Dr Balls

I think he’s lost confidence as others have said, plus Manning is playing him in a holding role that I don’t think suits him. With a different coach, I think he would suit playing as an attacking midfielder. If I wanted to go really radical and attacking, I would set us up as a 4-2-2-2, with Knight and TGH as the forward midfielders in front of James and Williams, with Conway and Wells as the front pair. Would definitely create more that way, but it’s not going to happen under “Mr Behaviours”.

Manning heard Man City Academy Player of the Year and his head was turned. What he didn’t consider was why Man City let him leave for the Belgian league, where he then achieved a total of 3 appearances since August, his only senior football experience. Talk about taking a punt!

It’s not the attack as such, it’s how we are set up tactically. No surprise Conway won’t sign a contract to stay as things stand as his current role is soul-destroying as a striker. So much running for so few chances and so little reward.

You really think Burnley will sell us Twine when they are relegated back to this division? Think again. Either that or they will want many millions, which given what he has contributed so far, you would also have to question.

You could say that about quite a few of our players at the moment who are being played out of position and therefore struggling. As much as the style that Manning wants to play doesn’t suit the players, you could say that is also in large part part down to the formation that he sets up. Play Cornick with Conway or play Wells with Conway. in fact plsy any striker with Conway but not Jason Knight!

The relegated MK Dons team from which he was sacked mid-season must have been pretty poor too. Or was that also not how he wanted to play?!

How will the televised matches affect midweek games? Presumably shift them by a day and make it an 8pm kick off rather than 7.45. It’s messing with the Saturday afternoon routine that’s a real pain. And anyway 23 televised games is an average. So that’s Sheffield United, Burnley and Luton on 35+ televised games and whoever of Ipswich or Southampton fails to get promoted, while given even our own fans aren’t that keen on watching us right now, while Manning is here we will likely only be televised 10 times at most next season!

The only way Mannkmg leaves before next season is if Lansdown manages to sell the club. Otherwise we are lumbered with the mood hoover until at least November, because Lansdown never wants to be seen as hasty when changing managers. There is an international break from the 11-19 November next season. I can see that being the point at which he goes if current form and performances continue next season

The problem is that the way Manning wants football played is the antithesis of exciting and what fans want. He doesn’t want passion or emotion, he wants control. He doesn’t prioritise the strikers or anyone else getting chances, he’s more interested in maintaining possession. It’s boring, dull and also not very effective, especially when we do have the majority of possession. Passes back and forth along our back line are never going to lead to anything other than improving the possession stats.

I remember when McInnes took over as a bright young manager. He at least had a far better relationship with the fans. Steadied the ship eventually and kept us up in 2011/12. Absolutely great start to the next season (beat Palace and Cardiff in consecutive games scoring 4 goals - both got promoted that season) after some underwhelming recruitment, but by Christmas it was all going wrong, eventually he was sacked, and we were relegated at the end of the season. McInnes was handed a similar scenario to Pearson - cut the wage bill, sell the best players and keep us up. He couldn’t manage it. There is going to be an absolute exodus of players in the summer (can’t blame them), but I have no confidence in Manning’s tactical awareness or management skills and not much more in Tinnion’s recruitment. Assuming we are in the Championship again next season, with Manning in charge, I see little reason to be positive.

Unbelievable skill from Ronald-doh!

Yep. Totally predictable substitutions. It’s football management by numbers. And I wonder why the atmosphere was so negative? Could it be that the football is awful and the results have been bad? After 4 straight defeats and that first half, I challenge anyone to have been positive, even the happiest and clappiest of happy clappers!

Steve Lansdown was definitely there because I saw him at the beginning of the second half going to his seat. Cracks definitely papered over with a win because the performance was mostly awful. And the atmosphere is getting more toxic because the fans watching know that it’s very poor and far worse than it was under Pearson. At least the players looked motivated then!

But it’s not about the results, it’s the”behaviours” that matter!

I am going to need something stronger than that if this is how we are playing until Manning goes!

And so will Lansdown until we are in the relegation zone going into Christmas and he will be forced to make a change. There is nothing in Manning’s CV to suggest he is going to be a success at this level sticking slavishly to the “Guardiola way circa 2018”.

Not quite sure I would go as far as “fun” Dave but it was a bit better. However can someone please tell Mehmeti to stop being so greedy and actually play the ball to an attacker in a better position. Ideally Manning, but as he clearly thinks Anis is far better than he really is, I have little confidence we will see any change soon.

I wish I had your optimism because it clearly isn’t shared by at least 90% of the supporters. Manning is ****ing clueless and you don’t need a comparison with the previous manager to see that. Holden was equally terrible but at least to start with the football was better than the steaming pile of turd Manning is serving up on a regular basis!

Nobody can understand what Manning is trying to do because frankly it’s baffling. Unless it’s turning good players into useless ones. He’s clearly good at doing that!

No. His tactics are useless and his game management is worse. But we are lumbered with him for at least another 6 months, by which time most of the senior players will have left along with Tommy and any other player with any ambition. Letting Manning get his hands on the “nest egg” is bonkers!

It was two teams playing really turgid football, one playing a type of ineffective football that the other one apparently wants to emulate. My recollection is that the aim of football is to score more goals than the opposition. In all the tactics, and following the prophet Guardiola and his possession-based football, that crucial element (scoring goals) appears to have been completely forgotten.

It matters to me too, I don’t want us to be relegated, but I really hate the way we are playing under Manning and I have absolutely no confidence that we can improve under him. And what really upsets me is that Lansdown will let Manning waste the “nest egg” without any evidence that he will know how to use it effectively. And if you want an idea of how empty the ground will look next season, today was a good indication. No way that the season ticket numbers will reach this season’s level.

Enjoyed the fact that we won but hated the way we played. This possession football is duller than dishwater and less exciting than watching paint dry. That’s entertainment? I think not! Good grief, the best bits today were the worst corner in living memory (thanks Swansea - especially from Gardner-Hickman after his kicking straight over the goal line before it even got to the penalty box has been clearly outdone) and the sprinkler not turning off at the start of the second half!

I would hope that Manning watched Swansea play the way he seems to want us to play and might realise how ineffective it can be without the best players in the division. Swansea didn’t have a single shot on target all game and our only effort on target was the goal. If you wanted to see how football dies, this would have been prime evidence!

What was really disappointing was that as soon as Tommy saw Nakhi ready to come on, he knew he was going off. And both of them will be gone in the summer because Manning clearly doesn’t play to suit forwards. Thank god for Rob Dickie and his goalscoring!