Northern Red

8 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

In respect of Naismith, here is what I fear could happen.

Manning coming under a bit of pressure, possibly can noise but hear all the same.

Players who are close to ready he brings back. Perhaps Naismith starts or more likely on the bench 

Great, but not fully ready, under pressure (or feeling under pressure) to get a result Naismith comes on...and tweaks something. Tweak turns to injury 

Out for weeks if not months. 

I think that scenario would already have happened if it was going to, given that he played for the U21s a couple of weeks ago.

7 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

What about Bird ?

Not as far as I know.

11 minutes ago, !james said:

Stokes has been training with us then? Assumed he wouldn't arrive til the end of the season with Aldershot... 

I think he's been doing one day a week with us when Aldershot don't have a midweek game. Same with Palmer-Houlden.

“It makes me laugh because 12 days ago everything was great”

So he does read OTIB then!

Just now, Mr Popodopolous said:

Didn't Ian say he'd be there for Middlesbrough, Southampton or QPR at worst??

Technically he was there for QPR.

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One positive on the injury front has been the return to training of Ayman Benarous with the young midfielder having experienced nearly two years of injury misery following two ACLs and then hamstring issues since the autumn which have delayed his intended comeback.

The 20-year-old who last played for City on April 30, 2022, has trained over the last two weeks at the HPC with the intensity of his sessions being gradually increased and Manning hopes the playmaker can be involved in an U21s soon to further build up his fitness, with the end goal being a first-team appearance before the end of the season.

“With the duration he’s been out, you don’t want to force it, rush it and set him back, you do have to be careful,” Manning said. “Getting him increased minutes in 21s games, upping his workload with us in training and if he responds to the fixtures, then I’m hopeful.”

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-injury-naismith-twine-9133489

Excellent, another thread that was clearly started with the best of intentions descends into the same old arguments.

Well done to the usual suspects, you're absolutely strangling the life out of the forum.

58 minutes ago, petehinton said:

no doubt has never seen him play and the above is just completely made up 

It reads like something that a ChatGPT would churn out.

A good 90% of the replies to anything that a football club posts on social media give the distinct impression that the person replying shouldn't be allowed unsupervised access to the internet.

Is that Keith Downing on the Blackburn staff?

He was a victim of the last year or so of LJ/MA where we abandoned the idea of building a squad and were just trading for the sake of it.

7 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Brings back memories that away end

I doubt it's been updated since then!

Wonder if there's any connection between this and the news that Salford are looking for investment.

3 minutes ago, frenchred said:

What prevents him going in loan to a league club is that window is firmly shut!

Well yeah... but even if it wasn't, we couldn't do it.

Just now, 1960maaan said:

I honestly haven't heard this rule , but wasn't Tammy 18 when he came here?

Yeboah is 17.

I believe his age prevents him from going on loan to the EFL.

2 minutes ago, FNQ said:

Possibly give him a fair crack in the U21s and develop him alongside our players and coaches as opposed to Bath’s group? 

He can still do that.

19 minutes ago, lenred said:

I’d rather he be given opportunities here NR - especially over the likes of Mebude. 

I don't disagree based on what I've seen, but clearly that's not happening so what is he meant to do in the meantime?

Would people rather he played or didn't?

It's obvious that he's not considered to be ready for the first team here.

5 minutes ago, BS3 Ark at Ee said:

High Performance Centre…..who’s actually performing highly up there?

Well done, you're the first person ever to make that gag.

Such an odd pitch, right from the first session it's gone from unplayable to doing nothing and back again in the space of a few overs.

Now then...

55 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

There’s almost no point bothering anymore. Just full of stupid ideas, trolls and people posting their same opinion 100 times a day. 

Yep. It's long been a mess whenever we lose a game, but recently it's getting borderline unusable. A dozen new threads which involve the same people having the same conversation every time.

2 hours ago, Mendip City said:

No. That’s not really the point I was making though…. Why is nothing happening. I imagine in the last 10 years the majority of clubs at our level have seen a shift in ownership of sone sort. Why can SL not make it happen? 
my view is that either SL has no interest in selling or that anyone getting close to investing/buying has been put off by the BS model.  

Or the asking price.