Silvio Dante

Remember he alleged a few days ago that James was on £27,000 a week so assumedly he thinks we’d save £700k over the residual part of his contract. Even if that fairy story was true (and in order to enact that saving James would have to be given a comparable contract elsewhere), on the basis of there being no money for signings, it means to replace James and King (who we’ll illustrate at £10k a week) on a like for like budget basis we’d need: - James and King to be given new contracts at the same level elsewhere - Have to bring in three players at a total fee/wage level of £1m in the next six months. On a free agent basis we could pay each £12k p/w (but as free agents currently they’re unlikely to be up to standard) so you have to assume fees. And any fee reduces that wage available. Basically, he’s talking nonsense and even the inflated James wage quoted doesn’t fund the replacements he’s on about unless there are some funds magically available and the Lansdowns have been lying. But that surely couldn’t be the case…

To be fair, Craig Short was a big, ugly, uncompromising centre half so she has a type…

Jon Lansdown.

That reads very much as a “lost the dressing room” scenario - I think we can all be confident that didn’t happen, and your source was incorrect. Unless the former player in question was Brian Tinnion, obviously.

I think @Harry or @Kid in the Riot mentioned that Rob Edwards was “on the list” before he went to Watford and I think it’s plausible that Manning has been “on the list” for some time and the club acted because they saw how well Oxford were going, and, having already decided they didn’t like/want Nige any more, didn’t want to wait until the end of the season in case Mannings stock became too high and he was out of our reach then. To engineer things though, was a bit beyond the pale - and some of this is PR. Had the club come out and made more of a statement around “stabilised the club, this is the next step, natural break” it would have been a lot more palatable. I think it was @The Journalist who made a post a few weeks back about this always (potentially) being the plan but there was now cold feet as Nige wanted to carry on. It’s the closest I can see to a reasonable explanation - but again, the fact the club haven’t given tat reasonable explanation and instead given the car crash they have is a large reason for the toxicity currently - and ironically, that in turn gives Manning less opportunity to succeed here.

Good Post. I think that’s probably where most of us sit. I have no real issue in the owners thinking Pearson wasn’t the right man to take us forward, but the manner of it and the timing and the justification was just nonsense. However, “we are where we are”. The sacking I have most in mind when looking at what’s happened here is when Southampton sacked Adkins. There wasn’t a footballing justification for it, but they sacked him because they wanted Poch in (who was unknown in this country then). It was a gamble, but it can work sometimes as that did. The problem is we all know from history that gambles are just that, and as such it’s very difficult to get excited when we seemed to be going in the right direction prior.

“Do you know how I got this job son? By being the best in the ****ing business. I’ve managed them all - New York, Oxford, West Ham, MK - and they all ****ing loved me. Why? Because I’m the best in the ****ing business” If he came out with that at his first press conference, while wearing an XXL pair of shitted Y fronts, he’s got my vote.

Just said on commentary that Spurs have had ten days rest. No wonder there are hamstring injuries happening, they’re running serious risk of deconditioning. You’d have thought Big Ange would have known that.

Good to see. Now that bastard Rennies stopped injecting him with bacteria, obviously.

One things for sure, if he reads this thread he’s not going to be in any doubt of the situation he’s walking into. Again, not his fault in the slightest, but some people would read this thread and think twice.

“I ****ing love that splat Robin badge”

Just quoting myself here - I think the last paragraph is key. He’s on a “run of form” at Oxford as opposed to having shown he could alleviate the concerns his MK sacking showed. It could be genius, and in 18 months he may have been out of reach but my gut is it feels a very big gamble currently. If it goes wrong though, as has been said, it’s on the Lansdowns and Tinnion

Well, you can call him that.

Keith Brookman on Radio Bristol opined that us and them may be looking at the same candidates for our respective vacancies. Totally delusional.

Like the board did last week to give them an excuse to sack Pearson? I’m a city fan first and foremost. Whoever comes in I want to do well - as do all fans (nobody on any thread has suggested that they wish failure so stop making things up). However, I also want people who have wilfully sabotaged a manager who was doing a good job out of our club. Nobody is hoping whoever comes in fails. If it makes you feel better to think that then go nuts.

Don’t be a bell. Section 82 issued a tweet pre match where they confirmed that they’d be getting behind the team (as per Niges request earlier). And they did, although the game was largely uninspiring. They then decided with five minutes to go to start the Pearson chants. They have to originate from S82, as all our chants do. And it was a solid five minutes across the ground of “Nigel Pearson’s cider army”. Most football chants fizzle after 20-30 seconds. This didn’t. And I think a reasonable proportion of the crowd joined in. You maybe didn’t, some who don’t sing didn’t, but it was loud, it was consistent, and it was sung by thousands of people. Thats not “bedwetters”. That’s people showing their dissatisfaction in a strong way after backing the team. And I’d wager that Jon had thought he’d got away with it at 80 minutes, but the feeling was clear (even Radio Bristol brought it up). Thousands of people singing to back our deposed manager for a consistent time is more powerful than a badly painted bedsheet. And the fact you can’t recognise the depth of anger at this decision across a significant proportion of the fanbase just makes me feel sorry for you.

I actually thought that was pretty well done. The chanting that there was was all in favour of the team with no Pearson sentiments for 85 minutes. That showed we support the team first and foremost. However, the singing of Nigel Pearson’s cider army (and how can you comment on the “protest” if you clearly didn’t hear it properly) for 5 minutes across the stadium, followed by “One Nigel Pearson” and “Jon Lansdown, what a *****” clearly showed the dissatisfaction with the decision and handling subsequently, but not at the detriment of the team in view of what had gone before. It was fine.

That’s because Jon’s still trying to work out how telephones work

Followed by “One Nigel Pearson” and “Jon Lansdown, what a w a n k e r”

Agree - it feels very flat, dispirited and we don’t look overly sharp. It feels like as opposed to feisty it’s reflective of the general disillusionment following the events of the last week. Saw S82 tweeting that they were getting behind the team (as opposed assumedly to getting at Lansdown or pro Pearson shouts), but I can’t help feel some of that “edge” may help things. Fact is the players probably don’t understand the decision so their heads are not totally there. I realise they’re pros but they’re also humans.

Poor first half. Disappointed in the Lampard regime thus far

Playing the liquidator over the tannoy. BAY GAWD THATS FRANK LAMPARDS MUSIC!!

Thoughts today are not only with Nige but also with a slightly odd man from Nailsea who will get to see Barry Bannan in the flesh for the first time in several seasons. If you’re sat nearby, I’d take cover.