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Post by blueblood1883 on Mar 21, 2019 17:33:23 GMT
Apparently the club shop there are banging out mother's day boxes of milk tray for £12.
That'll go down well for the posters on there forum, all because the lady loves milk tray...
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Post by blueblood1883 on Mar 21, 2019 8:37:38 GMT
This is brilliant! Well done @thgorringe. Maybe we can see some advertising on the back of this? I've seen advertising for Bristol City and Bristol Bears around the city on electronic billboard etc... t.co/xz8XKm8l70@thgorrongr Watch this space...👍🏼 Hopefully a bit more than official channels There's more City fans responding than Rovers! I don't think obsessed is a strong enough word! This is just a minor distraction as on the approaching 1,000 page oh we're not obsessed with you thread, the wooden heads are all sat waiting patiently for our year end accounts to be published, true story. I'm not sure what category that falls under, but it has to be somewhere between obsession and care in the community I'd of thought ..
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Post by blueblood1883 on Mar 18, 2019 23:43:29 GMT
Does anybody know the length of quarantine required after visiting Ashton Gate?
Thanks in advance....
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Post by blueblood1883 on Mar 10, 2019 18:25:35 GMT
I've seen the attendance figures but has anybody got the total away following please? Cheers Scunthorpe have not released the figure yet. Hopefully we will get it tomorrow. Thanks Russ....
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Post by blueblood1883 on Mar 10, 2019 15:08:16 GMT
I've seen the attendance figures but has anybody got the total away following please?
Cheers
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Post by blueblood1883 on Mar 5, 2019 16:25:29 GMT
The difference with pirate is that he clearly takes a wide-ranging interest in all youth development across this country and beyond, which naturally would include taking in knowledge about City's development squad. There's a difference between that and posting a thread mocking City because their youth team lost a match. Frankly I don't care that much if our development squad loses, let alone if theirs does. But that's only my opinion. Spot on Jomo. I watch a lot of non-league football and my second team have taken at least 5 or 6 of their players on loan from them this/last season and I've noticed several others join clubs at the same level. I always keep an eye on their development squad through The Post and elsewhere to keep an eye on players that I have monitored/recommended previous to them joining City and to keep an eye on the progress of former loanees at my second team. My interest in the Forest game was more about how Arvin Appiah and Brennan Johnson got on for Forest, a couple of players I wouldn't have minded us taking on loan. I completely get what you're saying Pirate, and without blowing smoke I read your players and development reports with extreme interest. It looks like I chose a bad subject to points score but sometimes when it comes to them I can't look a gift horse in the mouth. Nothing personal... I think this thread is done.. Cheers
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Post by blueblood1883 on Mar 5, 2019 9:50:41 GMT
I enjoy seeing City lose, but to post about their U23 team losing and actually knowing who was playing? That's a new one. As pirate said, whatever floats your boat, but having digs at their U23 team in my eyes is just sad. Good point, it's hard to gauge who has the more unhealthy interest. Somebody taking a cheap shot at them regardless of the thread content or somebody who knows their reserve team and applicable transfer fees of the opposition in an U23 game. But your point is valid and perhaps I should try that little bit harder to resist trying to wind up the poor little mites. See what I did there.. Best regards Blueblood1883....
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Post by blueblood1883 on Mar 5, 2019 2:49:29 GMT
This thread has already made it to there forum so it was kind of meant as a dig at them.. Thanks awfully for the up to date news on the 82ers youth set up. I guess I should feel so much more invigorated because of it.... However I'm afraid you lost me at "I don't think".... Ironically you were advocating signing Mo Eisa back in January, a player that has been confined to their U23s for most of the season. I just find it bit embarrassing and desperate having a dig at an U23s defeat. Even more so tonight as it was against a team that contained a couple of full internationals and players that have been transferred for over £22milion in their careers. But, whatever floats yours and the original poster's boat and all that. Again if you read more of my posts assuming you haven't read them all, a lot of the stuff I post is looking for a reaction. On their cringeworthy thread about us it's like feeding time in the monkeys enclosure by posting the odd one liners, very similar to the Mo Eisa on loan post which was actually a question but meant with the same intent.. Okay its a little childish but hey it floats my boat and all that.
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Post by blueblood1883 on Mar 5, 2019 1:21:08 GMT
Didn't they also lose 8-1 at Derby recently.. Good to see the hillbillies youth policy flourishing... I dont think we are in any position to poke fun at them and their youth setup is actually doing well at the moment. Joe Bryan was sold to the Prem for about £6million last summer and Bobby Reid went for about 10million. Further back they lost Herbie Kane to Liverpool and Jacob Maddox to Chelsea. They recently had their 27th loan this season out of the club and 4 or 5 of their youngsters are currently being watched by Prem clubs. This season their youth product Lloyd Kelly also made his debut for the England U21 side. This thread has already made it to there forum so it was kind of meant as a dig at them.. Thanks awfully for the up to date news on the 82ers youth set up. I guess I should feel so much more invigorated because of it.... However I'm afraid you lost me at "I don't think"....
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Post by blueblood1883 on Mar 4, 2019 22:51:01 GMT
Snake playing in their u23's? Is that players with under 23 goals for them? Didn't they also lose 8-1 at Derby recently.. Good to see the hillbillies youth policy flourishing...
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Post by blueblood1883 on Feb 6, 2019 5:49:26 GMT
So it's a clear case of
"Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight Don't blame it on the good times Blame it on acoustics" ...
#Tedlogic..
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Post by blueblood1883 on Feb 5, 2019 21:56:13 GMT
Great to read your story... And Newport won 2-0... Bravo Sir...
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My fears
Jan 19, 2019 18:37:13 GMT
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Post by blueblood1883 on Jan 19, 2019 18:37:13 GMT
He managed to get 3 wins out of them during which we got a good few goals and played at a good tempo. Now we are back to playing at a sluggish tempo and can't score. The question has to be asked: are the players really crap? Is the manager crap? Or by giving the manager 2.5 years have the board somehow changed the mindset of the players and they are back to not giving a sh**? Its childishly naive to think that there are no conditions written into coughlans contract imo. We have been poor in all the home games under coughlan . We do not have any good strikers at the club. Coughlans been talking up the players because thats the only sensible option when your budget if used up and your first team squad is bigger than bristol citys but desperately short of quality,especially going forward. Somehow hes got to get players out,get players in and stay in this division before releasing numerous players at the end of the season. Thats if it's down to him by then of course. Bang on the money Bluebutterfly.. But what we've got is a yes man and a board that don't care. Based on that their can only be one outcome I'm afraid....
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Post by blueblood1883 on Jan 1, 2019 19:30:29 GMT
The teds seem to like strikers who run around a lot and don't score, while at the same time calling their strikers who do score "sh**" and "holding them back". Worth quashing the 'gentleman's agreement' and letting them buy Nichols for £2mill? Mo Eisa on loan anybody?
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Post by blueblood1883 on Dec 31, 2018 14:15:29 GMT
Maybe we could offer £400k-500k and include either Nichols or Payne in the deal? Exeter know Nichols and were keen on Nichols and Payne is a good L2 goalscorer so maybe one of them could reduce the total cost. £500k is still a big outlay for us, especially as our transfer record is £375k but if seen as an investment, it may very well be worth it if we could get Stockley scoring for us and inch us further away from the relegation zone. Not sure Payne can go to them. If transport is the problem I'll drive him there myself...
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Post by blueblood1883 on Dec 30, 2018 19:43:20 GMT
I'd seriously look at a bid for him in January. I'm really pleased that GC is giving a loan signing a run in the team.
He's just started to show what he can do. If you loan players it makes sense to give them game time and a run in the team.
Remember, it wasn't that long ago that Ollie Mcburnie couldn't get a game for us.
In the short time I've seen him I have to say I'm impressed with his all round game. I'd definitely test Watfords resolve in January...
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Post by blueblood1883 on Dec 17, 2018 7:47:26 GMT
I've gone 1) Flynn 2) Hurst 3) Coughlan Think Flynn would be tremendous for a club like ours....
What do you mean by this? (not disagreeing btw, just curious as I don't know too much about Flynn)
When I talk about a club like ours I mean in our current predicament. The chain of thought for getting us out of the sh** we currently find ourselves in differs on who you speak too. Flynn is only 38 and relatively inexperienced, that said he helped perform a minor miracle to keep Newport up, so this isn't new to him. Since then he's turned them into a decent footballing side that are challenging and into the third round of the FA Cup. Its all about opinions,some want experience now like Cotterill or Hurst. But for me I'd be looking at somebody like Flynn...
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Post by blueblood1883 on Dec 16, 2018 22:36:16 GMT
I've gone
1) Flynn
2) Hurst
3) Coughlan
Think Flynn would be tremendous for a club like ours....
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Post by blueblood1883 on Dec 16, 2018 12:30:15 GMT
I can't help but think that Michael Flynn ticks all of the boxes for me.. Getting him, now that's a completely different story... Ok, so hypothetical situation. The final 2 candidates are Flynn and Garner. Who do you choose? Garner has had a great apprenticeship under some brilliant managers in the game at some top clubs working with top talent. To be entrusted with training and teaching those types of players at a young age takes great leadership skills as well as application of the things you are learning from your mentors. However he lacks the real experience of leading squads on match days, picking teams, formations, tactics and styles of play and building his own philosophy. He’s effectively working other people’s. You cannot discount his network of contacts either, however we cannot or might not be able to afford the talent within his black book of potential signings and does he have enough knowledge of the lower leagues to find players and develop them like DC did? How would he handle players which may not have as much natural or technical ability that he is used to working with? If we did get relegated could he be the man to turn it around the next year. Then you have Flynn. Doing his own apprenticeship in the league below and making a good fist of it. Playing smart and effective football with players that would just about make it into a conference team with a couple of shrewd local loans from BCFC thrown in. His tactics, philosophy and style are clearly working, but he hasn’t actually achieved anything yet, and will he be still learning on the job here, in what is a pressure cooker of an environment where expectation is high? Although he’s played in the championship it was always at smaller clubs and has never coached alongside any watermarked names in the game, so how many ideas does he have? Does he have a good enough network of scouts and contacts? If we did get relegated would you trust him long term to turn it around next year? A tough call on either of them. If you choose either of them it has to be with the long term in mind regardless of whether we go down or not. They have to be given time to build for next year. Personally, I would side with Pirate and go with Garner. You've raised some excellent points and there is a case for either of them to get the job. Flynn isn't that dissimilar to how we appointed DC four years ago albeit Flynn has a little bit of football league management to his name and he's steered Newport into the third round of the FA Cup against Leicester. His network of contacts won't be as extensive as Garners, but I'd trust Flynn to get us out of the mire and move us on as a club. That's purely an opinion and nothing more, but I'm in favour of a younger manager even at the expense of somebody experienced like Cotterill...
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Post by blueblood1883 on Dec 16, 2018 11:21:27 GMT
I can't help but think that Michael Flynn ticks all of the boxes for me.. Getting him, now that's a completely different story...
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