Kingswood Robin

Give them the empty chair treatment, even if it is on the radio.

Chick, chick chick, chick, chicken ........

9 minutes ago, Keep the Faith said:

Don’t get the anti Rowett stuff. He looks a decent option to me. Complaints about playing style seem slightly odd as Pearson didn’t exactly deliver earth shatteringly good football or results at home and I say that as someone who has no issue with him.

I don't want him anywhere near here as I remember how awful games against Birmingham were while he was in charge. Players apparently injured off the pitch, running to the halfway line then collapsing in a heap again, keepers taking five minutes to work out which side of the box to take a goal kick.

I'll quite easily find something else better to do than be subjected to that.

2 hours ago, Spike said:

Where as almost every fan wants more transparency , another clear case of the board not understanding the fans but then asking we get behind them. They can **** right off at this point. 

They can indeed.

It's like something from a George Orwell novel. The ministry of not very much information states that nobody is allowed to question anything. Just keep on pushing out the message that everything is perfect and we will make a promotion challenge this season.

4 minutes ago, robinforlife2 said:

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but I fully expect Frank Lampard to be our next manager. He missed out on the Rangers job, and wants a return to management. Michael Johnson has said he will work with him as a number 2 wherever Lampard ends up. 

Don't care if people laugh at this, but a very good friend of mine, who played in League One and the Championship all his life, is good friends with Frank, and he has told me about 10 minutes ago, that Lampard wants the City job, and his people have made contact with the club. 

He did well there.

Since Lansdown senior told us all, that until we'd put in as much money as him we should just shut up. 

17 minutes ago, Rocky said:

 

Wonder if he's thinking "as soon as that call from Bournemouth comes in January, I'm out of it"

Who could blame him. Not sure anyone with any real ambition would want to stick around these parts.

5 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Just phoned up and spoke to a researcher about City. Hopefully get a call back. They're very keen to hear from City fans this eve so if you're available, give them a call.

Got some home truths lined up for our owners if I get on...

 

 

Both barrels please.

A bad, rudderless run up to Christmas and we'll be right in it. 

51 minutes ago, Southport Red said:

Not according to official site. 
 

City Chairman Jon Lansdown said: “This was a difficult decision to make as we recognise and appreciate how much Nigel has done for the club over the past two-and-a-half years on and off the pitch.

I guess it is quite difficult to make a decision when you don't have any idea what's going on with the football club any more.

Pathetic. Enough's enough, leave now.

2 hours ago, Antman said:

but where's the leadership? surely the chairman, albeit a mouthpiece for the owner,  needs to give some support for the manager & team - it's a conspicous silence.

we have a very faceless and voiceless leadership - CEO's and COO's and lord knows what, it feels like Pearson is being isolated.

 

There is none. We're like an abandoned puppy ....... in need of a new owner

This thread reads like it was generated by AI. It just doesn't quite work. 

1 minute ago, ChippenhamRed said:

If you’re 60 that means you’ve seen us in the top flight. Count yourself lucky! I genuinely don’t think there is a more long-suffering group of supporters in football than City fans of my generation, in terms of achievement against potential.

I've got 10 years on you and I'm tearing out what little hair I have left. So much disappointment and under achievement. I'm seeing teams that have once in a generation success enjoying it for a second time around, while we've done nothing.

I started watching them in division 4 along with 4000 or so hardy souls. I often look around on match day and wonder how may of that 4000 still attend matches, how many have seen all the things I've seen !

33 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

This is a football match coming up….not a CEO w@nkathon

Yes, but there's is bigger than ours

11 minutes ago, Gabriella said:

Perhaps they do have a plan? Clutching at straws I know….

Hide ?

Well, Steve, John, anyone. Wish you were here 

https://images.app.goo.gl/bFLrQicrqopH8g9c9

1 minute ago, Bazooka Joe said:

When ? Where?

In a whole 22 hours mind

4 hours ago, petehinton said:

After sleeping on it and reflecting on the comments and thoughts, my overarching feelings now are…

1) What do the Lansdown’s expect to be happening now, that they feel aren’t being reached?

2) Who do they expect/have in mind that could do any better?

We know that they’ve become delusional in some of their more recent comment, I.e JL saying in his last ‘interview’ we should have more points (based on absolutely nothing), SL’s nest egg and Luton comments, saying in the last two seasons under LJ he expected us to be promoted (I think he even said, promoted easily?) etc. 

I think they’re now doubling down on delusion tbh. They think because they finances are much better, and we’ve ‘invested’ again albeit at a pittance of what’s been sold, they equate that to expectation. The reality is very very different in that we sold our best player when the season had already started, and the football operation weren’t allowed to replace him. That should lower expectations straight off the bat. 
 

I’m absolutely certain if asked about the academy, they’ll put the success of that & Scott/Conway/Bell’s pathway down to the HPC (I.e ‘my investing’), rather than quality of coaching and manager. I’d put my mortgage on it in fact. 
 

As said yesterday, we need a manager not head coach because we need someone who’ll be more of an overseer than a hands on, on the training ground every day coach like LJ & Holden were. Those set ups say “I’m here to coach” and don’t get involved in operational stuff, but there’s such a void in the operational side due to how absolutely horrifically structured we are that we’ll need a Manager to plug those gaps. Even Coppell didn’t get involved in it, and look what happened there. History is likely going to repeat itself. 
 

Let’s not forget that if Pearson goes, it’s not a look at the manager odds and predict who’ll come in and scour the rumours. It’ll also very likely mean Fleming, Euell, and even bigger Rennie probably going too. The latter being an absolute huge cog behind the scenes not just linked to our improved fitness, but again as a leader around the HPC every day. 

They’ll be in for a shock if they think they’ll get a huge name flock to the job and be happy to work under the financial constraints in place, with the squad we have, too. Again, unless that’ll just be scrapped for whoever is the newbie.

Nothing at all seems to be adding up to me tbh, outside of it being a personal dislike of him or a more worrying genuine delusion that we should be 1/2/3rd right now just because we’ve actually made some signings in the last two windows. 

I personally now can see Pearson leaving being sped up before Christmas, or a new short term deal being given in January at the earliest if it’d literally be inexcusable not to because we’re top 7/8 or something. I can’t see signings wanting to jump on board when they’re going to be speaking to a manager about the future, and he doesn’t even himself know if he’ll be there from May onwards due to a contract expiry rather than poor results. 

I hope there's a number 3. The Lansdowns asking themselves, what can we do better?

1 minute ago, Numero Uno said:

On a day when we put out a patchwork side, Matty James gets lampooned and stays on to do a job, Jason Knight ignores illness to give us a great hour and Andy King does a great job filling in and we guts out a 1-0 win we are now talking about hierarchy wanting to make the team selection? What kind of a ******* out fit are we?

I wonder what Andy King thinks btw?

He did a good job today and last season when he covered at centre back. Pearson can only work with what he's got. Let the football people do the football, the hierarchy need to worry about writing cheques.

"Why don't you ask someone above me, see if you can find anyone that will say anything"

Doesn't that just speak volumes. Start putting the football club first again. Show some interest or sell to someone who will.

But as history tells us, Nige has probably just talked himself out of the job.

35 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

Ok Can we have a list of people who say that Lansdown can’t be criticized because of the money he put in?

Im not even sure your premise is accurate! 
 

Who are these people? 

There was one on page 3 of this thread. It was Davefevs response to him that kicked off your mini debate with him. I don't know if he's from Clutton or indeed if he lives in a cave !

It's a very difficult subject. I trust Steve Coogan to treat the subject with sensitivity. Hopefully it will offer some insight into how this all happened. 

7 hours ago, Loco Rojo said:

Fevs opening his Heat Map draw!

Looks like the Barton Files

1 minute ago, Cidre Monita said:

For the love of God this why we remain such losers because of fans like you. Do you not know that S Weds, QPR & Blackburn have all been in the premier league and Blackburn actually won the Premier league under Dalglish?!! They have all done a Brighton!!! 

Who would put money on us getting into the Premier League for the first time before any of those three examples got back there again? That pool of comparable/smaller teams that haven't made it is getting smaller all the time. We are starting to look like a ridiculous outlier.

2 minutes ago, Wanderingred said:

Results against Leeds

LLLLLLDLWLLDLLLLL

That is pathetic against a team in the same division. There is most definitely shame in that.

3 hours ago, Derek said:

Yes, but the 5-yard sideways pass is often (if not usually) the right pass.  The player who plays the 5-yarder rather than going for the killer pass is likely to be doing the right thing.  Good football is based on the 5-yard pass.

Are you Lee Johnson?

Reading through this thread, Lee Johnson (the player) came to mind. He often didn't play the simple pass and often tried the impossible ball, and people got on his back (a little unfairly at times I thought) for it. Maybe the experience influenced him as a manager.

Personally I like to see a mix of pass (and move of course) and killer balls through when it's on. Endless passing can be a bit dull. I like what I've seen of Knight so far, a right pest for the opposition.