The Dolman Pragmatist

Manning really rates Tanner…

Bet you’re feeling a bit embarrassed now…

Getting 15% of decisions wrong seems a bit frightening to me. 5%? Maybe just acceptable…

No disrespect, but it ain’t the equivalent of an undergraduate degree. I imagine it’s DipHE equivalent, which is what you would get if you completed two years of a degree course.

So how do you explain the last two defeats? Did they come from above too…

The fact that people are ridiculing Manning’s comment stuns me in the context of modern football. Analysing data is exactly the same as ‘working out what is happening’ and which successful club isn’t doing that to the maximum extent? And he even qualifies it, rightly, by saying that analysing data in itself doesn’t win you games, but is a critical tool in getting you to where you want to be. Perfectly valid and wholly encouraging quote from the coach, which should be welcomed by fans.

Small People … Randy Newman

Out on the tiles …. Led Zeppelin

What on earth has the national anthem got to do with a graduation ceremony??

Of course. The only thing that would stop me would be ill health, and hopefully I’ve got a few years before hauling myself up the Dolman steps gets too much .

Quite a few are probably involved in grass roots football on a Sunday. Avon Youth League U15 and U16 kick off at 2pm on Sundays…

Very good appointment I think, particularly after the car crash that was Barton.

Sadly, I haven’t been to an away match since the Trophy final at the Millennium Stadium in 2003, where I sat with my wife and father in law in front of a row of the most seriously unpleasant people it’s ever been my misfortune to encounter. From what I remember (I’ve since tried to blot it out), they were smartly-dressed, seemingly white-collared men in their 30s. Certainly the most unpleasant experience I’ve ever had at a football match.

The young Ryan Harley got caught up in the City drinking culture, and it had a big effect on how few games he played for us before being moved on. Now assistant to Luke Williams at Notts County.

‘Lansclown’, eh? That’s really funny!

But apart from that, a good appointment?

Fleming said on Radio Bristol after the match on Saturday that we was happy to be asked to help out by taking temporary charge while a new appointment was being prepared. Sounded perfectly straightforward to me.

Genuinely didn’t hear any of these from the middle of the Dolman. Did hear the Nigel’s Pearson’s red & white army chant, but that’s all. The irritatingly unoriginal “Is this a library?” from Wednesday suggest how quiet it was.

OTIB poster complains about delusional waffle!

What is it then?

You’re clearly not looking in the right places. If you seriously think that 97% of fans are angry about Pearson going then I suspect you’re way off the mark. Most fans have seen it all before. Managers come and go. It’s part of football. Pearson had a good run, and has done some very good work, but at the end of the day, we’re in the same position we were in four seasons ago and have just lost a manager with one of the worst win percentages in the clubs history. I’ve talked to Pearson and I liked him, but it’s hardly a huge surprise that he’s gone. Time to move on.

Do you think Des Williams did more for this club than Steve Lansdown has?

Well, that is unless someone else had come in and done a better job.

“End of chat”? You ITK then?

Fred Ford 1965 Alan Dicks 1976 Terry Cooper 1984 Joe Jordan 1990 John Ward 1997 Gary Johnson 2007… They won nothing?