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downendcity

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  1. Probably 6 weeks too late to make a run that would get us into the play offs. Not impossible - you only have to look back to the 11 (?) game winning run under DW - but we'd need to discover firepower up front that has sadly been missing for too much of the season. Would be good to make a go of it, even if we fall short, so the season doesn't fizzle out and gives us momentum and optimism to take into next season. Of course, that is before that optimism is dashed in the summer when we sell Conway, Pring and Vyner to Bournemouth!
  2. QPR win nailed on then.
  3. Experienced City fans have become able to hold both pessimistic and optimistic outlooks at one and the same time and to be proved correct!
  4. Similar to Scott's pass to Wells to set up the goal at Preston last season.
  5. That was because he's a short arse and with the curvature of the earth, he struggled to see the Dolman side of the pitch from the dugout!
  6. Anyone else feeling that they need a course of evening classes to keep up and understand all these graphs, charts, xgs and the like? I'm still getting to grips with half backs, inside forwards, Ramsey's wingless wonders and 4-2-4!
  7. Along with death, one of 2 certainties in life.
  8. I've said before that the opinions lot of the so called "pro Pearson" and/or " anti Manning" posters are perhaps more reflective of their feelings towards the ownership than they are of the respective manager or coach. Pearson's attributes made him the right man for the job at the time he came here and for the same reasons, agree with you that Manning would not have been. There are things that Pearson was able to do that Manning could not have done, but I also think and hope that there will be things that Manning will go on to do and achieve that perhaps Pearson could not have. However, I can also understand that for an owner ( and SL wasn't the first in NP's career) there might be a limit to how much bloody minded cussedness you can take and continue to work with. Because of his age, and also that there was uncertainty as to whether Pearson would stay beyond his initial contract ( before things obviously blew up towards the end) I wonder whether the club had earmarked Manning as a successor. There is little doubt in my mind that Pearson was backing the club into a corner and, as it seems that Manning was being closely looked at by a number of championship clubs at that time according to a lot of press comment, perhaps they made the decision to move before they were left with the worst of all worlds i.e. Pearson going and Manning already snapped up by a rival. The shambles around Pearson's departure was terribly handled by the club - of that there is no doubt. However, I wonder whether if, in the not too distant future, we will look back on Pearson's sacking and Manning's appointment as perhaps SL's best decision among numerous bad ones, and will recognise the excellent job both Pearson and Manning did at the times both came to the club.
  9. It would result in a 3 match ban for Bailey Wright!
  10. That sounds like a cue for Manning to make 3 subs and go 3 at the back.
  11. If Major has problems with seized nuts this is the stuff.
  12. There are clinics that can help you with that problem Major!
  13. I was being a bit facetious, but you know what I meant.
  14. Because they re ex-premier league Southampton and we are ex-league 1 Bristol City.
  15. Perhaps we need to replace Rob's hamstrings with the fibres used in the pitch, as they will last longer!
  16. He thinks he's Charles Charlie Charles.
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