Betty Swallocks

14 minutes ago, Sumo said:

Does anyone know who to contact to see if there are two coach seat cancellations for qpr

Obviously not official coaches but you can get up to London easily enough on National Express, probably be cheaper than the Cat coaches as well. 

5 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Reminds me of Sting in Quadrophenia

Yes!! This has been annoying me all evening. That is who () I was trying to think of earlier. 

4 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Beacuse we'll have some threads of substance maybe ?

This.

Roll on Saturday…….

3 minutes ago, Superjack said:

To be fair, he's managed to wash O'Neills kits without them disintegrating. 

I think that's rather impressive.

Succeeding where Dot Cotton would have failed. That’s my kit man. 

7 minutes ago, Graham76 said:

Scott Murray - Isn't it time we replaced him as well?  

Yes, we need a new forward thinking kit man. 
Scotty is such a dinosaur when it comes to washing shorts and socks. 

13 minutes ago, Bazooka Joe said:

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you're here on the inside with the rest of us.

Don't worry, it's safe in here.

So long as you can answer this question.

How many bananas are there in a bunch of grapes?

I only see apples 

1 minute ago, RUSSEL85 said:

Probably because it represents about 1% of the Bristol City fan base, I rarely find thoughts and feelings on here are related to fans outside this forum. 

For sure. Any time OTIB comes up in conversation in the pub pre match, it’s usually described as a mental asylum 

Just now, Street red said:

 

Christ, why has no one mentioned that before. What have we done.

19 minutes ago, NSFF said:

After getting rid of Jordan (2nd time around) Wilson and now Pearson, it’s obvious that the one footed wonder certainly has the ear of the chairman….. 

Poaching a yes man manger of a team in the division below certainly sums the club.

Sale your best players with no investment play the youth half the wage bill what else could have Pearson done to get another contract? 

There’s been nothing to suggest that he’s a yes man. 
Just because he’s young, doesn’t make him a yes man.

Just now, W-S-M Seagull said:

You're the only one going into detail comparing the two.

My concern is how the club themselves approaches the head coach role.

I'm not sure if you've been living under a rock the past few weeks or so, but Brian Tinnion being in the structure with such power doesn't fill me with much confidence anymore.

I’m just highlighting why it’s ridiculous to bring up LJ in the first place. 
 

The fact that we have a recruitment team now is already an improvement on the LJ/MA era. I’m confident you won’t see BT running transfers like MA did. 

Just now, W-S-M Seagull said:

It's not weird. It's weird that you think it's weird. 

It's not comparing him to LJ, it's comparing a head coach appointment vs another head coach appointment. The head coach vanity project that has failed on multiple occasions. 

Maybe this time it will be different. History tells me it won't be tho.

It’s just a lazy comparison. They’ve had different career paths, learnt the trade in different ways. They are different people with different ideas. 
The set up of the club is totally different to when LJ was in charge as well. 

Just because their roles are the same, it doesn’t mean their approach to the job will.

Whether Manning succeeds or fails, it has nothing to do with LJ’s time at the club. 

2 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

And that's my concern. 

If he doesn't start off well and the pressure is on in Jan, he'll recieve LJ levels of support because we have that "nest egg" 

If those players are on the level of LJ signings then we then have 2-3 years of trying to get rid of them and getting the squad back to the current shape it is in.

Can we stop comparing managers to LJ, it’s really weird. 
Judge people on their own merits rather than being lazy and comparing them to previous managers. 

15 minutes ago, GrumpyGit said:

From the Oxford site: - Tim Williams, Oxford United’s Chief Executive Officer, added: “I am hugely disappointed to be losing Liam and Chris at this stage of the season, particularly given the support they had been given. 

 

Or in other words, f.off Judas.

Unnnnnnlucky.

4 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Always the case that U21s can play for us when on loan, expecially locally.

Not sure it’s any reflection on Kadji.

I’m aware of that. 
 

He can’t be getting enough game time at FGR if been playing for our U21s though. 

1 minute ago, Davefevs said:

Not Kadji, he’s still on loan to FGR, so can’t come into the new head-coach’s reckoning until Jan.

Totally forgot that. Can’t be a good sign if he’s back playing for our U21s. 

Just now, Taunton_BCFC said:

Is getting the 17:30 train home do able?

Yes easily, unless they add on about 25 mins of added on time of course 

7 minutes ago, lenred said:

Indeed, but is Craig Short joining as well was my question 

Oxford end seems to think he will be talking charge of them tonight, so not initially anyway. 

Just now, lenred said:

Short as well?

Chris Hogg.

Big game today for Kadji, OTC and maybe even Sam Pearson. 

Apparently Craig Short took Oxfords match day light training session today. 
No sign of Chris Hogg at training either.

31 minutes ago, RedRoss said:

My hunch if Manning does arrive, in January we'll be asking Brighton to recall Beadle in goal at Oxford to come here. He's impressed at Oxford and has the ability to play out from the back.

Yep, I think the first position under threat when Manning gets the chance to bring in his own players will be Max’s.

Quite happy with this, would rather have gone for Manning than Lampard.

Hopefully he will be able to utilise his contacts within the CFG.

10 hours ago, Kingswood Robin said:

No inside information and I know very little about him, but he seems to be able to do the one thing we can't do.

Order currywurst in his town centre?

mmmm currywurst

16 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

He really is a gutless and, comes across as, unpleasant individual isn’t he? What they’re actually doing in the current “PR” strategy is toxifying anyone who comes near, because they only want soft soap non questioning - so the interviewers become complicit in the charade.

Just put yourself up for one proper interview Jon. I’m sure Geoff would come out of retirement to do it. You’d actually gain some respect, possibly some self respect, and not keep coming across as a spoilt, entitled, brat.

You just know that Geoff has been watching all this and itching to lay into JL, so to speak. 
 

Such a shame GT retired as I think he would have put them in a position where they couldn’t not go on what would have been his pre-match show tomorrow.