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On 26/11/2021 at 08:54, chinapig said:

Just read the same piece and I could imagine Nigel saying the following, especially the bolded bit:

“Mentality relates to the effort you put in,” he continued. “Are you hungry? Are you willing to submit everything to get better? Do you want to improve yourself every day? Do you live in a professional way? Are you resistant to things like nightclubs or drinking? Do you need a big car or other things for your ego? If you don’t have the right mentality, you can forget about the inherited talent that’s in your DNA, and what you have learned from others. It’s no use. It doesn’t help. It doesn’t matter how talented a player is, if the mentality is shit, forget about it.

Yes, but .... you might get £15,000 a week for three years at Ashton Gate. So, if yer mentality's shit, not all hope is lost: wait until Nige has gone from BS3 and then get yer agent down the M5/along the M5 to Bristol.

Wish Steve would make his mind up - does he love the rugby/hate the City, or as this week suggests love the City/hate the rugby?

1 hour ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

He was right though.

If football is only about the two teams and the 22 chaps on the pitch being paid to run around.

4 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

Not withstanding that we had started to improve and that SOD was charged with bringing down the wage bill and promoting the kids ,sound familiar ? .

The bloke was much maligned but I think a large part of the sacking was down to the fans not getting behind him or understanding his personality.

There were many personal attacks on him saying how ‘dour' and ‘ boring’ he was. In fact he was the first coach who engaged us as adults and in honesty about what the plan was and football in general. 

For me, although the results were terrible to start with , he tried very hard to do what Pearson is trying to do and even he is being criticised for his personality. 

We have been down this route many times in the past , Benny Lennartsen , also springs to mind and the club never got to the bottom of the problems here and reforming coaches were moved on before we saw the benefits. Let’s hope we stick with NP to avoid the rinse / repeat failures of the past. 

Yes, but .....

.... Nige is doing it in the Championship. And keeping us Championship. 

McInnes and then SO'D were charged with starting this in the Championship, and took us down (sans une whimper), then SO'D continued everything (cutting the wages, losing games, taking us down) in League One.

8 hours ago, Never to the dark side said:

BBC red button 601 at 4pm friday afternoon(26th november 2021)

As I have stated in the past,I ain't going and I am  saving my money for Germany and USA

Will I watch England? YES I WILL and I will refrain from buying World cup related items

There's no is you is, or is you ain't? with you mate, with this is there is? You ain't and that's the end of it. Or is it is?

Just a reminder, folks, it's "Bristol City Football Club," not Food Club. And have you tried the football of late/last 120 seasons?

18 hours ago, Harry said:

I usually get a coffee up in the family stand, but I prefer a decaf and they don’t do them up there. 
So last night, I happened across the coffee stall in the lower concourse under the Lansdown - Atyeo end. I don’t usually go that way so I thought, ooh, I might be able to grab a decaf here. Lovely. 
So, I get myself a decaf. Excellent. 
Do you have any toppers? No. 
So I have to carry a hot coffee all the way up the 139 steps to the top of the stand without a top on it!! 
Cheers then. 

But we won! That not 'nough?

On 24/11/2021 at 23:18, GrahamC said:

Was at the game so didn’t have to listen to him, but his bias to that part of the world is at Gary Neville levels.

Yeah, Gary Neville's levels are, er, another level, but I hear his father's levels were something else again. Mind, nothing to your Somerset Levels ....

2 hours ago, Never to the dark side said:

 shahanshahan

speak to radiio bristol

KC & The Shunshine Band?

58 minutes ago, petehinton said:

he’s all NDA’d up. 

3 hours ago, The Horse With No Name said:

Resigning - Re-signing. Two completely different things.

You say "tom-ah-to" no-one says "pot-ah-to."

48 minutes ago, BigAl&Toby said:

 

Still thinking though that Lansdown likes anything more than he likes BCFC mind!

Income tax?

3 hours ago, The Bard said:

 

One thing I hope this stops is the moronic criticism of him watching from the stands.....

But we do need someone - someone like Nigel Pearson, when he throttled some lad - shouting at the players from the touchline. Cos that's English football, see. Remember SO'D leaning against the end of the perspex dugout, looking like a lonely middle aged man waiting for a bus that was due 40 minutes ago, not breathing a word? Disaster. Players didn't know what to do.

I'd see if Neil Warnock would take the role of touchline sarge-major on a "pay-as-you-harangue-and-abuse-the-4th-official" for 90 minutes a week while Nige sits upstairs with a hot water bottle and a blanket.

3 hours ago, JamesBCFC said:

Could Derby end this season with not just the lowest ever Premier League points tally, but Championship one too?

3 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

Blackpool hold the record with 26, I think they will get more than 27 points from their remaining games.

Rotherham, 23 points in 2016/17. Statistically the poorest second tier team in England since 1945. 

2 hours ago, Davefevs said:

We’re Torquay Saturday evening?

If you are, Dave, were are too.

28 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

Yes, Torquay for some years played on Saturday evenings, especially at the start and end of the season which coincided with the holiday season and busy turnover Saturday afternoons.

We had a famous Saturday evening game there, c1983. Boats being pinched in the harbour, police vans being turned over and all sorts.

Feb '84. When the lads that never attack scarfers and only scrap with like minded sorts, had a pop at, er, one of the Nolan sisters.  

39 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

From a selfish perspective, they are down. So only two relegation places up for grabs!

Reading look set for a 12 point deduction, which would take them back to 10 pts. 

So, only two relegation places up for grabs!

2 minutes ago, TheReds said:

As in a doll, like when I was a kid many wanted to be an action man or Barbie when they grew up as that was the in things. Unsure what or why you need to explain anything to kids at all. Does a primary child need to know about anatomy if they want to grow up and be like Barbie or an action man? The week after they want to be something else, it's called being a child. They don't need to go to school and get told they can identify as a girl one day and then a boy the next, and get told about gender neutral etc - as Primary children.

Not going to argue, you can rightfully have a different view to me. 

Barbies "push" ideas about bodies upon our children. Not always very healthy or helpful ones. 

If you are not sure about something a school is doing, go and ask the school (if you have children of that age). 

1 hour ago, TheReds said:

It's a massive issue. Why would you or anyone want primary kids being told they can change genders and identify as whatever they want at that age, why tell them about their bodies etc. They're kids FFS, let them play as kids and pretend to be a dinosaur, Barbie or a fireman etc, it just confuses kids about something they don't need to know about in the first place. It's an odd agenda being pushed by people who call themselves progressives, think they are always doing the right thing, by pushing things to the extreme.

Don't tell them about their bodies, you say, just let them pretend to be Barbie. 

1 hour ago, TheReds said:

Happened in a primary school in Scotland, asked boys to wear a skirt for the day for inclusivity and equality (I mean that's what really promotes equality and they couldn't have done anything else). There seems to be a whole agenda pushing gender identity on young kids who just don't need to know about it at that age. It was a primary school, kids should be left alone to be kids rather than confusing them with all of this gender nonsense pushed on them. Why can they not be left alone to be kids and pretend to be whatever they want to be for the day, and as they grow up they then choose who or what they want to be? 

So that's one school, for one day. Any more schools "pushing" "this" that you know of? There's almost 21,000 primary schools in the UK. Just so we get a broader idea of the level of "push"

Steve to pull his "finger out his ass" live on Radio Bristol, 6pm. 

2 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Lock up your daughters, lock up you wife, lock up your mother, lock up your grandmother ...

Not your football team?

15 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

We finally got what we wanted… a proven manager at the gate! FFS!

Only proven once, though. Like flat breads.

4 minutes ago, Gillies Downs Leeds said:

Thought Norwich were going for the manager of the Norwegian team that thrashed Roma 6-1 the other week 

Yeah, they are. Once Frank Lampard stops talking to them and puts the phone down.

5 minutes ago, 'Orns said:

If I was cleverer I'd have a meme of Orange Juice playing a popular song from the early (?) 80s

But I'm not

"Falling And Laughing" ?