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https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/new-contract-for-buse/

Agree. Both. 3 months older than Sam Pearson. 3 months younger than Owura Edwards. 18 months younger than Antoine Semenyo / Saikou Janneh (just picking these two shows the broad spectrum). Callum O’Dowda was allowed to be inconsistent at 26, Jamie Paterson at 29. He also doesn’t make 2-3 serious mistakes per match.

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Rumour has it that at a game when a fan shouts “Handball”, Jon always shouts “Big Ted” or “Jemimah” instead.

Yes, was linked to Pension. https://www.lawinsport.com/blogs/mills-reeve/item/planning-for-retirement-the-financial-life-cycle-of-a-professional-footballer

It is part of Bristol Sport, something was mentioned somewhere a week or so ago on another thread. As per you final sentence…I believe it is an area where Jon has passion, and BS is helping that. Personally I’d rather he did that full time within BS and relinquished his Chairman responsibilities. I’ve no idea how good he is at the creative stuff, but it does seem to be the area he most enjoys. I would feel very cynical if this was an external business run by JL getting contracts from BS. As it is currently set up, I have no issues with it at all. You’re too quick for me! OP - https://www.reachfeverpitch.com/ourwork

I think you need @frenchredto clarify what he means by “throwing under the bus”. One man’s scapegoating a player is another man’s honestly critiquing a player’s performance without blaming them. Managers are allowed to talk about individual players pre and post match, and it doesn’t have to be about always blowing smoke up their arses too. I trust Nige’s man-management style, the players seem to regard him highly and the sense you get from them is that he more “cuddly Nige” than the media Nige we see / hear. With the exception of Bakinson who he let off steam about (possibly a bit OTT) I can’t recall coming away from a Nige interview thinking he’d thrown any player under the bus…but that’s just my opinion.

You forgot: he’s the messiah - Fact hes also a very naughty boy - Fact ?

For those of you that read the Reuben McAllister thread on the transfer sub-forum, I mentioned that yesterday I was reading up on “compo”, both the EPPP stuff for academy / young players but also the FIFA RSTP Training Development and Solidarity Payments stuff. The other reason for doing so was because of Han. I’d read some stuff before but it isn’t straightforward. In Han’s case he is beyond the EPPP stuff, and therefore if he was to run his contract down he falls into two camps next summer: signs for an English FA team - compo is governed by the PFCC (Professional Football Compensation Committee)…what we often refer to as “gone to tribunal” signs for a club outside of the English FA - compo is governed by FIFA RSTP (Regulations on the Status of Players and Transfers) and because it’s end of contract, it would be Training Compensation. At it’s most simple level, 1. would mean significantly more compo than 2. My gut feel is that should he be allowed to wind his contract down he would move back home (or abroad), so the upshot is we can’t afford to let a €3m signing go and only get approx €300k in Compo. I suspect we’d get £3m through PFCC. Personally I hope he signs a new deal, but if he won’t, then we must sell in this window. In January he can sign pre-contract terms with non-English FA clubs….so we can’t wait til the winter window.

Jebbison at Sheffield Utd, in the squad too…makes 3 EFLs. He’s a handful too…watch out for him as he grows into his physique over the next 12-18 months. Did ok at Burton last season.

Most composed player out there for England. Everyone else looks rushed.

Lovely strike wasn’t it

The rules will mean 23 teams in Lg1, according to others.

1-0 up Chukwumeika from close range just before h-t. the goal scorer has been a bit sloppy at times.

Just Google “u19 England”

Double D-utch I assume!

All fair points, although I like Wells’s movement. We are gonna have to wait and see….all good debate though.

I notice supermarkets are saying they are selling copious amounts of popcorn in stores in EFL club locations!!

I take solace from the team that evolved over last pre-season to the team that moved to 9th in the table after 8 games (12pts), that looked solid, if not exactly exciting….without Semenyo, but Scott not at RWB but in a midfield role or off Martin, Joe Williams in a team with James, Atkinson looking an assured signing, etc, etc. Add Naismith and Wilson…plus Sykes who I’m trusting of the recruitment team…etc etc. I’m not one who watches to see end to end stuff. I saw us grinding stuff out in those early weeks, I quite liked it. Injuries then hit, first Williams and King…Baker for a bit, then James too at various points. I shan’t be making predictions until I see our squad and 23 others around the end of July…plus witness our pre-season! ? I’d rather Semenyo wasn’t injured, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not like he will be out all season either.

The flint in the lighter will spark imminently is the threat!

All about opinions ?. Does Wells, Martin, Weimann, Scott (plus maybe Sykes) lack power (I take it you mean power as in goalscoring power rather than physical power per se?). I don’t call it optimism, it’s just reflecting back on my thoughts over a period of months about the lack of balance we had last season…plus I don’t think Nige really wanted to play a back three either. But we are gonna have to wait and see. All part of the fun. Never easy being a City fan is it?

As a simple answer, yes, that might be true. I guess the better, more complex answer, is one where Nige plans to evolve a system WITH Semenyo that works at both ends of the pitch, or one that takes “key-man dependency” out of the equation. In particular our 3 signings, where does each fit in with that master plan. I’m so intrigued to see how pre-season pans out…albeit gutted Antoine will be missing from it. Looking back at last season where we went through pre-season into the first part of the season playing 4411/442, you wonder how that might’ve panned out with Semenyo, Martin, Wells and Weimann vying for those front-two slots? Maybe he would’ve gone 433 straight off the bat. Who knows. Not sure if I’ve answered your post or not….let me know if it’s a bit hypothetical / ambiguous.

Dasilva’s shin “splints” were eventually found to be a small fracture weren’t they?