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I'm confused as well as its not about recency bias (at least for me) In an earlier post on this thread you likened Offering James a 2 year deal to Nhaki's 2 year deal. I was worried about Nhaki's as a large part of his game is about pace. James' game is more about reading the game. I have always thought we look a better team with James in it. He would also be an experienced head in a relatively young midfield. if we can agree wages I would not object to a 2 year deal Williams we have seen an improvement each season he has been here (first obviously blighted by ridiculous injury problems) and he is coming into his peak years. adds a bite to our midfield. I would not object to renewing his either. Hypothetically if Manning wants to keep one and bring in his own midfielder I would probably pick James, though would not be upset if he kept Williams

Some of them did surprise me though Dickie has been by far our best player this season and I do agree with them that our defensive players have been better than our attacking players. I prefer looking at the stats individually rather than their ratings per se. for what its worth this is what they say about how they calculate their ratings if you go down to Stats Definitions: https://www.fotmob.com/faq

My work has an office in Ipswich they absolutely love him there. I still wish we'd have signed him the summer we went up as was immense for Chesterfield. Mckenna has been unreal for them amazed a team in the prem has not poached him yet. Interestingly on game on sky this season Sky said that Mark Ashton had been tracking McKenna for about 18 months before appointing him - this was when we appointed Holden!!

Manager of the season echoing the above McKenna has done an absolutely unbelievable job and would deservedly win this award. Like you said Cifuentes deserves credit for turning around a poor teams. QPR if they have a good summer could be a dark horse for the playoffs next season under Cifuentes. Danny Rohl at Wednesday deserves an honorable mention as Wednesday looked dead and buried when he took over. Player of the season here are Fotmob's top 10 players this season, I was surprised Szmodics was not in there ( he is 19th!). Personally I would pick Summerville as Young player of the year and Sam Morsy at Ipswich for player of the year (Fotmob have him 12th) as player of the season. He has been so influential for them this season, scored some vital goals and drives them on a real leader on the pitch, has been Ipswich's 'Roy Keane' this season. Here are Bristol City's top 10 performers (Twine's rating includes his games for Hull) no real surprises whose top, though thought Knight might be higher!

All games where the opposition took the game to us, had more of the ball than is which allowed us space in behind to counterattack.

was going to say I want to see more adaptability from Manning, or at least better in game management - when plan A doesn't work it always seems like we have no plan B

if that was the case their owners would be Beckham, Giggs, Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Butt, Scholes, Cocu, Koeman, Bergkamp, Larson & Kuyt. I think their ownership team would beat their first team in a match!

no one has ever disputed Tinnion has done a great job with the academy their are concerns over whether he is qualified to oversee the entire footballing operation of a championship team as he currently he is. the biggest test he has had so far in this role was the Pearson sacking and Manning appointment and it is fair to say this was not handled in the most professional way nor has the appointment really improved us as a team

I am really struggling to understand this viewpoint that Manning is blocking the pathway. there are plenty of valid concerns about how things are going, without making ones up. Seb - can't blame this one on Manning, he was loaned out when Pearson was in charge Yeboah was in the squad due to injury issues within the squad at the start of the season. He did not look up to the pace of the Championship at that time. this is not a knock on the lad as he is 17! he needs to experience mans football. Hopefully he does well then and can get a loan into the football league next season IMO, then maybe at the ripe old age of 19 he might be read for the 1st team squad! Most players go out on loan to experience men's football before making it into our first team, the only exception has been Alex Scott who lets be honest is a generational talent. Conway went to Bath on loan, Semenyo - Newport & Sunderland, Bell - Grimsby, even Zak, Max and Cam have all had quite a few each before establishing themselves in the first team

Nasty business surprised its not longer https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/breaking-qpr-ilias-chair-jailed-32196431

They've just signed Ebou Adams on loan which might change things generally though Warne has played him a bit further forward this season, 3 goals, 5 assists not too shabby https://www.fotmob.com/players/881558/max-bird

Thanks Ska, bit before my time can only go by the stories told

The demise was all our own doing but its not like your club did not try and take advantage of it which has not been forgotten

Keiran Maguire has reviewed the accounts some interesting stuff @Davefevs @Mr Popodopolous @ExiledAjax

I was told the same by colleagues at work who support Ipswich. Lets be honest the best signing he has made was McKenna who has basically took this squad from mid table league 1 to the top of the Championship. Interestingly listening to the Sky commentary for the Ipswich vs Norwich game they mentioned on commentary that Ashton had been tracking McKenna for 18 months prior to appointing him at Ipswich, this would have been around about the Holden appointment!