Eddie Hitler

Terrible news.

They're all Joey Barton.

He'll keep them ticking along for a while then if Nigel leaves there will be a deluge of posts from them saying that Barton is the best option.

Warnock incoming according to The Telegraph.

1 hour ago, Simon bristol said:

Seems a bit harsh,,, he got wycombe up, and they gave everything they had, but were unable to compete,, and qpr have been a mess for a while now.

With a very similar squad Beale managed to get a run of decent performances out of the players.

Gareth is an enthusiastic manager who succeeds by firing up the players but simply doesn't has the tactical ability for the Championship, QPR has had the odd good game under him but in the majority they have been entirely outplayed and out thought.

The board has given him as long as they realistically could to turn it around, before relegation becomes guaranteed, and there have been no signs of that turnaround happening.

2 minutes ago, BS2Boy said:

Is the best egg for Steve personally, I.e withdrawing funds for him and his family, or is he waiting to spend it? I haven’t seen anything concrete if there is anything. 

I have no idea but potentially it could be used to pay off the third party debt incurred in rebuilding the ground and this would mean a permanent improvement to the annual result, helping with FFP and if course making the club more valuable if it was to be sold.

Pure guess, the Lansdowns could well have entirely different intentions.

Billy Davies is available and still only 59.

He sounds an ideal candidate to maintain Barton's legacy.

Not talking to the media, sacking long serving staff, employing personal cronies.  Yep, all very Bartonesque.

Davies' second spell [at Nottingham Forest] proved to be a controversial and damaging one.[9] He dismissed long-serving club staff without explanation, shouted at a photographer taking photos for the club's matchday programme after a match at Millwall, banned journalists as part of a "near media blackout", and employed his cousin, Jim Price, a suspended solicitor, as his closest advisor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Davies

And he's keen to return to management, this from last month.

BILLY DAVIES wants a return to football management — and is keen on a job in England.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/23987963/billy-davies-management-return-forest-derby/

32 minutes ago, BetterRedthanBlue said:

I don't think he would. We obviously have the banter with each other (the minutes booing when he passes away) but I feel that he has a weird respect for us and our fans.

And vice versa, it's pantomime stuff and everyone enjoys it.

4 minutes ago, Taz said:

Early on after the sacking, if I was to go and put a few quid on Nige being the next boss he'd probably appear on the list as well.

What does make me laugh is how Skeletor makes it onto the list (again) despite being out of work since 2020 according to that list!

It's a shame he's gone, was doing a great job. What you can be assured of though, is that Wally hasn't a clue and will probably announce the tea lady as the next manager.

If it's the tea lady who spotted Nigel Martyn then she could do a decent job.

Vi Harris 18/1

26 minutes ago, Gazred said:

The bus is ready to ride again.

Dateline Thursday 26 October.

Take your pick:

Or...

Communication breakdown

It's so funny how we donb't talk any more

Are you receiving me?  By the band in the OP:

The witches attempt to keep mum in this cathedral.

Interesting to know and good luck to him, you may not have seen it as yet but there is a new forum specifically for ex-City players which was only set up this week.

https://www.otib.co.uk/forum/62-all-things-ex-players-and-managers/

1 hour ago, Ian M said:

These are the words of someone who wants an extension, not someone who is planning on retiring.

But it does sound like he isn't getting much feedback from above.

Nigel's best opportunity to find out would have to go to the rugby Q&A and asked about the owners' intentions then.

2 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

It probably didn't tick enough boxes for them. 

I'm not a fan of the show, but a quick look through iplayer suggests to me there is plenty of crap that should be axed before a long running popular soap. 

It's going to be massively expensive to produce compared to something like Bargain Hunt which costs pennies, so if the viewing figures are similar then the axe is going to fall.

Plus something like Bargain Hunt can be repeated on a loop which you can't do with a soap because of their continuous long story lines.

I used to like Brookside but not enough others did so it ceased; these days I don't have a television but even when I did it never went on during the daytime so I haven't seen Doctors.

I think there was a Marvin Brown Dance Troupe in one episode.

9 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

Where Dracula landed on our shores in Bram Stoker's book. I wonder if he chose it because it sounded nice?

It was probably chosen by him because of the annual goth festival that is held there.

8 minutes ago, 3 Peaps In A PodCast said:

Still living in Hereford, he has been an electrical contractor

And maybe still is, this looks fairly recent.

-ish anyway, it has a fax number.

https://b99.co.uk/electrician/hereford/peter-john-spiring/

6 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

If you were a fan of a football club that had been recently seen new owners take a majority of shares, and a month or so down the line you hadn't seen them comment, be interviewed or share any vision for the future, would you be concerned?

 

Yes indeed.

Though they have seemed perfectly happy with radio silence from Wael since things ceased to go his way so this is just more if the same.

We have become so accustomed to our owner setting out development plans and transfer strategy, even if we're not always happy with it, that we have begun to see this kind of openness as the norm.

It's a good point that the Rovers owners are doing a full blown secret squirrel on their fans, yet they seem perfectly happy with that.

1 hour ago, 22A said:

Meanwhile' to support the claim of hordes of loyal & true; oddly they don't feature in the top six.

TBF they would find it rather hard to make this tip six with a listed capacity of 11,000!

Unless they include the vast hordes locked out in the car park.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Rovers_F.C.

Next!

4 minutes ago, 2015 said:

Plymouth do have a great away support, however I think if we were not in the Championship for 13 years we would be taking bumper crowds everywhere too.

Yes, I remember a great turn out the first time we played Wycombe.

They're on a roll after a great season, the fans have been starved of success for years and there are all these great new grounds to visit.

Fair play to them but I would probably pick Sheffield Wednesday as the stand out support given their league performance to date.

14 minutes ago, Crackers Corner said:

Good view of Conway goals from Rotherham end, goals from 5 mins.

 

https://youtu.be/p5hlfgisCdE?si=eUM60_-lmbZPos0O

That's an astounding level of video quality for a phone, the goals are captured so professionally I was waiting for the replay of Tommy's second!

1 hour ago, Homer Simpson said:

Sometimes I think we're a bit harsh on the sags. To be fair they've only been playing in Bristol for 27 years and only been a league club for 8 years. 

 

But most of the time, I think phuk em.

We should really be supporting grassroots football and encouraging our local non-league clubs like Mangotsfield, Yeovil, Bristol Rovers, and Weston and cheering them when they occasionally have a run in the FA Cup or manage to play for a few seasons in the football league proper.

These are the clubs from where we might find the next Jamie Vardy, making medical splints through the week whilst turning out to give his all every Saturday on the pitch.