One Team

Everyone stood up at Old Trafford too. 

3 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Nah, no invite in the in-tray this time.  I think they know my opinion, and the listener(s) do too.  I was only on 2 weeks ago.

Will be interesting what fans they do get on.

Ellie Jones is quite fiery, she’d be good to listen to tomorrow evening.

I hope Wilkins isn’t on though.

Shame Fevs, but hopefully you will be on again soon.

Will still be worth a listen to see what's discussed. 

11 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

He really is an AI bot. 

He is indeed. Someone said on here this week you could drop him in any club in any game and he'd say the same thing. 

This post match interview from an Oxford loss is almost the same script as his post match yesterday! 

13 minutes ago, Olé said:

I honestly expected to get a notification by now from a club tweet to say Manning has gone, to be honest I’m a little surprised he hasn’t. The football is absolutely dire, league position is irrelevant, it’s when the product on the pitch is so visibly awful and regressive that the real alarm bells should all be going off and is when SL normally acts, and Steve is not stupid - bad decision maker yes but he knows an irredeemable shitshow when he sees one, it was the same at the fag end of the Holden experiment and SL admitted as much when he pulled the plug.

You’re a sensible and balanced poster and I'd like to hope I try to be too and I am already in the same place as you - not being in the least bit knee jerk but absolutely convinced of the need (with some urgency) for Manning to go and hoping SL is seeing the same things the rest of us can all see - he’s totally out of his depth. It’s actually frightening how fast he has sucked the life out of a promising team and devalued and demotivated so many players. I actually feel a bit sorry for players who are playing within themselves in a laboured and emotionless fashion. 

The emotion piece is an interesting one. Pearson used to talk about something similar but not eradicating emotions but being able to always have control of them. He knew that emotion is a huge force and extra percentage if channeled correctly and a huge problem if not under control. Asking players to own and manage and use their emotions went hand in hand with his repeated mantra of asking the players to take responsibility for finding solutions. Players tasked with developing personality and leadership that contribute to us playing with pace and passion.

Manning, on the other hand, by simply switching off emotion and force feeding the players the same relentless script as ‘process’, has created robots stripped of the instinct and fight to play with a zip and determination and perhaps even to entertain. Which is why the football is so utterly tedious and uninspiring, and which is why in turn you can see visibly so many City fans recently walking out of matches from Hillsborough to the Hawthorns looking like zombies, hollowed out and brain numbed from the suffocating lack of emotion in our football any longer.

The great irony where emotion is concerned is while removing their ability to channel and benefit from positive emotion Manning has left his side totally exposed only to negative emotions, of which there are lots: players with confidence shot to pieces, players sulking, players frustrated, and in the case of Tommy Conway, once a key asset of ours, all three. For SL that is the biggest alarm bell of them all. Pearson had it right, there will be emotion so control it and use it. Manning has got this approach, like many other things, badly wrong and we’re far worse off for it.

Sadly this is par for the course for Monotone Manning and his monotone brand of football - he is out of his depth and I will say it again, I am genuinely surprised he hasn’t gone already today.

Brilliant post mate, absolutely how I feel as well. 

Seeing Williams and Robins emotions in their respective games yesterday is what football is all about. Manning has sucked the life, enjoyment and energy out the club in under five months. 
 

Could be interesting again tomorrow night with the right questions. You on again @Davefevs?

3 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

Don’t bet on it. Heard last night that there is massive concern from above and they are not as oblivious to the problems like we thought they were. If things don’t improve over the Easter period (or god forbid get worse) - I think he will be gone by the end of the season 

Interesting mate, hope this is true. 

Didn’t Ian say a while back he was going to get Tinnion on the pod?

43 minutes ago, RollsRoyce said:

I would absolutely give King the caretaker role until seasons end. No chance of relegation, we cannot get worse can we? He may surprise a few people. 

It is what we should have evolved to , with Nige, (keeping Curtis and Dave R also ) IMHO. 

Exactly this, he could’ve taken over from Nige in time. What a waste. 

12 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

The next game is possibly the worst game the board and Liam could have. Massive unrest with performance and some chants for the ex manager and we play a team who absolutely idolise Pearson. I can only imagine what the collective chants in the ground may be.

A great point, and with two weeks now to wallow in our disappointment and anger it could be pretty unpleasant. If we are losing you can easily see our fans joining in with a Leicester started Nige chant. 

13 minutes ago, TinMan's left peg said:

 

for reference.  Actually found it hard to find, seems to have dropped off the club website’s news feed.  

Almost needs a riposte, a fan made version with Tinnion, Manning and Lansdown with “We don’t believe”. 

12 hours ago, Mendip City said:

Honestly, I don’t think you’re on your own…. but I think you’re in the minority. Quite a small minority, I’d think. When you get away support booing and mocking the team - it’s bad. 

Agreed. OTIB and some callers on RB are the place where I see or hear support for Manning TBH, so in my view yes it’s a minority. Appreciate others may experience it the opposite of that, but as this post says, if you lose the away fans and you have home fans fighting each other in ground, it’s got really, really bad. 

Whilst I don’t disagree more immediate and direct action could be more effective, like chanting, banners etc.

That said I’ve only seen it once in recent times with the Johnson Out bedsheets; but this is much worse.

4 minutes ago, Dastardly and Muttley said:

Because Robins is a good manager who’s been allowed time. Wonder where NP would have had us after 7 years.

Exactly this. 

So what if Lansdown didn’t like Nige. There are people I’ve worked with I don’t like either. But I could recognise and appreciate their skills and experience. 

The best leaders aren’t the smartest in the room, or the most experienced.

2 hours ago, Mendip City said:

Honestly, I don’t think you’re on your own…. but I think you’re in the minority. Quite a small minority, I’d think. When you get away support booing and mocking the team - it’s bad. 

Just said similar on another thread. Lose the away fans and you are toast. 

2 hours ago, FromeReds said:

Still on the train on the way home, same as most Saturdays under Manning, good day out ruined by boring football. 
The back four can defend, but haven’t got anything else going for us!!
Lots of Manning out chants today, and the odd “we want our Pearson back”.  
I stayed until the end, boos rang out, followed by more boos and abuse when the players came over to applied us (a few clapped back).

Don’t know where we go from here, crap under Manning, but wouldn’t trust the board to get the right man if he was sacked… would probably end up with BT until the end of the season!!! 

This is depressing to read but not unexpected.

If you’ve lost the away fans, arguably our most dedicated of supporters, you are totally, completely ******. 

Have some humility Lansdown. Admit you were wrong and get this charlatan gone. 

1 hour ago, Harry said:

We keep hearing Liam Nothing (sorry Manning) say how he’s always trying to make sure the players take the emotion out of the game. 
 

I don’t like this approach. Emotion is part of football. Sometimes it can affect you poorly but in my experience it can also have as much of a positive effect than a negative one. 
 

I actually WANT to see my team playing WITH emotion. Not without it. 
 

I’ve really had enough of this bloke. 
 

We also hear him say “at half time we spoke about how we might think about how to engage higher”. 
No no no!! It’s your effing job to TELL them how to engage higher. Not have a polite feckin conversation about it. 
 

Enough. Honestly. 

Bang on Harry. Footballers aren’t looking to input their opinion, they need to be shown and told what to do. 

Emotion is what football is absolutely all about. I want to see anger, pain, frustration, pleasure and excitement. It’s what makes us feel connected and alive. 

I couldn’t give a shit where we are in the table or in what league we are in. Just ******* CARE for ***** sake. That’s all we ask. 

Remove emotion? **** off Manning .

35 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

He signed off with admitting he is a Happy Clapper and the Golden Phrase "Careful what you wish for".

Also said he believed Manning should get his summer.

Good grief mate. 

Just now, Mr Popodopolous said:

Now ******* Matt Withers Post Match.

Says getting bored of the Lansdown bashing. Mentions Reading.

Bored of it?! We’ve barely got started. 

He’s always pro Lansdown on the 3 Peaps podcast. 

Roll up! Roll up! Buy your season tickets here! 

Booing at the final whistle and chants of “we’re ******* shit” apparently.

Just now, Ecko said:

Shambolic. Cannot stand this team. Something has to change soon, otherwise I'm done for a bit.

It won’t, he’s plastered all over the season ticket propaganda. 

WTF does he say at half time?! “Behaviours, principles, emotion”. ***** sake. 

1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said:

“You can’t compare us to Coventry, they had a windfall from selling two players so had money to spend” - Brian Tinnion

Be great if we had a couple of players we could sell for millions to reinvest into the squad for a manager with experience. 

23 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

You could literally pick Manning up and put him down at any club, anywhere in the country, and he would say the same things.

Compare and contrast to the previous bloke who took a genuine interest in the area and the club.

The difference couldn't be more stark. Or more dispiriting.

Good results will help Manning, obviously, but if I try to imagine a really successful season under him, I get the feeling it would still somehow be a joyless experience - certainly compared to some previous managers - with victories delivered in a cold, clinical, "don't get too high, don't get too low" manner. And at the end of it all we'd still be none the wiser about who he is or what he's like.

But that's enough hypothetical, pigs might fly, nonsense from me today already.   

Brilliant post, absolutely nailed it there. When he leaves (as he clearly will, one way of another) you can see seeing exactly the same things elsewhere.