RevidgeBlue

Apart from Travis I wouldn't lose any sleep about any of the others. In fact I think we'd be doing well to get shut of them.

The quality hasnt been great thus far though.

Szmodics missed a very acceptable chance.

It's so obviously generated by AI or something it's untrue. They'd have been better off not bothering. I'd have prefered something genuine from them in their own words whether you could agree with it or not

Please try and ensure the owners see the "real" FF minutes.

I have to confess I have no interest whatsoever in American egg chasing. Were they particularly successful before he took over or something?

Would be no loss. Been incredibly disappointing. Who'd been daft enough to take him on high wages though?

Whatever. Have you even watched the series? The proof of the pudding will be in the eating won't it.

Don't want to spoil it for anyone but when they lost the Vertu Cup Final to Peterborough, despite romping League 1, Wagner treated it like a death in the family and said they had to learn to win big games on the days they needed to win them. Then after subsequently clinching the League 1 title with an EFL record 111 points he was on the pitch telling the adoring fans "This won't be your best day under us - not even fucking close!" Can you imagine! Suhail would be on the pitch saying "We've been self sustaining this year. Maybe we can do the same next year as well!"

Well, if you take the time to watch it, you'll realise that they acknowledge they made a mistake (a big one) in trying to get to where they wanted to go quicker. It didn't work, they rectified it relatively quickly and then some.

Has anyone else been watching the documentary about Birmingham? I can't stress enough how impressive Wagner and Brady come over as. They'll leave our "We just want to be sustainable" approach so far behind in a year or two they probably might as well be Man City by then. Suhail, Madame, Balaji and the next CEO should be made to sit down and watch the series to see what proper owners look like.

Well saying it probably isn't going to win you or I any popularity contests but it has to be said Im afraid. If the minutes dont reflect what's said in the meeting then the meetings become completely meaningless. They just become a private argument between those in attendance and everyone else is duped into thinking all was well.

As always when he can't answer it. You should do a Paxman "WHO exactly is going to score the goals? Name names!"

This expectation that the strikers and midfield are going to just miraculously double or treble their goals output from last season baffles me.

These original minutes don't give a true representation of what went on at all. Whoever agreed them with the Club should be ashamed. Unsurprisingly there is no real mention of the two points I flagged up, Suhail saying the owners were solely responsible for the appointment of the CEO - he's put them under real pressure there - and him throwing them under the bus regarding the women's team by saying it was their decision. Or the "Smoking gun" that proves what we've all long suspected, his admission that the owners' goal is merely to be "sustainable". I do hope someone gives the owners the opportunity to read the "real" minutes at some point! If Fans Forums are usually like this but all we see is sanitised minutes on the official website then my apologies may be due to the likes of K Hod for for accusing the members of being too passive over the months. If that's the case though whoever is recording what's gone on should be ashamed of colluding with the Club in producing doctored or heavily censored minutes for the official website. If however this meeting was a complete departure from the norm due to the introduction of a few feistier members then many congratulations are due to them - you've finally given the forum some teeth and made it relevant for the current situation. I bet the "Who are we playing in pre season" contingent were choking on their tea and biscuits!

But he's giving it the spiel about "transition periods" and how they wanted players to extend contracts etc..... none have! If the penny hasnt dropped with him yet he's either not as bright as he appears or he's simply here to collect his pay check as long as possible.

Must have twisted his hairband. Good to see he's carrying on from where he left off last season. Or maybe just maybe Vi's seen enough? I certainly wouldn't blame him.

PSR.

Do we still have pay on the day facilities or is it you must have bought your ticket digitally seven days before the start of the game sort of set up?

It was a distressed sale at an extremely knockdown price to the only bidder in town at that particular point, probably because of PSR considerations not because of doubts over the player's talent. But you know that already Im sure.

On that we agree. First time for everything! But hang on.....are you therefore now saying we need 5? Seems to strongly contradict what you've been saying previously.

They would have done - had we hung on for 12 months!

In the context you wrote it, "or" means the same as "and". ie "both" not either/or. Straying way off the point though which was that I can't imagine we'll have learnt too much about how we're going to set up for the action proper from pre season and secondly despite efforts to complicate it football is basically a very simple game and within reason Id have to agree with Souness in that football is not won and lost by formations but by the 11 players out on the pitch winning their individual battles.

1) It remains to be seen IF we have been playing that way AND 2) IF that will be the preferred way of playing this season Which isn't too far from the point I was trying to make in a light hearted way. But I should be watching another sport or something. I haven't seen any of the pre season warm ups and couldn't care less whether we set up 2-2-2-2-2 or 4-4 fucking 2 in good old Mike Bassett fashion as long as it works. All that matters is that whatever formation we try it works, we score more goals than the opposition, and we win football matches.

Ooo bitchy. You just contradicted yourself twice in the space of 4 lines there though.