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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Well. It’s already a better bill than BS3 live.

Anyone who doesn’t think “Drink up thee cider” is one of the greatest songs written is: 1) not from the West Country 2) weird.

I don't have a problem with Manning going with the senior players while we were going through a dodgy spell, but we were safe yesterday and the starting XI annoyed me. Instead of giving Knight-Lebel a start he moved what seemed like half the team around. Sykes hasn't shone at WB and Knight has been better in CMF. It got me thinking about the pathway and the continuation of progressing young players that Tinnion alluded to when LM came in. For one Mebude is looking like a Pathway blocker, but ok , if Manning thought we could grab a gem cheap I'll pass on that one , but how much time has been given to youth this season? We have managed to sign some good young players on reputation , but how long will that continue? I have had a quick look , and I will apologise and hold my hands up if I've missed some minutes. I think it breaks down like this . Under Pearson something like 240 minutes for academy players in 14 games. And yes some of those were forced on him , Cardiff away being a peak time gave us 113 of those minutes . Flemmings one game gave us 0 . The last 28 games have given 26 minutes for the Academy players. Blackburn 21 minutes for Yeboah and against Blackburn in a game that was over , 5 for Knight-Lebel. I worry that Manning is shaping up like LJ, would rather change most of the team instead of making one change with a youngster. Tinnion has to take some blame, excluding some for the U18 FA Cup (then not even giving them the best chance by going up the night before, thats another moan) . This should be the perfect time to blood players, they could be needed next year and a few runs this year could help the transition to the first team. I hope I'm wrong , but it doesn't look great for the young kids ATM.

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Today undid a proportion of the good work from Blackburn, Plymouth and Leicester - precisely because of the style. Post Easter, I’ve used the word “intent” a lot - we have looked to move the ball quicker and we’ve been a better side for it. Today, we didn’t. And the largest part of that was due to the unenforced changes (McCrorie to CB, Sykes to WB, and especially Knight to AM). I said at half time that there was a huge gap between the back and front of the team, particularly because up top Twine didn’t seem to be interested unless the ball was directly to his feet (I made my mind up on him today - there are sparks of creativity but it’s not a deal I’d do). So, we ended up without the ability to move the ball quickly through the thirds. As a result it was back to sideways and backwards passes - precisely because there was no other ball on - and if I’m being picky, that was due to the way we set up forcing us into that style as opposed to the players choosing that style. Today, we saw again that Liam is a naturally cautious coach. Maybe he felt he earnt the right to be so today through the current run. But it failed - pretty badly. And all it did was raise the question again of “Did we play with that intent recently as it was the only way to save his job?”

Look at me Look at me.

They are fighting for Championship survival. This match is designated ‘Community Day’ to celebrate the work of the Robins Foundation: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/robins-foundation/ City supporters will be able to take part in an interactive penalty shootout game by PIING. Fans attending can take part in the PIING Pen-Kick, the interactive penalty shootout game via their smartphones, without the need of an app. To join, you will need to scan the QR code that will be on the in-bowl screen. Once scanned, you will be taken to the PIING Pen-Kick webpage and should follow the instructions to set up and take part. You could own a signed match-worn City shirt. The auction will go live at kick-off (3pm) Saturday, April 13th and end on Saturday, April 27th (3pm). The shirts will come with all the mud, sweat and any other elements that you would expect from a shirt sourced straight from the pitch. Each shirt is personally signed by the players. All proceeds raised from this shirt auction will go towards supporting the life-changing community work carried out by the club’s official charity – Bristol City Robins Foundation. Placing a bid is easy. As soon as the first whistle is blown get involved in the auction and bag yourself a piece of Bristol City history. We won 2-0 the last time they were at Ashton Gate, https://youtu.be/Gk1AapSZSnY At their place, in atrocious conditions, back in December it finished 1-1 highlights: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/highlights/extended-highlights-huddersfield-town-1-1-bristol-city/ Their forum makes for grim reading: https://downatthemac.proboards.com/thread/119751/bristol-city-htafc here’s an example: ‘Our only hope is that Bristol City are on the beach. Problem is that Town are so accommodating that even if they are on beach, we'd be rubbing sun cream on their backs and bringing them pina coladas. Then, in the evening, we'd happily let them ahead of us in the queue and give them have first dibs at the all inclusive buffet; leaving us with all the unlabelled shit which no-one wanted and looked like a dog had sicked up.’ In early June Neil Warnock agreed to stay on as manager for the season despite the fact that he will turn 75 halfway through the campaign. However, they appointed former Sheffield Wednesday boss Darren Moore as their new manager in September. The 49-year-old replaced Neil Warnock after the veteran departed. In late January they sacked DM after just three wins in 23 matches in all competitions. In February they appointed former Schalke and FC Zurich boss Andre Breitenreiter as their new head coach. The 50-year-old German has signed a two-and-a-half-year contract. How well do you know Colin? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61073905 They signed former Blackpool goalkeeper Chris Maxwell on a two-year deal. In mid August they signed Mainz forward Delano Burgzorg on a season-long loan deal. The 24-year-old has had spells in his native Netherlands with Heracles Almelo and De Graafschap and a loan spell in Italy with Spezia. In January they signed midfielder Alex Matos from Chelsea until the end of the season. The 19-year-old moved to Chelsea in the summer from Norwich City and has made two senior appearances. They also signed forward Bojan Radulovic from Finnish champions HJK Helsinki on a three-and-a-half-year deal, for an undisclosed fee. The 24-year-old scored 19 goals in 29 league and cup games last season, and scored a further six in their European outings between the domestic seasons. They also signed Groningen defender Radinio Balker for an undisclosed fee on a three-and-a-half-year deal. The 25-year-old played in the Dutch top flight last season. On Tuesday they were away to PNE although they were leading it finished in a 4-1 defeat, thanks to a late Milutin Osmajic hat-trick. They are 21st in the table on 43 points and are also 21st in the form table based on their last six results, while we are second based on the last six results! https://thefishy.co.uk/formtable.php?table=2 Head-to-head record Won: 25 Lost: 28 Drawn:13 Match preview: https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/bristol-city/preview/preview-bristol-city-vs-huddersfield-prediction-team-news-lineups_541046.html LM pre-match: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/liams-notes-huddersfield-town-h/ In January Ollie Turton was ruled out for "a number of months" after undergoing knee surgery. The 31-year-old had returned to training after suffering a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament against Wigan in February 2023. Referee is Rebecca Welch, who was the first female ref to take charge of a Premier League game in December 2023. She became a football referee in 2010, but continued to work in her NHS post until 2019, before turning her attention to officiating on a full-time basis. In 2021 she became the first woman to be appointed to referee an EFL match, when she took charge of the League Two fixture between Harrogate Town and Port Vale. During her career, she has also officiated at games in the Women's Super League, and was referee at the 2017 and 2020 Women's FA Cup Finals. In December 2020 she was added to UEFA's elite women's list, joining other female football officials to referee at international games, including the Women's World Cup in 2023. Among those who have played for both teams: Marcus Stewart Nahki Wells Andy May Phil Jevons Andy King Junior Bent Kasey Palmer Robbie Turner Famous fans: Sir Patrick Stewart - Stewart was born in nearby Mirfield and is one of the most notorious and famous Town fans around. Stewart has been the president of the Terriers’ academy since 2010 and when they were promoted to the Premier League in 2017, he was seen celebrating at Wembley Stadium after the win over Reading in the play-off final. Jodie Whittaker - Best known for being the 13th incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, Whittaker is another famous face from the world of television and acting to come from the outskirts of Huddersfield. Ryan Sidebottom - Huddersfield has produced an England international cricketer in the form of Sidebottom. The left-arm bowler played for his national side between 2001 and 2010, playing in 22 test matches, with him also playing for his county Yorkshire. Bobby Madley - Born in Wakefield, referee Madley was officiating local sides in the area at the start of his career before rising through the ranks. Fun facts Huddersfield has been a settlement for over 4,000 years and can be found in the 'Domesday Book' of 1086 under the name of “Oderesfelt and Odresfeld.” Huddersfield is the birthplace of rugby league with the local team, Huddersfield Giants, playing in the Super League. It also has two Rugby Union clubs Huddersfield R.U.F.C. and Huddersfield YM RUFC. When it comes to the round ball Huddersfield Town were the first English team to win the league three times in a row. Staff at KD Decoratives, famed for making Christmas decorations, were once commissioned to make Britain’s largest nodding dog which stood 11 feet tall. According to Kirklees Council, there are over 3,000 listed buildings in Huddersfield, the third highest number in the country, and over 200 of them are in the town centre. The railway station is one of the more beautiful specimens dotted around, and there has been an inn on the site of the George hotel for hundreds of years. Top punk band the Sex Pistols played their last two British shows at Ivanhoe’s nightclub in Huddersfield, on Christmas Day 1977. This included a matinee for the children of striking firefighters. They then embarked on the fateful tour of the US that led to the bands break-up. The facade of Ivanhoe's, the former Grand Picture Theatre, is still standing at the very end of Manchester Road behind Lidl.

6526, **** me. Not so much a crowd, more an audience.

Based on what I have seen but particularly today and assuming a transfer fee and higher than average wages in our squad I don’t think we should sign Twine. Today was the game he should have made a difference and he was one of our poorer players. This maybe unfair on him as he is returning from injury but I don’t think he is any more creative or better than the the existing alternatives in our squad

You joined Thursday evening and this is your 5th post. Have a little more respect for other posters view's! Sick to death of idiots joining just to take the piss, it's something the mods must do something about, and quickly!!!

Absolutely nothing to do with the penalties, one of the best refs I've seen in a long time - was so consistent in how he judged things and always tried to let play go and only bring it back if the advantage wasn't there. Was never too fussy, cards were a last resort, and didn't want to be centre of attention. Looked like a normal bloke too rather than a failed footballer with an ego. More refs with this approach please.

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

I used to think the same, until I moved and worked abroad. It wasn't until I moved away, that I became more proud of my roots, heritage, traditions and nostalgia. I missed them. On moving back to blighty, it's kept with me. Drink up thy Zider will always resonate with me as our clubs ' unofficial' anthem. Imo...it should be blasted it more and fans encouraged to sing it. After all the likes of ' you'll never walk alone' and ' Delilah ' aren't modern by any standards. 60s. And yet those Clubs youngsters sing them with pride along with everyone else. We're a bit useless at tradition as a club imo. Chop and change our kit all the time, badge changes, no anthem, nothing is ' ours'. Even the Gas beat us on that front. Ask anyone in football where drink up is sang, and we will be top of the list. Let's own it more.

Preferably a resignation speach

People were utterly bored out of their box and desperate to do literally anything else I’d imagine. Thankfully as a superfan I was there to see our goal.

I don't get why the end of season lap of honour is even a thing. It's cringeworthy seeing it after a season of mid table obscurity.

Huddersfield fans not too confident: Our only hope is that Bristol City are on the beach. Problem is that Town are so accommodating that even if they are on beach, we'd be rubbing sun cream on their backs and bringing them pina coladas.

Sorry, but impressive , :}

To quote John Maynard Keynes - “When the facts change, I change my mind”. And pre Easter, the facts were that we were in relegation form, performances were dire and we looked directionless. We were also playing without any “intent”. Since Easter, having not seen Sunderland (so I won’t pass comment there), in three games we’ve had a bit more “intent” about us. Yep, we’ve been helped by terrible Vardy finishing and a horrific Blackburn, but we’ve had intent and we’ve won the games. I’m not convinced we’re sustainable but what it has done is buy the head coach time. I’m not going to say I think he’s the right man long term, but I’m happy with the “intent” improvement however that has come about. The approach has definitely changed post Easter. Does that make me Manning in? Not at present, no. But I’m now in the place that he’s here for the rest of this season and those first 10-12 games of next season as a minimum (unless he obviously loses the first six!). What he needs to do is continue the pattern of “intent” as a minimum for that timeline. The broader question is why the head coach changed his approach. My gut is he knew his arse was on the line and sedate, Swansea style games would see him gone. But a lot of football positives come from desparate circumstances. The trick now is sustaining it.

Maybe next time they won’t feign injury and try to time waste in the added time and they wouldn’t have still been on the pitch to concede the penalty. No sympathy for them and ultimately one penalty over the course of a season won’t be what sends them down

Tbf it’s not a bad idea, but I’d go further. I realise the club aren’t looking to make money on the £1 tickets - moreso on the adult tickets - but the thing here has to be bums on seats, and try and hook kids for the future. Go out to all the local clubs in the Hanham Minor League and offer them, say, 25 free tickets. Put them in half the Atyeo. Get the bums on seats, get the merchandise sold, get the money from the concessions. Be imaginative. Rotherham aren’t selling it out so you can use the space at limited costs and maybe snare a load of future fans and income.

Oh. What. A. Night. Let's enjoy the 9th anniversary of City's barnstorming promotion to the Championship, when Steve Cotterill walked on cider. Valley Parade, 14th April 2015. Bradford City 0 CITY 6

Source (EFL) Massive step backwards IMO. Way to get people more reliant on Sky's bloated, outdated subscription models. Also taking money directly out of the clubs' pockets.

A much deserved positive note in what has been a difficult season. Well done to all involved. Heres a video explaining the work the project does: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/features/foundation-project-saving-lives/

Let’s just remember that we had the ball in time and space on halfway and with all our players up ahead of us and in the box when this guy goes down. He was down for more than the minute quoted, probably 90 seconds at least, almost 2 minutes, and by the time he had finished the game was more or less over. The referee, who has had a very good game despite being ridiculed by Huddersfield fans from the start (for reasons I think we all know), gives THEM the ball back which is extremely generous even though they won’t remember or mention it - unless the idea was for them to punt it back to us. Which of course they didn’t do, they played up to their striker and kept it. People keep talking about them fighting for their lives, if we had anything to play for Huddersfield would be remembered for years as cheats for that gamesmanship, they gamed the ref and then worse fair play at the restart when it was quite clear the ball should be back with us. They’ve got away with it because we were all largely drifting out and couldn’t care less about our season. The fact the ref is still in a position to give a soft penalty when she does is solely down to their own cheating and it caught up with them. Pure karma. But of course they’ve all organised a social media pile on for the referee who they were abusing from the very start. Pathetic lack of self awareness.

Damn them all..

Big shout out to Plymouth, proper club with great fans. Hope we’re playing them twice next season.

Took an age for the players to come out for their end of season lap of honour, last season. Thousands gave up waiting and went home. Let's hope its all a bit quicker this season or there could be an embarrassingly low number staying for the Wurzels. Surely would have been better pre match. Get everyone up for the game.

I presume this is an attempt at providing some match day entertainment after 90 minutes of Manningball has sent everyone to sleep?

No beer, no food, certainly not much on the entertainment front… all he needs is a seat next to you and he’s got the lot.

As I said on another thread, it’d be madness if he was and would have serious vibes of Kasey Palmer. We’ve seen what he can do and he’s gone from peripheral in prior games to today being uninterested in putting any work in. Palmer was signed despite a poor loan spell at great expense because LJ overestimated both Kaseys importance and Lees own ability to get stuff out of him. If you’re charitable, it could be argued that he had the Afobe linkup in mind but that was more happy accident. It seems to me (and I don’t think LM is LJ as some do), in this case for Lee read Liam and for Kasey read Scott To reiterate the point, we’re looking at a player who had a fantastic season at a lower level 2 years ago and has not proven himself at this level, in addition to having two injury spells. We’ve seen him for us and not one person thinks he’s a must buy. Even at £2m, with the takeover of Burnley wages, it’s not a cheap deal and I’m not convinced he’s worth that. Not a deal we should do and would smack of a vanity project based on the evidence to date.

I think the booing was a culmination of the stops/pass backwards/slow performance from the whole team today (complete contrast to the much improved performances recently when we've stopped playing Mannings horribly boring style). - I don't think the booing was just because of that 1 moment or aimed personally at Pring.

This is nothing to do with the players. It's the tactics that they are told to play. The "BACKWARDS AND SIDEWAYS" style of play is pathetic. I don't like to see us lose but I want City to at least have a go at the other side. When our goalkeeper gets more passes than our attackers, it means that our tactics are negative and will never be the way to make progress and win matches. And don't forget that we were not playing against a Real Madrid, Man City or Liverpool. This was one of the teams that are destined for relegation. So this match has confirmed that while Manning is still here, BCFC can stick their season ticket where a monkey stores his nuts. After early sixty years of season ticket, I've had enough.

Good for him. I always liked him as a City player and he seemed to be a good character, too.

This may sound a little harsh but I think it’s time we left the Wurzels in the 70s. We need a new anthem, kids of today aren’t going to belt this music out. I know I will be in the minority here.

It’s been a real mess of a season from every angle, when you look at it properly objectively. - Board to not agree on whether to sack and replace current manager and coaching staff over the summer, before pre-season starts. Dily dally, leave it too late, have to stick with. - Sell best player after the season starts (I have no real gripe with, Alex wanted to go, was inevitable he was going to). Don’t allow money for ANY replacements. - Owner appears on local business podcast in his place of residence to discuss the deal. Allow that to be the only time he’s publicly heard from all year. - CEO leaves by ‘mutual consent’ after basically flagging he has no idea why he was brought in because the owners son is allowed to do whatever he wants, to the commercial detriment of a club in commercial difficulty. - Publicly say ‘we don’t actually need a CEO with the new structure’. Appoint someone who’s essentially a good accountant as Group CEO of three sporting clubs. - Ask manager to resign when sitting 7th (?) in the table. Are shocked he doesn’t want to. Cause him to go nuclear in the press, because no one at the club can string a sentence together when speaking externally. - Sack relatively popular manager after spirited performance in the middle of an enormous injury crisis - Realising you’ve massively misread the room, make things even worse and double down on saying the team should be pushing for promotion, trying to look ambitious to get the fans excited. Fans react by saying that’s unrealistic and naive. - Roll out the Chairman who knows nothing about medical or physical performance, to explain why the most senior and experienced medical professional the club has ever had has also been dismissed. Proceed to pick up more muscle injuries than you had before sacking. - Say we have a clear playing identity from ‘first team to u11s’ which is front foot, high press, and aggressive. Proceed to appoint a head coach who built his teams to be very methodical, slow in their build up and keeping possession as much as possible. - Magically make budget available in January that wasn’t available in the summer in trying to bring in an attacking midfielder, key to the head coach’s style of play despite saying the squad is the best we’ve ever had at this level and just needed a better coach to move us on. - Lose out on number 1 target, so loan in a player for 4 months with no buy option, because you didn’t want to pay the fee that the parent club will probably still demand in the summer. - Sign a relatively unknown youth prospect with an option to buy. Blame lack of game time in Belgium due to mysterious (or made up?) visa issues. Proceed to not play him. - Sign 2 players on a permanent, but loan them back to their parent clubs, not strengthening the squad depth or quality in any way. - Sign a very promising young player from Ireland. Lie & say he is currently doing a 3 month ‘mini pre season’ to hide that he’s injured and can’t train or play. - Head coach near enough admits he can’t play the way he wants to, and way he was brought in to, with the squad he has. - In the middle of very poor run of results and performances with ST renewals on the horizon, Technical Director to appear on local radio and disclose confidential information as he can’t answer hard questions. Interview to have corrections added to it when published in local written press. - In the same poor run, head coach is clearly concerned for his job so out of nowhere implies the squad is weaker than last years, so maybe expectations should be lowered. - To get people excited for new year, use main striker who Technical Director has publicly admitted has rejected 3 contract offers in pictures and videos for ‘more of this to come next season’ comms. Have I missed anything?

Was one of them in a rascal grey 3/4 zip, baggy jeans and Nike high tops? Looks a bit confused all the time, answers to ‘Jon’ ?

Nothing like Kasey palmer to me. We’ve been better with Twine than without.

Yeah agree mate. Nige/Manning/whoever wouldn't have got us top 6 without adequate investment and SL decided against that. Our fate was sealed and we've achieved precisely what I and many others predicted.

I don’t get why people don’t like it when someone expresses an opinion on a forum?