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Nigel Pearson

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  1. Supcon72

    Supcon72 Well-Known Member

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    I agree, it's just that some on here seem to make out we were the only ones doing it. We weren't, and were nowhere near the highest spenders on wages either.
     
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    Several, but nobody had any money, that is literally the point. So many players who's contracts were up during the COVID years left clubs on a free, or were forced to reduce their wage demands significantly. And for that I thank COVID!!
    But, you make it sound like we were the only team in this position. Apart from the clubs receiving parachute payments, very few spent, or sold big in 2020, 2021. It picked up last year, and more again this year, hence the £9m for AS. You can only compare times on a n equal footing, and COVID has to a degree reset the financial landscape outside the PL, for a short time at least. It will creep back to where it was in a couple of years time.

    We will always be a selling club, as shown by the names you mention above, and now Antoine, and almost certainly Alex. The key will be, signing youngsters into the academy that have great sell on potential, as the club did between 2017-20 with the likes of Semenyo, Scott, Conway, Bell etc.
     
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    Absolutely agree. In the early years of LJ/Ashton there was a relatively healthy trading taking place. We were also backfilling for players we sold off.
    In the final season however we didn't backfill - for example we sold Brownhill with no replacement lined up. We got rid of our influential players (Team Captains) including Pack when there was no natural leader to replace them.
    It was frightening how much we relied on Brownhill and I must admit I didn't even realise it until he had gone.
     
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    In one !

    To say Junior wasn't presented with players from the Academy is fanciful.
    He chose, with Ashton, a different strategy.
    65 times.

    Junior's gone and thank our lucky stars we have Nigel Pearson.
     
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  5. Red Robin

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    Here Here next season was always going to be the one to judge him-let’s hope he get his signings he wants.
     
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    I think you forget that LJ signed both Semenyo and Scott.... As well as bringing through Bryan, Reid and Kelly.....
     
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  7. Red Robin

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    sure fully understand that-but we can’t let all the good work he has done go to waste.
    For me as I said when he arrived he was the man for the job and has surely showed that to the fan base over the last two years.
    We have never had a manager of his ilk in my time watching Bristol City and I am very happy SL went for him at the time.
    Proper manager who knows what is required.
     
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    And Brownhill too….

    However, to quote a very well known poster on here….

    ‘Give up, you're pissing in the wind.
    There's none so blind.........’

    <laugh><laugh><laugh>
     
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  9. wizered

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    I give Tinman the credit for our academy success programme, congratulate Nige for sorting out the conplete mess he inherited despite Covid and putting our club back on the road to sanity.
     
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    The question was who did we have who could have been sold on if Covid never happened. The ones you’ve listed are four years on so how would we have filled that void.
     
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    It’s all academic really, we are where we are. We now seem to have got on top of our financial problems. We have a number of really good youngsters that due to circumstances have much more experience than they would have done had we not been through our financial issues. We’ve also got a bit of money from Semenyo. This next season we have to push on. Minimum top 10, threatening the playoffs and fingers crossed……
     
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    I 100% agree, Tins was appointed to his current role as academy director in 2021, so let's hope we see NP getting more fruits of his labour, without any input....
     
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    Give him a few quid to buy experience and quality for next season
    Then judge him after 10 games
     
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    Bryan was massive part of Cotterills core thirteen for the XI of Agard Ayling Bryan Elliott Emmanuel Thomas Fielding Flint Freeman Little Pack Smith Wilbraham Williams.

    They were backed up by a small group of Cunningham and Kane Saville, M.Smith, Tavernier who took part. A small squad of 18 of quality. LJ did twice the numbers including millions on players who could be seen shopping on match days!!
     
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    You'll have the happy,clappy band of LJ's Angels after you now....<laugh>
     
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    Not at all, it’s only the haters that don’t give credit! I, and others have given credit to SC for getting us out of the 3rd division, and credit to NP (and the new CEO) for sorting out the finances, and managing to keep us in the Championship. It’s you and your dwindling band of LJ haters that won’t give him a single piece of credit for his tenure. Pretty sad, and childish really.
     
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    If you did a cost base analysis of Cotterill's and Burt's spending v Johnson and Ashton, you would not trust the latter buying a pint of milk from the corner shop.
     
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    To be fair they would come back with some milk full fat, skimmed, semi skimmed soy, and almond why buy one pint when you can buy five instead and keep them just in case.
     
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