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Just now, marcofisher said:

Out of curiosity, who would you want to bring in? 

Obviously if you could lure somebody like Dyche, he’s the oracle of working with a shoestring budget and managing to be successful.

Don’t think he’s cost much more than NP is on but at the same time is out of our reach. 
 

8 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

Belter

Coming from a dummy thrower , who wants attention

 

Dummy thrower because I’m not happy with what’s happening at city, sorry Il just clap a 3-1 loss to Lincoln. 
 

3 minutes ago, lenred said:

Think it’s probably more to do with the fact you spouted complete and utter horse shit. Just saying.  

That’s your opinion. Mine is he’s useless and has to go. Just saying 

Just now, Sheltons Army said:

Ohhh - we know your opinion 

You had to start a separate thread about it 

To ensure you’re whining wasn’t missed amongst others 

 

You make the rules on who can and can’t post can you, get a grip. Belter

2 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

Yet another poster who never wanted Pearson and has whined and sniped ever since

 

Also provided an exclusive story that Pearson was going due to health

Nothing to see here 

Another self righteous *** who doesn’t allow other people to have an opinion I see. 
I’ve provided plenty of stories that have been correct also. 
But of course that’s forgotten just because I don’t share your opinion that NP is the messiah. 

One of, if not the worst justification for a manager who has done absolutely nothing since being here. 
 

We are somehow arguably worse at defending set pieces than we have ever been. 
 

Scarily inconsistent from the sublime to the absolute disgusting rubbish. 
 

This squad has potential to do ok, it’s frontline is full of goals, there is unbelievable talent (Scott) alongside experience footballers. 
 

Defenders who let’s not forget NP signed and yet we are languishing dangerous around relegation. 
 

Weeks and weeks of rubbish followed by a couple of wins to paper over the cracks. I said last season he has to go, shocked to see so many sticking up for this utter dross. 

1 hour ago, JoeAman08 said:

Disagree this is a largely experienced squad comparable to any in the division outside the parachute payment clubs. We have the fire power up front. Joe Williams and Matty James very experienced midfielders for this level. Kalas who is a experienced and has promotions on his cv. A player of the season from a playoff side just last season. A keeper in Bentley many would call one of the best in the division. There aren’t many sides in the league that have a strong 18 of starting calibre players. We aren’t different to any side that hasn’t been in the premier league recently. 

Nail on the head. Too many people pushing this FFP agenda. 
 

We have a squad which on paper is tidy, we score more goals then 90% of teams. 
 

“Players had a hard night Tuesday”

Give me a break man

1 hour ago, Tomo said:

Changing a manager at Championship level time after time has no real benefit. We should be backing the manager and getting 'real' in terms of the money we have available (which is close to zero). 

Didn't we do quite well with a certain Alan Dicks, by hanging in there?

Didn't it take SIR Alex Ferguson 6 years (appointed in 86) to win the biggest prize in british football winning the prem. In fact ,I think it took him at least 3 years to win anything at all?

Get over it - we are currently a 12th to 14th League Table Championship Club and that's where we will be in May 23. Go and support someone else if you can't deal with the reality of our the current situation! 
 

I can’t support city because I don’t share your view about the current manager. Interesting sums you up more than me. 

He has made no improvement, nothing to do with money, we are one of the top scorers in the league. 

He’s signed his own back 4. Why are you happy to accept this? 
 

Joker

Any manager at any other club. He’s gone. It’s time to go.

Not getting the best out of this squad and it’s actually embarrassing how bad we are at defending set pieces. 

 

Scary how poor we are. Delivery into the box is so so bad. Same cycle, get the ball wide, poor cross. 0 creativity 

Some performance today, well ground out and some real quality. If we can keep being that resolute we will be fine. Shame it’s taken so long. 

So much better all round. Hopefully this is the benchmark performance now 

Every club in the leagues are struggling bar a few and many have done some excellent business in the loan and free market. 
 

People act like we’re the only club in this situation.

2 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Embarrassing?  In what way?

Frustrating at times…yep.  Showed spirit though.  Dug in.  Isn’t that a positive?

Other teams are happy to have a decent spell or two in a game.

City not dominating, doesn’t mean our opponent is either.

 

If showing spirit and being positive is your benchmark for players being paid to play football then that fair enough.

For me that’s a bare minimum. 

19 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Because some people can’t wait to post negative stuff.  They go absent when we win or play well.  At least they should post on here in the good bad and indifferent results / performances.

Today wasn’t too bad anyway.

Second half was embarrassing. Can’t have “decent spells” in games and be happy. 

I just can’t understand how we can be so unorganised defensively for so long. When is someone going to think “maybe we should work on that” 

His whole tenure has been riddled with awful defending 

Zero progress, don’t get how he gets such an easy ride. Defending is absolutely pathetic

17 hours ago, phantom said:

I'd bet the majority have just heard others say something and gone with it. 

He's certainly been no worse than anyone else 

I said this 2 years ago mate and stand by it. Bad player, shouldn’t wear the shirt. 

He’s been the worst of any player to wear the shirt for that long a period

6 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

My take on the "overall" , and I freely admit it can be hard to understand & see the big picture when things go slowly.

Pre - Pearson we had a bloated squad, unbalanced & directionless, playing unwatchable football, at best veering from winning streak to losing streak and no direction plan or fixed style or system. haemorrhaging money and the worst injury record in history. 

Pearson comes in to try and fix the Club which was clearly broken.

Back room and medical staff sorted , fitness staff brought in with plan. Squad decimated through necessity. Higher wage players moved on, again through necessity . Deals renegotiated saving money. Team running with a small squad , yet again due to finances necessary.  On the pitch  we simply could not hold onto or look after the ball well enough, that slowly is changing. 
Some of the signings he has made have been pretty much forced on him, in as much as finances meant we couldn't do anything else. Who knows where we would be if he has the spending power that Johnson had. 

I have questions, I am no Pearson apologist, but it is way too early to judge improvement this year. 

Hull, terrible Ref and a ridiculous deflection away from a good start. I've seen people complain about the defending for the second, but when it comes down to it, the shot was blocked and could have gone anywhere.

Sunderland, that error set the tone. I thought going forward we looked ok, I also think playing a promoted side first up is difficult and we have seen that over the years. Naismith was seen as a brilliant signing, I didn't see one complaint, he has yet to settle and has made big errors. The 2nd goal went between 2 pairs of legs and the first you have to wonder if Bentley could have done better.

We need to settle , and quickly, but I think time to judge is after 10 games or so. I do worry, mainly because of recent years watching the team struggle . But I am trying to be level headed. After the early signings I was optimistic , but tried not to get carried away. I will do the same now.

8 men inside the box, defensive header, control, sets himself shoots. 8 men still inside the box. 
 
That’s not unlucky it’s laziness and a lack of concentration in the final minutes of the match. 
 

Which unsurprisingly has happened countless times over NP tenure and before. 

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

It is my opinion, but some of that opinion is based on facts, certainly the financial mess we are still trying to navigate.  I was also posting generally re the “2 game knee-jerkers”

Fine if you don’t agree, it’s all about opinions.

Not everything done in pre-season comes to fruition from day one once the season starts either.  Best laid plans probably meant Kalas in the starting eleven.  Best laid plans problem didn’t expect Naismith to eff-up in the fourth minute, etc.  It’s football, shit happens.

Yeah I get that, I just think you look at the whole league and how they’ve navigated the “frees market” and loan market and I find it hard to see an argument regarding a thin squad. That’s by choice imo. 
 

Agreed and individual errors are not helping but it’s literally the same as last season. 
 

I feel this year Weimann will keep us up again if he stays fit 

19 hours ago, Davefevs said:

The analogy is he’s had to knock down the building to relay the foundations.  It takes time.  Just because they’re his players, doesn’t mean they are who he’d ideally get if he different funds available to him.  He’s scrapping around free transfer and Lg1 / Lg2 players (also on frees).  He can’t generate transfer funds from Vyner, Moore, etc…nor can he generate them from Wells, etc, because they won’t forego their huge wages (allegedly).  Without transfer money, we are a huge loss making entity.  The answer to that it to cut costs in the playing side…which he’s done.

Sometimes you have to go backwards (summer 2022) to go forwards (end of last season).  Oh, let’s shit the bed because we’ve lost the first two games.

He is working with a thin squad with little depth , because the finances won’t allow it to be thin, but with depth / cover.

He took over a mess.

Yes, results are frustrating…but he hasn’t taken the club backwards…he’s rebuilding it with RG.

That’s your opinion Dave. 
Nothing to do with 2 games I didn’t mention that, you did. 
 

He’s had a whole summer to improve us defensively. He had the back end of last season. He hasn’t, he’s got a good enough squad there to be comfortably mid table.

We will see what happens but I’ve seen no sign of improvement defensively which is pretty scary. 
 

As I said you can continue to push your opinion across but I don’t agree. 

On 08/08/2022 at 11:37, And Its Smith said:

Pretty irrelevant really. What would be better to see is percentages after it could be deemed to be that managers squad.  Judging a manager from day one they take over is nonsense 

He has his own back 4, James, King.

We concede a ridiculous amount of goals and goals that you’d be disappointed conceding at a much lower level. 
 

So many excuses for a bloke who’s taken this club backwards

Zak Vyner should never wear a city shirt again. Not good enough in any position. Said it 2 years ago and stand by it

Get in touch mate, I get better quality shirts for £30 a pop

Vyner should have been gone a while ago. Bad player at this level. 

Winner is so poor from us, lack of concentration. Not a single player reacts