DT The Optimist

I am with Robbed to some degree, we certainly saw the best of AF and he is now at his best level. Went from Stoke to Mansfield on a free ! Never made an impression at Stoke. Make of that what you will. Became a cult hero here with the famous Flint said 'No No No'... But we did the right thing and got a good fee for him at £8M (?) to Boro. Never again reproduced the form he showed for us.. in League One.

Under Nige did not play much but also got a knock quite early on...he reminds me very much of Des Walker in his playing style... I am sure older members of the forum will remember him from Forest. He is going to be a big player for us next season..

Will be corrected, but played alongside Ken Wimhurst ? Same as other more mature posters here, centre back when I started watching City. Playing style similar to Shaun Taylor…. Solid as a rock

But sadly that is what football fans are... totally fickle. It's all about the here and now.. the same can be said for the manager ! The noise will go away now for a few weeks in that regards

Interesting… completely at odds with what Tinman alluded to few weeks back on radio. I hope the local journos pick up on this and ask the question at the next press conference and see what response is forthcoming…. Simple ask really… why has he not featured in U21s yet and has he gone home ?

Got to ask the question….tin helmet on. Would those be expected to sing who were also on the 26/12/22 singing ‘we want Pearson out’ along with ‘you don’t know what your doing’ It was reported in the media a toxic atmosphere was created dby fans demanding his head… now that would be ironic a ! And of course I heard it as well. how times change, and football fans short memories ? we lost that day to WBA 0 2…

This thread is bonkers as are football supporters. Remember words of Mick McCarthy who said ‘As a manager you are either a champ or a chump, and it fluctuates between the two’ It was only a month or so ago he was the best thing since hovis sliced bread, now LM is the son of satan. This after two abject crap performances, that followed some cracking good performances. I have seen it all before, as most of us here have. it is a fact things are in place for next season with new signings and more planned so accept it for what is it. We are not going up, not going down. Support him to get it right and build for next season. Certain players will move on and cycle regeneration continues.

Re Twine on another thread a poster said no point in playing him anyway if not going to be here next season. Did I not hear when signed that the hope & expectation was a deal could be done to keep him here at the end of the season? Manning clearly history with him and could be a quality signing

We might have.. but sat on bench in Twine and ‘Dire’. As you say same old when team get behind the ball let us play in front off them. The Saints came here to win and allowed us to ‘play’

LM on radio Brizzle seems to put it down to the volume of games we had recently re the second half.... Hhhhhmmmm At least we have two whole clear days to recover

I do not believe that.. imagine a new owner coming here and all of a sudden we had to play in blue shirts ! I dread to think about the repercussions. Still all totally hypothetical as will never happen

I think you forgotten the total sh1t storm when the red flag Malaysia was fluttering over the stadium and the plan to make them play in red shirts. Total uproar (which was rather funny) at the time. He had sold their soul was the claim

Where and how does he go? Has he not said this that he has been trying to find other investment and would sell up…but would you like a Vincent Tan, the Venkys, a Chansiri (who recently said if owls fans keep moaning he will no longer pay the bills) and the list is endless. odd that on OTIB there was none of this stuff on here after we beat Westham ?

Wow thanks for sharing to the poster….that interview made me laugh..made my afternoon… Never heard an interview like that from a manager on a public broadcast… He says ‘worse than watching frigging antiques road show…apologises to anyone who likes that’ Calling out particular players re attitude and behaviours, and saying about why not going to play them etc etc…Saying how he wants them to play and they ignore him..(to paraphrase) good stuff…

He makes the simple look ‘spectacular’ and a friend who is a ST holder at Man Ure tells me thats the view point from the masses. I can only comment on what I see on the box. Point is he was 45M makes you wonder what MOL value is then. As for De Gea my mate would have him back asap, and still without a club.