Steve Watts

Haven't seen either of these pics before that I can recall. Thanks for the share. Love things like this.

Well.....one was dire and one is Dire...other than that.....

This. Never a fan of his football, but if ever there was a manager/club marriage made in heaven it was him and Wimbledon.

Whilst I agree, the desired split is more decent than poor. The reality is that the pendulum swings sooooo far the other way that it becomes impossible to kind of accept that. Today was just more of the same and we can thank Max for the point. It was just a dire performance. All that rubbish on the pitch... And a fair amount of litter too!

He has improved massively, but he still needs to work on his judgment when releasing the ball (Friday to Zak was an extreme example but not the first time he's put his defence under pressure) and also his command of the 6 yard box. All too often the ball passes through that area without him claiming it. However, as said, it's still a massive improvement from where he was, so hopefully he can improve on these things too.

Because Roy's (now) high profile and tanked in Bristol....

What on Earth has she/he done to you to deserve this?!? I'm sure they didn't mean to upset you - you should give them another chance to make up for it!

Yeah, but at least with LJ he said it with emotion, unlike the great automaton that's currently in situ.

Genuine question... Is that England or the UK... Because if it's the former then Rangers and Celtic may well be circling.

Considering how economical with the truth they've been lately it's probably Seb returning from his loan in Wales.

It's a good point. However I guess it does allow for seat moves still, so someone can purchase your seat if they are an existing South Stand STH

Really? What on earth makes you think he'd find passion in his voice to commentate on horses? Cricket, perhaps.... As opposed to..........? You don't need the language to change for that!

Don't feel that you have to justify yourself Liam. You just keep doing you.....

Thanks for the summary. I switched off after 2:30 when asked "The last few weeks have seen results drop away..... Have you seen enough in our performances to assure you that results will turn around again?". I gave him until the second word of his answer, which started "Yeah, definitely...." and exited immediately because I knew that what would follow would be either dishonest or delusional. Another thing of note for me was that he's been banging on about getting the players "on the grass" to work on the processes and behaviours (), and so with an international break they've worked on getting the players fit physically and mentally and "done some work on tactics". Surely this should've been the ideal time to focus on the tactical side. There were no matches that the players had to recover physically from etc, so why, when given time to work on tactics does he relegate them to an "also" afterthought?!?

Well that would involve attacking, so I may stretch to he tries to not lose every game, I guess!

Do you think we could borrow them? Not being able to see a thing at the match is a really attractive proposition right now!

Depends if Man City were managed by Dumblebore.

When will they learn that you can't just throw a "catchy" slogan out there without a hashtag preceding it!

Saw the title and thought "Bloody hell they're getting desperate for season ticket renewals!"

Yep. Much more despondent now. We've gone from being on the cusp of something to whatever fresh hell this is. And it was all so unnecessary.

Whilst not untrue regarding the complexities of the charges brought against Man City, it's frankly reprehensible that these weren't dealt with as they occurred rather than more than a decade later. The Premier League have been massively negligent here and have effectively created a situation whereby "What about Man City?" is asked so often.

Absolutely no short memory in play here. Feelings are feelings, and like I said, I've never felt so despondent about the club. No, we're not likely to be relegated this season, but it's not even about that. You say about the academy players in the first team. None of those have been blooded by Dumblebore, and considering Tinnions comments a year or so ago about the next batch, then where are they? He's not even giving them matchday experience to fill the bench. The pride and belief has been sucked out of the players and the supporters. There's no expectation that we're going to win any match and there's no expectation that we'll be at least entertained by trying to. The whole club is rudderless. Communications are clumsy at best, season ticket price increases inflammatory and fans being told that we have to suck it up and support the club whilst being driven away in our thousands. The trouble with potential is that in it's current guise the club is stripping all of that potential away. Unless big changes happen then this club is only going one way.

Manning is doing a lot behind closed doors as well....sadly none of it is positive and the only thing this whole failed experiment has succeeded in is creating division between fans and the club and between fans and other fans. Supporting this club has never felt so difficult as it does now. Usually you can find some things to be positive about. Youth coming through, players playing with pride even if they're not getting the rub of the green etc, but right now there's literally nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada. And it's bloody soul destroying it really is. I've given over 40 years of my life to supporting this club. Others have given even more. But I have never in those 40+ years felt as despondent as I do now.

I'm so glad you said that....I was about to post the same thing. The hypocrisy of moaning about others trying to silence peoples views on a thread they started that was trying to silence people's views is quality even for him! Pun completely intended, but the OP has (once again) had a gert mare here!

Almost absolutely spot on. And I agree with S'oD laying the foundations for what followed. Also a really interesting manager to read an interview with, even if he was dour to listen to. The only thing I'd disagree with is that for my money the football is even worse than Penis. And yes, that does take some doing, but for my money he's somehow managed it.