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However, our players are fragile flowers, bless them, they won't have the same confidence had we scored a late one.

Common denominator? The players. Gutless, downs league.

Sean Derry will be furious with physical play like that.

We've not been in the opposition box for 9 months so don't deserve one.

I can

That chap who worked with Morse.

Is this SCs high tempo brand of footy?

Probably, yes.

For the most part this forum is dominated by maybe 3-dozen people, maybe 50 people. Who knows how representative it is. If anyone is going to make multi-million pound decisions by, let's face it, what could be a number of uneducated teens and a few middle-aged bullies then he has less business acumen then I thought. EVERY forum is full of lippy people who throw opinions around like confetti. If he wants a true picture from the people who matter then he needs to do that on a Saturday, face to face. Goodness me.

Yep. 90% of so-called City fans I know do nothing more than whinge. They have an "if we're not winning, they're rubbish, and I'm not going" attitude. Kind of explains why we'll never be like the cities of Sheffield, Manchester or Birmingham when it comes to support. And I don't believe you can explain it away with past success or failure. Better explained by white collar/blue collar I think.

I agree with this. However, I think most people have no idea what realistic changes could be made. And there was very little clear consensus anyway on the managerial choices. "Sack the board" is a meaningless request as nobody can sack them but themselves. I'm clutching at straws myself for what could/should be done. All I do know is that our turnover of players is shocking. I don't think any player who comes here believes they are coming into a cohesive unit with a strong ethic. Half the players at any one time are newcomers. Add the threat of relegation and self-preservation is the most likely objective. "If/when we get relegated what opportunities do I have elsewhere at other clubs?". I don't recall seeing the team really getting up for it, straining every sinew, focusing their anger and energy over 90 minutes. I don't want to see individually talented players as such, I want to see a team where the total is greater than the sum of the parts in League 1. This can only happen where a manager knows his stuff and the players play for the team and not their agents or careers. How can it be that so many less experienced, lesser funded teams are above us in this division? Its application and desire. Maybe we've got a manager to do it for us now, though I still very much doubt we've got the players who have it between the ears, let alone the footballing talent.

SAE? Are you having a larf? That is simply not business practice. I keep hearing that football is a business. If its going to fail the test at return envelopes then I give up.

Can anyone confirm if they have ever received a response to any letter from a board member during SLs tenure? Of not, this facade of approachability is nonsense.

It comes across as BCFC suffering bad luck and not much else.

If he chooses to leave the best return will be to sell AG to someone independently of the club. If he doesn't want to be vilified for eternity then when he sells up the ground has to be sold with the club. My best guess is the debt will be written off, he'll be shot of BCFC and he'll keep the stadium. The Rugby club will be his toy then.

Much of it just increases the chances of winning Bull**** Bingo on rainy afternoons at AG.

5 pillars. They'll keep us up ...

A matchday thread that barely mentions the game. This is becoming a new trend.

This is often true. You'd hope one of those new things would bring something positive though. Its a waterfall effect this is.

At this rate I can see an attendance around 5,000 not too far away (not including ST holders out shopping at Cribbs Causeway or watering the garden).

But Ralph, we should hope for at least the fight of a manager's first league game.

What's SC doing? Quiet? Noisy? Waving? Running the line?

I really think SL and the board need some help from people who have run a successful club. They seem to be kicking a dead animal hoping it will someday wake up.