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  1. 28 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

    No, it’s basic decision making. Do you coach the team to lump the ball aimlessly forward just in case a calamitous goal like that is conceded? Of course you don’t. You rely on pro footballers to be able to make decisions that aren’t ******* downright stupidity.

    You are 100% correct.

    You can have a philosophy as a manager to play out from the back and you can coach that every single day but there will always be times in a game when it is not the right thing to do - the goal was one of those times.

    We are talking about professional football players here who must know when the time is right and equally,when it isn’t.

    No way can this be layed at the coaching staffs door, it is utter incompetence from players who are paid to play football. 

    If I was NP I would be losing with them.

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  2. 8 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

     

    Just goes to show there's more to the game than talent. The level of dedication to fitness and practice isn't for everyone, and it's a mentally draining lifestyle.

    I assume that Bristol Live will run a piece about how the club has been proven right in this case, to balance out their previous puff piece about him? 

    You make a good point about dedication with younger and indeed older players. Things are very different now to years back when players, after a home win, would go out on the town with teammates and have a good night.

    Now, if camera phones and social media were not enough, the sport science guys at the club would have a field day with you on a Monday morning!

    Whilst your non footballer mates would be out you would be at home recovering and watching MOTD then bedtime - tough for a young man to accept 40+ weeks of the year.

    Nowadays, you are effectively a professional athlete and have to show the dedication required. I think it helps if you love football and not just love being a footballer.

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  3. 1 hour ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

    Let's get past this 12 million. He will not leave Bristol City for anywhere near 12 million. Pearson himself today laughed that off. 

    Alex Scott is going to the very top of the game. Future England player. 12 million would be an insult. 

    Just watched the press conference. What he actually said was that HE would not accept £12m BUT it would not be his decision regarding an acceptable fee.

    I think it is a difficult one to gauge, for a number of reasons. I think the idea of a loan back would only come into play if a top 10 PL came in for him and were happy to secure his services from the summer onwards and had no intention or need to play this season.Alternatively, they might want to start working with him in training straight away.

    In any case I think it’s unlikely he will move this window and if I were advising him I would suggest the summer would be a better time .

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  4. 8 minutes ago, Robbored said:

    I assumed that LJ inflated opinion of his managerial skills would allow him to sink so low.

    Tbf LJ wasn’t a complete waste of time. He started off pretty well, playing some decent stuff and I for one was happy enough - however over time he began to morph into his father and his selections became more and more bizarre. I remember reading on here that he became known as ‘the tinker man’ and it was virtually impossible to predict what team he’d put out.

    I got so wound up with a performance against Leeds on a Tuesday evening that I very nearly when around the concourse to give him both barrels of ‘criticism’ but I was in the Dolman at the time. City lost 0-2 iirc and never laid a glove on them.

    After that shambles I lost complete faith in LJ.

    Call it a conspiracy theory but I seriously suspect that GJ was a huge influence in LJs reign at City.

    I have often pondered on how much his dad influenced LJ’s footballing decisions, I know neither of them and therefore have no idea but I do wonder.

  5. We always need to remember that  if the players head is turned by playing in the PL and the big ££, it will be very difficult to keep him.

    I am sure if any of these ‘rumours’ are true you can be certain that the players agent will have been made aware what wages are on offer.

    Yes, the offer to the club has to be acceptable but I think any thoughts of £20m plus is fanciful, the club will have a figure in mind plus add-on’s and if that is met or close to being met the player will be gone.

  6. 1 minute ago, 2015 said:

    He also stumbled across Reid being an adequate Striker. We had no forwards in pre season before Diedhiou signed that were fully fit so he tried Reid up front with Hinds in pre season and it worked well. It wasn't no tactical masterclass by him.

    Too many hung up on 4 months of good football in 2017/18. There were home performances under LJ in his final 3 years that were much worse than we've been served up recently.

    LJ was too interested in winning tactical battles against other Managers, the success in 17/18 went to his head a bit and thought he was some sort of genius, the next Eddie Howe of English football management. He was anything but. An extremely cautious manager from 2018 onwards and we bottled the playoffs massively in 18/19. We should have made them with the squad we had. He should have gone after that, he'd lost his way.

    Agreed. I also think,as a general point, particularly at home, LJ was way to concerned with countering the opposition rather than trying to impose his team on theirs.

    I watched his ‘exclusive’ interview on Sky last night, change the tracksuit he had on to a City one and he could have been talking about one of his losing runs here!

  7. 32 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

    I could never understand his logic when he moved to Scotland. The vast majority of managers and coaches, even the good ones, get sacked on a regular basis. Some last two or three years or, if unlucky, only two or three months. He was only 16 when he moved and, if he’d stayed at City,  it would have meant being away from his family but that’s what a lot of young players put up with when starting their career. What’s he going to do when dad and LJ are eventually sacked? Follow them from club to club? 

    If only LJ and stuck with this system when the injured players got fit! A sensible manager would have continued playing 4-4-1-1 as it was working, but LJ had to tinker and change things. He made quite a few mistakes at City but this must be his biggest 

    I firmly believe that LJ ‘stumbled’ across that formation when Fam was unavailable and it worked.

    The minute Fam was available he was straight back and we were way less effective.

    In my opinion one of his biggest mistakes.

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  8. 1 minute ago, sh1t_ref_again said:

    My post was aimed at the few who coninually pop up on the back of a couple of defeats, trying to create a groundswell against SL and wanting him out and what that could achieve.

    Also take your point which would seem to havve been addressed, we have a manager in NP, who is not afraid to tell SL where its going wrong, Tinman now running recruitment and a new CEO who could not be more experienced it would seem SL now has the football people in place, just need an upturn in results.

    I would agree with that. Those three utterly key roles are now filled with experienced football people finally.

    Results do need to improve and quickly, but I am optimistic that will happen and we can start to progress forward.

    The very last thing we need is to end up in the bottom three in the next few weeks and for SL to pull the trigger on NP. In that scenario I would understand why he would as relegation would be a disaster,  but a new manager / head coach would want to do things differently, which I get, but it is not something that we need right now.

    I don’t believe - currently - that we will be in trouble but we need to start picking up points very soon.

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  9. 1 hour ago, chinapig said:

    A West Brom fan was telling me their owner turned down a £50m bid for the club because he wants £175m!

    He has just borrowed £20m from the rather notorious Macquarry bank to cover day to day costs, the club having already loaned £5m to his Chinese business.

    With parachute payments ending this season Albion fans fear big trouble if they don't go up this season.

    I have been highly critical of Steve's strategic and football decisions but at least he isn't dodgy.

    And according to the BBC he has failed to pay the £5m back today, which was the extended deadline date......

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  10. 8 hours ago, REDOXO said:

    If you think that a bloke with his track record would take the job without having an agreed remit which will include having a say in who is responsible to him then you really need to think again. 

    The manager may have a reporting line to the CEO and in any normal business may have the power to hire and fire however, there is no way that the new CEO will have the power at this club to fire NP, or any other first team manager without the 100% agreement of SL.

    And that is simply the norm in football unless the CEO is also a majority shareholder. 

    I may have misunderstood your post and if I have I apologize but to think that the CEO of BCFC has that power is simply incorrect. 

  11. 1 hour ago, REDOXO said:

    A new CEO inbound. Who will clearly be watching and reporting over the next few games. 
     

    I don’t see the idea Pearson will be fired by SL or Gould, while the latter is a dead duck CEO, at least without the approval of the new bloke and I don’t see that until his assessments of position are complete, hence the agents tweet. 
     

    The 18 or so players picked tonight know if they get on they are being watched more closely than ever. 
     

    We need something from them for all of our sakes. 
     

    COYRs

    Gould or the new CEO’s opinion on the manager don’t count for anything, the only persons opinion that counts is the owner.He will make the decision on NP when he feels he has to.

    We can moan on Internet forums and social media, we can boo at AG,makes no difference, it is SL’s train set and he makes all the big calls.

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  12. 2 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

    West Brom have taken out a £20m loan from MSD. Secured I believe, says it's over 4 years..

    Their Parachute Payments end this season- if they stay down its down to £8-9m tops in EFL and related distributions, will be interesting to see how it plays out.

    In addition to that, and it may have been covered previously, the majority shareholder took  a loan of £5m from the club to support another of his businesses. 

    He has already missed the initial repayment date which has since been rescheduled for this Saturday 31/12. 

    Interesting.

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  13. 17 minutes ago, Dr Balls said:

    But surely as first team coach Euell is partly responsible for the current problems on the pitch? Not a ringing endorsement is it?

    That scenario reminds of something from the recent past........

  14. On 24/12/2022 at 12:35, BigTone said:

    Same in Australia in the planes. I used to fly all the time with my job and always found it amusing that rows 10 - 15 were designated as smoking zones.

    It was exactly the same in planes in Europe. The number of smoking seats - back of the plane - were gradually reduced, all this did was encourage the smokers who were not in those seats, to get up once the seatbelt sign went off, and head up the back to stand and smoke.

    Cabin crew, in the main, only got hacked off when they had to get the food and drink trolley out of the galley, which, usually then was also at the back of the cabin, and negotiate a load of passengers standing in the aisle having a fag!

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  15. 49 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

    Largely down to Swiss Toni who didn`t want anyone who would challenge him or call out his bullshit IMO.

    100%.

    I suspect that nice Mr Ashton knew the risks for him, in an experienced manager being appointed, and had not quite sealed the Ipswich job therefore,he was Holdens biggest advocate during the ‘rigorous ‘ recruitment process.

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  16. On 15/12/2022 at 08:24, LondonBristolian said:

    Best wishes to him. Hope the treatment is successful, the side effects as minimal as they can be and that he is fully recovered and playing again as soon as possible. I also really hope him and his family are getting all the support they need.

    @LondonBristolian just come back to this thread. Being someone who is currently going through this I have to report that my experience has been outstanding. 

    Clearly there are lots of things that are currently going on in the NHS and they do need to be urgently resolved but, I can confirm that the staff at the RUH are magnificent, I have nothing to complain about at all.

    The care and compassion that they offer cancer suffers is above and beyond.

    There is also lots of additional- non-hospital related - support available too.

    Again, I send good wishes to this young lad for a full and speedy recovery.

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  17. On 13/12/2022 at 21:57, phantom said:

    Definitely made no sense, especially given it had to also wait for the nine clicks to register the actual number being dialled 

    This gave me a flashback of the little lock my parents used to put in one of the holes so I couldn't use the phone 

    I remember when my mum and dad got their first ever phone installed this was pre1970. To make a call you picked up the receiver and spoke to the operator giving them the number you wished to call and they connected you directly.

    The ones with the circular dial came in soon after and as my brother and I got older and more of our mates parents had phones my dad bought one of the locks,

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