Bat Fastard

I hope that someone from our forum goes onto their forum and suggests that City will support their new manager in buying their best players and just leave them with the dregs. We already seem to have done this in the past and the manager would know who to buy. They might find some repose by contemplating this....

He may be a relative rookie but he will have the strength and experience of Jon Lansdown to guide him.

The two Johnson appointments were not that bad compared to some we could mention. Maybe JL is after the hat-trick and will recruit Pete Johnson?

Nigel was sacked and he was a perfectly good manager.

He recruited a good manager last time....

I imagine that they would have been given a personal training schedule and that this would have been monitored.

The top ten budget is just that - a budget. He does not say that the budget is fully utilised and would be unwise to do so because he will be involved with many negotiations in the coming months. He has to be circumspect and is right to say that it is a game of opinions. In my opinion he has sacked some very good people who have built the squad, rationalised the structure of the football club and seemed to be on the right track in most things apart from injuries. Changes of manager/head coach are not guaranteed to produce a better outcome. I believe that is was not broken and he didn't need to fix it. Maybe Nigel was a grumpy old git but so am I, and grumpy old gits may still have something to offer. Nigel has achieved a great deal and should be proud of his body of work.

You will all just have to wait and see!

We are like a bunch of kids speculating on the contents of a big parcel under the tree.

I think that your analysis is correct. The wage bill would be reduced because the two gentlemen are already employed. Fleming might be a bit reluctant because of his close ties with Nigel, but a job is a job. On the other hand, do the board and JL really think that the fans would support such an appointment? Nothing would surprise me with City, but the bean counters seem to have undue influence at the present time.

Want Nigel Pearson Will get Tinnion as head coach assisted by Curtis Fleming

The counter argument would be that the players needed a good rest after being overplayed due to the fact that our small squad was already severely impacted by injuries. The players fitness levels appear to be excellent and this must be due to Rennie and his judgement. Of course, JL would be in a better position to make a decision like this.

I reckon that Tinns is more suited to coaching than managing and Nigel was probably more at home managing. If Tinns took the job, it may be cheaper to find a DOF (or something similar) than pay for a new recruit, who would be an unknown quantity. It may be a long shot, but I wouldn't rule it out. The saving on the wages bill may make this attractive to the bean counters.

Give that the City top dogs have a reputation for confounding the fans by picking from within the club, Ladies and Gentlemen I give you our next manager Brian Tinnion! If he is on the two person interview panel he will get at least 50% of the vote, he has experience and would not rock the boat. He has been coached in interview techniques by none other than Jon Lansdown, so he has the complete skill set. Get yer bets on!!

The main criteria for recruiting a new head coach is, in my humble opinion, likely to be cost. The new chap will have to accept around a third of Nigel's salary and instead of replacing Rennie, he will have to operate by using the local A&E. Experience of being employed by "the bewildered" would also be an advantage.

Reading between the lines, JL tried to tell Nigel how to pick a squad that was depleted by 12 injuries. Nigel told him to eff off. JL said, "nobody speaks to me like that!" and then tells his minders on the board, who agree that Nigel should go. Nothing to do with the good of the football club. In view of the uproar from the fans, JL and then Tins have to go and give unconvincing performances to the fans, who are baying for blood. I suppose that the next act in this tragi-comedy will be for big daddy to come onto the scene and try to save the dignity of his weak and petulant son. In the meantime we have lost one of the best managers in our history.

I think that his dad is the "capital fellow."

Singularly unimpressive.

I thought that there was a problem with the total wage bill and that would mean that the bean counters were willing to increase this to allow for free agents. They would need a few weeks to get up to speed, by which time the regular injured players may have recovered and we would be then able to recruit permanent players in the January window. None of this seems to make much sense apart from Nigel's response.

Are we allowed to demonstrate discrimination against the Gas? Or even against Irene?

Now you’ve blown it!

I understand very well and have watched City for nearly 60 years in all divisions bar the current Premier league - so I do have a degree of perspective. Having visited over 70 away grounds I have a rough idea of where we might stand in a pecking league of clubs and it is clear to me that the club is better and stronger than it has been for very many years. This is thanks to SL and his huge investments, which will benefit the club and fans for very many decades after he is long gone. I can be grateful for that and enjoy seeing academy products populating our team and sometimes going on to clubs that are higher up than us - for good transfer fees. I liked most of our managers (NOT PULIS) and feel that Nige will take us to a higher level if he stays and continues the steady improvement that he has achieved to date. You don't need to be a "football guy" to own a club, you need to be able to hire football guys and afford to pay them. We have known good and not so good, currently it is (IMHO) pretty good. The future is bright....the future is red and white!

Contrast then and now. We have facilities that are top grade and an owner who has built the infrastructure and funded the club through thick and thin. Maybe a little perspective is called for.

Ah! We are still looking for the magical football man who is also a billionaire. We are now genuinely ready for the next step up, due to the stability and infrastructure created by SL. The man has done us proud in so many ways and we should be forever grateful. I still remember the horror of the East End urinals nearly sixty years ago. We have come a very long way since then.

No. I am saying that the club has improved in many ways under the Lansdown ownership.