Lrrr

There's zero chance of him being here and not even anything to do with steve, we wanted someone out on the grass? Warnock only does Monday & Friday and goes home for the rest of the week before the game

30 minutes ago, xerox6060 said:

I thought it was weird on his part, not waiting to look at all his options in the summer, even if he made the same decision. .not as if we're Real Madrid or something....totally get it from Derby and City's prospective ...

He could get an ACL or his form drop off limiting options in the summer, he secured what he thinks is Championship football with the move, he was obviously happy with us as a club

5 minutes ago, The Bard said:

Jesus he should stay mute.

Then people would complain we don't hear anything from the leadership of the club

Just now, frenchred said:

Its under 18's kids football for Christ sake, it's their football education, they should be playing properly not agricultural shit like they served up tonight 

Youth cup is the biggest part of U18's football, if you watched the game against Burnley the performance was very different in tactics employed, getting in behind their slower back line was clearly just a tactic employed for this game. 

2 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Well that didn't happen, did it!

Nice idea, terrible execution!

It did happen on several occasions

5 minutes ago, frenchred said:

It was predictable and boring

And yet they won, its cup football so whatever it takes to win

6 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

True.

Best way to protect a lead is to keep the ball though, surely, not hoof it and chase.

Goes back to the tactic City employed of wanting to spin our quicker players in behind their back line

7 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Same applied for Swindon.

Swindon weren't protecting a lead

9 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Swindon played all the football  certainly 2nd half.

Can't overlook occasion for U18's, quarter final of the cup (trip to Man City at stake) trying to see out a 1-0 lead, maybe the first time a lot of them have played at Ashton Gate too & probably the biggest crowd they've played in front of. Occasion itself would be a lot to effect loads of young players. 

30 minutes ago, frenchred said:

What a shocking game of football, whoosh ball from both teams, if that's the future it's grim.

Swindon 7 stood out.

Really disappointed leaving the stadium that was absolute dross

Is it whoosh ball if you're playing the balls with purpose? Swindon back line pretty slow in speed & on the turn so trying to spin the ball in behind for the pace of our front line to get onto. The game against Burnley was very different and a lot more technical so clearly was a tactic specially for Swindon. 

1 minute ago, 1960maaan said:

I don't want VAR , but would be happy for retrospective action for things as bad as that.

Well the referee has missed it and it’s a red card offence so could well be a retrospective ban 

VAR anyone 

6 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Jordan James or Tommy Conway? Or is contract length the decider here.

Contract length, we won’t want to lose Tommy for just compensation the summer after, regardless to being tight on ffp or not it’s still millions difference 

1 hour ago, Sniper said:

Yep, bloody depressing this football lark. I doubt I'll ever see us in the Prem, but seeing what has happened to Burnley and Sheff Utd this season, it all seems pretty pointless.

Clubs who spend £100m after promotion are still £100m short of the squad value of those in 17th 

6 minutes ago, Grey Fox said:

Tommy is still raw , get him to sign a new contract, and develop him further. He is young, his family and friends are here in Bristol and he is getting first team action. Not that difficult a sell, if you have a desire to be better

There's no way Tommy signs a new contract even if we sack Manning, even if Pearson was still here. He's highly ambitious and he'll want to achieve his goals of playing at the highest level possible whether that's signs for Rangers or Celtic getting European football, somehow a PL club signing him as a squad player or signing for one of the bigger Championship teams who'll help him by utilising his skill set better then we are all of which help his chances of getting to the Scotland senior squad or the PL more than signing a new contract here, the reality frankly is that Tommy will be gone in the summer. 

2 hours ago, Grey Fox said:

We do not have FFP concerns at present, ask poppy

And I’d agree with not selling if the player in question (Conway) didn’t only have 1 year left on his contract after this season, we won’t want to lose him for compensation as it’s highly unlikely we’d be in position to compete for play offs next season so gambling and keeping Tommy is unlikely to do anything other than lose us a good few million we could reinvest. 

35 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Reckon we don't need to now until 2026 provided we don't go nuts.

Scott was the last..albeit let us see how some other clubs are dealt with as I've a feeling others trajectories to this year or beyond have worsened or are set to.

The past losses have overhung but TV money up this year although bizarrely seem Birmingham fans seem to think it is set to double ie up £8-9m, they clearly haven't extrapolated Solidarity Payments from regular TV deal. £2-2.5m increase iirc.

Point being though Conway staying is not the difference to put us in a position to challenge for top 6, then we don’t want to lose him for just compensation, so it points to selling him in the summer, if he had 2 seasons left sure don’t sell him but he doesn’t 

19 minutes ago, Grey Fox said:

Same old , same old. After Scott last year ( Semenyo scored again) , Conway this , who do you fancy next , how about Knight. 
And the club goes nowhere.

Our medical team are fine as far as I know, but who knows , perhaps we can get a few bob for them too 

Weirdly we have to sell players to meet FFP restrictions unless you want us to significantly decrease our wage budget 

13 hours ago, Grey Fox said:

Change “Conway” to “Scott” and you could cut and paste this whole paragraph in to last year’s debate on here about Alex. And that as worked well, hasn’t it!!!!

Using this logic, we never progress, sometimes you need some balls ️️️

We were never holding onto Scott, you deny him a move to the PL given the level of interest he had and the fees we would have been offered you'd have pissed him off no end, I don't think Alex would have been the type to down tools but you run that risk, equally his sale put a good cushion in our finances which obviously would have been nice for Nige to have been allowed to spend but was equally almost neccessary, Conway you don't have the length of contract that Scott had and I don't see the squad in a position where keeping Conway around (regardless of who head coach is) that pushes us into being a top 6 team. Also how well would our medical department have dealt with Alex's injury he had early season? 

1 minute ago, Grey Fox said:

Managers are temporary, the club is permanent, so NO , I don’t expect Tommy Conway to be moved on, I do hope that Manning is instead.

Last year it was all about moving on Scott, now, predictably it’s Tommy. FFS will this club, and sadly some of our supporters get some ambition .

See you all in August.

Realism is a thing, if we want to get a fee for Conway, rather than compensation which won’t be much and minimal if he went to Scotland, then he needs to be sold this summer as he won’t be signing a new deal 

4 minutes ago, Slacker said:

Hot Fuzz.I have never seen Back to the Future though. 

the greater good...

28 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Thought it was £4k?

Anyway despite some thinking it made sense, to me at a time when we had Bentley, O’Leary & Wollacott, it completely blocked the pathway of the latter & was a waste of money.

He was effectively deputy goalkeeping coach & 3rd choice keeper at best, pointless.

Someone mentioned Lewis Thomas, all I’d say there is our deputy keeper now (Bajic) is far less experienced than Max, who understudied Bentley so although I’m not sure I’d bother, there’s a bit more logic.

There was never an intention of him ever stepping on a pitch for us he was a training keeper who did some coaching as well, therefore there was no way he could block a pathway for us. Johnson always wanted 4 goalkeepers for every session, this often meant academy keepers being involved however this would often see them miss match days for 18’s/21’s just to be in sessions, which is more pointless hiring a keeper to fill that gap or stop your young keepers getting game time? 
 

26 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Still a lot init. Thomas will be on less than half of that I’d guess. 

My guess is it won’t be proportionally too different to what the rest of the wage bills were comparatively, it was just a case of where we as a club and football in general was at the time 

On 27/02/2024 at 12:31, bearded_red said:

A very amusing 180 degree turn as Brendon McCullum asks for Somerset and Lancashire to play on spinning pitches to aid England’s young spinners.

Small problem, last time we had two England spinners and played on pitches that helped them we got called cheats and ended up getting deducted points.

Can we get our points back? 

29 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

I have only been on a 3G a couple of times, but my thoughts are that there is probably a very wide spread in terms of quality.

A newly laid 3G is a fantastic asset for young players as discussed, with matches one after another all week long and a decent realism to grass. At the other end of the scale an old astro pitch which was probably laid with hockey in mind might as well be tarmac.

Its an issue in hockey atm, schools/leisure centres wanting to lay 3g pitches maximising football income but meaning hockey wouldn't be able to be played there any more.