downendcity

Probably 6 weeks too late to make a run that would get us into the play offs.

Not impossible - you only have to look back to the 11 (?) game winning run under DW - but we'd need to discover firepower up front that has sadly been missing for too much of the season. Would be good to make a go of it, even if we fall short, so the season doesn't fizzle out and gives us momentum and optimism to take into next season.

Of course, that is before that optimism is dashed in the summer when we sell Conway, Pring and Vyner to Bournemouth! 

6 hours ago, Wanderingred said:

Massive opportunity missed for QPR last night to claw themselves out of the bottom 3. That could be a very damaging result indeed for them, and hopefully it will affect their morale and confidence.

QPR win nailed on then.

11 hours ago, paignton red said:

Just been reading their forum

"We were dreadful..what's worse is that Bristol "we should be beating these" City didn't really look that great"

Nothing about we sussed them out and nullified them. Arrogant tossers.

You didn't use our full name in your post PR. 

47 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

Amazing turnaround from “don’t know where the next win is coming from, looking over our shoulder” to we can win the next 3 and be very close to the play offs! 
 

Of course, being really pessimistic and really optimistic in this league has time and time again proved to be crazy!

Experienced City fans have become able to hold both pessimistic and optimistic outlooks at one and the same time and to be proved correct!

2 hours ago, Royz said:

Hay Hay  Cornick

I wanna know

Where'd you get that Tash !

53 minutes ago, italian dave said:

Was it TGH fed the ball to McCrorie? Because that was a great pass too.

All in all, a classic counter attack goal. 

Similar to Scott's pass to Wells to set up the goal  at Preston last season.

16 minutes ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

Pretty sure the AG pitch has traditionally been one of the biggest in the league.

LJ insisted it was narrowed during his time here - too much grass to measure?

These days the width in particular seems to vary according to how the current manager thinks it best suits his style of play, so no idea of LM's preference or where AG stands in comparison with other pitches now.

That was because he's a short arse and with the curvature of the earth, he struggled to see the Dolman side of the pitch from the dugout!

1 hour ago, transfer reader said:

Not quite what you're after, but the attacking momentum one.

So while we weren't on the ball that often, we were getting it into dangerous areas quickly and consistently when we did have it.

 

20 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

For me, at a very basic level, they don’t create enough ball into the final third for the possession they have.

Saints 154 / 705 (21.8%)

City 111 / 323 (34.4%)

They allow teams to “get set”.

Yeah, we attacked with pace and verve (is that the right word).  I thought we battered them second half.

Anyone else feeling that they need a course of evening classes to keep up and understand all these graphs, charts, xgs and the like?

I'm still getting to grips with half backs, inside forwards, Ramsey's wingless wonders and 4-2-4!

35 minutes ago, TV Tom said:

Texas 

Along with death,  one of 2 certainties in life. 

5 hours ago, Superjack said:

And here is the rub. 

All of us in the 'Nigel Fan Club' recognise that Manning has been left a very good hand due to his predecessor's hard work. 

If Manning had taken over from Holden, we would be bang in trouble. 

The 'Fan Club' realises this.

So do the a***holes in charge. They just can't bear to acknowledge it. 

Anyway, fantastic performance and result tonight. Credit to the players, and Manning for not trying to throw it away like he did at the weekend. 

 

I've said before that the opinions lot of the so called "pro Pearson" and/or " anti Manning" posters are perhaps more reflective of their feelings towards the ownership than they are of the respective manager or coach.

Pearson's attributes made him the right man for the job at the time he came here and for the same reasons, agree with you that Manning would not have been. There are things that Pearson was able to do that Manning could not have done, but I also think and hope that there will be things that Manning will go on to do and achieve that perhaps Pearson could not have.

However, I can also understand that for an owner ( and SL wasn't the first in NP's career) there might be a limit to how much bloody minded cussedness you can take and continue to work with.  Because of his age, and also that there was uncertainty as to whether Pearson would stay beyond his initial contract ( before things obviously blew up towards the end) I wonder whether the club had earmarked Manning as a successor. There is little doubt in my mind that Pearson was backing the club into a corner and, as it seems that Manning was being closely looked at by a number of championship clubs at that time according to a lot of press comment, perhaps they made the decision to move before they were left with the worst of all worlds i.e. Pearson going and Manning already snapped up by a rival. 

The shambles around Pearson's departure was terribly handled by the club - of that there is no doubt. However, I wonder whether if, in the not too distant future, we will look back on Pearson's sacking and Manning's appointment as perhaps SL's best decision among numerous bad ones, and will recognise the excellent job both Pearson and Manning did at the times both came to the club.

26 minutes ago, Tim Monaghan said:

3 very winnable games coming up too.

You realise what you've just done? 

4 minutes ago, The turtle said:

A fantastic performance.yes the end product was annoying in first half. But it was still a good performance. It was them being so dull trying to put everyone to sleep.

But the whole game from us has been about energy, foot to floor, aggressive football. Both with and without the ball as much as possible.

While extremely disciplined No hint of control survival football, no hint of sluggish. Gone for them, gone wide, simply gone at them with a pure intensity.

They've been trying to play chess. We've thrown the board to the ground and made it clear it's our house and our rules. No matter how much possession you have.

Play like this every week, sign me up here and mow

Front foot football?

Just now, Woofyourkipper said:

Can you get a yellow which obviously shouldn’t of been given rescinded?

It would result in a 3 match ban for Bailey Wright!

Just now, INCRED said:

I just hope we go for a second and not sit back 

That sounds like a cue for Manning to make 3 subs and go 3 at the back. 

2 minutes ago, BigTone said:

And medication

If Major has problems with seized nuts this is the stuff.

1 minute ago, Major Isewater said:

No penetration. 

There are clinics that can help you with that problem Major!

Just now, cidercity1987 said:

They've had the same amount of seasons in L1 in the last 15 years as we have

I was being a bit facetious, but you know what I meant.

3 minutes ago, bexhill reds said:

Sky banging on about Southampton not getting started, why not that we are taking the game to them…

Because they re ex-premier league Southampton and we are ex-league 1  Bristol City.

2 minutes ago, old_eastender said:

Mehmeti frustrating so far...

That's a cut and paste from many previous MDTs.

1 hour ago, CityReds said:

So the HPC and Ashton gate pitches are Desso Hybrid pitches, the synthetic fibres are plugged into the soil which helps promote root growth and strengthen the root beds. They’re prepared in the same way a full grass pitch is and is used in most of the major pitches in the world. AG, St James Park, Nou Camp, Old Trafford, San Siro, PSG, Twickenham and Wembley to name a few. Every year the organic grass is removed and relayed but the fibres will last 6-8 years.

Perhaps we need to replace Rob's hamstrings with the fibres used in the pitch, as they will last longer!

Steve Wright radio DJ aged 69!

39 minutes ago, glastored said:

I’m sure David Frost was a Gillingham fan.

Plastic glory hunter.

He thinks he's Charles Charlie Charles.

2 hours ago, Cov 77 said:

Can you ever get over Nige ? 

It's Valentine's Day next week!