CodeRed

I don't ever recall us ever being talked about in that way, certainly not for 2-3 years, certainly not while finishing 18th,17th and 11th. A few red tinted folk on here maybe and by the Lansdowns at season ticket sales time but nationally - no way! LJ, fraud as a player, fraud as a manager - the Jocks have sussed him in no time.

In the 4 seasons he completed we finished 18th,17th, 11th, 8th,........I'm not sure that qualifies as "established top half". Given the resources and the 70 odd players signed on his watch I can't view his tenure as anything other than failure

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It won't be too long before he's gone

Poundland as shirt sponsor ? When a player signs you at least know it's not just for the money

Unsurprising.....not even a proper manager.

A PE teacher! according to Joey. FWIW I always thought Cowley was a bit of a gobshite - glad he didn't end up here as was rumoured while the 6 week thorough and rigorous process was playing out.

They've come a long way, I've seen us play at Griffin Park over so many years when they really were " just a bus stop in Hounslow!".... Looking at the PL table we've played the following teams in the fairly recent past - certainly in the Lansdown era - in the Championship and L1 who we probably considered were behind us at the time: Brighton Palace Fulham Bournemouth Brentford Forest Leicester (L1) and although big clubs - on the pitch we were as good as Leeds Wolves Villa when we met in the Championship. And here we are looking down the table hoping to get enough points to stay in the division....... again .

"And finally, we go back to Monopoly, for a quick quiz question. Along with Coventry Street what other three squares on a Monopoly board also carry the name of an English football team?" Oxford (Street), Leicester (Square), Liverpool (Street Station)

I still look good at 68 ! CodeRed

Shakespeare was a coach/assistant under Nige. Steve Walsh was Nige's DoF who did the recruitment (the guy who recommended Mahrez, Vardy etc) It's the Lansdown way !

"Obviously this is all a bit unknown / speculation, but the story was we had Gray already agreed at £4-4.5m, and then went to £6m after it fell apart, and he then went to Burnley. Re Gayle, it was something like £6m plus £3m in add-ons. Maguire was around the £2m mark." The story was it was Guy (can't remember his surname) who went back to Hull and Brentford and offered them less than Cotts had agreed - trying to be the tough negotiator and get an improved deal. The clubs weren't impressed and told him to do one and the prices increased as they were being messed around. Cotts was furious when he returned from holiday.

The team gave us nothing though

We're you?

I wouldn't go back for Cotterill - we've moved on and he's no longer what we need, but he gets unfairly slagged off, mostly by Robbored, who continually trots out the line SL fed to the Senior Reds. FWIW SL said Cotterill promised to do one thing at interview and did another in the job....referring to SL's requirement to develop youth and trade sustainably. SL met those aims blooding players like Bryan and buying Kodjia for 2M and he went for 10M. Plus of course promotion. But SL was seduced by Ashton's proposal to trade the club to promotion using his agents and database and make a profit in the process. SC thought Ashton was a fraud and refused to work with his systems . ..and was fired. So who was right?

And - 2 days AFTER he was sacked Mark Ashton was appointed. (SC sacked Thursday evening....MA appointed Saturday morning -- clearly already lined up) Cotts having refused to use Ashton's "recruitment model" preferring his own eyes and contacts. SL chose MA over SC. And so it began.

You all heard what SL said .....but why would he air all the woes and falling's out to the Senior Reds - he's not accountable to you lot is he? You might as well say something's a fact because you heard a Government Minister say it on TV ? ? ?

Not a bad City team !

Ah! The man you called Mr Ch arisma and were looking up on Tinder !!!

Willy Nilly is a striker I believe, lots of penetration and box entries, scores nearly every time , can also play in behind in the hole so very versatile, gets his shot of too early sometimes but keeps going for 90 minutes .

Taylor Moore (the forgotten man) will be one, James Morton, and either Klose or Martin. If it's only 3 presumably 1of those is being offered something......

We paid Harrod's prices but got Lidl quality in most cases.

We'll our " board" thought he was the candidate to get us 'over the line' into the Premier League!!!

Does that mean you won't be posting over the festive period?