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It was two, he was fine in one of them and we were absolutely desperate with literally nobody fit at the club that played in that position. Today Cameron Pring was on the bench watching Sam Bell play left wingback for crying out loud.

Always thought he’d make a brilliant left wing back. Said nobody ever.

Well done Lee.

Should have played a few more right footed players in the starting eleven I reckon.

The weather didn’t help today, and Huddersfield were even worse, but Jesus Christ it’s a tough watch isn’t it.

Same here, for all the talk (which I’ve been more than guilty of myself) of the passing around the back, the clear instruction for Conway to not press has been the most disappointing aspect of the games so far under Manning.

Well that was my point really!

I never for a second believed we would have Alex Scott this season so any expectation relied on some of the money from his sale being spent on two or three players that the squad is clearly lacking. Under that assumption I wanted us to be in the top half, hopefully with an outside sniff of the playoffs until deep into the season. All while continuing to build the club, develop the younger players and become a team that can be more comfortable in possession and not rely quite so heavily on the counter attack. Those players never came, and he was disgracefully sacked. I'm now reading that we need to overhaul the squad so the new manager can move to a completely different style of football. A truly preposterous football club.

Budget was maxed out in August wasn’t it? Shouldn’t be any signings without people leaving.

This has also surprised me. What ‘better’ is is obviously subjective, one man’s attacking, gung ho football is another’s kick and rush. One man’s cultured, modern possession is another man’s mind numbingly dull tippy tappy rubbish. However, of all the people I talk to about City, with various different views on the current state of the club (Lansdowns, Pearson, this squad etc), all of them have found the football incredibly dull. In fact at halftime on Sunday, while winning obviously, I bumped into a lad I used to play football with, haven’t spoken to him in a couple of years, first thing he said.. ‘Jesus, this is ******* boring isn’t it’. All I could hear from people around me at the game on Sunday was moaning how crap it was. I know during the reaction to Pearson leaving there was an accusation that the views on this forum in no way reflected the wider fan base, but in my experience the views on here that are positive about the football played so far under Manning are completely at odds with everyone I’ve spoken to that doesn’t post on here.

What a good little bootlicker.

I agree entirely with this, I couldn’t believe all the comments on here yesterday about Man City or Pep. Man City do not spend large parts of the game with the two centre halves passing it sideways to each other at walking pace. Kyle Walker does not spend the game turning round and passing it back to centre halves. These Pep quotes would tell you what he’d have thought of the performance yesterday had he been forced to watch it for some strange reason:

No I wouldn't say we should be worried, at least not this season. Just bored, we should all be very bored.

Positives- I had a nice nap.

That’ll be a big loss.

To be fair to Liam Manning, now that we literally never counter attack at least Mehmeti is unable to completely slow them down and allow the other team to get goalside.

I can’t quite decide whether the bit of the game I enjoyed the most was Vyner rolling the ball to Dickie or Dickie rolling the ball to Vyner. Hang on, wait, what am I talking about?! It was when Tanner rolled the ball back to Vyner. All done at a pace that could have been pressed by Peter Griffin.

******* too right!

If that steaming pile of shit I had to endure today is the product of a good coach, then give me a bad coach.

Claiming there needs to be a change in ‘mindset and culture’ is just an outright lie. Your football is absolutely ******* atrocious as well, just by the way. Thanks for boring me to tears in almost two and half of your four games though.

Nonsense decision to play him on the left. Nonsense decision to move him back to the left when our only attacking play came in the ten minutes he was on the right. Assuming no injury, one of the most nonsense decisions I’ve ever seen to take him off. Other than that I felt he was managed quite well today.

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

As I said on the way out, they’re brining in xY for City games. Expected Yawns.

Vyner and Dickie are still down there now rolling the ball to each other at walking pace. Absolute ******* torture.

If a coach being ‘on the grass’ produces football this ******* dull, give me back the bloke with the bad back who sat in his office at the training ground.