M.D

Same here, somebody's details not mine..

18 minutes ago, MattWSM said:

Thanks.

I've tried that but still the same sadly. Logged out and back in but it just plays a video with Tommy Conway.

 

 

 

There are two bars at the bottom, click on the right one saying live stream..

I wish I hadn't seen that..

11 minutes ago, TammyAB said:

His performance against Lincoln last season was really really bad. Probably the worst I've seen at the club (including Marinovic vs Ipswich and Vyner vs Brighton 2016)

Brighton knew what they were doing that day and targeted him, 0-4 if I remember?

RIP Chris, one of our own..

Welcome to the club Jason

9 minutes ago, downendcity said:

The old maxim is that strikers win matches, but defences win titles/promotion.

Looks like we are building a team capable of fighting for promotion then.

 

Pearson actually said he wanted to build from the back when he first joined the club, its just taken 2 years for him to able to do it..

Nice one, Welcome to City Haydon.

19 minutes ago, chinapig said:

Except that Kalas is currently our player and Bryan isn't so it's not quite the same. It seems, if the information is accurate, that Joe may have agreed a deal then pulled out of it. Which wouldn't be the first time after all.

If he came back having failed to get a club abroad (and he wasn't a success at Nice so who knows) and tried to revive the deal because he couldn't get something better my guess is Nigel would give him short shrift.

My take exactly.

BTW, love your profile pic, weasels ripped my flesh, Frank Zappa..

33 minutes ago, Elruliri said:

If he doesn't see us as no.1 choice then I'd say forget it to be honest.

I think Nige will feel the same....

If he's going to move then Brighton would be my choice, they will develop him and from a personal point I will get to see him play being based in Brighton.

I just have this feeling/hope that he's going to stay and look at how the club are doing and then look at things in January..

Good signing, welcome to the club Rob

Great game of football

A good friend of mine is an Ipswich fan, He still thinks playoffs is a minimum and auto promotion is realistic.

'Bring bring bring bring'

Thats his alarm clock waking him up..

43 minutes ago, Percy Pig said:

I don't want to derail this thread too much but feel that such a good post deserves a response.

In my view Lansdown has made two good appointments. Gary Johnson and Nigel Pearson. By all accounts and judging by the way he was treated in the end, Cotterill was Dawes' appointment and Steve took plenty of convincing to go down that route. 

When I say arrogant appointments I mean the appointments of Tinnion, Millen, Holden and to a slightly lesser degree, Lee Johnson. Its a pattern that he seems to follow frequently, thinking he can employ from in house a completely under qualified and inexperienced coach or former player with no infrastructure or support network. To have made that mistake once would be hubris, to have made it 4 times is arrogance in my view. 

I also think the pattern of his managerial appointments defy all logic.

Let's start with Wilson as he was the first manager Lansdown led the club with. (The details of the appointment I'm not clued up on and whilst Steve was a major shareholder by then, I don't know who was "in charge" then). Perennial failure and allowed a damaging culture of excess to permeate the squad. Not a leader but had pedigree from Barnsley and Wednesday. Probably sacked at the right time. 

But to replace him with Tinnion defies all logic. What a team that bottled autos and lost in a playoff final needed was an experienced leader and a harder line. The squad was more than good enough to walk that league. Instead we promoted from within a player who, whilst we all love him, was captain of the team of players who let themselves down every time they got bladdered. (I'm not attributing blame to him for clarity).

He then signed a whole host of players, a number of whom worsened the drinking culture and ended up serving time. 

Next appointment was absolutely what was needed. Gary was the hardline figure required, cultivated an atmosphere around the club that I miss to this day. Going from Wilson to John Beck's assistant in a matter of a couple of seasons though is a significant sign that there was no consistency in how we employed managers. 

Next, Coppell. Now there's an argument that assessing that as a total failure is hindsight doing its thing, but I remember feeling the warning signs were there. His reluctance to accept the post, his refusal to take charge until the following season, his demeanor at the end of his Reading spell. All warning signs that his heart wasn't even close to being in it. Then spunking half the budget on a 40 year old keeper when Gerken was perfectly capable under the guys nose was another example of Lansdowns arrogance. Too big an opportunity to get the limelight...

Following that with the decision to give it to Millen made no sense. I liked Millen, but the next step after Johnson was someone to take us to the next level. That guy was never going to be Millen. 

Next McInnes. Now this appointment could well have made sense if it wasn't made in conjunction with a set of budget slashes that even highly experienced managers would struggle with. Wrong appointment for the context of what we were doing. Totally defied logic. 

SO'D. Again, didn't hate the appointment in that I'd long wanted O'Driscoll in as Manager. But was he the guy we needed in a relegation dog fight? Did we have the players to play O'Driscolls brand of possession football? Both of those answers were pretty obvious 

Even though Cotterill ended up being a fantastic appointment similar questions abound about continuity. Probably further highlights that the SOD appointment was illogical. 

Next, sacking Cotts without any backing and employing LJ and backing him more heavily than anyone ever before was ridiculous. If anyone had proven that they deserved the opportunity to "have a go" it was Cotts and Burt. Shabby treatment of a bloke who everyone but Lansdown backed to keep us up. 

And finally Holden. Having narrowly missed out on playoffs twice in a row we needed know how and leadership to give us that final boost. Instead the entire concept of Lansdowns fraudster CEO having to give up any control over recruitment was far too much for anyone to take and we went with a guy who couldn't say no. 

The process of appointments has lurched from one direction to another for the last 25 years. It just screams totally clueless to me. We should be driving the direction and employing managers who fit a mould. If Pearson leaves at the end of next season we should be replacing him with someone with similar ideas. For me that would be Mowbray if he's available, people with a track record of leading a group of young men and developing them into professionals whilst playing a decent and progressive brand of football. 

Sadly, looking at the patterns above, we will likely employ a young and exciting coach next, followed by a ridiculous over promotion, followed by a proper manager being hamstrung by the legacies of the last two. My money us on John Mousinho followed by Jamie McCalister.

Good post

To be honest, Im not convinced that SL is that keen on Nige..

16 minutes ago, Son of Fred said:

I've missed something here -

O'Brien,, which club is he currently with??

He's the centre half we looked at from Palace, that was on loan this season in Belgium and had a loan spell at Swindon before that.

Great goal but hope Lockyer is ok, looked a bit worrying 

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

TWTD - some posters are on a different planet.

• Tom Cannon
• Zian Fleming
• Jerry Yates but no more than £650k

Also saying they will be in the top 8 or 6 for spending money this transfer window..

13 hours ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

Alfie Mawson - that`s the CBs sorted.

Retired mid season, shame as he was a fantastic player but has a few million in the bank..

13 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Unfortunately, I got the same impression and it wouldn't surprise me at all if he didn't renew NPs contract regardless of where we finish. I also get the same impression from JL.

I think that is the case.

SL does not take criticism very well if past incidents are indicative.

This is the problem I think. Look at Brighton, Tony Bloom is a great Business man but the first thing he did was to employ people who know about football and could run a club..

31 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

If Coventry go up via the playoffs, they'll more than likely struggle. Club's often do daft things in their desperation to stay up and I could see Coventry doing just that and sacking Robins as they fight to avoid relegation. 

Leaving Steve Lansdown's favourite manager unemployed just as Nige comes to the end of his contract.... 

I got the feeling with The SL interview on radio Brizz that he wasn't that keen on NP and that Robins was the man he would like to replace him with..

2 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

I think that was mainly down to trying to get more local supporters through the turnstiles, no disrespect towards MH. 
The same thing happened for Chris Garland. 

Indeed, don't think he played.

3 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

Anyone who carves out a career in professional football has a good career to be fair - I didn’t mean to sound harsh 

I can remember when he first come through as a youngster - I fancied him to move up to a higher standard than is. He even sniffed around the England U21s 

 

I think he may of been on the bench for an England U21 match at Ashton Gate, could be wrong though.

On 03/05/2023 at 10:52, Percy Pig said:

My mate who works at Brighton's academy is saying that the whole building is talking about Alex replacing Mac Alister this summer. A lot of buzz about it apparently. 

As much as I would like Alex to stay with us for another season, living in Brighton it would be perfect for him to come here but I do know people and players at the club and they have all said they no nothing about him joining. Not saying its not true of course as Brighton are like City in transfer deals in keeping things quiet but they know nothing about a potential deal..

I like Ippo, a good friend of mine is an Ippo fan so that sways me a bit. I have no problem with them and the Ashton thing has been done to death on here. I told him that Ashton was given far too much control  here and that was part of the problem and watch him if he has a free run with financial control.

He is talking about play offs next year already, just promoted so give him his dreams, but its a massive gulf now between league 1 and the championship, saying that, I wish them (except MA) well next season.