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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.

I respect each and every one of you that put yourselves through twenty three minutes of listening to Liam Manning speak.

1 minute ago, Cole Not Gas said:

I posted about Diedhou and there are a number of replies already; does this get moved to Ex-Players?

They player has often been described as universally popular with City fans so i guess it shows the forum to be exactly what we know, ie a very minority sample of people who like to use social media. Diedhou or Ashton or Pearson certainly made his exit a sour matter for BCFC fans and i guess we would all bet differently who should have taken the largest blame. I doubt our last manager comes out of this well and when you watch the highlights of his goals you wonder about Massengo and other departees. One thing for sure is Pearson left us in a total mess up front, not being able to score, having enjoyed the benefits of expensive talent like Scott, Semenyo & Weimann - unforgivable as a coach, IMO

Genuinely incapable of posting without making a show of yourself aren’t you. You must be due a decent one soon, surely..

How the **** does Nigel Pearson take any blame for what happened during the last six months of Diedhiou’s time here? **** me, that might be the worst attempt at finding something to criticise Pearson yet.

The ‘mess’ upfront that he apparently created, slightly more difficult when you’re not allowed to spend 5 million on a centre forward isn’t it, includes of course giving a debut to Tommy Conway that under our previous manager used to look a good player. Rather than the shadow of himself he now looks.

There are accusations, possibly with some truth, people on this forum keep bringing things back to Nigel Pearson. It would be much easier for this to not be the case if we didn’t have to read utter ******* rubbish attempting to criticise the very good job he did.

Absolutely no way anyone in their right mind ever considered Diedhiou ‘universally popular’ either, one of the most highly debated City players, in pubs, at the game, on social media and on this forum that I can ever remember. 

Winning a game while having the majority of possession for the first time under this manager would be a start.

You know what, if Lee Johnson had suffered health issues and a few months later there was a thread on here enquiring how he was, I reckon I’d probably be able to stop myself posting what a dreadful football manager I thought he was.

But hey, that’s just me.

To be fair in his scintillating cameo against QPR I said to my dad ‘this lad just needs to ‘learn tempo/la pausa’

Really reminded me of Rafa Leao and Vinicius Jr.

Good init, the internet. Lots of takes to be digested.

Didn’t Tinnion say at the start of the season that Pearson had promoted him into the first team squad and he now wouldn’t leave that level?

..On loan in the Conference South.

A very amusing 180 degree turn as Brendon McCullum asks for Somerset and Lancashire to play on spinning pitches to aid England’s young spinners.

Small problem, last time we had two England spinners and played on pitches that helped them we got called cheats and ended up getting deducted points.