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We really made a hash of the opportunity of having GON with us. Seems a top bloke too.

As the ultimate irony, I can't go as I'm in London meeting clients, who are all West Ham fans! 2 plus points 1) over 40+ years of support I've been absent for some of our best nights (Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd) &2) at least I can watch it on the telly now.

Watford, Hull, Sunderland???

Did he interact much with Kurt Zouma per chance today?

I quite like him, I like his calmness & how he preaches not getting too high/too low etc. He has the air of someone who is quietly confident. The fact is though, every good result will see a "hard to dislike him" thread & most poor one's there will be a "robotic coach 1.1" type thread.

It's a bit of a 3rd hand story (but genuine, none the less). One of McInnes's traits was not to announce the team until really late - much later than the players were accustomed to & lots of them really struggled with that. I had high hopes for him, & whilst he did inherit a mess, he made it worse. Saying we've got too many players is fine, but buying inferior players isn't really the solution. I always thought he might get the WBA job as he was a bit of a legend there, but I think that ship has sailed.

I wasn't sure about Stone, but the lead singer is very charismatic. Whilst I enjoyed DMA's, I actually preferred the acoustic gig they did at The Globe in Cardiff, earlier in the year. However, as I'm an old git, they may because I was able to sit down then!

Hopefully he'll be fit for pre season.

I loved Cotts but this really just demonstrates how much easier it is to be a pundit, than a manager. Our 3-5-2 with attacking centre backs was really not working but boy did he persevere with it!

This is very much where I am. If you just looked at our results & not the playing formation, style etc, you'd be forgiven for not knowing we'd ever changed manager. We're still capable of giving all but the very best teams a good game, but equally capable of an insipid performance. We're still much more effective v teams that come on to us. Any team that deploys the (cliche alert) low block against us & is disciplined & resolute, will have a good chance of stealing the points. We have a very honest squad but we very much lack someone with a bit of pizazz (maybe Mehmeti can be that one). However if you think of the talent we've lost in Semenyo & Scott, with little in terms of replacement its really not a shock.

Of all the forms of bias, recency bias is my favourite.

I'm with Harry on this one. Go Skippy are part of Somerset Bridge. The latter are regulated by the FCA; if they're happy, I don't think BCFC need to be doing enhanced due diligence. Bermuda is a reinsurance hub, to be honest I don't know why, but I'd guess a combo of; - Favourable tax regime - Proximity to North America - Head honchos in European ins firms like to holiday there!

Fixed it...

Decent front 2 at this level.

True, but he was star of the show the day we beat Chelsea in the cup.

My favourite season (partly due to age, being 18 is brilliant!). It does though, in many ways encapsulate being a City fan for 40+ years that even in our best season we did find a way to kind of ruin it right at the end!

Isn't that the referee Fevs???

I'm a big fan of TGH (although we do have a strange penchant for not very athletic central midfielders!), but this is daft. Putting on a substitute isn't calling on someone to get the manager out of a hole, its normal practice in any game. Not sure of your age but did Paisley just rely on David Fairclough to get him out of a hole?

If you look at QPRs form since playing us, a point was a good return.

For something to bounce, it needs to be falling. We were never falling so never was there going to be a bounce.

I think Harry alluded to Manning in his Oxford days using 1 player to virtually cover a whole flank. Clearly that is a herculean task, I think he's using Sykes as that on the left but probably doesn't feel he can get an effective 90 out of him in that role right now.

Think this is a good example of difference in Nige & Mannings philosophies. The latter wants control above everything else, whilst Nige was with lobbing in a grenade. For me, Nige was too keen to use him (& it became a predictable sub), whilst arguably, Manning is too reticent.

I hope this isn't "resting players for the harder game", for me too often it backfires & you lose the so called easier game anyway. I'd much rather play the best 11, win the 1st game & take it from there.

Is there any news of further gigs for 2024 or is it just Take That??

Ah, I think I can answer that. Because we have no long term strategy, after " progressive" type we invariably go for "gnarly old timer". If its any consolation, that often does the trick (see Gary Johnson after Tinnion & Cotts after SOD)