SuperDziek

15 hours ago, Robbored said:

He wants to show what top manager potential he has (in his own head) and to achieve more than his father ever did. We’ve all witnessed what waffler he is as did the S’land and Hibernian fans. He uses complicated coaching speak that goes over the average fans heads which is another way of him showing how knowledgeable he is.

The reality is that he’s a clone of his father with just a little more sophistication. It’s unlikely that he’ll manage higher than L1 in his career. He simply doesn’t have what it takes.

Have you forgotten we were in the Championship when he was our manager?

59 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

You can all stop now, a very ITK has spoken.

 

 

Can immediately rule that out then because fresh ideas aren’t part of the requirement.  We have Brian Tinnion’s master plan so all the new HC needs to do is pick the team (checking beforehand of course that Brian agrees).

It’s the arrogance of it that gets me. Paraphrasing but essentially saying that We’ve got this great squad and the rest of the championship find us difficult to defend against, and we’re going to play this particular style of football and the new HC will take that forward. 
 

i don’t think many people would say we have a top 6 squad. With some astute additions from the Scott money, it could have been. But top 10 this season would have been continued progression on the pitch and we’d surely have been happy about that. Barring injuries, we’d either be in the top 6 or not very far out of it under Nige. Injuries have killed us, there ain’t many teams that could sustain that many injuries in key positions and continue picking up points. 
 

if BT was taking forward this establish way of playing that he’d been successful with elsewhere, then fair enough. But it does smack of comments he made when becoming manager previously, and we know how that turned out. 
 

Nige has gone and ain’t coming back, so we need to now recruit the best fit for the club - someone who presumably will bring their own staff (well, let’s at least hope they know a good Head of Physio, anyway). Surely the best fit includes the remit of deciding how we best play with the players we have available and what their blueprint is for the future, not just having to accept BT’s vision and work to it. Remarkable how he’s come to have so much power having achieved so little outside of what he’s done with the Academy. 
 

just can’t help feeling we’re getting it totally wrong (quelle surprise) and we’re going to implode.  

21 minutes ago, italian dave said:

Jacki, v Wolves. 

Not the last, but the quality of the goals were up there with last night.

If you zoom in closely, you can see the bus that Joey will be chucking one of his players under later. 

Was sat at the front of W1 in the Upper Lansdown today and had a decent view of it. Real time it looked like a cracker of a tackle and what made it better was not only was it the last minute and the game was 0-0, it was that it was right in front of the Baggies fans who were p1ssy for real about it.

If he gets it wrong, it’s a pen and a red so no margin for error (like when Tanner mis-timed his on Phillips and clattered him) so well done Kal.

Goes without saying though that if that’s at the other end, it’s a nailed on pen

2 hours ago, phantom said:

Thank goodness the league resumes this weekend

So that we can see how Fleetwood get on?

54 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Possibly a bit of wishful on my part.

Or slightly lazy by me! My thinking was being on the Ashton Gate footprint it would flow to Bristol City Holdings however Estaben Ltd I've never really looked into.

Esteban Investments Limited has two directors - JL and Martin Griffiths.  Presume as Planning permission was granted to them, they are the freehold owners of all the land in question?
 

SL resigned his directorships of the various limited companies related to BCFC in May 2011, presumably when moving to Guernsey?

Is JL resident in the UK for tax purposes? Presumably so and that’s why SL isn’t an active director of the various companies. 

Great transfer for City and for Alex. Can’t argue with it, particularly if the Conway injury forced our hand a bit.

Hopefully we’ll now strengthen in the right areas and continue to progress up the league. 
 

After all, it’s all about progression, not regression. 

3 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Not Championship standard imo. I think he’d have struggled to get into Bath Citys first 11 - unless his dad was manager of course.

Good grief.

14 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Ex - it’s my opinion that LJ was a bang average player largely carried by Marv, Hartley, Skuse and Noble. Stats mean nothing - I’m relaying what I actually saw. ……….

quantify bang average. Do you mean he was a bang average championship midfielder?

Remember the days of the Academy producing the odd first team player every now and then? Makes me feel bloody chuffed that our club is producing this kind of player and we’re talking about whether a £20m+ bid should be accepted.

And we’ve still got the likes of Pring and Conway who could go for big money as well if they continue last seasons form. 

Crazy, really. But that Academy is worth its weight in gold (or Scott’s). 
 

Don’t expect Scott to be here come August 5th but can’t wait for the season to start! COYR

15 minutes ago, The Gasbuster said:

I don’t like Wolves, either.

But Wolves more “pointless” than Luton & Bournemouth; I don’t think so !!

I like anyone who is going to pay us £25m or more!

Gutted that he’s gonna go but I’ll be following his career and expect his next club to be a stepping stone to one of the big boys. Which, with a decent sell on fee, will be happy days for us.

9 minutes ago, SecretSam said:

As in...the basis of Cott's promotion team?

Yep. No denial about that. But SC got a tune from them that SOD didn’t, JET aside

37 minutes ago, FabledRobin said:

Who the hell is Brian Howard!

Good midfielder prior to coming to us! Pretty sure that, like Nicky Shorey, his best days were way behind him and he was carrying a bit of timber when we had him for a short while. 

Interesting topic for debate.

Heres a list of players signed by SOD for us:

Brendan Moloney

Brian Howard

Jordan Wynter

Aden Flint

Derrick Williams

Frank Fielding

JET

Scott Wagstaff

elliott Parrish

Marlon Harewood

Marlon Pack

Nicky Shorey

Proper mixed bag that. Probably a 50/50 split between the good and the bad/ugly.

football under him was dire and we were definitely heading into League 2 under him. 
 

but he inherited a lot of dross from McInnes and had to clear the decks, and SC definitely benefitted from that. 

41 minutes ago, View from the Dolman said:

Fixed that for you.

Ashton Gate Limited does exist though which is presumably the entity he means. 

20 minutes ago, CyderInACan said:

Medical at Millwall today - announced tmrw. 

Why are they announcing tomorrow that he had a medical today? Bit odd. 

1 hour ago, CyderInACan said:

Mate of mine who's a Millwall fan reckons they're in for Bryan! I told him to behave but he was having none of it. Now that would be an odd move. 

Absolute rubbish. As I know for a fact you have no mates! #ITK

5 hours ago, westred1 said:

Why isn't this on the club website? Seems bizarre.

Yep, I won’t believe it until it’s on the official website. Until then it’s just gossip and rumours. 

Not my confession but someone believed Gary Johnson was a conference manager…

22 hours ago, James54De said:

Just searched “recall”. Has been covered 16 times in the last two weeks.

Was it in a thread about Londons Burning though?

34 minutes ago, oldstandrobin said:

Couldn't you sleep Reg ?

It’s obviously playing on his mind!

Embarrassing. James was outstanding yesterday and arguably it was his best game for us. 

On 30/12/2022 at 21:56, CyderInACan said:

Just come back, luckily in time for the darts, from the new incarnation of the erstwhile Caffe Saaz (Saaz Mezze ) on North St. Really good Turkish mezze choices plus the generous £2.50 BYO allowance makes it an incredibly good choice for a decent feast. The portions are very generous as @Scrumpy Dziek will attest. 

Or even @SuperDziek