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Decent picture on the old firestick 

17 minutes ago, BS30 City said:

I cant imagine theres much scope in increase the capacity with an Atyeo replacement, also unsure of we would get permission to add another tier to the South Stand with the housing behind?!

 

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. 

12 hours ago, steviestevieneville said:

Sorry but this is complete rubbish. I’ve just watched the interview & he’s exactly the same as every other interview. So many bedwetters reading into things that are not there. 
as for some crying about signings . He’s said again what’s been said all along . We’re at the top end of our wage budget . Please tell me where he’s so unhappy on this interview, complete tripe . 
 

On another note , where this “rumour” that SL won’t renew NP’s contract . 
 

It was a poor result of course on Saturday but some of the hysteria on here is ******* laughable . 

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.

11 hours ago, marmite said:

Give WBA 3500 and attendance will prob be 23 / 24000. Limit them to 2000 and gate will drop by 1500. Its simple economics and that's what SL cares about. 

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,

10 hours ago, Ghost Rider said:

£70.95 (including delivery) for a plain grey hoodie with a splat Robin.

Are you taking the piss?

 

 

 

 

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

13 minutes ago, Swede said:

Just viewed Alex Scott's first interview at AFCB. I'm very pleased he's got his move but just looking at the presentation from AFCB it just looks totally tinpot. The state of football as it is today when you loose your best player to a club like that. Astonishing.

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. 

3 minutes ago, beaverface said:

 

The talk of nest eggs, does make you wonder whether SL is waiting for this season to be over, so he can then bring in another manager and back them to the hilt with all the savings NP has had to make, and so we rinse and repeat the last n years!

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.

47 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Looked up City news. Most of Atyeo again.

3,414 to West Brom. 

What a big advantage that promises to be. Well done- again. 

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..

9 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

 

Based on this data, it seems unlikely that we will survive the drop unless something changes drastically.

It’s not even September yet, FFS.

7 hours ago, ChippenhamRed said:

Never really bought into arguments about acoustics of one stand versus another. Were the acoustics a problem when we played United in 2017? Anyone heard Wales fans during big home games at the Cardiff City stadium? The architecture of that ground is very similar to the South Stand.

Atmosphere has an awful lot more to do with what the people in the stadium are doing or not doing to create it, and the performances of the team on the pitch that either inspire it or don’t.

I also don’t really agree with the suggestion of moving home fans into the Atyeo. We don’t sell out, so it’ll just spread our fans over a larger area and potentially dilute the atmosphere still further. All these ideas for moving fans here or there are just fiddling around the edges.

At the end of the day, we’re a big club in a big city that hasn’t had much to shout about for 40 years. We’ve floated between the second and third tiers, and we’re currently on a run of 9 seasons in the same division where we’ve rarely had a game that truly mattered at either end of the table, especially in the last few years. It also doesn’t really look like changing any time soon. I think that’s got an awful lot more to do with it than anything else.

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.

5 hours ago, Supersonic Robin said:

Every season under Pearson a few people claim we're in danger of relegation, and every season we are absolutely nowhere near going down.

As frustrating as it was today, surely you don't think we're one of the 3 worst sides in the league?

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.

13 minutes ago, Simon bristol said:

Weve been burned so many times with signing players from europe, the ease of bedding in a player from england makes it a significantly higher chance that a transfer will be successful, and even then theres a pretty good chance that transfers wont work out. The odd ones like the danish lad at preston look good, but for every kodjia there are probably 15 who dont have much of an impact?

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.. 

5 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

It’s a tough one. Personally I don’t see Pearson here past this season - who knows, he may even be gone sooner - is it really a good idea giving him more money? 

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..

2 minutes ago, Bedred31 said:

Agree that it’s starting to look like SL is deliberately starving NP in order to present his preferred successor with a war chest. 

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.

8 minutes ago, Jose said:

Blowing teams away? Another stupid comment. How about a shot or two on target?No one expects us to blow teams away. Feeling like you got value for your money might be a start.

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.

Just now, BasSavage88 said:

0 shots on target 

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

Just now, Andy082005 said:

Let’s hope the next manager can help evolve this club

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

1 minute ago, Fred89 said:

He is a Joe Brunell hybrid for those with a memory that far back, we need a replacement for Scot no technical ability in the middle a part from James who is past his best 

I hope we made a bid for Daniel Johnson who left Preston on a free this Summer and he turned us down would be shocked if not exactly what we needed. 

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..