2015

I'm still working, tbh it's like any other day for me and I see nothing wrong with that, so why should the football be cancelled when we're all working still?

Howard was an absolute handful, strong as an ox. At that time during 90s and 00s our defenders could never handle big strong men up front

If you want to mourn then you can do so and stay home but don't cancel it for everyone when many supporters clearly still want games to go ahead. It's not like they are cancelling workplaces is it..

Totally agree. It's sad that she passed but the show must go on

Awful news

I wouldn't say he gets overly happy or a sour loser when we lose though ? Sure he can be abrupt

I hope you mean Barton and not Pearson because if it is the latter then that is certainly not true

Can't stand the bloke. He's all big smiles when he wins then when he loses the real narcissist him comes out. He is also outright rude to a lot of interviewers.

Glad he's gone. His constant moaning and style of play is not for me

Yeah I do, got outplayed by a side who played great football back then.

I appreciate the sentiment towards GJ and what he achieved in his time but imo come the end we were on a downward spiral and performances were below par. We had great times under him (like in the match posted) but it wasn't my cup of tea (Not getting the best of of Noble and Trundle in particular). Yes the managers after him were woeful too and he is one of the better ones along with Cotterill, his son AND Wilson

Look as much as I found his last few years very boring and dull to watch, you can't ignore how he overachieved with us in the beginning and took Yeovil to the Championship. He suited clubs who had a backs against the wall mentality and could overachieve with them. He was generally a decent manager, Yeovil scored 90 goals in League 2 in 04/05 as well. The game has moved on though since he hit his peak and his man management wouldn't work nowadays but he was certainly better than non league level

Quite right. I think there is a real split in the fanbase with re Johnsons, there is the cultish group who love Jr and the nostalgic ones who love GJ but forget about the endless boring 1-1 draws in 08/09 and 09/10.

Yeah and who is getting the best out of these players? Because Johnson certainly didn't.

That may well be true that he kept losing players which certainly didn't help him, but by god he spent some money on utter dross and we've only just begun moving on from the wasted money that was spent. Granted, he signed Brownhill who was sold for great money as well as Webster. However Jonathan Kodjia, Aden Flint, Joe Bryan, Bobby Reid, Lloyd Kelly were players who were already at the club when he walked through the door, they made us a lot of money. He was lucky that there were already some very talented footballers at the club when he walked in the door. Unfortunately Steve Cotterill refused to change our formation. He wasted a lot of money. And you can say Famara was a great signing and all that but he scored 1 more goal than Chris Martin did in his best season and left for nothing. Total waste of money on mediocrity.

I think what happened when we went up is sides expected a different style from City but we blew teams away by how we played. Teams figured us out a little bit so GJ tried to evolve our style into a more pragmatic approach. I can appreciate that is likely what he tried doing, it just wasn't the most attractive compared to similar clubs (Cardiff, Swansea, Reading) at that time. Hartley was a great signing in 09/10 but he ruined this by spending big on donkey Clarkson up front.

So we were both wrong. You can't credit GJ for finishing 10th that season and we were 15th and not 18th. The style of football in 08/09 and 09/10 was not my cup of tea at all but if it it is just results you look for when watching City then that's also fine.

I certainly would not say that this club has fed off the belief and appetite GJ laid down. Maybe you liked the era under him and his style which is fine, but you could go as far back as Terry Cooper and say a similar statement. I would say that 2009/10 10th place finish was not down to Gary Johnson as when he left we were 18th and had recently been hammered by Doncaster and Cardiff in home matches. You are also bang on, he probably should have left us when we were on the up. We changed in 08/09, no longer a side I considered entertaining to watch, but that is down to preference and opinion. He still did very well to get us in 10th with that side.

LDV Vans trophy 2003, everyone wants to win that surely

Our recruitment in 2003 was nothing special. We sold Scott Murray and signed Luke Wilkshire and Lee Miller. That wasn't enough if you compare what QPR, Swindon and Plymouth did that Summer. Maybe you have got the year wrong but in 2005 under Tinnion we got in Marcus Stewart and Michael Bridges and were heavy favourites to win the league

Been going since Wilson was in charge. We played great football under him, just couldn't get over the line. In truth we just were not good enough in that era to get promoted. League 1 was tough back then and money was being chucked about by other clubs stupidly like Wigan, Cardiff, QPR, Stoke etc. It is obviously all about preferences really and styles. Wilson was no where near as good as Cotterill and GJ, but to me on a par with LJ - Who spent millions at his time at the club and achieved nothing. On Gary Johnson. Everything was great until January 2008 when he decided to bring in a big CF and we stopped playing our progressive high tempo passing football. It was downhill from then on, we should have gone up automatically but that is down to how good he was at that time for us. Unfortunately after the PO final defeat he made many errors in the transfer market and on player contracts which messed the club up long term for a few years after he left which kind of tarnished his great work, for me. Cotterill couldn't adapt to the Championship and if he had changed from a 352 to a 442 history could have been different, but he wouldn't change and was stubborn. Lee Johnson spent more money than any other manager I have known in my time following City and we didn't achieve anything, much like Danny Wilson's sides. I never actually thought the football under LJ was attractive aside from the early 17/18 season, which is a small percentage of his reign.

God I hate Sky's fawning over Man United. So tedious

Screams to me the officials didn't have a clue what to do but just thought well we'll rule it out anyway. How can you rule out a goal like that, it's criminal and ruining football games

Wow that's a disgraceful decision again. This is anti football when you disallow a goal like that

Cannot believe this is a grown Man