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5 hours ago, Barrs Court Red said:

I don’t want him to go, so I’ll preface with that. But if this did happen (very low chance imo) that would be comedy gold. 

Right after Jon’s interview parading the lack of egos in our hierarchy and having shared objectives. 

Would be a very Bristol City thing to happen! 

17 hours ago, IAmNick said:

I've never got as far as the prem from non league, I usually get frustrated in L1 / Champ and want to start again!

I'm not that good at the game though tbh - and I refuse to look up any of the recommended tactics or wonderkids etc. which doesn't help (but feels like cheating if you do)

Only done it once but had some mental luck finding a couple of wonder kids. 

Took Bath City from the NLS to win the champions league in 10 seasons. 

Funnily enough always found the League one -> Championship jump much harder than Championship -> Premier league on FM. 

.Think it’s quite clear to see Tommys off the ball work has improved under LM, his anticipation and ability to lead a press are very impressive at his age imo. 

Will be interesting to see what happens, as i don’t think he will go to another championship team but also don’t think he quite has the required pedigree to get a premier league move yet.

I do hope he makes a decison though, so we can either extend his contract or offload him with enough time to get a replacement and avoid losing him in the last week of a window and scramble for a replacement. 

4 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

No consideration as to the cost of having that flexibility then?

Does it have to be extremely cost worthy? I’d argue we’ve been pretty flexible the last couple of years anyway. 

Sykes, Naismith, Mccrorie, Roberts, Gardener-Hickman and Pringy can all play a number of positions which allows us to have a smaller squad.

But on the downside it means we can suffer setbacks a lot quicker if injuries build up. 

Very much a balancing act, one that I wouldn’t be able to do but I feel like it can be financially viable without breaking the bank. 

The question to ask i feel is which is better: Squad flexibility or Higher quality specialists? 

14 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Ditto.

I’m gonna sit here and see what happens, but first thoughts are we are recruiting for two set-ups

3421 - two no10s no wide men

4231 / 4213 - one no10 two wide men

Need a winger, pace and power.

+++++

Undoubtedly Owers hears things!

Smart thing to do, doesn’t want to recruit himself into a hole and found out in october that the formation isn’t working. 

Helps that you can essentially switch between the two with just one sub. And to an extent we are relatively weak in real consistent quality on the wings. 

Sykes looked very good at the start of the year but didn’t finish the season all that well, Mehmeti is… Mehmeti and Bell is currently injured so we don’t know how he’ll come back. And either way that’s only 3 wingers (I don’t include cornick). Every other position we currently have at least 2 per, so it makes sense imo to go for another. 

Just now, pongo88 said:

No real surprises though I thought James could get another year, if he would sign a one year contract. He’s probably better off leaving as he might get a 2 year contract at another club, probably in League 1

Might’ve been offered a one year deal tbf, but whatever deal he takes now will likely be his last of any significant value and it’s very likely he can still get 3 years somewhere else. 

Will definitely miss him and I feel we need to bring in experience in midfield, Williams is our oldest at 27 now and next closest is 23. 

Probably spent at least £15m, not including loan fees for 8 players (6 from prem clubs.) 

Surprised they actually sacked him but not unwarranted imo

1 minute ago, RUSSEL85 said:

We were positive 6 goal difference before today. Ridiculous 

Wouldn’t surprise me if this ends up 6-0 just so we can finish as mid table as possible. 

On 01/05/2024 at 23:22, W-S-M Seagull said:

And briefly tells us at the end why he'll be leaving this summer. 

6 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

You've misread it mate. I didn't say he tells us he's leaving. 

Yep, he’s completely misread that. 

Just shows what intent, passion and smart recruitment can do. 

Not a team full of world beaters, no Summervilles or Dewsbury-Halls, but key traits in key positions that lets them play a certain style of football that matches their squad. And play it well. 

Will be interesting to see what happens if they go up, think Leif Davies will go and that won’t be an easy replacement. Wouldn’t be surprised if another club try’s to get Mckenna either. Think if they start losing a few it could all fall apart but that’s just a guess. 

Balon D’or worthy season from HK, sadly would be very surprised if he wins it. 

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

He adjusted cos his job was on the line and he was told to adjust. 

He came in here with an attitude of his way was the best way (despite it being the opposite of the given brief) he carried on with it. Bored us all to death. 

As a football fan I have every right to speak about our style of play yet you somehow have an issue with a football fan talking about football. Says it all. 

He sacrificed our season for his way when it was plainly clear the squad was not suited to his way. I'm annoyed by that. I of course said from day 1 about his style and our style not matching so it's not with the benefit of hindsight. 

Stop lying mate. It's hard to debate with someone that lies. I'm always active. I'm active now after we won the other day so that's your theory blown out of the water. 

It's the trolling that's intolerable. Its boring. Its tedious. If you don't like my opinions, put me on ignore or scroll past. Very very simple. 

Yes it's absolutely true that I did not think he is the right fit for us and that we are more likely to regress than progress under him. I still hold those views today. Drop the crap about it having anything to do with anything else. It's simply based on that.

Are you OK Ross? You seem to have an issue with me calling out people that have used personal insults against me? 

Regress? 

We’ve factually progressed under LM? We are going to finish 3-6 points better off than last year. Is that the amount of progress most wanted or expected? Probably not, personally feel it was achievable and fair to say we should do an extra 5 points better off. But given the fact it’s his first season at this level, which he came in part way through, any progress on last season is positive imo. 

I don’t see any point arguing whether someone else should’ve been brought in because they weren’t. And that won’t change. There are some external factors that have marred the start of LMs campaign, JLs comments to the quite toxic environment he entered in november but I don’t see anything incorrect in saying we’ve had a relatively promising season under him. 

Have there been mistakes/faults? Obviously. But I also think LM has learnt from his mistakes and ended our season very well. 

Leeds (H): Completely dominated across the park, looked like children v men

Southampton/Leicester (H): 6 points and 2 very good performances, although admittedly we rode our luck/max turnt into Lev Yashin for the Leicester game. 

17th Feb-2nd March: Lost to 3 teams below us consecutively. 

10th March-Now: 13/15 points against teams below us, mostly in quite a comprehensive fashion. 

Now in the end I might look like a numpty for having faith in LM, or you might for stating he will regress us. Either could happen, I just don’t understand the need to say it again and again when we are on a positive trend and our performances are getting better. 

4 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

 

  
 

Classic thread material! 
 

And this has to do with a pitch invader in a dress how?

That was his server at the Popeyes obviously, keep up. 

Scotty Murray doing gods work in Conways instagram comment section

1 hour ago, Robbored said:

If City can get that amount for Conway then fair play but at the same time whoever pays it are mugs in my view.

How many chances did he miss today? I can think of two that a proper striker would have buried. The penalty he won and then converted was because he’d messed up another one and one and the keeper brought him down. How many pens has got this season? - they add to his tally of course.

The best strikers miss the most chances because they get the most opportunities. 

For his age TC has very good positional awareness and run timing. And it’s improved since LM has come imo. Pens? Still gotta score them and he had every single time. 

I could quite easily see him go for above 5m tbh as he’s still only 21, he’s still got 5 years to work on his craft before reaching his “prime”. 

Bristol city

Middlesborough

Coventry

Preston

Cardiff

Swansea

Watford

Sunderland

Millwall

QPR

Stoke

Sheffield Wednesday (Unless all hell breaks loose) 

Sheffield United

Portsmouth 

Derby

15/24 confirmed for next season! If one of Leeds or Southampton don’t go up I think they’ll coast it next year but couldn’t tell you the rest of the top 6 for the life of me. 

18 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

Are we reading too much into some of the players gestures? What is the difference between waving at the last home game of the season and waving because you might be leaving?

Yes, seeing as he was waving to his family in the Lansdown stand. 

7 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

I've been thinking a little.

I think this is a season where an observer can take whatever they want. 

It's possible to look at the same facts, and see either great hope, expectations, and positivity, or signs of concern, failure, and negativity. What you see will depend on your outlook, your biases, your personality etc.

There's been brights spots as you rightly highlight, but lows as well.

Take these ten games. Yes great results, but one can counter that and say it was an easy run of fixtures, we got 4 (I think?) penalties, and some games were dead rubbers. 

It's just one of those seasons that in the moment seems very volatile and interesting but I suspect in 3 years' time no one will really remember anything bar the manager change in October.

These musings may not be totally on topic, and I'm not trying to be negative, but it is just one of those seasons where there's a bit for everyone.

Last season we had a spell where we got 19 points from 10 games, Birmingham - Blackpool, W5, D4, L1.

Very good point to be fair, the season as a whole can quite rightly be taken both ways. 

But saying our last 10 have been easy fixture is a tad misleading, average position of the teams we’ve faced is 13th and we are a midtable side. 

Twine, Williams and Conway all making signature gestures. 

Interesting to say the least

Lovely free kick, no clue how he gets that amount of dip on the ball! 

Standard of crossing is incredibly poor especially when a decent majority are unchallenged. 

Replay shows GK touching tommys knee as he goes round him, more of a premier league penalty then a championship one if that makes sense. 

Just now, old_eastender said:

Not the best of halves despite being ahead, missing Knights forward thinking from central midfield, really don't like the James/Williams combo.

Also Pring reluctant to make any run with the ball, despite having had the chance several times and Twine again not that involved playing left.

James/Williams bring food structure and defensive solidity together, but yes in this kind of game does make us seem more passive, less forward thinking. 

However disagree about Twine, thought he was our best player that half to be honest. 

1 minute ago, MelksRed said:

Possibly started to believe his own hype.

Really liked the look of Twine so far, this is more of what I was expecting when he arrived.