Simon bristol

1 hour ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

My best guess for Cornick would probably be in the £10-15k per week range. Unsure how bonuses etc factor into that, perhaps that would be basic, but it isn't uncommon for the level.

Its highly likely to be in that region,, and that salary should get us a higher level striker, or the attacking midfielder we are apparently looking for? Free up joe williams too and thats another 10-15k a week as well!

Maybe manning wants a look at him? Or we are recalling him to sell or loan out to a higher level?

On 17/12/2023 at 10:06, Redrascal2 said:

I would have said his long throw was the only thing he offers. Nothing else he does is up to the standard needed in the Championship. Hopefully we will sign some strikers in the future and we can off load him. 

He is honest and works hard. The 300k was cheap, but clearly he is going to be on decent wages here, hes an experienced pro,,, and thats where we have the problem. we are struggling with wage budgets, allegedly, while we are paying salaries out on several of the squad now who arent really up to it. 

4 hours ago, transfer reader said:

If Manning gave £100 to everyone who went to the next home game you'd criticise him for it still.

 

You're beyond ridiculous at this point.

To be fair,, dropping tgh for williams was/is an absolutely ridiculous decision, only justified if tgh was injured, which he certainly didnt look when he was brought in… 

2 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

J.J was someone whom everybody looked up to. He had the respect of everyone. He was not an unknown from the lower leagues who had achieved nothing in their careers. 

He had a great playing career but his first management gig was with us,,, and was a man that commanded respect.

Great vid,,, hes a really good footballer!

26 minutes ago, NSFF said:

Johnson snr lost 9 out of the first 12 didn’t he ? Its not the current mangers fault it’s all down to the boy and the binman that’s where your anger should be 

Well manning has come in and tried to introduce a style that only 2/3 have the ability to deal with, and then one of those lads, tgh, hes dropped for the last few games in favour of williams who most certainly doesnt have that ability. Bell has been transformed by this tactic, and not in a good way, and it appears naismith and wells saw enough of it in commentary to be less than impressed as well, though that’s because it wasnt working cause no one can play it.

as for the owners,, how many times have they tried the new inexperienced coach/ manager, and then seen it not work? The times we have been stable has been when a stronger experienced guy has been able to build a togetherness, the last time a younger inexperienced manager worked properly for us was joe jordan 30 odd years ago… yet they keep doing it!

Yes, like the look of him, hopefully he gets his chance in due course!

1 minute ago, Slippin cider said:

Me too , can we get some ointment for this? …..

Thatchers gold is worth a go

Just now, Marina's Rolls Royce said:

You must be very young and have only just started supporting BCFC.

Good luck to you.

Blimey,,, im old enough to have my hips ache at night and used to watch walshy doing his shuffle.

2 minutes ago, Son of Fred said:

A couple of weeks ago I said Manning would be gone inside a year....

I'm now unsure he'll get that far

Did you mean inside this year?

1 minute ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said:

You were always a "dyed in the wool " pro Pearson fan. What you have shown since he left is that you're support of BCFC far outweighs your support for any individual Manager.

It is genuinely quite sad that there are so many who seem to want City to fail just to prove a point. IMO, of course. Meanwhile NR- respect.

 

I think we would all prefer us to win 4-0 every game,,, but we cant cause were not very good, despite the idiots in charge trying to convince us that we are.

1 minute ago, Hocca said:

We are truly pathetic , what an embarrassingly soft set of players we have, as I type Williams has just chipped it out of play again 30 yards away from any yellow shirt! 

Lucky hes in instead of tgh, otherwise we would be really shite

4 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

i had a decent chat with louis carey once, he was very open and candid about things then i asked if he missed playing for city. i never really understood his reply until recently. he said ..

,yes he did miss playing a lot but didnt miss the politics that went with it one bit

There cant be politics, jon lansdown told us we had a top 6 squad. He must have been telling the truth! Hes like a rich boris johnson.

4 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Exactly. I'm sure I could go back and find interviews of players saying how much they enjoyed training under LJ or Holden or SOD etc. 

yeah, it must be true, its written in the post.. 

14 minutes ago, Simon bristol said:

Thats like turkeys voting for Christmas, which player is going to come out in the local press and say anything but how he loves working with the new coaches and is excited for the future?

Face palm all you want, what player has ever come out and said he doesn’t like working with the new coaches? 

6 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Fair point, but he's giving an insight which is worth discussing.

But I won't hold my breath on that.

 

Thats like turkeys voting for Christmas, which player is going to come out in the local press and say anything but how he loves working with the new coaches and is excited for the future?

1 hour ago, GrahamC said:

Absolute graveyard for managers.

Michael O’Neill incredible first spell with Norn Iron, failed.

Nathan Jones, excellent job at Luton, failed.

Gary Rowett, pretty decent elsewhere, failed.

Alex Neil is a treble promotion winning manager, failed.

The Coates family spend fortunes on high wages & fees & they are the only club I can think of that serially underachieves more than us.

Agree to a point,., but they were in the europa league and established in the premier having gone up in our play off season,,, id swap our last 20 years for theirs!

2 hours ago, GrahamC said:

He scored 4 in our first 9 games, so that’s a bit of a re-write of history, isn’t it?

He’s been poor of late but let’s not start pretending that was the case earlier in the season.

Agreed, bell is lightweight and inexperienced but this will get better as time passes,, hes called up for the england under 20s, and knows where the goal is, and is in his first full season as a pro. He cost us nothing, and his first manager who gave him a chance has just gone,, im not sure what exactly people are expecting?

4 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said:

I reckon Tanner LB.

On the one hand, Manning has nowhere to hide if this team loses. On the other, I felt Pring was one of the worst culprits for ceding possession v Norwich and Manning obviously has a way he wants to play. That said, not convinced on Williams or Weimann in a possession based team…

Tgh and james are about the only ones weve got who can play possession, why on earth would you put williams in instead of tgh?

2 hours ago, glynriley said:

You can add Liam Walsh as well.

This is like “shit signings” top trumps. 

I will raise you a gustav engvall? Kasey palmer, based on cost and return must be the worst though?

has to be said though. Marley watkins is a joke, the fact hes at a respected spl club shows how bad that standard really is.

2 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Thank you @Davefevs

For your detailed explanation. Its very much along the lines of what I was thinking.

Manning is very brave to come in and change these things. Only time will tell if he's a genius or if he over complicated things. On the one hand I kinda feel as if it's something to applaud that he's setting his stool out. But on the other hand, it is a results based buisness. Look at Duff at Swansea. 

I don't like to keep meeting Nige but it's really difficult not to in these sort of circumstances. With Nige he knew what our players could do but most importantly he knew what they couldn't do. He knew our limitations. It's a pretty basic concept but he tried to get us to play to our strengths. Mix that with his own 'principles' of hard work etc then maybe we were actually already outperforming our ability. 

At the moment I do get lots of LJ vibes. Every time I see something like this I'm reminded of that presentation LJ gave about how we beat Man Utd. 

 

Yes, take sam bell,,, hes clearly at his best in space having a go at cutting in and getting a shot away, he will get more experienced and stronger of course, but as it stands, getting involved in intricate build up play receiving the ball with his back to goal isnt what he is good at,,, we have been set up for quick breaks and if thats changing we are losing what made us dangerous,,, and we really only have a couple of players with good enough technique to do it.

14 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I can only imagine that he’s trying to say he doesn’t want straight lines, e,g. RW on the same line as the RB, because that’s easily blockable by your opponent.  So he’ll want one to come inside to create space for the other.

But he also mentioned shifting laterally quicker too.

So if we go down the right wing, say Sykes inverts and creates space for Tanner or Tanner inverts to create space for Sykes, then Vyner shifts right, Dickie shifts right and Pring comes narrow at LB.

But then if we have to come back and infield to go forward down the left, then the reverse happens.  Tanner comes back into RB after he’s passed to Vyner.  Dickie gets the ball from Vyner and Pring starts to go higher with hopefully Bell inverting…giving Pring room to go on the outside.

So it shouldn’t be fixed, but change with what side we are attacking down.

And if Knight can pop up in those areas too then we create the overloads.

 

Not the greatest example, but this was a situation where we came from high on left wing, Sykes back to Pring, to Dickie….Tanner (blue 4) high, Weimann (green 3)inverted.

But to me this just feels like being a fluid 343 with a back four, where Tanner becomes RCB3 or RWB depending on which side we are attacking, and Pring does the opposite!!!!

This is like something from a lee johnson power point presentation! Perhaps guardiola can coach that in to a team with some of the best players in the world, but with our lot, we are making mistakes and scoring own goals, and cant score, it seems to me that developing patterns of play and relationships shouldn’t have to be that micro managed?! If we make top 6 it will be a miracle anyway, so what the hell i guess

36 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

But it's concerning that a simple dummy can stop him. He may not be the answer.

 

Im more worried about the scottish brick outhouse is wearing gloves on a Bristol morning!?

4 minutes ago, BCFC31 said:

Scott twine is playing a staring roll at promotion chasing Hull city not sure why he would come here unless we offer Burnley money for him and they have a recall option on his loan. Could be one to visit in the summer though! 

Exactly that,, could we afford it?? Yes clearly we have the funds for that level of signing, but whether the club are willing to do it is another matter.