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9 minutes ago, Finley_Smith10 said:

Don’t wanna keep going on but **** me. 11 stone

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.

1 minute ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Apart from die hard Manning ball fans, I'm not sure anyone is enjoying 0 goals in 3. 

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.

Just now, Numero Uno said:

We all know that was bollocks from the hierarchy so why not put some heat on them……just FOR ONCE in the last 25 years of the Lansdown’s average ownership?

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.

Just now, And Its Smith said:

How are people moving the goalposts?  If fans want to judge him when he gets his own players that is up to them. They aren’t the fans goalposts, they are the owners and Tinnions 

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

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

I've heard Owers and Ian Gay and now posts like this say Manning needs to be able to bring in his own players. 

 

Sorry but wasn't the change made in order to bring in a head coach who could get more out of our current set of players? So why the f are people speaking about him needing money to spend just to get us back to where we were? 

I have no problem with us bringing in 2-3 in the window as that's what you'd expect in every Jan window. 

My issue is with the excuses people are using for these poor results and performances. 

 

 

 

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.

1 hour ago, Sir Geoff said:

It was 10 months ago and there were about 50 boneheads in the singing section chanting "Pearson out," during the WBA boxing day game.

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?

Reminder- there are some people on this forum that watch City pass it round the back at walking pace and think that it’s ’playing like Pep’.

Steve- Time to sell and leave.

7 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

This manager is actually getting far less from the squad, style wise. We are now so boring to watch.

It’s absolute dross.

I actively look forward to the games where the opposition are likely to dominate possession as watching us on the ball is just pure torture.

4 minutes ago, Curr Avon said:

 

We haven't looked a poor side, just one that keeps missing chances when on top.

An Expected Goals in the last three games of 0.8, 0.4 and 0.8. 
 

We play boring football and barely create anything, nothing to do with missing chances. Every player at every club misses chances. Erling Haaland misses chances. 
 

Maybe one day we’ll successfully bore the opposition into submission.

Yawns per game is well up though tbf.

Yeah if we bin Max off and bring in Alisson we can start drawing 0-0 instead.

How about scoring a goal? How about something exciting happening? 

It’s just all so ******* boring.

Doesn’t even wind me up anymore as I’m just so bored.

Vanilla, grey, dull.

Lewis Gregory.

Don’t really know how it’s going to work when due to his back issues he’s surely going to miss plenty of games.

1 minute ago, lenred said:

Tbf to him he came out into the middle and applauded supporters after the Millwall performance.  That’s good enough for me.   If you’re going to come out after a win you have to do it every single match, regardless of the result.  

Ah okay, fair enough, I didn’t see that so maybe I’m being unfair, certainly after other defeats (I think Norwich was the game I particularly noticed it) he’s gone straight down the tunnel.

Finding his habit of being front and centre after a good result and sneaking off down the tunnel after a bad result very irritating.

Feel the comparisons with Lee Johnson are on the whole very unfair, but I’m afraid this behaviour is very Lee Johnson.

Of course it’s ultimately completely irrelevant in regards to how good a football manager he is, but it’s still irritating nonetheless.

Just a perfectly good goalkeeper for the level we play at, and much better value for money than the guy he replaced.

I remain really confused as to why this seems to be such a controversial view.

What a thoroughly enjoyable morning on the Great British Railway.

Absolute shambles from start to finish.

My word.

Such a ******* great bloke.

This is incredible entertainment.

Dreading how many points Somerset are going to be deducted for this pitch in Cape Town.