Rob k

6 minutes ago, Maltshoveller said:

Cant agree with that

Their fans drive me insane so that’s the reason

3 hours ago, Jose said:

This the same section who unbelievably had a banner for him a few weeks back? 
 

Our fan base as a whole is soft. Always has been, always will be. 

Our fan base certainly hasn’t always been soft - it is now granted 

Let’s hope Chelsea win 

7 minutes ago, MarcusX said:

Which was that? I must have missed that too

And he missed an obvious penalty 

Back until at least Xmas for me 

3 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

‘ Rob ‘

Wasn’t me

1 minute ago, cotswoldred2 said:

Gawd this place is brim full of the usual nause....they really do get off on losing.

What do you want people to say? 

1 minute ago, cotswoldred2 said:

Mr always positive..not

He’s not wrong with that though!!

Only had one look - Was Dickoe lucky there, looked like he had gone in high on their striker with his studs 

Such an easy goal 

3 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

I can't believe they think their technology is good enough to track a ball that far.

The more i look at it the worse it gets, he was bowling at 85mph, there is no way that balls hitting the stumps and i won’t be convinced otherwise

35 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

Is that Pope’s ? It looked bad enough from the front let alone that! 

Yeah it was - it’s a shocker in my opinion, 3m to travel and has hit him on the roll and he’s given out. I’m not having that.

This looks a tough one to swallow as a batsman given out for LBW on review 

1 hour ago, Dullmoan Tone said:

Probably should have stayed at QPR, interestingly his win % with them was only around 40 odd % they just had a lucky streak and he followed the money.

Had very little integrity with them saying he would stay, then jumping ship - a strange appointment from Sunderland, perhaps, desperate to quickly replace Mowbray - he was not helped losing good players (like Prichard) in January though!

Tbf - when Rangers come calling i imagine that’s a massive pull, i doubt he will get another chance of managing a club as big as that. That’s no stick to beat him with.

5 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Only trained twice this week says Manning, so wasn’t ready to play. 
 

An absolute waste of space on the bench, then. 
 

Wouldn’t be entirely shocked if there’s some sort of ‘stipulation’ where he has to be involved in every matchday squad when available, or we pay a fee. Especially as Burnley were supposedly pretty pissed off with him being deployed on the left, not centrally, too often which is why they wanted to terminate the loan. 

But if he’s injured he’s not available. Mannings got this one wrong today one way or another in my opinion. He either shouldn’t have included him on the bench or he should have got some minutes  

1 minute ago, Sir Geoff said:

Personally thought the timing of the triple subs was odd. We we just got a bit of momentum going and having a good spell. He should have told them to sit down again and wait 5 minutes to see how the game played out.

We were certainly no better after 60 mins than before.

 

Personally thought the timing of the triple subs was odd. We we just got a bit of momentum going and having a good spell. He should have told them to sit down again and wait 5 minutes to see how the game played out.

We were certainly no better after 60 mins than before.

 

Just to be clear - did you think the timing of the triple sub was odd

23 minutes ago, Kibs said:

Na. Easy in hindsight. Had he brought Twine on ahead of the others (and we still lost) people would be criticising him for not using those who had performed well the last couple games. 

I fully expected this result(sadly). 

No, sorry but i don’t believe anybody would have criticised him for bringing Twine on, as said, these are the teams he’s here for as we can’t break them down. 

1 hour ago, Northern Red said:

Agreed, I think we need to hear what the thought process was. Whether Manning will be asked is another point entirely.

I was waiting for the question on Radio Bristol and it never came 

We were saying the same - if he wasn’t fit then shouldn’t have been in the bench, this is exactly the game we have needed that type of player to play in as we couldn’t break them down. Madness

33 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said:

 

How about with stop artificially trying to frame groups of results, and just say every game is an opportunity for three points, and the more we win the better of chances of finishing in the play offs?

Obviously each game is an opportunity for 3 points but realistically that’s not going to happen so you do end up framing games, if I’d have asked most city Fans would you have taken 6 out of 9 from these 3 then most would have bitten your hand off.

33 minutes ago, formerly known as ivan said:

Huge game today. Southampton result means nothing without 3 points against QPR.

Not sure about that as I’d have taken 6/9 points from Boro, Southampton and QPR - todays points are extras 

You wouldn’t fancy being a bowler in this team would you!! 
 

Wood bowled something like 28 overs in their first innings and is back out there 70 overs later 

Pathetic stuff this morning im afraid 

1 hour ago, bearded_red said:

Surely Joe Root is far too good a player to be getting out the way he has recently.

There is still surely a case to occasionally just occupy the crease. Ashwin is out the game, Jadeja clearly isn’t fully fit, surely the wise move is attempt to just see Bumrah off, not get out doing that.

It’s the 9th time in 13 games he’s been out playing that shot