ashton_fan

4 hours ago, Wiltshire robin said:

Not at all , throughout our history we have always fell between the champ and league one so us being in the championship is just standard

We've had a lot more in Div 3 than in Div 2, eg between 1932 and 1965 we were in div 3 in all but 2 seasons, and in the time between Alan Dicks leaving (1980) and Gary Johnson's promotion team (2007) we only had 5 seasons in the 2nd tier, the rest were in the lower divisions. Why do people on here have it in for the Lansdowns after all they've done for the club, they're by far the best owners in the 50+ years I've been watching the team?

11 hours ago, Wiltshire robin said:

Exactly, people pull the wool over their eyes just because we have a couple of shiny stands 

Have we actually improved on the field since the lansdowns took over? . Grateful for the money they have put in but the amount of teams that have overtaken us with less resources and potential is incredible in the time they have ran the club.

We're a league higher, we were in L1 when he took over and the Championship was just a dream so we must have overtaken a lot more than have overtaken us

On 31/08/2021 at 22:54, Robin101 said:

Signing 19 players is extraordinary. How can they afford that!?

Only 3 players cost them money, the rest were freebies and loans. I see Wes Burns was one of the new signings and they got rid of Cole Skuse and James Wilson. Some Ipswich fans are saying they have "the best squad in L1 history" and hope to get 100 points this season, they actually mention our title season and they hope to emulate that. Trouble is they've had no pre-season with most of the players so could take them until Christmas to work out their best eleven.

2 hours ago, Monkeh said:

So that's why they took Derby to court and continue to pursue them...... or docked Leeds 25 points or forced Southampton into administration when the whole parent company thing came to light

You are wrong

They have rules that they stick by nothing more  Nothing less

Southampton went into administration because they could not repay their mortgage on the new statdium, nothing to do with the EFL.

As for Derby there's a whole thread about lack of suitable punishment. Although they are a big club they are up for sale and financially very weak so unlikely to threat the EFL with an expensive legal case.

The problem with EFL's FFP is that there are lots of grey areas (like stadium ownership), that's why court cases keep popping up.

1 minute ago, RedRaw said:

Reading?

I believe Reading's foreign owners are well-financed, a bit different than dealing with, say Cheltenham Town or Newport County

The EFL are fearful of legal action when dealing with the bigger clubs so tread more carefully

10 minutes ago, EstoniaTallinnRed said:

Just need a goal scorer now!

Weimann has 3 already in 4.5 games

Just now, Davefevs said:

No, its fickle, its knee-jerk....to any excuse they can find.  Not everyone of course, some will back up and have good rationale....but some comments are pathetic.

I think we have to forget the end of last season with all the injuries and judge NP from now

2 minutes ago, formerly known as ivan said:

Not criticising NP, he has to work within the restrictions he has. That doesn’t stop the fact that this is a very poor squad and anything other than a relegation battle would have the be deemed a success 

NP has said he's happy with the squad

1 minute ago, wendyredredrobin said:

What are the odds of us conceding injury time yet again?

Can't see it happening again, hopefully learnt our lesson

Boro fans worried that with wide players Watmore and Tavernier both injured they will struggle going forward and be reliant on set pieces for goals, also apparently a very weak bench

On 25/05/2021 at 10:05, Steve Watts said:

I certainly hope that it isn't their argument!  You can't win a legal battle with an outright falsehood...well...ok, you probably could, but not in this case.

If the EFL apply the points deduction they'll either end up relegated and start the season in league one, or they'll apply it to next season and Derby will start with negative points in the Championship.  But to say that Derby are in league 1 now is simply not true!

I think the reason any penalty is generally applied the following season is because if the penalised club appeals to the law courts the case can run over to the start of the next season, if the result of the case affected which league they were in the league fixtures for the two leagues in question would be chaos, in fact they may not even be able to start until the appeal had been concluded.

4 hours ago, BCFC Grim said:

You get the odd clown on here saying that this forum is toxic and City fans are one of the worst around. I suggest they go and gave a look at Sunderlands forum. They absolutely despise him. 

They loved him though when they had the long unbeaten run, and if they win the play-offs will love him again. It's one extreme or the other up there.

11 hours ago, BCFC_95 said:

Let’s say 5-10 years down the line, LJ has a couple of L1 promotions on his CV with whoever, and turns them into an established Championship top half team, would anyone take him back? 

If I was him I wouldn't come back here with all the negative vibes from many going back to his playing days, better to go somewhere where he starts with a clean slate (as with Sunderland). When he came here before he wanted to establish himself at Championship level, he achieved that. The only way he'd come back if he was offered a job here and we were in the Prem, but can't ever see that happening.

9 hours ago, billywedlock said:

I have always blamed both SL and `SC for those events. The pair of them did not get their acts together, and lost the greatest momentum we have had in decades. The club felt great, fans were happy, the players were a solid group. They were , we were, as a club struggling to adapt. It was our biggest missed opportunity since we went to the old 1 st division. I don't think SL had any choice in the end, but I do blame SL for getting us in the situation in the first place. No one comes out of it with any credit. We will never know if SC could have kept us up. It is a non argument. But as a club we really messed up. 

But I do know Sunderland have appointed the wrong ex City manager. I am certain SC would have been perfect for them. His west country accent , sadly, will always be an issue for many. Having said ex City managers, even GJ would have been better than LJ. 

FWIW I also believe SC and Keith Burt would have done a lot lot better with the millions in transfer fees and wages that the people who came after have done. For the way the club has lost its soul and connection with the fans, I would have SC back now in a heartbeat. We need to recreate some love. Im an old fashioned football fan. I want our club back please. 

Cotts has already been sacked once by Sunderland when he was assistant to Howard Wilkinson

1 hour ago, 22A said:

Scroll back a few years and quite a few members of this forum posted on here saying they expected PT to come to City after learning Management skills at Exeter. Over the years there have been some others who reckon Warnock is the manager City need.

A few weeks ago quite a few on here said he should replace DH!

On 30/01/2021 at 11:19, miser said:

I'd reckon mid 70s as the Dolman still has the clear side panels. It wasn't too long after construction when they blew out in a storm and replaced by standard cladding.

I think those panels blew out in 1971 or 72 so that photo must have been taken soon after the stand was completed in 1970.

Semenyo looked tired in the Reading match as did one or two others. However he's worth his place as a striker, he will score more as he plays more games and has time to improve. In any case he's got 2 this season already, that's the same as Martin and one more than Diedhiou and has 4 assists (equal top with Martin) so I don't know what this thread's about.

13 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

Somebody in my office had what was in retrospect classic CV19 with loss of sesne of taste and smell; this was January I think.

She was in all through the three weeks that she would have had it so that would mean everyone in that office got it and then passed it on at home, at football games and then onto schools.

I genuinely expect that the majority of people of working age and below have had it because it was widely circulating well before lockdown.  Maybe 70 - 80%; and the majority of those without feeling particularly unwell.

The people who didn't get it would have been those who weren't having this close daily contact with other people - primarily the elderly and infirm.

 

Whilst this is in the category of "I reckon" a random US sampling of 100 people found that a third had hit.  That's not enough to be statistically significant but I await wider testing with interest as I would say that the much vaunted "herd immunity" was achieved in January - March for the working age population but that there was a second wave amongst a more isolated subsection of the population, the elderly, that took much longer to take off and in that subsection became big news because it was a much more serious infection for them.

My wife and I both had an illness similar to COVID over a year ago (Jan 2019), I was ill for about 3 days then my wife started off the same as me and it turned into pneumonia and she was very ill for weeks and also had other symptoms associated with COVID, I'm hoping we'll get an antibody test at some stage then we'll know more. When they investigate this once it's over I think they'll find it's been around for ages but people would have thought they'd had some sort of flu, maybe it mutated at some stage so it became easier to catch and that's when it got noticed. 

2 hours ago, wayne allisons tongues said:

How would it work, we couldn’t play all our games at AG that gives us a big advantage. 
Do championship sides play home and away and L1 and L2 play at neutral grounds.

I don't think they've discussed it in detail yet but I imagine that if there's no fans there's not much advantage in being at home although I'm sure we'd have to play some games away from AG

1 hour ago, sticks 1969 said:

I would imagine it would be behind closed doors in which care I doubt if the players would care less , all they would want to do is finish the remaining season.

I'm sure it would be behind closed doors, it would make it easier to televise the games if there are only a few venues

In the paper today it said EFL are considering playing all remaining EFL matches at 10 to 15 Championship grounds with 3 to 4 matches being played each day. I would have thought if that happens we would be one of those since we're the only club in this area and we have an advanced pitch capable of supporting that number of games, could mean the Gas playing their remaining fixtures at AG? 

I think it would benefit the away teams in general not having a crowd but as others have said can't see it happening for some time.

1 hour ago, wayne allisons tongues said:

Games can’t be played behind closed doors. L1 and L2 sides would not survive, gate receipts is what keeps them afloat. If L1 and L2 can’t play rest of leagues can’t be decided for no relegation promotion. 
 

Hope we don’t get the situation where L1, L2 and NL are voided but championship and PL where more money is are played behind closed doors.

Think that would be the last straw for me and would stop me watching City. Would just watch more Non league with my son,

Re the finances I think the same applies to most Championship clubs, matchday income pays the players wages. In the Prem it could run just on TV money but would those highly-paid players be willing to put themselves at risk? The only way most EFL clubs can survive is if football is suspended until 21/22 season and they can be put into temporary adminstration with employees wages/contracts deferred until the restart, not sure if this is possible legally but the alternative is nearly all clubs going bust other than a few like ours with billionaire owners who can make up the deficit (FFP laws would not apply during this period)

4 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Yep, read that too.  Dunno whether that covers you to watch away games though.

I'm guessing we'll have to pay for away games but that they'll be available on stream