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5 hours ago, phantom said:

 

Men are notoriously bad at admitting they have problems, I would say that about 80% of my clients are women. It is not a sign of weakness to open up about how you feel, it takes strength and courage. I have faced many problems in my own life, including losing two babies, but I am still here and fighting to improve the mental health of others. As Phantom says, never feel embarrassed and reach out for help. The solutions to you problems are only a phone call, email or conversation away. The start of the journey can be tough, but once you realise how precious life is and how much there is to enjoy it gets easier. Every day I spend with my son reminds me of why I need to carry on, and not look at the past. Those events are fixed and cannot be changed, what I can do is change the way I think about them and focus on positives in the present and future. City may be crap at the moment, but the time I spend at AG with my son can still be fun and create a bond that will live on. Feel free to reach out to me if you would like a free hypnotherapy consultation, and start your journey to a better life. COYR. 

42 minutes ago, Posset red said:

Thanks I guess there is a phone number on your site ? I’ll be in touch later in the week thanks 

Yes all the details are there.  I look forward to chatting with you. 

15 hours ago, Posset red said:

Can you help with stopping addictions ? 

Hi Possett. Yes I can help, I've worked with clients who had a range of addictions, including, smoking, alcohol, cocaine etc. The initial consultation I have with clients explains how and why hypnotherapy works so well. You can find out more at www.timetothinkhypnotherapy.com. Let me know when you would like to chat and I can book you in for a free consultation.  As I said in my post anyone in the thread can have a free consultation. All the best, Chris. 

3 hours ago, City oz said:

The players get paid extremely well. There is no excuse that psychological problems are the issue. Let us hope there are three teams at the end of the season worse than us that under perform on the pitch most weeks throughout the season.

Psychological speaking every one does and perform well when things are going good all round either at home or at work and when all goes good mentally this brings results in everything you do. 

I think it is lack of commitment and willing to want to win  by some of the players for the full 90 minutes is the issue and dare I say it do we actually have the manager to fix it.

I am a psychologist who deals with people's mental health problems every day, and I can see the players have a problem that affects them during games. Yes they get paid well, and some appear to lack commitment, but there is a psychological element at the moment that needs fixing and is not being addressed by those working at the club. The results and performance are all the evidence we need. The longer this goes on the worse it will get, and particularly among the young players.  

I believe the players are fit enough, the problem is the mental side of their game. I've responded to other posts that there is a clear psychological problem with the players that is not being addressed. This goes back to LJ, DH and now NP. You can see from body language, facial expression, decision making etc that they are a long way off psychologically. The team ability is mid-table at best but currently under performing and without a clear psychological strategy we will have to hope there are 3 teams worse than us.

8 hours ago, Simon79 said:

With all the late equalisers/winners and lack of tracking back or some might say ‘general effort’. Does anyone else wonder about this new fitness regime we are under? When the body tires, so does the mind, it might explain the switching off late in games. Apparently fitter than ever, can jump vertically better than Peter Rabbit etc etc. Now the injuries are seemingly creeping in again as well. Just a thought. COYR 

Totally honest assessment of where we are. It was painful to watch. We can never rely on others being worse than us but it will be a close run thing. The mental strength of the team is non-existent. I have no idea what the sports psychology department is doing. 

2 hours ago, Olé said:

Chaotic City's ability to implode achieved a fresh level of ineptness as they conceded 3 goals and 2 leads to ten men in a 45 minute spell where unbelievably the side that was a man short had the time and space to play it around with ease, dominate possession and turn the match on its head - aided by what is a poorly coached, disorganised mess of an away side that makes far too many errors.

The out of form visitors actually got to half time with the advantage, beginning to find some much needed confidence and edge an end to end game: rightly awarded a penalty when for the second time O'Dowda was cut down in the box, Martin converting against the reduced home side. But despite getting a second lead against the run of play via an Andi Weimann tap in, it was really all Coventry.

With manager Nigel Pearson absent due to illness and assistant Curtis Fleming back in charge, the near capacity 3000 travelling fans had been promised a reaction by their side after successive batterings away from home, but despite matching the Sky Blues in the first half, an abject display in a second period that became far far too easy for their hosts, has sunk woeful City further into crisis. 

Arguably the away team should have had a penalty after just five minutes when keeper Moore miscontrolled a long ball while being chased down by O'Dowda, it spun loose to the winger who was then hacked down by the stopper, only for the ref to wave away raucous demands for what looked a clear penalty. Then inside ten Weimann volleyed straight at the keeper from an acute angle.

Coventry were starting to open up City with their wide players and on 20 Michael Rose saw his free header from a left wing corner parried by Bentley and O'Dowda did well to block O'Hare's follow up. Minutes later Alex Scott, already on a booking, did brilliantly to track back and shield the ball to safety after Coventry threatened to get in behind again from their right - a source of problems all day. 

But after the half hour and attacking toward their own fans, City actually started to grow in some long missed belief. First Bakinson's recovery tackle won back possession and Massengo's deep ball saw O'Dowda peel off the shoulder of the last man in the box to collect and square - Bakinson's long range shot easily held. Then Scott's free kick was also in behind and O'Dowda forced a save. 

City were taking control and a minute later Bakinson strode out of midfield and fed the ball wide to O'Dowda on the left whose first time cross had Coventry stretching as Alex Scott hooked just high and wide on the run. No surprise then that with minutes left in the half and passing crisply, Chris Martin fed a perfect weighted ball through the line and O'Dowda was cut down with keeper to beat.

A red card and a penalty - that Martin then despatched in front of the bumper following to ignite some much needed excitement and celebration between players and fans. And a minute later it was almost two as Coventry missed a long ball following the kick off that left Weimann and Martin clear on goal from our right, Weimann slipping it inside for Martin who saw his close range shot beaten away.

A 1-0 lead, growing confidence passing the ball and getting O'Dowda into space and all against ten men - this should have been the perfect platform for a good result but after the break the opposite was true as Coventry played not just like a resolute ten man side - but expansive football as if it was them with the extra man, passing and moving at pace and with purpose, City chasing shadows.

Inevitable then that the equaliser followed - but as always one which should never had happened. Far too easy for Coventry to get clear on their right and Zak Vyner, relatively good most of the day, drifted the wrong side of Gyökeres who got inside him and into the box before then tumbling under the slightest touch. Odd for the ref to even up as we only got one of two clear shouts - Godden converted. 

Coventry were now running rings around us. An O'Dowda slip allowed a short cross from the right of the box by Godden after far too much space for the Sky Blues to build - they had 2 players queueing up for a free header at the back post, Gyökeres forcing the save. At the other end Scott put a deep free kick just past the angle after Weimann was body checked - the youngster replaced by DaSilva.

Another free kick, this time Tanner from the right, almost caught the keeper out after a flick on was bundled goalward, tipped wide. But then Bakinson created City's second. A deep lob over the top collected by O'Dowda and exchanged with Tanner before returning to Tyreeq whose low outswinging shot was headed bottom corner - Moore parried and Martin hooked inside for Weimann to tap in. 

It was a brief respite as a ten man Coventry side absolutely dominated possession and with less than 20 left they were all over City again: a cross from the left was desperately bundled out for a corner, from which a half clearance found dangerman O'Hare outside the box who smashed it back past players and into the bottom corner. He celebrated by offering out City fans for no obvious reason.  

Wells belatedly added some forward quality  for Pring with ten left but by now City were clearly hanging on grimly - despite a brief moment where Martin robbed a dawdling centre back and crashed a low drive just past the post. Before the end hard working but erratic Massengo was bundled off the ball from a throw in on halfway and a 3 on 2 let Tyler Walker fire past Bentley but just wide. 

The crowning humiliation was still to come as wretched City, comfortably out played, out passed, our run and out worked by ten man Coventry, capped a one sided finish by handing out an injury time winner. Weimann lost the ball, ex City man Liam Kelly played it in, our players continued slowly watching as Godden had all the time in the world to hold off a defender, turn and fire home in the box.

It feels like City have been awful forever. We would have been relegated last season had it been a few games longer and despite all the talk this year we seem utterly committed to collapsing to even earlier and even more spectacularly. I have always liked the idea of Pearson teaching this club to grow a pair but I see no evidence that he is having any positive effect in fact we are worse than ever.

Bentley 4 **** off

Tanner 4 **** off

Pring 4 **** off 

Kalas 4 **** off 

Vyner 4 **** off 

Bakinson 5 hmmm 

Massengo 5 hmmm

Scott 6 hmmm

O'Dowda 6 hmmm 

Weimann 4 **** off

Martin 4 **** off 

 

DaSilva 4 **** off

This looks weird to me too as our midfield was awful so sparing them the **** off is undeserved, however - it's a collection of individual paradoxes. Massengo was the only one who looked like it meant anything to him (and I mean literally the only one) yet positioning and shape non existent. Scott was the only quality but taken off early. And while everyone waits to moan at Bakinson I thought he was the only person who had the balls to try and play the ball forward, while also sticking fairly rigidly to shielding the defence. And O'Dowda is probably the only one who comes away without having done anything wrong, I don't rate the guy but he gave us someone who got behind them and fair play to him for coming over to clap at the end knowing he earned the right.

23 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

I’ve just thought of my counter point (it took a while), if you had a team of 25 and all but four were recruited by you, and some of them were guaranteed to be brilliant (judging by the amount they were being paid) but actually they were dogshit, you’d struggle to make your sales targets no matter what you said to them or no matter how you told them how to sell. Especially bearing in mind that the previous two sales managers have struggled to get a tune out of them. 

Let’s look at your sales analogy. I’m assuming that I’ve got it correct that the sales manager recruited 21 out of the 25? Are you sure it’s not the other way around as NP is the ‘sales manager’ in question and he has only recruited a small number of the squad. Anyway, these are not bad players, what they have a problem with at the moment is mental, not physical. When the brain gets cluttered with lack of confidence, etc it is not able to perform at its best. That’s when mistakes creep in, poor decision making, a perceived lack of effort by those watching, and many other problems. There is a lack of understanding about motivation, it is not all about ‘what you said to them or how you told them how to sell’ but how you say it. As for the previous ‘sales managers’ they were hampered by the same problems, once the mental rot set in it was hard to change. The current squad is good enough to be mid-table, but that’s about it. It is not a top 6 side and will not be without serious financial investment/good recruitment. Something lacking during the Ashton years.

11 minutes ago, BCFCGav said:

I honestly believe we have an ok squad but they are mentally pathetic. Being in a lead scares the shit out of them. We need to bring in a sports psychologist or something. We are barrelling down the league with a manager who is clearly struggling to cope. Make the change, and let the rescue mission begin ASAP.

I have been offering to get involved with the mental health/psychology for over 2 years. I had a brief chat with LJ, but getting involved with the club I have supported for 51 years is a likely as us keeping a clean sheet. They feel they have all bases covered which is clearly not the case. Their sports psychology department is obviously not working. I'm now in discussions with another Championship club that has more ambition, and sees what I do as another opportunity to  cement their place near the top of the table. Such a shame that I have to take my business away from the club I support.

Hi everyone. Some months ago I asked Phantom if I could offer some help and support in here, and he kindly agreed. I have supported City since I was seven (51 years) and am a season ticket holder in the Lansdown with my brother and young son. I am also a hypnotherapist and have clients across the UK and internationally. Hypnotherapy helps people with all sorts of problems, anxiety, depression, phobias, weight loss, smoking and many others. Naturally this is my business and I offer discounts for people in various professions, but I would like to offer a free consultation to anyone in this thread, so if would like to find out more message me. It will help you understand how and why we develop problems and why hypnotherapy works so effectively. I had it to treat my stress 10 years ago and that's why a trained as a therapist myself. Best wishes and hope we can fix the home form soon .Today at WBA we were awful.