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Ironically, he played a nicely weighted pass through to Conway who went on to assist the goal today. To be fair, you dont need world beaters in there to compete (Morsy and Luongo at Ipswich, albeit they have promotion momentum). I just think it's too little too late to warrant a new deal.

A midfield player who rarely scores, doesn't run with the ball, isn't strong in the air, rarely passes forward and is injury prone. But he tries really hard and makes rash tackles - seems a perfect fit for a Bristol City midfielder at this level.

Just seen it back. Never a penalty in a million years. Even worse than seeing it Live and I'm in that corner of the South Stand.

Fair enough, difference of opinion is fine. Leicester was one of our better performances since Manning took charge, but we were very fortunate to get anything from the game. Today was another example. It's now 5 unbeaten, but that was dull, boring, painful to watch...again.

Unlike the Blackburn game. There were no gifted goals today to paper over another poor performance - apart from the referee giving us a very questionable penalty. It's not just performances though. The togetherness isn't the same as it was under Nige, something I enjoyed was we worked hard for each other. Now it reminds me of back in school when you'd play up when a supply teacher came in.

I still don't think we're playing really well. Leicester missed a hatful of chances and should've been out of sight. Plymouth we took our only chance, they didn't. Sunderland we were poor but not punished. Blackburn handed us 4 chances, which we took well. I don't think the performances are much different, but we are getting a bit of luck, which has got us results.

Tonight showed what a strange game football is. I don't think we created anything of note, every goal was gifted by an awful Blackburn defence. We took the chances we were given. We've had a flukey win v Leicester, a smash and grab at Plymouth and a poor performance at Sunderland which went unpunished. Fingers crossed he has worked out we can be an effective Championship side when we setup like we were under his predecessor.

Nope, over the past 10 years or so the scales have begun to balance out in Yate, maybe since Rovers non-league days? Frampton and Coalpit Heath you see as many red as you do blue. There was once a one off coach from Sainsbury's Emersons Green to Ninian Park when we played Cardiff away, coach was full.

I'd have given him another 3.5 years personally. But taking our decision makers into account, 18 months minimum would've been sensible.

There will be somebody smarter than me to explain it. But we were lopsided weren't we? Sykes was left wing/left forward, Knight central behind Wells with nobody on the right. TGH was right of a midfield 3 but nowhere near as high as Sykes and way more central. Worst I've seen TGH, he looked confused, like a few of them. The irony is, it's LJ-like in that as soon as you give these 'modern' young coaches time to coach, the performance suffers and players look confused.

The mess Ashton and LJ allegedly left behind following years of overspending, meant NP had to pull a rabbit out of a hat to make us competitive. This season was really the first season where we were less hamstrung financially and in typical City fashion had a lot of injuries. We weren't in a financial position (financially) to be hiring and firing coaches left right and centre. Then, once Nige had the opportunity to push on and improve us, we sacked him at the first sign of a bad run (during an injury crisis). Context is important. QPR might've been playing crap football but they didnt have a crap squad, very different scenarios.

Pearson was still building from the mess left behind by others. He gave us a team playing for each other, who worked hard and gave it a go. Not always the best quality but I enjoyed seeing the team progress. He needed and deserved another 18 months.

Without a big chunk of our first team. We had to play Sykes as a left back and a kid with Zero senior appearances at RB at Cardiff. Conway returned to the bench for the first time in months, wasn't Vyner out too? Different scenarios, Manning has a strong Bristol City squad to pick from and has done since being here.

I generally like us to stick with Managers and give them time. But I'll happily put my kneck on the line, Manning is not the one. In an ideal world he'd be gone tonight. The problem being with that is, we get Tinnion and JL picking the next one, and around we go again. Nige had 2 spells at Leicester...would he?!

I'm not a fan of the Euro Ultra stuff either, but different ideas and groups are nothing new, as per my previous post. As one of the 247(ish?) season ticket holders when the EE re-opened, I didnt know anyone other than the 2 mates I went with. Respectfully, I think people are just trying to enjoy themselves. I'd prefer a more traditional support but there is room for both.