Red Exile

Went with my eldest. Without doubt the most enjoyable City away performance of my time. Been to some crackers - Chester 84 being up there - but to win 6-0 when we needed a win was the least City thing ever! Loved that team. Loved that season. Cotts was a great fit for us. Sad that it fell apart so quickly - and that it’s never really recovered. Still - ever hopeful!

That's the sort of luck you need when the result really counts - sadly this one doesn't! But it's another game undefeated. Didn't see much of it but on the basis of results Manning has earned his summer.

Very enjoyable. As others have said, you can only beat what is it in front of you. Manning still to wholly win me over but he's heading in the right direction. Impressed by Roberts tonight.

Credit where it's due - a couple of very good, and very enjoyable, performances against sides at opposite ends of the table.

It’s a good question and one I ask myself. Best seat in the house at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford costs me £65. Not to every taste I appreciate but for me a couple of hours guaranteed world class entertainment. An afternoon at the Gate in recent years by contrast? A mix of bored to tears and driven up the wall in frustration! Not a lot of entertainment on offer. Fortunately for the club many people’s reasons for buying a ST aren’t rooted in expecting to be entertained by what’s happening on the pitch!

I don't go in for the childish name calling. But as for the image...well I'd say that is important. They started with a blank piece of paper when it came to marketing the season tickets. Could have had anything. In the past might have been - and has been - a montage of our promising young players - but they chose a montage of former players - some so former that as a man in my 60s I'm looking at images from my childhood - and a trio of leaders...Alan Dicks, legend but who left the club before I started work, Liam Manning, who may have many qualities we're yet to see as a coach but has zero charisma, and...Brian Tinnion???!!!! I could kind of see him in the players montage but in the role that places him on a par with Manning and Dicks - as a manager - he was an abject failure, one of SL's bigger mistakes. I can't understand what the designers were thinking...unless... ...my sense is that the folk running the club honestly think that everyone loves Tins, hence his radio interview. That he represents something of the club's heritage, that he can really speak to the fans. I think that a misjudgement. 'Trust me on Tinnion' is seared in my memory. I don't have anything against Brian Tinnion personally but his reincarnation as a key club figure reminds me of everything bad about the Lansdown years.

Completely agree. I'll be renewing but I really didn't want to be reminded of a manager responsible for the bland borefests we've been watching recently, or that one of the club's managerial disasters is lurking in the background. Alan Dicks and the players of the past only serve to remind us how much better things have been. I'm a fan of Zak, but he is a defender, back in the day the marketing was rather more promisingly built around the likes of Nicky Maynard banging in goals...which gets the blood racing slightly more than 'solid at the back'. All of which could be dismissed as trivia, but it's not an image that promises much for the future.

That was my first thought!

The very best away night. I suspect it can't ever be beaten. 6-0 to win promotion. The least Bristol City occasion ever!

Agreed. I thought Richard Hoskin adopted just the right tone, and through his politeness and very gentle persistence seduced Tinnion into saying far more than I would imagine Hoskin expected...examples being the stuff that is feeding this thread - the under 18s lines (which Tinnion must have prepped as that was the main reason he was being interviewed)...the revelation of transfer fees...Manning being a learner... At the time I didn't feel this was a PR disaster in the sense that any of this should have come as unexpected at the club. The media team must know Brian Tinnion - they clearly thought it was fine for him to go on a live radio show despite his apparent inability to avoid sharing his unfiltered thoughts. The rubbing of the hands at the prospect of easy matches after the Soton game stood out for me as an unusually open revelation of how football professionals might be thinking - usually that sort of stuff is so guarded. Presumably the thoughts of honest 'Tins' - 'club legend', '30 years' and all that - were supposed to calm fevered supporters. The conclusion I'd draw is that it wasn't a PR disaster, but worse...this wasn't PR - this was an insight into what the man who runs the football side of the club really thinks. I was grateful to Radio Bristol for the opportunity to hear from the horses mouth exactly how things have been managed and will be in the future. It wasn't encouraging.

I think Hoskin is doing a really good job. He has to work with the club week in and week out so needs to tread carefully. Asking challenging questions in a pleasantly disguised way. As a result Tins pretty open, if occasionally on the defensive. I think we've learned a fair bit - watching players abroad every weekend and expecting this to result in signings being one example. Far from a PR disaster in my view. But doesn't challenge many of the assumptions folk on here have. I'll be there next season, but not over excited by the prospect.

I was saying today that I'm all the more determined not to be driven out by the colourless chap! I'll be renewing mine.

...take a bow! Sums up this new passionless approach perfectly!

Better second half. Hats off to Rob Dickie. Not a great watch but we should make it to safety. Totally unconvinced by Manning.

Absolute bore fest.