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  1. Thing is Liam Manning is going to be our Head Coach for at least 12 months. He will only be sacked then if were in the bottom 3.

    So arguing about his selections and style of play after 3 training sections and 1 game is madness.

    I'm a fan of Nige loved his honesty and integrity but he's gone,let's give the new guy a chance.

    It's gona be a long ******* season on here with the bile being posted let alone long season on the pitch.

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  2. 1 minute ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said:

    But that wasn't the conversation- you just created it. It wasn't about how much LJ spent v LM- it was about track records. Check the exchange- if you want to discuss LJ's spending v LJ then just repost one of your previous. LM has spent nothing yet and I was discussing Liam.

    Really? So if someone is 100% negative regarding the club, the owners and the new Coach - I should let it go? Nope- ain't gonna happen but , hey, get yourself a few likes.

    NP has gone. Get over it/yourself and welcome Liam Manning.

    good god you think i want a few likes? you haven't seen my thoughts on Manning.

    Carry on mate pretty sure i'v made one comment on Pearson's sacking.

    Feel your boots and check it out,you seem to have a history of that.

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  3. Came across pretty good to me. 

    Anyone that thinks were getting top 6 this season or Lansdown,Tinnion believe that are in cloud cuckoo land.

    Unless it's a total disaster the man's here next season.

    The year MK got to the play offs i can remember their last league game that season. Away to Plymouth with Argyle needing to win to make the play offs.

    MK won 6/0 or 6/1 at Home Park with a master class of football.

    If  Manning can bring that style of football to Ashton Gate that would be something to look forward to.

  4. 1 minute ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

    Schumacher at least has a promotion on his CV and a good start to Championship life. 

    What does Manning have on his CV? 

    That's my point would you have accepted him before he got his side up? Manning could well do the same this season if he stays at Oxford.

    Then is it in your mind acceptable ?

  5. 16 minutes ago, ray savino said:

    Know very little about this guy but need to give him a chance obviously. Let’s hope the powers that be have really done their homework on this one and he is the real deal. I liked Nige for his forthright views and whilst the board probably won’t admit it, I reckon some of those things will have hit a nerve with them. They might show a bit more nous going forward. 

    I always said in previous posts over the past year that I could see Nige being the person to steady the ship, put some foundations back into what was becoming a mess of a club after the Ashton / Johnson / Holden regimes. But it seemed more and more clear that he was never going to be able to work with the current ownership longer term.

    Over the last couple of weeks, despite liking and appreciating Nige, I was kind of glad he was going, more to do with that fact that it was plainly obvious that he was never to be given a longer term deal. What I am also glad is that this really puts the onus on the ownersip to own their decision and recruitment decision in this case. I don’t wish them to fail, quite the opposite I want it to be a blinding success. It might show that they have really thought about what they want for this football club for once. The proof as they say is in the pudding, so let’s hope it was all lip service to the fans.

    I was never a huge LJ fan. He was a decent coach, but the fact that with probably more financial backing and support than any manager since I started supporting City since 1966, his teams always seemed to blow up by the last third of the season when in promising positions. I was never convinced with his apparent man management particularly it appeared with some young players. Nige did appear good at this aspect. Also I got the impression that BT wasn’t particularly aligned with LJ and their views of young players development. 

    So is this Manning guy another Johnson Mk 2? Well he’s young and can put a PPT deck together, and has a nice turn of “modern” football phraseology for a start. However, where I think it is very different at the moment is that he is not a known personality to Lee Johnson. It all felt a bit too comfy cosy with LJ and SL and to me, to the detriment of the professional decision making in the club. Manning is coming here with no Bristol City baggage and just the reputation as a promising coach.

    As someone else said, Eddie Howe had to start somewhere, likewise Corberan, McKenna, Carrick etc. Just maybe for once this bloke might be the fit for us at the right time.

    And that final thing is that classic saying, right person in the right place at the right time. With most managers at our level, there is a bit of hoping all the stars align at a club for them to be a good fit. Let’s hope this is the case with Manning because I want to get back to feeling like the club really does have a tangible plan. As much as I was disappointed about the nature of NP’s dismissal, I do think we’ve got to give the guy a fair chance. Has he got to get promotion this season? Don’t be daft, despite the stuff the board said, that was just a load of PR  guff to justify the Board’s decision to the fans.

    I’ve actually come around to the idea that this might be an interesting appointment, and he’s got plenty of time this season to show what he can do with this squad of players. 

    One final thing. What do people think of the chances of SL loosening the purse strings and getting in Twine as our playmaker on loan in Jan, with a view to a perm at the end of the season? 

    Great post. Amazed how many are against this appointment.

    Seems a lot are finding it hard to get over the treatment of Pearson. I never wanted him sacked but he's gone aint coming back.

    How many would take Schumacher now? A lot i would imagine but the same people would have turned the nose up 9 months ago.

    Manning seems to me just what we need now, could go tits up , usually dose but hay let's see what the man has got.

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    4 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

    I’d like Robins. Zero chance of that tho. 
     

    I fear we’ll end up with Rowett. 

    Of the likely contenders Eustace is growing on me. Young enough will have confidence in himself to do a job.

    Unlucky to be sacked by Brum so has a point to prove.

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  7. 7 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

    Will we? 

    I'll be behind the football team. He'd need to win me around on his own merits and not look to take credit for the work Nige has done here. 

    IF it is Eustace, in my mind there is always going to be the suspicion that he was part of the process that saw Nige kicked out of the door.

     

    You think? why would he do that and in what way was he to partly be blamed for Nige's sacking?

    Would you think that for any appointment?

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  8. anyway good luck John you will need it as head coach of our club.

    There is no doubt whatever has happened you start with a clean slate and 99pc of our fans will be behind you.

    Unlike the disdain most feel for the owner.

  9. 13 minutes ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said:

    (Sigh) It was an analogy.

    How the eff do we know whether Eustace is good or bad or better or worse than Nige before he's even appointed? 

    It's speculation. It's bitterness. It's silly.

    If he has the job then he's our Manager and should have at least one game before spleen venting.

    IMO ( and that of James Piercy) BCFC are a very attractive club and a really great opportunity for the new man. It seems like some think the football world should shun the job in sympathy for Nige.

    You know that it really has nothing to do with who's appointed. Most just gutted with Pearson getting sacked,ok not you i realise not you.

    As for the new manager be it Eustace or no i'm quite prepared to give the new man a good 30mins to impress .

  10. 1 hour ago, Harry said:

    I’m glad we are looking for a progressive, front foot, pressing coach. 
    Most other clubs are looking for regressive, back foot, non-pressing coaches. 
    So firstly, those words are just nonsense. 
     

    Regards the playing style. Jon refers to us now having an identity that the new manager will be recruited into. 
    And specifically that this is the first time they’ve had that clear vision. 
    One thing - who has been responsible for implementing that vision throughout the club? 
    Well, I’ve seen a very stylish document that explains the philosophy. It was put together when Gould was here and he told me that it was driven by Nigel. 
     

    So, I guess it would have been nice for Nigel’s work on implementing the club philosophy to have been acknowledged.

    Regards our ambition. I don’t know a single fan who had any expectations of promotion this season, so their ambition is very different to 99% of the fanbase.

    But given this is their ambition and there is still 2/3rds of the season left, I am now fully expecting promotion and the new manager and the board will now be judged by me on this clear goal. 
     

    If we don’t get promoted this season then I will now see it as a massive failure - and I will be blaming Jon. 

    Top,top post Harry.👏👏👏

  11. 42 minutes ago, Arden Red1 said:

    Absolutely  fuming at this, injuries, no transfer budget, and they use results as excuse to get rid of the most experienced manager we've  ever had. 

    Yeah you couldn't make it up. In all my years have never so pissed off.

    **** right off Lansdown you narcissistic piece of shit.

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  12. 7 minutes ago, stephenkibby. said:

    i don't know about room of optimism,more like 7 rooms of gloom {song by the Four Tops} being a City fan.

     

    Then listen to Still water runs deep and everything seems better. bring on the Wednesday.

  13. 4 hours ago, BCFC Rich said:

    Look I'm not going to lie - no fan wants to see their team lose back-to-back games. And it hurts. However with 11 players (might actually be 12?) out, 6/7 of whom would probably be starters I find myself bizarrely optimistic. We could easily have got points out of the last two games and with a little more luck might have done. We are 5 points outside the playoffs with an awful lot of the season to go and an awful lot of players to come back in. 

    I get the doom and gloom and worries around SL and lack of investment - and I agree that is something we should be concerned about. However when it comes to the football side, the staff and players. One thing is really clear they are united and playing as a team, giving everything and stepping up where and when they need to. I felt at the beginning of the season we were an upper midtable side, I still hold that with the quality of the squad we have that is our true position. However, I also feel, NP has us playing above ourselves a lot of the time. With better injury luck and/or more investment I think we'd be in with an outside shot at the playoffs this season. 

     

    i don't know about room of optimism,more like 7 rooms of gloom {song by the Four Tops} being a City fan.

     

  14. 25 minutes ago, spudski said:

    ... I've noticed something that's crept into our game and it was really noticeable yesterday against a side who did it well. 

    Being able to control a ball, with composure, and make angles to receive the ball at the right pace. 

    We seem in our eagerness to play fast football on the transition to forget the basics. 

    Passes are hit in hope rather than precision with correct pace. 

    Often the first touch is like a trampoline and needs a second to control. Or there is no control and it's ' passed ' again into an area, in the hope it will be won again. 

    There is a complete lack of composure...everything seems rushed. 

    When we play well...we move into space to create angles and time to compose and pick a pass. We aren't doing that so often now. 

    It's so rushed. And so many times players are cutting off a pass to themselves by standing in a straight line with an opponent in between. No angle or space. 

    Ipswich did those basics very well. They weren't outstanding tactically, they simply did the basics well. 

     

    They were very good at getting out,two or three times they had throw ins by the corner flag and got out comfortably.

    We just seemed a bit rushed in  ours attempts to get out.

    Confidence goes a long way.

  15. Thing is if Lansdown gets rid of Nige then everything is on the line.

    As much as i love what Pearson has done and want him to stay  most fans are only interested in results.

    If someone came in and immediately got results a lot would soon forget.

    Now i know the chances of that are slim to nil but we know how mad the OWNER  is.

    Anyway should be an above atmosphere Wednesday and we show our true support for Pearson.

  16. After all these years it's gona be our time i reckon. Never before have we looked like the real deal more than we do now.

    So many genuinely top players. France the only Country that could stop us for me.

    Would be some final.

     

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