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11 minutes ago, RedRock said:

Too early to judge, but not sure whether the ‘only buy players if they’re better than what we have’ mantra applies in this instance. At best, is he not a 1/5 or 1/6 striker?

I know Nige said he thinks he can improve him, but we’ve an Academy of youngsters that are ‘for improvement’. Think if we’re buying a 28 year old he should be oven ready personally. But then, I’ve never really got our Club’s transfer strategy and the lack of a decent scouting network.
 

Scoring 9 goals in 45 games is better than most of our strikers, I also think Luton spread their goals out (although I haven’t checked the stats).

A bit of a nibble, not much of one, although surprised the chairman didn’t rise above it. Luton are doing well at the moment, fair play to the club. Thought the fans acted pretty small time / tinpottery, we’re another club that’s done a lot of nothing, did we act the same way when we got to the Championship play off final? I don’t remember so, I don’t overly blame them mind, but surprised to see the vilification of Cornick when you’re 4th and winning, they seemed genuinely angry/bitter.

How much would we get to spend? And what should it be spent on?

Hasn’t looked good so far but there’s no way I’ll be judging him so quickly, Mehmeti is a rare occurrence of a player settling in to a new club immediately. Luton fans were sad to see him go and, clearly from this evening, they must know if he’s half decent.

Just now, Fordy62 said:

They’ve been miles better than us, but we haven’t had much change out the ref have we?

Thought we’ve been quite lucky overall, Pring could’ve got himself sent off

10 hours ago, Mendip City said:

I need help working out my least favourite from this lot:

O’Neills yellow flying cartoon bird

o’neills cheap and nasty looking red pin stripe 

comic sans training wear

# hashtag 

gold and navy for a cup final 

that David Cotterill thing

the “champagne” coloured kit from cotterill’s time. 

all things TFG

I’m sure there are more but what’s clear is our kit design ideas are poor…. Anyone else for big brand templates?? 

Couldn’t think of anything worse!

*okay maybe quarters!

**assumed my replies would’ve been auto merged, alas 

1 hour ago, alexukhc said:

Yeah my home shirt is already on the way

Let me know how they are, I never buy kits myself but the away kit is somewhat iconic considering the crest.

I think this is massively OTT now, yes JL isn’t competent (if he’s actually in control of this), yes the quality looks marginally worse around some hems, but the home shirt looks lovely and the ‘washed out’ yellow is pretty much identical (colour wise) to our old yellow kit, with the Robin badge on it, I like it.

Barton blames their 10 home losses on the bad pitch, surely that’ll give them an advantage as they’re used to it and the away teams only play there once? #gaslogic #madeforeachother

10 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Which is?

I guess most people will say “no10”.  I say Centre Midfield.

FWIW Nige’s answer was very good.

8 (ish) isn’t it, who says 10

Re the stock image of the robin, I don’t endorse the show but, if it is a choice by JL, it very much reminds me of Little Britain / Andy.. “no, I want that one”.

2 hours ago, GTFABM said:

2023 has fully gone too far. Sexual assault, whatever next. I can’t explain why it’s not sexual but i would not think it was sexual in the slightest if someone done this to wind me up on a football pitch. Very bizarre and wouldn’t do it myself but i wouldn’t think for one second it was sexual

Bet you wouldn’t be saying that if someone kissed your wife at work to wind her up

2 hours ago, ChippenhamRed said:

Side issue - why was our game on Sky today? Bit of an odd pick, no?

Assuming it was picked a few months ago when they thought we could well be in a relegation battle

38 minutes ago, Bris Red said:

Is there a stream for this anywhere lads?

Footybite.Io normally have all sky/bt games

Just get them to put your cup inside another cup, stops it from being flimsy, not quite got the feel of a glass though.

10 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Don’t even have a space inside for them do a TV interview in. Literally sat on a park bench in the car park on their training ground. ******* hell, brilliant. 

Is that their training ground?

13 hours ago, phantom said:

Apparently people go on a register for visiting sites like this 

It’s via SkyBet isn’t it? Might’ve been a **** up their end & sent an email to the fans of the wrong Bristol club

Still rate MM due to 7(?) years of keeping Ipswich up whilst spending under 3m, and then getting relegated the season he was ****** off, must have been doing something right.

23 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

Would the kit supplier have control or influence over the font we use in our social media or on our own TV coverage scoreboard? Seems a slightly odd power to give the kit supplier. I suspect it's a simultaneous change rather than directly linked to O'Neills.

I’d assume it’s related as it’s happened at the exact time we changed kit, you could argue that they’re the only common denominator, but it’s possible that City had planned this anyway and brought it forward .

2 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

But we've gone the other way. Most of this season we used a bold, block, sans serif font. Then recently we've switched to the thin, serif font we're discussing here. So are we going against the tide?

I’d argue that yes, we are, although I think it’s an attempt from the new supplier to be ‘modern’, where as our old font was actually more modern than the new one. Not that I know the brand strategy for either company but that’s what I’d surmise from the limited info available.

11 minutes ago, phantom said:

I'm prepared for a whoosh here, but where is this changed font that is being discussed?

The new kit manufacturer branding, I’ve seen it on social posts & the scoreboard myself. Assuming it’s part of the contract that we use their font for public facing content:

All brand use the same generic crap (imo) fonts these days, for example, these iconic brands who’ve changed to a lot of nothingness. They’re just following the trend. 
 

14 minutes ago, myol'man said:

JCH at Posh, that Welsh **** at Luton. Not exactly churning out top level talent are they? 

Only got a couple gas mates but both were happy to see the back of Lockyer, shows what they know (and me if I’m being honest, I agreed). Although they were probably bitter, whilst I just don’t watch the gash.

Picked up again after an awful few months, think they blew automatics then, unless Plymouth bottle it

My 3rd ITK in about 7 years