BITW

We didn’t drop any points for once… 

1 hour ago, tin said:

Having Tanner protecting him and offering an outlet was a massive help. 

Almost as if playing defenders in defence is advantageous to us. 

19 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Coventry are a mess. Despite that he has performed miracles. They had to sell Hyam on the cheap for cash flow reasons. Apparently they were days away from administration. Their owners will not invest any money and won't make any money available for transfers. There is uncertainty surrounding the stadium. 

It won't be long until Cov cash in on their better players and Robins won't recieve the funds from that. 

The job here is very similar but for different reasons. His wages would probably be doubled here. We have the stability of infrastructure and ownership. If things improved then he would be given funds. 

I think he'd find it hard to turn down. 

Fair enough didn’t realise things were still that bad for them off the pitch. For what it’s worth I’d have him here in a heartbeat. 

34 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

I'm not in the Pearson out camp, however IF he were to leave I'd look no further than Mark Robins. Ex player, interviewed for the job a few times. Has done wonders at Cov with no budget, gives youth a go. Can get his teams playing good football but can also organise them to shut up shop. 

Is that good enough? 

He’s got a good thing going at Coventry and is well respected there. Doubt very much he would be interested in coming here at the moment. 

25 minutes ago, RedEd73 said:

@Feral Williamsthank you so much for stepping in. The kids involved were both 10, I had accompanied my 8 year old to the loo at the end of the match

Don't get me wrong my kids can be buggers but weren't on Saturday. The bloke in question was sat behind us in the first half and had been quite amiable until Millwall scored at which point he flipped. 

It was the end of the half and the kids were getting a bit restless and he got annoyed and asked them to stop distracting him. Fair enough. I apologized to him and thought it was dealt with.

About 5 or 10 minutes into the second half he moved to different seats, so we didn't interact with him again until the incident in the concourse.

We were actually guests of CHSW (my youngest is life limited) and occupying their season ticket spaces. I wondered if his use of the word ****** was intentional (it's not a word that is particularly common these days thank goodness).

I've reported to the club and CHSW because I don't want their guests to be potentially in the vicinity of someone so volatile.

Thanks again to all who stepped in to help the to protect the kids whilst I was in the loo with my youngest.

 

That’s absolutely rotten to hear, all the best to you and yours. 

9 minutes ago, robin_unreliant said:

I do think JD has been a massive disappointment when you look at the fee we paid and the fact he came from Chelsea and was an England U21 player. He really looks bang average compared to some of the left backs we have had, even at L1 level. 

I think he’s looked a lot better going forward this season than last, but final ball still not good enough.

I thought we looked like we’d been sussed out a bit. Our strikers were nullified well at the expense of giving  our wing backs a lot of space (obviously they  weren’t too worried about JD and Sykes!) Naismith could of cost us another one early on but did well after until his injury. Vyner was probably my MOM. 

Decent footballer. Bang average defender (at best.) 

All the best Bakes. Great servant for us and a proper defender. Nothing more important than health and family! 

28 minutes ago, Logical-City said:

Not really weird wiping his ass with us we should do the same

What?

3 hours ago, Logical-City said:

Feel free to move on Conway is more than capable!

Ta for the money 

Proper weird post this. It’s great to have some depth in our relatively small squad but a fully fit Semenyo walks into this team! 

6 hours ago, redkev said:

Always use to worry when he played against us and quite often would score against us .

Think we can all agree and even Nhaki probably agrees it hasn’t been the move he or all of us had hoped for .

However credit where it’s due from looking from the outside he seems to be the model professional, helping the youngsters , asking to play for the u23s and still here doing his bit .

thought the last 2 games he has been very good .

Been here 2.5 years and barely ever been played in his correct position! Been brilliant last two games… I like Martin but the energy offered by NW upfront is not comparable! 

2 hours ago, GrahamC said:

I knew we would get back to Danny Simpson in the end.

He was a mistake, Pearson realised it, so brought in Tanner & let him go. According to some he was on an incredibly low salary. Andy King this year will have resigned on a very similar sum.

Under LJ we paid a million for Marley Watkins who was on £15k a week, he started 10 games for us in 3 years & left for free.

£600k for Hakeeb Adelakun, £9k a week, 5 starts in 3 seasons, left for free..

Million for Liam Walsh, 8 starts, left for free.

But “Danny Simpson”, eh?

Fair comment and my post was after a few beers and a long day at Wigan! But my point was more the fact he’s opposed to  loans but not short term contracts. We’ve used the loan market well in the past and are clearly in need of improvements currently. The Everton lad up front for Sunderland last week a prime example of the kind of player we should be going for imo. 

8 hours ago, Top Robin said:

I so want him to succeed because I know he has the pedigree and experience to make it happen for us.

But, I fear he may be one of those managers who has lost his 'mojo' and has peaked a few years back.

Arguably there may have been a slight improvement but it is so inconsistent and generally I don't feel he is moving us forward at the pace we need. 

Frankly, some of the performances under his tenure have been laughable.

I don't know who could replace him and it's not up to me suggest anyone but I don't think he is the one for us.

Kind of guy who doesn’t agree with loan players but signs Danny Simpson and Andy King on one year deal… I think back to the play off final season when our top scorer was Byfield with 8. Difference being we could defend! Feels a long time ago now defence is shockingly bad. 

Semenyo looking like a proper footballer commme ooon 

2 minutes ago, Dastardly and Muttley said:

What channel is it for red button on sky?

Meant to be sky football but isn’t working for me 

We don’t win at home. Would of put my house on them equalising and just knew Lockyer was going to rub it in after getting dogs abuse. Boring experience going to Ashton Gate these days. 

No quality on show here. Why are we relentlessly lumping it long to two midget strikers???

Hell of a fight well done Chisora. Fancy Parker on points here. 

Poor spectacle but a huge win against a side who won 3 and drew 2 of previous 5 away games before today. Lloyd Kelly looked good and what a cross for the goal. He should stay at LB when Bryan returns without a doubt. 

18 minutes ago, YorkshireSection said:

Its a good result when you take a good, hard look at what a patched up side we out there today. We got lots of players playing out of position and dare I say it a couple who are drastically out of form, or not match fit. We have Baker and Pisano to comeback and Lois to get to grips with the English game and show us why he has demanded such a large fee in France. Id say that we may have the best of City still to come this season, and at such a pivotal time, lets get into the play off's and the premiership, YOU REDS!!!!!!

Get in the bin.

2 minutes ago, Alex_BCFC said:

Didn't think they win at boro last time? 

So they did! Missed that somehow 

FFS Villa been in awful form as well! 

Incredible fight and AJ can no longer be called a "hype job". Will of learned more tonight than he has in his previous 18. 

Fury is the fight people want to see but he's absolutely miles away in terms of fitness and licensing issues to even be considered in the near future. 

It will be very interesting to see who's lined up for him next. 

Owers can see the basics we are doing wrong while LJ apparently can not!