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1 minute ago, cidercity1987 said:

Well done Zak, thank you for staying with us

It would have been classier if he’d had signed on the first day of the transfer window and not an hour or two before the end of the last day… but good news.

51 minutes ago, UndercoverClaret said:

Came to have a look what the sort of consesus was about HNM from Bristol City fans - I couldn't recall being particurly impressed with your midfield when we played you last season like (sorry Alex Scott) even though HNM didn't play in the game at Ashton Gate...

Interesting that you've picked up on this as well - there seems to be a bit of a divide between our fans. Some that haven't become fans in the past 10 years i.e when we weren't playing in/around the PL seem to have this view and are a bit annoyed/dismayed on the team selection (as well as change of shape for City/Villa) and think we've spaffed a lot on some real random players that has a lot of risk attatched - we don't want to become a team of mercanaries like a Watford type in their latter PL years. 

Some of the newer/bit more deluded fans that look passed the Portsmouths/Boltons of this world and just want everything use this as an excuse to beat the old board and management at any opportunity. 

I can't help but feel like we've lost a bit of the 'feel good factor' stemming from last year.

There's a bit more to it as well, VK has his hand in a few pies as well - co owns an analytics company that we use MUD analytics.

Sorry to thread hijack anyway.

Hope you don't get relegated, always felt like Bristol City has the potential to grow - certianly shouldn't be bobbing between L1 and the Champ every 5 years or so.

Cheers again for Brownhill (and Heaton for that matter). All the best

Hope we don’t get relegated! Cheeky bugger, see you next season…

17 minutes ago, Top Robin said:

Firstly our directors are paid a six figure salary to make those important decisions.

But if it came to it, I would recommend young and foreign.

Secondly, I don't want him gone yet - I always said I would give him a few more games and hope things get better.

All us so called 'doom mongers' only want the best for the club and if we are hobbling along with a poor manager then we may push for a change - but we actually all want him to succeed and not have to have this conversation.

 

You spouted the same ‘give him a few more games’ crap last season too… you’ve got an agenda with NP you should just admit it… btw our directors made the important decision when they appointed NP.. and as for young and foreign? Bit loose isn’t it?

1 minute ago, Top Robin said:

I didn't and I thought we played well.  Unfortunately we are not consistent and have one good performance followed by 2 poor ones. I think that's how it will be under Nige.

Well at least you have come clean and are no longer blaming the coaches… I’ve asked you before (last season) and you didn’t reply.. here goes again, in lieu of NP who do you suggest should replace him?

2 minutes ago, aa_bcfc said:

Apart from a few flashes of brilliance when he signed Mehmeti has looked a poor signing. After the first couple of appearances his form last season was IMHO poor. Many said wait until he has a pre-season with City. He’s had that now and so far he’s no better, possibly worse. 
The same regarding a pre season was said about Cornick, again he’s no better than last season. 
Pearson says he won’t make signings unless the players are better than we already have. Based on what I’ve seen so far I can’t see it with respect to Mehmeti or Cornick. Fingers crossed that they improve significantly as the season progresses. 

Keep the faith and trust the best manger that we’ve ever had.. this time last year Zac was the devil reincarnated and he’s since gone on to prove everyone except our leader wrong..

2 minutes ago, Top Robin said:

I said coaches not manager.

But as you've mentioned it, those few games are getting closer and things haven't improved yet. 

Shame that you missed our last league game away versus Hull where we played our first team, we actually played really well. If Hull would have won that game they would have been joint top of the league, their fans though to their credit thought that we looked a great side and that we were really unlucky not to have won.

7 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

I’m so scared that SL may bring LJ back. Please reassure me. 

The clubs up for sale.. you couldn’t front up on Sharktank looking for an investor with LJ as your manager.. Nigel Pearson on the other hand..

59 minutes ago, Top Robin said:

I can't help thinking that if we had quality coaches, a player like Mehmeti would improve. 

Hang on.. just last week you were (unconvincingly) banging on about giving it a few games before throwing Nige under the bus.. now look at you. 

2 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

As Cornick is regularly subbed, it seems he's already replacable. 

Everyone is replaceable, but who’s the one ACM that you have in mind that could replace three?

3 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

I can't help but think the money spent - fees, wages - on Cornick, who has never really done it for me, Mehmet, who's gone backwards since coming here, and TGH, someone not wanted by a club in the same division as us, might have been better spent on acquiring one genuine attacking central midfielder. 

Now that is the manager's call, not Lansdown's. 

Are you serious?? If so who’s the ACM that you’d have in mind that could possibly replace the three squad places?

7 minutes ago, Nuno Gomes said:

Currently away near Norwich so hoping for a stream (I sure there will be others who ask!!)

Still trying to find info on the Nowun signing.

COYR

It’s a 4:30am KO here in Australia… But even I can see that Nowun is making up the numbers on the bench.. keep up

3-1 to us and a week’s peace on OTIB.

COYR’s

4 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Mowatt is a good player, nice left foot, but he’s more of a “disruptor”, break play up, give it to someone else.  Not hugely dynamic.  Suited Barnsley’s play under Ismael, basically missing out the midfield in open play generally.  Hence why I think that signing for West Brom was natural as Ismael took over, but when Ismael left it left a bit of a spare part for how Corberan wanted to play.  Loaned to Boro.  Played under Wilder, didn’t play under Carrick (generalisation), probably tells a story about fit to style.

So, I’d probably say, no he wouldn’t be a good signing…even if wages were palatable.

In what way?  I’m on the outside like you, I don’t get any sense of the above.  Maybe I’m missing something?

It’s not you, it’s me .. With both Knight and Roberts for example, there was or certainly appeared to be quite some dialogue and due consideration being made before any deal was done.. there was even multiple page threads on the transfer forum tracking progress over a period of weeks..the last couple of bids appear to have been made almost out of the blue, and as I said above not sure why we would have bid for GT ahead of TGH. All could be, and hopefully is all well and good and as I said, it’s probably me reading too much into it.

13 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Some of their fans get it.  They are a mess, cash-wise at least.  Just like we couldn’t get rid of the likes of Palmer without taking a hit, they can’t move on Mowatt, Cholobah, etc, because their wages are too high for anyone to take on.

Out of interest why would you think that about this signing?

TGH sounds more like a “safe bet” to come into the team and help improve it.  If he improves in value whilst he’s here, it’s because he’s played well.  There is nothing wrong with that model.  It’s breaking that model / deviating from that model that cost us 2-3 years of progress opportunity.

I said yesterday that if this signing was being mooted in June, we’d be pretty excited (happy at least) that we were after a player of the following profile:

• 21
• Champ experience (50+ games / 35 ninety min equivalent)
• England u20 caps
• A midfielder (no8 type) seeing as it’s likely Scott will be going
• can also play RB
• lowish wages due to age
• £2m a sensible amount

As it happens we are doing it on loan with an option to buy a couple of months later (now Alex has been sold).

Why would you start talking about recruitment in terms of Tomlin and Bakinson.  Do you not think they’ve checked TGH’s character?  He appears to be another “model pro”.  I watched a couple of interviews yesterday, bright, intelligent young man.  His first interview for us appeared to follow the same character.

This is a “safer bet” than George Thomason.  We even get to give him back if it doesn’t work out.

What’s not to like?

I don’t think that TGH is a bad signing at all, in fact looks very promising.. I agree with all your points above, have watched his video on the O S and have also read the positive comments on the Baggies forum.. it’s just that from the outside we seem to have abandoned our due diligence on this and the failed Thomason bid.. TGH looks to be a much better option than Thomason so why was he not first choice? Quick fire signings were a trait of the previous bad times… just hoping that the old influences at the club no longer remain.. 

30 minutes ago, Betty Swallocks said:

Yeah, we’ve decided to move away from data driven recruitment and instead going with picking names out a hat. 

Well I guess that’s my point.. I know with a couple of our earlier signings (Knight / Roberts) both Nige and Tinnion were courting the signings / checking their credentials and importantly their personality and suitability for the changing room… Don’t want anymore Tomlins or Bakinsons whatever the data says..
But just wondering whether we are now reverting to a previous owner backed business model of signing players that are (rightly or wrongly) perceived to be a ‘safe’ bet for a future return on investment… 

Anybody know whether we sought permission to talk to him, and then brought him to Bristol to have a chat, show him around and sell the ‘project’…. Or whether we just fired from the hip and sent off a random offer, a la Tommason? 

3 minutes ago, Just8 said:

Name me any other champ club without PP that wouldnt have to sell such a mecurial talent such as AS if the right bid didn't come in? We'll progress if the overall standard of our team grows, not on the back of one or two prized assets. People need to wake up.

Alex Scott would have no doubt wanted this move… not worth keeping him here at any price if he doesn’t want to be here..

10 minutes ago, winsaw said:

One of the things that surprised me most about yesterday was how much fitter Preston looked, some of our players looked out on there feet by 80 minutes, was not expecting that after seeing many reports on the club site about how fit everyone was and what a good preseason they all had, 

Wow.. I only watched the game on Robins TV, but to me I thought that the Preston players looked to be pulling up across the pitch with cramp towards the end.. I was even mildly optimistic that we might capitalise on it too.

Hi Jerry,

Each season I subscribe to Robins TV from here in Australia and just love the whole matchday experience, it’s pretty special to be able to watch live from the other side of the world.

Each season though I cancel my subscription when the clocks go back in the UK (the clocks don’t change here in North Queensland) as a 3:00pm KO then becomes a 1:00am KO for me, which results in me getting to bed well after 3:00am and then being buggered all day Sunday. It’s not quite so bad when we win

My question is, would it be possible for Robins TV to have a full matchday program replay made available to paid subscribers immediately after the live program finishes? Subscribers who for whatever reason could not make the live ko time could then watch the game at a more convenient time, in my case first thing on Sunday morning before checking overnight results. Watching a full replay or even the highlights on the website a day or two later when the result is known doesn’t have the same level of excitement..

Appreciate your attention / thoughts..
 

Cheers,

Paul

3 hours ago, shelts said:

I think it’s a done deal . Protecting the asset , injury is a smoke screen. In talks announced over the weekend !

Nothing to base that on !

Could be a smoke screen… PNE will be second guessing our line up, Bournemouth will think that we’re going soft on our asking price and that we’re preparing to sell, then boom we show them that we remain serious on our position and he’s playing..

18 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Now….cup of tea, in the garden

Mug…

LJ brought us Brownhill and Webster… also brought us Diony (friggin hell). There were great times and a lot of really bad times.. He was too much of a smartarse with his post match interviews especially after a loss and for that there’s no doubt, but I honestly believe he cared about Bristol City. At the end of the day we’ve moved on for the better and the futures looking so much better but for me both LJ (and his dad) were genuinely onboard and wanted the best for us, just wasn’t to be.

8 hours ago, Top Robin said:

Auto......off the scale orgasmic

Play offs.....excellent

Position 10 to 6.....acceptable

Below 10....failure 

What you really mean... regardless of player ins and outs..

Auto... NP did his job, good.

Play off's..  the least NP could have reasonably be expected to achieve. OK

Position 10 to 6.. NP is not worthy.

Below 10.. NP should be shot.

1 hour ago, Super said:

With 5 games to go. Pointless.

Harsh.. but I can’t see them getting many more points either..

He’s admitted guilt so shouldn’t be playing now for Brentford let alone even being considered for England as far as I’m concerned… If Southampton go down  (I know that they will) but by the odd point or two then his MOM performance including a goal and an assist after admitting guilt and awaiting the routine suspension from the FA will be a bit hard to swallow for the saints fans..

Can’t Everton recall him? I suppose not as surely Sean Dyche would be tempted to try and ‘straighten him up’ given Everton’s ongoing struggles…