Shuffle

I thought King would have started in the middle of the 3 & I would have put Sykes on the bench & started Memehti.

Our right side was dreadful today with Sykes & McCrorie having shockers.

1) Dickie 2) Knight 3) O’Leary 4) James 5) Williams

Thought he was disappointing last night but thought he was excellent at Plymouth so swings and roundabouts like most of our team. Don’t think he’s done enough to stay in the team after last night & fully expect Memehti & Twine to play in behind if we persist with 3 at the back.

I agree and Meerholz has a bit of everything to be successful & be good to see him introduced this season. Also really like Anderson and Campbell Slowey who both have really good chances of being a success here. Congratulations to everyone involved with 18s as a great campaign.

Played really well yesterday and really intelligent player who judging by his interactions with other players both on & off the pitch has settled in really well. Playing in the 10 role is clearly the best position to get the best out of him. Really impressed with him yesterday.

Excellent episode & thought Owers and Piercy were both very good. It’s clear Owers isn’t having Manning one little bit & Piercy did fear it was spiralling out of control, whilst at the same time being honest with thoughts about Manning e.g never throwing a player under the bus.

King was singled out for praise and is clearly held in high regard by all the players and had a fantastic career. Closest we’ve got to a Pearson disciple although he will come with his own ideas. King will get us playing with passion and pride as Manning has to go as sucked the energy from players and fans alike. I’d give him role as caretaker and reassess managers position in summer. Unlikely to happen but would be the best solution with 8 to go.

Cus it saves them £400-£500 a week to get one of ours to be on the bench than a signed squad player to sit there. Too many as you say have gone there and not played. The U18s game is a couple of weeks away, so no instruction from club on minutes just not selected.

I was with you & felt there was an Otib pile on. However, the last few games have been abysmal with the most depressing football I’ve seen for years. Manning has sucked life out of players and fans & for me taken the enjoyment away. I hate losing & ruins the weekend but numb to it today as zero expectations. He has to go now & from the base of fans I know, I’d say you are in a minority.

Naismith has made more appearances on Robins TV than on the pitch! Started 10 games this season after missing loads last season. Definition of not getting value on the pitch & someone we need to try and move on. Undoubted quality but that counts for nothing if constantly out.

Take your point but we knew that Atkinson, Benarous, McCrorie were all out long term and that’s before any other new injuries which happen at every club (more so at our club). I guess technically, with pro players in the 21s numbers wise we had 2 players for every position but I guarantee no other club in the league had 5 lads on the bench in August who had never started a game at our level.

Still spouting bullshit that we had two players for every position in the summer For the Millwall game in August (which is the summer)we had 5 subs who had never started a game at Championship & 35 year old Andy King. Squad depth has been our biggest issue but still the club still state we had two players for every position.

I have no issue with people booing as that’s their prerogative as performance first half was unacceptable. I accept that they are not Mannings players or he can control injuries but what he is responsible for is the possession based rubbish that frankly is boring everyone to tears as indicated by those who voted with their feet. It’s his responsibility to get best out of players and we are clearly going backwards with the first half being as bad as anything I’ve ever seen in 50 plus years. Today was about the result and we got that which was number 1 priority but struggling to say that I enjoyed the game but delighted to have won.

I thought he was going to do that pre game and because of high Knight plays there’s no reason not to use Conway in his role. Agree on TGH too as not involved anywhere near enough.

Great post. I’m in the Manning out camp but do agree that everything he does and says is turned into a negative by lots on the forum unfairly in lots of occasions. I would love to be wrong about him as it means we are winning again & moving in the right direction which is what we all want.

Thanks for this and that first goal makes it unbelievable that Dickie didn’t deal with it.

I’ve just seen the goals back and terrible defending: Goal 1- Dickie has to deal with the ball to Burns but either was too slow or thought Pring would deal with it. Goal 2 - TGH let’s man get across him & basically switched off. Smallest player on pitch scores with a header. Goal 3 - McCrorie loses first header against a smaller opponent was first mistake then clearly Sykes doesn’t track runner. I know you can analyse ever goal conceded but the three yesterday were so avoidable & frustrating.

Not just me then as I have the exact same superstition

So much for Tinnions 2 for every position and a brilliant Jan window when we have 7 subs with 3 of those never starting a game in Championship. I then look at Ipswich bench and there is probably a minimum of 6 on the bench who would be starters for us. Every team has injuries but why do we shoot ourselves in the foot and god help us if Dickie or Vyner get injured.

Think you’ve put yourself in prime position to be on next Mondays SOTC & looking forward to both barrels

Rotherham went there in even worse form than us a couple of weeks ago and lost 4-3 to a 95 min winner. Nobody gave them a chance and tomorrow, I’d go with this team to hopefully stop the rot. O’Leary mccrorie Vyner Dickie Roberts Williams TGH Sykes Knight Pring Conway First time I’ve tried to be positive after shambolic performances & players need to be allowed to play with personality and passion rather than robots. I live in hope.

Dickie probably feels it’s Deja vu after QPR’s collapse last season and now ours. He certainly deserves better as POTY for me.

I shouldn’t renew as have to say as I’m getting older the defeats and performances really impact my mood worse than ever. I should be mellowing & I wish I didn’t take it as badly as I do but it’s been a constant for over 50 years now (thanks dad) & desperate for us to do well. Personal sanity is not enough to keep me away but where else can I hear @GrahamC berate the ref or see Mert Brown eat a packet of pickled onion space raiders every other week. I will renew but fully understand those that don’t but the season I don’t go will be the best one yet knowing my luck, so big Fomo on my part.

I can confirm that Fevs is the most honest person I know.