Mendip City

Thanks for the heads-up. Brilliantly funny even if a little “of its time”. 

14 minutes ago, Jeez said:

 

If you’re a player like Zak - you have to be thinking it’s either time for a proper contract from City or use his best season as a stepping stone to build his career elsewhere.

It wasn’t so long ago that he wasn’t fancied and played so many games due to injuries & to his credit he really, really kicked on.

I get Pearson saying they need to prove more than one season, but football moves so quickly these days & a player like Zak is taking a risk staying on current contact if say his game time gets reduced due to new signings etc.

Agree. I really home I’m wrong but Rob Dickie looks like a potential replacement. That would really bother me, selling a younger player who’s had his best ever season and bringing in an older player who has just had his worst. 

2 hours ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

Could be worse, Lincoln have got kit by 'Oxen' for next year, the modern day equivalent of TFG?



Also saw Port Vale are decked out in Puma next year, that shirt is a beauty

Oxen are pretty big in rugby league - they make England’s kit.  Whether they are better than a Gaelic football specialist or not I don’t know! 
 

Port Vale kit is lush! 

2 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Port Vale kit is very nice.

Puma do a lot of the Bundesliga kits and they are nice too.

Absolutely on the Port Vale lit. Imagine that with red and black rather than yellow and black hoops as our change kit!

I guess it wouldn’t fit our strange obsession with “unique” kits that are usually repeats of kits we’ve worn before… hardly unique. 

Bonkers IMO. 

I saw the other day he was linked with the Swansea job. 

I get that people don’t like the Premier League line. Football didn’t start then. 
 

Maybe the better way to do it is “teams not to have played in the top flight since we last did”. 
 

The way the list gets even more depressing as you can knock off…. Luton (by either measure), Millwall, Oxford (yes Oxford), Wimbledon/MK Dons (take your pick). 

We’re in an “elite” group of 40 pretty small clubs. 

3 hours ago, View from the Dolman said:

Only just noticed the Bristol Sport branded backpack in the picture. Clearly his delivery of Nike gear from the FA wasn't quite extensive enough. 

Supply issues no doubt!    
I’m sure England will soon be turning out in O’Neills!!!

36 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

And he`ll have a few nice words for our Geoff on his retirement as well no doubt.

He will I’m sure, whilst also thinking “I’m glad I won’t get any proper questioning now for a while”! That’s going to be the biggest loss when Geoff goes - straight questions. 

4 hours ago, elhombrecito said:

What's the badge made of?

Dunno but it looks, to me, to have been ironed on at a wonky angle.  

I didn’t look at it in that way Dave. More simply! 
I just looked at our position now (good, bad and indifferent form to date), points and run-in.
I have a feeling we’ll land in 17th. I think there’s a strong possibility we’ll lose our remaining games (every opponent has far more riding on it). 
So my only point is, in the final analysis, we won’t be far forward from last season and I’d temper expectations for next season. I still think we’ll be mid/lower-mid table and we’ll need to continue to be patient…. that might be a challenge as we’ve had a few similar feeling seasons now - no promotion push and no real relegation battle. Personally, I think decent progress has been made but tangible progress (a promotion push) is still a way off. 

57 minutes ago, frenchred said:

Since the man city game we have played 10 games and got 9 points from a possible 30! That is relegation form no doubt yet you appear happy and complain only at the guys doing the pod?

Dubious selection and awful substitutions have contributed to this and yet you complain about the guys doing the pod?

What about the players, management and coaching staff who appear not to know how to arrest this slide in results?

We.dont need a graph to try and tell us all is well, things need and should change quickly 

Some of the points raised in the pod are valid some are not, it's people's opinion not everyone is happy when our results are this alarming and nor should they be!

 

Agree with this and it’s all about opinions. Imagine how “interesting” it would be if everyone agreed with everything that’s said! 
 

For what it’s worth, I think you and the podcast are correct to flag the poor form since the Man City game. I look at the table and games coming up and have a funny feeling we’ll finish 17th…. Progress… a little but not a lot is my current thought. 

Just now, Davefevs said:

Need Preston to get an equaliser v Swansea now to get 13th back in sight too!

Very optimistic! 
I was just looking at the table and our upcoming game and thinking 17th (again)  was a distinct possibility! 

2 hours ago, Swede said:

Thank you Mr Ashton

Sadly I don’t remember many people complaining at the time. Personally I wouldn’t have signed any of those 3 Chelsea players… Chelsea did well out of us! 

If we could add his transfer fee, signing on fee, agents fees, wages etc together…. I’m pretty sure his cost per game would be eye-watering and not represent anything like value for money. He’ll be gone in the summer. 

12 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

Zip in the south of England either on this or the original fourteen; I'm not counting the two in London.

I'm not claiming that there is any bias as the biggest capacity is Southampton's ground with 32k which isn't big enough for this.

Though it does serve to highlight that there is an opening for any non-London club in the south which is brave enough to take it.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_football_stadiums_by_capacity

Sadly I think with Cardiff just over the bridge we’d be unlikely to ever get a sniff… annoyingly. 

24 minutes ago, frenchred said:

I hope they get relegated.

No matter what you think of ince (and I don't think a lot of him) a club that is completely deluded and run like a circus behind the scene wait until they are deducted 6;points and sack the manager. Hardly his fault that the 6;points hopefully cost them relegation, probably down to the clowns who sacked him 

Good riddance to the plastic club

 

 

Crazy isn’t it, add on their point deduction and they are safe… surely that’s the most any Reading fan would have accepted at the start of the season. Not my favourite character in football but to my mind Ince has done a decent job at Reading, in stupid circumstances. 

1 hour ago, 1960maaan said:

I'm assuming that this is done to give more time for talks, they must have a decent offer in mind for someone that has been pretty much ever present. 
Don't want another one walking away for free.

You’d think agreeing a long term deal would be straightforward… the reality is that if we can’t agree a longer deal over the summer then they’ll be looking to off load him - as he’s only got a year left.  That would be a massive shame. 
Also his form won’t have gone unnoticed by bigger Championship clubs…

2 hours ago, phantom said:

Stockport are a good example recently of how fortunes can change.

We were playing them in the league not that long ago, they had a torrid run of seasons and got relegated from the National League and also into the National League North.

They eventually got promoted out of both of those leagues and are now in the play offs in League 2 

Luton are an even better example. Dropped out of the league, promoted back around the time we got promoted to this division. They’ve now gone past us, knocking on the door of the play-offs, new stadium on the way. I think their ride would have been much more fun to watch than ours… in fact in our 40+ years outside the top flight they’ve played in all of the top 5 divisions and won the League Cup. 
So long as the club doesn’t go out of business what is wrong with having a go and having plenty of ups and downs along the way. Many of us will rock up regardless and enjoy it. 
If you look at the middle chunk of the championship table it’s depressing…. Tons of us have been stuck there for years, where’s the fun/entertainment in that? 

8 hours ago, Wanderingred said:

I guess we could use Portsmouth as an example… would you swap our recent history with them? Premier League, FA cup winners, good run in Europe but then league 2 and very nearly bankruptcy. For me it’s all about the rollercoaster ride of supporting a club so I would probably swap that for our last decade or so as a mediocre championship club. I can see why some wouldn’t though.

As for Yeovil? I don’t really have any sympathy for them to be honest. They were spoiled rotten for years with all those promotions and cup runs. Now they’re experiencing the coming around part. I believe they are about to be taken over, so I’m sure they can look forward to better times.

I agree with the Pompey example…. there’s no rollercoaster here. It’s pretty much 40 years of competing at the second or third level and hard to see that changing any time soon. 

1 hour ago, citywest30 said:

A lot of comments on here talking about the quality before it's even been seen first-hand. One of the comments was about how the data vests could be seen through the yellow shirts but here is a picture of Joe Low playing for Wales in his white Adidas kit with his data vest clearly visible through it. So are Adidas also rubbish quality?

Everyone knows not to wear a black bra with a white top. 

41 minutes ago, Midred said:

Why is the badge just black and white now? Does it make them cheaper to make?

I’d imagine so.  Everything about this looks and seems cheap and nasty to me. 

2 hours ago, iamalagerdrinker said:

NP’s looks polo top looks better. I hope the quality is there with all the leisurewear 

It still just looks like it’s been ironed into a generic template. 

54 minutes ago, BasSavage88 said:

They don't think it's better it'll be a money decision. 

I’m sure it is but surely a globally recognised brand with clobber that looks good will sell more and make more money than a minor brand offering poor quality gear??

1 hour ago, Mr X said:

How could the club think this is better than Hummel? The club should have worked with Hummel to sort out the distribution issues like every other club in England has done instead of end up with a kit supplier that wouldn't look out of place in the Downs League.   

Bit harsh on the Downs League!!!

18 minutes ago, Not Banksy said:

New academy graduates photos showing the quality of the new training gear also… Iron on your own badge I see.. guessing that square has been left by the printing

Shocking!