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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.

36 minutes ago, exAtyeoMax said:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/liam-manning-prepared-show-different-9141744

 

“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.

10 minutes ago, Roger Red Hat said:

There was a clip at the end of the last 'robins uncut 089' where LM was telling the players, "I've said it to a few of you now, if you want to be a tough team you have to soak up tough times". 

WTF? Patronising shite. We used to be pretty tough.  He seems to have removed that.

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.

Just now, Glen hump said:

We’re a mirror image of are manager, slightly robotic with no character.

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.

2 hours ago, Bedminster said:

People from other clubs must read this and see bearded red speaking and laugh at us. Very sad!

I bet you stink.

9 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Let’s be honest, they were shite as well.

That’s the frustration I know we were outclassed by Leeds but realistically we’re not their level.

Cardiff are us, same points before the game, same level of players & we barely laid a glove on them.

The football is sterile too, incredibly dull to sit through.

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.

2 minutes ago, Bedminster said:

Hahahaha. This is the worst forum in the world. Pearson going was correct, we’ve just appointed Lee Johnson again. 

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.

An important, and correct, addition here.

When talking Dumb, Dumber and the Mood Hoover never forget the absolute clown that is ‘Downsy’. 
 

All four of them are ******* hopeless.

Preferably this afternoon.

Absolute turgid garbage.

Dumb and dumber and the mood hoover. They all deserve each other.

Send the ******* League 1 mood hoover back to where he came from.

Sorry I’ve just seen Callum O’Dowda compared with David Noble.

What a take.

19 minutes ago, Cole Not Gas said:

 If Manning had Scott and Semenyo in his side, his record would be infinitely better than our last 3-4 seasons.

You’re aware that when Nigel Pearson took the City job Alex Scott was a 17 year old with zero football league appearances and Antoine Semenyo was a player with zero goals in forty three Championship games that plenty had written off as not being good enough for this level? To even suggest Pearson was just handed them as the finished articles they were on the day they were sold is wholly disingenuous. 
 

I wonder how Liam Manning would have got on inheriting a car crash of a club, with a rotten culture of half arsed unfit players, no style of play, a wage bill that needed slashing to avoid points deductions, imposed austerity measures and a reliance on young, unproven players. Rather than the decent, solid, spirited, athletic, mid table team he actually did inherit.

To proudly boast of ‘not being a Pearson fan’ and attempting to make up complete garbage to criticise him shows you can’t have been paying attention.

Apologies to everyone for yet another thread being taken off course, but seriously, if people will insist on talking utter shit.

Why is it always the ones you most suspect?

2 minutes ago, Cole Not Gas said:

If Pearson had been able to keep him, he wouldn't have his awful rep of leaving us in the position he did; poor win rate over 3 seasons, desperately short of tall forwards etc. The more you think about the players Pearson 'lost' the worse his record becomes. Diedhou's exit was not all the manager's fault though.

Yeah what an idiot Pearson is ‘losing’ players when budgets are having to be cut drastically to avoid points deductions.

If you were following the club at all at the time you’d be aware everyone knew Diedhiou was leaving on a free that summer before Nigel Pearson had even taken the job.

You are either on the wind up or just a genuine moron.