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He doesn't if the run is bad enough. Pearson got a pass due to the diabolical hand he was played with regards to squad culture, Manning inherited the precise opposite.

Sounds about right.

For me it's more the performances, despite the win we clung on against Boro and we're utter carp against Millwall, QPR, Wednesday. One unexpected win against Southampton makes it worse, to be honest, as it shows that the players can play well. Which means it's down to setup, tactics, and selection - all down to the Manager.

Think the last of any goodwill left the building with Pearson, Rennie, and Euell for me.

All of the management and leadership preferably.

Don't think I've been more apathetic about a result this season. Just has a certain inevitability about it all. Its incredibly grating.

That's us losing then. Never seen us play better against ten versus eleven.

That's my point.

Tell that to the ownership who specifically implied and insinuated Pearson wasn't on the training pitch enough. Meanwhile Manning now isn't getting the time he wants due to fixture congestion.

Think thats what? - Sykes, Atkinson (two recurrances), and Bell with pretty serious Hamstring injuries since Rennie left in the last 6 weeks. Compared to two over 5 months inluding preseason for Ayman (rehab) and Conway (end of pre-season?)... King was an ankle(?) recurrance iirc. Zak was a ligment strain. Tanner impact injury at Stoke, with Sykes lacerating his foot the same game (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-injury-rotherham-united-8797849) Almost as if a certain former head of medical and ex-manager mostly had to content with an unfortunate number of impact injuries but had the right idea reducing grass time over the international break to avoid over-stressing player fitness in a congested schedule. I'm getting irritable again, so I'm going to stop there.

Depends - he steadied them at this level in the first instance and sounds as if the players confidence is at an all time low - at least with Harris they know what to expect.

I won't speak for WSM. But HH invited me on a while back and the timing due to my work schedule was completely unfeasible. Otherwise I would've absolutely loved shutting down some of Ian's made up references and anecdotes.

No issue with others nor myself being 'knocked' if and when blatantly being contradictory or non-objective, if the content of others doesn't keep views of other in check then what's the point of forum debate. Could make the counter point of contradicting yourself in that one post. You knock some on here as if we consider ourselves better than Ian (we don't, just differing views), then do the same yourself calling a portion of the same posters childish. Literally pot kettle. Ironically.

Cracking result against Barrow in midweek.

Think it would be more likely that we sign a free agent on lesser wages than James to save money who has progression chance, to compete with TGH and Williams. Noticed the other day Shandon Baptiste is out of contract at Brentford end of the season- another Oxford connection (for example) if we chose to go that way. Signed in the Championship for them and had no promotion wage rise clause. So not a long shot salary wise - rumoured to be on £12kpw. Unlikely, but just highlighting where the clubs thought process could be.

It was the three following Soton fouls by Armstrong (twice) and Mara had me tilting my head in confusion like A German Shepherd.

Think it's more the marketing element to help cover costs of the Heritage and Archive initiative - they've just used the Leeds game as some foundation for the release and it enables inclusion and revisiting of the clubs history. Think some are reading a slight too much into it - and not taking into account that at the time it was quite a big event. No different to us theoretically beating Man Utd in the FA Cup in SAFs final season in terms of scale - Leeds won the league that season and had been top 3 the precious 5 dating back to '68.

He's slightly inconsistent. But it's worth pointing out that, rather than age, for the period in his career he is at that he actually doesn't have that many first team appearances. Inconsistency would reflect that, Imo.

Speaking of - some hilarious comments from Derby fans since he 'signed' for us. Apparently gone up a level.

The exact profile of player (age, technical ability, fee, and salary) we need to aim for going forward imo. No stupid fees, just smart business.

Bugger. A tiny pessimistic part of me wanted him to remain a free agent in case the worst happens with Manning. Hopefully we pick up League form sooner rather than later.

Appointed Wealdstone boss in the National league. Moving up from St Albans the division below. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68098601 Missed this happening at the time a couple of weeks ago.

Wept that's a bit of a drop. Always felt he was going to end up in League One Luton with the timber he'd put on, but that's a bit worse than I expected.

Always sad to read a fellow red fighting the long fight with cancer and losing. However, equally enriching to read of the spirit he fought tooth and nail with on a well documented basis. Sleep well fellow Red. Sorry for your loss Russell.

This is bait.