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2 hours ago, Citychuds said:

I think everyone does (me included) but are we forgetting his pretty mediocre performances at other clubs. I’m a pretty tolerant fan, I don’t believe in changing managers regularly, but yesterdays interview sealed it with Pearson for me. It stank of someone who has lost the squad (something too commonly used as an excuse) who was clinging on to a job. Kalas is a good player who hasn’t looked happy since NP started, Bentley has obviously had his issues with NP and only find himself back due to injury and performance of others, Williams is capable but looks frustrated, James (who is NP’s man) seems to be going downhill. Yesterdays performance just stank of there being 11 players but no team! 

Lets not forget Nigel Pearson is paid a lot of money to manage this club, he won’t care in 2 years time if the club gets relegated or if we go bust. He has one aim, to keep a job. Forget talking about heart, those days have gone. Footballers are paid employees who will perform to keep contracts or for a boss who is decent to them. 

I detest Colin Warnock but even I have to admit he is tactically savvy and knows how to get 11 players playing as a team. Does Pearson? 

 

I agree with most of this. We can’t go on excusing his poor performances and results and blaming MA and LJ forever. At some point NP has to earn our support, rather than get it for free because he’s not a Johnson or Ashton. 
I was also extremely surprised and disappointed with the Simpson debacle. 
However, like you said - I also don’t like changing the manager every 5 minutes. I’m prepared to give him more time - for now, but I hold his feet firmly to the fire. 
Re: Warnock I actually thought he might have been able to do a job for us a few years back, but he’s lost a lot of his ‘fire’ now and I think he’s past it. He’s 73 after all and should be taking it easy. Cardiff promotion will prove to have been his last throw of the dice methinks. 

I can’t see LJ coming back to BS3. 

It’s not been great that’s for sure - and those OP stats are mildly interesting - but they don’t account for which league we were in, length of tenure, squad inherited, COVID pandemic, money available  - all factors that will affect any managers’ ability to build a strong side. 
Personally I’ve been disappointed with Pearson so far, but I don’t want him to walk or be sacked just yet. I still cling to the hope that he will be able to bring the Leicester success to us one day and I honestly can’t think of anyone else I’d rather replace him with right now.   
I can’t see success coming next season though - we are hobbled by FFP. We need him to get through next season and then SL can give him some money. Will he stay? Who knows. 

 

Football will be less interesting without him. 
I actually loved his ‘panto villain’ antics (oh yes I did..!) and I will miss him. 
I also looked forward to when we played one of his sides. 
Good luck Neil 

The panto villain takes a bow and exits left stage…..

1 hour ago, GrahamC said:

Good luck with the Palmer part of this..

Well, I'm thinking that we will be stuck with him (Palmer) next season and possibly even beyond (not sure when his contract expires) if we don't play him, whilst he pisses his contract away in the reserves. At least if he plays, other clubs will get to see him and may even come in for him. He might even start to earn some of the obscene wages we are paying him - he certainly has talent - just not enough to be worth what he's earning.
I was amazed that we turned down Cardiff's approach to be honest.

5 hours ago, One Team said:

Anyone else watched his pre Posh press conference?

When asked about whether he would still be here in the summer his response didn’t sound to me like he’s going anywhere. He talks of having at least another a year, wanting to stay, loving it here and liking working with NP.

Could all be shop window stuff but wasn’t quite what I was expecting to hear.

Why would he want to leave? He's earning rather well with us thank you very much!! 
Seriously though, he was banging them in for QPR (top scorer in the league) before we captured and de-skilled him. It's in everyone's interest that he finds form again - either to score goals for us, or to raise his stock value for us to be able to move him on.
He won't find form unless he plays though - and the same could be said for Palmer. Now that we are virtually safe I'd play them both, to see if we could get a tune out of them and also at the same time put them in the shop window.

Oops sorry - I stand corrected. 
LJs first season was exactly as described. I’d forgotten. 
I’m right about them improving every season though

4 hours ago, Andrew_V1 said:

I think he was referring to the Tammy season where we survived the game before last day of the season.

I think a lot have forgotten just a how dire LJ’s first full season was

 

I'm pretty sure that the game you refer to was NOT his first full season, but the (less than) half season when he took over from Cotts, where we were in the relegation zone and heading for an immediate return back down to League 1, before he guided us back to safety (with a little help from Pembo in the first instance).

It would be more accurate to suggest that a lot have forgotten just how dire the first half of our first Championship season was under Cotts!!!! 

Love him, like him, dislike him or hate him, we NEVER looked like relegation after that under LJs tenure - in fact, I don't think we ever dropped into the bottom 3.

Whatever one's opinion is of LJ, our final league position improved EVERY season year on year under his tenure until his sacking. The league table doesn't lie.

I thought LJs first FULL season wasn't that bad really - just the frustration of falling away towards the end - which became something of a trademark of his.

Looks like Grealish was arguing with the ref NOT to send him off. 
ruined the game really. 

What was that IC player sent off for? 

Oh we're crap again today I see.

Yesterday before the game there was a 'can we make the playoffs' thread going 

1 minute ago, Bcfc3660 said:

So you telling me there’s a chance!

There is - but we would have to win all our remaining games by a comfortable scoreline (to offset our GD) and the other teams' results would have to go our way. It would have to be the perfect storm of miraculous results, so that chance is so small it would be the mother of all football freakouts if it happened!!!!

Lets just see if we can win our next game and see how it goes from there 

We have 43 points - 14 points off the playoffs (Sheff U on 57) and 18 points from the drop (Barnsley on 25) but Barnsley have a game in hand so if they win that it would be only 15 points from the drop.

I suppose mathematically that still makes us closer to the playoffs than the drop (by 1 point!!!), but if you consider our DREADFUL goal difference we would need an extra point (but I suppose winning all 9 of our remaining games would bring the GD down by at least 9)

I have to say that making the playoffs is a nice thought, but massively unlikely!!!!

The good news is that it's also massively unlikely we'll get relegated. 

Hats off to the Blackburn player for passing the ball to Bentley. He must have recognised that the penalty shouldn’t have been given and he did the gentlemanly thing. 
Who said football is full of divers and cheats????!!!!! 

11 hours ago, bcfcredandwhite said:

We all know they will score a goal against us at around 90 minutes. 
I hope we’ve bagged enough by then for it to be no more than a consolation for them……..

Obviously not………

We all know they will score a goal against us at around 90 minutes. 
I hope we’ve bagged enough by then for it to be no more than a consolation for them……..

37 minutes ago, Arsene's Wanger said:

A simple 'Why are we so sh!t in the last 15?' would be better and generate discussion. The op essentially says 'without the dropped points we'd be in the Prem next year'. Which is, frankly, absurd.

I was saying without the dropped points we’d be second in the league. We would. 
Essentially I was asking exactly that question but underlining it by drawing peoples attention to exactly how many points this ‘habit’ has cost us so far in this campaign. 
I’m disappointed that you don’t like the wording of my post. 
 

1 hour ago, Tafkarmlf said:

 

Alertness or feeling on edge

This can include:

• panicking when reminded of the trauma
• being easily upset or angry
• extreme alertness, also sometimes called 'hypervigilance'
• disturbed sleep or a lack of sleep
• irritability or aggressive behaviour
• finding it hard to concentrate – including on simple or everyday tasks
• being jumpy or easily startled
• other symptoms of anxiety.

 

 

This more or less describes what I go through in EVERY City game, when the clock reaches 75 minutes ........  

11 minutes ago, The Horse With No Name said:

Now deduct the points we have fought back from losing positions and where are we? Cant have it both ways I'm afraid.

That's a fair comment - I haven't checked, but I don't think there will be many of those though.

...... that's where we would be if we hadn't let 26 points slip from winning positions. 

TWENTY SIX POINTS - more points slipped from a winning position than any other side.

The opposition will not care about going behind to us any more - they will know that they will simply score a flurry of goals in the last 15 minutes of the game. 

We only held on against Reading by the skin of our teeth. 

What is it with us and conceding late goals?

18 minutes ago, The dastardly red said:

Beckham made it worse though, he made everyone get tattoos and adopt "daily skincare routines"

‘Made’ everyone?

I don’t think people can blame a dodgy tattoo or barnet on poor old Becks - people make their own minds up on those things. 

The difference between those days and today is the wages and the Bosman ruling. 
If you compare the difference in wages of, say, Keegan or Best with the average wages of the time - vs the difference between say C Ronaldo and Sterling with todays average wage I would bet that there is a HUGE difference. 
 

The Bosman ruling has also negatively  affected some of the smaller clubs who can’t hang on to or cash in on protégées that they unearth. This has helped to push wages up as clubs fight for signatures by offering unsustainable wages. 

38 minutes ago, Club and Country said:

I’m not a fan of the way police approach football sometimes but that whole video is just odd, as said how can someone film that , watch it back and then post it

odd balls 

Maybe the video was taken by a genuine Cardiff fan for the exact purpose of 'outing' the morons amongst their support?

There is unanimous condemnation of the behaviour on the Cardiff boards that I've been on to read - they are angry with those idiots for bringing their club into disrepute.

5 minutes ago, Leveller said:

I did spend the first half wishing Pack still played for us.

Interesting - the Cardiff fans on their Not606 board thought he was awful - I even chipped in with the wooden spoon calling him ‘Agent Pack’ !!!!

https://www.not606.com/threads/bristol-city-away.398406/page-3#post-15539901