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Wouldn’t message either of them on Twitter. Sell up and **** off though.

That was absolute rubbish. Worst we’ve played all season.

Nigel Pearson inherited a bloated squad full of half hearted, overpaid bluffers. In his attempts to turn around a sinking ship and introduce a professional culture there had to be people thrown off the bus. Liam Manning is fortunate to inherit a lean squad of committed, spirited, fit and decent pros so therefore there shouldn’t be any dead wood and players thrown aside. No doubt he will have his views on the ability of certain players but there is nobody that needs ostracising from the squad or sent out on loan while we pay their wages due to any lack of professionalism or motivation. To be honest, I don’t remember a city manager taking the job in such a good place. That’s testament to the job the previous manager did.

Manning has done a hell of a lot more in his coaching career to earn this opportunity.

Best ODI innings ever?

Maxwell is an absolute freak. Most watchable cricketer going around.

I've seen a lot of this narrative about Gary Johnson on here recently, and my memory must be completely wrong as I remember him being a very popular appointment. The Brentford game after he was announced, but before he'd taken full charge, already had people singing his name. Fair play, he had became slightly less popular after losing 10 of his first 13 games..

I’m old enough to remember this Afghanistan team beating England preposterously being described by some as ‘the biggest shock in World Cup history’.

Easy to slip through the cracks when you’re signing a million players every transfer window.

Yep agreed, we all knew he’d be moving on, to not even let him enjoy last night is, once again, a disgusting move from the people that unfortunately run this club.

Please don’t waste your time responding to me.

Makes you proud to be ran by people with such class doesn’t it.

The king doesn’t miss.

Well I’m not in Section 82, and I can assure you’re that ‘Nigel Pearson’s Cider Army’, ‘one Nigel Pearson’ and ‘Jon Lansdown, what a manual manipulator’ rang around for the last ten minutes, and on the final whistle more pro Nige chants started. No doubt, people will try and spin this as not enough, or too much, but the fact remains, this has (to my knowledge) never happened in the game following any previous manager being sacked.

Oh really? What’s happened?

I’m not suggesting I haven’t gone a bit mad this week, but suggestions that the kit man needed firing were genuinely hilarious weren’t they

I think he is perfectly decent Championship goalkeeper, and I don’t really know why that seems a controversial view. He’s also much better value for money than the guy he replaced in the team.

Nigel Pearson’s Cider Army.

Last time I looked it was a free country. I don’t know what ‘getting behind the board’ looks like, but I can assure you I won’t be doing it champ. Still, you’re getting closer to writing an actual sentence, so great progress.

I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too, it gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing

The Yeboah chant but changed to Crayola.

PARKLIFE

What a ******* bloke. In an industry full of self obsessed bullshitters I was genuinely proud of having someone with such honesty, decency and integrity as our manager. City will of course always be my team, but frankly the Ashton/Johnson era really started to question, that although I’ll always love the club, whether at that time I actually liked it. Nige changed that. Really happy he knows the warmth so many of us have towards him, and he’s been in the game long enough to appreciate this isn’t exactly the normal response from fans to a manager getting sacked. As he says, the hard working spirited team he’s built deserve our full support, a far cry from the squad full of half hearted, overpaid wasters that he inherited.

All the way down would be ideal.

I’d imagine neither of us have the numbers, so of course I could be wrong, but from what I saw I’d be stunned if we dropped in any sort of intensity in the Ipswich game. In fact, our energy was what probably kept us in it at times. Dont know about Cardiff, to be honest with the team we had I’d admitted defeat before I even got in the ground. So the game rather washed over me.