ten minutes of rough

Almost 4

Mever mind chin up

Absolutely not, clearly he is an average league 1 striker.

Give it a rest.

And if you check the record book the money spent on Baldock...

Yep seems like a plan, hound another good player out of the club, and then we can reflect at leisure how much better we would if he was still here.

manMaynard

In my opinion, you just significantly improved your chances of staying up! Bloody good signing for a League One club and he'll give you 110% every week! Always seems to know the right buttons to press to wind the opposition's forwards up, and a good ability to know just how far to push the ref. Hard nut and a true gent at the same time. Great player and an Albion legend, he'll be missed by everyone at Brighton, i'm gutted to see him go, but have to wish him all the best at BCFC! Good luck for the rest of the season.

 

Thanks for that, however apart from one or two on here that can't tell what he is if he fell in their laps, this Forum can spot a good'un and about time too.

Best of luck for the rest of the season.  

A lot of premature comments here, seems a good signing on paper but to say it's brilliant already is exactly what the majority said about Fielding/most players we signed in the summer!

Give it a few games before judging someone!

Yea like well over 300 games for Brighton, a good seasoned prom, you really are Unbelievable Jeff. 

No more Mr Nice guy City then? This has got me thinking that we  might just stay up, all teams are built from the back, another brick in the wall.

All over them.

There is no h in Bantams.

Bit picky...thanks for the report SHood, well written.

OK result, keeps the unbeaten run going, and we didn't concede late on...positives.

Same as most threads TBH.

 

Opposing views keeps a forum ticking over, but there are some who just snipe and moan. The Botswana thread is another example of negative moaning for the sake of it. Oh, sorry, its opinions not relentless moaning, sniping and whinging.....

STOP MOANING...........

Well at least he will be on the same team.

If we play this at Wolves we will get destroyed.

Destroyed? I don't think so, not many is any teams will destroy us, we have tightened up at the back a lot. 

Just need to put away the chances and we can beat most in League 1, I should bl00dy hope so anyway.

All Walsall.

Really?

There's a surprise

AT LAST!!!

Best Christmas Pressie

I just knew we would concede, but could have been worse I suppose.

Stoppage for what?

Waiting for them to score.

Yes ,I was there , and we made errors. The same errors that were made under O'Driscoll.

 

It's clear that you were not.

A bit harsh Glyn, hasn't he and H suffered enough?

Personally if I lived in the Dugout I think I might give that a miss   

A couple of people have said that the players looked as if they didn't know what they were doing today. If that's so, it's hardly surprising. After four months of coaching in one style of football, which was beginning to show results, they're confronted with a new manager with an exactly opposite style. I'd be confused, too.

Let me be clear about this - it isn't about SOD v SC. Exact the same criticism would be valid if SC had been replaced by SOD in the same circumstances.

Spelling.

Agree 100% crazy sacking SOD when they did, but of course it was decided he was a gonner before Orient, SC was already lined up, what if we had beat the O's well? There was no thought about the way the squad should be playing at all by the Board, hardly surprising as the 'kid' is clueless about all things football. I thought from all the claptrap regarding 5 pillars blah blah we  or they had a plan, and were going to stick with it.

That was the Mantra that was chanted by Jon L at every oppurtunity.

That sacking will go down in the club history as the biggest mistake ever made, I have no faith whatsoever in Jon Lansdown in his ability to manage this football club.

I disagree completely. We weren't gelling, we were giving away soft goals, passing it round at the back and getting no where, picking up the odd point and in big trouble. As much as I wanted odriscoll to do well, it wasn't happening. It really irritates me, at tamworth last week the bloke behind me said to his mate 'I hope you brought your neck brace', SOD's team was NOT playing football, was NOT picking up results and was in the relegation zone. We played long today but at least at the end of the game we were going for it.

The points we were picking up from his last six games were telling a different story.The performance against Orient was proof of that and we had two league wins and two draws.

So there were good signs, all to be expected really as SOD was getting to grips with his philosophy, but the Board had a trigger finger, which as for the timing was a huge mistake.  

But the most frustrating thing in all this we have had too many changes of coaches / managers, and that will be our downfall, mark my words.. 

Do you actually know what hypocrisy means?

I've finally got you to admit that the team was improving under O'Driscoll, which I suppose is progress.

It was improving, I was so disappointed  when the Board lost their bottle, but we are where we are, no good looking back, but we were gelling.

What is truly disappointing and why my initial feelings when Cotterill was appointed have been reinforced is that WE ALL KNEW THAT. After 10 days working with the team couldn't he have worked it out? Furthermore the ideas he had last week with the diamond, Elliot mounting guard over the back 4, Jet ready to pounce behind the front 2, Ryan as target man knocking balls down for Wagstaff & JET, good wing work from Cunningham; all that worked well. I thought I had underestimated the man. Surely with the addition of Reid, things could only get better. How wrong can one be. Hence the despair!

Perhaps , and again the fear factor crept in, we have to stop worrying about these teams, and start getting some belief in what we can do, this is the trick in management, something that good managers do, hope SC is up to it. 

However that formation we played last week was probably not the best test for the system with it being Tamworth, but the idea that Elliot does what he does in breaking up play and protecting the back four is so important, it never looks nice on the eye and he gets stick on here for doing it. 

Certainly we cannot play pretty tippy tap football, what we do need is a big target man up front, the Gary way, and in the window he needs to get him.

We have a pretty good youth squad, I am still hopeful.

Reckon we need to start blooding more of the kids, get rid of the couldn't give a toss attitude and put some real heart in the squad, OK we probably will go down, but it will pay off in the long run, otherwise we will lose them anyway, we have done it before in the lower /lower leagues, and under Cotterill this might be the answer, after all he has a 3.5 year deal. 

Let it go mate.. He's like Maggie.. (he'll like that analogy!!! ) ... he's NOT for turnin' !

 At last a correct Maggie quote 

Can't remember that quote. I can remember David Steele saying.. 'go back to your constituencies and prepare for govt' .. mind you that was the last thing in the world that was likely to happen unlike our chances of playing DIVISION 4 football next season.

Your right it was David Steele, is he still alive? If so I like his confidence, get him in.