JP Hampton

Yes, must admit to feeling a little excited now

Interesting he mentions the intensity of the players can’t be that if you’re unfit

Agree, although definitely improved on both in Saturday’s game.

What concerns do you have around fitness? No one worried before there were Suggestions fromBT and JL there was a problem. Did anyone notice any decline on the pitch ? I certainly didn’t.

Trouble is we’ll never know.

Not so sure about that. I understand your reasons but I think most fans even those who didn’t want to see NP gone, will get on board and judge by what they see. If we get good results fans will be on board pretty quickly.

Thanks for your warm wishes

Don’t know if this has been posted before. All sounds extremely interesting.

Asfred. Very impressed with you keeping quiet on that. Nice one

That’s it then and Hogg is coming.

Yeah but you responded to the blank message so thought you were joking about it making sense.

Would they need coercing. Maybe they’re just curious about what fans are thinking.

Don’t know how to delete

The poster is asking not announcing.

Maybe. But unlikely they will consider that. IMO.

Really very poor comments from JL “clutching at straws comes to mind”. Think there’s something About Bristol Bears watching on during some fitness tests and admitted they were so much less fit than Bristol City boys, that they wouldn’t keep up with it.

I remember Pearson actually mentioning how fit the players were after the summer break! Funny how nobody mentioned their lack of fitness until it was muted by JL. In fact quite the opposite, people were saying how fit we were up to other teams. A few words from JL and BT and it’s suddenly on shaky ground. As I’ve said before this suggestion that players were given 10 days off or whatever, doesn’t mean they were lying around doing nothing. Professional athletes still need to train and train down and the body needs to rest between high intensity training for repair and actually for muscle to build efficiently. The standard is a few months on and then a week training down/rest. An individual training programme for each player would have been followed. If having a break was the reason for injuries etc you’d expect to see far more across all footballing teams after the summer break. They are not following a high intensity training programme everyday for the 3 months of that break. And I’m sorry but the idea that’s been mentioned somewhere, that players came back after resting and went straight Into intense training is absolute nonsense. Not even amateur athletes would do that.

Im a big Weimman fan and even I’d agree with that.

Yeah problem is they then sacked him….. useless

DaveFevs with Mr Popodopolus in charge of the finances. Harry as second in command.

I think part of the despondency CC if like me you didn’t want NP out, it’s actually difficult to get excited about someone coming in,when you’re still bemused at the old one going out!

That makes it sound like the “thick and thin” was of his own making and they stood by honourably assisting and supporting him throughout. There weren’t exactly any thick times were there? I know he wasn’t perfect, the results weren’t great, but it’s the lack of clarity and honesty around the whole thing and that gets me.

Well all I can say is “No, it’s not”, not much more I can say is there. I read earlier they’d been banned for some questionable behaviour, so I’d rather not be associated with that thanks.