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I thought Ed Hadwin was pretty good on Sound of the City Monday. He was challenging of Lansdown, Manning and Pearson with the City fans and was far from painting an overly positive picture and he himself was balanced with the arguments.

Agreed Fevs, some good points in there I think. It’s passed me by he’s had that many games already, with a win percentage slightly worse than Nige. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the season pans out. Lansdown will stick by his man, but go on a losing streak that includes Cardiff and Swansea at home and it will be very toxic.

Positives? The heritage kit looked superb, really deep red and no sponsors! Only other positive I picked out was the infighting and arguing after the game in the singing section didn’t result in a full scale fight!

The three or four games from now are just as interesting. Sheffield Wednesday, whilst in the bottom three, have had a few decent performances lately including an away win at Millwall yesterday; they won’t be an easy challenge. Then of course we’ve Cardiff and Swansea back to back at home, with Ipswich in the middle. Lose those home games and it will be pretty toxic. Of course win all of them and this place will be a Manning love in!

If Manning does it then it will be a coaching master stroke.

Exactly this. Manning will get full support for the next few seasons, akin to the prodigal son. No way they will back down from this appointment. Lose against Cardiff and Swansea at home though and things will get interesting.

Quite a few said on here that it’d be so Bristol City to lose today after playing well against Boro and Southampton; and here we are! As poor a City performance as you will see, it was dreadful for almost the entire game against a relegation threatened team who wanted it more than we did. The booing at the final whistle was no surprise. As good as the last two games were under Manning we alway feel on the edge of it getting toxic; and indeed it did pretty much after the whistle in the singing section with a few groups arguing with each other and almost coming to blows.

Just so Bristol City! What a shit show.

At first I thought it was a tache reference but watching back looks like he was eating a cob of ‘corn’!

I’m really warming to the lad. Clearly there is some talent there which we need to try and exploit. As a personality he’s got loads of charisma and has the makings of a cult hero! Tachegate!

As good as Leicester are Leeds are playing the best football in the division for me. Their attacking play is outstanding.

You don’t get promoted to and play in the Premier League without quality and he still has plenty of it. He’s still ‘only’ 32 so could have a few years left yet at this level.

Completely agree. Outstanding player and even better captain, proper leader on the pitch.

Absolutely class and a great captain.

Fantastic principles as well!

All Anis that, Bell was falling over as the ball hit him!

Correct. Any notion OB have of an earlier kick off reducing FV is ridiculous. It’s been proven over the last several seasons (even Cardiff away last season) to make no difference, especially as a lot of it these days isn’t fuelled by alcohol and that which is is easily worked around.

Exactly this. Same for my daughter, never shown any interest but stayed up to watch it all and thoroughly enjoyed it. If it introduces youngsters to sport I don’t see how that’s a bad thing.

At the time this was pure genius and really loud. To take what someone says and spin it is just superb (similar to GJ saying bounce around).

He woke up this morning feeling fine as well! Agreed though, he's best 45 yet.

As good away first half as you can get that, wonderful stuff. Matty James is such class.

More Ailing than Ayling these days!

I wish they would stop messing with what was once the beautifully simple game. VAR was bad enough, this is just unnecessary as well. I don’t think anything is off the table with football these days though. Would never surprise me if they introduced quarters not halves, two balls in play not one, half time bands or shows during the FA Cup final, 5 points for a win, 3 for a score draw, etc etc etc.

6th mention from JP!

Decent goal for KP45.