sludge

1 minute ago, chinapig said:

Lansdown thoroughly dislikes Warnock so no chance.

Agreed. Shame though - look where recruiting managers that he does like has got us.....

4 hours ago, TonyTonyTony said:

There are bad jokes, and there are bad taste jokes. Ill let you work out which one your "joke" was

Ok my bad, Chris Martin’s form is no laughing matter. 

7 minutes ago, Rossi the Robin said:

My mate had it in his late forties, says he wasn’t ill but his energy levels after are shocking. Has to rest just climbing the stairs 

I’d imagine it’s taken it’s toll with Nige and he actually does need a rest - nothing more 

Maybe Chris Martin's had Covid these last few weeks.

13 minutes ago, JonDolman said:

He seems to be a very clever manager.

I don't watch much prem football, but I remember him having a Liverpool team of kids playing superbly well against a senior Villa side in the cup. Klopp gave him the job for the league cup games I think.

They got thrashed I think, but the defence were far too weak to be able to cope and keeper bit too young and dodgy. The power of the experienced Villa players would always win that game, but they got out passed by a bunch of kids.

Looking at the passing and patterns of play, no doubt they had some good technical players playing too, but I'm not sure how many of them would even make it at that high a level. Harvey Eliott the only one I remember as obviously being really special.

Herbie Kane was one of the players. It just looked like mainly great coaching playing the game the right way with a much worse bunch of players than the opponents.

The Blackpool game against us he impressed me too the way they knocked it about. They weren't coming here to fight for a point, they had a go for all 3. We maybe should have scored more first half and then maybe we win the game.

What impressed me most was how Critchley must have watched that first half and knew how to improve things.

We didn't really create anything and they created quite a few chances and eventually took one. I thought they had control in that 2nd half. 

10th in the league is a fantastic achievement so far.

Can you just imagine the uproar on here if we ever appointed someone like that?! Sometimes I think we're our own worst enemies....

12 minutes ago, The Bard said:

He didn't look well on Tuesday in the post match interview...

Most of us felt sick after Tuesday...

3 hours ago, Supersonic Robin said:

I think sorting out the defensive fragility is probably the first step in arresting our poor form. This was one of my main expectations of Pearson for this season - I anticipated that we may be rather lacklustre going forward, but felt we could at least make ourselves difficult to beat/score against.

FWIW I don't have any issue with 'defensive football' if that's what it takes. Many fans talk about "just wanting to see some exciting attacking football", but IMO the main source of excitement is competitiveness. I'll happily sit there for 90 minutes watching us defend competently, resiliently, and bravely to grind out points.

At the moment I just want to see a team that looks like they're up for it! No shirking tackles, no poor body language. I just want some effort and commitment. If we get beat, but the opposition's had to work their nuts off for it then I can live with that.

Just sick to the back teeth of these limp performances where opponents walk off the pitch thinking what a soft touch we are.

23 minutes ago, RobintheRed Red said:

We got rid of one to Sunderland

Yeh. I liked him to be fair 

7 minutes ago, VT05763 said:

It is a bit of both but to which degree is the debate I think.

A lot of the comments on here are quite polar though! 

1 hour ago, VT05763 said:

It is the coaching and tactics that really concern me. Sort that out and we have the playing squad to be mid table. 

Find it very strange that it hasn't happened despite the shambles currently on show.

Hopefully, as he hinted, things will change.

Some on here think that the players we have are ok but the manager isn't very good.

Others think that the manager we have is ok but the players aren't very good.

Truth is, none of us really know which one it is do we?

13 minutes ago, Banjo Red said:

Shaun taylor Glenn humphries the last one's I remember.

Mental ain’t it. 

11 minutes ago, Banjo Red said:

I was thinking just the same real nasty horrible in your face complete shit houses.

Have we ever had one of those? I mean seriously, in the last 20 years there hasn't been many. I can't even think of one?!

45 minutes ago, Red_Alligator said:

Well there's a few on OTIB for sure Sludge!

Can't take the keyboard on the pitch though 

Surely we could get a couple of nasty ba$tards in January without breaking the bank?

Aaron Wilbraham. Not the best player we've had in last 6 years but we are desperate for players with his physicality and attitude. Led the line by example. Legend in my book.

1 minute ago, bexhill reds said:

Perhaps but there are rarely good players to be bought in Jan without parting with silly money.

Appreciate that but we have done it before in Jan with the likes of Tomlin and Odemwingie if I recall

1 minute ago, bexhill reds said:

Some creative accountancy is required, if not in Jan but next summer to allow Pearson to get rid of the shite and spend some sensible money on key positions.
 

Brum are just a physical long ball team but we made it look so easy for them… their second from the long ball straight down middle of the pitch is an absolute disgrace to concede at this level. And I still don’t get why we are insistent on knocking high balls to Martin against 3 tall and muscular centre-halves, that has to be a game plan thing and not just an ineffective performance.

Next summer will be too late!!

10 minutes ago, Wanderingred said:

Shades of about 10 years ago with the post GJ decline eventually leading to relegation.

I think we’re already way further down that particular track! We’re in the mcinness phase now!! 

3 minutes ago, woodsyred said:

Vyner is a league 1 player at best

We have a team of league one players at the moment 

2 minutes ago, Dolman_Stand said:

We are much the better team for me so far.

Agreed, except we still smack of a team that can give away a goal out of nothing at any time....

3 hours ago, OneTeamInBristol said:

Without meaning to cause any offense what on earth is intersex and asexual?

I think intersex is when you have sex on a train. 

2 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

My hunch is that he knows & understands a great deal about finance, but knows nothing about football.

What I don’t get is how he was taken in by a double glazing salesman like Ashton, because if you do your due diligence & speak to anyone who was involved with Watford that wasn’t in his little gang, you then look elsewhere.

Happy to be corrected, but I’d be amazed if lansdown’s due diligence ever includes speaking to people in football. 

‘It’s my money and I know best’ seems to be the historic strategy....
 

35 minutes ago, Hampshire reds said:

Good win and much needed 3 pts. Just as welll Barnsley were poor. 

Barnsley were so poor that we couldn’t get out of our own half or retain any decent possession for most of the second half mind 

8 minutes ago, The Horse With No Name said:

Serious question, but when all those of you are in the concourse and we score, do you all celebrate madly or just a little fist pump?

Too busy taking selfie’s to do either 

5 minutes ago, BigAl&Toby said:

My take on it is this:

Nice guys rarely succeed. They haven’t here. We need nasty bastards.

These 2, along with Holden, should never have replaced LJ. 

LJ himself outstayed his welcome or ability.

Ashton should never have been here in the first place. Watching him and LJ turn up at Brentford a few seasons back - suited and brown shoe’d and all teeth told me everything I needed to know.

We’ve been to cosy for far too long. No ambition. No passion. No drive. No ******* clue.

 

Wonder why? Someone hasn’t wanted “it” I’d say…..

And how are the Bears doing? Nige - if allowed to - will make the difference.

Is it a question of not wanting it, or wanting to do it 'his way'?

2 hours ago, Monkeh said:

I love lansdown and am thankful for his ownership,

But that's his problem he is too loyal to people when he needs to be a bit more cutthroat, not as far a forest or Watford but more akin to Swansea 

He didn't show much loyalty to Steve Cotterill though.