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Just now, Fuber said:

Worth pointing out he's also set piece coach (as I understand it?) And that we're in the top half of the league from goals from set pieces.

Top half is not good enough remember.

We need to be in “promotion” positions for set-pieces. The squad is good enough.

1 minute ago, GrahamC said:

He has a good reputation within the game?

Decent CV that includes Wolves & Hull, I think?

Because he wasn’t part of the Pearson regime (he was there already) he wasn’t in the firing line from the Chuckle Brothers? 

Could be all of this.
 

 

Yeah, I know. Was attempting irony based on the scattergun mentality of our board.

Must be decent at what he does so good luck to him.

As the dust settles on a bizarre 10 days or so, and as we await the arrival of our new Head Coach, I have read that Pat Mountain will be retained in the new regime.

Mountain has now survived the Johnson (Lee), Holden, and Pearson eras.

With the brutal chop/change mentality of the board around personnel and strategy, and the “wheel of fortune” approach to culture and “identity”, does this mean:

a) Pat is the worlds best goalkeeping coach

 b) The role of goalkeeping coach is not one that can be failed at

c) Pat Mountain is running the club hidden in plain sight?

Food for thought surely.

Wont be on here for a while or around the club.

Stockholm Syndrome with these Lansdown clowns and this is the final straw.

Finest manager with the most integrity this club has had since Terry Cooper.

**** this lot.

Too much for this club.

Cheers Nige, and all the best.

7 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I thought it was a real shitty, unprofessional tweet, and I see he hasn’t come back on my response.

 

you weren’t the only one who saw it either.  A few people messaged me.

Very poor this.

Unprofessional is kind. Defensive bordering on antagonistic is closer.

Something untoward is afoot methinks.

Time for change.

There is Stockholm Syndrome with the Lansdowns. We could and should thrive without them and thats nothing to be frightened of.

Break it to make it. Nigel Pearson is the best manager (comparably) since Terry Cooper that this club has had and should be offered the chance to grow what he has seeded. Good on him for speaking out.

I will always love this club but if he leaves under these circumstances then I’ll take a watching, but distant brief for a bit.

2 hours ago, Offside said:

For me, the 1989-90 team at it’s best was absolutely sublime. 

Sinclair

 

Llewellyn

Humphries

Newman

Bailey

 

Gavin

Shelton

Rennie

Smith

 

Taylor

Turner

 

I’d second this (my lifetime).

Unreal season and side and the front 4 (which it was at times when we were in full flow), of Gavin, Smith, and the T-men was as special.

Gavin and Taylor especially would have been in high demand for high money if it was now.

15 hours ago, BasSavage88 said:

They've been booked off 3 of the 4 Halfs so far in the league 

You are without doubt, in a very competitive field, the worst poster on here. By far.

On 24/08/2023 at 16:30, The hand of RO'D said:

Excited with the prospect of Nige potentially leaving after this season?

Controversial post I know. Now, don’t get me wrong, the job he has done to this point has been great. He has trimmed the wage bill and has had limited funds at his disposal since he’s arrived which could be detrimental to how his success will be perceived in years to come. Look at when Leicester won the premier league, a lot of credit came Niges way from the players who were involved who said if it wasn’t for Nige sorting issues behind the scenes they wouldn’t have had that success. Are we at a similar crossroads?

The football since he’s taken over hasn’t been great. We had terrible form at home for a long time, struggled to take the game to the opposition and have treaded water in mid table for his reign. Has Nige sorted the club out off the pitch but has subsequently ran his course with the club? Is SL ready to take the plunge in another manager with fresh ideas who will bring, in my opinion, a much needed footballing identity to the club? Perhaps why we’re seeing the purse strings tightened after the sale of Scott & Semenyo?

Entitely my opinion but I feel we need a new coach, not a manager, with a clear footballing identity and style of play to take us to the next level.

Controversial, no. Awful take, yes

3 minutes ago, Scrumpys Dietary Advisor.. said:

FFS,I don't even want to talk about the likelihood of us finishing bottom 3, the ambition is to finish at least top 10 if not better. 

The squad we have now should be capable of that but the really worrying thing is that they look like they've had the life sucked out if them.

Only Sykes and Sam wanted to take players on today, it didn't work too well for Sam cos the fullback worked out he tried to cut back every time but at least he tried. Ironically, our best chance of the game came from the time he didn't cut it back 

Anis looks a pale shadow of the player we got excited about, he was going to be our maverick but its like he's  been shackled

Still, I guess we shouldn't have expected anything else, our home record against Birmingham in the last 25 years is nothing short of absymal. 13 league games which we have won 2 of with 1 draw and 10 defeats 

Basically, it's 3 points, gift wrapped for them every time

 

 

Interesting the Mehmeti thing. Not the first time we have managed to make a maverick look ordinary after a few weeks at our place.

16 minutes ago, Dr Balls said:

As someone who did stay until the end, those of us that did were certainly in a minority. The exodus of our fans after the second goal went in was the most dramatic I have seen in the many years  watching us. Over-reaction maybe, but also a sign of extreme frustration that we have just sold our best player and that was the subsequent dire performance from the team.

This is not to be underestimated and a sign of a club in dangerous stagnation.

Very poor performance yes, but having the hope drained out, and the feel of “here we go again” is a worrying one.

Said it for a while, we are the best club ever apart from being very good at football.

20 minutes ago, petehinton said:

He had 3 chances to hire Robins and didn’t… yet somehow now seems to bring him up at any opportunity as if he’s some up and coming coach no one has ever heard of 

Yeah exactly.

Spot on post. Literally begged to come to us a couple of times and was knocked backed.

Now he is the “next newest oldest thing”, Steve loves him.

Took 7 weeks to decide Dean Holden was better than Mark Robins but we actually wanted him all along.

4 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

He was been working with at least one hand tied behind his back for 18 months..I mainly see positives though I was a bit confused by the team selection today.

Might be the “Cotts moment” today.

The not so quiet protest in the friendly after promotion.

”Look at what I have now back me”.

We all know how that turned out.

If I was Pearson I would feel the same. Like fixing a blokes house over two years that he had burned down himself then asking for a take-away as a thanks and being told to make do with a packet of crisps.

I am at the point where I think the regime view Championship stability and flogging young talent off is success.

Relegation to League One is the lesser of two evils.

Promotion is borderline unthinkable as then what?

1 minute ago, ChrisBW said:

Because he doesn’t want him long term - he’s got his eye on Mark Robins or some younger manager who fits the ‘brand’.

Not sure Mark Robins fits the bill anymore.

Anyone with any “real football world” exposure comes into our club and is blown away by us.

Look at Pearson. Probably thought he had seen it all but here we we again!

Its why we took LJ and Holden.

1 minute ago, Cardy said:

Mad isn’t it? Some guy comes over from America & has a basket case club looking upwards within weeks & yet we are still going round in circles 25 years later.

This. It blows my mind.

I am starting to believe we are being held back and do not want to push on.

I am getting old and cynical but the rhetoric out of the club is all around the youngsters and how great our production line is. Yeboah the latest all over the socials, hype and hype and money follows. Our lot largely are not good enough for a while. Pring took a while, O’Leary, Vyner is mid 20’s.

The reality is clubs buy to get out of this league. Luton being an exception to the rule which SL is now using as a new beacon of success which is frankly absurd. If anything he should see their promotion as an indication of embarrassment in his failure to get us there.

6 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

That’s 2+2=6

2+2+2=6 if you throw a greasy CEO in there

4 minutes ago, Son of Fred said:

If he's not backed it's the high road.

Agreed. He has gone from full of beans to having the look he had when he first walked in to this shambles.

Not really sure what we expected here.

Some good summer business will make us hard to break down but as far as I can tell, playing without any recognised or specialist attacking midfield players or centre forwards in a team is likely to result in very few goals.

Who knew.

He is hacked off no doubt, but a fair slice of that will be to send a message around replacements to the board.

Canny one is Nige.

1 minute ago, ralphindevon said:

For me the cup is a chance to see City at a ground I haven’t been to or not been to for a while. Or if it’s a home draw a team and players you’ve not seen play recently or at all.

Also it’s dull having a team you’re going to play again soon or just played but having looked we don’t have either team until December I think so that’s not so bad. 

Yeah get that. For me its dull worrying about a competition we are not going to win that costs us league points but I guess Im unfashionable and find being mid-bottom half of this league dull.

Get Pring training hard as a left sided centre-half asap. Has all the attributes.

Roberts and Mehmeti are a very exciting proposition down that side.

1 minute ago, The Bard said:

Didn't do bad did it?

Quite a lot of concern about one we are losing rather than the ones we have got.

Jason Knight is an excellent signing.