Clutton Caveman

15 hours ago, transfer reader said:

Wednesday night, Cribbs vs Bristol Manor Farm in the Southern League Div 1 playoffs.

A couple of miles between the clubs and no love lost either.

When they met at Cribbs in August the hosts came off the victors, but Farm were aggrieved over several decisions in that game including 2 penalty decisions and a red card incident.

A month or so later they met again in the league cup at Manor Farm, this time a draw but Cribbs got the job done on penalties.

They played at Farm again in March. A packed out Creek making lots of noise saw a comfortable win for the home side who have been on a run of 9 wins in 11 games to make the playoffs.

Wednesday night they meet for the 4th time this season, with the highest stakes of the lot. 

If anyone is wanting a bit more football before the season ends and doesn't like the interference of things like VAR I would absolutely recommend going down there for it even as a neutral.

 

7.45pm KO

 

Mods- I know we have the non league thread, but would appreciate it if this was kept separate for a couple of days to see if it gets any interest.

 

I thought for one magical moment that the Gloucester cup was coming back. Used to be one of my favourite games of the year 

On 28/04/2024 at 11:15, shelts said:

What an astute signing . It wasn’t working out for the lad but now he looks class . Technically very gifted and uses his body well . Lots of room to improve loads more which will only benefit us . Super just super 

Reminds me of Geoff Merrick at his age

2 hours ago, BrizzleRed said:

I wouldn’t get too excited if I were you.  Credit to Manning on how he’s now starting to get the results and some consistency and he’s doing a very decent job.

Don’t forget that he isn’t the problem though.  We’re Bristol City and to bring in a couple of new faces in the summer, we could easily lose several of our top players to fund it, to avoid cracking open the nest egg.

We’re perenially mid-table for a reason, and I just can’t see past us in 12 months time lamenting the sale of players X,Y & Z and contemplating what we could have achieved if we’d kept them.

I’d love to be proved wrong, but I just don’t see SL resisting the chance of increasing the nest egg and I think that’s far more important to him than a push for the Premier League.

Hard to understand how he is increasing his nest egg when we are making a loss each year.

On 27/04/2024 at 18:23, Dredd said:

His best game for us today 

I just hope that unlike many, his form stays if he gets a long term contract. I remember a certain Tomlin performance at the last home game one year with the whole crowd singing sign him up. Look how that ended.

21 hours ago, Corkonian said:

I will also say that gambling is not a way of making money. It's very unpredictable and addictive. And if you are not cold-minded and experienced enough, you can start losing, losing big. Moreover, this can get you into a loop where you want to win your money back but won't succeed. 

Just like drugs, don't start something that you cannot control

51 minutes ago, KegCity said:

He's not said anything publicly that indicates he wants to stay, has allegedly developed an ego after seeing Scott move. Would be very surprised if he signs a new deal.

I think the ego is evident on the field where he can often be seen giving instructions to others whilst producing very little himself.

11 hours ago, eardun said:

I’d be surprised if TC doesn’t wait to see if there is any interest from other clubs. 

Where do you think he could end up? I cannot imagine him attracting interest from any of the current Championship top 6. If he goes elsewhere in the division it would be for a bit more money and a sideways move.

For me he has not, particularly this season shown enough to get a bigger move. Perhaps playing in a 2 would suit him more.

I would sign a 2 year deal and try to improve enough to catch a better move.

On 11/04/2024 at 16:59, BrizzleRed said:

I’ve made no secret that I’ve got little time for the Lansdown’s or Tinnion, especially after recent events.  

I well remember Tinnion commenting after getting the Manager post that he ‘knew what fans wanted and would be working towards that’, or words to that effect.  With the current lack of involvement by the SLO, someone at the club needs to make the effort to show they actually want to engage with the fanbase, rather than treat us as outsiders and largely irrelevant.

This would now be a chance for Tinnion to walk the walk and actually prove how well he really does know the fanbase and start bringing some very disconnected fans back on board.

As you say, regarding the Atyeo, there could be issues with FA cup games, though we aren’t usually in that competition for long anyway!

Potential safe standing at the back of the SS is another subject that should come into play, particularly with the changes around no more new ST’s being allowed in that stand.  Potential to introduce some safe standing would also provide some justification for those ST changes.  It would also help foster the home advantage and atmosphere.

It would be nice to see these things now being treated with some importance, rather than some tentative meetings that could drag on for ages before any decisions are made.

Get our singing section out of that bloody corner

On 17/04/2024 at 10:04, FNQ said:

Tommy for sure, just not by us unfortunately.

Do you really think that Tommy is better this season than last?

15 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

I’d rather spend a bit to find out if we should spend a lot

We need strikers, nothing should remove that focus

On 13/04/2024 at 21:43, GrahamC said:

Clearly there will be a “transfer fee” Burnley paid £4m for him, they aren’t giving him away.

I think he’s done ok but certainly wouldn’t pay anything like the amount that’s being quoted.

Let’s see how the summer unfolds, my guess is he’ll start next season as our player, time will tell.

 

Spends too much energy moaning to the ref for my liking

On 13/04/2024 at 18:27, phantom said:

I thought you were leaving? 

Cancel culture at its best

Somebody makes a post that you don't like. Rather than posting a counter opinion or just agreeing to disagree and ignore the post it is necessary to hound said poster out of the forum.

Surely this is against the purpose of a forum. A place where you exchange views. For me rather than trying to force a poster to leave the forum, people who cannot accept a view that is different from theirs should leave.

20 hours ago, Sir Geoff said:

Sad to hear. My second favourite platyer after John Galley when I started watching. RIP big man.

a real 100 percenter RIP

On 06/04/2024 at 20:59, Harry said:

“Doing our business early”. 
 

They say that every bloody window and it’s only ever happened once. 
In 2014 when we got Wade Elliot, Mark Little, Korey Smith & Luke Freeman before the end of June, and swiftly followed by Wilbraham and Ayling a week later. 
We were all done and dusted by 8th July!  
It’s never happened since……..and it ain’t gonna happen this summer either, not with tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee doing the deals. 

What a great window that was

11 hours ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

Cornick is woeful. I love Nige but he was the worst signing of his era which in fairness on that whole was decent. I would trade Cornick, Mehmeti and Conway this summer and I also wouldn’t go in for Twine. That’s literally what we need, 4 new attacking options with pace, guile, creativity and power. We are such a boring side. 

When we the last time Conway looked a threat. Where has his pace gone? Where has his aggression gone.

Head is probably more with his mate in Bournemouth but he is not in the same league.

On 06/04/2024 at 17:53, HengroveReds said:

Vitally important transfer window for the Manning / Tinnion era, but realistically who can we expect to leave / come in?

My Thoughts:

Outs: 

Matty James (pure fact at 32 will we offer him 2 year deal, which he could get at a lower champ / promotion chasing league 1                                       Bajic - Wants to play, fair enough let go     Andy King - City through and through but limited playing time, maybe coaching staff but seems to of gone quiet on that front since Pearson left. 
Mebude - No words other than Dire.          Harry Cornick - Try’s his best but not cut it unfortunately                                                 Ayman Benouros - LOAN (big injury needs a league 1 loan to prove his worth, huge talent though).                     Nakhi Wells - cash in if any takers, especially if Tinnion states 2 strikers coming in plus Conway and Palmer Houlden 

INCOMINGS - 

Twine if 2.5/3 mil max or new Number 10 

2 strikers 

Max Bird

Josh Stokes 

Joe Williams new contract 

anyone else?

I would keep James. He impacts the team so much with his class and professionalism

1 hour ago, Ian M said:

He's clearly an addict that needs help. Instead our FA will throw the book at him and refuse him access to his colleagues, pushing him further down a hole.

With his salary I think he could afford to go private, poor little lamb

12 hours ago, cityexile said:

Look fairly decent when we go forward, but twice just been done with defensive disaster classes.

It drives me crazy when we are around their box when nobody wants to shoot or cross the ball. Its pass pass pass or try the clever flick that comes off 1 time in 100.  Its so congested in there any decent shot has the chance of a defection. If the shot is blocked we have as much chance to pick up the rebound as they do. If every team continues this obsession with playing on the break I can see after kick off that both teams retreat into their block and everybody forgets the ball all together. 

It is so refreshing when you see a team like Liverpool try to score each time they get possession. They get the ball into the danger zone with the minimum of passes and love the high percentage long ball. It just wears defences down. I fear that with Klopps departure this one ray of hope will also go.

I accept that my advancing years probably makes me cynical but with all this focus on "technical" play the game as an exciting form of entertainment is failing.

58 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

I'm not sure what he's seen in our performances that I/we haven't  

His approach seems to be all over the place. Like you said, he's been going on and on about getting players on the grass and coaching them and then gets them to do physical work! Whilst at the same time saying the players needed a bit of a break. Even more bizarre when you consider that we now play a less intense game as we no longer press from the front. 

Bizarre that we are focusing on fitness work in almost April. 

 

He came to the club as the next Pep. Having read his manual from front to back 5 times, he can see that at this level it just doesn't work. In the absence of a new manual he is screwed, the players know he is screwed and its just a case of how long JL and BT can convince themselves they are right with this choice. Pride before a fall and all that

19 minutes ago, MarcusX said:

Didn't think you dealt in speculation?

I don't think that was a "rumour" as in he knows something, his comment came across as 8 games to save his reputation with the fanbase.

Ian's been very outspoken against anyone suggesting Manning is going anywhere.

 

Since when did our ownership give a sh*t about what we think

23 hours ago, Davefevs said:

These were my notes, similar to Silvio.

For me, and of course I’ve now made my mind up, so some bias - he’s holding these players back.  When they play to his game plan we are dog-shit, when we let them do what they’re good at, we are a reasonable outfit.

I start to hark back to the "what a load of rubbish" chants that were common in the 80's. Can't be far off when the full back faced with 5 miles of space passes inside to Vyner or we win the ball on the edge of their box and end up with Max after keeping possession for 32 passes. It really is time that the fan base really make their dissatisfaction with our direction clear. If we just put up with it and don't get relegated we are in for another season of boring ball.

21 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

Technically, but imo not meaningfully.

Pearson was on 16 in 15 this season; 1.14 p/g

Manning on 29 in 23; 1.26 p/g

It's really a very small difference considering you can't actually score part of a goal.

General shots against and shots on target against are basically the same. xG against is actually slightly better under Manning.

Edit: also, it is deteriorating under Manning. Over his first few games it did appear that we'd tightened up a little at the back, but it's gone downhill in recent games.

All very interesting statistics BUT, we are losing and it is very very boring

1 hour ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Will be interesting to see the effect of this new Sky deal and not just with us.

I would say that on one hand PL scheduling hasn't hurt attendances too much there, on the other hand this doesn't seem like a great reward for Clubs for the potential inconvenience especially at Championship level.

If Clubs were getting say another £5m per Year that would cover the risk. £2-2.5m per Year? Not really.

If the clubs get another £5 million per year, the players will know and demand yet higher wages not remotely tied to performance. The clubs will panic and give in and we will be back to square 1.

For me the only way to fix the wage inflation in Prem and Championship is to create a set of conditions that must be included in every players contract. These conditions would include a certain percentages tied to: to league position and appearances and a compulsory 50% reduction if the club is relegated. This would allow parachute payments to be abolished with this money evenly distributed between all championship clubs, it would prevent players being happy to sit in the reserves for years and refusing to go. I don't think this would lead to an exodus of players as the prem pays better than most leagues. 

On 24/03/2024 at 09:56, exAtyeoMax said:

Cliche alert I’m no expert but for all that possession we never looked like scoring. 

Is he LM in disguise?

On 23/03/2024 at 21:39, Graham76 said:

Quote from BBC online coverage: Southgate plays 'dont lose at all cost' football, but forgets goals win tournaments. 
 

Sounds familiar doesn’t it

Only Southgate could fail at the Euros with this squad. For god sake, take the brakes off man and grow some balls. I think he never got over that penalty miss