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Just now, W-S-M Seagull said:
But let's be honest, Cotts refusal to move away from that system cost him his job. We were going down under Cotts and with that system.
Maybe he was insisting the first team played the same way as the u21s
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6 minutes ago, cotswoldred2 said:
That is old news, SL's war chest to Frank with a note is to get us promoted.
But, but, but, wouldn't that mean SL backtracking on his previous approaches
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6 minutes ago, MelksRed said:
Not a pop at the poster here.....are we really going for promotion? With a threadbare set of (mainly) inexperienced players?.....makes my pi55 boil.....when the espoused aims of the club are clearly not aligned with the expenditure / investement on the pitch etc.
No offence intended mate...not aiming it at you.....
Nope, we definitely are going for promotion. Our Chairman and Tins both said the squad should be top 6!
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4 minutes ago, marmite said:
Frank, or whoever gets the job, won't be shopping anywhere. That will be a certain Mr. B Tinnion.
Correct. Tinnion has gone on record as saying that our shopping list will be from the lower leagues, with youthful players who have a point to prove, and have played a great deal of games and looking to step up a level.
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32 minutes ago, Ciderhead433 said:
There are at least 2 managers I'd name a stand after before Peason.
Alan Dicks, Terry Cooper.
...AND we're still waiting for the club to announce what their memory\tribute to Terry Cooper will be?
I suppose in the words of Wally, these things take time!
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25 minutes ago, Wanderingred said:
If you were a respected professional in your field, and you were offered a job working as subservient to a person who tried and failed miserably at your profession nearly two decades ago, what would you say?
Eustace was never realistic, neither is Lampard, or Hughton or Williams. They are looking for a very specific type of person, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a name we’ve never heard of.
Oh dear, the more time that goes by, the more I see Ali Hines being promoted up from the u21s, especially after Tinnion was wax-lyrical over their "losing" performance against Tottenham!
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Crikey, I just watched that video, and there will probably at least 5 coaches all piping up with instruction's!
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Just now, Mike Hunt-Hertz said:
He came as ET.
So he was wearing stilts as well???!
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10 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:
And 117 goals with a +75 goal difference.
Come to City and learn how to turn that into 75goals and a -117 goal difference !!
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18 minutes ago, RobinTuga said:
Uses a 3 centre back system, massive focus on possession (Notts has averaged over 60% both last year in the National League and so far this year in League Two). This article is a good read and goes a little more in depth. As others have mentioned he's worked here before with the youth sides so I imagine he'll be somewhat familiar with the lads who've made the step up from the academy.
I mentioned it in another thread but he's probably the only realistic option where I'd still be excited to have him on despite all the turmoil that seems to be happening around the club.
That'll bring on a few heart attacks with Naismith at the back, and Atkinson due to come back !!
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2 minutes ago, Red & Gold said:
I just can't shake the idea that JL and Tins believe our squad automatically entitles us to be a promotion-chasing team or, conversely, that it's a sackable offense if we're not. Just because we believe that the squad has improved doesn't instantly make it a top-six squad, or further up the pecking order in league rankings. Other squads are also improving and when looking at the signings they are often signing players who, at least on paper, appeal as having a more reputable track records as promotion-chasing players than some of ours.
The Championship is full of strong teams. Breaking it down, you've got the recently relegated teams with ample resources and large squads (how can anyone compete with clubs like Leeds and Leicester unless they make significant errors?), then you have those teams that no longer receive parachute payments but have larger budgets thanks to three years of prior funding. Alongside them, you've got those large clubs all vying and aspiring to make get to where they think they belong (e.g., Ipswich, Sunderland, and the like). Following them, you've got clubs like Millwall, Preston, and us - established Championship clubs with mid-range budgets that are generally competitive. There are very few small clubs with low budgets now.
This makes for an intensely competitive and challenging league. Below, I've highlighted a few examples of teams and players that stood out to me when I looked through their squad lists. When you add these to teams such as Leeds, Leicester, Watford, and Norwich, it becomes clear how naïve some of JL and Tins' comments sound, especially when you take into account our own injuries.
- Birmingham: Ethan Laird, Dion Sanderson, Juninho Bacuna, Scott Hogan, Siriki Dembele
- Cardiff: Aaron Ramsey, Romaine Sawyers, Andy Rinomhota, Callum Robinson, Yakou Meite, Josh Bowler
- Coventry: Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Ellis Simms, Milan van Ewijk, Callum O'Hare, Haji Wright, Liam Kitching, Bobby Thomas (they're spending £30 million this year)
- Middlesbrough: Dael Fry, Paddy McNair, Lewis O'Brien, Morgan Rogers, Emmanuel Latte Lath, Seny Dieng, Martín Payero
- West Brom: Darnell Furlong, Cedric Kipre, Jed Wallace, Josh Maja, Matt Phillips, Nathaniel Chalobah, John Swift, Adam Reach, Alex Mowatt, Ollie Burke
- Stoke: Ben Pearson, Lewis Baker, Tyrese Campbell, Dwight Gayle, Daniel Johnson, Wesley, Lynden Gooch
- Hull: Jean Michael Seri, Liam Delap, Aaron Connolly, Scott Twine, Rúben Vinagre
I stopped looking, but I am sure we can all find God players at all the clubs.
I'm not convinced that many other fans (nor managers), including those with promotion aspirations, would be content going into a season with the relatively inexperienced Tommy Conway, who, I rate hugely, as their first-choice striker, and a trio of Bell, Conway, and Sykes as a top three. I don't think many people thought our squad looked good enough, at least on paper, for a top-six finish, in comparison to others (even if it is our best squad for a while). Unusual for a fans base, I felt that we were realistic in our optimism - on paper, we're a midtable side, however, thanks to the squad's unity and positive direction NP was taking us in, there was always the hope that we might sneak into the top six. Credit goes to Pearson for putting us in this position, especially given the reduction in squad wages and reduced net spending.
In contrast you look at Bristol Bears. There is a salary cap in the English prem but you are allowed two players outside of that. Bristol paid more than anyone else in the league for these two ‘marque’ signings- including paying one player the highest salary in the world (allegedly). So, it is safe to say that they have been the leading spenders for the last two years in England, or very close to it. The club had stated aims to be Prem champions and European champion cup competitors. However, the last two years have seen Bristol finish near the bottom of the league, underachieve (and also been rumours of discontent within the squad). Yet Pat Lam was and had not been sacked, yet when you compare his team’s relative performance to Nigel’s in their own context's, given the resources they had compared to each's own rivals and aims against final league placings, it makes Nigel’s sacking even more puzzling. I think in reality there have been hints from the start that SL didn’t really get on with NP (and perhaps Nige is not as good at managing up, or 'playing the game'). They never really spoke much and thus it was perhaps always a matter of time. SL's relationship to LJ certainly seems very different from the outside looking in, and at that time LJ was given a lot of money and opportunities to make mistakes. It would had been interesting to had seen how NP would had done if he had LJ's time in the role and money to spend on wages and transfers. We will never know.
The talk of aggressive football, makes me think Nathan Jones could be the chosen one.
...and SL was complaining the other day that he wants a higher salary cap in Rugby, but wont spend on the football team !
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So what formation did the U21s play against Tottenham that Tinnion was lauded it over?
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24 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:
Reading from a script?
It doesn't sound like Mr new head coach is going to be recruiting in January then.
In the summer 'we had a good squad', yes we DID, then sold Antione and Scott without replacing them or giving the Manager any scope to do so yet we expect promotion?
Utter waffle.
Nope, we've got the perfect squad, and once we get the correct head coach in, we'll storm to promotion without any recruitment being required !!
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BINGO!!! "Front footed, fast paced, pressing football" - we're getting all that now, or was getting that with NP !!
Jeeze, are they expecting the next manager to feed the players nitroglycerine to get them pressing any harder???!
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10 hours ago, Lorenzos Only Goal said:
I do wonder if he's not poorly, he setup ravenscroft over in Guernsey and then retired from that last year. He's 71 and he must want Jon to be running the day to day for him.
That said I think he want out one way or another. For whatever reason.
I also wonder if SL is spreading himself too thin?
He obviously has the Bristol Sport Umbrella with all the associated sports teams, he has the golf club development in Guernsey, he has his Botswana interests, he has a large stake in that specialist WiFi company, didn't he also have a stake in a large screen company that provided the big screen to Rovers? He's still got a stake in Hargreaves Lansdown, and probably has a lot more portfolio investments dotted about.
I do question why the need to try and keep making all this extra money? He's way past the traditional retirement age, his family are set up for generations with the money he's made, and yet he still wants more!!
From the beginning, he wanted to leave a legacy, but that legacy is going to be severely tested over the coming months\years. Wouldn't surprise me that the rate this is going, the club will get bought out and the first think that'll happen is the Lansdown stand will get renamed the Terry Cooper stand!
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1 hour ago, Jerseybean said:
Just to add - how many games was it without a win that LJ managed and still he was backed.
All time record EVER for Bristol City wasn't it?! ....and he still held his position.
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I wonder if SL has his eye on Steven Gerrard again?
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I see Dave Rennie has left also. Is that because he's standing by his mate, NP, and decided to walk also?
Or has he been let go by the club because they blame him for all the injuries??
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2 hours ago, Sleepy1968 said:
It's worth a
but you aren't getting one because that comment could be closer to the truth than anyone might suspect!
I'm giving him a
only because of my gallows style humour !!
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One of the things I've really liked about NP being manager, is the way he describes where we are, where we're going to, and how long it's going to get there. He has\had a vision, and appreciates the constraints he's under, but still has a clear plan on how he intends to get there - even when the rug is being pulled from beneath his feet !!
In LJ, I never had a sense of a clear plan or identity, or what we needed to do to get there - it was always buy another player!
Under NP, he said it'll take him 3 years. He's also mentioned a couple of times down the line that we're not progressing as fast as he'd thought, but he also went on to explain that its things in the background he's trying to sort out.
In the early days, he persisted with wing backs, and counter attacking football, as he said that's the best formation for the players we had. He then went about releasing players from their contracts earlier than were due to end, and he also sold Semenyo to create finance to enable us to bring in other players to move to a more possession based side.
All the while, he's changing formation to a 4231 (give or take) which he prefers. He's not pulled the wool over our eyes, he's not quoted buzz words, he's explained it clearly and concisely, and in my eyes I can see a clear plan.
Admittedly it's not been brilliant football all the time, but you can see a clear plan in action. We press from the front, we're fit, we're strong, and we're difficult to play against.
Aside from Steve Cotterell persisting (stubbornly) with wing backs when we got to the championship, NP is providing the clearest plan of what he's trying to deliver, and the last thing I want to see if a new coach come in, rip up the rule book, buy some "clubs in the bag" and rinse and repeat the last couple of decades!!
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26 minutes ago, spudski said:
Are you basing your view purely on results?
If you look at what he's done for the club, as a whole, especially with little money to spend, and instruction to blood academy players, and the way he's got the whole club working as one, and has the respect of players and fans, galvanised the Club, he's done a fantastic job.
Completely agree. We only need to look back at previous attempts to cut costs and keep us in the Championship, and other managers we've employed have failed miserably when asked to do so. Sean O'Driscoll a prime example where we went down with a whimper.
Not only has NP kept us in the division, he's done so comfortably whilst bedding in academy players, whilst off loading highly paid senior pro's, and then having the academy players sold whilst he's been trying to build a team around them.
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4 hours ago, Tinmans Love Child said:
Why do they need to paint that onto the pitch? Just use a bit of TV magic surely
Also, how do they paint that on the pitch? Is there a special stencil that gets sent to our ground staff along with the correct branding colour paints? or does the RFU send a specialist team along to paint it?
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14 hours ago, slartibartfast said:
I was lucky ,we were in the front row of "the Shelf" (Huge double deck terrace to your right) I had a nice white big brick wall to protect me !
Some amazing pictures of the Shelf and the construction of the whole stand just here http://www.iansapps.co.uk/football/whl.html
I find those stadiums designs so much nicer than anything today. Oh to go back to terracing
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35 minutes ago, Dolman Block B said:
Its excellent, done it many times.
You get a bottle of Heineken on arrival along with table for the afternoon.
You then get your lunch, usually buffet style, but its good.
A match day programme.
Paul Cheesley is your host and there is always some current and old City players about for pictures and a chat
Shown to your seat at 2-45
Half time some food on your table.
After the game bar open to around 6pm.
You will enjoy it.
Can anyone confirm if a match day programme is still included seeing that the club no longer produce one?
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Today's Pre Match Presser
in Football Chat
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He also mentioned that the lads always train for several months and then have a break during the International break, and that's happened several times during the last 2.5 years. Basically justifying what DR and JE did.