Steve Cotterill faced with new year challenge as Robins boss looks to bolster squad. 'Of those 17 players available to the manager, one (goalkeeper Max O'Leary) has yet to make his senior debut, while another (Scott Wagstaff) has featured only once this season and is yet to regain match fitness following a series of injuries.' http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/BRISTOL-CITY/story-28465698-detail/story.html Very serious, very stupid..
Next time someone calls our club "massive", they aren't talking about our playing resources. M aybe the club debt?
Stop worrying chaps because I have been given this on good authority that SL will be giving us his usual everything is alright grin soon. Then we will be told that our position is not favourable for us to bring in new players who cost money and then on top they will have the temerity to ask to get paid each week. I am shocked to find out that players actually get paid quite good money in the Championship and if they are any good then their clubs will ask their intended new employer to ante up cash for expenses like a fish and chip meal on the way along the M4/5 in their Bentley. What a pity Bristol City weren't informed about these minor costs when they were in League One because if they knew the price of admission perhaps they wouldn't have bothered to make the trip. How many more so called potential superstars will turn us down in January using lame excuses such as personal reasons for their refusing to join us, rather than simply saying that they have no desire to commit to a team that also has no desire or idea of how to succeed? Quite frankly I am getting very tired of trying to get excited about Bristol City because deep in my heart I know we will mess up yet another transfer window by not paying attention to the detail required to get any job done. Is there anyone awake at HQ or are they just sitting around on their arses still trying to find out what they need to do to sort out the mess that they have created? Wake up Lansdowne and smell the roses.
Oh well - at least there's no chance of falling foul of FFP rules then! Just be nice if others actually played by them.
In all seriousness I'd rather go down with our current squad then just stay up with a mediocre squad full of panic buys.
All confirmed now on Sky, Elliott Bennett has joined Blackburn http://www.skysports.com/transfer-centre
As I said on here months ago Mike, very few decent players, unless they are absolutely desperate, will want to join a team in the bottom 3 of the Championship come January. The club shot itself in both feet by its inability to see beyond the end of its nose as soon as last season finished, when it should have taken the steps that most of us knew were needed which was to bring in several better players in to compliment the couple of remaining ones from last season who would be up to the job at the higher level. but instead we made mistake after mistake. That's the royal 'we' by the way ! And due to this lack of sense and foresight, we've been on the back foot ever since, and I honestly don't think we will survive. I'd stick with SC even if we go down, because I still refuse to believe that this ridiculous, avoidable and lame situation was of his making.
I hear what your saying Angelic, but who is the cause of this stupid situation then? I can't believe for one minute its SL's fault. He has seen us struggle and cough and splutter enough to know the situation re summer signings, and with the new stadium he is funding, I just can't see how or why he would let us get into this mess. Myself, I really don't have a bloody scooby whats gone on, but the longer it does, the more I think there is trouble in the ranks...somewhere from manager to SL. I don't know who, what or why, but something ain't right.
I'm not privy to such information Caldicot, but from all I've seen/heard/read I can't bring myself to believe it's SC's fault. We (this is the royal we again) have failed to attract anyone aside from Kodjia who came from a foreign team and would probably have seen it as a step up from a 2nd Division French league team anyway, or loanees who haven't all been used, and most of those have gone back permanently, or like Bennett, have since moved elsewhere from their parent clubs. When we panicked at the end of the last window and started offering silly money for players having been remiss in the previous months when a 'Championship ready' squad should have been assembled, those in question still said no to us. I don't think our geographic location helps us when compared to the North or the Midlands or London where you have loads of teams and players don't have to relocate even if you change team and even division. And despite all of our declarations to the contrary we're a small club when even compared to the likes of Blackburn who have recent EPL Champions paint still drying on their Trophy Cabinet. I don't actually think the stadium has much bearing on the FC any longer. Lansdown sees it as a multi sport and music venue not reliant on football. Which frankly is just as well because it's going to look like a White Elephant in L1.
we, the royal one is a substitute for " I " " me " so you would have to say we we, we for I and we as a generalization with a tentative connection to city as a supporter ... we we need to sign somebody soon or we we are in the s***
I have had enough so I'm off to Mexico in 2 hours and although I hate to leave you all miring in the ****e I promise I will keep my open for talent on the beach - promise!
