KeiranShikari

Not seen anybody else mention this but it's an interesting little comment. Safe to say that Mark Attanasio is enthusiastic.

I'll be listening out for the pompey chimes at Bristol.

Self funding has a different definition now. Attanasio's self funding means that they themselves can put money in as opposed to what it was before where we could only spend what we made through player sales or received as tv money.

lol

This is about what we got on finance going forward.

The analytics comments were some of the more interesting takeaways from the AGM/Interview quotes I've seen. Would seem we're in the process of building our own Starlizard style system, without the need for 3rd party data. I'd assumed it was probably the case with Knapper's appointment and the Attanasio's involvement in baseball but it's interesting to hear officially.

Had forgotten about this quote. I guess she just meant white.

I thought they were booing Idah coming off tbh. Maybe it was different in the ground but I thought it was inevitable the moment their first goal went in.

I think a majority were pretty happy for a long while during the run at the start of last season. My own gut feeling was that it didn't feel sustainable and that it was either going to go 1 of two ways. Collapse or the wins would breed confidence and we'd go on from there. There were others like me but we were massively outnumbered.

I don't agree in the slightest. A rough game like either of those is looked at significantly differently if it's amongst a run of games won whilst won whilst in control. It's never just about results.

The negativity around the performances in those 2 games has not been about entertainment. It's been about a lack of control and the fact that they've very much been lucky wins. Bar that 2 minutes in Cardiff Wagner's probably gone. Bar the 1 shot on target going in we draw against one of the worst teams in the league.

I don't even think this entertainment first line you're pushing is right with a majority of City fans. I think a majority would be happy with a more defensive/countering/whatever approach if it felt sustainable.

Smith and Wagner are very similar. Both have good and bad runs but mostly bad. I think Smith had won 3 in 15 at the time of his dismissal and things clearly weren't looking like changing. Wagner is sitting on a very similar record as we speak.

I'm really not though, I want Wagner gone too. It was a pure comparison with Smith based on the other poster's comment. I agree with you.

Harsh on Wagner. He's has 2 runs of winning results supported by a pretty entertaining brand of football. Smith's winning run of games in the Championship still managed to be a poor watch most of the time.

Farke won 6 across a season and a third in the premier league. Smith won 4 in 2/3 of a season. Smith probably did edge it although it's both relegation form. Both ended with massive awful runs, Smith 1 win in 16 and Farke 1 in in 11.

A majority of the cultish behavior I've seen on this forum has actually been from you, LYB. Vehemently defending the man in charge, be it Smith or Wagner, when there's nothing to defend. I didn't make excuses. There was enough on the pitch that season to suggest that we would actually be fine going forward. We got 97 points in the next Championship season.

It really isn't.

He was negotiating chaos behind the scenes at Leeds during the early part of the season. He'll likely finish second and then will probably be given a significantly more fit for Premier League squad than he was ever given here.

Somewhat but also the Premier League has changed a lot in the last decade. There was loyalty shown and loyalty rewarded with Farke but I don't consider it anything too much. There were a lot of good performances in that Premier League season before Covid hit and we capitulated.

This sentiment would make more sense if the club had chosen to actually try and recruit for the Premier League that season and not just pay off debts. The only reason fans are so stuck on Farke is because the two following him have been so poor, also.

We were in a much stronger place financially when we sacked Farke, I think that probably answers that question. We desperately need the next one to go well.

Pretty sure he'd have gone after Cardiff but for that 2 minute spell. It was such an obvious time to get a new manager in, like the World Cup break last season with Smith. We don't want to become a club that sacks managers every 6 months but we have to be clinical when it's obvious to 99% of people that it's not working.

Nope but I do think giving a manager as much time as possible to get his style/philosophy across ahead of next season would be beneficial.

Wagner ditched his philosophy to try and get results. Even in the first 20 mins yesterday we still regularly had 11 men behind the ball.