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Just now, Sheltons Army said:

 

 

Jon’s in bed with a cold and Steve’s off down the Golf Club so , see above

OK - if they are not up to the job......sack them!

Just now, pl00peh91 said:

Anyone know who is taking training this morning? 

Jon Lansdown.

I hope that someone from our forum goes onto their forum and suggests that City will support their new manager in buying their best players and just leave them with the dregs. We already seem to have done this in the past and the manager would know who to buy.  They might find some repose by contemplating this....

2 minutes ago, Jose said:

Nige for a rookie……Fabulous. 
Was always going to be someone like him. He’s on an absolute hiding to nothing. He won’t be the problem when this inevitably fails. 
 

All the best Liam. 

He may be a relative rookie but he will have the strength and experience of Jon Lansdown to guide him.

1 hour ago, maxjak said:

IMO ........His record is probably 2 good appointments out of 18?   i am fully prepared to be challenged on those figures........be interesting to see the other opinions? 

The two Johnson appointments were not that bad compared to some we could mention. Maybe JL is after the hat-trick and will recruit Pete Johnson?

15 minutes ago, Jose said:

On the flip side a manager sacked less than a year ago from MK Dons.

Nigel was sacked and he was a perfectly good manager.

1 minute ago, Redrascal2 said:

With  Lansdown's abysmal record at selecting good managers and the speed it would seem they have achieved this with no plan on sacking Pearson, then this appointment has all the hallmarks of a total disaster.

He recruited a good manager last time....

12 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Not even necessarily from a fitness perspective, it's just a 10 day break off the pitches so close to a league game that seems odd. 

Players wouldn't usually train three consecutive days before a game either, they usually have the Wednesday off. 

I imagine that they would have been given a personal training schedule and that this would have been monitored.

The top ten budget is just that - a budget. He does not say that the budget is fully utilised and would be unwise to do so because he will be involved with many negotiations in the coming months. He has to be circumspect and is right to say that it is a game of opinions. In my opinion he has sacked some very good people who have built the squad, rationalised the structure of the football club and seemed to be on the right track in most  things apart from injuries.  Changes of manager/head coach are not guaranteed to produce a better outcome.  I believe that is was not broken and he didn't need to fix it. Maybe Nigel was a grumpy old git  but so am I, and grumpy old gits may still have something to offer. Nigel has achieved a great deal and should be proud of his body of work.

1 minute ago, Davefevs said:

They usually contain a series of much smaller boxes, containing a smaller (shitter?) gift.

You will all just have to wait and see!

We are like a bunch of kids speculating on the contents of a big parcel under the tree.

2 minutes ago, tin said:

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if either of them takes charge. I really wouldn’t.

They’re on record as saying they want a head coach. That rules out Rowett, Jones, Warnock. I doubt we’re going to pay to buy out Robins or Williams. Eustace seems like a no-goer, despite the odds. They won’t take Cotts back. 

Are they deluded enough to think they can get a Hassenhutl, Lampard or Parker? I can’t see any of them coming in when the board are on record as saying PL is the aim this season and they have no money to spend.

I severely doubt the board have the nous to appoint anyone from overseas as well. So, where does that leave us? Fleming or Tinnion. 

How the hell they let us get into this position beggars belief. Completely reckless, stupid and short-sighted. Clueless fools, all of them. 

I think that your analysis is correct. The wage bill would be reduced because the two gentlemen are already employed.  Fleming might be a bit reluctant because of his close ties with Nigel, but a job is a job.  On the other hand, do the board and JL really think that the fans would support such an appointment?  Nothing would surprise me with City, but the bean counters seem to have undue influence at the present time.

Want Nigel Pearson

Will get Tinnion as head coach assisted by Curtis Fleming

The counter argument would be that the players needed a good rest after being overplayed due to the fact that our small squad was already severely impacted by injuries.  The players fitness levels appear to be excellent and this must be due to Rennie and his judgement.  Of course, JL would be in a better position to make a decision like this.

30 minutes ago, Ian M said:

I know you're kidding but he is indeed taking on much of the role Nigel played.

I reckon that Tinns is more suited to coaching than managing and Nigel was probably more at home managing.  If Tinns took the job, it may be cheaper to find a DOF (or something similar) than pay for a new recruit, who would be an unknown quantity.  It may be a long shot, but I wouldn't rule it out. The saving on the wages bill may make this attractive to the bean counters.

Give that the City top dogs have a reputation for confounding the fans by picking from within the club, Ladies and Gentlemen I give you our next manager Brian Tinnion!

If he is on the two person interview panel he will get at least 50% of the vote, he has experience and would not rock the boat.  He has been coached in interview techniques by none other than Jon Lansdown, so he has the complete skill set.  Get yer bets on!!

The main criteria for recruiting a new head coach is, in my humble opinion, likely to be cost. The new chap will have to accept around a third of Nigel's salary and instead of replacing Rennie, he will have to operate by using the local A&E.  Experience of being employed by "the bewildered" would also be an advantage.

7 minutes ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

A capital fellow, though

I think that his dad is the "capital fellow."

Singularly unimpressive.

2 minutes ago, spudski said:

If it's true that ' members of the board' wanted free agents brought in, and presented a list, then I'm gob smacked. 

What do members of the board know about football more than NP?

The audacity to think you can go to NP and suggest free agents...like they know more than him.

If NP wanted any free agents, he would have known who was available and asked for them...not the other way round.

Perhaps Tinnion was involved in this ' presentation' ?

I thought that there was a problem with the total wage bill and that would mean that the bean counters were willing to increase this to allow for free agents. They would need a few weeks to get up to speed, by which time the regular injured players may have recovered and we would be then able to recruit permanent players in the January window. None of this seems to make much sense apart from Nigel's response.

5 minutes ago, spudski said:

If it's true that ' members of the board' wanted free agents brought in, and presented a list, then I'm gob smacked. 

What do members of the board know about football more than NP?

The audacity to think you can go to NP and suggest free agents...like they know more than him.

If NP wanted any free agents, he would have known who was available and asked for them...not the other way round.

Perhaps Tinnion was involved in this ' presentation' ?

Are we allowed to demonstrate discrimination against the Gas? Or even against Irene?

1 minute ago, petehinton said:

Robins tv now back working perfectly (famous last words)

Now you’ve blown it!

10 minutes ago, Lew-T said:

Do you not see the point he’s making? He knows SL has built a fantastic infrastructure here. We all know that.

 

But he has failed on arguably the most important thing. Which is the football and his decision making.

I understand very well and have watched City for nearly 60 years in all divisions bar the current Premier league - so I do have a degree of perspective.  Having visited over 70 away grounds I have a rough idea of where we might stand in a pecking league of clubs and it is clear to me that the club is better and stronger than it has been for very many years. This is thanks to SL and his huge investments, which will benefit the club and fans for very many decades after he is long gone. I can be grateful for that and enjoy seeing academy products populating our team and sometimes going on to clubs that are higher up than us - for good transfer fees.  I liked most of our managers (NOT PULIS) and feel that Nige will take us to a higher level if he stays and continues the steady improvement that he has achieved to date.  You don't need to be a "football guy" to own a club, you need to be able to hire football guys and afford to pay them.  We have known good and not so good, currently it is (IMHO) pretty good.  The future is bright....the future is red and white!

55 minutes ago, Glen hump said:

Ffs do you not understand what a football man is , not a owner but somebody making the footballing decisions, wtf has the old east end got to do with anything 

Contrast then and now. We have facilities that are top grade and an owner who has built the infrastructure and funded the club through thick and thin. Maybe a little perspective is called for.