Red Exile

Lovely man. The pack of dogs story at the end is as good as could be. In the past now but we were lucky to have him here.

12 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Cheltenham in the JPT?

scored two that night -  both crackers!

Pleasantly surprised by that performance, felt we were the better team. Not been a fan of Manning but he’s winning me over. Seems to have got the best out of Roberts, looks a different player and a quality signing. Credit where it’s due. That was a decent point and could have been more. 

Watching this in a thunderstorm in Italy. City playing really well. Very hopeful for the future. 

Went with my eldest. Without doubt the most enjoyable City away performance of my time. Been to some crackers - Chester 84 being up there - but to win 6-0 when we needed a win was the least City thing ever! Loved that team. Loved that season. Cotts was a great fit for us. Sad that it fell apart so quickly - and that it’s never really recovered. Still - ever hopeful!

That's the sort of luck you need when the result really counts - sadly this one doesn't! But it's another game undefeated. Didn't see much of it but on the basis of results Manning has earned his summer.

Very enjoyable. As others have said, you can only beat what is it in front of you. Manning still to wholly win me over but he's heading in the right direction. Impressed by Roberts tonight.

Credit where it's due - a couple of very good, and very enjoyable, performances against sides at opposite ends of the table. 

1 hour ago, ChippenhamRed said:

How much would it cost to go to four hours of live music a month at the equivalent professional level? Four hours of theatre? Four hours of another sport?

It’s a good question and one I ask myself. Best seat in the house at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford costs me £65. Not to every taste I appreciate but for me a couple of hours guaranteed world class entertainment. An afternoon at the Gate in recent years by contrast? A mix of bored to tears and driven up the wall in frustration! Not a lot of entertainment on offer. Fortunately for the club many people’s reasons for buying a ST aren’t rooted in expecting to be entertained by what’s happening on the pitch!

7 hours ago, eardun said:

Excellent post. I’m finding the childish name calling/abuse/pettiness is making the forum hard work. There’s even negativity about whose photographs are on season ticket renewal information - is that really that important? 

I don't go in for the childish name calling. But as for the image...well I'd say that is important. They started with a blank piece of paper when it came to marketing the season tickets. Could have had anything. In the past might have been - and has been - a montage of our promising young players - but they chose a montage of former players - some so former that as a man in my 60s I'm looking at images from my childhood - and a trio of leaders...Alan Dicks, legend but who left the club before I started work, Liam Manning, who may have many qualities we're yet to see as a coach but has zero charisma, and...Brian Tinnion???!!!! I could kind of see him in the players montage but in the role that places him on a par with Manning and Dicks - as a manager - he was an abject failure, one of SL's bigger mistakes. I can't understand what the designers were thinking...unless...

...my sense is that the folk running the club honestly think that everyone loves Tins, hence his radio interview. That he represents something of the club's heritage, that he can really speak to the fans. I think that a misjudgement. 'Trust me on Tinnion' is seared in my memory. I don't have anything against Brian Tinnion personally but his reincarnation as a key club figure reminds me of everything bad about the Lansdown years.  

3 minutes ago, Supersonic Robin said:

It's an incredibly strange choice of image.

7 people in the photo, only one of which is a current first team player. Is it normal to have a big picture of the club's technical director on such a post?

Surely the club know that Tinnion and Manning are relatively unpopular figures within the fanbase right now, so why make them so prominent in the advert? We seem to have used this as an opportunity to double-down on a couple of unpopular appointments.

Very odd.

Completely agree. I'll be renewing but I really didn't want to be reminded of a manager responsible for the bland borefests we've been watching recently, or that one of the club's managerial disasters is lurking in the background. Alan Dicks and the players of the past only serve to remind us how much better things have been. I'm a fan of Zak, but he is a defender, back in the day the marketing was rather more promisingly built around the likes of Nicky Maynard banging in goals...which gets the blood racing slightly more than 'solid at the back'.

All of which could be dismissed as trivia, but it's not an image that promises much for the future.

36 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

The image is putting me off to be honest 

That was my first thought! 

11 minutes ago, harvey54 said:

One of the best away nights. And pie, chips and peas in the Town before the game. And bumping into Scotty Murray after the game and hugging him. 

The very best away night. I suspect it can't ever be beaten. 6-0 to win promotion. The least Bristol City occasion ever!

2 hours ago, luke_bristol said:

All credit to BBC Bristol, I thought they dropped off a lot when Twentyman left, but they’re slowly improving and making up for his absence, the questions were insightful and probing without being needlessly provocative. 

Agreed. I thought Richard Hoskin adopted just the right tone, and through his politeness and very gentle persistence seduced Tinnion into saying far more than I would imagine Hoskin expected...examples being the stuff that is feeding this thread - the under 18s lines (which Tinnion must have prepped as that was the main reason he was being interviewed)...the revelation of transfer fees...Manning being a learner...

At the time I didn't feel this was a PR disaster in the sense that any of this should have come as unexpected at the club. The media team must know Brian Tinnion - they clearly thought it was fine for him to go on a live radio show despite his apparent inability to avoid sharing his unfiltered thoughts. The rubbing of the hands at the prospect of easy matches after the Soton game stood out for me as  an unusually open revelation of how football professionals might be thinking - usually that sort of stuff is so guarded. 

Presumably the thoughts of honest 'Tins' - 'club legend', '30 years' and all that - were supposed to calm fevered supporters. The conclusion I'd draw is that it wasn't a PR disaster, but worse...this wasn't PR - this was an insight into what the man who runs the football side of the club really thinks. I was grateful to Radio Bristol for the opportunity to hear from the horses mouth exactly how things have been managed and will be in the future.

It wasn't encouraging.

I think Hoskin is doing a really good job. He has to work with the club week in and week out so needs to tread carefully. Asking challenging questions in a pleasantly disguised way. As a result Tins pretty open, if occasionally on the defensive. I think we've learned a fair bit - watching players abroad every weekend and expecting this to result in signings being one example. 

Far from a PR disaster in my view. But doesn't challenge many of the assumptions folk on here have. I'll be there next season, but not over excited by the prospect.

Just now, REDOXO said:

I was interested (as is the club) to what extent will the continued management of Mr Manning effect your decision to renew or convince you to buy one. 

I was saying today that I'm all the more determined not to be driven out by the colourless chap! I'll be renewing mine.

41 minutes ago, headhunter said:

Swansea seemed to stick with their processes and contain their emotions even after going behind by showing no desire to chase for an equalizer.

...take a bow!

Sums up this new passionless approach perfectly! 

Better second half. Hats off to Rob Dickie. Not a great watch but we should make it to safety. Totally unconvinced by Manning. 

Absolute bore fest. 

5 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Going, always do, I missed a few games earlier this season when my wife was unwell, but that’s pretty much the only thing bar the occasional holiday that keeps me away.

Am I as enthusiastic as ever? Probably not.

Am I going to renew? Certainly.

Will be there myself today. About to set off. See you later!

1 minute ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

A very Pearson win, without wishing to derail the thread - outplayed but no guts, no glory.

 

Yep. I'm no tactical whizz but I couldn't see any similarity between that performance - fast breaking, long balls to the wings - and the pedestrian slow build style of the first team.

Enjoyed that. Some impressive youngsters, Joe Duncan especially.

The most Bristol City dimension of this match doesn't appear to me to me the style of play

...but rather the handing of endless opportunities for the opposition to score in the last 15 minutes!

Couple of great saves by Joe Duncan in goal. 

That lad Campbell-Slowey looks a player.