Charlie BCFC

Is it really that deep?

Didn’t they have Wrexham at home last year and lost? Don’t think Coventry take cups too seriously so every chance the game is on!

He was back then got another set back, Manning said he would be out for a lot longer.

Considering we were prepared to spend 2.5 mill on Azaz suggests to me that we’re in the market for players to improve us now This has been in the pipeline since the summer, he decided to stick it out at his club so as a result we got him cheaper. We’ve had future signings not go to plan but we’ve also had some that have gone to plan, I personally don’t see too many downsides to this signing

Referring to this?

Guess so in regards to false expectations from above but in regards to points returns there is a huge drop off from Eustace to Rooney!

This for me was handled incredibly poorly. 1. Sacking a manager for “no fear football” only to drop from the playoffs to a relegation battle is incredibly clueless 2. A board member saying that you’re going to recruit in order to suit that style and therefore back Rooney and then sack him shortly after is utterly bizarre. I agree with sacking him but the way it was handled was awful, interested to see who they get in next

Obviously completely agree with your last two sentences and maybe my comment was a bit reactionary so apologies to @Scrumpys Dietary Advisor.. . I do stand by opinion though that the style many teams have adapted hasn’t ruined football, I also think it will work and we have seen it in games under Manning. I didn’t even think in the first half we were too bad but second half is up there with one of the worst half’s I’ve seen from us at this level

I normally am impressed with how well Wells deals with aggressive centre halves. Considering his height he has a high jump and holds it up fairly well, maybe something that comes with more experience in fairness. Problem is think we need to sell before we can buy a striker, Cornick isn’t suited to how Manning wants to play imo but with him just signing a new deal last January not sure what offer we’d get

Really bugged me how Hutchinson finished the game without getting carded, good player don’t get me wrong but with the amount of fouls he made I’d like to see how good he was on a yellow

Sunderland for the first half I’d say it was even, but just before the goal we had a very good spell and it was coming. Second half backs to the wall as you said. Hull I personally thought we played well most of the game, was just a period before half time where we switched off.

We have, hence why we won 3 wins on the bounce which Pearson has never done.

I criticised the poster because he went on absolute ramble around Guardiola had ruined football and was a fraud which of course is absolute rubbish. I said the performance wasn’t great, that’s not defending the performance. Anyone who went today would know that it was probably the worst performance of the Manning era

Agree we were awful, but also important not to dwell on it too much

Sorry what? Where did I defend the performance? Are you looking at the right comment?

Agree with this, thought we looked a lot worse on the ball when James came off. Weimann doesn’t suit wide right but thought he played pretty well on the whole, would’ve brought off Mehmeti before him

Easily the most entertaining thing that happened that game

No one coaches teams to play slow paced football though it just happens to be how those games pan out. I thought we moved the ball fairly quickly first half but in the second you could argue Millwall stopped us from playing. You can also argue a lot of these players have limitations when playing this style. What point are you even trying to make here?

Something I’ve heard a lot recently and certainly describes the last week at this club! Today was a very poor performance, personally felt we missed that player who can provide that individual brilliance to get us out of jail. However overall, the Christmas period has been positive results wise and we now sit 4 points off the playoffs in the top half which I'd have certainly taken after the Blackburn game. We’re now in a transfer window and the schedule isn’t as hectic as last month so looking forward to see what the month brings starting with an exciting cup tie. COYR!

Not great but what I’ve just read is up there with one of the weirdest posts I’ve seen on this forum

New Years Eve was yesterday mate, you can stop drinking now

With respect, saying he can be improved upon and saying he’s a league 2 player are completely different things. I think most people on here want a new striker in but saying he’s league 2 level is absolute lunacy

Naismith a definite keep for me, great player Roberts would work well under Manning and still very young, be stupid to sell him imo Bajic can see but think he needs an EFL loan and we need to bring in a more experienced keeper to compete with Max Max stays for me most likely as number 1, if we get better though you also wouldn’t see me complaining

It’s a good run of form and do think you look a lot better under Taylor, top half as you said is a possibility although think you’re too far off the playoffs to make a dent this season. What I will say though is anything can happen in a new managers bounce it’s whether you can sustain it. Yes you beat the top 2 in incredible results but you’ve also dropped points at home to Cheltenham and lost to Crawley in the EFL trophy

When you put it like that it’s even more controversial than your original post