Merrick's Marvels

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Isn't that what you go to Bath City for? 1. Beer. 2. Meet Ken Loach. 3. Then, and only then, watch the football.

Yrs, yes, yes please. Have I woken up in heaven?

City fan? Could swear I saw him in the East End back in the 90s.

If we play Twine as a wide left attacker, someone needs shooting. Because he made his name as an ACM, an ACM is exactly what we're missing (a technical creative player in the centre of the pitch) and LM himself said even though that's where Hull played him that wasn't his best position. Just don't start your reply by saying - Yeah but that's where LM picked him against Watford. Because that's just one more baffling, head scratching decision to add to a baffling, head scratching season.

Let's not go there!!

To be serious for a moment, I dare say there's an element of philanthropy about it all. The sporting landscape in Bristol would certainly look quite different without his support over the last several years. Personally, I don't share the suggestions you often read here that he doesn't care or that he's happy for us to tootling along in midtable mediocrity. I think he's always been genuine when saying the Premier League is the aim. My problem is he doesn't seem to have a clue how to achieve that - all the while hiring the wrong people and, when circumstances force him into hiring the right people (because we're in the sh!t after he hired the wrong people), he always finds a way to fire them at the earliest opportunity. And round and round we go. A clueless bloke surrounding himself with incompetent ones. It's worse than a Brian Rix farce.

10 million quid? Chump change to him. What do all his investments make him anyway? And if that's what it costs to give his boy a job, that's what it costs...

Too clever by half.

It certainly wouldn't - if we had a team allowed to channel a certain amount of emotional energy into their performance, to go alongside the more technical improvements that will be required. But we have a robot in charge.

Seriously? Bloody hell.

And that's how to get promoted from the toughest league in the world is it? Appoint cheaper options???????????????

But we don't get promoted over 4 games!!! They have to do it over 46 and are clearly not capable of sustaining a high enough level of performance for enough matches to do so. We all know this. The cup games are IRRELEVANT.

Those 2 cup ties - CUP TIES - are no sort of barometer of this squad's ability to perform week in, week out for 46 games. They're no barometer of any team's, in fact. Using your logic, Maidstone Utd are Real Madrid. But they're not are they? They're 8th in National League South. And for a reason. We're 12th in the Championship. Going backwards. For a reason. Plus, your inability to separate Tinnion the player from Tinnion the failed manager is baffling - no other club has seen fit to employ this man since he stopped playing, why do you think that might be?

Peak Tinnion.

I've got some cornus sanguinea that need planting if you've got 5 minutes. And some paving slabs that need laying, come to think of it. Got to be more fun than Manningball.

Well said.

Yes... who moved to Westbury where he paid for a new pavilion. He's a cricket fan, who got dragged into football by his boy. Cricket's his game because the rules are the rules, much like accounting, and teams stick by them by and large. Unlike football. Where on, and off, the pitch everyone's trying to bend the rules to their advantage. Which he can't stand. We're both ancient enough to remember 1982. If someone had said to us then we'd one day have a billionaire owner we'd have been overjoyed. Turns out though, it's the only billionaire owner in existence who wants to "play by the rules" because "rules are rules and fair's fair". Meanwhile tinpot Bournemouth go "fock FFP" and shoot straight past us, to name but one of no doubt many who are happy to find a way - any way - to get promoted. In the meantime, we're supposed to be grateful if he buildt a nice grandstand and possibly some basketball court next door. Jesus christ almighty. There are people here who've seen us beat the champions of europe home and away in the league - long before the Lansdowns or Tinnion were around - but we're supposed to suck up this mediocrity year after year and be grateful. Again - Jesus christ almighty. Anyway, onwards and sideways, here's to next week! Beat bloody Cardiff and we'll all be chipper for 5 minutes.

Will reply tomorrow Your DM deserves a considered response, not my late night ramblings!!

Take aim and Fire! and... Boom!!! Bullseye. Well said. They're well meaning but clueless, thin skinned amateurs. Thank you for the hospitality boxes, now.... effin adios.

Who gives a shite?! No disrespect intended. 1. Anyone reckon the latest lansdown puppet coach can get Twine to make the difference even if he was fit??? No, me neither. And 2. I'll wager a pound to a penny we won't splash the cash to sign him anyway. So he's irrelevant. Good player we had the chance to sign years ago and now won't. Burnley are relegated. So they'll want the sort of money that shows the Lansdowns for what they are - the sort of naive Forest Gumps that can be fooled into paying 8 million quid for a centre half who almost single handedly kept us in this division (love you Tomas!) but who won't pay 4 million quid for the sort of attacker who might just get us promoted. Idiots. Just retire to Westbury cricket club and take your useless boy with you Lansdown, ffs. Edit, I guess that's Guernsey cricket club three days. Or golf club. Whatever. We see you for what you are - well meaning... but clueless. Just like everyone else who's ever held the reins at BCFC.

More than the last bloke was? Nobody. And for context, a change was made because we want to be promoted this season So individually, tactically, whicheverwally - it's a shitshow. Jon Lansdown & Brian Tinnion? Stan Laurell & Oliver Hardy more like.

Its what Saturday nights are for! Or lunchtimes, where you are? Up the City!

Yes. Top man. After most defeats, but especially one as dispiriting as this, I retreat to a bottle of red and some tunes on the hi-fi. So I'll reply to your kind message tomorrow when I'm a little less "emotional", if that's ok! Thanks again though. Up the City!