Red-Robbo

Holden was a rookie, apart from a few months as a caretaker manager at Oldham, but Wade crashed and burned in his first job at Cheltenham. They were under him and still are truly woeful, but at least dog botherer has won a couple of matches since taking over.

Uninspiring would be a massive understatement.

Impact injuries will always happen in football, but their severity and recoverability can be improved by conditioning and fitness, as well as the way they are treated both on pitch and after games. And, to a degree, coaches can also try to get players to play in ways that minimise the likelihood of them being seriously hurt. I certainly don't have enough knowledge to say Dr Rennie and his team were not doing this, and I very much doubt Brian Tinnion or Jon Lansdown do either. It seems a very strange call.

He could build for the future....

Blimey. It certainly seems, from the way Tinnion made reference to the situation, that the club are somehow blaming medical staff and coaches for the injuries we have acrued recently. Without me having to do anything as boring as research this, do you know how we compare to other clubs in the length of our sick list?

Was Rennie sacked or did he walk over the removal of Pearson? It seems bizarre to remove the head of medical performance, unless you are somehow blaming him for the injury list. Are our injries worse than other Championship clubs at this stage if the season? Or does it just seem more of an issue due to the slenderness of the senior squad?

I would like Roy to change his Twitter handle to Mystic Mug.

I don't think Lampard will happen, because if the owner doesn’t want to release funds to ensure we have two experienced goalkeepers at the club, he probably won't want to release funds to pay a Lampard-sized salary to his manager (don't think Lamps would accept being "head coach"). But your post is spot on, especially this paragraph. I would hope Lansdown would have learned from his "marquee signing" of David James, that big names do not always equate with big success here.

I'm not reading all that, but the title made me laugh.

Back heels totally banned. Even if they lead to goals.

Some people just love the drama of this..

I guess when the new HC is appointed, we'll see just exactly how much of an ongoing role Brian actually has. I would imagine at some time a new CEO will also be appointed. Finding a decent one with football experience is probably tougher than finding prospective head coaches! My post was to agree with your contentions - made earlier and eminently sensible - that we have at least one person who has some knowledge of the game sitting in on coaching/managerial appointments. Some Otibers have persuaded themselves that BT is the devil incarnate already, but even were that so, he has at least played a bit. Be nice if they sought some independent football advice as well. Perhaps, had they done that a month or so ago, Nigel would still be here.

TBH I have no problem with Lansdown wanting to eventually make money out of Bristol Sport: for most owners that's the dream. It's just if he thinks he can do that while we're a mediocre Championship side, he's off his rocker.

You never know, it might open new markets for them...

Lenny McLean

If it's Lampard I'll bare my arse in Burton's shop window.

TBF he doesn't say that in the video, just repeats what NP before him has said about our preferred style of play. Nor has anyone from the board or the owner confirmed that this is what his role is.

If I were him, I'd rather stay at Oxford and be competing with us in the Championship next season.

Knowing Bristol Sport, she's probably called the Hot Beverage Provision Executive Officer.

TBH I don't mind Tinnion being part of the head coach recruitment process. Can you imagine if Jon L and Gavin Marshall were the only people with input in that? Who'd the board by themselves appoint? The tea lady probably!

We still don't know, but remember how many on Otib had Hughton appointed in 2020 - on the word of an "ITK" - before that all fell flat.

Of course, Saudi is a much bigger country as well, so there'd be a lot more travelling involved for the fans.

That suggests he is definitely instrumental in the firing. Doing some daft video, that effectively says nothing, isn't proof of that. Unless we were privy to the actual conversations, we cannot know. At best, all BT is guilty of is moral cowardice. He didn't stick up for Nigel enough, make his case to the owner. Potentially, because he was worried about his own job security. I've been there. Saw a colleague unfairly blamed for something (while the real culprits were forgiven) and demoted and effectively constructively dismissed by management. Moaned a bit behind the scenes but didn't rock the boat too much with the decision maker as I didn't want to follow my colleague out of the door,

He'll take them back where they belong..... Where the eagle craps .... And there's 23-year gaps....

And now folk are calling him a "snayk". Anyway, leaving aside his written English, I suppose the nuance is whether he is fearful of losing his job and was told to do the video to support the management position. At 55 and settled back in the area, he probably wants City to be his last employer before retirement. You might say it's cowardly not to stand up for Pearson in that way, but how many of us have resigned our jobs when a colleague has been unfairly treated? Of course, if he has been one of the instigators of Pearson's heave-ho, then he's either horribly Machiavellian or thick (or both). There's a world of difference between saying to NP "Really do you reckon Kingy at centre back? Knight-Lebel is more than ready to step up in my view" and going to Jon (or Steve) Lansdown and saying "Nigel's f-ing it all up! He's playing people out of position and he won't give the academy boys a chance to show what they can do!" Unlike some on this thread, I think Tins does deserve some credit for his work with the academy (not to mention his sterling efforts when a player for us). IF he's engineered this sacking so he can be a de facto DoF then he's a backstabber and beyond contempt. Lansdown should remember how poor a manager Tinnion made - wedded to playing his friends and unable to adapt the side to adjust to circumstances. However, there is an IF there.