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Same, gutted. Really thought it was going to work out for big Nige..

**** sake whats going on then?!

Its the hope that the ‘’good times will come again’’ that keeps me so invested aswell. You only have to look at Coventry a club that were in such dire straights both on and off the field not so long ago, they weren’t even playing in their home city FFS - it makes what we are going through now look so trivial but look where they are now.. if the good times can come back for Cov then they have to be on the horizon for us surely?

Was a huge amount of money for a club our size, i still maintain that Chelsea had our pants down a bit really we probably paid £3 or 4 million too much for him IMO. In Lansdown and the boards defence though they probably thought they were doing the right thing at the time by making a big money statement like that, you could say they were appeasing the fanbase as lets be honest if we hadn’t had a big summer of spending people would have been asking where the hell has the £20 mill for Webster gone? It’s a tricky one that ultimately boils down to very bad Recuitment in the summer of 2019. Plenty of money in the pot that was spent horrendously badly.

Agreed and i have never looked at it like that. As you said why shouldn’t the rest of the clubs without PP not be able to pump in the equivalent £ if they have owners that can afford too? The whole reason for PP was so that the teams coming down were sufficiently supported financially and didn’t go bust as a result of being relegated which is fair enough but why does it stop the other clubs in the league being able to match them financially? Something needs to change IMO.

West Ham are everything (on the pitch) that i would love us to be. Fair play to them.

Flares/pyrotechnics have been banned in this country for many years now. They are still used widespread on the continent though and many European clubs have shown that you can actually have safe pyro shows without fans being injured.

Hopefully he is okay. It says he was treated for his injuries and was able to watch the rest of the match in the ground which would suggest that any injuries he had were minor.

Its a distinct possibility. Shakespeare may just not fancy the gig here either regardless of Pearson being here or not.

So in a sense it is still possible to spend above and beyond your means to get out of league one? Agree with other posters that its sad that we are even contemplating it this early in the season..

Deffo is a feel good factor at that club as like you have rightly said that atmosphere at the Ricoh is traditionally dire. Still looked half empty yesterday though, I can’t ever recall them actually selling out? Im sure they have done since the ground has opened but it does always appear to be no more than 70% full..

Fair play to them to be honest, if any club deserves a bit of success after everything they have been through then it is Coventry.

Wilder just been appointed by Boro.. be interesting to see how he gets on there

And this is my problem with him. Nobody disputes his qualities on the ball but what you do without the ball is just as important. He needs to massively improve that part of his game

You also have to remember that whilst its a physiological issue for our players opposition players now know full well to expose it. Every team we now play against know to throw the kitchen sink at us in the last few mins and chances are you will get something out of the game. Not sure what the answer is, i think we’d be naive to think it isn’t the topic of conversation on the training ground. They must do drills and try and work on.

Totally agree. I do actually feel that after the poor job he did at Boro Warnock may finally be washed up anyway to be honest.

I’ll be the first to admitt that i was wrong. The very minimum I expected from a Nigel Pearson team was one that was hard to beat and fully committed - I wasn’t expecting champagne football but i thought we would have grit and passion for the shirt.

? what has he done to you mate? Just out of interest..

Pearson doesn’t strike me as a quitter, I’m sure he still believes he can turn this around and not for one minute would he be happy or content with Warnock coming in and doing the job for him.

Change was needed after the 17/18 season though imo. That Wolves game was the very beginning of the rot that we now see unfolding in front of us.

My thoughts exactly mate. It’s a sad day for Bristol City football club but this has been coming for a few years now. I feel done with the club to be honest.

I wasn’t having a dig I’m just curious to know who we could bring in right now that would improve the situation..

Totally agree. I just don’t think Pearson fits in here at the club, you could also argue its a case of right manager at the wrong time for us. Ive said it before that i feel he has come in a few season too late. I still stand by my opinion that we lingered with LJ and MA for far to long - had we binned the two off in the summer of 2018 when it was clear the club needed fresh ideas we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in now IMO.

Who would you like to see us bring in out of interest who would 1 realistically want to take this huge rebuild on and 2 actually improve us?

Odd though as that is one strength i thought Pearson would have in abundance. You are spot on in what you are saying though tactically he appears to be almost clueless.