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Had 3 days in Porto & 4 days in Lisbon last month, very jealous! Here’s my list I put together of where we wanted to try before. Neighbourhood, Musa, Dois Carvos, and Bonjardim would be my ‘really try and go’ picks. Try and do a walking tour too. We do them everywhere we go now, and it’s easily the best way to see the best parts of the city no matter where you are.

He’s the best player out of Ireland, so the EFL wrote to Tinnion and said it’s not fair for him to play u21s. McKenna tried to sign him after he lost 6 in a row at Ipswich. This is all true, do not fact check.

Found it an odd vibe in there personally, went in just before Christmas. Food was nice enough, but every waiter/waitress acted like we were bothering them whenever we asked to order more drinks/sides. Am going to Rassay myself on Friday!

Be handy if it said where they were performing so people could find them - On the pitch? Outside? In the concourse?!

Finger on the pulse!

He’s had an ‘open invite’ onto radio Bristol for the entire season and they’ve had nothing. More chance of Mebude starting a game than hearing from him before the season ends.

Yeah, Nutmeg is lush. Would be in my top 3 Indians in Bristol for sure. Was a favourite of LJ’s in his time as manager too!!

It’s been a real mess of a season from every angle, when you look at it properly objectively. - Board to not agree on whether to sack and replace current manager and coaching staff over the summer, before pre-season starts. Dily dally, leave it too late, have to stick with. - Sell best player after the season starts (I have no real gripe with, Alex wanted to go, was inevitable he was going to). Don’t allow money for ANY replacements. - Owner appears on local business podcast in his place of residence to discuss the deal. Allow that to be the only time he’s publicly heard from all year. - CEO leaves by ‘mutual consent’ after basically flagging he has no idea why he was brought in because the owners son is allowed to do whatever he wants, to the commercial detriment of a club in commercial difficulty. - Publicly say ‘we don’t actually need a CEO with the new structure’. Appoint someone who’s essentially a good accountant as Group CEO of three sporting clubs. - Ask manager to resign when sitting 7th (?) in the table. Are shocked he doesn’t want to. Cause him to go nuclear in the press, because no one at the club can string a sentence together when speaking externally. - Sack relatively popular manager after spirited performance in the middle of an enormous injury crisis - Realising you’ve massively misread the room, make things even worse and double down on saying the team should be pushing for promotion, trying to look ambitious to get the fans excited. Fans react by saying that’s unrealistic and naive. - Roll out the Chairman who knows nothing about medical or physical performance, to explain why the most senior and experienced medical professional the club has ever had has also been dismissed. Proceed to pick up more muscle injuries than you had before sacking. - Say we have a clear playing identity from ‘first team to u11s’ which is front foot, high press, and aggressive. Proceed to appoint a head coach who built his teams to be very methodical, slow in their build up and keeping possession as much as possible. - Magically make budget available in January that wasn’t available in the summer in trying to bring in an attacking midfielder, key to the head coach’s style of play despite saying the squad is the best we’ve ever had at this level and just needed a better coach to move us on. - Lose out on number 1 target, so loan in a player for 4 months with no buy option, because you didn’t want to pay the fee that the parent club will probably still demand in the summer. - Sign a relatively unknown youth prospect with an option to buy. Blame lack of game time in Belgium due to mysterious (or made up?) visa issues. Proceed to not play him. - Sign 2 players on a permanent, but loan them back to their parent clubs, not strengthening the squad depth or quality in any way. - Sign a very promising young player from Ireland. Lie & say he is currently doing a 3 month ‘mini pre season’ to hide that he’s injured and can’t train or play. - Head coach near enough admits he can’t play the way he wants to, and way he was brought in to, with the squad he has. - In the middle of very poor run of results and performances with ST renewals on the horizon, Technical Director to appear on local radio and disclose confidential information as he can’t answer hard questions. Interview to have corrections added to it when published in local written press. - In the same poor run, head coach is clearly concerned for his job so out of nowhere implies the squad is weaker than last years, so maybe expectations should be lowered. - To get people excited for new year, use main striker who Technical Director has publicly admitted has rejected 3 contract offers in pictures and videos for ‘more of this to come next season’ comms. Have I missed anything?

The cynic in me suggests they are starting to plan for life without him early, so are phasing his minutes out.

Also having to post this for people to know, as god forbid our own club update us on our academy lads….

Them being dog shit in the other 45 games may also have a say in them going down mind

Was one of them in a rascal grey 3/4 zip, baggy jeans and Nike high tops? Looks a bit confused all the time, answers to ‘Jon’ ?

Awkward

Unless you’re going to use him as an attacking force, it’s an absolute waste of his qualities.

Funny how fast the times can change. They were absolutely robbed of a spot back in the football league, not even 3 years ago. Now look at them.

If people have paid their money, they’re entitled to do whatever they want. You never know the true reason why people need to head out before FT. Has always been my view and always will be.

Said a few weeks ago, but if Burnley want anything over £2m for Twine and we should laugh, shrug it off and move on. Let’s be honest, he’s unproven at this level and has done very little to warrant an outlay anywhere near the level of someone like Knight. It feels a bit like fans feel he’s the only number 10 available to sign, and that bringing him in suddenly changes our style under Manning. We’ve seen so far it helps a bit, but in no way transforms us. It’s not Afobe-gate. I’d actually feel more concerned if we caved in and paid Burnley what we wanted for him, than if we didn’t.

Certainly wasnt in the plan, or promise, for us to still be chasing having more points than we ended last season on, with 3 games to go. Comments made in October from Tinnion, JL & Marshall age worse and worse by the day.

Need 3 points in the next 3 games to be an improvement on last season. High level excitement for us all to look forward to, as promised by R Jon and R Brian.

How are our values & behaviours looking?

Tanner & Roberts CB pairing

As expected and required, Yeovil champions of NLS.

We could comfortably give the vast majority of the Atyeo to home fans. They’ll bring no one. Similar to the 06/07 promotion day vibes. Making it cheap tickets is an open goal too, best thing for topping up ST numbers.

RT