Bris Red

Agree mate.. Don’t hear any of the old songs anymore, not heard ‘Barrisstoll’! In ******* years to be honest, class when the EE used to belt that out as you said. Feels like section 82 needs a few more older heads in amongst them. Too many young’uns for me.

Jury still out for me on Williams. Still is far too inconsistent IMO. Played well yesterday though so credit where it is due.

Agreed. You’d hope that every single one of us wants what is best for the football club, it doesn’t have to be a personal vendetta against SL or be blindly supportive of his regime without seeing the clear faults and mistakes he has made over the last 25 years..

Not a bad post and i suppose you cannot rule anything out, of course it goes against the general grain of ‘Lansdown out’ and ‘Lansdown hasn’t got a clue what he is doing’ which i will hold my hands up and admit that i have been one of the more vocal ones on here with that opinion. However like you said maybe there is a greater plan at work here. I sincerely hope that is the case to be honest and maybe the board and Lansdown have finally got a sustainable plan in place that could bear fruit in a few seasons.. we shall see.

For me Pearson’s best signing to date, a quality player.

I think the first good performance and win at home will really kick start the season. Desperately in need of it.

Great win!!

Same old story of powder puff finishing then by sounds of it.. Highlights how crucial it was to try and bring in more firepower upfront. Massive opportunity missed this window IMO.

Depressing. I said the other week that this feels like the beginning of the end for Nige and i still stand by that. He has been treated with absolute contempt by Lansdown, as @Kid in the Riot says this is 2015 playing out all over again. Why is supporting this club so ******* depressing man.

We don’t know. Reading between the lines however you’d imagine that to get Pearson to commit in the first place back in 2021 some sort of promises were made. I can’t imagine Pearson would have taken the job knowing full well it was going to be 2 years of cost cutting and struggle to then not be rewarded in some way and the shackles to come of and have a go at promotion in year 3. I just can’t see Pearson agreeing to that but its all purely speculation , none of us truly know what was discussed in the early meetings between Lansdown and Pearson.

This is the problem for me, we have literally gone from one extreme to another. Spending like it was going out of fashion under LJ and MA to now trying to cobble together a team of lower league punts and freebies. As you said there needs to be a sensible approach to recruitment. Nobody is expecting us to be going out and spending £8 million on a single player again but on the flip side relying on punts from League 1 and 2 or Scotland is only going to get us so far IMO.

He is certainly losing a fair proportion of the fanbase it would seem. It feels as if many of us have finally had enough of the constant merry go round of failure that the Lansdown years have brought. Personally for me it is the deluded claims that the club genuinely think they can challenge for the top 6 with the current squad we have and seemingly no more investment now being made available to Pearson. Stop treating us fans like idiots please Steve..

Indeed. Shameful and disgraceful that we wasted so much money.

I don’t think his ego would allow him to do either of these things, not just yet anyway. To do so would be an admission of defeat, i still think he feels he can be a successful manager in the Championship or higher which for me is the scary part.

I said it at the time and i remember saying it to my old man walking out of Wembley after losing the play-off final in 2008, that was this football clubs best opportunity in a generation to reach the big time. People may say it’s easy to say in hindsight but i think many of our fanbase knew at the time we would never get a better opportunity than that and it would take many many years to get a chance that good again. True to form we then slowly declined back to League one over the next few seasons. Lansdown bottled it in the January of 2008. I often wonder if secretly that will be his biggest regret if and when he does sell the club.

I’m sorry but i think that is rubbish personally, Bournemouth have shown that success and being able to attract players has nothing to do with having great infrastructure in place.

You’d hope they are all busy working on getting this outside investment that SL keeps talking about..

Decent point that. Encouraging performance aswell.

I’ve had a gutsful of Joe Williams aswell.

Long ball after long ball man ******* terrible

Dire defending

Decent picture on the old firestick ?

100% i have heard from a couple of sources that another tier can be added to the South stand if required, it has supposedly been built in such a way that another one can be added. Would be interesting to see how they would do it as like you said you have the houses behind to factor in.

Thats your opinion. Nobody knows anything as a fact, how do you know what I’m saying is complete rubbish? Do you know Nigel Pearson personally? I said i ‘feel’ this could be the beginning of the end, it’s a personal feeling an opinion that I’m entitled too. I may be wrong and i hope i am as i want Pearson here for the long term. To come out with such a strong ‘its complete rubbish’ statement is laughable actually. I’d imagine you know **** all about what is actually going on inside of the football club just like the rest of us. As for your last point on the contract situation - as another poster wrote, Lansdown has form of lurching from one philosophy to another. God knows what is going through Lansdown’s head at the moment, if his last interview is anything to go by then i would be worried. Random ramblings about trying to copy other clubs that have no similarities to our club worries me, the man is seriously deluded and i genuinely feel that he could once again lurch to a complete different way of thinking which doesn’t include Pearson as being a part of it. We shall see what happens in the coming months, certainly no bedwetting from me. Im a realist and nothing would surprise me with Lansdown and Junior at the helm.

Pearson didn’t look a happy bunny in that interview did he christ. I hate to say this as i really want Pearson to stay and continue to build something but this does feel like the beginning of the end for Nige IMO.