Day of reckoning?

[Roadrunner]

2 minutes ago, downendcity said:

He hasn't been gone nearly long enough!

You want to see what the Southampton fans thought about  him.

 

[RedRock]

Got a flight back from Lanzarotte last night in order to welcome the new incumbent and watch the meltdown on here.  

In OTIB I trust. 
 

[redseptember]

36 minutes ago, Harry R said:

the idea of appointing a promising coach

While I would support what you're saying, that 'idea' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this context.

[chinapig]

6 minutes ago, exAtyeoMax said:

If this move fails they have full accountability, however they spin it in the future.

Jon is accountable only to his Dad. He'll be Chairman for as long as he wants.

[BigTone]

22 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

Both of you ? 

Not often both of me are out on the same day

[robinforlife2]

If it’s announced today, it’s not Manning. Frankly, I think the club have played a blinder. 

[exAtyeoMax]

2 minutes ago, chinapig said:

Jon is accountable only to his Dad. He'll be Chairman for as long as he wants.

Well yes I get that but they won’t have anyone to hide behind

Edited November 6, 2023 by exAtyeoMax

[JP Hampton]

1 hour ago, TV Tom said:

I'm ready for the out-rage on this forum because whoever the board appoint the majority on here will be against it and will drip into melt-down again

[Slack]

Question, if we get a new manager... Will we also have a few new faces to replace Rennie, Euell and Curtis?

I assume so but

[BigTone]

1 hour ago, petehinton said:

A lot of eggs being prepared for faces if nothing happens today. A lot of I told you so’s being typed up if something does. 
 

Big day. A huge day. 

Who actually said it would be today ?

[Simon bristol]

1 hour ago, BigTone said:

I'm sitting here beside myself

Are you sitting next to a mirror?

[TV Tom]

We have a new odds on favourite with Manning at 8/11,  Lampard at Evens

[petehinton]

Just now, BigTone said:

Who actually said it would be today ?

A fair few people, for whatever reason!

[BarnzFM]

1 hour ago, Antman said:

can i suggest a new verb to be "Lansdowned' ?

it's not unlike paying to be mugged by a clown, you start with a sense of wonder, distraction and excitement at the bright colours and face paint, happy to hand over your hard earned cash,  but rapidly you are left with a sense of anger and frustration, only to find out some time later what you have lost exactly.

 

 

Might be better Lansdrowned 

[42nite]

4 minutes ago, RedRock said:

Got a flight back from Lanzarotte last night in order to welcome the new incumbent and watch the meltdown on here.  

In OTIB I trust. 
 

No internet in Lanzarotte?

Or are you up the Avon Gorge Hotel in position?

[LondonBristolian]

24 minutes ago, petehinton said:

If it gets announced then yeah, I’d say that’s a sign for sure. If it doesn’t, and he still has left, tbey obviously just want to clear the decks for the new guy to say we have space for your men, and Hines/Cisse/King lead training this week

You could be right but I'm not convinced. 

If they wanted to clear the decks, and that include Fleming, surely they'd have done that last week? Maybe Fleming going wouldn't necessarily mean an announcement today but I can't see them releasing Fleming unless they are confident they'd have a manager in place in time to lead the team (and not just watch) on Saturday...

[petehinton]

1 minute ago, LondonBristolian said:

You could be right but I'm not convinced. 

If they wanted to clear the decks, and that include Fleming, surely they'd have done that last week? Maybe Fleming going wouldn't necessarily mean an announcement today but I can't see them releasing Fleming unless they are confident they'd have a manager in place in time to lead the team (and not just watch) on Saturday...

The cynic in me, and I’ve been cynical for the last 8 days, says no way in hell they’d have wanted to feed Hines/Ball/Cisse to the lions of the media this week as part of pre/post match duty. Much easier and better for a close friend and ‘his man’ Flem to do it. Imo that was a consideration

[RedRock]

5 minutes ago, 42nite said:

No internet in Lanzarotte?

Or are you up the Avon Gorge Hotel in position?

On the South Coast with my binoculars directly beneath the Jersey to Bristol flight path. Nothing yet, bar a few sea gulls.

[Roe]

4 minutes ago, petehinton said:

The cynic in me, and I’ve been cynical for the last 8 days, says no way in hell they’d have wanted to feed Hines/Ball/Cisse to the lions of the media this week as part of pre/post match duty. Much easier and better for a close friend and ‘his man’ Flem to do it. Imo that was a consideration

Said lions of the media:

[FNQ]

Just now, RedRock said:

On the South Coast with my binoculars directly beneath the Jersey to Bristol flight path. Nothing yet, bar a few sea gulls.

Watch it, or he’ll shit on you..

[BrizzleRed]

1 hour ago, CliftonCliff said:

Assuming the last things I read here last night are correct and today’s the day we find out the nature of the Lansdown’s latest master stroke, I woke this morning feeling oddly indifferent about what’s to come. I say “oddly”, because along with many others I have been animatedly engaged, online and in person with friends, in hot debate about the week’s events. In short, these things mattered to me, a lot.

So, it seems in one way strange to  discover that as we wait to be told the identity of our new head coach, I find a large part of me all of a sudden doesn’t really care. I think this is partly because I fully expect to be underwhelmed by the announcement: it would be typical of all things BCFC if the drama of the last eight days was a prelude to the appointment of someone as inspiring as, say, Gary Rowett, or rather, since we know it’s highly unlikely to be him, someone of a similarly mediocre calibre.

But even if it should turn out that we are pleasantly surprised, I suspect the feeling will still be somewhat hollow, because if we can take one lesson from what’s happened, it’s that the core problem facing the club is not who we appoint to HC or manager, his assistants or the head of the medical department, and that whatever changes are implemented today may well make very little difference to the club’s trajectory. We already had, in the opinion of many, a more than adequate team in charge and I cannot convince myself that sacking the whole lot of them and installing replacements is going to impact much in the long run on the dysfunctional manner in which the club is run.

I sincerely hope I’m proven wrong in this. It sounds negative and depressing, I know, but I also think it’s a not unrealistic appraisal. Am I alone in feeling quite flat about the impending news, rather than excited?

Amen to that CC and feeling exactly the same.  

The big issue for me is, whoever we appoint, we still have the same puppet masters at the top, so I just don’t see any reason for optimism.

[RedEd73]

20 minutes ago, robinforlife2 said:

If it’s announced today, it’s not Manning. Frankly, I think the club have played a blinder. 

Announce Stevie Wonder!

[Zuni]

1 hour ago, ashton_fan said:

I'm willing to give anybody a chance. Sometimes the underwhelming appointments turn out to be the best ones, and the flash appointments turn out to be disasters!

[RedRoss]

Another I don't care but spent time posting another topic..

Another I'm expecting to be underwhelmed topic.. Surely results bad or good that will ultimately come in time is the only thing that matters?

Another topic to say regardless of the appointment it won't matter anyway as you don't trust the board..

I wanted Nige to stay, I'm not happy with the way it was dealt with but these dramatic posts are too much. 

[Open End Numb Legs]

9 minutes ago, RedRock said:

On the South Coast with my binoculars directly beneath the Jersey to Bristol flight path. Nothing yet, bar a few sea gulls.

New manager - George Segal.

[NcnsBcfc]

Just tweeted or "x'd" or whatever it is called now James Piercy asking someone from Bristol Live to contact the club to see whether there is any press conference/announcement today?

Hopefully that'll put the story one way or another to bed.

Surprised they haven't run a story about it all already?

[Street red]

Find out if Manning is taking Oxford training this morning somebody in the know? If he's at Oxford training then it wont be him that's if the new coach is being announced today.

[One Team]

4 minutes ago, NcnsBcfc said:

Just tweeted or "x'd" or whatever it is called now James Piercy asking someone from Bristol Live to contact the club to see whether there is any press conference/announcement today?

Hopefully that'll put the story one way or another to bed.

Surprised they haven't run a story about it all already?

A good shout. If there was an announcement today you’d think the media would have been invited.

[CliftonCliff]

4 minutes ago, RedRoss said:

Another I don't care but spent time posting another topic..

Another I'm expecting to be underwhelmed topic.. Surely results bad or good that will ultimately come in time is the only thing that matters?

Another topic to say regardless of the appointment it won't matter anyway as you don't trust the board..

I wanted Nige to stay, I'm not happy with the way it was dealt with but these dramatic posts are too much. 

Can understand you finding it repetitious and getting tired of it, but with respect, there's a simple solution - stop reading it.

[Zuni]

8 minutes ago, RedRoss said:

Another I don't care but spent time posting another topic..

Another I'm expecting to be underwhelmed topic.. Surely results bad or good that will ultimately come in time is the only thing that matters?

Another topic to say regardless of the appointment it won't matter anyway as you don't trust the board..

I wanted Nige to stay, I'm not happy with the way it was dealt with but these dramatic posts are too much.