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Whatever happened to Bas Savage? Where is he these days? Just curious!

9 hours ago, bexhill reds said:

Where has all this nest egg bollocks come from all of a sudden? I get that the Lansdown’s are marmite, but do we want owners like the Venkys, the current Sheff Wed one, or be run like Reading. There is never in a million years that Lansdown will recoup the money he’s put in, so hardly a nest egg.

Football will always be a selling game, we produce a star player and they will always want to a) test their skills at a higher level, and b) maximise their earnings in what is comparatively a short career.  IF a player wants out then invariably they will get sold on, NP has always been clear that he only wants players in the squad that want to be here. Surely it makes good sense to maximise the income from the sale of a player who clearly is destined for a much higher level than we are currently capable of achieving? That’s not creating a nest egg that’s just sensible practice.

Arguably unless you are a top 6 Prem team you are a selling team, likewise teams perennially below us with player with potential are our targets.

I don’t think the current custodians of the club have got everything right, but I’d rather an ownership with local affinity rather some US debt leveraged affair fronted by a once famous quarterback…

Well said. Spot on…

5 hours ago, Mark_LCFC said:

It’s exactly what he did here and you all saw the result. I firmly believe that put him in any era that gives managers longer and puts less emphasis on media perception, and his name would fit naturally in the list of managers you mentioned to more than just us. Delighted that he’s found a club that’s giving him the opportunity to do it again.

Better manager than Alan Dicks? I think he could well be. Given that AD was in the job for fourteen (?) years, just think what Pearson could do given that length of time!

24 minutes ago, elhombrecito said:

I use the 'dark' skin. Anybody not using the regular skin was okay, hence why we could chat amongst ourselves!

Sorry? ‘Skin’? Not savvy enough to know what that means!

3 hours ago, cityal said:

If OTIB were a nation, moaning would be the national sport

Good moaning, everybody!

2 hours ago, mightyreds89 said:

Over 3,000 home tickets left which is a lot compared to previous 2 league home matches thought this one might be popular given Swansea away win. I guess this maybe be the most populated season ticket holder match for the season so far now that the holidays are over. 
 

looking like 18.5k home fans and 3.4 baggies so might just tip 22k with 4/500 pay on the day. 
 

COYR hopefully first home win incoming.

Perhaps a lot of fans are more interested in the game against Plymouth, especially as we haven’t played them for a long time? West Country derby and all that….

I was more than halfway through looking at the gallery pictures before I realised the pattern was the City circle! Quite like it’s subtlety! The colour is tasteful, but I don’t like Nahki’s dangly bits!

Thanks for everyone’s replies, but I’m still not sure what I’m reading! Perhaps I should just leave such deliberations to the statisticians among you, and just accept I don’t have that type of mind!

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is ‘XG’? I keep seeing it mentioned in football analysis, but I’m sure I’m not the only person who hasn’t a clue what it signifies. Can someone enlighten me?

9 hours ago, 22A said:

 

Brilliant!

4 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

Short version ...

"Now of course, like all real life experience stories
This also begins once a polly tito
And Happiness Stan, whose life evolved ne' ephemeral colour dreamy most
Had his pure existence and his being a deep joy of the multicolour of the rainbold
Oh yes, his home's a Victoriana charibold, this the four-wheel folloped ft-ft-ft out the backgrove
Now as Eaved and his deep approachey, his eye on the moon
All time some time deep joy of a full moon scintillating dangly in the heavenly bode, but now only half
"Oh, blow your cool, man!" he dood this deep thoughcus
"What is the folly of this half disappearing of the moony most?"
And as the light did a scintillating change through timely most
Stopped still, and he did a deep thoughcus, "What?"
Absolutely smashing flaked he was
So gathering all behind in the hintermost
He ploddy-ploddy forward into the deep fundemold of the complicading forry to sort this one out matey
"Where at, man?" He thoucus, "where at, man? Oh dear""

Brilliant! You’re obviously channelling the great man himself! Perfect! Younger fans would now be totally confused!

Knight strikes!

yessss! Cornickkkkkk!

Who was the twelve year old on the Preston subs bench? Number 24. He was shorter than Jay Dasilva! When he was warming up before the match I assumed he was a school kid who had won a competition to be on the pitch with his idols, until I saw that he had a squad number.

Definitely not worth four quid. Probably won’t buy another one. Very disappointed.

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

From my own conversations with fans of other clubs most of them vastly under estimate what a job Pearson has done. 

I think because it's Nigel Pearson, other fans expect us to walk the league under him.

When he came here, we had a squad full of players that were not good enough and who were just comfortable to be at Bristol City living in a place place and earning good money. 

The squad was completely unfit and we had lots of injuries. 

He was tasked with basically rebuilding the club whilst cutting costs quite substantially and only having very limited funds to bring players in. 

Since he's been here he's installed a culture at the club where every player is expected to be incredibly fit and to run and work hard. That's exactly what you'd expect from a Nigel Pearson team. But what other fans do not realise is that implementing a culture does not happen over night. There are so many moving parts to it. We are now one of the fittest teams in the league and with all the added time that will be added this season, fitness is going to be huge. 

I think saying he kept things stable is overlooking what he had to contend with to keep us in this division. 

He had to cut the wage bill massively whilst basically being told to work with what he had. He was tasked with turning the whole club around. The season before last we had to play 18 year old striker Sam Bell at RWB. Last season we had to play Andy King at CB and then had to play full backs at CB as we have been desperately unlucky with injuries since Nige has been here. 

We have seen year on year progression whilst never being in any danger of relegation. The job he has done under all those circumstances has been exceptional rather than "good" 

The work Nige has done with the academy players has been very refreshing. Our starting 11 next week will likely contain 6 academy players plus even more on the bench. The majority of those players walk into a lot of Championship sides. 

Other managers would not have invested in the academy players like Nige has as they would be too concerned about their own records. 

Nige has pretty much done exactly what he said he would do. It's not been easy but in some ways it has been enjoyable to watch our journey. When he came here we struggled to even get a shot on target in a lot of games. Now we're a team that presses from the front, plays on the front foot and we are full of energetic attacking players. 

Nige has restructured the club. He brought in Dave Rennie to oversee the medical/fitness department. He brought in Fleming and Euell as coaches and the biggest one was getting Brian Tinnion to be technical director which is essentially a DoF role. On the playing side the club is now joined up all the way from the academy to the first team and everyone is on the same page and pulling in the same direction. 

The work that Brian and Nige do together is incredible. 

We have probably never ever had this kind of professionalism about us as a club before, and that's down to Nige. 

This is the 1st summer where Nige has had some decent funds and he has spent it very very wisely. I think most of us are expecting a top 10 finish at least this season. I have us down as to be one of the genuine dark horses this season. 

I can see us easily finishing above Coventry who you've put ahead of us as they've lost their best two players and they've had a high turnover of players. Their manager has even said they are not ready for the new season. 

Last season we were pretty much in most games. We were consistent with our performances. It looks like over pre season we have taken a big step forward so I'm incredibly excited for the coming season. I've not been this excited for a very long time and I think that's a measure of how things are going for us right now.

I couldn’t have put it better myself. So I won’t!

So, is he related to the Leeds legend, or is he not? Does anyone know?

2 hours ago, southside said:

 

The goal number two is the one I remember. One of the best goals I’ve ever seen. Great to see it again. He was some player!

Let’s all chant “ohm”

10 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Arbroath

You’re right, it was Arbroath…
Whilst checking that I came across a story from Madagascar where a team won 149-0! Apparently there was a dispute and the losing team let the other side score at will without interfering with play! Crazy!

The record is 36-0. Aberdeen v Bon Accord in ( I think) the 1880s. Wonder if it’ll ever be broken…

3 hours ago, RedEyez said:

1 Max

2 McCrorie

3 Pring

4 Naismith

5 Atkinson

6 James

7 Scott

8 Williams

9 Cornick

10 King

11 Mehmeti

12 Knight

13 Wiles Richards

14 Weimann

15 Conway

16 Dickie

17 Sykes

18 Benarous

19 Tanner

20 Bell

21 Wells

22 Kalas is he stays

23 Bajic

24 Roberts

25 Wood

26 Vyner

27 Araoye

Can see Cornick taking 7 if Scott goes and Conway having 9.

 

Thanks for that. I know a lot of people aren’t bothered about numbers, but I am! Once the numbers are sorted I feel the season is about to begin! Let battle commence! Once more into the fray!

Anyone know when the team’s numbers are due?

I would love City to have sponsor-free shirts. I might buy one then!

Is the Yeboah lad any relation to the player of the same name who played for Leeds United years ago?