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Silvio Dante

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  1. I’m sorry that’s just nonsense. Did we play poorly? Yes. But Swansea vs Cardiff was a week away, and Williams wasn’t resting players. They had more of the ball and could have scored. The Welsh Derby was a big game - but it wasn’t an FA cup final for example. There’s no way professional players would have been subconsciously easing up one week prior and saying so lessens the truth of your argument - that we just didn’t play well.
  2. Very very unlikely. Tinnion is protecting his position (see SOTC interview) but that doesn’t extend to telling the manager/head coach how to play. For all the criticism of Liam I think it has been unfair of some to portray him as a yes man - he definitely isn’t. He’s got strong beliefs in his processes (they’re just flawed is the problem!) Your reason why it’s changed is simple and twofold - fear and opponents. Opponents, as was bound to happen, have figured how to play us. We know we’re better without the ball and Liam has taken that to the extremes by just sitting and letting the other team have it - but they’re not doing what he wants them to. You then have fear - or belief - the latter of which has totally been sucked out of the side by how he’s coached them. Hes under pressure so is setting up not to lose as opposed to win. And that is not going to change.
  3. Yeah I think the need to remove Tinnion is more about the need for ability in that role and the removal of a malign influence as opposed to direct impact on first team style/results. Essentially Tinnion will also be a bit of a gatekeeper between the manager and board - and as he has JLs ear can easily say something is a good/bad idea against the manager. So, he needs to go as he’s a macro problem. But I don’t believe in any way shape or form he’s influencing how we play, how things are being managed on matchdays or who is in the side. That’s totally Liam.
  4. Question: You’re Matty James and you’re in intense discomfort through an Achilles injury (I believe). There are 8 dead rubbers between now and the end of your contract, and the club have indicated they won’t renew. You play if fit, yes, but how up for having injections to get you through games (or in Pring style managing your injury) would you be..?
  5. I think he’s gone come what may. As you say season tickets will be a factor, SL will have seen the sparse crowds and the unrest permeating all round the club. It’d be a comeback of epic proportions to deliver both performances and results needed in the last eight to both convince SL to let him have funds and convince the fanbase he’s the right man. My feeling is that a loss against Leicester and a “non win” against Plymouth sees them pull the trigger. They should now, but I agree that’s the likely timeline - we can’t get to he’s got six games to save his job, five games etc.
  6. Without that car crash, I’ve no doubt Kevin would have gone on to a higher level than he ultimately played. Huge potential.
  7. As you know, I’m with you here. I’m lucky enough that financially I’m able to make the decision but if that wasn’t the case, I’d have given serious consideration to sitting it out. Again, it’s a stone cold fact that the club know a decent percentage - if financially able - will renew come what may. For people like myself and yourself then leaving it until late is the best form of protest we have open. I genuinely do not understand those renewing day one though. Even the blindest know something isn’t right at the club and to renew oblivious and give the club the impression of contentment just seems bonkers, particularly when you could have that money in your bank for another month!
  8. Judging by your posting history recently, I’m amazed you don’t think Colin Sexstone appointed Holden…
  9. I think you can draw your own conclusions from your last line.
  10. 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.
  11. Were you expecting sodding Derek Jameson!!
  12. Indeed. It’s bizarrely binary - watch City or go shopping. Some peoples houses must be like Costco after the summer.
  13. Is this the same Matty James who isn’t being offered a new deal in the summer as several on here who are ITK have indicated? So, that’s someone who is vital to us and underpins any success Liam may have being jettisoned. Sounds a great idea.
  14. Highlights reels are just that though. Highlights reels. The number of people who look world beaters on them then panel beaters in the real world are countless - so I prefer an eyes on approach at the all round piece. (To give a parallel here Mehmeti looked great on highlight reels but that doesn’t show his positioning when not in possession and his movement which is poor) And he’ll get a lot worse in his career if he does make it than seen here, so I’m not sure the argument “don’t criticise in case he reads this” really holds water. Liam has said he doesn’t read social media in any case (he does) so I expect he gives that instructions to all his players… But irrespective of if he reads or not. Man City were happy to get rid. Westerlo were happy to get rid. City don’t want to play him. It’s not screaming a top class player waiting to get out is it?
  15. What in the bloody hell are you on about? Nobody believes Andy King could get us in the playoffs if we appoint him now (I’m not even sure it’s mathematically possible based on who plays who) - but nobody - literally nobody - is suggesting he could. All anyone has said is that he could do better than the current incumbent - which seems highly likely based on our form. That you have to make such a nonsense argument in addition to your Fergie comparison just shows that you really have nothing to defend LM with here.
  16. To be clear the initial nature of my OP was to highlight a semi amusing story, and frame it against what has clearly been a terrible signing for us at this stage irrespective of ability DM may or may not have. Nobody can argue that six weeks into a loan spell and the manager totally reticent to put him on the pitch when also not filling the bench most weeks represents anything other than a bad signing. But on this post specifically. As I’ve said before football is littered with kids who look good at academy level and don’t make it at men’s level. And you’re going to look better at Man City as you have better players around you. Being a good academy player means the square root of nothing even at Man City To expand on that, I’ve just looked at Man City’s team in the 2019 youth cup final (so they’ve had time to work out if they make a career or not). 11 of the 16 man squad are playing below the top level (some loans). A couple of the alumni are playing for Ramsbottom and Waterford respectively! The fact is that he went to Belgium and Westerlo didn’t play him (and not for work permit reasons as stated by the club). Hes now here and a coach who needs inspiration and goals won’t play him. He’s 20 in two months with less than 300 minutes senior football to his name. How much exactly do you want to bet that he’ll be worth a “huge transfer fee”. (Define huge) - all the signs at the moment are that he was a good “age group” player but no more - which is insanely common at academy football.
  17. On This and this. If anything with Liam, myself and many other posters have actively avoided comparing him to Nige, to the point where I’ve written posts and edited them to take out anything that could be seen as a comparative. The reason Liam is getting grief (and it’s not personal abuse it’s down to what he’s saying and doing) is because he’s failing. Badly. And the only people who seem to have brought up Nige to compare against Liam are those who are defending LMs record. Without acknowledging that both started from different bases. However, it is totally fair to bring up Pearson in relation to Tinnion as he would have had input into his dismissal. Omitting NP from that point would be bizarre. (And for avoidance of doubt was Nige doing a fantastic job. No. But He was doing a very good job considering what he started with, the development of young players and the bizarrely club imposed financial constraints. In hindsight the decision to dismiss Nige does seem all the more bizarre but the bigger fault undoubtedly lay in the choice of successor)
  18. Just had to check this was genuine…and it is. Jeez. I hope when we do sack him admin can raise their game - a lot of our goal gifs seem to have a nautical theme so maybe “Mann Overboard”?
  19. I don’t think that’s the case. That will have been filmed weeks ago. What we know about this club is that it’s massively disfunctional. So to think the media department are engaging with the football department over potential changes to branding that was agreed weeks ago in case Liam is sacked is just not going to happen. In fact, even if they did engage, they’d still go ahead with the promotion as any delay/change may indicate news of a potential sacking would get out. Manning front and centre means absolutely nothing in relation to the stability of his position.
  20. 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.
  21. Ah it is - I read Crawford for some reason! Crawford, Newman…is there a Randy Pritchard?
  22. True. Maybe “One Day (He’ll) Fly Away”
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