TedsHeadIs Red

Very best wishes for a speedy return to full health.

2 hours ago, Northern Red said:

I'm struggling to think of a manager who's never made a bad substitution.

To be critical of the way a substitution turned out you have to be a professor of hindsight 

35 minutes ago, bexhill reds said:

Exactly this, the performances of late have been incredibly poor, I’d argue worse than at the beginning of NP’s tenure. We only just beat Barnsley and they were by miles the better team on the day. Our league position is more to do with the shite that is around us rather than just our own abilities. I honestly can’t see what the NP regime is bringing, you occasionally see a bit of fight, but even that appears to have disappeared in the last few games. 
 

We are just over third of the way through the season, and we are relying on 2 other teams being worse than us, assuming that Derby don’t have some form of mini-resurrection. We just don’t even look like a team that can draw games, we are always going to concede, and at best we might score the odd goal ourselves. 
 

Would anyone else be able to get an immediate tune out of this lot, I’m not personally sure, if you brought in Warnock on a short term deal, he’d expect to have some players with a bit of fight but apart from one or two we’ve got nothing that fits the bill.

Maybe the analysts can come up with a “nasty bastard” algorithm in their recruitment systems in time for Jan, as we need a couple of those, forget about the ability to carry the ball from defence or if they are good human beings, this lot needs players capable of fighting for 95 minutes and making City an utterly unpleasant team to play against.

“Nasty bastard” algorithm - love it and it hits the nail on the head.

The culture of an organisation ultimately reflects the person sitting at the top.

The club is riddled with niceness.

The opening suggestion seems very naive to me.

If Warnock rallied us to mid-table safety (or better) he would effectively be saying to Nige “There you go. I achieved what you were clearly unable to do. I’m off now so don’t mess it up again “

If we were to continue to descend to relegation under Warnock then Nige would say to him “What have you done? You’ve taken us down and now I’m expected to be a League 1 manager”

You can’t get a win-win for both men.

This runs much deeper than whether NP is up to the job. Nobody we appoint to the job ever seems up to it at Tier 2 level. The club seems dysfunctional at its core.

Although I do wonder if Nige is basically not a well man since his first bout of COVID and is struggling to exert himself or care enough.

41 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

sorry to anyone offended,i didnt realise this had changed as well.  it was reference to the chinese takeaway  i will efit it if my mistake causes offence, however,the comments regarding it,make more sense with with the original post there and i cant get slated for trying to cover a genuine unknown error if i do so.  ,i didnt know it would. if there are any offended chinese here,drop me a pm and i will personally apologise to you. 

Too many people being offensive and too many people being over-sensitive to offence. The stupidity of modern times can be measured by the number of apologies being issued.

Anyway, come on you Reds! (apologies to any reactionaries who may be offended by my apparent call to Communism)

I wish Nige all the best and hope he is well soon.

But it just adds to the mounting evidence that this club is cursed.

My top suggestion for SL is to rename the High Performance Centre to something less laughable.

10 minutes ago, The Bard said:

Jesus there are some weird people around. Angry about nothing whatsoever.  66 year old bloke announces that he's retiring and that elicits a load of racist, sexist and homophobic nonsense about being PC.  

It is possible to be a decent person who believes in social justice and at the same time despair at political correctness.

Great thread. This really is a Premier League forum.

Getting a bit silly now though Major.

Already losing count of the number of times I’ve read or heard the words “back”, “monkey”, “our” and “off”.

I’m betting that Nige or the interviewer says it in the PM interview.

Can’t believe how amateurish those press conferences were. Looks like they employed local primary school kids to do the display boards in the background.

1 hour ago, Loco Rojo said:

If you've read Rich's and DaveFevs posts on Page 1 and let that sink in then you might understand why some fans might see it as an achievement to scrape safety this season (especially after last year).  Doesn't mean people are happy with it, but they may see that as an 'achievement' to secure Championship status for another year given our predicament.

It is ridiculous to want Pearson sacked if we lose on Saturday. It is ridiculous to regard scraping safety as an achievement. Can we please move to the middle ground a bit. It’s quite a big space to fit in everyone’s rational opinions.

6 hours ago, cidered abroad said:

One point above the bottom three at the end of season will be a magnificent achievement by Pearson, coaches, medical staff, playing staff and supporters.

I think we can reasonably have higher expectations of NP than that. If that is his personal target then we really are in trouble.

Republica - Ready To Go

20 hours ago, Bs4Red said:

If I don’t laugh I will cry. 

******* spineless!

That’s what my 12th wife said

It’s good that we have moved away from an era where players had fish and chips for lunch before a game, a couple of ciggies at halftime and a pint of milk at the end of the match.

Rennie obviously knows his stuff and it’s good to see a professional approach to fitness with technology and data.

But I do wonder if things are starting to get over-complicated with too much fine detail possibly clouding the bigger picture. Players may start to avoid taking a risk in a game (the sort of thing that can make a game exciting to watch) because they know it may affect their performance statistics.

There is such a thing as paralysis by analysis.

In a game, if you try some flicks, long through passes and dramatic overhead bicycle kicks then by the law of averages a few of them will come off over a season and that is what is remembered by those who witness it. You forget the majority of failed attempts.

To be consistently skilled so that it consistently pays off requires practice, practice, practice, practice, practice…..

There is no skill gene.

5 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Paul cook….honest as ever.  Worth a watch.

 

That sort of analysis sounds familiar. There must be a link between us last season and Ipswich this season. I wonder what it is.

Yes, very impressive interviews.

3 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Is it just me that has no idea what that means?

Nope, no idea either 

Yes, I hope we never become top six in the PL. It would bore me to tears.

45 minutes ago, swanker said:

I fancy us today for some reason. 

It’s called unfounded optimism. Many City fans have it in their DNA.

I’ve tried so hard to give a mature and balanced opinion of Ashton and that he couldn’t be as bad as people on here make him out to be.

But that video confirms it. The man is an absolute d***head.

On 16/07/2021 at 18:33, Slacker said:

When I got married many moons ago,I wore a suit for the first and last time in my life.I wanted to get a blue suit and the future Mrs Slacker helped me choose one.It was many years later when she admitted she helped me choose a suit in her preferred colour of green and just let me believe it was blue.

She wanted to marry a bloke in a green suit?