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37 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

I read somewhere that the average number of bums on seats is 20% lower than the number of tickets sold.  6,526 minus 20% = 5,220.

Surely they have more bums than that.

They’ve got loads more bums than that. It’s just that they don’t go and watch them!!

16 minutes ago, 22A said:

Brian  Clough said that if too much football was shown on TV, the public would lose their appetite for going to games. He, like many others was content for two games Sat night with ITV showing some on Sun afternoon.

What did cloughie know about football eh? Pffftt !!! 
 

I jest of course. Legend.

Boom boom

From the moment they sacked Pearson it was only about retaining our championship status whilst our latest project found his feet.

so far I think he’s done just about ok in terms of points on the board but the entertainment is poor in the main.

Let’s see where we are in oct/november. 

9 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

On RB after the match, the summariser (haven’t a clue whom he was) said “I just hope that Matt can get it right because we all know that Rovers are a sleeping giant …”. FFS. Sleeping giant my arse. 

That’s why it is so funny . They actually think they have massive potential and that they are everyone’s second favourite side. Bat sh1t crazy!!

How half hearted is this ?? shocking 

This is dire so far

1 hour ago, redkev said:

Are this Rotherham side one of the worst championship sides we have seen for years 

fast forward a couple of weeks 

city 0 Rotherham 1

God that would be such a city thing to do 

This is a big worry. If they were staying it’s highly likely they’d already of signed new deals .

losing both means our recruitment needs to be spot on. Worrying as this league is brutal if you are lightweight in midfield.

The whole set up is tinnions. He’s the one behind the wheel which is why NP left and why we appointed someone more inexperienced who tinnion and j landsdown perceived would be more malleable.

So yes in terms of transfer targets they might not be any different now

14 minutes ago, Gimme Shelton said:

As I've said before on these pages,do any of his critics ever look at other keepers in this and the prem? Obviously not from the idiotic comments 

Good post. I have been critical in the past but when you look at what else is out there maybe the grass isn’t always greener!!!

Was brilliant today. 

3 hours ago, gibbo7 said:

Much better today.  Now twine is back we will be better against teams in a low block.  The team set out how they were today with 2 floating 10’s, Pring going down the outside and Roberts joining in with confidence and quality from defence will help us break these teams down.  Judge Liam in these last 7 games when he has the players available that he’s wanted and brought in.  Twine was his ace in the pack.  Let Liam prove he has what it takes when he has the one player we all know the squad needed and has been unfortunately unavailable. Next season add a real championship quality all round physical striker I think he will do well.  

I think that’s fair. Today was good let’s see how we go from here then against sides that sit in. 

4 minutes ago, Ashtongreight said:

I was thinking the same, if we lose James, Williams and King in the summer,  that’s a heck of a lot of experience going out the door. Senior pros have a lot of influence, not just on the pitch. 

I said this weeks ago. We will struggle next season without that championship experience in midfield

the idiots running the club probably haven’t even considered it.

27 minutes ago, View from the Dolman said:

Not sure there's anything in that - the prize draw was announced with the price reveal. 

These emails will have been scheduled in regardless of whether they've sold 1, 92 or 7000 by this point. 

Fair enough. I didn’t see that originally as I stopped looking as soon as I saw tinnion and manning on the graphic

I’ve just had an email from the club ;

Don't miss out! Renew your 2024/25 Bristol City Season Ticket today for a chance to win it absolutely FREE! All supporters that renew up to the end of today will be entered into this exclusive Prize Draw

Maybe sales aren’t progressing as they hoped. No surprise if so.

7 minutes ago, Nugget said:

Yeah I don’t think it’ll be anywhere near 8 games, there’s a rot already in place getting worse, massive humble pie needing to be consumed.

If they come out & admit they got this structure wrong it would massively save face & really should be happening now.

This is it though isn’t it. In the last twenty years there have been loads of absolutely shocking appointments . But when has lansdown ever held his hands up to any of it. It’s his club not ours remember so why should he

a bit of contrition over the next few months would go a hell of a long way with the fan base but I’m not holding my breath.

Even if manning does go I can’t see any change above him forthcoming and a similarly poor appointment as ‘head coach’ is likely I fear.

No way me and my son will renew until the structural defects in the running of the club are sorted.

Tinnion and manning need to go at least. That’s a minimum.Some proper football people and some governance in the boardroom would be a bonus as well.

1 hour ago, Numero Uno said:

I will certainly wait until the deadline that’s for sure. They can stick their free ticket draw up their arse!!

I’m not renewing. But if people want to then please please please (if you are unhappy with the way the club is run) wait until the deadline !!!

2 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

I firmly believe that the hierarchy will support their boy in the summer with new signings and he will be gone by October. 
It’s what they do. Freaking clueless the lot of them. 

All day long this is what will be done 

14 minutes ago, Out of his pie crust said:

Expect to lose the Leicester game, but lose that plus the 2 after they will surely have to pull the trigger

If the results for the teams below go against us then maybe but no chance otherwise . This is LJ mark two. They’ll double down with financial backing in the summer

14 minutes ago, the1stknowle said:

But can you not make exactly the same argument the other way? Or you're saying while it's impossible from the outside to prove he is responsible/had a huge positive impact on anything good, we can definitively prove he is directly or largely responsible for the negative things.

Seems to me that it is that line of thinking which, to use your words, is convenient. 

We can only really judge by what we see on the pitch, which is f-in heinous at present.

23 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Firstly, I’m not in the camp of Tins being the bad-guy for everything.

My beef is predominantly that Manning isn’t the right man - both ability and football style - imho.  And Tins would’ve played a large part in selecting him, and imho has mis-profiled him against the type of football him and JL said they wanted.

So, it’s not an easy one to answer in your kinda one-dimensional question.  Nor is that a criticism of the question, but that it’s just more nuanced than that.

My evaluation of Tins as the recommender is ultimately judged on how Manning does…against where I think the squad should be.

This season, I expected him to carry on the progress being made, so was looking for a finish circa 10th, staying in the play off hunt deep into the season.  Failing that, I expected any regression to be the result of implementing his football style, ie, I’d cut him some slack.

So far, he’s underperformed on playoff hunt and football style is a mess imho.  For me, I don’t see him changing nor us progressing with how he’s doing things, hence why I’m Manning out.  That is my prerogative, you happen to think people are judging too early.  I think the longer you leave it, the worse it will get.

But…

I accept things can change, three simple scenarios, e.g.

• he does carry on what he’s doing in his way, and we make progress, proving that “time was indeed the healer”, and I’ll hold my hands up
• we throw money at him in the summer to cover his inadequacies - to me that shouldn’t mean credit for anyone, if anything it proves they got it wrong - don’t forget there was no budget in August when Alex was sold, and the owner told us fans via PA on SOTC that he was no longer willing to stump up the sums he had been each year
• he does improve us, but by doing it different / playing differently - then I could turn round and say “told you so”, but I’ll at least give some credit to Manning for at least showing adaptability.  I’m not sure Tins gets any credit in this scenario.

Hope that makes sense?

The other thing is that Tins has now given us next season’s target, and that is playoffs.  He’s basically said he expects us to be right in the mix next season.

I will of course wait and see what happens between now and mid-July when the season kicks off, before deciding whether that’s a realistic aim or not.  Just like I did on Manning’s appointment when they made their claims!

The other area I’ll be judging Tins on is recruitment.  That is nuanced again.  I thought the winter window was 6/10.

I guess, I could turn the question back on you now.  What your basis for continuing to give Tins credit, and what would it take to make you think the opposite?

I think it would’ve more appropriate to have an image of Tins in his playing days.  To put him “up-top” alongside Manning (no issue with Manning) and opposite Dicks with an image of his current role is bordering on antagonistic.  They didn’t use an image of Scotty Murray pegging the kit out did they!

That’s what they did with LJ Dave and wouldn’t be surprised if they do it again, albeit not quite to the LJ levels.
 

Then when they finally see that manning is not up to it and they can no longer paper the cracks they’ll appoint a proven manager to steady the ship whilst cost cutting.   

52 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

"Assumed". "No evidence".

Amongst the reasons we were given for sacking Pearson were:

The manager is never here these days - The players are being given too much time off - We want more on the grass coaching of front foot progressive football.

And there's only one way you can come to those conclusions - you'd have to spend a lot of your time at the HPC.

SL, JL, GM, BT are the people responsible for Pearson's sacking.

So unless SL can see from Guernsey what goes on at the HPC every day, unless JL can do so from Bermuda or Feverpitch HQ, who the hell do you think came up with the bullsh1t about Pearson not turning up enough, the players having too much time away from the HPC, not enough "progressive" coaching going on out on the grass? GM being irrelevant.

Who?

Even Inspector Clouseau could identify the culprit in that line up.

What's more, only one of those 4 had motive and opportunity.

Not only that but form for it too - Danny Wilson told us so.

So you'd have to be a one-eyed dunce not to know who was responsible for pouring poison in Lansdown's ear. Again.

It was Tinnion. In the HPC. With a knife.

Bravo. Absolutely brilliant post. Don’t know whether to laugh or cry after reading it though!!!

2 hours ago, Harry said:

Do you know, the most surprising and actually quite disappointing thing about those figures is that we only have 973 season ticket holders between the age of 19 and 24!! 
That really doesn’t seem like a lot. 
When I was a ‘young adult’ my Saturdays were 100% all about City. And there seemed to be lots of people of my age at that time. 
This really doesn’t seem like very many, in what would usually be an age group likely to be the more ‘boisterous’ and likely to create atmosphere. 

I can’t prove it of course but I bet there’s loads in that age bracket who have selective memory when it comes to their age ie. They lie and buy a u19 one.