"Looking to bring in experience before Saturday...."

[oop_north]

Think he needs look no further than me tbh! I've been to Bristol loads of times, bags of experience...know the place pretty well... very good at marking the very best pubs for cider and ales. Bring it on! 

Do you remember Mulligans fish restaurant in Anchor Road (or was it further on in St.Thingies Square?)?

[Coolcat]

Do you remember Mulligans fish restaurant in Anchor Road (or was it further on in St.Thingies Square?)?

Don't know the plaice that well...though to be fair (to myself) fish restaurants aren't really on my radar! 

[lift tower]

Is that the sound of a scrabble board being upturned as Clarke Carlisle races down the M1?

Quality.

[ntfclad]

Paul Reid mentioned

[Wolvo]

Would like Paul Reid back at the club. Really liked him when he was with us before. Had a good laugh with him in Seville before he moved onto bigger and better things!

[Saint Cobbler]

It seems that AB is only interested in bringing in a defender, no chance of a goal scorer. He said if we can't keep Blyth then we'll look within at Toney and JJ. I wonder why, is it too much cash for a decent forward, there aren't any available or he thinks we have no need?

[Jgill1976]

The rhetoric prior to the the beginning of the season was for promotion but the budget suggests not, if this season is about consolidation and positioning ourselves for the 2014/2015 season then we should send Blythe back get rid of these short term contracts and let them grow through experience ala Aston Villa last season . The problem is that nobody at the club seems to have the cahooters to tell us what this seasons actual objectives are.
Personally I would rather us languishing but building then seeing some guy come in to enhance his reputation for his home club.

[oop_north]

Don't know the plaice that well...though to be fair (to myself) fish restaurants aren't really on my radar! 

Oh no! Not the fish jokes....

[A view from the east]

It seems that AB is only interested in bringing in a defender, no chance of a goal scorer. He said if we can't keep Blyth then we'll look within at Toney and JJ. I wonder why, is it too much cash for a decent forward, there aren't any available or he thinks we have no need?

If we do bring a defender in who does he replace ? It will probably mean that Heath's stay will be a short one as the other two are contracted.
Blyth has already said that he is keen to stay on so unless Leicester need him back it seems likely that he will.
The alternative doesn't bear thinking about .......... and the worst thing is that Aidy is still bigging him up !

[GrangeParkCobbler]

The rhetoric prior to the the beginning of the season was for promotion but the budget suggests not, if this season is about consolidation and positioning ourselves for the 2014/2015 season then we should send Blythe back get rid of these short term contracts and let them grow through experience ala Aston Villa last season . The problem is that nobody at the club seems to have the cahooters to tell us what this seasons actual objectives are.
Personally I would rather us languishing but building then seeing some guy come in to enhance his reputation for his home club.

They just say what they think you want to hear!! Exciting signings, top 7 budget, quality not quantity, less reliant on loan players, and so on and so on.

I still don't understand why there was the wholesale dismantling of a team which was 90 mins from league 1 last season....in fact we too easily forget that we were top 3 with only a few games to go. That to me suggested that we only needed a bit of tinkering, rather than a complete rebuild and a supposed change of tactics.

[fwalden]

They just say what they think you want to hear!! Exciting signings, top 7 budget, quality not quantity, less reliant on loan players, and so on and so on.

I still don't understand why there was the wholesale dismantling of a team which was 90 mins from league 1 last season....in fact we too easily forget that we were top 3 with only a few games to go. That to me suggested that we only needed a bit of tinkering, rather than a complete rebuild and a supposed change of tactics.

But the people didn't like the style of football blah blah fxxking blah.

[tcobb]

After five games this season, two away defeats, two home defeats, it would appear tactics have changed, we are now sh1t home and away 

[Whitedogdo]

Didn't a large proportion on here moan last season about us playing hoofball all the time?
So, the gaffer brings in players to change the style of play, and now people moan because it hasn't worked YET.

It's like listening to the opposition party in government.

We don't like your plan A, we think you should go with plan B

Ok, we've changed to plan B

We can't believe you've gone with plan B...what a massive U turn....this demonstrates how weak you are....

Lmao....

[fwalden]

Aidy decided early on that we had a long throw merchant, a big bruser up front and realised the most effective way to success was to get it forward quickly, bombard the box and beast mode the opposition. It was effective to such an extent that we were 90mins away from league 1. Everyone loses all rational thinking over the summer and it has forced aidy to completely change tactics. You need better calibre players than what we have to play attractive footbal and with the budget, we just don't have the facility to bring those kind of players in. He honestly can't win.

However as crazy as it sounds, I enjoyed us winning last year but ive also enjoyed the couple of games ive seen this season with a more attractive approach.

Problem is, I and all the purists will soon get fed up by October if we're languishing in the lower half of the table. What do we honestly prefer? A passing game or a winning game? I know which id prefer.

[Insider]

The problem with the "long throw merchant" tactic was that it last worked on 19th January.  In other words it had been found out. 

[A view from the east]

Problem is, I and all the purists will soon get fed up by October if we're languishing in the lower half of the table. What do we honestly prefer? A passing game or a winning game? I know which id prefer.

Personally I would prefer a passing , winning game but theres no point in wishing for that because by November time with two teams playing at Sixfields and the away pitches getting heavier as well Boothroyd will have them all playing Hoof again.
This set of players are really no better than last seasons bunch and all this nonsense about quality over quantity has just turned out to be hype. With the exception of Duke we have searched the league and brought in rejected journeymen from other L2 clubs who then in turn have taken our rejects.
They are not good enough to play accurate passing football consistently and if we had wanted a manager who did work with that ethos then we shouldn't
have hired AB in the first place , his record was clear enough.
Personally I think we will finish mid table this time but it wont be through playing passing football , if we want that we will have to change the manager.

[everbrite]

but it wont be through playing passing football , if we want that we will have to change the manager.

- " if we want that we will have to change the manager" and some of the players

[A view from the east]

- " if we want that we will have to change the manager" and some of the players

A new manager will change most of the players anyway,
Boothroyd did.

[SmithyNTFC]

Notts County release Francois Zoko. He's a player I'd take without a doubt.

[TbananaG]

Is that the sound of a scrabble board being upturned as Clarke Carlisle races down the M1?

So you think the 'countdown' has begun to his return?