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8 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Yup. I personally couldn’t care if he goes home and drowns kittens. 

Did he interact much with Kurt Zouma per chance today? 

I quite like him, I like his calmness & how he preaches not getting too high/too low etc.  He has the air of someone who is quietly confident.

The fact is though, every good result will see a "hard to dislike him" thread & most poor one's there will be a "robotic coach 1.1" type thread.

It's a bit of a 3rd hand story (but genuine, none the less). One of McInnes's traits was not to announce the team until really late - much later than the players were accustomed to & lots of them really struggled with that.

I had high hopes for him, & whilst he did inherit a mess, he made it worse. Saying we've got too many players is fine, but buying inferior players isn't really the solution.  I always thought he might get the WBA job as he was a bit of a legend there, but I think that ship has sailed.

49 minutes ago, nebristolred said:

I actually forgot @internetjef recommended Deadletter not long ago as well, great recommendation. Stone are another good one, supported DMA's here the other day, very decent.

I wasn't sure about Stone, but the lead singer is very charismatic. Whilst I enjoyed DMA's, I actually preferred the acoustic gig they did at The Globe in Cardiff, earlier in the year. However, as I'm an old git, they may because I was able to sit down then!

Hopefully he'll be fit for pre season.

I loved Cotts but this really just demonstrates how much easier it is to be a pundit, than a manager.

Our 3-5-2 with attacking centre backs was really not working but boy did he persevere with it! 

9 hours ago, Davefevs said:

 

I suspect LM will achieve similar to what Nige did, just in slightly different way.

This is very much where I am. If you just looked at our results & not the playing formation, style etc, you'd be forgiven for not knowing we'd ever changed manager.

We're still capable of giving all but the very best teams a good game, but equally capable of an insipid performance.  We're still much more effective v teams that come on to us.

Any team that deploys the (cliche alert) low block against us & is disciplined & resolute, will have a good chance of stealing the points.  

We have a very honest squad but we very much lack someone with a bit of pizazz (maybe Mehmeti can be that one).  However if you think of the talent we've lost in Semenyo & Scott, with little in terms of replacement its really not a shock.

Of all the forms of bias, recency bias is my favourite.

32 minutes ago, Harry said:

 

 

All a bit of an overreaction here for me. 

I'm with Harry on this one. Go Skippy are part of Somerset Bridge. The latter are regulated by the FCA; if they're happy, I don't think BCFC need to be doing enhanced due diligence.

Bermuda is a reinsurance hub, to be honest I don't know why, but I'd guess a combo of;

- Favourable tax regime 

- Proximity to North America

- Head honchos in European ins firms like to holiday there!

36 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

rugby goes on too long imho.

Fixed it... 

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

  Yin and Yang.

Decent front 2 at this level.

14 minutes ago, TV Tom said:

Always thought Robbie Turner was an un-sung hero, 

True, but he was star of the show the day we beat Chelsea in the cup.

13 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

 

That 89/90 season is one of the best teams.

My favourite season (partly due to age, being 18 is brilliant!). 

It does though, in many ways encapsulate being a City fan for 40+ years that even in our best season we did find a way to kind of ruin it right at the end!

7 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

In most businesses you have a “whistleblower” 

 

Isn't that the referee Fevs???

6 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

 

He's played the hokey cokey with one of our best players TGH (great man management) and then when he is in a hole, he calls upon TGH to get him out of that hole. 

I'm a big fan of TGH (although we do have a strange penchant for not very athletic central midfielders!), but this is daft.

Putting on a substitute isn't calling on someone to get the manager out of a hole, its normal practice in any game.

Not sure of your age but did Paisley just rely on David Fairclough to get him out of a hole?

1 minute ago, Supersonic Robin said:

P6: W1, D2, L3. 5 points from 6.

The draws are pretty damning too - IMHO draws against QPR and Huddersfield have to be seen as bad results given that both sides are in the bottom 4.

If you look at QPRs form since playing us, a point was a good return.

22 minutes ago, Mendip City said:

That reminds me… where’s our new manager bounce? I think I missed it. 

For something to bounce, it needs to be falling.  We were never falling so never was there going to be a bounce.

I think Harry alluded to Manning in his Oxford days using 1 player to virtually cover a whole flank.  Clearly that is a herculean task, I think he's using Sykes as that on the left but probably doesn't feel he can get an effective 90 out of him in that role right now.

Think this is a good example of difference in Nige & Mannings philosophies.  The latter wants control above everything else, whilst Nige was with lobbing in a grenade.

For me, Nige was too keen to use him (& it became a predictable sub), whilst arguably, Manning is too reticent.

I hope this isn't "resting players for the harder game", for me too often it backfires & you lose the so called easier game anyway. I'd much rather play the best 11, win the 1st game & take it from there.

Is there any news of further gigs for 2024 or is it just Take That??

5 minutes ago, petehinton said:

 

If this roll of the dice doesn’t work, and I think Manning will be a real successful coach whether that’s here or somewhere else, I really don’t know what we turn to next. 

Ah, I think I can answer that. Because we have no long term strategy, after " progressive" type we invariably go for "gnarly old timer".  If its any consolation, that often does the trick (see Gary Johnson after Tinnion & Cotts after SOD)

6 hours ago, IAmNick said:

Must admit I was surprised how negative the reaction on here was when I got home. It wasn't a great performance but I don't think it deserved the criticism it's getting.

 

2 rules of football:

1). The result is everything

2). See rule 1

The forum would be totally different had Zak not got done in the last min of injury time.  The forum would be in a frenzy of positivity had Tommy taken his 1 on 1 chance & then Zak had not got done last minute.

One thing I find really odd is people saying how boring we are under Manning. Yes, there are tweaks but the games really aren't much more / less exciting than under Nige. Clearly we are trying to keep the ball more & there are less aimless punts (not a typo) but it's not as tho we've suddenly become Jaap Stam era Reading.

It does seem that many people have made their mind up already (either pro or anti Manning/Pearson) & are looking for anything to justify their view.

I'm sure I read an article a few years back when Bristol chefs were saying where they like to eat & the Mayflower was consistently mentioned.

Went to Tranmere many moons ago. A couple or lads about 10 offered to "mind the car" for a fiver. When we asked why they weren't at home with their mum they said "she's out  shagging".  Happy, simpler times.