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1 hour ago, Tim Monaghan said:

Think everyone needs to give their heads a wobble. Just don’t buy it, it’s as simple as that. Ahhhh, but we hate the club at the moment don’t we, so let’s just have a meltdown over everything. It’s a tshirt lads. A T-shirt. 
 

I’d understand if it was our kit, but it isn’t. Make yourselves a cup of tea. Maybe have a custard cream, and take 10 minutes out. 
 

In through the nose, out through the mouth. Is there really any need for this outrage?

Not one single person is outraged.

Such a weird club.

There’ll be no sheepshaggers in Berlin

Not exactly a surprise his team plays the most boring football seen at Ashton Gate in decades is it.

Was stunned when reading this thread yesterday that OTIB’s resident nutcase had missed the opportunity to make yet another show of himself, glad he’s made up for it today. All is right with the world again. 

2 minutes ago, Topper 123 said:

So the activists who are not renewing season tickets-is it because of increase in pricing , which by the way falls in line with most other increases in the football league  or

is it because team ( by the way is still NP team )is not performing above average  or 

the new manager ( young manager ) is trying to implement a different style but is failing , maybe needs funding for summer transfer window  or 

we’re continually blaming owners who have made a few mistakes ( that happens ) but has invested heavily and without that investment our ground would be behind our neighbours up north Bristol or our academy which has saved us due to millions of £ of transfer returns , where do you find owners like this again , also who’s hands are tied by FFP ruling  NO these activists or should I call them sheep are entitled to their own opinion as are we all but I bet it’s the same ones that will come running back if we have a good season, the faithful 12000 or so who turn up EVERY game will still be there so their actions make no difference in fact  I prefer when the whingers are absent 

Try actual sentences if you want people to make sense of your horrendous opinions.

2 minutes ago, cidered abroad said:

 

Even SO'D and McInnes had some good spells and tried to play football.

Both of these also took over terrible teams in dire situations, while they both proved incapable of improving matters (although I do think O’Driscoll did good work behind the scenes but that’s a different conversation), nobody could argue they inherited a decent team and made them significantly worse.

Manning took an over perfectly decent mid table team with a lot going for it, not world beaters, but organised, spirited and athletic. The speed in which he has turned that team into one that plays the worst football since Tony Pulis and takes 12 points from 14 games is staggering really. He also seems to have deprogrammed the players into never being able to do anything at pace, never showing any confidence, ambition or imagination and frankly looking like the broken shells of professional footballers. You can almost see them all constantly second guessing themselves.

Thick as ******* mince.

5 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

Just finished listening and have to disagree with JP's assertion that LM isn't throwing players under the bus.

How is constantly saying we lack quality up front /going forward not throwing the likes of Tommy under the bus ?

Yeah I disagreed with him here as well. He seemed to suggest that because he hadn’t been critical of individual players or blamed individual mistakes that he hadn’t therefore ‘thrown them under the bus’.

Now the small snippets of Liam Manning that I force myself to watch post game he is almost always distancing himself from the players, talking about how well they’d been set up and how well they’ve been coached. It’s clear this is piling blame on the players while letting everyone know that’s he’s doing a great job. 

But to be honest, with the exception of what Pearson was trying to build here, that’s the culture at this club as far as I can see. Everyone looking to go under the radar and shift blame elsewhere. No leadership and certainly no togetherness.

Right down to what has been abundantly clear since the Lee Johnson fiasco, that the ownership of this club see the fans at best as an irritation, at worst I actually think their view on us is much more hostile than that.

4 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

He wrote a very decent article in the post earlier. He gets it but clearly has to be a bit careful in how far he goes in print.

Yeah I’ve read it, I thought describing watching City at the moment as ‘a strange spectacle’ was excellent. Really hit the nail on the head.

1 minute ago, Street red said:

Do we have a current manager? 

We have a placebo. He’s read a coaching manual and stands in the technical area.

30 minutes ago, Glen hump said:

Don’t think I’ve heard anyone say he was amazing’ there’s just a lot of people who understand what a good job he done in a absolute shit storm he came into’ there’s still fans out the who don’t get what a mess we were in.

Absolutely staggering this needs to explained (again).

’cult of Nige’ etc absolute horseshit from people who have no actual defence of the current manager.

As it stands I’ll renew on the deadline, but frankly every single game of Liam Manning’s passion killing, soul destroying, mind numbing anti-football garbage I have to suffer between now and then could tip me into not bothering.

7 minutes ago, Cole Not Gas said:

Dont know what kind of world you live in; poor win ratio, leaves the club after 30 months without the ability to score goals, during his best season with W-S-M up front (none of whom he recruited) he coached us to concede 77 goals - that is seventy seven.

Fans might sing; "you stole a wage, you stole a wage"

You must fall over a lot.

Should have happened at any point in the last fortnight, as it hasn’t, today would be fine.

He’ll be falling over himself to leave Coventry for Bristol City. Definitely.

Far too much emotion on display at Old Trafford this afternoon.

I can’t believe Pearson not bringing in expensive Premier League loans is still being wilfully misunderstood as if it was just Nige being stubbornly against them.

He explained numerous times why he felt they didn’t benefit the club at that stage while we were operating under austerity measures. Richard Gould (backed up by Brian Tinnion!) at the Hen and Chicken Fans Forum explained why it was club policy that we wouldn’t be pursuing them at that time. 
 

I accept it wasn’t the point, but mentioning Tammy Abraham made me laugh. If you think he’d score any goals in this anti football team Liam Manning coaches you’d be mistaken.

You have to say it really takes brains to watch two man of Richard Gould and Nigel Pearson’s intelligence and experience navigate and clear up the absolute omnishambles they inherited, and your takeaway from that is that we don’t need a CEO and Liam Manning can be our manager.

What a weird club.

11 minutes ago, SotonRed said:

You’d of actually stayed up with 1 point per game in 7 of the last 10 seasons, but that’s by the by. 
 

You’ve decided to take his worst run of results to make your point in what is, to me, still too small of a sample size to judge him fairly. 

If my view was just on the results then maybe that would be fair, but it isn’t, the football is horrific. I can take losing, I’ve seen City do it plenty of times, it’s fine. I can’t take being bored rigid.

Both obviously, but I went for Manning.

This club will obviously never achieve anything while it’s been ran by Jon Lansdown and Brian Tinnion, but in the short term I can’t stomach any more of this football offered by this manager.

For 90 minutes on a Saturday I should be able to forget about the endless mistakes this club makes and just watch the football. Under Liam Manning watching the football is torture.

2 minutes ago, SotonRed said:

We haven’t got 12 points from our last 15 games? We have 15 putting us 19th in the league - so not in the bottom three. 
 

Apologies, my mistake 12 points from 14. 15 points from 15 is still a point a game, over a season that’s relegation. Relegation form from a third of the season with a mid table squad.

1 minute ago, Glen hump said:

We’re a weird nothing club ‘ Pearson said when he first came in we were a very strangely run outfit 

Yeah I remember him saying, kind of out of nowhere, ‘it’s a strange club’. Nige, as ever, spot on.

2 hours ago, SotonRed said:

 

Fans knew our squad was a midtable side and laughed when Tinnion said it should be competing for promotion, but now are loosing their minds because the team isn’t living up to the claims of Tinnion which they never believed in the first place! 
 

If we all know our squad is a mid table side why is this manager only capable of winning 12 points from 15 games?

That isn’t mid table is it? That’s relegation, every season, without fail.