SecretSam

Welll, that was unexpected 

2 hours ago, kmpowell said:

 

His eyesight must have been pretty good

14 hours ago, Harry said:

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. 

Typical

Frankly, it's a silly rule but I can sort of see the point. Having said that, there's plenty of stupid celebrations that don't involve shirt removal. I personally hate the baby cradling or 'football up the jersey' ones. And dance moves. And acrobatics. 

Mind you, I also couldn't stand Shearer's dull as shit one-armed salute

2 hours ago, Selred said:

This thread sums up the issue with the forum in my opinion.

Two pages on a non City player (yes cracking player and all that), vs a thread on Pack having a great season on the "ex-players" sub forum and no replies at all.

Think we need to relook at how the forum is set up.

I just replied on the Pack thread, always liked him. 

Back on Palmer - there's a lot of competition in that part of the pitch; shame we don't have a similar situation in defence

Always liked him as a player, although he was a bit Marmite for many. Glad he's doing well, always was a class act IMHO

4 hours ago, 2015 said:

I don't think Palmer really suits Man City's obsession with positional play and possession. 

Palmer is not the type of player to get the ball, and pass straight away. He dribbles into space and isn't necessarily a team player all of the time (which is what I want from a Number 10/wide man).

As I said before there's an arrogance about this kid that I really like, he doesn't think he's the best Chelsea player he knows he is and it shows when he plays.

Explain Doku, who's a "running with the ball" type of player?

10 hours ago, Carey 6 said:

They’ll probably win 5 in a row now it’ll mean nothing. Proper Bristol City style!

But that would give us momentum for next season...

On 02/04/2024 at 09:08, richwwtk said:

Rob Newman felt like a permanent fixture in my early days as a City fan.

Helped by the fact that he started when he was still in nappies, and he was so big nobody dared drop him. Plus he could play every single position, sometimes all in the same game...

Seriously, THIS is why we need a decent CEO, to oversee things like Commercial activities that are in danger of becoming a joke

On 27/03/2024 at 11:55, Cowshed said:

I posted that defacing a flag can be a hate crime.

'Defacing' would mean that the original would be still there, but then written on/marked, etc.

What Nike did was recolour the same flag shape. A shape of flag that is used by a number of countries. That's not defacing it, it's recolouring it. Defacing it would have been to write "England were poor against Brazil" across the flag.

#PedanticRantOver 

12 minutes ago, JP Hampton said:

I think you’ve just got the nail on the head, as to why some people are taking offence. 

I was saying that the number of people who hate England (across the world) is pretty big. I mean, our history is a little...checkered...

10 hours ago, Red Skin said:

I guess it's the 'seeing things through' aspect of what a PM should do is what he feels is a strength.  

Making the strategy becomes embedded in what the club does and reflected in roles and accountabilities of staff that can be actually measured against performance is makes it a reality.  

A good PM will understand all aspects of what's going on in their remit, and can drop in to any technical discussion to bring clarity and decisiveness. For all that I love to wind them up, used properly they can be absolutely priceless.

But it's all worthless if the strategic direction, strategy and resources (including human) aren't there. They're mortals, not magicians.

10 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Personally I want a DoF and / or CEO to be good at “business”, and in particular good at “football business”…to build and execute a “football strategy”.  That’s very different to a Project Manager imho, so I don’t agree with Tim on that.

Mark Ashton was actually good at that, just didn’t stay within his boundaries.  Ignore his character, he is / was a good football business administrator.

Richard Gould was too, and he stayed within his role remit, but he had Nigel Pearson playing a key “Management” role too, beyond the role title of Football Manager.

Now we have nobody.  It’s criminal.

The CEO absolutely has to be good at 'business'. Look at the hoots of derision from some when we appointed Gould, yet it was pretty clear early on he was an absolutely bang-on appointment. 

The DoF role I know less about, so I would defer to wiser heads, but if that person is involved in transfer dealings, they've got to have some sort of commercial brain.

It's shocking that there's a vacuum in these roles. 

18 hours ago, 42nite said:

Probably marketed towards the many countries that don't like us very much.

 

That's a big, big market...

2 minutes ago, cityexile said:

O dear, so sad, never mind.

Bugger

5 minutes ago, NewquayRed said:

Lewendowski must be about 50 !

32, 33?

Just now, SecretSam said:

Ffs Wales red

...and pens

Ffs Wales red

6 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

It is, but he was genuinely unplayable until the injury. You see very often on tournaments one player drags the rest through - at that one we shouldn’t have necessarily needed it as we were the best “group” (edit - as this summer, France arguable) but Rooney was our difference maker.

Rooney was never as good again 

2 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

You are really incapable of nuance aren’t you? 

But he makes a wicked Tiramisu 

2 minutes ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

Three World Cup finals on foreign soil, mind. No home WCs. And one of the Top Ten of all time. 

Yeah, look, it wasn't my strongest point

Just now, RedorDead BCFC said:

And everyone’s been trying to do a Van Basten since 

...and giving themselves a hernia 

1 minute ago, harvey54 said:

He got the job because of his European record and because there were no standout English candidates. He won the League in Italy 

Scholes on left wing.

Prosecution rests.

4 minutes ago, Atyeo's lift said:

Their beers not bad too

Those Trappist beers are lethal