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1 minute ago, petehinton said:

Whats that gotta do about Max’s shit kicking?

Well he ain’t the reason we’re losing so ‘killing us’ is a touch dramatic, no?

1 minute ago, petehinton said:

Max has absolutely killed us today. His kicking has been ******* horrific. 

No we’re being pushed back by a decent side who were in the Prem last year, who have scored a fabulous goal from a guy who has been in England squads

1 hour ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Pied wagtail. There are usually 3-4 that can be seen around Marina Dolman's way in the winter.

Made a change from counting the seagulls.

Has Marina got a nice big bird feeder then?

42 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

To be honest I didn't realise it was him until I saw the highlights after I posted that. However I thought that wasn't really a press situation, just a case of coming off second best in a challenge, for a change.

True, he’s very decent on the defending bit of being a defender, if that makes sense!

9 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

Bells the one for me of the three you mention, and I do think there is some (natural) bias in wanting him to do well because of Mickey. I don’t put major stock in him being England U20 - plenty drop off from there not to make it at this level.

When I watch Sam, and this may be instructions, he seems very naive positionally (and this may come with experience). Cams relative struggles this season have I think in part been due to lack of support from his wide man, often Sam. I’m not sure as yet what he is - I don’t think he’s a wide forward, but also he isn’t as yet strong enough to be in the centre. 
 

Theres something there but it’s raw, and I hold no major confidence it’ll develop into a career at a sustained basis at this level or above. If I had to put money on it, I’m still (just) on the side that he’ll be playing L1/L2 in 5 years but he has enough not to do so 

Reminds me a little of early Jamie Mackie when he broke through down here at Exeter; quite raw but sharp. But difference is he’s starting 1/2 levels higher and is already a better finisher. Given JM got much better the longer he played I’d be surprised if Bell goes any lower than where he is now.

10 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

Thoughts above.

To play devil’s advocate did Tanner handle the press well when he was caught in possession for the equaliser?

Agree with this. Good to have a more physical presence than TC in games where he may be struggling to hold the ball up / get in the game.

20 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

It’s a huge benefit to have a bench that can keep us competitive when the opposition is making subs to freshen up the game.  Cardiff (a) was the opposite, and we ran out of steam against a replenished Cardiff.

Today, we even left Weimann on the bench.

Under Nige we generally had our better results and performances when we had a reasonably decent bench.

We were a bit nervy, but we could also have put the game to bed also.

Good win.

Result was the most important thing for me today…I posted similar earlier.  It came with a pretty decent performance too.

Midfield weren’t absent imho, just being man-marked by Boro who’s tactic was to contest the middle of the pitch.

Vyner had a very mixed game, he was not at his best today by some stretch.

It wouldn’t half be a shame if having cut out the errors and become a very reliable defender, over confidence brings them back. As that was what seemed to happen today. Hopefully just a bad at the office.

Exeter for me. 10 minute walk home

See also Kazakhstan*

*although none of them know why Bob Wilson was an anchorman.

14 hours ago, Leabrook said:

At some point in the not too distant past, someone was the first person to say ‘getting out on the grass’ and I hope whoever said that is proud of themselves 

It’ll be the same person who started referring to ‘the football club’ rather than just ‘the club’.

City, Glos City, Exeter and the rest of Devon Senior 1.

57 minutes ago, Phileas Fogg said:

Personally I don’t think there is as much interest in women’s football (yet) as the relative media attention it receives would suggest. 

The Bristol City attendance is very good though considering the competition.

If there was media attention and attendances hadn’t grown in recent times then maybe there wasn’t interest to start with. But the increased Media focus and attention on Women’s football and subsequent rise in attendances suggest there always was.  

12 hours ago, SecretSam said:

I just don't see it. If he were at Stoke City, rather rhan Man City, would people be raving? I haven't seen anything to justify a call up.

I’m in the middle on this

11 hours ago, petehinton said:

Hahahaha

He’s one of the best players this country will ever see

Ah go on then

It’s the old cliche about your reputation going up when you’re not there.

That said, soon I hope!

Not sure I’d agree he played Weimann as he was skipper 

3 minutes ago, Red5 said:

QPR got a new manager 

 

Sounds familiar

10 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

Totally agree about Dickie, but Tinnion taking the credit ? The story at the time iirc was that Sykes informed the club that Dickie wanted to leave QPR. Nothing to do with Tinnion, or scouting. Just pure luck / opportunity.

From the Post:

“For example, we went to Nige with Dickie, and this player, and that player - Rob Dickie was the best. We went with Jason Knight for a pressing midfield player; ‘this is one that really fits, Nige’ - ‘yeah, like him, perfect’.
 

Really not sure how that is claiming credit’? You’ve just said Sykes informed the club so that could still fit with what BT said above?

23 minutes ago, Sniper said:

If what we are hearing is correct that there is going to be no money available in Jan then JL must be deluded to think we can get a top 6, off his rocker is boy blunder.

If (and appreciate that is the longest word in the English language) Nige had stayed and the injuries cleared up,  could top 6 have been possible? A lot of people thought so only maybe a month ago? If so why not now?

40 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

In fairness I do recall Nige talking about getting one or two in - paraphrased “we’ll have to see, we are right at the top of our budget” as he played down the likelihood of it happening

So you could speculate that maybe they decided that if they couldn’t push the budget, they’d rather go with what they had, hope for limited injuries, than bring in players for the sake of it.  That would kinda make sense wouldn’t it?

My biggest argument is why was the budget set so low?

+++++++

Good for Tins to spell out the recruitment process and roles.  Nothing has changed to the process.  The only thing that appears to be likely to change is Manning will be more involved in the process (than Nige).

The process is exactly as I described it the other day, and expected involvement is exactly as I suggested too.  I made a similar point on OSIB Twitter Spaces too.

Can we (OTIB) final dispel a 7 year myth that signings are one persons’ or another’s….it is clear it is a collective team effort where the manager has final say.

The point for debate is whether the recruitment team can spot the right talent for me

I think it would be churlish of me to be too critical of the Recruitment Team’s recent performance - I think it is improving.  We are seeing good players joining the club (not everyone will be a success straightaway) and taking opportunities to exploit the market too, e.g. Dickie for £0.700m entering the peak years for a CB, and must be up there in the early contenders for POTS.

There is No budget / would you like a player as you have an injury - Genuinely doesn’t sound like anymore than a marginally different interpretation of the same conversation tbh

Cotts was underwhelming yes but Johnson Sr? He had an excellent record at Yeovil and I for one thought he was a good choice.

Regardless I’m sure we’ll all be behind Liam.

I guess the really interesting thing for me is where it says welcome to Ashton Gate Benny. Reminds me that we got rid of a popular manager prematurely…..

Biggest problem we had that season was the previous season - when big Shaun got injured

1 minute ago, bcfc01 said:

Wrong.

Regardless it depends on what you deem exciting. Personally (and regardless of NP) I’m more excited by this than a ‘glamorous’ Lampard type appointment. 

3 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

Yeah, they were in the relegation zone with 15 points from 20 matches

And they are MK Dons, not Leicester or Watford...

Suspect they had a ‘losing play off final having been close to automatic promotion as well’ hangover. Seems quite a regular occurrence for teams (Boro at the start of this season)?