What I like about this is that there’s detractors on this board who keep saying ‘but other teams are now starting to use the spreadsheet method and when we’re all fishing in the same pond, little old Barnsley will be back in the sh it because we don’t pay enough’. It’s illogical... our method is only attractive to other teams who have the same limitations. Stupidly; clubs like Bristol City, Wednesday, Cardiff etc genuinely believe that you can succeed simply by spending a lot on players. Reading the Wednesday forum, you’ll find ‘We need a manager with proven Championship experience’ and that the only way of being better is by spending more. The fact we are succeeding whilst they are failing doesn’t show them that they should be more like us, but that they should be better at being teams like themselves. The only puzzle to me is that there are people on this board who spout similar lines about needing to ‘buy championship experience’ on a regular basis.
That’s all it is - money and expectation. I make no secret that it boils my piss. Bristol city are just another club that have done nothing for years then guess what? A money man comes in and the crowds grow as they start getting spoilt with big money signings. It’s all so temporary. Look http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/league/bric.htm
The other thing is that some people talk about ‘the spreadsheet’ as if we’re the only team that uses stats and analysis. We might favour it more than other sides, but it’s just part of football recruitment now. The big clubs have been using it for decades and naturally it flowed down the divisions - we just happen to have landed on a member of the board with a PHD in statistical analysis (or something along those lines) and created our own algorithm for recruitment. Like everything, a move away from the norm or the more traditional way of doing things is always met with scepticism or just outright rejection, but we’re not on our own with this strategy so the pond isn’t getting smaller.
Wouldn’t take too much notice of their gates. A good portion have come out of the woodwork since the money came in. I imagine we’d get similar if we started spending millions on players. Also, wasn’t our average over 13k prior to covid?
Even allowing for the fact his understanding of the English language and English football may be less than perfect could I just make the point; “What a first classTw@T.” Could I suggest he concentrates on his own game because, at the moment, he is pinching money.
yes landing with knee in bottom of his back,poor D K ,only Chelsea treated him right, these championship cloggers, treated him like Sunday morning team, pushed over barriers at home v Blackburn, hacked down a good few times too, Bristol ragging him at every opportunity,he just gets up and get on with it ,he only 20, refs need to start giving our young lads some protection against these seasoned pro's, big Val needs to raise it with officials
He’s shiite. Out of position and lost his man for our goal. Spent most of the game trying to kick and foul our players, but failed miserably due to his lack of pace and composure. You have to pity him really.
Only things I'm taking from that interview; he and many other so called professionals are the types who think too highly of themselves. The kind of signing that cost a mint and become a cancer in the club when things aren't going their way. He'll be on the blower to his agent planning another move. He spoke like some of the players we had in the team under Wilson 2nd time around. If all the other players at Bristol are like him, it might be worth putting a few quid on them to drop like a stone and get relegated.
It's disrespectful. No one, including ourselves, gave a God given right to beat anyone. It's 11 v 11 and all on their day can beat anyone else
It really isn’t though. Because he wasn’t saying they had a God given right to beat us, he was saying that without conceding it could have been 0-0, and even then that result isn’t good enough. Blaming everything on how useless they are going forward. The only disrespect you could argue for in the interview is towards his own teammates. If we are still in the playoff hunt in a months time how many of us will say ‘We need to beat teams like Preston, Luton, etc.’? It’s not disrespectful, it’s saying you’ve got to win that game to meet your objectives or aspirations for success. #TeamsLikeBarnsley came from opposition fans being disrespectful towards us. This wasn’t that.
It is disrespectful, he wouldn't have said "teams like Swansea, Watford or Bournemouth" would he though. Teams that are, the last time I looked, in the Championship, the same as Barnsley.
I think it was a fairly honest interview, he basically said they were c* *p. Very accurate to be honest. I don’t think the price tag reflects his comments about teams like Barnsley but I also don’t think it reflects his quality and performance in the team from what I saw. The more we hear the teams like Barnsley comment the more we are doing things right, maybe one day alongside teams like Barcelona, Man City, PSG etc
It is disrespectful though. If you say, in a months time, we need to beat Luton Preston, Birmingham etc - fair enough. No need for "the likes of" at all from any side. Teams are in the Championship on merit
