And Its Smith

15 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

I've got to say that with one being a current club employee and the other being a former club employee, I struggled to take anything they said seriously. 

I think Latham is very much stuck in the past with regards to football and his defence of Lansdown his former boss did him no favours. 

 

Honor wasn’t towing the party line. He said he didn’t know if Manning has it in him to succeed and he said the board should stop insulting fans by selling us the dream that is never going to be realised.  I think it’s harsh to say because he is on Robins TV that he doesn’t make points that warrant being taken seriously 

24 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I can’t be arsed to calculate the average, but to the eye, I’d suggest the minutes out of an available 990 (1170 v Forest) has stayed relatively the same:

Green - GK start (basically Max O’Leary!!!)

Red - outfield starter

Orange - outfield sub

Grey - unused sub

(mins played along the bottom)

When the original article was published after 16 league games, the percentage was 33.1% so won’t have changed much.

 

basically we need a couple more Haydon Roberts (free and young!), show PL academy players that they can get their chance here, rather than being a loan-pawn.

Thanks. I felt it was similar as Manning hasn’t really dropped any academy player that was playing a lot under Pearson.  

2 minutes ago, IAmNick said:

I guess it depends whether you consider a player who doesn't make it at our level or with us but goes on to have a decent league career (Morell for example, or dare I say Wes Burns...) or not.

With the Scott/Semenyo group we didn't get from 8 years old or whatever I think it's a balance. We still signed them (many others will have looked and passed on them) and developed them for a few years. They're not an A+ for the academy, but they deserve some kind of score surely?

If another team took them after we passed up we'd be saying why don't we have those contacts, why aren't we scouting and finding those players etc... We can't have it both ways.

All fair points and agree with them. 

1 minute ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Ironically this is much lower than it would have been had Pearson remained in situ. 

 

Of the 38 Championship games Bristol City have played this season, almost 30% of the minutes have been played by homegrown players.

What do you think it would have been?  Any idea what it was when he left ? 

47 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Still think it's dubious to credit the academy with Semenyo, Scott and Pring. All were in it for a short time but they're hardly academy "produced". 

Completely agree.  Who has actually came through the academy and either played a lot of games or been sold for good money?

O’Leary

Kelly

Bryan

Reid

Vyner

Cant think of anyone else.  Is 5 a good return over the period of Tinnion’s involvement? Hard to say 

3 minutes ago, Barkhamred said:

But how many minutes has he actually played!?

Not many as dropping Vyner or Dickie would be bizarre 

The academy is credited with Alex Scott in that piece which we all know isn’t valid.  Good to hear the work going into Knight-Lebel.  

3 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

I don't think even those two pillocks care about how this minor feature on a football shirt looks. They made a fuss about it because they - and some of their short-sighted disciples - assumed the colours were chosen as some sort of homage to LGBTQ+ people.

They now look stupid as it's been made clear why those particular colours were chosen, but it's embedded in the mindset of the kneejerk culture war frothers that they have to double down on everything and can never admit they've made a mistake - even when they obviously have. 

They say they are angry it happened when in fact they are glad as it’s a chance for them to be fake angry again 

5 minutes ago, Gert Mare said:

Just out of interest, who would buy a City home club shirt if the club decided it was going to be ‘Blue and White Quarters’ for a change?

Whataboutery again. The flag hasn’t been changed to the Welsh flag so this comparison is stupid 

Farage and Barton haven’t told people to be offended about other defaced flags yet so people are maybe waiting for that first 

3 minutes ago, View from the Dolman said:

If it's only about the colours... am I meant to love this and feel proud? 

 

Perfect example of the hypocrisy 

5 minutes ago, Cowshed said:

Lovely.

 

 

That is literally a defaced flag 

Haha the videos have now been set to private! 

Those prices are at least a 30% reduction in real terms since 2007. 

I’m delighted to share two webinars from up and coming young football coach, Lee Johnson

In the first one Lee will take you through recruitment, club structure and the interview process 

In this second edition, you will be educated on building a game model, methodology and developing young players.  

Please note that this is may be too highbrow for some and if you cannot follow it or it makes no sense at all, that is on you and not Lee.   

People acting as if Nike just released this kit without any say from anyone else! 

33 minutes ago, BigTone said:

I think he's referring to a Robins TV subscription and the restrictions on getting games if UK based

Hardly an insurmountable issue.  If you need help @David Brent just DM me

5 hours ago, David Brent said:

London is in the UK 

What a strange post 

23 minutes ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

Respect to those who live locally and this is by no means a competition or remark on other fans, I’m a Bristolian from birth but haven’t lived there for a good 20 odd years and unlikely to ever move back. That said I am a season ticket holder of over 30 years yet feel frustrated in many aspects. 

Well I guess to start with, it costs probably £100 a home game without season ticket, so every game is an away game, six hour round trip, yet you don’t feel you get plaudits for that or recognition, believe me it ruins your Saturday more than a 20 min drive home (I’ve done both and for sure it hurts more as you sit on the journey mulling it over and get home late!). 

You get the odd ‘home’ game in London fair enough, but you still pay for your match ticket and travel! 

You can’t even listen to City on Radio Bristol without paying! Because you are a city fan who doesn’t live in the area….I mean how unfair is that?! So if you can’t make a game as an exile you are essentially out of pocket either way. A local fan who cannot make it can pass the time by switching on local radio. 

Basically I think us exiled fans deserve a form of loyalty! Now whether that’s loyalty points for distance travelled overall, discount off merchandise, or a free home shirt, but minimum allow exiled ST holders free radio commentary coverage! 

I could easily get a season ticket at Arsenal tomorrow or West Ham. But they aren’t my club, City are, however I probably spend more than a season ticket at both those clubs combined to watch Champ football at AG. So, what can be done to encourage that and commend those supporters (many I know on here) who commit huge amounts of time and money to get to home games, plus the fact travel away most weeks too. Interesting debate, appreciate life is about choices, but some are enforced too and one thing we cannot lose is our first love - our football club! 

You can watch every game from the comfort of your own home for £25 per month.  That’s incredible value. Beats a free shirt any day. 

Up the wales 

People pretending to be outraged is hilarious.  

Snowflakes upset again I see 

When he signed for us he would have known there was a chance this would happen. Let’s not pretend a lot of it will be money based 

5 minutes ago, LoyalRed said:

I couldn't see us buying a player from Derby and then loaning him back to them for the rest of the season, but it happened.  I can see the player being extremely demotivated though if Derby to get promoted, he would want to stay with them where they have the momentum.  

Maybe but the transfer won’t be reversed. Clubs loan players back all the time. A cancelled transfer….has that ever happened ?

Bet on Portsmouth so that’s looking good!  Other than that, I’d like two smaller clubs to come up and struggle so we don’t go down!  

3 hours ago, cidercity1987 said:

Max Bird getting promoted automatically with his childhood club and then joining a distant team with no greater prospects  

I can see some money changing hands and the transfer cancelled to avoid us having a greatly demotivated player

I cannot see that happening whatsoever. Would be completely unprecedented