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That'd need every team down there to find better form than they've had all season. I'd be surprised.

High 40s I reckon. 48/49 or so.

FGR 9th in the form table, W3 D1 L2. Long way to go but if Cotts somehow keeps them up it's an absolute miracle he's worked there

Eh? We were four points weren't we, with a worse goal difference and having played an extra game compared to most?

I heard a rumour Tinnion stormed into the dressing room at half time and told them they better start playing terrible boring football or else, then made them watch him take a massive shit (which he subsequently didn't flush)

This season is done though, right? So it's not about getting someone in who'll do a better job until the end of the season, it's about getting someone in who's more deserving of / likely to produce success with the summer and a few reinforcements on top of this current squad. If he's not good enough to keep indefinitely, why keep him for now? Sounds like some sunk cost fallacy there to me. (I agree about there being little point to appointing King either though)

I agree - and as you said, it's incompetence. It also doesn't give us much of a clue what might come next, which is I guess what I was getting at, when their appointment is so at odds with their communication. I guess it maybe comes down to whether you trust that the words they've said recently were the truth, and that'll be our path now - or whether you look at our recent(ish) history and think they're likely to continue in that way. I think they're at odds with each other, so both can't be true. I'd probably be tempted to agree with what I think you're saying, that their actions speak louder than their words and regardless of what they say, we'll likely continue down the tortuous and confused path we've been on for a long time now.

Then why were the club so clear with their expectations for the season, which was progress/success? They didn't say - transition and do our best until the summer when we can replace and rebuild the squad for a year or twos time. So what was Manning brought in to do?

They're amusing, but photographing someone's private conversation and plastering it on the internet is a really shit thing to do.

Yeah you're right Tinnion did as well I think while Pearson was here. Confusing regardless!

I think it was the opposite. In the Joe Simms interview JL implied (or it sounded it to me) that we weren't playing the way the club wanted/expected. The fact they then hired a manger with a very different style backs that up imo.

Probably just a pretty normal kid who liked some subjects, didn't like others, and had a few mates.

Good post and I largely agree. However - is the real question whether we have appetite (as fans) for a rebuild or not? We've been told this is the way the club will now play, so in theory even if Manning goes the next person is likely to run into the exact same problems. Maybe they'll be better at meeting in the middle, but regardless they'll need a new squad to match this style of football we apparently want. In wanting to replace him, we're really hoping the club change strategy and appoint someone who will play a style that suits our players. In theory that should be very unlikely based on what the club have said So I guess if Manning goes, we're looking at a rebuild regardless. So it comes down to whether he's the right man to do that - and the stuff about the style not matching and the fact he'll need to rebuild is irrelevant? Is the real question here - do you agree with the current style of play the club are trying to implement? Everything else is a factor of that.

Will Still, because he likes computer games and so do I. He also said he'd be open to managing in the Championship recently: "I would work for a Championship team without a problem,” said Still. “What I’ve now understood, I’ve now realised, is how important people are. And how important finding the right place to be is going to be for my career. And people who understand the way I work, because I’m a bit different. I’m a bit odd sometimes. But if there’s a Championship club that’s ambitious, that wants to work in the right way and be open and honest about things, and really try and push to get somewhere, then I would love to do that." He operates in our environment: “Because of the DNA of the club, and the way the club is run, we get players in and then sell them,” Still explains. “So, every six months to a year, you just have to renew the whole squad and the whole team. And that’s what happened again here in January. Basically, we sold our best player and we’re now looking to find a new balance.” "“We were basically stripped down to bare bones — playing with kids,” Still says. “Which was really interesting, but makes life a bit more complicated.” On January 21, Reims went to third-tier Sochaux in the last 32 of the French Cup. They finished the game with eight players from the second team on the pitch and were beaten 5-4 on penalties after a 2-2 draw." And he kind of gets where we are at the moment as well: “You can either make a bit of money and sell players, stay a stable club in Ligue 1 where we finish between eighth and 12th, or you decide to really push on, keep your best players, do that for a year or two, get into European competitions, and make your money.” The club is left at a strategic crossroads.

Just the 4 wins and 2 draws at home in the last 6 then for them. Not great - I'd take a bit of being not great in that case then!

His control AND shot for the goal were both pretty awful I thought, but I admired the fact he was looking to get forward and take players on. That's what allowed it to happen and it was well deserved imo. Also a good bit of skill to make space for his shot from range - not too many others would have done that. A better performance overall going forward I agree.

That's not how rounding numbers works. We can also tell this because you didn't round the win percentage correctly either Mathematical masterpiece next time instead maybe?

Manning said pre-match that Pring wasn't 100%, and even the Sky commentators said Burns would come on before the end. We needed some kind of mitigation/plan there, and didn't really see it. 7/10 is probably fair I think though

PPG is 1.095 which should be rounded up to 1.1

Christ almighty we didn't just lose to Man City in the cup or something, we lost to a team who only got promoted from League 1 last year and soon won't even be able to see us in their rear view mirror. "We gave it a real go"...

Well done to Ipswich tbh

Ipswich third: https://streamin.one/v/2363c589

Awful pen, well done Max

Luckily we've got him at centre back rather than working on Fermat's Last Theroem then

Ipswich second: https://streamin.one/v/57b12c19