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It’s a shame as it was a really good podcast and enjoyed listening on my morning dog walk. Highlights were the interviews over Christmas with Honor, Owers and Latham. it’s become all a bit too predictable now with Ian’s nonsense talk and his general rudeness to everyone else he comes across as an angry old man. Back to OSIB for me.

Spot on @Davefevs even Pep wouldn’t get many results/performances from our under 23s. I think some of the players have taken a while to readjust from a number of years of training/culture under LJ and DH. It doesn’t happen overnight though does it. I'm sure a prominent and very vocal local podcast ‘celeb’ would disagree!!

Great to see MP clapping the crowd at the end. I live pretty close to MP and he is a genuine nice guy. My son broke his leg in the first lockdown and within 24 hours MP has used his contacts at Bristol City to produce get well clips from all the city 1st team. My son was over the moon with it and something he’ll always cherish. He didn’t need to do this but did as he’s one of the good guys in the game. We could do a lot worse by bringing him back as some form of coach in the youth set up in the future.

@headhunterWont be a popular opinion but we may need Martin for set piece defensive duties on Saturday, was missed yesterday. Weimann back in the no 10 role to accommodate?

Good show @headhunter really helps me get through the Monday early morning dog walk. Keep up the good work. Really enjoyed the session with @Davefevsthe other week and very well facilitated. Great idea to have a Derby fan on and thought he was pretty complimentary about us, especially in the 1st half. He failed to mention Derby hadn’t submitted their accounts for the last 3years! (Although City are running behind at the moment). It’s been said already, but we are a team in transition and tbh I can live with one half 45 minute performances as long as the commitment is there. Also not many teams put in 90 minute performances, so the panel could be waiting a long time for that to happen. Re possession stats with a slightly different angle, may be you could look at Ian’s comments from the previous show as would be interesting to know what % of Ian’s comments are positive and what % are negative!! ? keep up the good work.

The easy answer is sack the manager but ultimately this group of players isn’t good enough so any new manager will ultimately end up with the same results and same OTIB threads. Painful as it is we need to stick with NP and somehow convince a club to take Palmer off our hands and even move Wells on in January. It may give us some wriggle room to be a little more creative in January.

Totally depends on your agenda re “is this his squad” Tanner and Atkinson were good “new to club” signings and both of them were well within our price/wages. James/King/Simpson defo his signings but only James signed to play 40+ games, whilst King/Simpson signed to be his eyes and ears round the club. Baker a sensible resigning given our shortage of CB’s and also his championship experience on a reduced wage. Other options would have been someone like Tom Lees from Weds now at Huddersfield. I think he would have taken Pato/Wash over Palmer but contracts and our crazy wage bill (£30m) caused by Ashton (and some what LJ) have left us in a precarious position. Who knows but we could be Reading next season negotiating a points deduction…. I think NP quoted he didn’t want to bring players in that weren’t better than what we have already. That’s part of the problem we had under LJ in that we brought in volume rather quality. I know there was plenty of speculation around Michael Smith from Rotherham, but TBH £2m for a 30 year old league 1 player who has scored 18 career goals in the championship would have not been a good purchase IMO. So yes this is some of his squad but not all his squad. We’ve been a team in decline for 3 years. Even under LJ results papered over our performances. There is no quick fix here and will take time. Patience required.

I should qualify my words. His recovery is good (Fulham/Cardiff are good examples).

Tinkering with formations not the way forward IMO. Ignoring the personnel, play the back 4 higher up the pitch. Plenty of pace at the back with Kalas (& Baker). Would make a difference to our exposed midfield and may even play more of the game in the opponent’s half.

@headhunteryou have a decent product and what’s good it’s a different approach to OSIB. Well done on getting Ian to name his team vs Bournemouth. No where to hide now Ian! My only other build is to keep a clear structure to the show. When it goes well the structure appears to be review game team for next game another subject (eg transfer window) When it doesn’t go well we find the panel going down rabbit holes talking about the team next week before the review of the game has completed. It loses its flow when this happens. Just my thoughts but normally an enjoyable listen.

Millwall’s record suggests they are hard to beat and proved tonight. Their goal defo changed momentum and our enforced changes with the loss of Williams didn’t help. With the loss of Wells in the warm up left us light on the bench IMO. Not sure what type of game @headhunterwas expecting other than a tight attritional game settled by one goal or a draw. May be we should be playing Ian Gays crazy formations, what was it 3 2 3 2 ?

Interestingly we are 7th in the table for shots on target per game and 3rd per shots in a game. We have missed some chances this season.

We are good as relegated now. Another transition, another payout to a manager. More players move on and more players in as a new head coach comes in....