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You want someone with a monstrous ego. Someone talented, who is using his ego for the benefit of the football club. 

Brian Clough swanned into Derby County having achieved nothing in football. He said "As I am the best manager, I ought to win the league." He got Derby promoted, and won them the league. His ego was in service to Derby, and Derby benefited from it. 

Alex Ferguson had a monstrous ego. He was a tyrant and a psychopath when it came to winning football matches. Paul Ince said of him "All week he is the perfect gentleman, and then on Saturday the beast within comes out." He signed Lee Sharpe, and got him into digs. Sharpe said he wanted a house with his girlfriend. Fergie said OK, as long as your form does not suffer. At Anfield Man U were losing. At half-time Fergie said to Sharpe "You've got 45 minutes to prove to me you are a good player. Otherwise you are out of your house, back into digs, you are breaking up with your girlfriend, and she is leaving Manchester." What kind of a demented nutter tries to move you out of your house and interfere with your private life just as a way to try and get you to play better in a football match? But obviously Man U were the benefactors of Fergie's giant ego, because it won them football matches.

No, the real truth of why the Lansdowns don't want talented egos at the club is because they are mediocre individuals who cannot bear being questioned and challenged, so they have created this kind of bureaucratic mush where everyone agrees with each other and nobody is challenged or pushed out of their comfort zone. They are then stupid enough to boast about this to the public as if it were some kind of virtue, as opposed to a clear sign of their own inept mediocrity. 

If only one of Murphy or Stokes is better than what we have got and is a first team regular, then we could be in business next season.

47 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Matty James, the best CM we’ve ever had at this level. A hill I’m willing to die on. 

He could well be, but also a shout out to Gary Shelton 1990/91 (finished 9th) and Marvin Elliot 2007/8 (finished 4th)

Sykes should not be playing down the left. He is right footed.

12 hours ago, Redrascal2 said:

Let's turn it around and ask what has Jon Lansdown  done that he deserves to be congratulated for. I can think of nothing.

Ear lobes the size of the Taj Mahal?

Have we stolen eleventh at the death?

The race for eleventh continues. I've got no nails left. 

Ashton Gate at its best. 33.30

Mehmeti is right footed.

Would it help to play him down the right? Send him down the wing on his stronger foot so he can cross? As it is he is always cutting inside so we have no natural width down the left.

Tinnion on Radio Bristol 19.13

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_bristol

Max could have stuck his right foot out and trapped that shot.

Before signing for us he had scored one league goal in three years, and Cotterill found him in the lobby of a hotel in the United Arab Emirates, without a club. He kept signing in to the hotel gym to impress Cotterill. What a signing. 

2 hours ago, bearded_red said:

Yeah if we bin Max off and bring in Alisson we can start drawing 0-0 instead.

How about scoring a goal? How about something exciting happening? 

Steady on, pal. It has taken us a long time to get back to 14th, and I don't want anyone blowing it now.

This from the Liverpool forum.

They had a quick lad called Junior Bent, I think, that caused us all sorts of problems. Unless I'm thinking of the hiding Bristol Tits gave us a couple of years later

Boss city is the Brizz so let's hope we draw.  Kidding ..  What a draw !  

I've always thought it was the closest place you could get to calling the Liverpool of the South.

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=355184.200

This from the Liverpool forum.............

The guy with the ongoing contract to spray on Ben White's Tan, that's what a win looks like. People said he was crazy when he bought those surplus fire hoses.

We never really went for the win at the end against Birmingham, even though they were completely there for the taking, for fear that they would nick it on the break like against Norwich. With hindsight we should have, bearing in mind what has just happened now. 

11 minutes ago, robin_unreliant said:

Frustrating to see Mehmeti unwilling/unable to ever take the FB on down the outside. Constantly cuts back onto his right foot.

I agree. This is what happens when you play a right-footer down the left wing.

I remember a bloke called Steve Clifford scoring 8 for us in a 15-0 win for the reserves against Weymouth. About 1991, I think. 

It's a completely unforced error. After 10 points out of 12, no one was looking to go over this old ground again. They have brought it on themselves and revealed a totally unnecessary pettiness, vindictiveness, and lack of class. They are going out of their way to show themselves in a bad light when there is absolutely no need to. 

Oh well, let us be grateful for small mercies. Stalin used to airbrush out of photos those colleagues whom he had had murdered. At least the regime has not sunk that far......................................

14 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

 

There's lots to be said on the Johnsons but I think they all love the game and want to work in it as long as they can. Lee will probably be mounting a promotion challenge with Bridgwater United in about 2038, at this rate

You have got to hand it to the bloke. He wants that first promotion on his CV, and he won't stop until he gets it.

12 hours ago, The Swan and Cemetery said:

If he improves us consistently fair play to him and contrary to (some) popular opinion, everyone will be delighted. Definitely some positive signs, but a) very early days and b) not that long since we had a manager who managed long winning steaks,

He raced cows and fed the successful ones to the team as a pre-match meal?

Under Pearson we sat back and played counter-attacking football.

Manning has clearly done a lot more work on us in possession, and today it came off.

We looked fantastic. 

For the second, don't think Sykes would have got there at the far post, so very happy for the defender's little contribution.

We were killing them down the left in that first half with Mehmeti, Pring, and Conway.