BrizzleRed

I wish I lived in North America mate, as I wouldn’t keep buying ST’s to watch this shit!!! I’ll be honest and say I suspected a bad result yesterday, but I hadn’t anticipated quite the depths of shitness we were actually capable of achieving. We keep getting threads on here about lack of atmosphere at the Gate, but I’m not surprised by it at all. Obviously younger fans are more optimistic, as they haven’t had the decades of let-downs we’ve had. Even on the rare occasions we get a bit of a run of results going, I can’t get past the thoughts of WHEN, rather than WILL we balls it all up. It’s hard to get excited when you know what’s just around the corner ….. we’re Bristol City and it’s what we do!!!

No I really don’t know RR. I’m just hoping he’s trying to find a way of bringing some kind of consistency of performance, but there’s certainly no sign of him achieving that so far. Who knows what City will turn up at any game and the only clue we have is if a team are going to attack us, we’re probably more likely to give them a game ….. unless they’re called Leeds obviously!

Oh you’re right, this throw in shit has been going on for years, much like crap corner kick routines and piss poor free kicks. This certainly isn’t on Manning, but it seems whoever comes in, nobody gets to the root of the problems and it just continues, regardless of the players and coaches we have at the club.

Completely with you. QPR played well, but we certainly aided their cause. They were understandably a bit cagey early on, but in the second half in particular, they could see we offered no threat and pushed on and could and should have scored more. That was the worry for me, as with them going forward more, we should then have been looking to get behind them, but we offered bugger all. Our performance really was dogshit and there was no excuse whatsoever. I can’t believe after 60 years of following this lot, I stupidly allowed myself to get a little optimistic prior to the game, even though experience taught me me we were more likely to follow up the Southampton performance with crap like this. I’ll definitely go back to keeping any misplaced optimism in check in future, as it makes the inevitable let-downs more bearable!!!

Let’s hope they make the most of the time available In the end though, it isn’t rocket science we’re talking about and you’d hope that by the time footballers reach Championship level and a fair few grand a week in wages, they’d have a basic grasp of how to make a meaningful effort at throw in routines. It really makes you wonder about what actually goes on during their coaching sessions!

I really want to buy in to what Manning is doing, but I won’t be converted until I see what his solution is for teams who just park the bus. Until he can prove he has some answers to combat this problem, we really don’t have a reason to look up the table, as we won’t be occupying those places any time soon. This is a big challenge for Manning and he doesn’t appear to have a solution so far.

We do usually but I’m pretty sure there were a few occasions against Southampton that we left someone higher up for a quick break. It just seems to indicate a lack of enterprise on our part, with throw in’s and free kicks far more likely to go sideways or backwards and rarely troubling the opposition. Another of those ‘small margins’ we fail to turn in our favour.

While we can speculate a bit of tiredness contributed to the total lack of intensity yesterday, you have to be super-optimistic to think those tactics are going to work against teams who come to contain us. To be fair to QPR, they were so comfortable in the second half that they started to push on more for a second. We totally failed to respond to that and try and counter. Even when we were defending corners we brought everyone back, so where was the chance of a quick break? That for me was negative tactics, not fatigue.

Fantastic performance and result tonight, so it’s a pity you’ve got to pipe up with a ******* stupid comment like that. Grow up ffs

Steady on Liam, it’s not a good look if you get on the piss on the team bus on a long journey back home

As has been mentioned earlier, it’s all about personal pov’s. My take on us trying something new yet again isn’t ambition, it’s an indication of an owner who really doesn’t know what he wants and is constantly flip flopping between strategies, in the hope of eventually finding a winning formula. I’m wracking my brain to try and remember just one new managerial appointment that SL which has been a continuity appointment, rather than a lurch in one direction or another and requiring substantial changes in playing staff to accomodate the new manager/head coach’s style. I think I’ll settle for foolhardy when referring to Lansdown Snr, as he’s definitely found a surefire way of losing £millions of his fortune on a consistent basis, whilst the club stand still at best!

Tbh, the stuff mentioned on this thread so far pales into insignificance, compared to the female Newcastle fan, who’s just got a 2 year ban from the ground. All she did was post online that men transitioning to women aren’t women! None of the club’s business and they’re owned by Saudi’s anyway, so not exactly famous for their human rights record.

Goes to show, you can get an experienced head in to sort out deep rooted mis-management, but if it’s then handed over to a pair of idiots, it can turn to shit pretty quickly. Hopefully they don’t wreck all the heavy lifting done with the finances too.

I agree SD and don’t think it was dump biase and they seemed to be pretty balanced to be fair. What I find interesting is that in spite of them having their HC nicked and us doing the nicking, both sets of fans seem similarly meh about their new appointments though and pretty scathing of their club’s ownership. Reading that made me feel like we haven’t actually come out any better than they have, as it currently stands.

Oh, we’re certainly patient here, but that comes after years of practice of constantly lowering our expectations.

Christ they’re special. Can’t manage to beat us on any conventional stats, so try to create this best lowest bollux with cherry-picked dates to try to conjour up something they may possibly be able to twist in their favour. Sad, pathetic ****wits!!!

Was thinking exactly the same. Change the individual names and the background colour to red and it could easily be here. Interesting it was mentioned that they felt 2nd place was a falsely high position at the point when LM left.

Exactly! The happy clappers might buy into the bs put out by the club, but the players know what’s really happening here. They’ll know that if they want to progress their careers, it’s not worth waiting around here to do it.

I reckon loans like Twine only make sense by accepting we are being set up to just maintain Championship status, no more. I suspect the Lansdowns are more than happy at this level, as they can afford to keep bringing on young players to get some experience and exposure at a level that will attract Prem clubs to come and buy. They probably think that they just have to chuck out the odd bs comment that we’re focused on getting to the Premier League and we’ll all swallow it hook, line and sinker.

Fair enough. Had a quick look at your forum and it sounds like he needs a fresh start, to recapture his previous Championship form. Also appears that team mates and tactics have changed and the current set up doesn’t bring the best out of him. Hopefully he’ll find our midfield will suit him better and playing under a new head coach can also help. Just don’t break him though, as we can do that very well ourselves!

Oh well, if he’s that bad, your club won’t want him for the rest of the season, so let’s take him off your hands now then

What a top man, particularly as he was only in Plymouth on loan. I hope he goes far, with a brilliant attitude like that.

Well that certainly sums up a fair few of our deadline days!

Fair enough, but maybe many clubs are just put off by the often mentioned inflated January prices and prefer to wait it out until the summer. In the case of Bird, I believe he’s out of contract in the summer and wasn’t re-signing, so I’m guessing it was just down to us agreeing the compo with Derby and terms with the player. He seems a very well regarded and you’d have thought his agent would be keeping name out there. Haven’t a clue if we had competition for his signature but for me, it’s great to see us land one of our targets without getting into a bidding war with bigger hitters and eventually missing out. I never thought I’d use the words ‘smart’ and ‘our board’ in the same sentance, but maybe with this window being particularly quiet, they saw an opportunity and grabbed it!

I think this indicates we’re getting smarter. If we can’t compete financially with a number of our rivals in the summer window, we’re jumping in earlier to beat the rush and the loan back doesn’t disrupt the selling club’s end of season. They’re then more likely to sell and we get our player, with little or no competition. Seems like an efficient and cost-effective way of doing business, as long as we don’t need the player in immediately.