redsquirrel

12 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

They went to league one due to their ownership and lack of investment, they were on the verge of administration,

They are in this position now due to new ownership and investment

thankyou for correcting me i dont know much about footy other than results,happy to admit that but it dont half look familiar, to me anyway

4 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

I can’t be sure. 
 

But I think Liam thinks emotion had something to do with it.

 

someone needs to get an emotional sweaty sock and stick it in his mouth

it keeps being mentioned how we are copying brentford/luton etc. its just dawned on me what is happening.

a few years ago ipswich were rock steady mid-lower championship with a hand tied mick macarthy holding things together. never had any money to spend.  sound familiar??  then they decided to twist, its working a treat now but they went back to league one for a bit

1 minute ago, Davefevs said:

Soft top?

Sat nav set to BS3.

go, go, go!

no mate unfortunately not,the one i wanted was unavailable for my inner leg measurement, i couldnt reach the pedals

1 minute ago, Super said:

I don't think we have lost by more than 2 goals all season have we?

i dont think so, how leeds didnt do it to us i will never know

1 minute ago, Back of the Dolman said:

I didn’t want you to turn up for nothing on Saturday but that could still be the same Sunday of course

1 minute ago, Back of the Dolman said:

I didn’t want you to turn up for nothing on Saturday but that could still be the same Sunday of course

top man im not going back down bs3 but was going to s weds til my gearbox went. ive got another car now so hopefully going to go and cheers cotts on at some point until i can trust my car on longer journeys

2 minutes ago, Back of the Dolman said:

What’s happening Saturday ?

sorry,sunday

and believe it or not, i think we have got a chance of a result tonight

1 minute ago, And Its Smith said:

Would I want the team I support to lose 7-0? No thanks 

saturday would be funny though

58 minutes ago, Jimmo said:

The level of work rate shown feels more important than points for me tonight, even with only being 6 points off the drop.

If the boys aren't willing to run through brick walls after the last few performances, I'll be very worried about where we're heading under Manning.

going to see some top drawer performances tonight against a team hoping to be prem next season. might not win but players know there will be eyes on this match

4 hours ago, REDOXO said:

Yeah. Exactly! But don’t you think he looks like Niles? I’d love to see him next to Alan Walsh son in law!

more like reg prescott in the making

edit,link didnt work

4 hours ago, FNQ said:

Ha ha.. good one

Frank Spencer also came to mind..

i liken him to wiggy but wiggy could be any of the 3 of them depending on which sketch you are watching.

the first 10 seconds might explain our hamstring problems

11 hours ago, Monkeh said:

Like the rest of our recruitment,

It's dart board and hope for the best,

OR STEVIE WONDER DOING A RUBIK CUBE.

click click click, 'is that it?'

i will go and help him, i will show him the skysports article  from antoine and tell him to let everyone else do the same at what they are best at.

we just dont have a squad of all rounders who can switch to this,that or the other style of play

part of the article, so simple to understand i dont get why the coaches cant see it

A handful more appearances for Bristol City followed before another loan spell, this time at Sunderland in League One until he finally broke into the first team. Then Nigel Pearson arrived. Semenyo smiles at that name.

"I had a bit of a cagey start with him. I wasn't really playing much and as a player you're like, 'Why am I not playing?'. He just said your best ability is running and shooting so all you need to do is run and shoot!

"There was a lot of direct football and I blossomed off that. I played in a front three with Andreas Weimann and Chris Martin and that year was one of the best of my career."

2 hours ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

Nigel is a top top guy and what we did to him was a joke. Club made a the biggest mistake in a long long time. 

he is indeed and still wants us to get behind our team. pure class

if the next game did trigger another year, who would be avoiding it the most? does matty james even want to stay here? ive got my doubts about a few players now the transfer window has gone

35 minutes ago, Lorenzos Only Goal said:

I think Manning motivates opponents better than our players.  Two weeks ago, I had Ipswich planted right in the playoffs if they were lucky; there were comparisons between Manning & McKenna being cut from the same cloth.  Now the bastards are on a run and second in the League, and McKenna will be using Mannings's "Why won't the players do what I tell them to do, sob!!" as motivation laughing his tits off at the constant iterations of "step up", "leaders on the pitch", "little moments of quality" and my personal favourite "taking responsibility"

How would I motivate the players? I would stop talking, and say something like its not acceptable and stop.  I'd let Tommy be Tommy and I'd stop over complicating it, wind it back a few games to what was going well. 

if i was manning id pull a sicky and send a text to them saying just go out and enjoy yourselves, ignore brian, and set up how you want.

2 hours ago, REDOXO said:

Not just called out on air fella but referred to as “your mate Dave Fevs” to Headhunter.  

It’s ok Dave I still like you! 

like brothers in arms

in dire straits

10 minutes ago, M.D said:

One of the major faults of Manning is he has come and tried to change the team straight away with both positions and style.

A decent manager/head coach would look at what he has and would try to implement he's ideas over time, gradually changing the ethos and tactics over a time scale.

is this him or tinnion asking him to do it.

how come in the days of norman hunter etc,a player lasted 90 minutes with just 1 sub if someone got broken?

flip me,things are worse than i thought, this was on page 3    bump

4 minutes ago, Dr Balls said:

Article about how Haaland is a potential problem for Guardiola because he has potentially disrupted “their processes” I.e. boring opposition teams to death with their midfield possession play and wanting to walk the ball into the net.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2024/mar/02/erling-haaland-remains-both-solution-and-problem-for-manchester-city

But of course Haaland is the ultimate centre forward of modern times and gets goals that others wouldn’t just because of how he plays. What he really likes is balls played through in front of him that he can run into as per most of the 5 he scored against Luton. Helps that he has De Bruyne to play those passes.

Supposedly playing Haaland and playing to Haaland’s strengths as a centre forward has made Man City more open at the back against balls behind the defence, so conceding more goals. Yet going back to how they played with “their processes” potentially strangles the flow to Haaland and negates having such a prolific goalscorer upfront.

It’s no coincidence that the form of Tommy Conway and his goal scoring from open play has fallen off a cliff since Manning arrived. The tactics, formation and “processes” are meaning he has few if any opportunities on goal. We all remember the goal against West Ham away because it was brilliantly taken and absolutely what he is capable of, but also because it’s such an outlier since Manning arrived. When since that game has he been given a through ball like that to run onto? I am struggling to think of a single occasion in the last 8 weeks.

So it should be no surprise that Tommy might be stalling on signing a new contract. Why stay at a club that’s not only going nowhere but completely ignores your strengths and makes you look far worse as a striker? Especially when there will be clubs willing to offer you far more to play in a team that plays to your strengths and values your goal-scoring ability. He only has to look how much his mate Alex Scott is making at Bournemouth to realise his own potential earnings, plus the opportunity to play at the highest level.

So in summary, given how he has been treated by Manning and his tactics, do I expect Tommy Conway to be a Bristol City player next season? In a word “no”.

i dont think hes the only one that wants to get back to playing proper football

On 15/01/2024 at 23:34, Davefevs said:

Guess they’ll do something when he officially leaves at the end of the season.

im not sure they will Dave, i think there was more to it than just getting the tgh deal done early

7 hours ago, red from the blue side said:

I'm confused with the acronym. Who is SID?

hes the skunk that is stinking the place out at the moment. he was a snake but hes learning new talents as he goes along

10 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

Maybe Tinnion could take over for the Swans gam e ?

id love it if it came with the normal 7-1 dicking he gets against them.