach is not one that can be failed at c) Pat Mountain is running the club hidden in plain sight? Food for thought surely.

Wont be on here for a while or around the club. Stockholm Syndrome with these Lansdown clowns and this is the final straw. Finest manager with the most integrity this club has had since Terry Cooper. **** this lot. Too much for this club. Cheers Nige, and all the best.

Very poor this. Unprofessional is kind. Defensive bordering on antagonistic is closer. Something untoward is afoot methinks.

Time for change. There is Stockholm Syndrome with the Lansdowns. We could and should thrive without them and thats nothing to be frightened of. Break it to make it. Nigel Pearson is the best manager (comparably) since Terry Cooper that this club has had and should be offered the chance to grow what he has seeded. Good on him for speaking out. I will always love this club but if he leaves under these circumstances then I’ll take a watching, but distant brief for a bit.

Some strange opinions on this thread. Wells has been a model professional through his time here, has been part of our journey in consolidating, transitioning and rejuvenating, is clearly popular with a manager who has been tasked with realigning the whole culture of the club, and is very popular and name-checked regularly by many of our promising young players not least Tommy Conway. Wells has also played unselfishly, created numerous opportunities for others and has chipped in with a goal ratio akin to most of his career whilst leading our high-press. He has also taken a paycut to remain here, when he had other options and shown a loyalty to our football club that many others (who are often unbelievably hero-worshipped here) have not. Pretty unrounded and naive view that he has “not delivered the goods” when you consider the whole context, but not an unsurprising one unfortunately.

I’d second this (my lifetime). Unreal season and side and the front 4 (which it was at times when we were in full flow), of Gavin, Smith, and the T-men was as special. Gavin and Taylor especially would have been in high demand for high money if it was now.

You are without doubt, in a very competitive field, the worst poster on here. By far.

Controversial, no. Awful take, yes

Interesting the Mehmeti thing. Not the first time we have managed to make a maverick look ordinary after a few weeks at our place.

This is not to be underestimated and a sign of a club in dangerous stagnation. Very poor performance yes, but having the hope drained out, and the feel of “here we go again” is a worrying one. Said it for a while, we are the best club ever apart from being very good at football.

Yeah exactly. Spot on post. Literally begged to come to us a couple of times and was knocked backed. Now he is the “next newest oldest thing”, Steve loves him. Took 7 weeks to decide Dean Holden was better than Mark Robins but we actually wanted him all along.

Might be the “Cotts moment” today. The not so quiet protest in the friendly after promotion. ”Look at what I have now back me”. We all know how that turned out. If I was Pearson I would feel the same. Like fixing a blokes house over two years that he had burned down himself then asking for a take-away as a thanks and being told to make do with a packet of crisps.

I am at the point where I think the regime view Championship stability and flogging young talent off is success. Relegation to League One is the lesser of two evils. Promotion is borderline unthinkable as then what?

Not sure Mark Robins fits the bill anymore. Anyone with any “real football world” exposure comes into our club and is blown away by us. Look at Pearson. Probably thought he had seen it all but here we we again! Its why we took LJ and Holden.

This. It blows my mind. I am starting to believe we are being held back and do not want to push on. I am getting old and cynical but the rhetoric out of the club is all around the youngsters and how great our production line is. Yeboah the latest all over the socials, hype and hype and money follows. Our lot largely are not good enough for a while. Pring took a while, O’Leary, Vyner is mid 20’s. The reality is clubs buy to get out of this league. Luton being an exception to the rule which SL is now using as a new beacon of success which is frankly absurd. If anything he should see their promotion as an indication of embarrassment in his failure to get us there.

2+2+2=6 if you throw a greasy CEO in there

Agreed. He has gone from full of beans to having the look he had when he first walked in to this shambles.

So…. The Starboy has left as was long and predictably going to happen, and, I might have dreamt it, but didn’t we have a plan with him and without him? I appreciate that TC got injured at an awful time but looking at that starting side today, I can see no centre-forwards, and no central attacking midfield players, and we are all wondering how we got turned over on our own patch without a whimper at goal. I am incredibly disappointed that we have not already replaced AS with a like for like (or as close as possible) plus a striker. Nahki is 32 and if he was left out for tactical reasons today then it is one of the only times I have genuinely questioned NP and his judgment. That side picked today looked stodgy yet toothless. The carefree Mehmeti we signed has become a nervous shadow of the Wycombe version and Sykes (who was a genuinely top performer last year) cannot start. Unpopular maybe, but Sam Bell does not justify a starting place let alone leading the line for a club with any ambitions in this league, and Cornick is miles off. Lansdown’s odd meanderings around which club model he wants us to follow is bemusing and all of a sudden we are from promise to no-mans land again in a fortnight. I think Pearson - after sorting 80% of our mess out, cannot figure the rest and is still stung from the AS sale - I think he thought he would stay. If he is not backed now then this could get worse quickly. Not meaning to be alarmist but we just cannot seem to get a foothold can we?

Not really sure what we expected here. Some good summer business will make us hard to break down but as far as I can tell, playing without any recognised or specialist attacking midfield players or centre forwards in a team is likely to result in very few goals. Who knew.

He is hacked off no doubt, but a fair slice of that will be to send a message around replacements to the board. Canny one is Nige.

Yeah get that. For me its dull worrying about a competition we are not going to win that costs us league points but I guess Im unfashionable and find being mid-bottom half of this league dull.

Get Pring training hard as a left sided centre-half asap. Has all the attributes. Roberts and Mehmeti are a very exciting proposition down that side.

Quite a lot of concern about one we are losing rather than the ones we have got. Jason Knight is an excellent signing.