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6 points, back to back clean sheets. Let’s give credit where it’s due. I’m sure all city fans are delighted

Let’s write off a 19 year old, shall we. Do you know what Conway was doing at the same age. He’s just come off of a loan at Bath City and was making an odd appearance here and there for us. Sam Bell at the same age had just come off of a loan at Grimsby. Let’s even go as far as Vyner. At the same age he was on loan at Accrington. I could go on. Some of the comments seem to suggest the kid can’t even play football and is some sort of competition winner! Somewhat disrespectful that chaps. I’m not gonna get caught up in any hype, but you don’t get voted Man City’s academy player of the year if you are shit. Nor do you get called up to national teams age groups 16’s, 19’s and 21’s. He actually has the same amount of Scotland u21 goals as Conway. And he’s 2 years younger. But yeah, let’s write him off because we’ve seen him play 40 minutes of football as a late substitute in a struggling team. Yeah ok.

...bless him

Tomorrow they launch the Manning collection Offyego Watch this space…

It'll probably have a star over the badge, due to beating Southampton.

Ellie here. Greetings everyone! I don’t post on here but just want to say thank you for the nice feedback on tonight’s show. I am not one to hold back at the moment, let’s hope things change and we have something to cheer about between now and April!

I’ll go the earliest of anyone and say the season was over when we sold our best player and out of pure spite and dislike to the manager didn’t make funds available for a replacement. Notably, those funds became magically available in January via the bid for Azaz and signing of Twine. So, in hindsight, August.

So the leagues worst side, a basket case club who made an awful managerial decision to sack a manager doing well, pissed the fans off and ballsed up their season, and Birmingham.

I named my first budgie Joey after Joe90! I think my son Joe (Joseph) wasn’t my choice, but when Mrs Fevs suggested it, this was who came into mind.

would be great to have all four stands singing "There's only one Nigel Pearson!"

100th League game for us today (in all competitions he’s played our last 83), second consecutive clean sheet. Lovely to see a son of Somerset doing well. The Leicester game was the 100th in the league for us for both Matty James & Cam Pring, by the way.

Still annoyed we didn’t send Birmingham down in 2017.

I wouldn’t say we were the most fickle fans in football but certainly there are some very fickle fans crawling out the woodwork right now claiming that a fourth win in our last fourteen games somehow means the the eight losses in those fourteen no longer matter. If Manning can do well over the next seven then maybe we can start to say the fans judged him to soon but those of us who are not fickle are not going to be swayed by the occasional good performance if we can’t achieve consistency of results.

Must have been really great tactical planning for the opposition. They had an XG of 1.9. That’s higher than in 22 other games Leicester played this season. So we didn’t exactly ‘keep them quiet’ due to some tactical master plan. 22 other teams have limited them to less chances. And you very easily gloss over the Vardy chances. We could easily have lost that 3-1 had he tucked away those. It was a good win. But let’s not get carried away. We got lucky.

What a story. Bloody immigrants, coming over here & working for the NHS for 49 years, eh? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/africa/67456164

Hang on… Have you just conflated Alex Ferguson, who at his prior club (the third biggest in the country) won the league twice, the Scottish Cup twice, the European Cup Winners Cup and the European Super Cup, with Liam Manning, who was sacked by MK Dons and all he achieved under his own steam was a 12 game run at Oxford? Its a spectacular reach, I’ll give you that.

Can't agree that Gary was an "awful" man manager. You don't squeeze what he did out of a limited group of players, taking them to the top end of the Championship if your man management skills are poor. His methods were old school and I agree had a ceiling, much in the same way someone like Cotterill did. If we're looking at who maximised the potential of their careers, then let's not forget Gary made the most of his, but there's a reason Lee Trundle certainly didn't.

Fair enough. How often are you going to post saying this? I didn’t want Pearson sacked & definitely don’t think Manning is the second coming, but he certainly deserves a summer to bring in a couple of his own players.

This was a party political broadcast on behalf of the Lansdown Party

Problem is that as far as I can see the decision on Pearson had nothing to do with football. It was a purely personal decision based on the inability of the hierarchy to manage someone who I can image can be challenging and confrontational. They required someone who followed the establishment line and did what they were told instead. So trying to analyse it by reference to sensible criteria and trying to judge it against rational footballing outcomes unfortunately will not work. In the end the hierarchy decided that their egos were more important than on the field success.

Well done all. That's much more like it. We've been dreadful in recent weeks - slow, ponderous and negative - and it's been really tough to watch. Loads of us have felt really disillusioned about the direction of travel and worried about the future under Liam Manning if that's the route he wanted to take us down. This weekend, however, we've felt much more like the Bristol City we've all been watching over the past year or two. Now I just implore us to stay along that path. Make the odd tweak, by all means, but we're a squad full of pace, aggression and running. Play to our bloody strengths and you'll get the best out of them - as this weekend has shown! One other thing... Liam Manning's subs in both games have also largely made a really positive difference. So much for not being able to have an impact during the game, eh?

Despite supposedly losing the dressing room, being out of his depth, and boring I'd say our manager deserves a lot of credit for today's excellent victory against Premier League bound Leicester. Although I expect several of you to disagree.

Absolutely destined for the Prem. Denied us at least one obvious penalty, allowed Chowdury to commit three yellow card offences & still didn’t book him & couldn’t get the card out quickly enough for Wells. Vardy’s late one on Max was a booking every day of the week too. Rubbish.

Difficult to put into words how much I hate this club at the moment.

I managed to tune into the last half hour. Some interesting points, and a few red herrings as well in my view. But they did touch on the area where I believe, others will disagree, that the club is lacking. Leadership. When they removed Nige they left the club with the following 4 key people. Marshall, Tinnion, Jon Lansdown and Manning. In isolation you would question each of those people to perform their roles, but in combination it is in my view a recipe for disaster. There is no strength or depth of ability in that set up, so when you do have say a Manning type come in, who is learning on the job, the rest of the structure is not sufficiently able to support and carry them. This would be true of any young inexperienced coach coming in. I personally detest how Manning wants to play football, but that is about preferences, others love that type of game plan. But you cannot move Manning out, and for me he must go he is so out of his depth, but you have to also look a all 4 of those key positions. I do not believe those 4 people would not be on any other Championship clubs blue print for success. It is also worth mentioning that in recent years it has been shown that some of our better periods have been with experienced managers, GJ/SC and to an extent in terms of stopping a L1 return NP. Strong personalities all 3 of them. As there is no other leadership at the club, those people have had to fill a void. Removing NP, and at the same time all of his key team members was reckless and demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of what elements are required to create success. That did not happen at Brentford, Luton or Brighton. They all evolved along a similar path. Manning has to go, the club is spiralling in one direction. But simply changing him for another young coach will risk the same outcome.

Two weeks ago!

Arghhhhhh Are you saying if you moan you don’t support the club…or perhaps I should say team. Big difference at the mo’. Some fans feel hugely alienated from the club, but still support the team.

Thought he was ok today. Wanted too long on the ball around the box. Very weak in the challenge. Sykes made a very big / bigger impact when he came on.

After not having attended a game since Swansea for my own sanity, performances and results have picked up. Some on here and social media believing Manning is in fact the second coming. So against my best judgement, I decided to have another look myself. Wow, that was dire! It confirmed everything we already knew. This new and improved Manningball was a flash in the pan. That my friends is the football you have to look forward to next season, which will come as no surprise to many. Good luck all for next season. I shall look forward to a return to the gate in a year or two.

I used to love listening to Nige and wouldn't miss a pre match or post match interview. Win, lose or draw. I've no interest at all what he has to say a bit like I got with LJ.

That’s the problem, I honestly don’t enjoy it anymore. There was a time when a defeat would ruin my weekend and a win would make it. Now, I couldn’t really give a ****, which is sad. If it wasn’t for the social side, I wouldn’t bother.

These were my notes, similar to Silvio. For me, and of course I’ve now made my mind up, so some bias - he’s holding these players back. When they play to his game plan we are dog-shit, when we let them do what they’re good at, we are a reasonable outfit.

No, not the team. The ref. I thought she pretty much got every call correct. She was certainly one of the best we have had this season.

Who would have thought on August 9th last year that the manager/coach of the team that we beat 5-1 in the League Cup would be in charge of us in March...utter shambles.

The ref agreed with you and that’s good enough for me. And let’s be honest if Huddersfield hadn’t spent so much time feigning injury and trying to break up the play then the game would have already finished. For that reason I have no sympathy for them

But she's never played men's professional football so she can't be any good at her job. It's impossible. This is just the woke Marxist commie Trotsky Gary Lineker led anti-Brexit BBC infiltrating mid-table Championship football. And I for one am FUMING.

Cant believe this hasn't already been posted.

A win and Bristol Sport bot posts. Tiresome. You could have asked the hypothetical question without the gushing praise. You could also have asked why it appears to be the case that James is not being renewed in what would be a brainless decision - you’ve got a line in, so ask.

Pearson NEVER 'promised' a promotion team. It's just more of your bullshit fabrication to push an unfathomable dislike of him on your part. If you don't like him, fine. We get it. But cut the bullshit. You are making yourself look a right tool.

Can't agree with that bit in particular. He wasn't able to build anything for two and a bit seasons because our FFFP position was savage. Nige and Richard Gould not only ensured our wage bill was drastically slashed (it had to be to avoid points deductions) but also ensured we stayed in the Championship too. If you believe the last 12 months or so of his appointment didn't see fast enough progression for your liking that's a different argument altogether, and a valid one (that I disagree with!!) but to say he had 3 years to build a side is a plain misrepresentation of what actually happened, not opinion at all.

Scored for Austria today in a 2-0 friendly win in Slovakia. Absolutely rejuvenated since he joined West Brom & that’s only his second ever international goal.

Here is one of the garments.....

Alot of puff pieces coming out all of a sudden, its as if the club knows they f'd and are now running damage limitation You want to quell the unrest instead of running puff pieces in the media do better by the fans please

If I had a tenner for every time I've read on here "Obviously I want us to win tomorrow " when what they really mean is "I hope we get hammered and Manning gets sacked" I'd have more than enough for a good night out and a curry afterwards. It wouldn't bother me in the slightest if we lost heavily, played crap, looked useless and were totally humiliated if it meant that something was going to change at our club. Whether that be Manning sacked, Tinnion sacked, Jon Lansdown removed or all 3 preferably. I'm fed up with the shambles that this club has become, angry that we were lied to about why Pearson was sacked and gutted that we appear to have a manager not fit for purpose now. In all honesty, I couldn't care less anymore

We are so ******* embarrassing

Well, with Ian Gay stating (assumedly through Tinnion) that Liam has 8 games to save his job, I think we can reasonably say we’re nearing endgame. A couple of weeks ago I was of the mind to give Liam until the end of the season and see if we continually improved in a few key areas (game management, speed of play, bravery) - but we’ve regressed and I think the ship has now sailed. What we can glean is that those above Liam (assuming SL) aren’t happy with what’s gone before, and we know wins of the nature of Swansea won’t butter any parsnips. So, in those 8 games somehow Liam needs to markedly improve results (probably to playoff form) and performance not to get the sack. I don’t think that’s happening - and the way we’re setting up even if we meet point one we’re not getting point two. It’s the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end. I’ve got no real doubt he won’t be here at the start of the season considering what he’ll need to do. It’s probably done in the next 3 games in practical terms. And for avoidance of doubt, there is no way Tinnion should then be caretaker and he should be getting the archer as well.

Even so, it will only ever be able to go so far. We saw that with Pearson (and even to an extent with Johnson/Ashton). Yes a manager with the right stuff might be able to perform, and get a song out of the squad, but as you say he'd always be doing it despite the structure and egos above him rather than because of them. These guys have proven their resistance to innovation, to change, to ideas (despite the ironic statements of a desire to emulate [Brighton/Brentford/Luton/Ipswich]). They're like the bad boy that a series of girlfriends think they can "change". They resist, and eventually it's the girlfriend who goes. At some point the two groups - ownership and coaching - will come to blows. This is what I was always getting at when I used to say that Pearson wouldn't get us promoted and would fall out with the hierarchy eventually (especially once the buffer of Gould was removed, Alexander was too like Pearson tbh). He had a record of it, and the Lansdowns and Marshall are primed for it. You have to have true alignment to build long-lasting success. You also have to have people willing to truly delegate powers to those who should wield them. Whilst we have two directors beholden to the ultimate owner, we will not have that. We have a de facto dictatorship and in my opinion within that set up every manager will either become subsumed by the miasma of mediocrity (Manning, Johnson), or he'll die trying to disperse it (Pearson, Cotterill, even Coppell).

At least pay your £5 to help fund the forum if you wanna come on here and talk bollocks

Have a word with yourself. The guy is professing he doesn’t enjoy the experience currently and he feels disconnected from the club. He hasn’t said he’s not attending (supporting), just that his enthusiasm has waned and it’s not something that now makes or breaks his weekend. That doesn’t make him not a “true fan” - he’s posting on the Bristol City forum FFS. I’ve also supported the team through the divisions and have held a ST for years, going home and away. My enthusiasm has waned - it’s a slog at times and I think you were vocal you thought that was the case under Pearson. However, I wouldn’t dream of saying to someone “you’re not a true fan” because they say they don’t enjoy the experience. Who’s the truer fan? The guy who puts thousands of pounds in for the best seats and is quiet, the guy who pays less in the south stand but sings, the guy who can’t afford to go but loves the club or the guy who doesn’t enjoy it but still goes because they’re his team? Answer is they’re all true fans and your arbitrary argument is nonsense. Again, Have a word with yourself.

Finding it difficult to join in this love-in for Alex Scott, sorry if that sounds harsh but to me it's like wishing your ex-wife well after she has left you for a bloke uglier than you who had a few bob, whilst you had to carry on working in Aldi.