maxjak

I am obviously not talking about every decision made..........that would be frankly ridiculous. But instead of constantly feeding fans the corporate line, and stupid predictions and waffle from various players. I am just requesting on ocassions that we are kept up to date with certain issues, instead of being treated like 12 year old fanboys?

It's not the amount.........it's the quality of the information. It's easy to churn out pointless fan pleasing content, I am referring to decision making and aspects of the running of the club that directly affect the fanbase. It would be good to be kept informed about important issues, rather than stuff like........ Dasilva's Message to the fans (Currently on the news site) which is a pile of useless crap IMHO?

Dare I say ..........considering our belt tightening financially........ King and Simpson's recruitment seems to echo looking after your old mates, and does not reflect very well on Nige's use of the available budget? Both are well past their best, and IMHO a waste of valuable resources.....that could have been used to pay for an absolutely essential extra striker? Nige keeps reiterating that he does not see the point in recruiting players that are not an improvement on what is already here, and yet signs these two "has beens"??

That is why at he very beginning of my post.........I said "Correct me if I am wrong"? Equating it to communication, I had no idea who was doing what, due to the inability of the club to communicate with the fanbase? Also if you read earlier in the post you would have seen that someone accused me of thinking that you had to be a top player, to be a top coach......and i put forward the exact names you used, to prove my point. Good luck to CF in his endeavours to organise and motivate the squad, God knows , that some high quality coaching is needed, as recently we have seemed just as all over the place as during previous incumbents, in regard to formations, basic passing skills and leadership. My comments are a product of the frustration i feel at present, as I feel that very little progress is being made, and after an initial improvement we seem to be prone to all the bad habits that have been endemic at our club for the past , who knows how long? ha!!

Jesus...do you not realise that CV is a generalised term not acquainted to just a piece of paper but is an umbrella term used to determine the background and accomplishments of the individual in the interview, background checks and impressions made. Have you ever considered joining pedants anonymous?.........Send me your CV and I will see if you qualify?

Only time will tell, and I fully appreciate patience is needed only 5 months into a so called 3 year project. One thing I do believe is that more communication with the fanbase is needed, because if Nige loses the fanbase then it's a sinking ship. I am frustrated at present, and maybe Alex Ball WILL work out.....i just think there is a big difference between youth coaching and the organisation of the First team squad. Downing and Simpson came from coaching young players, and that did not work out. I would like to see an experienced coach with a solid professional CV of First team coaching come in and organise and motivate....... ..but that is just me.

No and No........Have you ever seen a unicorn?

No far from it....... , Klopp, Mourinho etc prove that. You have taken one aspect of my post out of context and given it priority. To make it clear........I DO NOT think you need to be a good player, to be a good coach. But neither do I believe someone who coached at Bath City and youth academies is the way to go?

Sorry not convinced.........i remember something similar being said about some bloke called Holden? A quality coach with a solid experienced background of coaching quality footballers is needed, from outside the club, not more in house make doing, Alex might be a lovely bloke, but is CV is not exactly stupendous?

One good one?

Please all correct me if i am wrong? Is our first team coach NOW Alex Ball who after making 1 first team appearance long ago, coached youth level at Southampton and City and had a spell at Bath City? Surely in our current situation we need to bring in a quality coach to drill & organise a squad with no identity and no discernible consistent pattern of play.........and who are switched between 4-5-1 4-4-2 etc etc blah blah by a manager who seems not to know his best line up or formation? A manager who rarely if ever actually coaches our first team squad, but spends his time motivating and inspiring the first team, while humiliating young players by inappropriately substituting them after half an hour? Sorry to drone on, but i am frustrated and concerned about what is currently going on at the club we support..........and with little or no communication to the fans who support the team through thin and thin, I am phecked off ? ? ?

Probably be a draw? I am going for 0-0 or 1-1. We never score more than 1 at home.

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City Crumble so easily....that they remind me more of the rock band ......."Half man Half biscuit?" Who's singles include "Dickie Davies Eyes" and topically "Trumpton Riots"

He has all the pace of a Herniated Camel...he'd be knackered after 20 minutes...........Ha!

The Man Utd v Liverpool game yesterday highlighted to a degree part of our ongoing problems. Liverpool were a well oiled machine, a team in every sense of the word, and so much more than their individual parts? They had been organised and coached to a level that made them almost impossible to contain, yes their individual players are all wonderfully talented, but the secret is in their cohesion and understanding of each other and the roles they inhabit. Man Utd were also blessed with a squad of superb talent and ability, the difference being, how badly they had been coached and organised as a functioning unit? Players of undoubted talent were outplayed and outmanourved by a Liverpool team that despite a couple of changes in personel were so well set up and disciplined, it did not matter exactly who the individuals were ( as long as they had the required ability) as they were so well coached and set up that they over ran a disparate Man utd bunch of individuals. Bristol City's major problem is the way they are being coached, their is undoubtedly enough talent and skill in our squad to do so much better, if we we were organised and set up in a consistent pattern of tactics &. identity I am desperately hoping that with the dismissal of Simpson and Downing, that the plan is to introduce a new coach or coaches that have sufficient talent and know how to drum into our squad the means to play as a team, as a collective unit? It should have happened months ago....but better late than never Eh? If of course this all about a cost cutting exercise and we intend to retain and promote from within, then I would be deeply concerned about our prospects for the rest of the season. FFS sort it out Nige, or the 2nd year of your 3 year plan will be in Division 1?

Yet more knee jerk drivel.........get a grip FFS?

At least seeing Man Utd being destroyed and embarressed has cheered me up after our dismal defeat..........nothing i like more than seeing them get spanked, juvenile i know, but i cannot help it?

Great observations....... employing the two banks of four to give us more structure is definitely something we need to do more often. The lack of tight marking, and giving too much space is a constant problem, with certain players never knowing when to close down/lay off, and when to get tight? I am hoping that a re- structuring of the coaching staff might bring some improvement, i am keen to see who will be brought in? Lets hope it is someone who can drum good habits and more organisation into the squad?

Martin is running on empty, and has to be rested...and Simpson probably cannot believe that he has managed to steal a years salary IMHO.

Sorry.............but Dave's cracker deserved a much wittier response? I think we will put that down as a WHOOSH! 4/10 ?

You misguided a unrealistic are kneejerk fool................please arrange as you see fit? It will give a 15 minute break from spouting?

Surely Urals would agree that his career has had it's Rockies moments?

It that case he needs some Alp?

Ha! Good one..............I love optimism, even when it is misguided? Be glad if we can even score.