GrahamC

Plymouth are a far bigger club. Huge catchment area, actual Championship standard ground & away support that unlike their myths, is very impressive. It is instructive that as you say, they are now seeing how hard it is & are in a real dogfight with the likes of Birmingham & Wednesday to stay up.

They should study Rotherham, much more like them. Similar size club. Problem is this league they haven’t been in for 30 years is absolutely brutal, “small” clubs like those this joker quotes have decent players & money they can only dream about. Rotherham did incredibly well to survive for the first time in six seasons last year, however they are getting hammered every week in their second season & on their way back down. Despite the local media false equivalence, Rovers are slowly dying, a ground that is shit, can’t afford to refurbish it, ageing fanbase that has no hope of getting the next generation of Bristolians to watch them. A slow death that I will really enjoy watching.

They truly won’t give a **** but this is the bit of me that doesn’t want them to go up. I still think they’re a pretty arrogant lot, maybe not a couple who have posted on here, but for a side that bumped around in the third tier for 4 years lacking in any sort of humility. Mind you, for a sense of entitlement it’s hard to beat the Leicester fans yesterday, giving their team pelters at the final whistle.

He’s joined my ignore list mate. Absolute ***.

100%. The other thing is if they didn’t have Ashton & his history with us, we would all be saying what an incredible achievement. They really didn’t spend that big last summer, they have gone toe to toe all year with 3 sides who possess a ridiculous advantage over the others & at present are in pole position in what now looks two from three to go up automatically. You can already hear the fans of the sides who get out of League One this season saying they’re looking to do an “Ipswich” next season, completely failing to understand this only happens around once every ten years.

Time to put someone on ignore, I reckon.

Yes we did. With a less biased referee we’d have had at least one penalty as well.

I remember a certain podcast saying once that Alex Scott aside our midfield was a “mass of mediocrity”. Should have gone to Specsavers, Matty James is one of the classiest midfielders to play for us in the last 30 years.

Don’t think he exactly inherited a great position but a terrible last week or so. Particularly in light of results elsewhere they’ve effectively down.

What is the point of them? Absolute nothing club.

Absolutely destined for the Prem. Denied us at least one obvious penalty, allowed Chowdury to commit three yellow card offences & still didn’t book him & couldn’t get the card out quickly enough for Wells. Vardy’s late one on Max was a booking every day of the week too. Rubbish.

Let’s wait & see on that. Today’s result significantly increases the likelihood of Manning being in charge next season & it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he made signing him his number one priority.

Mine too, outstanding. Didn’t shirk the physical side, quick & good on the ball. Pring was also excellent as were Dickie & James (as usual).

Which is why realistically today is a free hit. Monday isn’t though. Interesting team, no idea of the story behind TGH not being involved at all, but by far the strongest squad we have had to select from in ages.

Who as we both know, Noggers “went missing” on a regular basis when faced with Gerald..

Me too. Absolute ******* classic.

Heard Matty James say it lots, actually did so in the video when he signed for us. Ubiquitous.

Tin hat on, I didn’t think it was too bad.. A word of advice for Liam Manning though, previous events strongly suggest that even if “Brian” is saying it was “only 6 games ago that we beat Southampton” you’re a total mug if you don’t realise that in the future he’ll knife you in the back to either save his own skin or climb the ladder..

Yep, free country.

So you’re telling me that 2 players we signed for a combined fee of £1.5m aren’t nearly as good as two that we sold for £35m? This is the sort of insight I look for on OTIB. Thanks.

Don’t really follow the Prem. Actually thought he was one of the judges on Strictly.

I was sort of hoping to avoid making this about politics once I’d made the initial point, but hey ho.

Anyone think the club might have engaged Lynton Crosby? Famed right wing Aussie strategist who advised Boris Johnson amongst others on a “dead cat” strategy. This is where you announce something so totally random that no one then talks about the important thing, in Boris Johnson’s case his laziness causing thousands to die from Covid because he didn’t bother to read stuff properly. To bring this back to City, we currently have an 11 page thread on a T shirt with one of our defenders middle names on it, whilst the football is so dull it makes your eyeballs bleed, we have lost 5 of the last 6 games & appear to be coached by an AI programmed robot. Clever move, eh?

Remember us beating Sheff U 2-0 at AG very early in the playoff season, we were brilliant (definitely front foot, attacking football..) McIndoe & Sproule took them apart. Absolute nonsense to say it wasn’t exciting, we completed for everything & never gave up. Another early game at AG saw us absolutely outclassed by an excellent WBA side but we stuck in it (Marvin Elliott was superb) & Bradley Orr scored a hugely unexpected 89th minute equaliser. Great times.

Seeing as there is no possibility of any interest in the seat I am currently in (Dolman centre) this suggests to me if I held off until May 3rd it still wouldn’t inconvenience me. They can wait for my cash.