Engvall’s Splinter

4 minutes ago, Porto Red said:

Shit. I'm so sorry, I didn't even realise I'd posted this here. Yeah no I mean I'm not oh but I've been this not ok for several decades now so I guess I'll be ok. Didn't mean to alarm anyone. I took an awful lot of drugs as a kid so at least I can be used as a cautionary tale. I've embarrassed myself enough now I suppose

Nothing to be embarrassed about fella. Hope you are okay. 

6 hours ago, spudski said:

...50 years ago today. 

But what a cracking away kit. 

Would love that now. 

See film footage against Stoke in link. 

 

Bit of the ol Scotty Murray’s about him there. 

Get in. 

1 hour ago, Red white and red said:

I forgot everything was bright, shiny and wonderful for city with Lansdown at the helm. 

To be fair, it could be a lot worse. 

21 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

That might be it!

Joe Bryan in off the post against United. No better sound. 

19 minutes ago, wtf said:

We have managed 15wins in each of the last 3 NP seasons, we have slightly improved in that time from a lowly 19th to a mediocre 14th;

prev season with D Holden finished 12th with 17 wins; LJ even had 19wins and finished 8th both sacked...not good enough,

So the selling off our assets over the past 5 seasons has got us from a 8th place finish to 14th last season, maybe its not us that should get a grip but the powers that be.

(wins and finishing positions taken from transfermarket so blame them if wrong)

The selling off of assets as got us to a position to financially tread water. 

13 hours ago, Redandproud said:

Nigel person said in a pre-match press conference that Alex Scott was injured, then we find whilst the game was being played last night he is a Bournemouth having a medical,as stated by SSN , was he lying to the fans, 

Pot stirring. 

9 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

See above, Bajic would negate that opportunity because of the appearances he’s made in France previously.

Nuts. 
 

Perhaps we offload Bajic then

2 minutes ago, petehinton said:

And there’s fans who probably think that once the deal goes through, we wake up tomorrow with £20m extra in the bank all in one go

To be fair (whilst I appreciate it’s unlikely) some have speculated that it’s 20m up front. That would mean straight in the bank if true, wouldn’t it?

3 hours ago, mozo said:

Goalkeeper. We're one injury away from Wiles-Richards being thrust into being the number 1, and currently Max is in his comfort zone regards the pecking order. It would be healthy all round to have a quality keeper to compete for the shirt (sorry Harv).

Centre back? We've got a fair bit of cover via versatile players like Naismith, McCrorie and Pring, plus Araoye looks good value for a place on the bench, so I'm not sure I'm too bothered about a CB.

Attacking Midfield. We seem to have four holding midfielders (plus OTC), but lacking a new no 8/10 with craft and vision and hopefully shooting boots too, so I'd look for one now.

Striker? I don't think we can reply on Wells alone during Conway's (and Weimann's) absence, so it depends if we consider Bell and/or Cornick to be adequate cover 

I reckon Pearson will leave MO’L as our only recognised keeper and should the worst happen he’d apply for an emergency loan.  Sure I read a something around the lines of emergency keepers and loans, that you can apply to use it if your reserve keeper hasn’t played a certain amount of league fixtures. 

22 minutes ago, wtf said:

 

 

Quote NP Bristol live; "Planning to keep him" "Better chance of success if we keep our best players" now which ever way you cut it we wont get as good players for less than what we recieved for them, maybe you should think why clubs like Bournemouth take our best players ? wait I know........they are prem clubs we never will be while we continue with our mindset; bottom line WE DIDNT HAVE TO SELL SCOTT and wont replace him with better even if we spend every penny we got for him.

Please get it, we cannot continue to sell off our prize assets and hope to progress under the belief that we are building some awesome powerfull squad, for the simple reason when we do get anyone awesome we sell them off, that is not progress its going around in circles.

Better chance, yes. Only chance, no. 
 

Didn’t Luton lose their player of the year Kal Naismith and then get promoted? 

8 hours ago, cidercity1987 said:

Just seen Pearsons club interview after tonight. Scott wasn't mentioned but it's clear the bloke is absolutely fuming, he's ready to fight 

Pearson’s not silly. It was highly unlikely we’d have Scott at the end of the window. He’s had time to get used to it so it isn’t a shock. I would suspect he continually gets frustrated answering the same questions over and over. 

3 minutes ago, Dolman Block B said:

Good luck Alex

Apparently Bournemouth fans saying 20 million up front 

 

5 over 3 years. 
 

 

If that is the case, Alexander has done very well. 

And we’re off…

Shame we won’t get to see a Knight - Scott axis. 

A centre midfielder who scores. Mint. 

Alex who?

Radio Bristol stating the same as above. Scott having a medical. 

8 hours ago, Northern Red said:

We were 3rd after 8 games last season.

Please don’t put facts on here. 

3 minutes ago, johnbytheriver said:

Is Haydon Roberts the forgotten man!

Elaborate. Or have I missed something?

5 hours ago, Cityboy1954 said:

You saw a different game to me the midfield was crap james williams too old sluggish the new lad done okchasing down everything cronick was his usual self think Nige got it wrong when scitt goes if thats what were left with god help us.

Just slightly OTT

Thought Dickie had a solid debut despite a slight hiccup in the second half which gave Preston an opportunity. 
 

Weimann is either played as a forward or not at all, regardless of his injury, in my view. We need more than just energy in midfield. For the time he was on, he’s busy but doesn’t seem to know where he should be or go when in or out of possession, often reacting to something rather than anticipating. Williams isn’t the answer but offers more than Weimann in my opinion. 
 

Preston looked a very capable and physical side. Typical Preston. They shaded the game. Point was a good result in the end. They had a real strong period after Bell’s goal. We did well to hold out until 80 odd minutes. 
 

Was expecting more from Knight. That said, as we know the Championship is a level up from League 1. It’ll take him a few games to find himself - and I’m confident he will. 

O’Leary needs genuine competition if we have ambitions of a top ten finish. 

Sykes over Cornick every day of the week.

Id also like to see move the ball quicker right to left, missing a centre back and zipping it in to the full back. We are very laboured in position - notably due to a lack of forward movement but there’s no reason not to zip it across and open up the opposition. We let them reset too comfortably.  
 

Quality to see a good crowd.
 

Sam Bell showing good forwards instincts for his goal. 

19 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Which pod btw?

ITK Ian Gay. 
 

Probably had a dream that Lansdown told him. 

3 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

 

Decent bit of depth there. Fair play to those involved in the recruitment. Really impressed with Pearson and his team. 

1 hour ago, headhunter said:

Who am I talking about? It's none other than Phil Alexander our Chief Executive. One could be forgiven for thinking he's gone missing in action as the silence is deafening from the pinnacle of non-Lansdown family officialdom within the club.

We became used to the self-aggrandizement of Mark Ashton and, in stark contrast, Richard Gould brought a calm assuredness to the role that you wouldn't find any detractors from the firm opinion that off the field the club appeared in good hands.

As things stand right now I feel on the field is fine, although let's review that come September 2 - we'll be 5 games in & hopefully in Round 3 of the Carabao as we enter the first international break.

Am I right in my opinion that the fanbase feels that off the field the club appear a little out of touch with us? The "kit" situation appears worthy of some degree of communication from the club - stick on badges, socks not matching, no away shirt. There's clearly something not right going on behind the scenes. Add to this the multi-branding that appears to be going on. The new badge took some getting used to but I quite like it but how long before the HPC has a larger than life Splatted Robin stuck on the cladding you can see from the road. I may have missed it but has there been a word of thanks achieving 14k in season ticket sales in a cost of living crisis?

I may be jumping the gun and next week there may well be some pre-season communique from the club. Steve may have a few words to say on Radio Bristol before PNE or put out a video on Robins TV? I'd just like a bit more output from Phil in a manner that shows we've hired a former Premier League CEO of the year, not someone drawing a salary in the 5 years before retirement who's opting to keep his head below the parapet rather than engage in potentially contentious discussions with fans and media.

He's clearly a very nice chap and has few detractors on the Palace forum as you can see here: https://www.cpfc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=286479 .  However, this reply to a message I placed on their forum when he was announced as new CEO suggests maybe O'Neills might be down to him not Jon? 

Highly respected amongst his peers at other clubs, did a lot amongst the Croydon business community too. Lovely guy, however also carried the nickname 'Teflon Phil' amongst our fans, because he was here both times we went into Administration (in 2000, and again in 2010). He's good at finding major sponsorship deals, brokering kit deals, maximising hospitality revenue etc. He won't be identifying player talent or anything like that. But your club will be very lean and efficient commercially.

Desperately searching for something to moan about. 
 

The new season hasn’t even started yet … Laughable.