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Remember though, he’s a bright young coach learning his trade and those of us that thought he was a complete fraud would be proved wrong. Sacked by two clubs in the same season and we’re still only in December.

He’s been sacked again. Twice in the same season before New Year.

The bloke hasn’t got the foggiest. About anything.

I don’t care.

Your man, once again, trying to talk about a bloke getting sacked almost 20 years ago for failing to get promoted from Nationwide Division 2.

Don’t let the sad little troll ruin this thread about Nige.

Great post @Olé

It is absolutely remarkable that this needs to be pointed out on a forum dedicated to talking about Bristol City isn’t it.

What a bloke, not many like him about. ‘time on the grass’. **** I miss him managing this club.

What minute will Sykes be inexplicably taken off? I’ll go 67.

Don’t worry, there hasn’t been any. Slow possession played in front of the other team is about as far away from ‘expansive attacking play’ as you can get. You rightly point out the goal at Huddersfield, I’m probably being slightly facetious, but I didn’t understand the great enthusiasm from people clearly (somehow) excited about the football Manning is supposedly trying to play for the first half at Southampton when let’s be clear, the opposition had the ball and we played counter attack.. so we played the football we were best at under Nige?

The issue is surely there was absolutely no need at all for there to be ‘early days’. It was a team performing to a perfectly adequate level, the ability and level of performance possible in the team was being shown. There was no under performance, there was no threat of relegation, there was no mutiny within the squad. Nothing was ‘wrong’. No manager in my time watching has ever taken over in as good a position. So there is no need for any particular amount of patience. For example, some people will find this hilarious, but I wasn’t in support of the sacking of Sean O’Driscoll at the time because I felt there should be more patience due to the absolute shambles he had taken over, Gary Johnson received nothing but support from me through the record losing run because, again, the situation he inherited needed time to sort out. This isn’t the case here, if Liam Manning replacing Nigel Pearson was correct, then the outcome would be clear much quicker than usual with changes of manager at City. The (very) early signs are that it wasn’t. Our players are not perfect, they play for us for crying out loud. But we are now seeing players receiving a lot of criticism and people talking about mass clear outs and however many signings needed to come in. Nobody would be saying any of these things if Pearson was still manager. We would still be a style suited our players, and has been recruited for over the past three years windows. It was a joke of a decision, and even if Manning does get this ‘right’, I think it’s surely clear that we have been hugely set back as a club. I’m afraid it is difficult to be ‘patient’ when it just feels like an act of self sabotage

Have to say I thought Wells and Naismith were great tonight. So much better than the usual laughable propaganda.

As much as I have been completely unimpressed so far, I have absolutely nothing against Manning and have felt the Lee Johnson comparisons have been totally unfair. This, however, is peak Lee Johnson. If anything, I’ve coached them too well. Absolute garbage.

If people keep telling themselves ‘the football is better in places’ I’m sure it’ll come true eventually. But it isn't. It’s crap. I liked having a style of play that suited our squad rather than one that doesn’t make use of their strengths and exposes their weaknesses. Got rid or a pragmatic manager that knew how to get the best out of his players for one that wants to coach out of the textbook. Oh and by they way, I’m certain other teams allow their most dangerous attacking player to play 90 minutes rather than dragging him off every single game.

Tell daddy to sell up and **** off.

It’s all going really ******* well isn’t it.

Remember though, some genuine idiots will bring up Nige’s record after he took over, pretending he wasn’t inheriting that absolute omnishambles. Your man from Guernsey should be thanking him daily for the job he did. The state he found compared to what he left. What a job he did. Cheers Nige.

Shambolic football club.

We were joking at the ground in the summer that due to just how bare the cupboard is, Bashir probably wasn’t far away from the squad. I can’t say I actually thought he’d make it though, at least not from the start, maybe drafted in after some injuries and poor performances. It seems there’s been a Lions tour to the UAE the past month or so where they’ve basically taken every single bloke under about 25 that has ever bowled a bit of spin and Bashir had came out in front. Taking four spinners to India in which Rehan Ahmed at 20 has the second most amount of test wickets does rather suggest what we should all know however, that we’re going to get thrashed.

Yes Bash!

I bet it has.

Frankly, if the early Sykes substitution last week and yesterday aren’t anything to do with a niggle or managing his minutes for whatever reason, then they are two of the maddest substitutions I’ve ever seen. The bloke is by so far currently our most threatening player.

My theory, and it could be complete nonsense, is Nige loved throwing him on because Nige loved the pace and chaos he could provide even if there are currently elements of his game that are miles off Championship level. Manning it seems wants control, Yeboah at this point doesn’t provide that. Personally, I think there is often a case for throwing in some pace and chaos late on in a game, and would like to see him get a run late on late on in games. Especially when, to be honest, I have absolutely no interest in watching Mehmeti take a million touches to achieve the square root of nothing.

In the main, no. The criticism was not unjustified. The only slight caveat to that, was I did feel at the time that there seemed to be a large section of fans that held him totally responsible for the utter mess we got into and allowed Steve Lansdown and Lee Johnson to get off scot-free. The main person responsible was always obviously Lansdown for allowing such shambolic overspending and Johnson, as he is currently proving once again, is an absolute fraud of a football manager who was never going to achieve anything regardless of how many millions you endlessly throw at him. Luckily, two of the people named have now left the club, I eagerly await the day Steve Lansdown joins them.