Harry

Yep. Could go either way. All I know is that the James contract extension was definitely something that Nige and “the club” disagreed on.

when are you next coming up to glorious Glos mate

If James get a new contract then it means Manning has managed to persuade the club to do so. I know for a fact that Nige had disagreements with “the club” over renewing James’ contract. Nige wanted him, “the club” did not want him. This was one of the things that began numerous spats between Nige and “the club”. If Manning has managed to persuade “the club” to renew James then it makes an even further mockery of why they sacked Pearson.

The club have been made very much aware over the past 15 years of the link. Those in charge at Willem have been very open to dialogue and arranging some sort of official link but those at our end want nothing to do with it.

Ha ha. You South Gloucestershirians needn’t worry about the opinion of a North Somersetian. The only time KITR visits this far north is to come to my house for a coffee and biscuit and tell me how many more housing developments he’s got planned for what used to be my lovely small village!!

“Doing our business early”. They say that every bloody window and it’s only ever happened once. In 2014 when we got Wade Elliot, Mark Little, Korey Smith & Luke Freeman before the end of June, and swiftly followed by Wilbraham and Ayling a week later. We were all done and dusted by 8th July! It’s never happened since……..and it ain’t gonna happen this summer either, not with tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee doing the deals.

The survey asking for my opinion. Whilst what you say is true, it’s my desire for it to not be that way

Sunderland trying to replicate the Argentina 1978 World Cup. But in typical fat northern style, instead of ticker tape they’ve used crisp packets and sweet wrappers.

They have. But I’d prefer them not to.

Done. Keep politics out of sport.

Wayne Hennessey is checking if he has any German great grandparents.

Let’s write off a 19 year old, shall we. Do you know what Conway was doing at the same age. He’s just come off of a loan at Bath City and was making an odd appearance here and there for us. Sam Bell at the same age had just come off of a loan at Grimsby. Let’s even go as far as Vyner. At the same age he was on loan at Accrington. I could go on. Some of the comments seem to suggest the kid can’t even play football and is some sort of competition winner! Somewhat disrespectful that chaps. I’m not gonna get caught up in any hype, but you don’t get voted Man City’s academy player of the year if you are shit. Nor do you get called up to national teams age groups 16’s, 19’s and 21’s. He actually has the same amount of Scotland u21 goals as Conway. And he’s 2 years younger. But yeah, let’s write him off because we’ve seen him play 40 minutes of football as a late substitute in a struggling team. Yeah ok.

I agree. I think in recent weeks Mehmeti has been our most influential player. Of course, not everything he tries will come off, but that’s the life of a winger - you are tasked with being positive and trying to create/score. He’s had a number of involvements in goals (not assists and goals but also in build up to chances and goals). He carries a threat running with the ball and allows us to get ‘up the field’. He’s a threat. It won’t always come off, but when it’s does it’s great. I’d much rather have a winger like him, who tries things but often fails, than a winger who doesn’t try anything and just checks back to the full back all the time. I believe in Mehmeti. I’m sticking by him.

Unfortunately Sutton bloody won again!

This is likely because the 2 people in charge of recruitment are both introverts and very much not ‘people persons’ Its hard to create relationships and networks when you aren’t very confident or comfortable dealing with people.

Must have been really great tactical planning for the opposition. They had an XG of 1.9. That’s higher than in 22 other games Leicester played this season. So we didn’t exactly ‘keep them quiet’ due to some tactical master plan. 22 other teams have limited them to less chances. And you very easily gloss over the Vardy chances. We could easily have lost that 3-1 had he tucked away those. It was a good win. But let’s not get carried away. We got lucky.

and then I found this…….

thanks. Tried that but only got this…..

Can I ask Pops, what site do you get this info from?

Glad you had a good day. Shame about the result, but FGR are very very bad at the moment. Redsquirrel said he was gonna meet you and I was invited too but had already made plans to watch city. Maybe next time, sir. by the way, I still can’t believe you came all the way from Milwaukee to watch FGR!!!! I’ll tell you what mate, the first couple of times I tried it I wasn’t sure, but it’s grown on me and I actually look forward to a coffee nowadays up there.

When I was at school (many years ago now), we had a name for this. Bufty. The bufty kid was the one who was unfashionable, the one who wore the bog standard brown shoes, trousers too high and his nan’s knitted brown jumper, with generally unkempt hair. JL is basically the bufty kid from school. The one who had the least sense of fashion in the whole school. And now he’s in charge of his own fashion design agency.

Correct. Fever Pitch are not an actual company. They are not registered on Companies House. People with more business nous than me may be able to tell me how this works: If Fever Pitch are just an in-house agency, doing media/design work for Bristol Sport, then presumably the people who work for Fever Pitch are actually paid and employed by Bristol Sport? If not, the who are they employed by? But, Fever Pitch seem to also be doing a bit of work outside of Bristol Sport. So the work they are doing for others, how are they getting paid? Are the recipient of the work paying Fever Pitch (which doesn’t exist as a company) or are they paying Bristol Sport? How is the money for their work being received and under which company is this being logged with HMRC.

Surely not! I mean, they had a very inspirational meeting in Botswana to create a new website and branding. Surely it can’t have ended with “let’s use a cheapo website creator and stick up a picture of a flamengo with some triangles on it?

Did no one think about ironing the white t-shirt before the photo shoot? Or is looking like a tramp considered ‘maverick’ these days?

Maybe this is the problem that the players need to solve themselves. “hey lads, this is shit. Let’s just play our own way”. At least they’d then be “doing us”. Post match : Liam “hey Zak. Why did you switch to a back 4?” Zak “just solving problems and ‘doing us’ boss”