RedRock

Only to County level, but not pro, which is why I prefer to leave pro-game preparation to the pros themselves and trust their judgement rather than people on a forum. BTW I was merely commenting on the possible reason for poor displays being players getting up at 6:00am, not them just having an ‘off day’. Anyhow, have a good evening

Well, I say if you want to be successful in any job in my World you adjust your sleeping regime to fit with the demands of the job - whether that be on a temporary one-off basis or permanent. In the context of the 1:00pm kick off, I’m no scientist but someone with set a body rhythm and food/drink consumption cycle that aims for peak physical performance 7 hours after waking, as the case for a ‘normal’ 3:00 pm kick off, might just have an advantage over one that has just 4-5 hours to prepare as would have been the case with the Bournemouth players. Loads of professional Clubs now travel on the day far greater distances than was involved today and their travel times would more than offset the fact we had an early kick off. Anyhow, I’ll leave it to our professional coaching staff to decide. Fair dues to them, having being a fierce critic of The Academy/Youth Player Development back in the day, rivalling that of Ashton Yate, they do now appear to be delivering - early start times, or not.

Frankly - if they ‘don’t fancy it’ - they should **** off out the Club, the snowflakes. Maybe take them to a bakery at 5:00am in the morning to do a hard physical shift and then ask them whether getting up at 6:00 am to kick a football around the pitch for 90 minutes at 1:00 pm is a chore. Jesz, I hope Nige doesn’t hear about players ‘not fancying it’.

First dip into this FBC group via You Tube and thoroughly enjoyed it. Professional presentation with good, well-chaired, sensible debate. You need a blend of characters, including people who go off on one, otherwise it becomes bland. ‘Well done’ to all those involved. Subscribed, and will now become a regular viewer via You Tube.

Interesting views being expressed on Nige’s tenure with references to ‘brilliant’, ‘outstanding’, amongst others. For me, as one of his more consistent supporters (with a little wobble last Dec/Jan), he’s done very well, but it has not been an exceptional performance. I like him, like his style of management, his focus and media style and how he’s adapted to being a ‘team player’, rather than a bit of a maverick. I see merit in retaining his services, greatly so, if we are competing for the play-off places come Xmas. I can though see why the Lansdown’s have delayed any offer - what if we had lost against Cov - it was a close run thing - and that was followed by defeats against Ipswich and Cardiff, with the squad displaying the same old deficiencies? This forum would be an entirely place… with the Lansdown's no doubt being accused of backing a ‘failing’ manager. What I can’t understand is why - as Nige implies - there has been no communication with him regarding the position on his performance targets/ new contract from above. That’s not just unsettling for Nige but the entire off-field coaching/support team. If we aren’t careful, the backroom staff - with job uncertainty - will start looking elsewhere for jobs and the whole of the last 3 years hard work will start unravelling. With the interview, Nige has deliberately forced the Lansdown’s hand. Let’s hope that works - although from past outcomes I fear the worst - and there is some communication from them to him, and us, about their strategy as this uncertainty breeds discontent. We need to know why the delay and how long a decision will take on the manager’s contract, why none of the Alex money was made available to Nige and why our CEO disappeared so suddenly, how the the new structure works and is deemed an improvement on previous. Could all have quite plausible explanations…..so let’s be having you Steve.

Just stumbled on FBC-TV on You Tube. Probably late to the party here, but excellent contributors and discussion on the Pearson’ situation.

I think so too. While having every sympathy, great respect and really, really liking Nige both as a manager and a person, I’m also one of many in the past to have said we need to toughen up as a Club, on and off the field. Credit to Nige, he has done that in the squad. Is Steve doing the same off the field? Is this is part of toughening us up as a Club, part of the strategy of which tightening the purse strings is another element? Ummm.

Only City could win, move up to 8th and still depress their supporters. Not a clue what’s going on. It needs sorting quick though and I think Nige’s move yesterday could just bring this festering mess to a head. May be Steve needs a personal coach, tell him age-wise 70 is the new 50, that his Bristol Sport vision is delivering - the basketball, rugby, football all doing relatively well, the sporting complex is getting there - and he should stick around to enjoy the fruits of his labours. If he doesn’t want to stay, cause he’s bored, wants to invest (admirably) in his conservation work, or is just fed up with the hassle … and I get that …. then ‘uncouple’ in a way that doesn’t damage the Club’s or his legacy. Either way, let’s just have some communication on the current state of affairs before you lose the fan base and people waste energy on negative thinking.

Given he’s a shoe-in for Nige’s job, it’s probably Mark Robins’ note to SL which he inadvertently posted on the Cov Forum.

Affordable housing covers a multitude of housing tenures, ranging from part- ownership to pure social housing. Can remember an edict that the design of developments should be ‘tenure-blind’ but we always used to note that, once built, you could always tell the social housing from the rest by proliferation of satellite dishes.

My recollection was that the Aberfan chant was at a match pre-segregation, so 73/74’ish. I can remember at the time, even as an early teen, that it crossed a ‘red line’ by a substantial margin and to this day I still find it abhorrent that people would lower themselves to that level of depravity. Think the Cardiff fans responded by singing something about the Swiss air crash, which had many North Somerset victims. Dark days indeed.

My take; we have a couple of world class players in Bellingham and Kane. We have some decent international standard in Rice, Stones, Walker. What we need is a few to step up from the remaining six, who are just either average or variable/inconsistent. That’s possible as the likes of Rashford, Pickford have the ability to attain good international level. If, say, three or four of those others hit peak form in a tournament we have a real chance. Not getting carried away though, as the ease a very average Italian side cut through our defence/defensive midfield was alarming on occasions.

Watched up until 2-0. Put simply we were very poor and totally out-classed. Even if we are massively inferior in terms of ability, and we are, we should be able to at least match sides on fitness and fighting qualities. We don’t. Long olde season incoming. At least the Bristol Sport rugby and basketball teams won… so not a total blank this weekend.

That was dire. Fortunately, watched the Bears on the iPad at the same time which relieved the boredom. Such a contrast to the free flowing, positive Under 21s game last night. Think we coach all the talent out of our seniors. Diabolical.

One of the best displays of football I’ve witnessed. Serbia were no mugs, but we totally dismantled and dispirited them with exhilarating football. Well done England Under 21s… and to think Scott will be knocking on the door soon too.

Wallop. Have an After Eight. Tremendous performance.

..and another.

Wow! Some screamers there. 3-1 England. About 500x more entertaining then the Senior team I’d say for those not bothering to watch. Some real talent.

Ha. Remember attending many management courses in the day. Prince 2 was a stand out as being a 365 page manual that a nuclear scientist would have difficulty understanding, which, basically could have been the size of a ladybird book describing about 5 key management ‘tools’. Not sure whether it was that training or something else but a stand-out for me was the idea that everyone had to turn their toilet rolls around - which I assume is a KAIZEN-type idea. Apparently, this was a mechanism for you to think ‘outside of the box’. Told the trainer that it had taken mankind thousands of years to appreciate that paper facing outwards was the most efficient way of pulling toilet paper and he was talking out of his arse. Oddly, fresh of being bored stiff with Prince 2 for a week’s training I escaped to Guernsey for a break only to find waiting for the St Peter Port ferry I was talking to the bloke who authored the Prince manual. This was after I had told him how **** the training was!

Agree. Strange isn’t it that Scottish woman presenter (does golf) has been gently re-introduced to our screens after her comment about our Women’s football team being too white. Frightening that even today people still see colour, not talent, as a basis for selection.

Those TC goals were simply outstanding, worthy of winning any match. There is hope!

Jesz… we know they are useless and, having glanced at the original submission, that this saga would drag on way past the closed season, …but I never thought they would make such a hash of things, for so long. My guess is the planners, being bombarded with amendments since the original submission, have now decided that the current proposals depart materially from the original proposal. Therefore, they’ve required an entirely new application. So, start the clock again. If the claim was originally that the stand was the same size as the one they’ve torn down and what they’ve built is a significantly larger structure this may not be as straightforward as they hope. Another delivery of popcorn required. The gift.

Cracking game this. Quite outstanding goalkeeping at both ends. 1-1.

Do you know what? I hope Steve listened to that and thought, at last, I’ve appointed a really intelligent, savvy manager capable of realising my dream. I then hope he decides, I’ll give this Club until I’m 75 to realise my/our dream. I’ll support Nige, not by throwing stupid money at the ‘project’ but enough to get us there. No ownership/control sell-ups, no major interference, just let this guy get on with the job in a calm, measured way. Daft after spending all that money, that now, with most of the pieces of the jigsaw getting into place Steve decides he wants to walk away. A real, real shame, in part as I don’t trust either US or Arab money, but also because the story of a Bristolian made good and investing in his local club has a romance to it and needs a proper ending.

Cracking press conference … some excellent questions and superb, informative answers from Nige. We are lucky to have Nige.