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10 hours ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

 

If he doesn't learn to pull his weight, he'll waste his talent and his career will be a non event. 

But he should now be, before he's reached 30, "set up" for life, and able to holiday in the Maldives every year should he wish. Assuming he has been sensible with his money.

Do we know if playing first team games is a burning desire for KP? 

8 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

I've long held the theory that promoted sides are a tough way to start the season. 

Depends how their summer window goes (remember summer 2015?) Depends if the promoted clubs' owners are "surprised" by the wages being asked and paid in the higher division. 

8 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

Hard to think of an easier start 

Hull were "disinterested," last time we played them, sources on here revealed. I am anticipating Hull will be "interested" when we go there (no source, just a hunch). So, could be, er, interesting

3 hours ago, Selred said:

How are Reading above us? A cert to go down IMO.

Cos they were in the Premier League once. Or even twice

3 hours ago, Sandhurst Red said:

Was interesting to see Ben Foster talk about fixture release day on his podcast yesterday and what players look for and their take on it all. 

He was keen to stress that as a player, any tie against a promoted side is not wished for, let alone an away on

With this in mind, and I would agree with him, Sunderland away is about as bad as it could get TBH.

 

40,000 crowd, backs to the wall, wild dogs in the Carpathians. Nige will "learn a lot" from an opening fixture like this (ie don't pick Kasey Palmer)

There must come a time/year/season when Norwich don't go straight back up. 

55 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

It should also be noted that he came into the league late, so he needs to be looking to make as much money as he can at this point in his career.

Well, he's been "around" KP (and a few others) for a bit now, so I would imagine he has some idea how to go about achieving this ...

14 hours ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Alongside the utterly cringe lyrics, it was one of the things that irked me most about the Kasey Palmer song. Folks were belting it out when he hadn't done enough really to deserve having his own song.  Plenty of other players should've been ahead of him in the adulation stakes. 

It's because his name has four syllables so scans perfect with many popular songs. Try "Alex Scott" and it doesn't work. Bob Taylor had to be "Bob-bee" in song.

It's like "Liv-er-pool" or "Ev-er-ton" went seamlessly with "clap, clap, clap" in the 60s and 70s and then "Here we go" in the 80s but "Bristol" doesn't, hence we have no atmosphere. And why we had to stretch it to "Buh-riss-tawl."

Bristol and/or Bristol City is/are poor names/words for singing. Bed-mins-ter would've been better. People sang his name because it had four syllables and it scanned nicely. And it was about shagging. 

"Oh Ni-gel Pear-son ... " that might work too, thinking about it .......

1 hour ago, Nugget said:

Seemed to get on well with Afobe on and off the pitch, as someone said when Benik got injured there was a noticeable difference in Kasey. Not the only reason of course, the guy just needs to be settled, with a formation that works for him, wish him the best, there’s a good player there, but it’s a big lump off the wages & the right move for everyone. 

He probably should've signed for Millwall, mate 

Palmer. London. Bristol. North Street area. Heathrow (think KP has been there). Missing/wasted millions. Stealing a living. Melt down. Costa del Maldives. 

We've been here before. You'd think we'd learn. 

No more Palmers, no more millions.

Didn't the first one live at Lansdown?

Ps. Hope this time it ends differently (ie, sent to Coventry. Lives happily ever after - stealing a living off them, not us).

2 hours ago, richwwtk said:

The ridiculous thing about Arsenal setting their prices so high is that the ticket money accounts for such a tiny percentage of their overall income these days 

We see this said and read it so often - even about clubs like ourselves (difference being, supporters contribution compared to owner's rather than tv money) - that it is almost taken as an incontrovertible universal truth. But is it?

A quick glance at the figures for 2018 show Arsenal's:

Turnover:  £403m

Wages: £240m

TV & Broadcasting income: £180m

Gates & Matchday income: £99m

Bournemouth - you are closer to the truth:

TV money: £119m

Match income: £5m

But Bournemouth are a tinpot exception in the Prem. However, they lost money that season, so their £5m from tickets and pies was needed

Brighton:

Turnover: £139

TV: £110m

Match income: £19m. 

And so it goes on. Ok, it's match day income not just tickets but is it a "tiny" percentage? Probably not to those charged with watching the pennies/millions at these clubs.

One problem with blokes being hostile is that, when it doesn’t have the desired effect - the ref giving us everything; the opposition crumbling; us winning - where to go with that whipped up hostility? Who gets the "hostility" then?

The team don't need us being hostile to the opposition, what they need is their own crowd to be behind them even when they struggle, or fail. To "have their back." Show them some "love" and support.As long as they are trying, of course. But as we have seen, even those that very obviously try (Weimann) still get criticism and abuse when we lose.

The "love" and "support" nowadays from a significant element (of blokes) is wholly conditional on a certain outcome regardless of effort and intent.

We don’t need to "let them know about it" when they are conning us and "stealing a living," not while Nige is here. He will do this. And get rid of them, where he can. Evidently.

What we should be doing is raining love and support down upon the team so that they are freed up to do what they are good at and not dreading the moaning and groaning (and worse) when a pass goes astray or things don't come off or even go wrong.

If we could fully back well-intentioned players through difficult times we would be surprised the things they could achieve. However, the wages players get now (certainly up until the pandemic) and the gap between players and supporters compared to days gone by certainly make this unlikely for many paying punters. It's just not going to happen, not unless we're winning. And not always then.

Things like love and support don't come easily to some blokes you get going to football. 

Too many blokes want somewhere to go to be hostile and toxic and create fear. They can only offer conditional support, and the players know it.

1 minute ago, Wiltshire robin said:

And the lansdown stand 

I had to go in there for a game before and it was honestly the worst footballing experience going, city score and everyone slowly stands up and gives it a modeste clap for 5 seconds .

Que?

5 hours ago, Wiltshire robin said:

The number 1 priority is attracting the middle class family .

The egg buggers pull that lot in

11 hours ago, glynriley said:

Why on earth do people trawl social media accounts to get wound up?

Strange world we live in. 

Ask yer childr   grandchildren, Grandad .....

1 hour ago, 22A said:

An enjoyable read.

Look at the spectators in the cover photo; no sitting in neat rows and simply applauding politely at the end.

It’s probably not great the opposite end, mind

On 17/06/2022 at 13:14, Silvio Dante said:

Sacrilege!

 

Away from home, we've got a fair few "ahead" of the ball there, as Llewey launches a diagonal t'ward the back stick. Bob quite rightly keeps the ball well away from the keeper, thus denying the Northern monkeys the chance to counter-attack in to acres of northern space

On 15/06/2022 at 19:27, Northern Red said:

I assume the only expectation of him is to be back for the start of preseason like everyone else.

Just don't expect much more than this

6 hours ago, Never to the dark side said:

Don't really want this to go off topic,

but I can recall the Barmouth bridge had a re-vamp approx 30 to 40 yeares ago because the bridge under the woodwork  looked like a crunchie bar after being attacked by sea molicules?

 

Got any photos of that you can show us, Nev? 

1 hour ago, And Its Smith said:

I look forward to the Pearson out calls if we lose our first two games of next season!

That's not then or now. I dunno what that is

2 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

Let’s be honest, if we had won that penalty shoot out against Italy there would still be people who want him out now. 

Well, yeah. Cos that would've been then but last night is now. It's all about now, Davo

5 hours ago, LondonBristolian said:

I think the connection between Palmer and JET is that both are confidence players. When they don't understand their role, or the way the team is set up isn't getting the best out of them, their heads drop, they become withdrawn and they drift out of the game. I can easily see how it "looks" like laziness but I agree with you that that isn't how I'd see it. 

So, things get difficult and KP's head drops, you think? Things get tough and he drifts away from the action?

1 hour ago, Chessels Chick said:

NB season starts week early on July 30 this season due to mid-season break for World Cup ....

Oops realise you realise this

You Made Me Realise. 

It's like Molineux in 1986 ...

23 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Brilliant job, 90 is a decent age, too.

Remember watching the ‘82 World Cup, as it was the year after I started work, I did so almost entirely in the pub.

Not everyone on here will know that (you worked for many years in the pub trade). Most will probably have had you down as a, I dunno, maybe a civil servant or something.