Numero Uno

13 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

I thought he was a very , big club fan. Seemed to give them a lot of easy decisions.
I was impressed he booked ours for the first fouls , yes they were fouls , but  there were about 5/6 fouls on Mehmeti  that weren't bookings. 
I'm not sure about some of the Penalty shouts . The Dickie one was a good shout , but the rest I'm not so sure.

Conway was 100% a penalty, not even debateable.

2 hours ago, David Brent said:

I thought at the time I posted that it looked like Leicester could step up another gear. That opinion might have been swayed by how slow we’ve been to start the second half recently. There were definitely signs of it in the first half with Vardy twice going close. 
 

But Liam was proactive in his changes and we took the game to them more. Definitely more down to our good performance than Leicester simply being poor. Credit to Liam and the team for that. 

It was noticeable that his substitutions had a positive effect yesterday. The fact it's noticeable is concerning BUT they did work yesterday. 

Just now, Robbored said:

I left AG surprised at how many chances  Leicester wasted, some down to Max but not all. Vardy missed at least three opportunities that in his prime would have buried but hey ho all teams miss chances…….

I left AG not giving a left bollock about Leicester for the simple reason it was so refreshing to watch us play some nice football at times and have a go.

I think he’s proven he’s not the clown one or two think he is…………

8 minutes ago, TDarwall said:

I don't need to listen to Gary Owers (much as I like him), I was there & witnessed it with my own eyes. Max was my MoM, but everyone played well. Their bench was worth > £70m, we were never going to prevent them making chances (today was the 1st time they've failed to score since Nov). We played well today & could/should have had a pen before any of their chances.  It was a good game, you couldn't argue against a draw but I don't consider us lucky to have won.

The way I look at it is we played as well as we can given the players we’ve got against a team with £40m players. For us to beat Leicester it’s a given that Max needed to be on point and he was. To people saying “lucky” it’s his job to give us a 9/10 every now and again!!

If Liam could deliver “as well as we can” on a more regular basis we’ll all be happier.

I bet the players enjoyed playing in that too. Makes you give that extra 1% of running to hold on at the end.

1 minute ago, George Rs said:

Elated but just realised we’ve handed the league to Leeds or Ipswich with the wins against southampton & Leicester. Don’t know how to feel now

Leeds are the best side I’ve seen by a long way.

Put in a PERFORMANCE and the result takes care of itself. Thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable game of football. That’s the benchmark, gotta go again Monday. Well done Liam, didn’t think you had that in you.

Just now, Roe said:

To say that he's not bothered about looking back at the West Brom game because it was a long time ago, only to then reference multiple other games that were much longer ago sums it up.

What it sums up is a manager and hierarchy that is flapping and lacks the intelligence and know how to navigate a few awkward questions without getting basic facts wrong (at best, lying at worst) or contradicting themselves. The only conclusion I can draw is NONE OF THEM are up to holding their current positions at the club.

2 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

dont care if i never see or hear anything from that man ever again

 

this is where i think BT might have stirred the pot, everything happened so quickly after he was made TD  and you are 100% right, none of our management/coaching team wanted out,infact,quite the opposite,we werent that far away from pushing on to the next level.

NP openly stated he let the coaches get on with the coaching and didnt interfere with their work,he didnt need to as we had quality doing the job, he oversaw it from a distance so as not to get in peoples faces.

when cotts was in hospital,wilbs kept shrewsbury going,steve kept on trying to help from his hospital bed, Nige would have done the same im sure as they are two of a kind,

how BT can even think he can outdo class like that is beggars belief, so far out of his depth,its unreal and hes caught lansdowns hook line and sinker.

all my own opinion with a bit of factual knowledge  i do have

Tinnion and Jon are the problems, Liam is the major symptom. It's that basic. If you don't lance the boil(s) you don't sort the issue. Hopefully I can take more than an hour of Liam's Binary Ball this week.................

1 hour ago, JP Hampton said:

It’s the “oh be careful what you wish for” brigade that gets me. You could say that about any change or decision to change, in any and anyone’s walk of life, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done. 

That particular brigade got their wish when Nige was fired!!

I am seriously starting to wonder whether a right shellacking tomorrow is the only way that this mess will get dealt with swiftly and properly. More weeks of this will not do anybody any favours.......except Jon and Brian who are clearly having fun at the moment.

1 hour ago, Topper 123 said:

So you bring in someone else he wants his own entourage then he wants to change style of play and who’s to say he’s any better what we need is stability and marquee signings in the summer not 5 division 1 players but a striker 10 million at least and also a good keeper 

doesn’t matter who runs these players their mid table at best pep would struggle to get a tune out of em 

As you've copied Richard Latham and I'm unable to ask him, perhaps you could explain what "Marquee Signing" would come here? Or even contemplate it. You don't just go into Waitrose and buy one off the shelf. "Haven't had a Marquee Signing for a while, shall we treat ourselves Brian?". "Ooh Jon, you're so naughty".

Don't you think that a "Marquee SIgning" comes with "Marquee Expectations"? What I mean by that is they won't come here to finish 16th. They will want to win a medal via promotion and they will want to know who we are signing because telling them we've got Josh Stokes, some lad from St Patricks Athletic and Sam Bell is expected to be fit by October won't attract them, that's a certainty.

It stands to reason that a "Marquee Player" will attract significant interest from other clubs at our level which means we have to COMPETE. What are we going to tell them to stand out from the crowd?.......That we lost 13 of our last 14 last season but don't worry, Liam has got it covered?

1 hour ago, harvey54 said:

A hammering, a rendition of 'you don't know what you're doing' and a post match interview with Binman telling us we're on track.

And Southampton gets a mention,.......again

I think we've definitely reached the stage where a large proportion of the crowd will be ready to jump on anything they don't like such as an unnecessary back pass to Max (from a corner probably) and if we do go 2-3 goals down I cannot see it being anything other than unpleasant. My gripe if that happens is that it will all be aimed at Manning whilst the real culprits just sit there in the Directors Box sharpening their knives so they can save their own skin. Whilst I don't feel sorry for Manning in terms of the football he has produced I do feel for him in terms of the way he is going to get shafted by the club. Will probably put the bloke back 2-3 years, career wise, and whilst you can detest his football there is nothing obvious I know of to hate about the man himself.

4 minutes ago, AshtonGreat said:

So I see people aren't staying away from the Gate after all then...

We'll find out tomorrow. There are normally plenty of empty seats in the South Stand whatever. I think you might see a few stay away for the last three home games though, whatever happens tomorrow.

10 minutes ago, Yozzarian said:

My step-father used to be Hailsham Town's Treasurer so I'd go to a few games.  A day out there was always a blast where it is my mates keeping me going to City right now.

I would go to the Woodspring if I knock City in the head. No, the players aren't anywhere near as good but they are decent enough and, at the same time, you don't generally have managers at that level strangling the life out of football as an entertainment business with their tactics boards. If I wanted to watch a game of Chess I would watch two proper Chess players going at it hammer and tongs in a room somewhere (as much as you can go hammer and tongs in Chess)!! Football is about emotion and action so lesser players making mistakes here and there and not being tactically on point for a full 90 minutes often make for a more enjoyable game................with the ball being passed forwards, shots and goals.

How many people want to leave a game and say "the way the two sides cancelled each other out so there wasn't a single shot on target in 90 minutes was totally captivating"?

2 hours ago, reddogkev said:

fwiw, I still believe that Pearson was released mainly due to his health situation, but the club agreed to keep this out of the media due to respecting his privacy wishes.  I've heard that from quite a few people and it stacks up with the fact NP isn't straight back into management, and probably won't be for a while longer. 

If that was genuinely the case then you just bring in a replacement manager, keep the staff and go for continuity. Or you just give Nige the season off and tell him that if he's alright by June we'll look at a new contract. Curtis and Euell would have been able to deliver a lot more than Manning has. You seem to have ignored the front foot comments made by Sid, the deconditioning and the "better chance of success" comment from Crayon Boy that clearly demonstrate it was a SACKING..........of the entire staff, none of which, apart from Nige, had medical problems.

1 hour ago, View from the Dolman said:

Where's TC been wheeled out?

Facebook and X, haven't checked anywhere else. I wouldn't just say it to knock the club if it hadn't happened albeit I realise you may be asking out of curiosity!!

I see they’ve wheeled Conway out now “Buy your season tickets everyone, I’m ******* off obviously but get those hands in yer pockets……”.

Just now, wendyredredrobin said:

It should be, but it won't be.  I'm afraid we will be stuck with the cockwomble for the duration.

Sell all our best players, replace them with dross then sack an experienced manager who had the support of the fans and replace him with someone clearly way out of his depth.  Well that's a £1,000 worth of season tickets that won't be renewing here - and how many others are feeling the same.

The club is going backwards and I can't see any signs of this changing for the foreseeable.

Surely he cannot keep losing and keep his job?. Season Ticket sales are quiet, we all know that, and the club WILL have to act by 23rd April unless they really want to stick the biggest of middle fingers up to the fans!!

2 minutes ago, Show Me The Money! said:

Well if people really want to send a message to the club then this actually isn’t a bad idea. You could get some cheap white t-shirts, get the letters STB or the full “Sack the board” printed on the front and then sell them outside the ground, maybe priced a little over production costs so that you could donate profits to a charity at the same time.

Would be so funny and also a real striking message to the club to see loads of fans wearing anti club t-shirts instead

Surely it has to be SUAFO rather than STB on the T Shirt doesn't it................................that would keep our Chairman busy for a while.

Low Block, create next to nothing unless we get a set piece right, put in some effort, comfortable 1-0 or 2-0 loss. Bit of moaning tomorrow but everyone then having eyes firmly peeled on Monday where yet another defeat would be the end of Manning. That's how I see it.

26 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Important again to note that the emails today will have been pre scheduled and sent to any non renewing ST holders irrespective of whether 14, 140, 1400 or 14000 had renewed. As @NcnsBcfc says, the more pertinent piece is the lack of the club shouting out as to how many have renewed to date and that tells its own story.

I personally hope the numbers are terrible tbh. I know a few are banging the drum but short of not renewing, an action taken by some but possibly not as many as one or two think it might be (we'll see), it's the only way those who want to attend have of saying "look hierarchy, we really aren't happy with the way you are running things, this is your warning shot". I am not criticising anyone for renewing immediately, it's your choice, but I think it is a missed opportunity because you are handing Jon and Brian all the ammo they need to feel vindicated and that you support everything they've done. If you do, that's fair enough and of course you would renew immediately but if you don't I find the immediate renewal odd tbh. 

The club apologists completely fail to read the room in that if this continues for the next 12 months alongside a few daft kick off times the club will genuinely lose THOUSANDS rather than hundreds of season ticket holders. The situation is that grave for me. Put it this way my warning shot is exactly that and they are only getting one. First time since I've stopped playing football nearly twenty years ago that I am not renewing unconditionally. Strings attached now. Loads of other grounds I can visit on a Saturday, catch up with people and enjoy what is on offer and if the Binary Ball continues I might even start missing a few of ours and going elsewhere next season anyway.

1 minute ago, Monkeh said:

They aren't hence all the tone deaf things coming out from the club 

They are, it's a wind-up. Crayon Boy thinks it's funny.