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It seems to be breaking news to Pietersen that Leach and Hartley aren’t as good as Ashwin, Jadeja and Axar Patel.

Really glad they allowed us to get a few easy runs before bringing the spinners on.

His performance in the League Cup against Palace probably the best I’ve seen from a City centre forward of that type, absolutely unplayable.

Said in his press conference yesterday he’s not bowling until the summer.

Absolute disgrace, just as it was during the World Cup when journalists of Pakistan origin were being denied visas. We should be refusing to play until the issue is sorted, absolutely no chance the game would be taking place if roles were reversed. Of course, nobody will actually find any backbone to stand up to India though.

Genuinely staggering isn't it.

Nothing more ridiculous than comparing what’s happening now favourably with the first few months of Pearson’s tenure. Have a look at what both managers were inheriting if you wish to make such comparisons. Or, and I I know this is a mental shout, you could just judge the current manager on what you see before you without worrying about what anybody else has done. As it happens I think results are broadly fine, it’s absolute bang average and that’s what this squad is. Entertainment however is almost nonexistent.

Yeah but you have to say they’re coached to do this excellently!

Literally didn’t mention Manning did I.

Maybe when the team don’t spend every other Saturday afternoon boring people to tears the atmosphere may improve, just a thought.

Wouldn’t expect anything less from the same club that on Tuesday night showed the goals from the game at the London Stadium and Downsy the clown said ‘to once again celebrate our 1-1 draw’. Celebrate! No wonder we never achieve anything ever. A club absolutely over the moon with complete mediocrity.

What a bloke.

When you take into account the nightmare time he’s had I thought he was very impressive tonight.

'worked up' 'meltdown' 'upset'. Literally no evidence of this is there.

I haven't made any point champion, I've quoted our former CEO who our current Technical Director appeared to agree with.

I remember just over a year ago Tinnion sat there nodding along next to Richard Gould as Gould explained why loans for Championship clubs from Premier League clubs was such a huge waste of time and money. In fact he even chipped in at one point asking the fans in the crowd to name just how many successful loans from the Premier League we'd had as a club? The crowd was rather struggling as after the absolute tap in shouts of Caulker and Abraham someone had to go back 30 years to name Andy Cole. What happened Brian? Just an aside, and no doubt I'll be accused of not moving on or something, but Gould made the case against expensive PL loans and explained perfectly why it isn't beneficial to us as a club. Won't ever stop the utterly simpleton shouts of NiGe DiDnT lIkE LoAnS!!! though..

Find yourself someone that loves you as much as Ian Gay loves stating the height and weight of professional football players.

Best midfielder in Premier League history.

Well I’d completely agree, but on Twitter (not really on here oddly) I keep reading how much better the football is and how better coached the team looks.

I am absolutely desperate for them to sell up and leave so I can’t imagine that’s aimed at me. For what it’s worth, results under Manning are fine, just like they were under Pearson, the squad is fine. I don’t blame Manning or Pearson for why it’s clearly impossible to ever be any better than fine at this level. The club needs a change of owenership if it is to ever progress. I do blame Manning for playing a style of football that utterly bores me, but that’s a side issue, and it seems plenty of other people actually enjoy it so good for them.

He wasn’t brought in to bring his own squad, he was brought in to get more out of the current squad.

This is spot on. Fine, let him sign the one or two players in January that Pearson should have been allowed in August, but people seem to be moving the goalposts and talking about ‘judging him with his squad’ and seemingly believing he needs to bring in a whole new raft of players to play ‘Manning ball’ (my god that phrase irritates me). If we are only able to judge him with his squad or he does need to completely overhaul the squad to play his preferred style of football effectively then it is in actual fact an open admission that it was the wrong appointment. The change in manager was supposedly to get more out of the squad we had. I can’t believe for a second that Jon Lansdown and Brian Tinnion were lying again.

I reckon the only thing more boring than ‘be careful what you wish for’ is actually watching City play football.

It’s remarkable how it now seems to be accepted that after that West Brom game Nige was wanted out by some massive majority. No doubt there was a decent amount that seemed to take that view but at the game there was plenty of people around me shouting at the ‘We want Pearson out’ brigade to shut up. On a personal note, and this doesn’t really prove anything, there wasn’t one person I speak to about City that wanted him sacked.

Are they always this ******* boring?