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She knows my priorities ?

Yeah I assume @headhunter is muting either himself or others, when it's just him and Ian then he can hear Ian in the same room rather than through the normal audio but as soon as someone else joins he has to leave something open to hear them as they are not in the same room. none of that explains the difference in volume that is probably a different problem of how the mic recording volume is setup. All assumptions and I'm no sound engineer but I would like it sorted out as I like the podcast and usually listen live and then again to the recorded version. As I listen to it in bed the volume control usually causes and argument with the misses.

Audio again, really need to find a different way of doing this. I think we have talked before @headhunter about the fact there is lots of echo if you and Ian are in the same room, any chance you could just use the same mic in that scenario? D- for Audio problems.

It comes down to the football not holding the attention and people wanting to entertain themselves despite that being one of the more entertaining games this season.

Ronaldo for manager then?

I think he has another year of understanding as long as we see effort from players (keep playing like we did against Cov and he's got months, play like we did today and he will get time), after that he would have had plenty of time to shift players on, get some in and implement his ideas. I can see the second half of next season being a little rough for him.

I would like us to use it to fool opposition, make it look like a long throw to create space out wide and then go short, pull players out wide and then go long - doing the unexpected is the only way I can see that it has worked for us. And that's been once.

Yeah in possession that's certainly the case, out of possession as soon as Williams got the yellow he couldn't be as dynamic. It's a bit of a shame that we have one player that makes others in the team look championship quality but without him they look amateur.

I wonder why they signed permanently, what convinced them to come to us over the other clubs?

Fairly sure that the game changed after half time when they reacted and then when Williams got his yellow.

I think that because that's where the away fans are directed to they are trying to make sure your not lost away fans.

Bloke in front got scanned and walked straight in without a search of his backpack, I couldn't understand what they were trying achieve after seeing that.

Have you watched the interview. Grant me some artistic license - Players want pandering to. If that's not some players wanting special treatment then I don't know what is. I don't think he is the shouty bullying type - what it sounds like is that he is very clear and if they can't do it he will put the effort into helping them. If they have a bad attitude then buy buy with zero malice - it's just the way it is. It's the way it has to be if we're going to do anything.

It isn't that hard, you put people to work and get them to do the things everyone else is doing and no special treatment, if they don't want to do the work everyone else is doing or want special treatment then they will move on, if the punishments (training with the U23s ect) apply to everyone then they haven't got a leg to stand on. Yeah there are obviously problems behind the scenes, we don't end up in this position playing the way we are if there aren't problems, Nige obviously see's the problems the test is can he fix them - he's experienced enough that my money would be on him even with all the player power. TBH if players think they are bigger than the club or want special treatment I want a manger that gives them a reality check rather than pandering to there demands. I recall Wilbs podcast appearance where the moment he pinpointed the promotion squad cohesion and squad dynamics broke down was because LJ allowed Tomlin special treatment.

I think they will have it built - that will probably coincide nicely with the end of our FFP mess, having a small squad and thus good looking books making us quite attractive as long as we don't get relegated, I accept probably small fry in the grand scheme of things.

I'm not sure about your last point if it's trying to say he is choosing, I don't think he is choosing one over the other he can easily afford to fund everything - it's what he has time to dedicate himself to I guess, maybe? He knows we're not going to challenge because of our FFP constraints, he has taken us as far as FFP will allow him to for the next couple of years, maybe? So the wording could be that the championship is where he is stuck due to FFP and parachute payments I think.

On your first point - there is a good 20+ years between Scott Davidson and the SL funded redevelopment of Ashton gate. It wasn't like Davison left SL came in and the ground was redeveloped, I cut him some slack that the AV debacle cost him about 3 years but 3 in 20+ years! Like you say with the training facilities it's finally happened. The comparison to Palace u23s shows how far we are behind, we should have had these facilities ages ago and I'm fairly sure SL would agree. Why did both of these things take so long? What are we going to do next that's 20 years behind the cutting edge? Sorry we're ahead of our time because we bought a TV that goes on a trailer, we have drones and a player app, the problem with those things is that they don't take more than a couple weeks to sort out (there's virtually zero barriers to entry for others to copy). There's a saying in business that you have to be first, biggest or cheat - SL won't cheat, we do ok (not spectacular) when we're one of the biggest in the third tier, our only way to compete at this level is be first and as you say under SL we have a timeline of it happens eventually.

While I agree if you take those achievements you could easily pick them apart. Started Bristol sport - how has a sports management and service business helped the football club. Revamped Ashton gate - that had been talked about since Scott Davison was here, it needed doing and who let it get in the state it was in after 20 plus years of ownership? Brand spanking new training facilities that are similar to Crystal palace u23s and as you know should have been done under Danny Wilson and be 20 years old by now.

It sounded different at the end of the interview with the word endulge used. Sounds like a combination of some players think they are bigger than the club (Wells maybe) and some players want special treatment (Palmer maybe).

It might be easier to say who it's not: Bentley, Kalas, Baker, Atkinson, James, Scott, Tanner, Weiman, Massengo, Pring, Simpson, King. We should be pretty sure they all want to be here based on when they signed and what we see them do.

Fighting talk - some players aren't onboard and he will do everything he can to get rid of them.

I think his son said his interview style is pretty much completely opposite to how he normally speaks - thousands of miles an hour with real excitement apparently.

That's what I was looking for, thanks @Davefevs. So the football club do pay rents - I wonder how that works, is that a relatively nominal fee just for upkeep of the stadium in our case? I assume the bears pay considerably more because of there position outside the holding company, anyone know this? coming back to the seats/tables, the club never did anything because a small minority of fans wanted it ever so having the separate doesn't make a difference IMHO. Now we can do a bit of orienteering because of the map - in this case it appears that talking to the club is pretty pointless and actually contacting Ashton gate stadium is the correct place to start - they can't say it's anyone else.

So nothing tangible to say that the club pays rent to the stadium company? @JerrySLO any ideas?

If I remember correctly @Olé did a great post on this a few years ago that I can't find.