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6 minutes ago, Slack Bladder said:

This season just can't end soon enough. 

Lost interest

But when the season ends we all start again on zero points. We’re gonna be fooked 

2 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Out of interest, how would you sell City to a prospective new manager? 

Give them the unvarnished truth - diabolical FFP position, squad that requires radical surgery with no money available and wages out of control, no scouting network, owner with one eye on selling up?

Who the heck would be interested in that?

We got Nige in a worse situation didn’t we? 

Just now, Northern Red said:

Yep. Usual suspects will have been soiling their knickers in excitement when the equaliser went in.

Oh shush. We’re allowed to moan 

2 hours ago, Robbored said:

Selling players raises revenue and that would enable Nige to recruit new players.. It’s a method that Brentford have adopted for a number of seasons.by signing like for like or improving on what they’ve sold.

It reflects not only how effective their recruitment set up is but also how skilled their manager is at signing the right players.

Something we're completely and utterly useless at most of the time. Transfer policy was one step forward two steps back for a long while. 

Exciting times ahead 

24 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Not sure why you’ve labelled him ‘Fwank’ - strange. I feel for Frank Lampard, what a fantastic footballer he was (his work ethic during and after training sessions is well documented and is amazing) and what a top bloke he appears to be - listen to his exchange with James O’Brien on the radio way back when he called in on the anniversary of his Mum’s death to take O’Brien to the cleaners when that vile presenter broadcast that Lampard was a bad father - he had O’Brien squirming and backtracking. Frank is obviously a decent guy who is desperate to do well as a manager when he doesn’t need the dosh. He just wants to be still involved and he is trying so hard to get success ... “Fwank”?! ... embarrassing...

Our group is basically Iran vs nato 

20 minutes ago, Lrrr said:

Someone said England get easy draws? 

Let’s be real though world rankings have always meant fudge all

Swansea will take him and he'll score 10 next season 

I wonder what kind of interest he’ll attract in the summer, especially if he hits the big 20. Maybe some teams coming down from the prem could put a big offer down 

23 minutes ago, RonWalker said:

Non-leading question - who comes in? Will they do better with this squad? How will they circumvent the financial issues we have?

20 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

Ah, the questions that none of the people screaming for Pearson to go can ever answer.

Someone with a proven track record and experi..... wait 

3 minutes ago, billywedlock said:

Fans want overnight fixes to complex problems . It’s tiresome that so few understand the depth of a mess we have at the club . Change feels good because it means you enter another phase of uncertainty and something has happened . But if you keep doing that without fixing deep rooted issues at the club it matters little . We have done this for 20 years . Yet here we are again with a group of average over paid  players . In the past we got relegated during this phase . 
 

the issue this summer is not Pearson , it is recruitment . 
 

Overnight fixes? How long has he been here now. I’m not disagreeing with the rest of your post but I feel it’s fine to say he’s been given enough time for us to expect some sort of improvements. And imo we have seen some

2 minutes ago, 054123 said:

Yep.

Almost there.

Huge summer ahead.

I feel like we say that every summer 

Just now, Fordy62 said:

There have been occasions on which our game management has been poor, but there’s also been more than our fair share of bad luck in these injury time goals. It’s almost like the planets have aligned. 

I don’t believe it’s bad luck at all. You make your own luck 

17 hours ago, GlastonburyRed said:

Face you make when trying to flush after a shit at your birds house

4 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said:

I've no doubt that's true but I also struggle to think of comparable defenders available on a free last summer who were better than Baker. Tom Lees was the other serious rumour. He might have been better in hindsight but he was not a definite upgrade and it might be he would have chosen Huddersfield anyway. Once we decided we were spending the bulk of the budget on Atkinson, re-signing Baker was probably the sensible move at the time. 

I hope we use the loan system to help our defence. It’s tragic to watch. The amount of crosses we let into the box makes my head spin 

17 minutes ago, Top Robin said:

If that's the level we aspire to then so be it.....that's why we won't progress in this division. 

Kalas is the same...good enough for us but not a good player.

Otib won’t like that one.

I find when a championship club is happy to stay mid table in the championship it means they’re in some danger of going down, or have plenty rubbish displays like we’ve seen this season. we reek of that attitude, it’s just not a very exciting time to be a fan. 5 years ago there was an ambitious vibe about us, I don’t get those same vibes at all. It’s more like we’re clinging on. When people blame stuff on kalas I laugh, he’s clearly surrounded by poor players, I actually feel sorry for him. 

3 minutes ago, Super said:

Def not the 4th top scoring team.

Okay I just checked, I remember we were pretty high up last I paid attention to it. It’s still not bad. I thought we were still high up there but not anymore it seems 

Just now, Super said:

No.

Hats off, you’ve convinced me 

This is good, aren’t we 4th top goal scoring team? He’s been a part of that all season.  I’d be okay with it if our attack stays the same in the summer. We just need to fix the defence 

I'm still not convinced by the no-loan policy it seems NP has? Our best league finish we had some first team loanees, was it Kalas and Dasilva?

Those two were fantastic that season. Without those two I'm not convinced we would've finished so high. There is just some calibre of players we will never reach without using the loan system. Can't deny the loan system has been somewhat good to us over the years it feels like. 

Maybe a bit controversial. But I'm kinda predicting us to come out of the summer window with a smaller possibly weaker squad. I think we're in for a rough ride. 

I think it's clear to see we've got youth talent playing well at this level that'll attract interest. They'll go if enough is offered. I don't have much faith in this club's ability to replace them well enough. 

However, if we can hold onto those bright shines of light players we have I will feel more optimistic. 

2 hours ago, IAmNick said:

The signing clearly didn't work out, but I'm slightly confused why people are quite so vitriolic about this one in particular?

We signed someone on a short term contract with good football pedigree - three promotions wasn't it... He played a bit, but seems to now be past it.

What's the huge deal exactly?

Just feels like we have not the best record of signing "has beens" and it kinda reeked of it from the start that he was another. I find it hard to get excited when City sign "has beens" anymore. We'll probably sign another in the summer. 

That's how I feel about it anyways, not a huge deal but frustrating how often they don't work out well. 

Hope it’s not another great end to the season where we hear “if the season went on for a couple more games we would’ve gone down”.

 Why are we always so rubbish second half of the season?!