spudski

1 minute ago, One Team said:

Post of the year in March! Absolutely nailed it mate. I hope Lansdown reads it. You had it all mate, then you ****** it and lost us forever. 

Even if he read it and all the replies, I don't think he'd care. 

They are totally disingenuous and belittling of the fans imo. 

Yet...when confronted by a fans forum come across as rabbits in headlights, out of their depth, inept, and do everything to avoid or pass the buck. 

1 minute ago, 1960maaan said:

Good Post @spudski 

I said on another thread , we have gone from Nige putting the players out there and telling them to take responsibility and make decisions, to Manning forcing ideas on them and leaving no room for expression.

 I think that has a lot to do with the sterile slow , by the numbers football we are watching.

Thanks mate

1 minute ago, Shelton’s Love Gravy said:

Brilliant post. Totally totally on the money.

Appreciated...just reflecting what I can see most on here feel as well. Hopefully it's noticed and the media pick up on it and make them aware. 

Perhaps he's hoping we get relegated and that Dutch lot come in and buy us

1 minute ago, Sheltons Army said:

It was slightly bizarre Spud because what he actually said was that it was their (coaching staff) work with the players that got them (the players) into the final third and then it is for players to show bravery and ingenuity etc at that point

So taking credit for the ability (depending on your view whether that’s accurate) to play through the thirds but distancing himself from the ability to create chances and score goals 

Which is bizarre in itself...the mind boggles. 

1 minute ago, Numero Uno said:

Be careful what you wish for

Catch 22....

Just now, Numero Uno said:

Yep, I have been thinking that if we sack him we have the same idiots picking the next manager BUT the football is so shite it just cannot continue like this. I would literally give him the next two games to show something otherwise we just have to accept that a managerial fraud has duped everyone and bomb him out pronto with the Geordie Snake very close behind him. In fact Sid has got to go whatever happens.

It's beyond a worry that Crayola and Sid now make the decisions. 

Get rid of Manning and BT...we still have Crayola in charge making decisions. 

We are totally ******. 

3 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

If ever a team is playing in the personality of its manager it’s us. We lack personality, the football is mind numbingly boring, there is no spark, everything is a process, nothing is off the cuff.

In short Manning Ball is ******* shite.

Today he showed what a bullshitting mofo he is. 

In post match interviews he's said he wants the players to play to his plans and processes...and in the same breath said they weren't brave enough, didn't play with freedom or didn't express themselves. Which apparently he had told them to do...wtf...complete opposites. No wonder we are ******. Blokes a clown. 

4 minutes ago, Pezo said:

Yep, everyone has raised expectations based on what the execs have said and we are clearly falling a long way short of.

I feel sorry for Manning, a job he wanted, a club desperate for him to do well and a level he isn't capable of.

I had some sympathy for him...now he just comes across as an arrogant ***. 

Just now, SomeRandomBristolian said:

Well said Spudski. Spot on this post.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4BZqJOt1nD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link 

Interesting confrontation with fan today. 

The fans don't deserve this bullshit.

Sadly they've been proven clueless or on some points not telling the truth. 

Ones got a job from his dad to run a football club...but then sets up a design company, which is obviously his interest. 

BT...well it's been covered to death on here...gone from being respected, to now not trusted, questionable, and only in it for himself. The guy thinks he's better than he is... delusional. 

This club has gone from on the up under NP to spiralling out of control, rudderless under these two. Both too cock sure to admit it. 

How sick are we all of the same old mistakes over and over again. 

We must be a laughing stock by other clubs...respected for giving managers ' time' and a decent academy. 

But we sack the managers who tell these clowns what's what. 

And give time to the arse kickers. 

**** em. 

Forced to retire after badly breaking his leg playing for the reserves, and is now based in Yorkshire where he runs a High Mast company called Outdoor Highlighting.

3 hours ago, MarcusX said:

Can't seriously be comparing Pack's efforts and time here to Fam's?

It was in an 'in' joke with Harry. Sorry mate...wooshed you by accident. Maybe worth reading thread before quoting. 

24 minutes ago, cellist said:

He doesn't come across as easy to warm to, and that is exacerbated by the last two results/performances. If he was winning games I dare say we would be warming to him - we'd be saying how ruthless and focussed he was, confident in his own ability, measured, detail orientated, tactically astute, young and up and coming etc. Some would see through it, but football fans will be taken in by pretty much anything as long as the team is winning. But when the chips are down, all the sound bites come across really badly.

To those who say he reads the forum - clearly not enough or he'd have dropped the word "behaviours" from his vocabulary by now!

Imo he's definitely been briefed on being less 'Coach' when doing interviews for the fans. However, it's noticeable when questions hit a nerve or he feels more under scrutiny, he resorts to type. It's his comfort blanket so to speak. He babbles on just using phrases that sound like he knows what he's talking about...designed to baffle. You get the same in the corporate world. 

He comes across like these numpties on the Apprentice. 

I think you maybe doing fans a disservice when it comes to seeing through it. 

Can you imagine being a Prem winner, an International, a player with experience at a higher level, having won promotions,  been managed and coached by people that have achieved and won at top levels, with vast experience...and you have to turn up to training each day, and be told by a young bloke who's managed MK Dons and Oxford, that he's going to improve you, tell you stuff you don't already know, how to have the right ' behaviours' make you better and inspire you with his vast experience, knowledge and how to win? Kinnel...makes you cringe thinking about it. 

No wonder they want to clear out all the players that have achieved and won...and fill their places with nobodies who have won nothing. And have everything to learn. 

Makes it far easier for him and BT. 

It's a joke when you actually think about it. 

7 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

One of the most damning decisions Liam has made is Mehmeti. He put him straight in the side at QPR and has played him in the majority of games since despite him being sketchy at best. There were people who when he’d had two passable games were scared of losing him in the transfer window, when in over a year at the club now, he’s never seemed consistently up to the level.

Im of the firm belief that Liam had him on his list at Oxford - and Anis may have done well there - but Liam misjudged the gap between league one and this level. In a lot of things, but that one notably. And he played Anis because he would have been good at league one. 
 

So is Chris bloody Martin.

Exactly my thoughts as well...add that it was  BT recruited, so will have the backing to play him. Double whammy. 

He's miles off Championship standard ATM. 

8 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Yup. Horses. Courses.

Back in the 1980s we played Steve Neville and Glyn Riley up front. Midgets. We didn’t play long ball….

You play the football that your squad best suits. And if that’s not your ideal, you tweak until you get there - but you don’t impose a philosophy without the tools to do so.

This is page one of the big book of coaching. Maybe Liam didn’t read it.

I don't think he read it...he swallowed it whole, and spouts coaching terminology lazily. 

He's the Les Dawson of coaching...says all the right phrases, but not particularly in the right order.

I really can't warm to him. Full of his own hype. 

Even Tommy was using expressions in his presser that he'd obviously had drilled into his head. 

Some of those questions put to him were good. 

Especially liked the ones about service to Tommy. 

Perhaps it's not Tommy's movement and finishing quality that's the problem...perhaps it's the tactics given to a player who hasn't got the quality and often ability to beat the defender, to provide a decent ball to Tommy. And the reliance on that player to provide...when he invaluably can't, as he isn't good enough. 

You can have all the right tactics in the world, but if you haven't got the player/s to do it...then your foooked. 

I'd be very surprised if we see Twine again this season, even if a scan shows he's healed. 

'Still feeling a twinge boss'...

Always think of Fam when I watch this...

8 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

Superb post Dave

And I’d add to your summary 

 

‘Whilst not in the best of personal health’ 

 

Let’s not forget this guy had a serious bout of Co-Vid , not quite Cotts serious , but not a million miles away, besides his back issues.

For the majority of his time got on with the messy job without a hint of a moan and any irritation came only , when I’d suggest he felt he’d earnt the right , and got the Club into a situation , where he , and his staff , deserved a bit of backing and it didn’t come 

In fact what he got was digs and criticism from JL and I’d assume Tinnion about King etc etc

From his own website Which I agree with...Manning's gotta find another 20 points from somewhere

Nominated for Championship Manager of the Month for February 2023
• Significantly reduced the squad budget, enabling the club to be FFP compliant
• Introduced a number of academy products in to the side including Alex Scott, Sam Bell, Tommy Conway, while helping to increase the overall squad value and reduce the average age
• First profitable sales in years: Antoine Semenyo to Bournemouth for £10.5m and Alex Scott to Bournemouth for £25m
• Two comfortable mid-table finishes building a platform for the club to progress
• Once coaching team departed, we left the club in 11th place in the EFL Championship, on course to finish on 64 points for the 2023/24 season, showing further improvement on previous campaigns
• Reached the landmark of 600 games as a manager

I have a reliable track record of helping to build successful teams, revitalising clubs who have previously struggled, whilst helping to reduce overall squad salary and promoting and recruiting young, talented footballers.

I'm surprised more players from Juve don't get caught.

32 minutes ago, Harry said:

Marlon is one of the best players who’ve played for us in the last 25 years. 
And he didn’t give up for half a year, have a first touch into next week and then join a rival. 

You know I was jesting Harry... exactly how I see it as well