Sir Geoff

28 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

Any chance you could let someone at the club know?

Unfortunately the person responsible has now left the building. Quick starts were the norm earlier in the season. 

A few early chances/goals, get the crowd up from the start.

Not rocket science is it ?

Please explain ? What exactly are they scared of ?

I suspect they spend half their time taking the pi** behind his back. Or sleep walking around the HPC.

Two more here that won't be renewing. The football is so boring under Manning and there is no chance of that changing, it would appear. Relegation scrap incoming, next season.

Will probably buy a half season ticket in November when he's sacked.

27 minutes ago, DSTAF said:

It would have to be players and not the management team or hierarchy.

Imagine a marquee, statement signing and then him phoning up non-renewals. 

Second paragraph not ever going to happen unless they consider a League one player as a marquee signing.

28 minutes ago, DSTAF said:

I'm not sure if they used to. 

They did.

6 minutes ago, Supersonic Robin said:

It's an incredibly strange choice of image.

7 people in the photo, only one of which is a current first team player. Is it normal to have a big picture of the club's technical director on such a post?

Surely the club know that Tinnion and Manning are relatively unpopular figures within the fanbase right now, so why make them so prominent in the advert? We seem to have used this as an opportunity to double-down on a couple of unpopular appointments.

Very odd.

Two failed managers and our current kit man. Weird.

5 minutes ago, !james said:

If it's full how are the club and I quote the main site: 

"We have made a number of changes to try and increase matchday attendance, particularly in the South Stand by capping the number of Season Tickets to enable more match tickets to be made available here.”

It seems they are doing this by massively increasing prices for under 12s in the SS to encourage people to move to the extended the Family Area in the Upper Lansdown Stand??

TBH that makes good commercial sense. Sell more seats in an almost empty Upper Lansdown and sell more pay on the day adult tickets in the SS.

Most Premier clubs 'cap' season ticket numbers to enable them to sell more 'tourist' tickets.

1 hour ago, nebristolred said:

You definitely have a point in that some of the language used has been beyond extreme. The guy has genuinely done a ton of good for City in various different positions at the club, and that shouldn't be forgotten. Even if he hadn't, it's been pretty damn brutal.

Can't agree any further than that though. If what has been suggested by those ITK is correct, then the criticism is completely justified. It should probably be delivered with a little less hate though.

And no doubt been paid handsomely for doing 'his job.'

20 minutes ago, westonred said:

I shall wait to see how this new EFL TV Deal effects our fixtures I am not interested in Friday Night, Sat midday, Saturday 5pm or Sunday Fixtures I dont want to pay over £500 to miss half of the matches

You're in luck then because I think Monday night fixtures are scheduled, as well.

5 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

In one of the only spare weeks where Manning was able to put on several sessions to get his ideas across.

So we spend a morning peeing about with a team photo.........and then play sh*te against Cardiff.

Good use of your time that, Liam.

3 minutes ago, View from the Dolman said:

It was in the afternoon. 

No wonder they look peed off they want to go home. Half of them wont even be here next July / August.

13 hours ago, View from the Dolman said:

It was taken on February 27th.

In one of the only spare weeks where Manning was able to put on several sessions to get his ideas across.

So we spend a morning peeing about with a team photo.........and then play sh*te against Cardiff.

Good use of your time that, Liam.

19 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I’ve often plumped for a figure of £80m +/- £20m for the Football Club (inc HPC and Women’s) and Stadium, so we aren’t far apart.

Need to stay in the Championship next season though or the price will be half that for a League One side.

Completely lost interest in European football. Too much tinkering, too many dead rubbers, not enough jeopardy.

Plus no interest in giving BT any more money.

34 minutes ago, Bat Fastard said:

It is a team effort and Tins is part of the team.  Nige used to say that he did not negotiate transfers, so that must have been the remit of either Tins or one of the directors.  Of course the point of this thread is to pile onto Tins.

No, the point of your original post was to highlight Tins making good financial transfer deals. I merely asked you to balance it with his poor ones. 

You keep making it about managers.

Are you a politician cos you still haven't answered the question ?

4 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

And immediately has the confidence to attack any number of opinions and posts.

As you say - Go. Figure.

WAKONDA, TAKARM. ?

6 hours ago, Bat Fastard said:

Recruitment is a process and we have analysts as well as Tins and the manager of the day, who has the last word. Nige regarded Mehmeti as his maverick. Of course, Tins gets the blame because it fits the pile on narrative.

So in that vain NP gets credit too for Dickie. This thread though is about Tins and you referred to his value signings. I was merely pointing out that you have to counter balance that with his poor signings. Why have you made it about NP and not the subject matter.

25 minutes ago, petehinton said:

And also, why take Yeboah, one of the 18s best players, out of the u18s and say he is ‘part of the first team now’ at the start of the season???

I wonder if that was in part Pearson, being 'awkward.'

1 hour ago, Bat Fastard said:

Mehmeti shows flashes of real class but I have always been concerned with his lack of pace.  Given the size of fees in the transfer market, if he doesn't work out he can probably be sold without much loss or even at a profit.  Taken "in the round" with young recruits like Stokes and Murphy, Tins is clearly trying to get value for the club.  The Lansdown family reigning back on their already huge financial input and financial fair play rules are probably the driving reasons for the approach chosen by the club and being executed by Brian.  He deserves recognition for the value that he has brought the club. i find this pile on sickening for someone who has served the club in different roles so diligently for three decades.

You really think a League one club will pay over a million for him ?

He's proved he isn't up to Championship quality so no one from this league will take a punt on him for that money.

You can't just take the value signings and ignore the losses.

There will be plenty of empty seats in the last 3 home games. Why not go and find an empty seat and try it.

5 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

And FWIW, I don’t buy the post-match comments that they set up to block higher in the second half, because for pretty much the first 15 mins they didn’t do anything different to what they did first half.

I do think Sykes made a difference (I think he had “beef” with Swansea for last season), but I sensed the Placheta miss created a “eff this for a game of soldiers, we’ve got to play something other than this passive shit, or else it’ll be us (the players) getting the boos, when all we are doing is playing to instruction”.

For me it was more the players deciding to take the game by the scruff of the neck.  They disrupted Swansea.

Pic above - 61 mins

Midfield line is safe, JW and TGH marking goal-side, MS (just on) on same line.  TC and JK no pressure on keeper (I’m not expecting them to go mad), who is as one footed as Daniel Day-Lewis!  We are still containing, just after Placheta’s 58th minute shot.

Pic above 71 mins (just before we scored spookily)

Look at the difference!  I know the ball is now deeper on the pitch, but the intent is different.

Midfield line 10-12 yards higher (2 mow widths).  TGH now marking in front, therefore keeper can’t go to Allen / Grimes.  Nobody worried about the player in between our midfield line and defence.  If the keeper drops a ball in there, fair play.

JK now looking to press, the Swansea LCB can’t create an angle, so JK knows he can only go one way.

A simple change of intent / positioning.  Williams had been beckoning TGH to get up with him.

What happened next?  Keeper kicks long, Mehmeti gets the loose ball, drives at the defence, earns a corner, piff, paff, puff, goal.

We squeezed the pitch a bit in our favour.  Quelle Surprisé, we started getting loose ball, bits n pieces.  We became effective, becayse we win it before Swansea could settle into their structure defence.

I think the head-coach is calling out what he witnessed not what he designed / planned.

Tin hat on!

 

 

 

Agree and I think some of our players had a bit of eff this, let's up the tempo and do what we're good at for the last 20 mins.

Tommy and Jason were getting pelters from the SS for standing off and watching the keeper with the ball at his feet. One time around the 70 mins mark, you could literally see Tommy thinking sod this and from that point he started pressing the keeper and forced him to move the ball quicker.

9 minutes ago, Bat Fastard said:

Reading some of the posts on the subject of this pile on, and it seems that nobody realises that Brian is operating on a budget and to instructions given from above. He seems to have generally achieved good value with his signings and they are being employed within the pay structure set out by Jon and the bean counter.  Brian has leveraged substantial value from the academy to supplement our low cost recruitment policy. I would expect that Nige and his team were paid more than Liam and Hoggy.  This all serves to show why he is highly regarded by the owners and why we should all cut him some slack and appreciate the job that he has done in the circumstances.  

Notice he didn't mention how much Mehmeti cost though. Only the cheaper signings.

7 minutes ago, headhunter said:

As the host of the pod I'd just like to interject by making reference to the phrase "playing like that" in the context of 16 wins by that scoreline.

We would NOT win 16 games, home or away, "playing like that". My interpretation of what Ian said, rightly or wrongly, was winning 16 scrappy games 1-0 isn't pretty to watch but might be effective. What made it worse on Saturday is that the Swans were passive themselves and far from the game being played with the passion of a local derby it was akin to a poor pre-season friendly.

Would fans have been happy if we battered them, hitting the post/bar, drawing several good saves from the keeper as they sat in only to lose 0-1 to a breakaway goal. That would have drawn the phrase from many "we'll win more than we lose playing like that".

In 6 months time no-one will remember the detail of Sunday's game nor how we were battered by Coventry in October but stole [?] a 1-0 win. 

What I do remember is 6 years ago being 3-0 up at half time against Sunderland but drawing 3-3, a further nail in that coffin of collapse in the 2nd half of 2017/18

Not sure of your exact point, Dave, but give me paragraph 3 everytime over what we witnessed Sunday.

Davefevs put the Coventry game in to context for you earlier in the thread 

Thanks Brian, you made my mind up for me last night.

Membership plus a few away games at the start of the season and possibly half season ticket if you ,Manning, preferably both are gone by November.

44 minutes ago, Dr Balls said:

From an owner’s perspective it’s not the most ridiculous thing to say. BT has been bigging up the u18s age group for a while, saying how special they are. SL thinks that winning the FA Youth Cup would add some more prestige to the Academy, which to be fair it might. BT goes along with it because if the u18s did win it, it would be a massive ego boost to him. Whether or not it delays their progress is a fair point, but I am sure that the lads themselves would be excited to win something. Who wouldn’t be?

The bigger picture is why should we be thinking our u18s are needed to bolster our first team squad anyway. Why do we have so many first teamers missing that we can’t name a full subs bench?

And having looked back at the results in the FA Youth Cup, Swindon can’t be that bad as they knocked out Man United. Also unlucky to draw Man City in the semifinal as the other one is between Leeds and Millwall.

You're missing the point of the progression model that Tinnion has instilled in the club. U18's would be playing for the U21's and the U21' should be filling the 1st team bench (making up the numbers)

No one is suggesting under 18' s are being held back from the 1st team picture.

10 hours ago, stephenkibby. said:

Going away from bashing Tinnion for a minute, did they say at the start of the show that we have made history by reaching the semis of the youth cup?

I thought we reached that stage in the early 70s and someone on here posted a team sheet from the time.?

Got to the Final. Lost to Ipswich.

From memory Ashton Gate was packed for the home leg. Still got the programme somewhere.