GrahamC

Suffered a truly horrendous injury on debut after scoring, not sure we ever saw the player we thought we’d signed. Saying that he was slow & very mechanical, nothing ever looked like he did it naturally. Scored a fair few in the Ward promotion season but even that year he missed a lot of games through injury.

Real concern that Naismith & Knight appear doubts with Wells out & Tanner still unavailable. Back four appears Hobson’s choice in TGH, Dickie, Pring & Roberts. More options further forward but shows just how few we run with & Coventry are unbeaten in 4 including a decent win v Blackburn.

Means Nige is now the second longest serving manager in the Championship.

Don’t pay it then. Have you ever said anything positive on here?

Won 1-0 Sam Pearson scored in the 90th minute. Lewis Thomas made what our admin described as an “unreal” save in the final minute of injury time.

Cheers Reg. The Championship in rugby reminds me of the 80s when I used to watch the sport highlights on HTV. Bloke would score a try & the only person in the picture who wasn’t playing in the game was a bloke going past who was walking his dog.

Good luck with him getting any major investment in the rugby. Minority interest sport at team level with a completely flawed business model. There’s a club at the second level this season with a 2000 capacity “stadium” & another with one that holds 3000 with no seating at all.. It might well be financial madness at Championship level but no way that a Prem club goes bust the way 2 rugby ones recently have.

I was working in Hereford many years ago (2000s, I reckon) & a van drive past with “Peter Spiring, Electrical Contractor” on the side. Not like being called Alan Smith, so it has to have been him, doesn’t it? Nice part of the world & logical that he stayed there after playing.

Sykes got the last 8 minutes, Knight played the full 90. Can’t believe the latter will have overexerted himself against a side that hasn’t scored a single goal in these qualifiers & has lost every game.

Totally. There is a hell of a lot of revisionism now going on. Under the Marcus Evans regime it had gone completely stale & Mick McCarthy was hounded out by their support for keeping them mid table with an owner who refused to spend (that bit sound at all familiar?), they went down as soon as Mick was replaced & then took 4 years to get back up. In McCarthy’s last two seasons they averaged around 16000 at home & used to bring circa 700 to AG at that time.

Probably quoted the wrong post, I was really replying to the comment about a trend for German assistant managers. The guy at Ipswich is clearly a talent, Reading are similar to Wednesday, a mess but a far smaller club.

Might be wrong but isn’t the very big difference here that neither of the others were “assistant managers”. Wagner & Farke are vastly experienced, successful coaches, Farke has won this league twice, Wagner achieved the miracle of winning the playoffs at Huddersfield, whilst this guy clearly isn’t. This appointment reminds me far more of Jan Siewert at Huddersfield & that didn’t go well at all. Wednesday are a total shambles under Chansiri, I must admit to knowing absolutely nothing about this bloke but I won’t be surprised if they are on to a third manager before the season ends.

Interested in this “moved on” argument. Sold? Who do you think is buying a 33 year old & for how much, exactly? Paid up? So we honour his contract (we’re legally obliged to) & then what? Bring in a replacement? With what? Our owner has made it very clear he won’t spend. Nahki is a very good professional & useful squad man, he’s made a decent contribution so far this season & if he’s out now for a significant spell, he’ll definitely be missed.

Thing is GJ left City 13 years ago now & was in charge of us for nearly 5. Despite one lunatic on here he was an outstanding choice & also had realised by the end he’d run out of road. Both these things were very unusual amongst our managerial appointments, think only his son has got anywhere near to a similar amount of time in charge since.

Maybe squad rotation, who knows? Bottom line though is tonight Wales are playing a side who are about the same standard as Yeovil so I wouldn’t get too carried away, if he gets games against middle ranking nations like Poland or Norway then he can say he’s made it. Excellent support true, but they are on the crest of a wave at present, similar to us in 2007/8.

Not sure about that, he was on the bench a couple of times very recently. Not convinced he’s going to turn out any better than Robbie Cundy. Gibraltar are a really poor side, barely National League, their starting line up tonight includes a player from King’s Lynn Town, that’s Bath City standard, someone who is playing in Ireland & loads from their own league.

I like James Piercy but blimey can’t you tell it is the international break. This “story” is basically someone on the radio mentioning Nige, there’s no possibility whatsoever of it actually happening..

Always liked them as a club, good people, proper loyal fan base & of course owned by a true fan of the club. SL has never included them in his “clubs we should emulate” tombola, but they are fairly similar to us in terms of being a provincial club on the fringes geographically. This initiative is really great, too.

It was a pretty horrible wayward pass from him that started it off. Agree, he could certainly get a League Two club but he’s not featuring in our plans if you’re 22 later this month & don’t even have a squad number.

Bit bemused by this recent obsession with him. We have let in 13 goals in 11 games, extrapolated over a full season that’s 54/55, fewer than Boro did last year when finishing 4th, he has statistically made more saves per game than the majority of keepers at our level & whilst every goalkeeper will think he has conceded goals he could have stopped, I can’t recall any major howlers. Pearson made it very clear he sees him as his first choice so not sure why this debate keeps coming up. No one is saying is Tanner good enough? Gardner-Hickman or Pring, are they?

Presumably apart from the bit that it would be Oxford’s own ground, rather than one they were renting in another city from a non league team? Absolutely ******* deluded, they should be grateful that they shafted Bristol rugby & ended up with a ground at all, as usually they are freeloaders.

My first ever trip to the HPC & I enjoyed it. Knight-Lebel impressed me, Yeboah of course & if Kadji turns in performances like that on a regular basis he’d have a decent chance of making it. Incredible number of Spurs followers there, ranging from little kids to old stagers. Presumably the majority have moved down to this part of the world because they certainly didn’t sound like locals.

Agreed, it isn’t like the Zola decision at all. Still incredibly harsh on a bloke who took over a shitshow & saved them. Doubt he’ll be out of work too long though, decent CV.

Have you been to Wrexham? They film parts of theirs there & that town looks like a rough part of Belarus.

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