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Very true Major, but I’m not so sure the club even want to sack him. Gould was very vague, but sounds like NP hasn’t been very involved in the team for a while now, so maybe they aren’t viewing him as being totally responsible for the mess we’re in now. I just got the vibe that it could be NP who may be relutant to come back, rather than the club not wanting him back All speculation of course, but just how I read it.

I’ll be honest, after listening to the Richard Gould interview tonight, I wouldn’t expect us to even approach Shakespeare, as I don’t think the Club really expect Nige to come back. I’m getting a feeling of dejavu here. Steve Coppell walked after fully realising the size of the task here and who’s to say NP hasn’’t looked at his health issues and also concluded that he isn’t going to get a tune out of this weak minded rabble. I wouldn’t blame him if he felt he didn’t need this shit at this stage of his life. Possibly the club are just hanging on while he’s on sick leave in case he changes his mind when his health improves.

Well they’ll need to be ******* amazing to be above criticism, but we can live in hope! There are certainly plenty of crap male officials around, so the bar is set pretty low I guess!!!

Yeah great …… until a female official gets some abuse from the terraces and instead of it just being a ref getting some stick, all the handwringers will be calling out fans as being sexist!

Course covid has had an effect, but covid didn’t blow £millions on pointless dire tranfers that we were glad to see walk away for free at the end of last season. Holden was awful too and definitely shouldn’t have been appointed, but look at the crap squad he was left with though. Also, he wasn’t given four and a half years to drag this club down like LJ was allowed.

You’re probably not the only one Negan, but I suspect there are far more of us who hold LJ and MA jointly responsible for leaving us right in the shit last season. They are both also responsible for pissing so much money away in the awful transfer policy and bringing in dross, that we’re now having to scratch around for free transfers, as they completely emptied the transfer kitty. As an ex-City player I don’t wish him ill, but I personally got sick of his waffle and bullshit, so I can’t honestly say I him any great success after the mess he left us in.

Top man?

I know one stat for sure ….. my arse was off my seat way longer during a match than it has been in a few years and that tells me a lot!!!

Amen to that brother! ??. Can already feel the gloom lifting after some really bleak years and total respect to you for still sticking with it over in Sweden after the crap we’ve had to endure ?

How can you not warm to a team when they give everything, like they did today. I’ve got to be honest and say I’ve been turning up out of duty for a long time now, but this season has felt different and today really felt like something could be happening. Rather than a feeling of resignation when we went behind, both the players and the fans responded and there seemed to be a real buzz around the Gate again. I left the game today feeling much happier than after a fair few wins in the past and isn’t it great to see a team who look like they genuinely care and aren’t stealing a living off us. I’m really not bothered about getting that first home win …… play like they did today and we won’t have to wait too long!

God, I’d started to forget just what a shithole that place was …… cheers for the reminder ST!!! ?

Absolutely mate. I’ve got nothing against Ipswich and actually think of them as a proper football club. That said, now they’ve got that parasitic slimeball there, I won’t be wishing them any good fortune whatsoever. I put him on a par with agents as the most destructive, self centred scum of the football world.

This is already starting to look like us all over again while Ashton was here. I know Ipswich didn’t exactly set the division slight last season, but surely they didn’t need this many new signings. MA is increasingly looking like that shopaholic who gets a buzz out of buying new things, but after a short time, they don’t feel new any more and he just wants to go out and buy more. I’m sure their fans are lapping it up, as under Mad Mick, the old owners kept the purse strings very tight. Once the reality sinks in that they are lumbered with a team of misfits, they won’t be so happy. Ok, he could surprise us and actually make more of a go of it with a strong manager in place, but after witnessing the total train wreck he turned our club into, I certainly wouldn’t put any money on it and can only see a few years of pain coming up for ITFC fans.

You do get a few sensible posts on they’ve certainly got more than their fair share of belters, doing their best to prove Gaslogic still knows no bounds! The Covid excuse is a bit of a laugh, as even the Government are happy with outdoor events going ahead now and you don’t get much more outdoor than the Minimal ‘stadium’

On the subject of piss, how long do you think it’ll be before the sags start explaining away their piss poor opening day attendance by inventing a mass boycott because of jailbird Joey? Before you know it, there’ll be a w***fest with them proclaiming what amazing fans they are to organise this mass protest so effectively!

Ok MoP, I’ll concede the Sags to be a big shit in L2 then ?

This is where the subjectivity comes in, as do you look at the average over a club’s whole history, the last few decades, or where they actually are today to decide on a club’s stature? I’ll bet there will be a fair few League 2 clubs rolling up at that hell hole of a ground next season and happily believing they’re bigger than the Sags. Maybe I’m just biased though!

I reckon you’re being a little generous there tbh MoP The big club, little club debate crops up every so often and is pretty subjective and all depends on the criteria used. To put it into context, with our pretty poor record of success over our history, but balanced by our decent crowds and excellent stadium, I’d say we we’re still pretty medium to small at Championship level. We could probably say we would be biggish at League 1 level. Given how far those deluded f*****s are behind us in all crieria you could possibly compare in that horrible excuse for a club, to say they are only one division behind us is giving them far more credit than they deserve imho.

I was actually allowing them 6!!!

Probably not, but in fairness, with a few exceptions, most of the discussions on here seem to be well reasoned, with the exception of the heat of the moment stuff on match day threads of course!!!

It certainly makes you appreciate the team who run our site. While there may be very isolated complaints about bans on here, I reckon they do an amazing job and all credit to our mods in the standards they keep.

Really point there and not really considered that. Looking at it that way, their mods have got a hell of a lot to answer for.

I know a reasonable number of sags and they’re all sound as a pound. We have a bit of good natured banter and some really enjoyable and friendly discussions about football. That’s why I can’t understand how their Sagchat Forum seems so infested with totally brain dead, deluded morons. I can’t work out whether Sagchat is just a magnet for for the most deluded, simpleton belters of their fanbase, or all sags are two faced and although seeming like normal human beings in mixed company, they just revert to gormless retards when amongst their own kind. There do seem to be a few sensible posters on there, but there appears to be a large percentage of them who would only need the fingers of one hand to count their IQ levels. The gap between the quality of discussion on their site and OTIB is probably even wider than the gap in our respective league positions. They really do come across as the village idiots of Bristol.

Fair points there G-S. I’m massively glad MA is gone, as I think he’s a con merchant, but my concern is, he doesn’t get replaced quickly enough. I wasn’t impressed with the majority of players he brought in, but at least he was available to do the job. My fear is us starting next season with a massively depleted squad, with the club’s excuse being we had nobody suitable and qualified to negotiate transfers to bring replacements in. We need to fill his post very quickly and hopefully that’s what the club are working towards, otherwise we could find ourselves in very deep shit at the start of next season.

Footballers will certainly get a reality check through this virus, but unfortunately it’ll likely be the less well paid players and smaller clubs in the lower leagues who bear the brunt of financial fall-out from all this. It’ll be interesting to see what happens if sponsors, advertisers and tv companies all want their money back, as that will directly hit the wealthiest in football, then the legal battles may become our main source of entertainment!