Coombsy Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 Let's all wait and what this week brings a lot can change this week. we all loves this club we should all from top to bottom get behind city Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
castle red Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 Agree we are far from down crucial week ahead on wards and up..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 There's always the 'loan ' window ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mendip City Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 I wonder how the process of recruiting a manager is going? There's not much Ashton or anyone can say, publicly, I guess. Hopefully they are whittling down and not waiting to see how JP does before opening talks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 1 hour ago, Major Isewater said: There's always the 'loan ' window ... I hate that word almost as much as cornflakes and they are no good to you either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 16 minutes ago, havanatopia said: I hate that word almost as much as cornflakes and they are no good to you either. Know what you mean, can't ever get excited by loanees....they are NOT our players ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Galley Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 With four players already here on season long loans, does not leave us much scope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickolas Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 If we do sign anyone i can only see it being L1 players. This, in the hope they can step up, but also in the knowledge they'll be suited to L1 with us next season. Still think we can stay up but would be nice to see maybe3 wins on the bounce somehow, somewhere, to give everyone a lift. Trying to be more solid ultimately seems to mean we struggle more upfront. We cant win games 0-0 so i'd like to be more adventurous. Our supposed 433 formation is most definitely 451, nomatter how anyone wants to try and argue the attacking and defensive sides of the formation. Would be nice to cruise to a win somehow but every game just seems so tight right to the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bourne End Red Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 With Ashton saying about the surprising names throwing their hat in the ring, I'm expecting a big name proven manager..... Ah wait it's city gotta be Pemberton then cos promoting assistant to manager always works out well and is a mistake we've made before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stawey Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 knowing our lot a big name will be some greek bloke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin_unreliant Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 Pemberton has gone down the Preston route of tighening up and trying to stem the flood of goals against. SC had made his mind up not to do this but keep playing an open game and try to sign more quality up front to take more of the many chances we made playing that way. Didn't work because he\the club couldn't get that quality in. I still wanted to go and watch because it was generally entertaining - if depressing to see us lose. Judging by the general media opinion on our last two games it looks likely to be a lot less entertaining playing the 'new' way. If we get some results great. However, if we get a run of 0-0 or 0-1 results I suspect the crowds will start to drop off fairly rapidly. I think part of the feeling around the team was down to us being committed to playing open and entertaining football. Now that has gone, much as I can see the need for change, I can't help feeling disappointed and as if it marks the end of an era. Really struggling to get motivated to go to games as a result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chappers Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 By the end of the week, we may have a new player or two, about 100 threads about the club burning in Hell forever if a new manager is not appointed, and if we don't beat Brum, I think some posters will spontaneously combust. As for being solid, we don't have the quality, particularly at the back, to play reckless football. The League table might just give a clue on that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamite Red Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 2 hours ago, Mendip City said: I wonder how the process of recruiting a manager is going? There's not much Ashton or anyone can say, publicly, I guess. Hopefully they are whittling down and not waiting to see how JP does before opening talks. I disagree. He could come out and say Pemberton is the manager until the end of the season or not. If not he could update us on the process and timescale. Do we have a preferred candidate or have we whittled down a shortlist. What is happening in the transfer market, are they in discussion with candidates to bring in the right players. Otherwise we could have silence and a rudderless club for possibly the most important week if our season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid in the Riot Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 24 minutes ago, robin_unreliant said: Pemberton has gone down the Preston route of tighening up and trying to stem the flood of goals against. SC had made his mind up not to do this but keep playing an open game and try to sign more quality up front to take more of the many chances we made playing that way. Didn't work because he\the club couldn't get that quality in. I still wanted to go and watch because it was generally entertaining - if depressing to see us lose. Judging by the general media opinion on our last two games it looks likely to be a lot less entertaining playing the 'new' way. If we get some results great. However, if we get a run of 0-0 or 0-1 results I suspect the crowds will start to drop off fairly rapidly. I think part of the feeling around the team was down to us being committed to playing open and entertaining football. Now that has gone, much as I can see the need for change, I can't help feeling disappointed and as if it marks the end of an era. Really struggling to get motivated to go to games as a result. Come on, the attacking football SC brought us last season had become a distant memory. We were being served up consistently poor performances for a few months culminating in a pretty desperate festive period in the games against Derby, Charlton, Burnley and Reading. I assume you didn't attend the Boro game but the performance and spirit shown by the players in the last 20 mins was superb and Ashton Gate was rocking like it hasn't done all season. We haven't celebrated a goal like that in a long while. That was entertainment. However in the short term as dull as it may be Pemberton is right in saying his priority has to be to try and make us hard to beat as we are in a relegation scrap. Crowds won't drop off if the players continue to fight and create chances like we did at Leeds or get results as we did at Boro. We can re-evaluate styles of play in the summer. As of now we have 18 games left or whatever it is to win as many points as possible, by any means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inactive user Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 By the end of the week, we'll be another week nearer league one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negan Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 Looking forward to seeing how the next 5 days go. Reckon we'll see the 3 or 4 players that we need, join. No doubt 1 or 2 being someone we didn't expect. Hopefully we get told what's happening regarding the managers job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_eastender Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 13 minutes ago, Just Brett said: Looking forward to seeing how the next 5 days go. Reckon we'll see the 3 or 4 players that we need, join. No doubt 1 or 2 being someone we didn't expect. Hopefully we get told what's happening regarding the managers job. admire your faith, hope you are right otherwise we are screwed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin_unreliant Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 You're right KITR, I didn't make the Boro game. I did watch wba (on tv) and thought our performance was half- hearted. I appreciate Pulis has made a career out of stifling teams though. Yesterday the bbc reporter described the first half as turgid. Steve Evans said he'd had more fun at the dentist - accept he may be biased. All I am saying is a pattern is already developing. We will be less fun to watch. Maybe it is the sensible option. I agree SC had lost it. I just feel a bit sad that our cavalier, exciting football of last season is now well and truly behind us. I had waited a long time to be that entertained by a city team again and now it just feels like we won't see it again in a hurry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 We will know if MA deserves his wad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 3 hours ago, stawey said: knowing our lot a big name will be some greek bloke Konstantstrugulos . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron-Bcfc Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 2 hours ago, robin_unreliant said: Pemberton has gone down the Preston route of tighening up and trying to stem the flood of goals against. SC had made his mind up not to do this but keep playing an open game and try to sign more quality up front to take more of the many chances we made playing that way. Didn't work because he\the club couldn't get that quality in. I still wanted to go and watch because it was generally entertaining - if depressing to see us lose. Judging by the general media opinion on our last two games it looks likely to be a lot less entertaining playing the 'new' way. If we get some results great. However, if we get a run of 0-0 or 0-1 results I suspect the crowds will start to drop off fairly rapidly. I think part of the feeling around the team was down to us being committed to playing open and entertaining football. Now that has gone, much as I can see the need for change, I can't help feeling disappointed and as if it marks the end of an era. Really struggling to get motivated to go to games as a result. Wow, I loved Cotterill but you can't seriously think we were playing open, entertaining football under him. To back up my point, lets look at the final 10 League games under Cotts. Played: 10 Scored: 6 Conceded: 20 To make it worse, just TWO of those goals were from open play. It really couldn't have been any further from entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombsy Posted January 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 Let's hope mr ashton ready and the check book out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 i hope hes got our recruitment team running their socks off watching talent, has a dozen pre-signed cheques to sort out players/agents/coathangers etc and jp prepared to come in and talk to a few potential new players. in my eyes,he and wade are the ones who need satisfying the most Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldRed Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 This week the club need to communicate with the fans properly if they want to foster a better feeling/relationship. The entire season has been one of smoke and mirrors. I'm not full of expectation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citywest30 Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 The board are probably finding out first hand now Cott's struggles of attracting quality to the club. I'm prepared to be distinctly underwhelmed at the appointment, that's if it happens this week. Prepare for the worst... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southvillekiddy Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 This appointment is the only one in Football where you can get exactly what you want and what is needed to go the whole way to the Premiership - much easier than putting a team together. You only have to persuade one person by what you offer. They will travel across Continents if you do. Waiting to see how serious the Club are about all of that. I truly hope that the owner can let go and get that person ....................... I also hope that Ashton's appointment wasn't a cynical way of avoiding the significant change that BCFC need to achieve it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFC_Dan Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 14 hours ago, Aaron-Bcfc said: Wow, I loved Cotterill but you can't seriously think we were playing open, entertaining football under him. To back up my point, lets look at the final 10 League games under Cotts. Played: 10 Scored: 6 Conceded: 20 To make it worse, just TWO of those goals were from open play. It really couldn't have been any further from entertaining. Sure, if you take the last 10 games but what about the earlier ones? Cotterill built a team based around dominating possession and playing an open, attacking game. He tried to continue that in the Championship but to play in that way you really have to have players who are better than those they come up against and he couldn't recruit those players. Nevertheless he stuck to his approach (because he'd wasted his chance to bring in players who could play in a different way - indeed, he even let one of them go to a rival), and we started the season playing the same attacking game as last year but consistently getting caught on the break. The attacking game was never as effective as last year because the players no longer had a skill advantage over the defenders they faced. Preston, like Gary Johnson's City, were solid and unspectacular and that's something that is much easier to adapt to a higher level. They too struggle with attacking play but they have a defence to fall back on which City did not. That's why they're doing better than us and that's why the management at City now have their work cut out to build a team that can survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glynriley Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 1 hour ago, citywest30 said: The board are probably finding out first hand now Cott's struggles of attracting quality to the club. I'm prepared to be distinctly underwhelmed at the appointment, that's if it happens this week. Prepare for the worst... I'm not overly convinced we'll see an appointment this week. Can see someone like Warnock being appointed next week on a short term deal (once the window closes) Failing that, JP & WE to stay in charge until the end of the season. If that's to be the case, I'd get Big Joe on the phone tout suite to add some experience to the piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Dawe Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 19 minutes ago, BCFC_Dan said: Sure, if you take the last 10 games but what about the earlier ones? Cotterill built a team based around dominating possession and playing an open, attacking game. He tried to continue that in the Championship but to play in that way you really have to have players who are better than those they come up against and he couldn't recruit those players. Nevertheless he stuck to his approach (because he'd wasted his chance to bring in players who could play in a different way - indeed, he even let one of them go to a rival), and we started the season playing the same attacking game as last year but consistently getting caught on the break. The attacking game was never as effective as last year because the players no longer had a skill advantage over the defenders they faced. Preston, like Gary Johnson's City, were solid and unspectacular and that's something that is much easier to adapt to a higher level. They too struggle with attacking play but they have a defence to fall back on which City did not. That's why they're doing better than us and that's why the management at City now have their work cut out to build a team that can survive. Agree with this. Some of our approach play and passing up to the opponents box was exciting and great to watch, early in the season. But our finishing was poor. So the defence was always under pressure. After a few months, with wins not coming, confidence drained away, and inevitably the standard of play became much poorer, less watchable. The effort was always there, though. Cotts transfer targets may have been over ambitious but had we signed Gray (if that was ever seriously on the cards, or agreed as rumoured) and other signings duly followed, we could now be enjoying one of the season's of our lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slave to the rhythm Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 19 hours ago, nickolas said: If we do sign anyone i can only see it being L1 players. This, in the hope they can step up, but also in the knowledge they'll be suited to L1 with us next season. Still think we can stay up but would be nice to see maybe3 wins on the bounce somehow, somewhere, to give everyone a lift. Trying to be more solid ultimately seems to mean we struggle more upfront. We cant win games 0-0 so i'd like to be more adventurous. Our supposed 433 formation is most definitely 451, nomatter how anyone wants to try and argue the attacking and defensive sides of the formation. Would be nice to cruise to a win somehow but every game just seems so tight right to the end. Apart from Burnley away, Derby away, Reading at home, Rotherham away, Brentford at home, Fulham at home etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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