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50 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Yeah, I was a “soft as shite” Centre-half!

Seriously though, I’ve watched it back….yet.

Be interested on your thoughts, especially seeing as Joe was clearly designated marker of their top scorer on the corner. 

17 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Yep, if you’re singling out players today, you’re just putting out agendas.

Did you ever get beat up like that by a full-back when defending a corner Dave?

2 minutes ago, Fuber said:

Someone hire a plane with a banner. That'll get BBC attention.

On a serious note - I'd love it if Section 82 all wore NP masks.

Or Stevie Neville wigs. A surreal but visually stunning protest.

Why are you even worried about these clubs?

WE HAVE A “TOP 6 SQUAD” AND HAD A GREAT CUP RUN.

And slightly funny social media.

Focus on the reality please.

Does anyone remember when Nahki Wells and Tommy Conway played together on the pitch at the same time and were actually quite good?

Sorry, maybe irrelevant. Was good though those days weren’t they. We scored a bit. Silly old reminiscent me.

Played for Nige, dont play for Liam.

Wonder why.

Footballers are not idiots, and its their livelihood at stake.

Joe is a lot of things but one thing he is is honest, and a big character around the club.

Telling and worrying.

13 minutes ago, BCFCGav said:

Anticipate a battering here but I’ll post my thoughts anyway. 
 

We should keep him. LM is going poorly - let’s have it right. We’ve lost to three teams with worse squads than us on the spin. Criticism is more than fair and us, as paying and long-suffering supporters, are qualified to give it.

But.

- These are not his players. They don’t suit his style. His one ‘big’ signing in his mould is injured (an ongoing issue here that long precedes LM). He will need the summer.

- The same idiots still own the club. The next appointment will also struggle - they struggle at appointing managers.

- He’s got over 3 years of contract left. So has his assistant. We’ve sorted our money issues, let’s not piss all that money away now.

- This will be the least popular one. We showed some signs of progress today. We nicked the ball high on about 4 occasions, that’s our best avenue of attack and we saw signs of it. I actually think we were the better team today. They scored one set piece, and their keeper had a solid game. Today was better, albeit against a low bar.

 

We’re safe this season. Some will say we’re not but we are. 9 points AND 9 places clear. 6 more points from 11 games will do it. 
 

The problems lie above his head, and until they’re gone, we will always fail at this level. No amount of chopping and changing managers will change that fact. And even if they do finally get it right and appoint a man to take us forward… we know they’ll sack him anyway. 
 

 

Pint of what you are having please Squire

Flying into reckless nonsense tackles and yet a fullback bullied him for the goal.

Horrible to watch today.

1 minute ago, Bedred31 said:

What’s your address?

Currently residing at

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Football is rubbish Road

Mediocreville

Boredtown

BS3

Last good thing he did was getting appointed as I had a few quid on him at 6/1.

Just knew it would be the baffling appointment only we could make.

And I betted on it being Holden too.

Im currently scouring the football world for uninspiring, non-footballers who we are bound to hate and that will maintain our mediocre/nowhere club status for my next bit of pocket money.

As I am getting used to my weekends being ruined, and the disbelief at my clubs ability to drain my resilience and like for anything football related, a question occurred to me.

In the crisis (yes it is, anyone who says otherwise is wrong) that we find ourselves in, has there ever been a bigger example of self-sabotage in the history of football than the one our hierarchy have created?

Hoddle and his mad ramblings maybe?

Anything Rovers related certainly….

But any others?

1 minute ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

Why is nobody talking about the rabbit in headlights number two. He’s so forgettable I can’t remember his name. He’s a joke too! 

Chris Rabbit I think…

No not that is it.

S*it.

For such a student of the game as our Liam is, I was relieved to hear that Scotty Murray had to tell him yesterday how important our Severnside derby is.

I literally have no feelings about this bloke. The most unoffensive yet uninspiring guy who has ever managed us.

He could walk into my house and help himself to a beer and I wouldnt notice.

Just now, ChippenhamRed said:

“The impressive cup run”.

We got through one round.

Thats kind of my point mate.

Could not make the ground today so watched on RobinsTV.

I am not sure what you are all on about listening to the commentary.

I mean, I was miserable with this borefest display, the lack of any goalmouth action, the weird formation and sideways passing, the inability to pass properly, Manning, Tinnion, Lansdown x 2, tepid crowd, Joe Williams getting dominated for the goal, Pearson going, the January transfer window, the “top 6 squad” underperforming, 2 defeats to bottom 3 sides, no Alex Scott replacement, but then…..

the commentator reminded me of “the impressive cup run under Manning”.

I immediately told myself off for my selfish ambitions for my football club and quickly remembered the 1 win in 4 matches, and 3 goals in the Cup, which ultimately ended at the 2nd hurdle, in the 4th round and reminded myself to stop being so ungracious.

Happy Saturday (again) fellow Reds.

Just now, Charlie BCFC said:

Southampton came back and beat Huddersfield and their mentality was sky high, the loss against us knocked their confidence and now they’re struggling. Each to their own but Manning has only had a few months and not had a chance to put his authority on this team but still has picked up some great results and for me deserves a full pre season. I’m not happy with the last two results but if this is what has made you disconnect from the club then you must not have supported us for very long

Ok mate.

Its the opposite which is evident in my post - and you are the probably more the kind of profile of a fan that the club wants right now, again, proving my point.

No disrespect intended by the way as you are clearly a big City fan, so you are alright by me.

1 minute ago, Charlie BCFC said:

10 days ago we were beating a team which seemed unbeatable at the time and now a couple of poor results and this is what we see on this forum? Reality is that we have rarely been above where we are in the league at this moment of time, I have optimism personally that we are set up well for the future but at the moment we don’t have the consistency to be in the conversation for playoffs this season. This is nowhere near the worst I’ve seen the club and I’m far from disconnected personally

Im pleased for you.

Southampton were taken all the way by Huddersfield, and we were at our very best. Way above our levels and they were way below. They were hardly “unbeatable”.

Nothing against you but your optimism and benchmarks sum up where we are, and kind of proves my point.

7 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

The thing for me is if I really was apathetic I’d be doing something else apart from posting on OTIB about a crap performance on a Saturday night about an hour and a half after the final whistle.

Maybe I am annoyed enough at being apathetic to post this thread.

9 minutes ago, bearded_red said:

This is spot on.

In many ways Liam Manning, and the tedious dross his teams play, is the perfect manager for Bristol City. So soul destroyingly boring.

I’d actually much rather City made me angry, rather than just struggling to care because it’s so dull. 

Exactly. At least when angry, there is a passion, a seige mentality, something to focus on, as football should be.

We sort of now have the head coach we deserve.

A reliance on pointing at the academy from the top, with a "look forward to tomorrow" mentality - which means they can never be wrong as long as we are all content with tomorrow never arriving.

A fanbase split between what we should be focussing on and others content because "its a nice day out in a lovely stadium" and therefore the numbers through the gate are always ok - which is the only thing that will effect real change.

Just a nothing club currently - any sense of identity that was coming back has now never been more scrambled.

Anyone else?

I have followed the club a long while and have been ecstatic, passionate, heartbroken, hopeful, nervous, anxious and everything in-between.

Right now, I feel so disconnected I am genuinely numb to the same old same old, which is worse than any of the emotions above.

The club is just mediocre, boring, dull, beige. Sleepwalking around clinging on to FA Cup wins and draws against poor Premier league clubs.

The transfer window in Jan has to be the worst in living memory when you consider the reason for Manning coming in and our league position, in conjuction with the now infamous “Top 6” quotes - not to mention the endless and meaningless rhetoric/propaganda from the club which accompanies anything we do, which is grating beyond belief.

The pattern of half a step forward and one step back with a strange ray of hope result thrown in amongst the normal dross is also now too common to even care about.

Have a good evening everyone and heres to a 1-1 draw at Palace away in the 3rd round of the Cup next year and the ensuing euphoria around it as the real stuff that matters drifts away even further.

7 minutes ago, David Brent said:

Perhaps he is one of our better takers usually.

 

Perhaps.

3 minutes ago, petehinton said:

How are we to know who the best penalty takers are…?!? Who are the 7 players that should’ve been ahead of him?

It would be hypothetical so pointless and like I said, hindsight.

Matty James certainly. Williams, Vyner. Form and experience.

He did miss though right - 1 of 9 in total? Would suggest he was not one of the best ones?

With the players left on, Bell should have been 7/8 on the list.

Hindsight maybe but always felt he was likely to miss and we were chasing it from there.

Irritates me so much that the best penalty takers dont go first and some never end up taking them in shoot-outs because of that.

1 hour ago, JBFC II said:

I suppose my point was that things aren't markedly worse now than they have been over the past few years under Pearson. We're on track to end this season in exactly the same place we ended last.

Manning is no better, nor any worse than Pearson results wise and until the squad is improved that won't change. Considering the high esteem many held Pearson in (saw some on here claiming he was our 3rd best manager in the last 50 years...), nothing (apart from hope) points to us being any further forward under him than we are currently.

That doesn't take away from the ridiculous nature of his sacking, and it doesn't make the laughable statements the board came out with after it correct, but it does highlight that much like how Manning isn't underachieving, Pearson wasn't overachieving this season either

3rd best in 50 years?

Not far off if you consider context and what they had to deal with.

Top 5 for sure:

Dicks

Cooper

Jordan

Pearson

G.Johnson

Lets face it please.

I consider myself pretty level headed yet passionate about City, but that was awful tonight.

We looked in awe and dare I say it paralysed by being over-coached by a well-intentioned, and probably highly skilled Liam Manning - who, for me, is wrong guy, wrong time, wrong club.

The identity we strive for has never been further away, and the grit and determination that got us through the mess post Johnson/Holden has disintegrated.

Whilst I am at it, is anyone else really irritated at the brain-washing the club puts on a futile cup run?! We are not going to win the thing and yet its our everything as we slip down the league. Emperors Clothes stuff. It cost us promotion in my view in 17/18, and is taking our eye off the real ball now.

I would rather have lost 6-0 at West Ham and taken a 1-0 win at Preston. Good for the kids and social media I guess.

Weird club we are at the moment.