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Reply | Injury Updates
at 08:03 21 Nov 2024
Well, he's instincts are pretty poor if he thought a wall of silence was the best way to run the place. Just because he's changed now after months doesn't really change the fact that he's so inept he thought it was a good idea in the first place.
It sits alongside other stupid ideas like the one where he's got enough knowledge and experience to do the DoF role. Would welcome a U-turn on that idea of his too. |
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Reply | Fan Mobilisation - Nourry Out
at 16:02 15 Nov 2024
Injuries are a big part of it, last season it seemed to be much better. Last season Ben Williams seemed to be far more involved, at the fans meeting etc getting things sorted that were in bad shape when he arrived. Now he's working for someone else, we're told he's still here but he works from Dubai and the injury situation has gone backwards. Who decided that our head of performance is a part time role that can be done remotely?
On the face of it, it's an insult to our club and one that our CEO is happy to go along with. If Williams was employed through Retexo is there a conflict of interest there, otherwise I'm not sure how the club wouldn't be better off with some in that role at the training ground full time rather than this nonsense. |
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Reply | Begovic's Opinion
at 10:29 15 Nov 2024
Goal Prevented
2023-24 - Begovic -7.8
2024-25 Nardi - +0.4 (so far)
As others have said we got clean sheets mainly due to the defence. It's not been as solid this year and Nardi only has 2 clean sheets as a result.
We also saw in the last game of the season how Begovic's distribution wasn't great either as Walsh was much better and I think that's one of Nardi strengths too. |
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Reply | Begovic's Opinion
at 09:02 15 Nov 2024
The irony is replacing him with Nardi is probably the only area they've managed to get better for cheaper. |
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Reply | manager
at 18:54 11 Nov 2024
Depending on how good his PowerPoint is, he could be appointed as manager, DoF, CEO and Chairman. |
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Reply | Savage amusement - Report
at 18:40 11 Nov 2024
The only way we're getting rid of those players is if the owners buy a club at a suitable level. Maybe Scottish League 1 or 2. |
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Reply | MC has got to go
at 13:52 11 Nov 2024
That's worse than I thought.
I think Hoos has to go as well. How has he accepted Nourry doing that. What other club has a CEO who also acts as DoF? It's nonsense. |
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Reply | Savage amusement - Report
at 13:41 11 Nov 2024
We're 1.5 months away from him being given free reign again, so I'd say now is a great time to get rid of him before he buys another Santos, Madsen or Clear.
At the very least I'd be getting in a competent DoF to sit between him and the recruitment team.
I really don't see what the coaches are supposed to do with the injury list and players provided. |
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Reply | MC has got to go
at 13:22 11 Nov 2024
What I don't get is who's idea was it to role the CEO and DoF into one job?
If it was Hoos, that's quite an about turn from his comments when originally joining. If it is Nourry then who signed off on it? It's one thing to have him setting budgets and overseeing the commercial side of the company but it seems negligent to let him be involved in the transfers as well. |
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Reply | Fan Mobilisation - Nourry Out
at 10:01 10 Nov 2024
Well I would agree that the owners should go too, that's a lot harder to do because you need someone to want to buy us. Them being at arms length from the club is really the problem and I think that's why low standards are tolerated because the owners aren't around to intervene when it's happening.
In the absence of new owners Nourry needs to go. We need someone with football experience to be DoF and we need a separate CEO. I'd add that we need to be employing people into these positions who care about the club and will demand higher standards across the board. No more remote working from Dubai.
Another person who seems to be getting away without criticism is Lee Hoos. I thought he was a good hire when he first joined and you can see he lost interest over his tenure. It appears to me he employed Nourry to facilitate his move to chairman/retirement. The fact that he's still employed as our chairman while saying he wanted to wind down was also a disgrace but by then I think most people just wanted a more engaged CEO and didn't realise Nourry would be involved as effectively the DoF as well.
So I'd suggest we make this Lee Hoos problem in some way, maybe bombard him with CV's for the CEO role. If football experience isn't an issue, we should all be in with a shot of getting the gig, at least we'd care about the club.
Anyway I think we should make it clear to Hoos that he's not going to have an easy ride, if he wants to be chairman he needs to get involved and we're not having Nourry. |
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Reply | Nourry should walk.
at 17:05 9 Nov 2024
Strictly speaking Gallen spoke to scouts that had the awareness to recognise Madsen was weak. Presumably he spoke to them after he had signed for us but it does beg the question, what are our scouts doing and reporting back to the people making the decisions? |
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Reply | Nourry should walk.
at 16:59 9 Nov 2024
Probably the half he was responsible for signing. |
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Reply | Nourry should walk.
at 13:34 8 Nov 2024
Agree totally.
In terms of how to resolve this mess, I don't think realistically the board will sack Nourry after only just bringing him in. We need to change his role to that which Hoos used to perform and bring in a DoF to work alongside him. Somebody who knows the game. I'd personally speak with Marti to keep him in the loop and make sure that he's on board with whoever we're bringing in. If it put's Nourrys nose out of joint, tough, like it or sod off.
Like you say, we have January and the idea of Nourry dictating the transfer strategy with Belk again is terrifying. |
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Reply | Kolli Dad Interview
at 10:50 1 Nov 2024
Good point. I think he was talking about Han-Noah Massengo, on if their best players at the time dropped for the last year of his contract then went on a free. Probably paved a way for Alex Scott to come through who at the time was worse but has ended up more valuable.
We're talking about someone who's not even established in the first team. Like you say, could be that his performance got him dropped, there's a rumour that it might be a contract issue. Either way it doesn't really matter.
Yes the communication has left the void for these discussions but either of those reasons should be acceptable reasons to drop him so not sure what the club has done wrong tbh. |
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Reply | Kolli Dad Interview
at 21:55 31 Oct 2024
I was speaking to a Bristol City supporter and he was saying how good their youth players were because Pearson would give them first team opportunities and trust them. Anyway they also bomb them out if they're not going to commit to the club, why bother continuing with their development.
Sounds like it's a common practice and one we've picked up from clubs with a better track record. |
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Reply | QPR's 'Fan Engagement Plan'
at 09:25 30 Oct 2024
I read it like that too at first but I don't know enough about the subject. If the EFL are asking clubs to do this presumably it's for questions to be asked about the management of the club not the team. If that is the intention, I imagine the EFL wouldn't be too happy if we said that our plan was to have a meet and greet with the manager once a season, that's not going to get the water pressure sorted.
I also don't think it excludes the manager attending, it just commits the decision makers at club level to attend.
Like I said, I don't know. I've been reading a lot on here about nourry and it has me worried. |
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Reply | Gallen Speaks
at 13:57 9 Oct 2024
I don't suppose there is a hard and fast rule for how a player is going to adapt to the Championship, I suspect that it varies from position to position. Goalkeeper, I can't see it being much of a difference. I also imagine that the plan was to introduce the players more gradually but have had our hands forced by injury, a risk of the strategy employed but even with injuries you'd be pessimistic to have planned for having as many of our experienced players injured as we have. I also think the plan of buying players that were already playing abroad was intended to avoid issues with player settling abroad. So to me it all makes sense, it's just not worked how we would have liked.
The issue with picking up players like Browne on a free at 29 years old is that he'll have no sell on. We might be better in the short term but if we're going to get good championship players we need to increase our budget and buying players with potential is the only way to really effect that. So again, I think the strategy makes sense, they're not all going to be winners but we only need to sell 1 or 2 for it to cover the costs and improve our FFP situation in the future. |
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Reply | The no ones bothered Blackburn match thingy
at 13:25 28 Sep 2024
Yeah judging by Travis's reaction I was expecting to see Batths foot severed clean off, as it is he's fine to continue.
That said it was a stupid challenge, easily a red.
I expect Ashby for Santos to avoid another player lost and maybe one of the attacking 3 off for Dixon Bonner or Madsen. Maybe bring on Lloyd for Frey to add pace if we set up to counter attack. |
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Reply | Prolific striker
at 20:52 10 Sep 2024
That's ok, I wasn't writing 200 words about Bonne, I was writing 200 words about why my more succinct post wasn't spiteful. |
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Reply | Prolific striker
at 19:26 10 Sep 2024
Yeah I'd probably be on my best behaviour if I'd just crashed through someone's front wall as well. 
He was trying to show off in his flash car (that we probably paid for) in front of his league 2 team mates. Poor judgement that he'd do it in a residential street, luckily only damaged property (I believe some of the players had to miss a few fixtures too) but shows you enough about his mentality to see why he never kicked on.
I also don't care about him either but I have friends who are gills season ticket holders and he wasn't prolific for them either and they didn't think he was good enough for league 2 level. So let's not pretend he was better than he was. |
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