Bris Red

Indeed. Its a numbers game for the bean counters and SL. They couldn’t give a toss about the atmosphere or lack of it.

Happy with this signing,

Disgusting, the club won’t be getting a penny off me this season.

He will have playing in front of gates of barely 11 k to look forward too aswell in a tin pot little stadium.. All irrelevant nowadays anyway, all about the £. As you said astonishing but here we are.

Couldn’t particularly give a F if he resigns or not, invest the money in area’s that actually need investment.

This is my huge worry. With Lansdowns track record of hiring managers i have little to no faith that whoever Nige’s successor will be is going to be the answer. I think the next couple of weeks will pretty much tell us what the owner thinks of Pearson. He has to be backed 100% IMO.

The club are clueless. We need a big re set from the top down, turning into an embarrassment both on and off the field at the moment. Begs the question where is our dweeb of a chairman gone hiding? Haven’t heard a peep out of him for months and months..

It’s not even September yet, FFS.

While i do agree that moving fans around could potentially just dilute things, i am of the opinion that something good was building with the A block movement in the Dolman. The ‘singing area’ of Section 82 is a nightmare to get tickets in for most home league games. For the casual fan like myself who cannot commit to a season ticket at the moment, having another option of an area to stand and sing would have been ideal. I know many others like myself aswell who when we do attend have no other options in the ground where standing/creating an atmosphere isn’t frowned upon by others. At the end of the day we have a fairly sizeable 27,000 seater stadium that rarely sells out as you said. I find it hard to fathom that the club cannot support another area of the ground to allow standing. We all know that the A block movement was poorly executed, but this is where the club need to step in and support things. As i said the stadium is surely big enough to accommodate it.

Someone else posted it yesterday but we should have gone absolutely all out to try and get Daniel Johnson in, exactly the type of dynamic midfield we are crying out for. Tried and tested at this level aswell. It does again go back to the budget Pearson is having to work with, no doubt Stoke can offer wages we aren’t prepared to offer anymore so we are looking to top end League 1 players to save £. I’d be shocked if Pearson didn’t enquire about Johnson but could have been a number of reason why we couldn’t get him. As i say I’d imagine wages being the number 1 reason. Knight looks decent but was another defensively minded midfielder what we needed? We seem to have too many of the same type of midfielder for me. I hate to single out players but this is a big season for Williams, he is either injured or largely ineffective when he does play. Not really sure what he offers to be honest.

The problem is with this football club and unfortunately certain fans is whenever an initiative to improve the atmosphere actually physically happens a large % of fans moan. Look at the block A movement in the Dolman, yes i know existing season ticket holders were affected but unfortunately something is going to have to give somewhere if we are to improve it. The same will happen if we wanted to move section 82 more central. You will have the hoards of dull boring i want to sit in silence brigade that will moan that people are standing and singing. The club really need to pull their finger out aswell. I’m not convinced they think we have a problem with the atmosphere though. Aslong as the board keep seeing 20,000 plus coming through the gates they are happy IMO. I didn’t go yesterday but i went to Preston. It was sad to see to be honest, so flat and dull. I genuinely miss the EE days, everything felt so much more hostile at AG back then even if we were only getting crowds of 14-15 k.

The bed wetters will always be out in force proclaiming a relegation battle is on the cards after a loss. Don’t get me wrong, I’m certainly not happy with 0 shots on target at home. But as others have said it is still so early in the season, players to still come back and still time in the transfer window. I can personally see us signing at least a couple more players before the window shuts.

Or were the European players we were signing just not good enough/didn’t have the right mentality.. Let’s be honest when Johnson and Ashton were at the height of their spending spree it almost felt like they were signing players on football manager. I genuinely don’t think enough due diligence was done when signing foreigners during their reign. I think it would be a disaster if as a club we just completely abandoned looking at players from Europe just because a % of the ones dumb and dumber signed didn’t work out. Lets remember Pearson and his connections unearthed players like Mahrez from Europe..

Depends doesn’t it, if Lansdown has made his mind up on Pearson then IMO that would be premature and knee-jerk. He has been given absolute buttons to spend and has been forced to sell his best players. Hardly been a fair craic at the whip has it.

Fair shout, pretty much sees it as most of us fans do. He will know more than anyone that we need more creative additions to the squad. Over to you now Mr Lansdown..

It does feel like history repeating itself in a way, similar to the Cotts situation. Lets hope they aren’t starving him of funds. If Lansdown and his dweeb of a boy have any sense they will give Pearson the tools he needs in the coming weeks to get us in a few more additions.

Exactly. It’s out ninth consecutive season at this level, everyone at the football club knows how tough this division is - nobody is expecting us to blow teams away but a shot on target at home and to actually show some attacking threat would be a start.. Birmingham are a decent outfit at this level, let’s not pretend they are world beaters.

I’m Firmly in the Pearson in camp btw but that is a shocking stat, at home aswell. Really really poor.

Here we go then.. Let the OTIB meltdown commence..

Daniel Johnson would have been ideal. Proven at this level, exactly what we needed. Wages no doubt would have been the issue, unfortunately we are shopping in B&M now as opposed to Marks and sparks when under Little Lee and Ashton..

Indeed but thats the situation we find ourselves in. Genuinely can’t see us finishing above lower mid-table at best if we don’t.

We need to push whatever FFP limits we can to get in a quality creative midfielder IMO.

I really struggle with Williams. Seems a decent lad solid pro etc but for me not good enough consistently enough at this level.

I remember when Chris Waddle came out years ago and said that Walcott had ‘no footballing brain’ and ‘didn’t understand the game’. Got to say i agreed with him at the time and i think thats what my memory of Walcott will be, explosive pace and not a great deal else, such a frustrating player to watch. You look at the players we have coming through now, Saka, Foden Bellingham etc all so much more technically able and accomplished on the ball than Walcott and many from that supposed golden generation were!

Got what he deserved ?