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  1. The good - I like Mainoo in the ‘open’ midfield spot. Think he has a serious case to start in our Euro XI. 
     

    The bad - seeing Maguire and Stones go down in the same international break. Plenty of time before the tournament of course but injuries mean a lot of our best 11 aren’t playing in our third to last friendly pre-tournament, when we ideally would be letting them all gel.

    Oh - and we’re losing 😂

  2. So Ian Gay’s source revealed ‘Manning has 8 games to save his job’. I’ve been racking my brains on what that means. Surely if the board or ownership are putting you on your last warning - you’re done regardless. It’s just a matter of waiting for the result(s) that seal your fate. Unless these last 8 games are SO good in results and/or performance that he buys himself back some wriggle room? 
     

    What a bloody shambles. Fingers crossed we end the season well and can finally see some realignment within the club and fanbase. Or better still, City release a statement that the Lansdown’s have agreed to a sale.

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  3. ‘Excitement’ is a tough thing to pin down in football. For example a relegation battle is exciting because it’s horrible, you’re nervous for every game and every point is vital. But if I offered anyone on here an on the spot 10 point deduction for City and therefore a relegation battle, can’t imagine many take it! 
     

    Excitement by way of winning honours is easier to measure as the internet contains records of absolutely everything of note ever won. And in terms of our current 23 league rivals, we fall low on that list. No majors, only one second division league title way back in the early 1900’s! 
     

    The League 1 clubs are more where we land in that regard, I think we’d probably be top 8 or so against those clubs. 4 titles at that level is bettered only by Argyle I believe. 
     

    I did once see a ‘yo-yo club comparison’ that looked at all League clubs and counted how many times they had changed division, but can’t find it now. Rotherham for example, rarely a dull moment. Battling for promotion one season, survival the next and so on and so on. 

  4. OP is exactly where I am, I would have him here next season in any circumstance bar actual relegation (won’t happen).
     

    But I think he’s gonna need a steady influx of wins spread over the final 8 games as his position is becoming borderline untenable. I don’t remember the fan base being this vocally against even Dean Holden, and performances under him were significantly worse than they are now.

  5. 11 hours ago, Davefevs said:

    Can be both!

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    Nah, brought in to do a proper, grown-up CEO job, increase commercial opportunities, etc, only to find the owner’s son (playing at being Chairman) does what he wants, doesn’t follow due process, undermines the CEO by doing shit commercial deals, etc.  Calls that out to owner, told to leave.  I’m sure his support of Nige didn’t help!

    Nige played along for a while, going with the “budget bollox” storyline for a while. Then his ally in the hierarchy got removed (Alexander) in September.  They called Nige in on the Sunday after the Leeds defeat (Oct 7th) and “asked” him to walk.  You may recall rumours of an emergency board meeting circulating on that Sunday.  Nige said “if you want to sack me, I’m not dressing it up as mutual decision, you will have to say you’ve sacked me”.  Surprised by Nige they bottled it, but Nige knew he was on borrowed time, he knew his staff were on borrowed time too.

    Cue Nige getting more pointed in press conferences, e.g. why do you keep asking me, go and find someone else to get your answers from.

    I do agree that most of this will have come from JL / SL not being “man-enough” to take criticism, but they will undoubtedly have sought Tins “advice” about how they could package up their execution of his eventual sacking (and who they’d look to replace him with).  He most certainly didn’t defend Nige, or else he wouldn’t be here now.

    So they let the international break run and waited for a defeat to hide behind.

    Shit, the old bastard beat Coventry, can’t sack him after a win.

    Ah that’s better, defeat to Ipswich, but can’t sack him this close to a Derby with Cardiff.

    I recall talking to @headhunter after this game and he asked whether Nige would make it to Xmas, I replied I didn’t think he’d make it past the weekend! 😮

    Ah, perfect, lose to Cardiff, now’s the time, players close to coming back from injury, Wednesday and QPR coming up, new boy will get an easy start.

    Sacked in the morning, you’re getting sacked in the morning - and so he was.  Euell and Rennie with him, Fleming to hold the fort as they couldn’t get new boy in quickly enough.  

    Cue a plethora of very poor interviews summing up their ineptitude and pettiness.  All complicit.

    The comment from Jon about players and “deconditioned” is one of the shittiest things I’ve ever heard in football, and I’m not exaggerating.  And people on here wonder why he gets stick. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    I’ve no idea if Manning was first choice.  There were rumours of both Mousinho and Eustace, so maybe they were asked but turned it down?  But they took a week to appoint Manning, when they already had their plan in place after Leeds, so my gut feel (and that’s all it is) was that they got turned down!

    Nothing about being sacked was a relief to Nigel, he wanted to stay at the club and deliver what he set out to do, and was doing.  He, along with the fanbase, thought he was really on the right tracks.

     

    This makes for thoroughly depressing reading regarding the decision-makers at the club but it’s good to know. Thanks for sharing (I think! 🤣).

  6. Rather this sort of stuff after the game. The funny thing was they were singing we’re ******* shit in the period of the game we were nicking the ball high and carving out chances. Think the players would’ve appreciated some support. 

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  7. Came into a Lansdown inspired shit-show, as they waxed lyrical about our top 6 squad and results here and now. The most poisonous poisoned chalice. My first real assessment of him will come around November time after he’s had a summer and a few months of 24/25. If we’re looking rubbish, change it then.

  8. 2 hours ago, Davefevs said:

    Williams more precautionary, could’ve pushed him, but his history has bearing.  Should be available for Leicester.

    James due back in the next couple of weeks, assume that will post-break?

    Cheers Dave! 

    Not our day, gotta start taking chances. I think Twine will help us tick in that regard, and it’s nice to see him back out there, likewise Tanner.

     

    Injured:

    Atkinson

    Naismith

    James

    Williams

    Benarous

    Bell

  9. Post subs we looked better. It’s another game of had the chances, didn’t take them. Forwards been bad for that this season. Their first goal, disappointing from Max (although do they have an offside player in his eye line?) and the second goal was just poor from the team. Far too easy.

    Not a complete disaster of a performance but disappointing nonetheless. Just a case of riding out the rest of this season and going again next year!

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  10. Two in, one out as we name a full bench. 

    Williams is the ‘out’, we’ll wait to hear more, Tanner and Meerholz are in. Tanner back from his injury is good news.


    Mon the City 🔴⚪


     

     

    Injured:

    Atkinson

    Naismith

    James

    Williams

    Benarous

    Bell

  11. The Lansdown’s tried to lie to us in October. We pressed them for reasons on Pearson’s dismissal and got what we wanted - a lie so glaring that we could throw it back at them. ‘Pearson was fired for underachieving with a top 6 squad’. We got them. Tonight was as good as a concession - he wasn’t fired for footballing reasons. 
     

    For me - SL and JL are the root of the problem. But they don’t just run the show - they own it. There is very little we can do.

    On Tinnion - he’s a club legend and his work with the academy has been outstanding. The technical director role… a rocky start. But I DO believe he loves the club, wants what’s best for it, and can (hopefully) turn it around. 

    On Manning - he was offered a job to lead our great club. A massive promotion from Oxford United, let’s be honest. So he took it. He seems to me to be a football obsessive who will sink all his time and energy into trying to deliver what we all want. The lie the Lansdown’s told meant he was on a hiding to nothing. His start has had problems, but he’s clearly not going anywhere nor is he culpable for the nonsense of last October. I hope we can all come together a bit, the fans, the squad, Manning and his team and go into next season with a bit of renewed vigour. 
     

    The owners effed up no end in October. But the squad and LM are here fighting for us now. 

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