Red-Robbo

This is the page: https://www.bristol.gov.uk/streets-travel/bristol-caz/exemptions

Is it my memory, or weren't Elokobi, Velicka and Vokes all injured during their first game with us, and in consecutive seasons? Each season we had an exciting, rated loan. Each season they were crocked in minutes. Elokobu's was the most memorable, but wasn't it either Vokes or Velicka who departed after about 10 minutes on the pitch?

That's Nazareth, in Hebrew. Just looked them up. Newly promoted to the top tier. Play in a stadium with a maximum capacity of 5K.

Get well soon, gaffer. Us fans very much look forward to your return, but take the time you need to get properly fit. Don't rush back.

We lost two of our first 6 games, we've lost 5 of our last 6 games. There's the difference. For me - I can't attend away games, unfortunately - our best performance came v Fulham in late September. Our more recent games are a million miles away from that standard. We have injuries to deal with now, but we had injuries to contend with then.

I've walked across it numerous times at all times of the night. Not sure I'd recommend a female did the same, but that applies anywhere in the city centre, sadly.

I'm pretty sure the uncertainty is a factor in why they've been performing so badly for a while.

Hmm, his only game in charge of a first team as a solo caretaker manager seems to have been in 2012 when he was at Palace. They won, but considering they were already third at the time in the Championship, the challenges might be slightly less than those posed by Bristol City's players.

I've noticed the same. He's a 45 minute player.

It isn't just "if Nigel doesn't return", it's now. Long Covid is just that. Long. It can take months to get back to full fitness. I really pray that NP isn't one of those poor souls that seem never to regain fitness. You might think the combination of Curtis Fleming and Alex Ball is an acceptable interim replacement, but I - and many others - do not. Moreover the results are tending to suggest not. I'd hope that Gould recognises this and is looking at all possible options - from extra coaching help to temporary managers to sounding out possible permanent replacements. As you say, this is what a competent CEO would do. However since when has Bristol City been run competently? We seem to stagger from one illogical decision to the next and as for long-term planning, we don't take decisions, decisions overtake us. So, if you wonder why so many people are doubting that anything sensible is being done, it's partly that history of incompetence and partly that nothing appears to have been done to prepare BCFC for where we are now. Despite months of warning bells sounding. Nigel hasn't just developed Long Covid last weekend. It's been ongoing - as has the team's underperformance. IF the club are and have been making all kinds of preparations then Richard Gould is only guilty of giving an unclear, hesitant and obfuscating interview. And that's a different sort of incompetence.

That programme on the Bristol Blitz that was broadcast last year was great. How the gutters of the old city ran with the molten lead from the roof of St Peter's. And how close we came to losing St Mary Redcliffe's as well!

'.... Russell Osman...

It has been going on for months though. This is not something which has suddenly developed. It requires making some tough decisions. Not taking them could cost us our Championship status.

If he has then SAY he has. As I say, we don't need to be privy to everything, but we - the paying punters - have been with the club far longer than he has. Our families have often been for many decades upon decades. It's OUR club, not Lansdown's or the club executives. They are its temporary custodians. We ask them to just give us a clue that you have some ideas on what to do, rather than just hope NP gets well very soon and is back to 100% health. I'd say that you are the naïve one in thinking that this club - the club that took weeks to decide to appoint Dean Holden - has done any planning at all before this point. I'll remind you, this situation has been going on for months. The decline in the team's effectiveness has been going on for months as well. If they have plans, Gould should have said they have, because this thread and many others are testimony to the fact that all his interviews have done are sow confusion about the future, create doubt, anger fans and look like things are simply drifting out of control at Ashton Gate.

You sure he wasn't a coach driver, rather than a coach, @2015 ?

I expect them to spell out that they HAVE a plan. Not sort of vaguely say "Nigel is still here. We don't know when he'll be back." Just to remind you, this hasn't suddenly happened. Pearson did not suddenly fall ill before the Coventry match. Reports say he hasn't been well for months and has already had to take time off this season. They have had a while to mull over options and though - of course- I don't expect them to reveal details of contracts and negotiations, I do expect them to have done something other than wring their hands. There was no indication from that interview that they have done anything.

I thought they must have re-employed Alan Dicks and Stephen Kew to negotiate the contracts.

Journalists need to keep their powder dry until they are 100% sure of the facts, so he did the right thing. It may be that the club DID offer Pearson the option of walking away due to ill health and he replied words to the effect of "No, I'll be OK, just give me a little time". There is usually a peppercorn of truth in every rumour, and this may have been why- earlier in the day - someone from the club made the assumption that Nige would be going.

The basic truths being: the team is in turmoil, the manager is ill and we don't know when he's coming back and we have no plan other than to expose a recently appointed assistant by putting him in sole charge of the situation.

I certainly wasn't against getting rid of Simpson and Dowding. Given how unorganised the team are; How poorly they deal with the basics, it looked like their influence was taking us backwards rather than forwards. But at the same time, I felt they needed replacing with better coaches. We now face a situation where Fleming - a man who as far as I'm aware has never had sole responsibility for a first team - is on his todd, with just an U23 coach, who has other responsibilities, to help. Given that Pearson has been reportedly struggling with his health for weeks, that shows a complete lack of foresight by the club executive.

Well, he said they hadn't spoken to him. That doesn't mean they are not interested in it or never will. However, I expect no contingency planning has been done as they literally don't appear to know what to do other than cross their fingers and hope for the best. I presume they haven't been watching the club's on field performances either...

If Pearson is unwell, he has to step totally away. Concentrate on his recovery. Whoever is at the helm during this period needs to have the freedom to operate on his own terms. Cotterell's assistant did that at Shrewsbury and was actually pretty successful. SC gradually eased his way back in, rather than returned abruptly (On another point: given that Pearson is said not to have felt well for weeks, how daft was the decision to get rid of the other coaches and not replace them?)

So, according to that piece, Pearson has been feeling ill for most of the season and certainly for the last 8 matches, but no one from the club hierarchy wants to make a "snap decision" about what to do about it. I think we can remove the word "snap" from that sentence! No one wants to make a decision.

Good idea. ?

Ian Flemming. He has a licence to thrill.