Lorenzos Only Goal

I hope it gets burned.  

10 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Did you mean shit hot?

FWIW, I don’t think Pato was brilliant, had some flaws, but on the face of it, I’m not sure it’s easy to to say one way or the other.  Neither like a tackle!

Let's face it: Pato isn't built for a tackle, and Twine might lose a veneer.  Cut them some slack, will you?  Personally, I prefer Pato to Twine. I was quite sad to see him go, but he was expensive so I get it. 

I'm a bit indifferent to Twine if I'm honest, I wouldn't be gutted if we missed out, would be gutted if we over paid though. 

I tell you what, I think Luton has played this whole process perfectly. They have improved their squad and will if they retain some of their signings, have a strong season next year.

18 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

Wonder where this leaves Forest financially.

Every season in the premiership they're getting away with the crime of the century.  Very little time for them, hope they crash and burn  

17 hours ago, Maltshoveller said:

Only have to look at Man Utd to see what can happen when you dont!!!

:laugh: Man Utd has been delinquent for many years, they have a very different problem.  They have a leadership issue and too many big names that are an incoherent mess.

2 hours ago, Davefevs said:

If only these jobs were available when I’d just finished studying Maths and Stats….30+years ago.  Then again, computers weren’t even that big a thing back then!

The salary will probably be in line with 30+ years ago too!

Great opportunities though for the right person(s).

I just gave my son my first programming book, from 39 years ago.

22 hours ago, Super said:

I get that but it's laughable that he gets more blame than Lansdown.

He does from me, he knew hard times were incoming and having made a shit appointment through a vigorous process jumped the sinking ship like a rat.  Leaving us with a 3 year rebuild project and then Brian and father and son Lansdown gets the blame for the Pearson debacle.  Both things can be true, he can be a *** and the Lansdowns can be useless.

12 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Still makes me laugh when a Preston scout came to watch our (Brislington) centre-forward, who was banging them in for fun.

Asked a fan which player was the one he was watching, and saw a prematurely greying striker being pointed out, and asked how old he was.  About 30 was the reply back.  Scout got in his car, effing and jeffing, and drove straight off.

Hahahaha maybe this Pearce guy is the next Vardy we don't know, but at 28 he's not one for the future.  That being said that's a lot of goals, but very much doubt he's on anyone's radar.

Pen and a goal down already

14 hours ago, Davefevs said:

If I was really cynical, I might suggest that turning a business with £9m in debt to one with £200m might counter some of that positive feeling?

I've never really been all that nervous about the Steve's stewardship, however as hes handed over the running of the club to Jon I'm increasingly worried.  Not only is Steve getting older and older and nobody lives forever, the amount of debt the club has is quite high.  I want to know what happens to all that debt owed to Steve.  

4 minutes ago, MarcusX said:

We’ve already been in that division, let’s not go along with the Sky Sports re-written history

Absolutely we've been top division before, admittedly not in my time as a City fan, Jesus I was in primary school when we were last top flight  

4 hours ago, Wanderingred said:

For me, the Mount Rushmore of horrible fans in this league are Leeds, Stoke, Birmingham and Cardiff. One of them went down, one of them missed automatic promotion and another got battered.  Honestly, the day could have been worse…. Stoke should hopefully be the ones to finally drop next year.

Same for me, can't stand Stoke, Cardiff, Leeds or Birmingham.  

3 hours ago, Rocking Red Cyril said:

10 woodbine 

Hahaha at today's prices that's £5m.  A friend of mine told me how much a pack of 20 costs nowadays

1 minute ago, Davefevs said:

If your dentist suggests he can, I wouldn’t let him use gas!

If he does a good job maybe he can sort mine too.

Scott Twine's teeth are just horrible, Swindon Town. They were perfectly acceptable with their imperfections. 

Now they are just too big and straight perfect white for his head, they stand out and annoy the crap out of me.
 

If it annoys you, give this lady a follow: https://www.tiktok.com/@veneercheck?lang=en. On a more serious note, this quest for perfect teeth is just absurd and can't be good for the youth who are obsessed with it. 

36 minutes ago, Murraysrightplum said:

I once new a girl called False Dawn

Was she just very good at doing impressions of the real dawn?

1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said:

If ever a thread was made for @Lorenzos Only Goal…

Hay my other goals didn't get a chance, but my hair is amazing

1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said:

As would I, but as a bit of devils advocate here if he wasn’t one of our own would we be so bullish? The fact is that if you take out the penalties Tommys scoring record this season has been pretty poor (debate/discuss the reasons why) and there is an argument he’s regressed. I don’t think a Scotland U21 cap adds any real value so if we were looking at a player who say, played for Stoke and had Tommys record this season pre penalties would it be a deal many of us would be that keen on?

(FWIW I do think he’ll have suitors, I do think he’ll go but in view of the above I’m not sure we’re getting top dollar, particularly at this contract stage)

He's regressed IMO because he's playing as a lone striker.  He works better in a pairing with Wells but it seems at the moment it's either him or Wells.  That said I think he's slowly figuring it out.

1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said:

As would I, but as a bit of devils advocate here if he wasn’t one of our own would we be so bullish? The fact is that if you take out the penalties Tommys scoring record this season has been pretty poor (debate/discuss the reasons why) and there is an argument he’s regressed. I don’t think a Scotland U21 cap adds any real value so if we were looking at a player who say, played for Stoke and had Tommys record this season pre penalties would it be a deal many of us would be that keen on?

(FWIW I do think he’ll have suitors, I do think he’ll go but in view of the above I’m not sure we’re getting top dollar, particularly at this contract stage)

He's regressed IMO because he's playing as a lone striker.  He works better in a pairing with Wells but it seems at the moment it's either him or Wells.  That said I think he's slowly figuring it out.

He's still ours until the end of next season, so he's going for a fee if he leaves.  That being said we still have 14 months left to get him pension to paper so maybe he just wants to look at his options over the summer.  

What do you think he's worth in the last year of his contract ?

18 hours ago, MyBrotherErnie said:

I always think about this graphic with VAR. Seems pretty intuitive that the system shouldn't be used for decisions that are closer than the margin of error inherent to the technology. If the call is too close for the system to be certain that the player is offside, then surely it isn't a clear and obvious error by the lino/referee. 

My bigger problem with VAR is that it's part of a culture making football more like a science, rather than something entertaining. I guess ultimately the only way to escape that is to reduce the sums of money invested in the game (which I can't see happening any time soon). 

There is also this nonsense of drawing a straight line. It's not actually straight. There are so many flaws with it that trying to be overly scientific is absurd; it also matters if the zoom is digital or fixed analogue zoom. They try to take some of this into account, but it's still awfully flawed, and when it's a cat's whisker, it should not overrule the infield decision.

19 minutes ago, redkev said:

With the upturn in results over the recent weeks and some slightly better displays ( much better yesterday ) are some fans starting to see a future under manning . 
I have always maintained under both managers with a fully fit squad ( which isn’t often with city ) there is a team in there somewhere - The consistency of performances is my biggest concern when good we’re more than decent but when we’re poor we’re piss poor 

Although I'm far from impressed with Manning I think the upturn in results has earned him some breathing space.  That said I really hope the summer goes well, as I've got a bad feeling, if the first ten results of next season show some progress or signs of progress I'll be happy.  But signs of further regression and I think I might lose my shit.

8 minutes ago, Fontaineofallknowledge said:

What a fantastic performance-front foot, aggressive and composed. The sort of football Brian and Jon promised when they signed Liam. 
 

really wish we sacked him after those couple of losses

Ok Brian.

Many things make a good ground for me, modern grounds need to be clean with good facilities and not a soulless bowl.

But then Port Vale for example is a tatty ground but full of character.  Good atmosphere, history etc.

So it depends for me.