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25 minutes ago, luke_bristol said:

I really worry about next season. Imagine this side without Scott, Semenyo, etc

We wouldn't have this side without Scott, Semenyo etc.

1 minute ago, Better Red said:

Unless we do something in January we are a bottom 6/8 team.

Easier said than done with no money.

We never sorted the problems of last year so why will we improve.

Stand still and you go backwards.

We don’t have a regular RB

We have a 5ft LB 

Centre Half  is a mess - Atkinson and Vyner are at best squad players. Kalas and Klose always injured. Naismith has more mistakes in him every 15 mins.

Midfield at least 1 very good regular starter short.

Thats what I thought at the start of the season and still fill the same.

We were last year.

Other teams have strengthen we pretty much did nothing.

We just go to hope there are 3 worst than us.

we got to hope 3 of the list below have bad seasons.

Really we need a good points return from below and if we do we should be ok - 25 points ish.

Hull, Huddersfield, Wigan, Rotherham, Coventry and maybe Blackpool 

I am not necessarily saying that we will improve this season. I am saying that we will improve from the last five (or even two) games.

The same squad of players that got us up to third have now got us to eighteenth. 

They still got us to third.

Just now, OddBallJim said:

It’s the hope that kills you

I, like many, thought as we began to climb the table that we had turned a corner and this could be a really promising season. Particularly with the emergence of Conway to our forward firepower.

However, after many many years of supporting city I really should have seen this stop-start pattern of form coming!

 

Exactly.

We have stopped. We will start again.

(and stop and start again).

13 hours ago, Engvall’s Splinter said:

Fair point. Bring back Fielding. 
 

In fact, bring back Welch. 

Ronnie Sinclair... now you're talking.

2 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

We absolutely were promotion contenders whilst in 3rd place - what else were we, or anyone else in that position. 

Then, a woeful return of just 1 point from the last 5 games have plemeted us down the table. 

5 games ago I'd have said we had no concerns about us being in any sort of relegation scrap, if form tailed off - however, the absolute train wreck of our form since then - losing everything that was good about our play, but being consistently bad at the back - throws that complacency straight back in my face & if we don't get back to some of our better play again, then we will very much be facing a struggle. 

To just assume we will finish mid table is being as complacent as I was. 

What looked to be a very good first 10 games in terms of style & effectiveness, has fallen right off a very sheer cliff now and if we don't sort it out, then we will soon be scrapping to get out of the bottom 3 & likely to be far weaker after then January transfer window, when some of our better players will likely look to jump ship. 

Such a disappointment, from all the early season promise & optimism.

I don't 'assume' that we will finish mid table, I just think it likely, which is why I used the word 'likely'.

If we continue our form over the last five games until the end of the season then we will be bottom of the table.

We won't. We have more about us than that. If we didn't, we would be bottom already.

3 hours ago, Portland Bill said:

I would rather watch good entertaining football. I’ve never been interested in who the opposition are, why should I ?. I’m only interested in watching my team. 
Perhaps the most enjoyable time for me watching City was in division 4, great away trips to small grounds etc.

Me personally, I’ve got zero interest in us getting in the Premier league, I’ve no desire to watch City have a successful season by not being relegated, because that’s the only thing that would possibly happen if we went up.

That and giving us a financial cushion to be competitive for years to come.

Just now, RedorDead BCFC said:

Pring off the naughty step then. 

Probably not enough room on it right now.

Done.

2 minutes ago, One Team said:

What this forum really, really, badly needed was another thread about Danny Wilson. 

Does anybody know how old Robbored is btw?

Just wondering how long this is likely to go on...

1 hour ago, bcfc01 said:

Linington referee..

He lets a lot go in a match and rarely awards penalties.

Should be a very close game, but I think they'll out-muscle our back three (well, at least two of the 3) and get the 3 points.

 

Can only be good for us then...

4 minutes ago, chinapig said:

I wouldn't have thought it was possible for you to get more irrational but here you are claiming that managers who won promotion were failures because they were sacked at a later point. By that logic Alan Dicks was a failure.

It's never too late to learn critical thinking. This correspondence is now closed.

Oh...

Don't close it... let's have fun.

It's not so much 'feeding' as 'exposing'.

Good on him. Take the money.

Hope he also has a clause stating that he can get rid of the 75% of the summer signings that he probably didn't want.

1 minute ago, Calculus said:

Retired as in nobody would offer him a job, unlike GJ. Anyhow, he seems to have time to 'write' a book ignoring any of his many shortcomings. Not a proper author.

I know that bookshops are becoming a thing of the past, but it has long boiled my piss that 'proper authors' can't get shelf space due to 'Celebrity ****' autobiographies.

45 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Nige is a proper manager - remind me where GJ is managing these days…………..

At a higher level than Wilson.

Just now, Robbored said:

I don’t do Twitter. 

You twitter quite a lot in my opinion.

4 hours ago, Tafkarmlf said:

Skill wise

Goodridge

Jacki

Trundle

Noble 

All outrageously good. 

 

Finishers 

David Seal - I still don't know how he didn't push on. Most natural goalscorer I've ever seen 

Andy Cole 

Shaun Goater. 

Soren Andersen

Lita

Maynard 

 

There's loads there too. Good idea for threads. 

Bob Taylor the absolute God of finishing for me. Not sure if he was before your time. 

Totally agree about David Seal though. Absolutely outrageous goals!

This is the first time that I have thought that Dixie Dean's record of 60 goals in a season could be under threat since Steve Bull.

Just now, Steve Watts said:

That would've been a bold and arguably foolish strategy to adopt a mere 9 years after almost ceasing to exist. 

No chance that he wasn't going to get a big move.

Foolish is what happened.

On 04/10/2022 at 23:47, REDOXO said:

The bloke has several promotion medals and a premier league winners medal. Class act. Completely agree with you. He needs a song. Hopefully @Robboredcan come up with something 

No thanks. 

He'll shoehorn Danny ****ing Wilson into it somewhere.

47 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I understand that had we insisted on a sell-on the fee would’ve been considerably less, and we decided that cash now was better than future proceeds.  That is, it was a commercial decision to take the bigger fee now, rather than hope we got more later.

I obviously can’t be sure of the numbers but remember hearing £1.75m no sell-on, or half that with 20%.  So it was less that we didn’t add a sell-on, more that we saw the £ signs being more beneficial than than later.

Then we should have told them to **** off. Keegan was determined to get him. They would have stumped up eventually. P*** poor from the board at the time.

2 hours ago, Rocking Red Cyril said:

Yeah Jacki top.love Scott for many things but what is he doing in this topic 

Because Robbored is trolling again.

On 04/10/2022 at 18:54, The dastardly red said:

Glad to see two hash browns there, shame they don't provide a couple of toast though.

Not a 'Full English' then.

Hash browns are American.

3 hours ago, BS2 Red said:

The Irish Rover - The Dubliners with The Pogues

Some Sad Someone - The Wonder Stuff.

Just now, And Its Smith said:

I didn’t say they deserved to be dropped. Wouldn’t be the first time a player who didn’t deserve to be dropped was replaced by someone. 

No.

But we have a better manager now.