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  1. I get the impression some people are a bit miffed that LJ had the balls to take the Sunderland job. People who dislike him were fond of the idea that he benefitted from his relationship with the Lansdown family (true) and wouldn’t get another ‘big job’ from his own merit. I find it a bit odd how there are some who’d love him to fail at Sunderland. I appreciate his personality is a bit grating, but he gave his all for us and ultimately left the club in a stronger position than he found it. In my opinion we should be happy for him to do well - same way we should be for Cotterill. Both good men who gave this job their all and improved the club’s situation.
    25 points
  2. if his name was John Leeson, people would be talking about him as one of the better city managers, alot lot of hate lee gets is purely due to him being lee johnson from people who never liked him as a player
    15 points
  3. I think there’s a lot of bitterness about how LJ was backed and SC wasn’t to the same extent - especially when you factor in the rumours of Cotterill’s negotiated deals being scuppered in 2015. I have sympathy with that point of view, but do not understand how it extends to a bizarre personal dislike of LJ. He couldn’t help that situation and had no involvement in it. Was he backed inordinately? Probably. Should he have been sacked earlier? Yes. Did he give his all and ultimately leave us stronger? Yes. Unless the manager has an impact like Pulis, I don’t see why you wouldn’t want our former managers to do well in the future. Same as our former players - it’s great to see Reid, Bryan, Brownhill and Webster doing well.
    8 points
  4. Some will hate him even more if he’s successful up there.
    7 points
  5. I was never his greatest fan as a player, but felt he got unfair stick, maybe in part for being his Dad's son. Yes, the things he said and did sometimes were a bit cringe-making, but I wonder whether the ego and the arrogance - not a million miles from self-confidence and self belief - are qualities that a football manager needs. A bit like strikers needing to be greedy because hey have the same self confidence. At the end of the day that's maybe what enabled him to manage his way through those poor runs in a way that DH never looked likely to do. And why those poor runs never, I think, saw 3-4 successively more gutless performances in the way we've seen recently. Not always an attractive trait but maybe something a manager needs to have. I always felt that towards the end he slightly lost that: I don't know whether it was the self belief that went, or his belief that the club believed in him: I think the departures of Webster and of Brownhill really dented him - timing wise as much as anything, and he lost a bit of that confidence in his ability to bounce back from that. But overall I still think he's one of the minority of managers in recent years who've left us in a better place than when he arrived. And he certainly doesn't deserve some of the vitriol he got at the time, not the weird delight some still take every time he loses.
    4 points
  6. I remember Eastville was lit up red...
    4 points
  7. "just seems odd and personal" really is. for a vocal few at least. just hated him from day one that he signed as a player to when he left as manager. I liked him. not as a player so much but as a coach.
    4 points
  8. Since the redevelopment Ashton Gate has been lit up Blue plenty of times whether with the Rugby or NHS so lighting the Bridge blue is really not going to worry folks too much I think.
    3 points
  9. 3 points
  10. Right, so the Suspension Bridge is going to be lit blue, you say? OK. Hold up, let me just check this end......................... nope sorry, I've got nothing.
    2 points
  11. I wish him well at Sunderland, he helped us improve and was truly committed to this club. It didn't work out for one reason or another and he moved on. I thank him for everything he did for our club, put us in good standing, constantly improving positoon, that carabao Cup run beating Man Utd at Ashton Gate and giving Man City 2 really good games.
    2 points
  12. Orgasm Addict...The Buzzcocks (Two for one)
    2 points
  13. What next, Gas celebrating blue sky over Ashton Gate?
    2 points
  14. The City is theirs They'd be lucky if they could class Horfield as theirs...
    2 points
  15. After the last few seasons they’ve had, I reckon they’ll take it. COYR
    2 points
  16. A trip to Wembley for LJ. Bet they’re not worried about his POMO’s & USP’s tonight. COYR
    2 points
  17. Is it just me in thinking that the overwhelming reason Blue won the vote at this time is because that is the colour most closely identified with the NHS? All sorts of thing have been lit blue to say thanks to the NHS (including Ashton Gate) and so blue is an obvious choice. Now, the fact that the next most popular choice was RED, well... When the Leicester chairman died in the helicopter crash being another time.
    1 point
  18. Exactly, me too. There’s plenty to criticise about him - and it was right to sack him. But I cannot fathom the stick he still gets and some people hoping he fails at Sunderland, just seems odd and personal.
    1 point
  19. Equivalent to us being in Europe in 5 years! ???
    1 point
  20. Ocean Rain...Echo & The Bunnymen
    1 point
  21. And for a club of that size you’d expect that. Winning a lower league double would be a very solid achievement. I quite like the look of one of their forwards - Charlie Wyke. Old school style strong aerial striker.
    1 point
  22. Accrington Stanley jumped over them into 6th tonight. Jon Coleman, what a job he’s doing. Really like like their owner too.
    1 point
  23. To be fair if they can’t go I don’t think they will care too much about a joke competition like that.
    1 point
  24. We've got your back with this one Tone. Anytime you need to talk your OTIB friends will be here.
    1 point
  25. I do - in fact if i had to choose between running and cycling then cycling wins hands down. I think i have the only bike on the planet that’s not compatible with a turbo! There is no way of attaching the back wheel! Time to jump back on the bike this weekend and get a few miles under my belt as got a few 100m + sportives coming up in April and May. The one below in May is a tough old ride but stunning scenery https://www.blackratcycle.co.uk/events-2021/granfondo-23-may-181km/
    1 point
  26. Got worse today. Wife had to go back to the surgeon today following her operation a few weeks back and she apparently has cancer. Now needs more surgery and radiation therapy. What a feckin year !!!
    1 point
  27. Good to see him doing pretty well there so far. Was a brave choice to manage there, shows guts. Would be great if LJ and SC both got promotion.
    1 point
  28. Sunderland are winning so you bet I am! Johnson till I die.
    1 point
  29. It's sad how people talk about him He didn't do much wrong here except talk a bit of nonsense and ultimately the football went a bit stale, as it does with every manager at every club in the world at some point. As a person, he's not done anything to make him a "cretin". He's a decent bloke who worked bloody hard to at least TRY and get success for this club. If he outstayed his welcome that's not his fault, it's the people above him
    1 point
  30. Define achievements? He saved us from relegation and turned us into a solid Championship side, challenging in and around the play offs. He got us our best cup run in 30 years, beating the biggest club in the country and going toe to toe with the best team in the world at the time over 2 legs. We played some of the best football I've ever seen from City, especially when you consider the level we were at (Cotts team was fantastic, but it was L1 football) The end was shit, and it was probably the right time for him to go, but it's nonsense to say he didn't achieve anything here.
    1 point
  31. You talk about your youth with great passion, and they were indeed great days. I suspect the confused emojis that your original post got was due to the fact that you have fallen into the classic pitfall of "Bloody kids, not like it was back in my day" that seems to happen to a lot of people as they get older. Don't forget that your parents generation thought exactly the same of you. You also seem to have forgotten that there was an awful lof of manufactured pop in the sixties and seventies as well, it's just that you were a little more discerning in your musical tastes. It's exactly the same now, plenty of 'proper' bands out there that have followings, just that the media these days makes it harder for them to get mainstream exposure than it ever was. There is also a wider variety of different styles and genres than there was.
    1 point
  32. No, my emoji was based on your assumption of how the youths are now, which showed you as clearly put of touch, and probably posting with more than one pair of rose tinted specs on. None of my musical 'heroes' came through any of the reality shite shows, and some of them were playing music before your generation were going out, even born. Nor is being manufactured something exclusive to recent times, The Monkees ring a bell? Nethertheless, my liver and bank account will be glad to know the time I got through £300 on one night out never happened, because you think the generations past yours don't know how to go out, I'll just wait for that money to reappear.
    1 point
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