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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.

And some were responding by singing an even worse song about Ross McCrorie...classic Bristol City all of this. Within a small section of 1100 people, there are multiple distinctive groups all with different ideas. Just like it was 10+ years ago, with netters, older lot, middle group. Then later the drummer lads.

He shouted "We all hate Leeds scum" not "we are Leeds". I vagely recognised him, pretty sure he's been a City fan for years.

My Season Ticket is in S25. The rail seating is S25, S26 and S27 and it's entirely standing for the duration of the game. If you think your Dad would prefer sitting, I'm sure you can contact the club to move it elsewhere. Enjoy the game!

I appreciate the constructive reply. Maybe watching it back would make me appreciate our play a bit more. But my raw feelings on the night were 'this is dull' we never looked like scoring. It's possible I just dont enjoy the style of play we are trying to implement. COYR

Possession for possessions sake in my eyes. We don't play dangerous balls with attacking flair. We just work the ball wide, play it to the free man then cross it. Dont get me wrong, this is a level we rarely excel at (I appreciate tonight was an FA Cup game against a decent outfit), but I'm not excited by our play, we rarely threaten at the moment. We rarely do anything much, it's safe, passive yet solid football. Defensively we look decent.

I've no idea what game others have watched but we passed it round the back, occasionally got wide only to have a cross blocked - dull. It feels like we are coached to within an inch of our lives with absolutely no attacking freedom.

I'm not sure what that is so it's gone over my head! Paterson was underrated here, a clever player, technically gifted, could use both feet, score goals, create goals. Often labelled with going missing but I just didnt see that at all. Twine was ok today, but hopefully can prove to be as useful as Paterson was. One other thing, LM said playing on the left doesn't get the best out of him, and ok, he wasn't hugging the touchline, but he was definitely left of centre.

Good corners, got up very well for the headed goal but the game passed him by other than that. Only 1 game of course, but seemed to lack pace and strength, but didnt replace that with quality on the ball or clever passes and vision. I was hoping for a young version of Jamie Paterson, upon first viewing he's not as good or clever as Paterson in open play. Hopefully he improves, but part of me isn't really fussed as we've only got him for 4 months!

We switched back to lopsided on the other side when Sykes and Bell came on. Mehmeti came in field 10-15 yards, so Weimann was playing to instruction in the first half, tucking in and Mehmeti staying wide on the left.

Momentum caused by confidence in winning games in L1. This season or never for Ipswich ala us under GJ. Was hoping for a new name from nowhere. But Manning fits the 'yes man' criteria and if we chuck money at him, you never know. I would've been much more confident in giving Nige a decent budget instead.

This is bad isn't it...I didn't think it would get this bad. That interview is a slap in the face for loyal supporters of this club. Other than continuing to stick their fingers in their ears, how can they move forward from this?

Yep, that crept up too, it used to be £45m