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Couldn’t agree more.

Absolutely staggering isn’t it.

We were always going to be better against a team like Ipswich than we’ve been in the last three games. Surely everyone knew that? Surely everyone who watches us play knew that? It’s a nonsense to suggest ‘oh if only we’d played like that in the last three games’. We can’t play like that because the opposition let us have the ball. And when the opposition let us have the ball we play crap football at walking pace 70 yards away from the opposition’s goal. This utterly small time reaction that we should be somehow over the moon with last night is stunning. This wasn’t a plucky non league team getting beat at Man City or Liverpool in the third round. We were fine for 70 minutes, we could have got something out the game. We didn’t, we lost, and let’s be honest it could just as easily have been a couple more in the last few minutes. It’s four defeats on the bounce, it’s 9 points in 13. Celebrating because we weren’t atrocious and didn’t get thrashed at Ipswich. Was this the aim when we sacked Nigel Pearson?

Best organised team at Portman Road this season, you’ll never sing that!

The self sabotage from the club this season should be studied for years to come. How to destroy two years of bloody hard work.

Weak club. Top to bottom. Losers.

I also think City will get result. Whether they do or don’t, I’m almost certain the performance will be better than the last three.

Call me mental, but City probably being able to play to their strengths on the counter attack has lead to me being unable to resist 5/1 on the City win. Still think we are decent team when the other team dominate the ball.

I hadn’t heard his interview after the game on Saturday. I miss my life when that was the case. What a load of rubbish. Worse garbage than actually watching his team play football.

“The frustration comes from saying the same messages, and that’s the biggest bit. We can coach, we can tactically set up perfect, but we have to have people stepping up and taking responsibility - we need leaders.” Have felt the Lee Johnson comparisons have been overly simplistic and not necessarily fair, but my god, this is pure Lee Johnson.

If we beat Ipswich it will no doubt be the result of a game in which Ipswich dominate and have the majority of possession, and when we win the ball we counter attack into the space they leave. This will do nothing else than tell us what we already know, this is a decent team when allowed to play to its strengths. However, it is an absolutely desperate team when it has the majority of possession and is instructed to use that possession to do nothing more than pass the ball around the backline at walking pace. In all of Manning’s wins City have had less than 50% possession. This is no coincidence.

Ipswich will dominate the game which makes us more likely to get a result as we’ll have to play counter attack rather than controlling possession by playing absolute dross walking pace garbage along our backline.

The sort of bullshit that professional athletes will stop listening to almost immediately.

Ian accusing people of wanting Manning to fail. What a total dick.

There’s a lot of truth in this of course, Liam Manning isn’t the biggest issue at Bristol City and sacking him won’t change much in regards of what is holding this club back. However, the garbage mind numbing football is on him. The players looking shells of themselves is on him. The complete boredom at Ashton Gate is on him. He’s a mood hoover. The whole thing is just weird. It’s like some sort of experiment on how to make football as sterile as possible. I keep hearing and reading how we ‘struggle to break teams down’. As far as I can see we don’t even try and break them down! He needs to be sacked.

Spot on, I completely agree.

I wouldn’t say he’s ’lost’ them in terms of them hating him, giving up and trying to get him sacked. And I’d imagine that’s actually very rare in professional football. We possibly witnessed this at the tail end of Gary Johnson’s time here, but I can’t think of any other examples. What is surely obvious to everyone watching however is they have clearly had any passion, aggression and imagination sucked out of them. They look like the shells of professional footballers. All sticking to set plan of sterile bullshit football. All scared to do something ambitious in case it doesn’t come off. Nothing happens at pace, it’s as if you’re watching a training routine being jogged through rather than an actual game.

I bet you stink.

This is spot on. Cardiff were absolutely terrible. There’s very easily a world in which we get a corner and Dickie nods it in and we win 1-0. That doesn’t change anything. The football under this manager is torture, he needs to be removed asap, and the two ******* idiots that sacked Nigel Pearson and appointed him also need to removed.

And yet you keep coming back you sad ***.

Equal parts it makes me angry and sad. We had something I was really proud of. A proper manager building a squad that would run all day and give everything. Now what have we got? The mood hoover destroying all of the previous manager’s hard work. Steve, Jon, Brian, Liam. You haven’t got a ******* clue. You all deserve each other.

One day closer to Steve Lansdown, Jon Lansdown, Brian Tinnion and Liam Manning not having any involvement in my football club. That’s todays positive and tomorrow’s positive.

Well I’m inspired.

I too enjoy beer.

Can’t wait for Ian Gay to tell us how actually we played well and remind us that Pearson also lost to Cardiff this season.