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16 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

And the third one is - know who you’re interviewing.

Thats not to say a journo has to tread on eggshells around Nige either, just because he has “form”.

He reminds me of my old RE / Careers teacher at school.  Very strict, you didn’t piss around in his lessons, you didn’t forget to do your homework or hand it in late, you had to have your shirt tucked in, tie tied properly (no peanuts!) and top button done up. Yet you did all those things with other teachers if you wanted to.  When I started work he was a customer, and he was very different, he’d basically created this strict aura around him at school which wasn’t him at all, but he wanted his pupils to learn, not just the subject but how to conduct themselves.

So it is fine to ask challenging questions, it is fine to stop him when he’s not answering the question you asked.  But Mickey Mouse Qs like we haven’t won in 11 v Norwich aren’t gonna cut it.

I suppose he was never gonna tell you to do your top button up as a customer

1 minute ago, phil_clevedon said:

That will be full(ish) capacity less some segregation. Not really room for City fans too. 

There were City fans in there for the United game

It’s a poor choice of words. She’s obviously not as big a name as the other three, but she’s certaInly not unknown.

2 hours ago, ChippenhamRed said:

He might already be our best ever player. I suspect he will probably go on to have the best career of any player ever to play for us. Incredible at 19

Depends if you mean the best player while they’ve been playing for us or the best player we’ve had full stop. 

2 hours ago, David Brent said:

I think the prices aren’t right..but it’s the sense of entitlement I can’t comprehend. Season ticket holders demanding their loyalty is repaid despite already been rewarded across 23 home league games and more. 

‘Rewarded’ is a big shout

3 minutes ago, Percy Pig said:

It's clearly an attempt to wind up those who would pick out GJ as their fave. 

But to take the point at face value, he's right up there for me with GJ and Cotts. They both had success, but what I liked about them is they both seemed to get what was needed and how to go about it in the situations we faced. 

Likeable, knowledgeable and interesting. 

Yes you may be right. For me, Pearson shouldn’t be spoken of in the same sentence as those other two until we start to see consistent onfield results.

1 minute ago, Bristol Rob said:

At that price, everyone would 'still be standing'.

Reading the replies, no one has said they won't pay these inflated prices, it's a case of feeling exploited because of the opposition.

As for the argument about 'if we were in the Prem', that's kinda weak, we aren't in the Prem. There will only be one top flight side at Ashton Gate for the cup game.

I didn't expect to pay what I did against Lincoln or West Brom, I just think the club have pushed the envelope on what they think people will accept. So yes, I'll pay for a ticket but it doesn't mean I need to be happy about the cost.

Yes precisely. The club have pushed the envelope because they know they’ll fill the ground even at inflated prices. Considering how faithful the fans have been over the years, despite how little the club has delivered on the pitch in the last four decades, it doesn’t exactly show much goodwill IMO.

Just now, ralphindevon said:

Crikey! Can you still get season card discount? I’m going to see the Arctic Monkeys in May.

And at cricket you’re there for 7 or 8 hours and can’t take any alcohol in so you’ve no choice. 

I can’t remember about the s/t discount to be honest. Wow, it must be an expensive day out at the cricket

2 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

It’s true, all live events, sport, music, comedy is so expensive nowadays.

I was lucky enough to get an Ashes 5th test ticket for the Oval in July, ridiculous price I can’t even bring myself to write how much but it’s something I really wanted to do.

It does make you wonder if/when we get to the promised land how many will be priced out from ever seeing City live. 

Yep. And refreshments too. They were charging £6.80 a pint when I went to see Elton John at Ashton Gate. Awful really

8 hours ago, REDOXO said:

Some People talk utter shit on this forum

We need the money. Johnson blew it all ably supported by a bevy of individuals that have brought the club to a possible points deduction. We have had to sell our best player to balance the books but the club can make some money by a freak FA Cup run and a game against the current champions……Anyone arguing at this point?! 

Supply and demand applies here! If City can make some extra money, not only will they, they have to. I get it as does the club, fifty quid is a lot of money and some are priced out of it, but if they don’t the club are negligent in their fiduciary duty

I get it, once I had no extra cash and life was difficult and that applies to some. But here we are. It’s on the Telly if you can’t won’t pay. The bankroll days have finished we have all got to suck it up and hope this helps towards a new player or not getting into any further trouble  

 

So the fans have to suffer for the club’s poor management?

25 minutes ago, SinéadB said:

Tbf think the anniversary is every year 

Yes I suppose you’re right :laugh:

2 hours ago, Robbored said:

We certainly are fortunate to have Nige at the helm. He really is a proper manager and dare I say it is heading to the top of my favourite City manager list of the last 30 years. He and Danny Wilson in the top two and maybe it’s not a coincidence that they were teammates at Sheffield Wednesday…………..

Really?

Wasn’t the anniversary last year?

21 minutes ago, phantom said:

I bet the club love calls like that, the details will be online when available 

:laugh: I wasn’t calling to find out when it was, I was calling to ask a specific question about membership

4 hours ago, Southampton Red said:

Just wanted to share my calculations on why I think this will be on Tuesday 28th February.

Man City are playing at 5:30 on Saturday 25th Feb and then 12:30 on Saturday 4th March.

Match on the Tuesday: 74 hours after last match and 89 hours until next match

Match on the Wednesday: 98 hours after last match and 65 hours before next match

Tuesday is the least worst option for Man City. Hasn't stopped the TV companies making nonsensical decisions in the past mind  I expect we'll find out today or tomorrow. 

I phoned the club yesterday and they said it would be in the first week of March. Could've been an estimate I guess

On 24/01/2023 at 10:39, Oh Louie louie said:

Marvin Elliot for me he could get up and down

I can barely get up and down the stairs

9 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Learn something every day. I knew the likes of Korey Smith, Kalas, Kodjia, Diedhiou etc lived in LA but never heard Bentley mentioned, nor seen him here.

Maybe it was confidential

26 minutes ago, lenred said:

Would you rather he was happy about not winning games? Would be more than slightly odd if he were don’t you think? 

No of course not - I’d be happier if we were winning more often 

1 hour ago, HitchinRed said:

Personally, I couldn’t see anything wrong with this interview at all. Yes, NIge was clearly frustrated not having won the game, but I thought he was perfectly respectful to the interviewer throughout and answered all his questions politely.

His frustration at not winning games seems to be quite a recurrent theme. He needs to find a way

21 hours ago, Phileas Fogg said:

Ex-City of course so I’m sure many will feel the same, but I do really like Cotterill as a guy. He’s clearly mad as a fox, very intense and emotive - but he’s someone I’d really like to succeed.

Good manager too!

1 hour ago, Malago said:

The profit we made on Adam Webster and Josh Brownhill more than paid for Kalas, Bentley, Tomlin and Palmer.

That was money well spent then :laugh:

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10 hours ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said:

I think the point is you can only play what's in front of you.

SC is not one of our best manager's merely because he was only successful in L1 - same for Gary J. 

SOD inherited a team destined for L1 with poor quality. NP didn't inherit poor quality and a very good youth progress- Scott, Semenyo, Conway, surprisingly Viner and, now, perhaps Bell?

Gary Johnson took us within one game of the Premier League. A brilliant manager for us.

On 15/01/2023 at 23:30, Robbored said:

SL isn’t  the type to sack managers after run of poor games - we saw that in the way he supported LJ to whom he showed tremendous patience when many fans were calling for his head. He’s also very keen on keeping the club on a stable footing and sacking the manager and all his backroom staff causes a huge upheaval and destabilises the club.

SL also knows that Nige is developing a new culture throughout the entire club and that takes time but  it certainly didn’t help last season when invisible Jon commented that he thought Nige would have made further progress……..…….

Unless City enter the with drop zone and are running out of games then SL will stick by Nige. 

Isn’t SOD supposed to have developed a new culture throughout the club about 10 years ago? 

31 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

It's not the rubbish entertainment at half time that bothers me, it's the rubbish we serve up for the 45 mins before and after that is the concern.

At least we showed a bit of fighting spirit for the last 15 mins, where was it for the first 75 minutes?

It doesn’t help having grumpy guts in charge