Gert Mare

Oh dear....no stark facts here. Pearson was constrained by wages and hardly given any money to improve. He had to work with what he had and was hampered by the fact that one of his key signings was unavailable to him due to an unforseen illness. Despite also having many other key players on the treatment table he still kept us competitive in most games. If only we had actually kept him and given him some real money to spend in the January transfer window then we might not have ended up in this mess at all! Let's not forget, with the right backing he has won promotion out of this division and we were making progress both on and off the field despite the limitations of resources available to him. Manning was brought in to achieve promotion THIS season. This is the factual reason why Nigel was sacked. He's failing and taking us backwards.

So Liam is failing the requirements of him made by the Crayon Boy when appointed? It's hardly surprising when you dismantle something that was actually beginning to improve and try to start again with someone who won't question the Ayatollah! The way this season is heading we're gonna be left with the following certainties, NP should not have been sacked, the fans were lied to, Manning is not the right man to take this team to the top end of the Championship, the players aren't as good as Crayon Boy and Tins made out, Crayon Boy and Tins have talked utter bollocks and should be nowhere near the reigns come May and we'll be back to the absolute shit show of a club that Nige inherited. I ******* knew this would happen. I was fuming when Nige got the bullet and I'm literally foaming at the mouth with anger now.

The big difference now is the lack of real man-management skills. All the tactics manuals in the world do not address the psychology aspect.

As Brian Clough once said, the Directors need to look after the business side and let those who know about the game i.e the manager get on with managing. Ego’s got him out after 44 days at Leeds and whilst they continued to go backwards he took a provincial club to league champions and double European Cup winners. Just because a Chairman is told something he might not like from a manager it is no reason to pull the trigger. It might just backfire, like it did for Leeds. The truth hurts!

The bloke was on a hiding to nothing due to a ridiculous non footballing decision to sack the previous manager who had made us competitive in most games without any funds to improve and wage constraints. The most laughable thing I’ve heard was that Nigel Pearson had taken us as far as he could. Really? The bloke took Leicester to the Premier League with actual backing and kept them there with a great escape when they looked dead and buried and basically built the squad which won the Premier League at 5000-1 against odds, but if some want to believe that he had taken Bristol City as far as he could then in my opinion I think that’s a totally deluded view. We have no choice but to back Manning at the moment. We need to get this season over with and it’s too dangerous to create any further instability at this time. The ones that should be sacked in my opinion are the ones that made one of the most ludicrous decisions since the dark days of the early 80’s. They also blatantly lied to the supporters about the decision and they made it abundantly clear that success had to happen this season, not next. If anyone needs to go it isn’t Manning, he’s been sold a lie like the rest of us, but he hasn’t helped by failing to play to our strengths with what he has got at his disposal which is most definitely not top end championship challenging. There are 2 people that need to die by their swords and that is the Chairman and DoF sidekick. Out of touch with reality, egotistical, toxic and clueless when it comes to taking this club forward.

JL definitely said top end and promotion this season. It’s all there in his interview.

Helloooo, Helloooo East-End Aggro, East-End Aggro!

We shouldn’t let them off. Integrity and authenticity are essential in business. Let’s not forget, it is business to the Lansdown’s and we’re ‘just customers’. Accountability is another one, especially at the top where it sits squarely with those who set the strategy. Let’s see what happens at the end of the season. I’m not prepared to write this season off and wait for the next one. That’s not where the goalposts were set.

We had to make a change when we did to give us the best possible chance THIS season otherwise what would have been the point? Absolutely Jon. How’s it going?

Seems we’re better when we play the Nige way like we did against Southampton, revert to possession based Manningball and it’s normal strangle the life out of the game dross.

Last night I felt like it was 1978 again

Looking forward to the new series of this…..

Inevitable

Gary Owers has scared the dog and it’s gone upstairs out of the way

According to RB we’re now 3-1 up

Cue Zak

We’re still trying to locate the roof from last time

If we are we should consider putting Zak up front

Time to park the bus for penalties.

Yes Har. Apparently Manning was seen wheeling the Tombola back down the tunnel at half time when he went for a slash.

I’ll get me coat

Just hope Forest over commit in extra time

Just preparing for extra time

FFS!!

If I was a Gashead I’d be moving my sock from my foot into my pants