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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Scrapping the Semi Finals being played at Wembley also please. Never agreed with that nonsense.

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.

Marlon going ‘home’ to captain his boyhood hometown team to promotion. Fairytale.

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

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.

Good to hear you've learnt how to control the little fella.

Last season it finished all square thanks to our first penalty in 469 days https://youtu.be/GcHefHW9qEM https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bristol-city-penalty-shock-euphoria-8166515 Guide to the Stadium of Light: https://footballgroundguide.com/leagues/england/league-one/stadium-of-light-sunderland.html We won at our place in December thanks to a great performance from Max O’Leary highlights: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/highlights/extended-highlights-bristol-city-1-0-sunderland/ New head coach Michael Beale joined them immediately after this game, he said joining the club was "a huge honour." At that time they were 7th in the table. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67730543 In February they sacked him after just 63 days and 12 games in charge! Mike Dodds was appointed as interim head coach until the end of the season. In January they signed defender Leo Hjelde [20] from Leeds United on a four-and-a-half-year deal for an undisclosed fee. Also signed winger Romaine Mundle from Belgian top-flight club Standard Liege on a four-and-a-half year deal, for an undisclosed fee. Jack Clarke made a cameo appearance against Blackburn and could be fit to take Romaine Mundle’s place. Head-to-head record Won: 18 Lost: 16 Drawn: 15 Players who’ve played for them and us include Marcus Stewart, Stern John and Bailey Wright, of course LJ has managed both clubs. They are immediately below us in the table on 51 points and are 21st in the form table while we are 11th, they have 2 points from their last 6 games, we have 9. They haven’t won at home since February 10th (when they beat Plymouth 3-1) and were thumped 5-1 at home by Blackburn on Easter Monday. Pay on the day will not be available. Referee is Leigh Doughty Chris Hogg presser: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/interviews/hogg-previews-black-cats-trip/ Sunderland stuff You can see stalactites in Sunderland. Behind the Marina Activities Centre in Roker is the North Dock Tufa, a set of calcite stalactites created over the centuries by dripping water. No one knows for sure where the water comes from and it was only discovered in 1992 when some old huts were removed, although some claim to have known about it before that. Tufa looks especially beautiful when lit up at night. It’s free to view and is open day and night. Wearmouth Colliery was the deepest mine in the world. The area was once home to the deepest mine in the world. The Stadium of Light was built on the site next to the three shafts leading deep below the earth. When Wearmouth Colliery began producing coal in 1835, it was the deepest mine in the world at 481m, almost a third of a mile. Eventually there were three pits on the site, imaginatively entitled A, B and C. In December 1993 Wearmouth became the last deep coal mine of the County Durham coalfield to close. The first stained glass windows were made at St Peter’s ... probably. The earliest known reference to true stained glass windows is from 675 AD, when Benedit Biscop imported French craftsmen to do the glazing of the monastery of St Peter’s in Monkwearmouth. In the 1970s hundreds of pieces of coloured glass and lead, dating back to the 7th century, were discovered there and at St Paul’s in Jarrow. St Peter’s was built a decade before St Paul’s, so it is thought that Sunderland was presumably first. The city’s glass making heritage is now celebrated at the National Glass Centre, just a stone’s throw from St Peter’s Church in Monkwearmouth. Sunderland was one of Britain’s most heavily bombed places in World War Two. The Germans were well aware of the astonishing shipbuilding capacity on the River Wear and the town was made a target because of that. In Easington 36 died in air raids. In Seaham it was 51 - 36 of them in a single raid in 1943 Sunderland’s shipyards produced a quarter of Britain’s tonnage of ships during the war, as shipyard girls stepped in to keep production going as the male workforce fought in the war. A total of 267 people were killed in Sunderland by the Luftwaffe, and 90% of the town’s houses were damaged by bombs, 1,000 of which were totally destroyed. Sunderland had a ‘mobile’ lighthouse. The Roker lighthouse is a well known symbol of the city, but before the current lighthouse was built in 1903, a lot of effort had gone into preserving the previous building. Sadly no photographs exist of the older lighthouse and pier, which were replaced by the current models in 1903 In 1841 the working, 300-tonne, 24m high stone Roker lighthouse was moved on wheels 145m – uphill - then put back again after a new north pier was built. It sounds like a Monty Python job, but it really happened and is the oldest documented example of such a feat. The know-how was provided by Scottish civil engineer John Murray. Sadly no photographs exist of the older lighthouse and pier, which were replaced by the current models in 1903. The Beatles played in Sunderland three times. Everyone knows that The Beatles played at the Empire at the height of Beatlemania in November 1963, and many people know the legend about the group sliding down the pole in the fire station next door to escape hysterical fans. But most people don’t know that the biggest act in the history of popular music gave three performances on Wearside, firstly as bottom of the bill to Helen Shapiro on February 9, 1963 at the Empire Theatre before they played the Rink Ballroom in Park Lane three months later just before the superstardom began. The FA Cup was invented by a Mackem. Charles W Alcock was born in Norfolk Street in 1842, the second of nine children. The family made their money in shipping, which meant that Charles could be sent to mega-posh public school Harrow. As a player he played centre-forward for Wanderers and captained England, but he is best remembered for founding the world’s first national football tournament, the FA Cup, which was first played in 1871. The Alcocks were quite the footballing family and Charles’ older brother, John F Alcock, was a founder of the Football Association in 1863. The hand grenade was patented by a Mackem. Keeping on the theme of Mackem inventions, a Sunderland man invented the hand grenade. The “Mills bomb” was invented by William Mills, born in 1856 in Wear Street in Southwick, where the Times Inn pub stands. There were hand grenades before Mills, but the most recognisable was his “pineapple” design, first used in 1915 at the height of World War One and which changed trench warfare. It was safer than its predecessors (at least for the user) and around 75 million would be manufactured. Less controversially, Mills also patented aluminium golf clubs. He died in Somerset in 1932. The first UK cases of cholera were in Sunderland. The deadly disease first spread to Europe in 1827, and despite best efforts to keep the illness away from British shores, cases were quickly recorded in Sunderland. The symptoms were horrific and included profuse diarrhoea, vomiting and sweating and death would often occur within hours of the first symptoms. The disease’s mortality rate was high as doctors were baffled by how to stop the spread of the illness. Suspected cases of cholera began to be reported in Sunderland from late summer 1831 and despite quarantine attempts soon spread across the region and then the rest of the country. Across Britain, 32,000 people died of cholera in 1831 and 1832. Alien 3 was filmed in Seaham. Okay, so I’ve now strayed a little way outside Sunderland, but worth a mention is Blast Beach. The dark and desolate area was also used as the backdrop of the final scenes in Get Carter with Michael Caine. The Dawdon beach plays a starring role as alien planet, Fiorina 161 in the 1992 Alien 3 film starring Sigourney Weaver. At the time the beach was polluted by years of coal mining and the sand covered in black soot leading the director David Fincher to decide it looked sufficiently like somewhere not quite of planet Earth. It’s much nicer these days after a major clean up operation which cost £10 million. Pubs Sunderland's supporter liaison officer has highlighted the following as being the best for away fans: Greens: Dating from 1901, this city centre pub is within the Bishopwearmouth Conservation Area. Located in a pedestrianised area close to the Sunderland Empire There are several large screen TV's including one that faces out to the small outside drinking area at the front of the pub. Note the copper domes at the top of the frontage of this grade ii listed building Street Bar: https://www.streetbar.uk Victors: https://www.useyourlocal.com/pubs/victors-sunderland-88448/ Fire Station: https://www.thefirestation.org.uk The Peacock: https://www.facebook.com/ThePeacockSun/ For those looking for something closer to the Stadium of Light, the Colliery Tavern (see below) and the Hilton Hotel (see below) also accept away fans. The Harbour View, 1 Benedict Road, Sunderland, SR6 0NU. A modern local pub opposite Roker Harbour and not far from Roker Beach. It was converted from a hotel and restaurant into a pub. Six hand pulls are changed regularly. Boards behind the bar display the Brewer, name of ale and ABV. Every Thursday evening from 8.pm there is a popular Speakeasy. A wide range of popular music can be heard as background music at other times. If real ale is for you, then you have found home. There is outside seating for those who enjoy sitting in the sun and a Function Room is available upstairs. The Albion, Victor Street, Sunderland, SR6 0EN. Suburban pub not far from Roker Sea Front. Dates from 1861. Also known as the Albion Hotel. Joseph's, 29 Holmeside, Sunderland, SR1 3JE Wetherspoons, the William Jameson, 32 Fawcett Street, Sunderland, SR1 1RH. https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pubs/all-pubs/england/tyne-and-wear/the-william-jameson-sunderland The Colliery Tavern, 12 Southwick Road, Sunderland, SR5 1EQ. Brightly coloured pub (in red and white) opposite Stadium of Light. Dates from the 1870's The Wheatsheaf, 207 Roker Avenue, Sunderland, SR6 0BN. Large three story grade 2 listed building dating back to the end of the 1890's. The name means : - meeting place for shearers engaged by farmers for cutting grain. On a busy junction. Bus stops outside the door and about half a mile to Stadium of Light Metro. Further afield (a 7 minute drive from the ground) try the Ivy House, Worcester Terrace, Sunderland, Tyne And Wear, SR2 7AW, https://www.facebook.com/TheIvyHousePubSunderland/ Friendly Victorian corner pub off the beaten track; five well kept changing ales from interesting brewers such as Cullercoats, Torrside and Two by Two, plus a real cider, interesting bottled beers and good range of spirits, popular reasonably priced food from open kitchen including own-made burgers and pizzas; background and live music, quiz, sports TV; children and dogs welcome, special (non-alcoholic) beer for dogs; open (and food) all day. To all the traveling fans have a great day and be loud and proud - reckon if we score first it could get ugly with their fans.

I’m assuming you’re still living in the days of Gregor McGregorface and Andy “one for the road” Stockhousen. James Piercy is an excellent journalist and above the standard you normally get at a local paper such as the Post, particularly after the cutbacks at Reach. I do think he goes a bit too easy at times but he’s knowledgeable, articulate and doesn’t just ask banal questions. He won’t be there for long - he’s too good.

Did you read Phantom’s reply, have you read the forum roles about accounts / multiple accounts? I’m trying to help solve a problem of a person who has been banned over a dozen times and turns this brilliant forum into a something less than brilliant. There is no irony whatsoever! But if that’s what you think, fine.

I can’t remember who it was that made the observation that under LJ, they’d be at a point where they thought he should go and then he’d pull a result out, and they softened, and started to give him the benefit of doubt again. All it was really doing was delaying the inevitable, as the downward trend was set after the first half of 17/18. It was a bumpy downward trend with some upswings, but a downward one nonetheless. And that’s broadly where I am today. I thought it was an excellent performance - we pushed higher up the pitch, played with intensity and there were a few excellent performances (O’Leary, James and then just below that Pring, Roberts, Sykes and Knight). Yes, we had our luck in the Vardy chances but in the same way that a striker deserves credit for a great finish, Max deserves the credit for the saves. But in essence, it changes nothing. We were here against Southampton and it reverted to the trend very quickly thereafter. Today, we can be pleased with a job well done and credit to both coach and players. But for it to change anyone’s opinion in view of the overall sample size to date is really not sensible.