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  1. Well, the players certainly don’t and that’s one of the (numerous) problems.
  2. Each to their own but I do struggle a little with the argument of ‘he deserves the summer and early part of next season’. What has he done to justify that opportunity? He’s taken a mid table team with some potential to basically relegation fodder/form in 24 games which is over half a season. He didn’t inherit a bottom 3 team in free fall low on confidence. People like Danny Rohl at sheff wed (yesterday aside!) or Cifuentes at qpr deserve a summer as they have generally overseen an upside in form/results since their respective appointments. I struggle to see many, if any, upsides to manning since he came in. For me, he has lost that opportunity over time due to our poor form (both as individual players and the team as a whole), results, unwillingness to adapt and general negativity which now engulfs the club. He has absolutely zero rapport with the fans which I really struggle to see him ever establish.
  3. Didn’t we get ‘rear ended’ by Leicester towards the end of the mcinnes era? Got a similar vibe…
  4. I agree-24 games is enough time imo to make a balanced judgement of this coach given the circumstances at the time of his appointment.
  5. I dread to think what we’ll be like after 2 weeks of ‘on the grass’ training by manning.
  6. Just got back so haven’t read much of the thread. Very disappointing again, we’re just so passive and our ambition now seems to be limiting the opposition. It always felt that one good bit of play from them or a mistake by us and that would be that. We had a go last 20 when twine came on and knight dropped deeper but by then WBA were in cruise control and had dropped down to first gear (from second gear). Manning just seems to have sucked all the energy and enthusiasm from the players, fans and the club as a whole. Very disillusioned by it all to be honest.
  7. Think he had some good ideas and is probably a very good ‘grass’ coach. His problem was/is that he is poor at man management and struggles to motivate players/teams and secondly he’s too stats driven-trust your eyes and what you’re seeing on the pitch not what you think the stats or a coaching manual are telling you. Two very similar traits to our current coach-funny that.
  8. Wow, that was worse than I imagined it would be and I set my expectations at a pretty low level.
  9. Pretty turgid game on the whole between two poor sides IMO. Great to get the 3 points but that level of performance will rarely be good enough for 3 points in this league. It’s a start but I don’t see this changing the over-riding direction of travel anytime soon. We’ll see. The number of empty seats must have been an eye opener for the powers that be-says it all really regardless of the kick off time etc.
  10. What’s the complete and utter obsession with this Southampton game? We won and played well, that’s why the fans were happy that night. That’s what football is all about about, watching your team win and play well. But it was one win for gods sake. Need to get their heads out of their backsides and address the current position instead of all this ‘everyone was happy when we beat Southampton’ nonsense.
  11. Fantastic news, by then we might just then be the best organised team in League One. Makes me feel much better.
  12. How anyone can honestly take any positives from that game today is simply beyond me. From the outset it looked like two poor teams battling out a drab goalless draw. Obviously we couldn’t even manage to do that.
  13. Incredible how he’s managed to suck the life out of everyone and everything so quickly. The games (bar one or two) follow a similar pattern as well, start off ok but then deteriorate pretty much into abject failure. Never known a coaches substitutions have such a minimal affect on the game-he really does not know how to impact or change a game. Can’t remember having the misfortune of watching us in three poorer consecutive games for a long time.
  14. Yep, it just feels all so completely unnecessary and self-inflicted to me. One of the major things a football club needs in order to be successful is stability and for whatever reason, the powers that be decided in their wisdom to just throw that out of the window. Poor decision making yet again….
  15. As I said on a previous thread, the reaction of away fans on the final whistle at an away game following a defeat is often a very relevant and accurate barometer of feeling. I was at Cardiff as many others were and my recollection was that on the whole, the fans acknowledged a spirited and committed performance in the context of a very depleted side/squad. Particularly so given the context of a 5th defeat in 7 games. Contrast this to Saturday, another game I was at, where the reaction was very different IMO from the majority I would say who were somewhat underwhelmed and concerned at the dispirited and disjointed display. I know I certainly was anyway.
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