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Bristol City are out to burst West Ham's bubble

Its got to be Kenilworth Road as you're below pitchside for the first few rows that's if you don't get decapitated between the seat rows. Dreadful place. Loftus Road has to be the other. You can't see the touchline from the Upper Tier, there are numerous posts obstructing the view if you're unfortunate to be on either side plus the obligatory leg decapitation between the seat rows. They should close it down and ground share with Barnet.

Absolutely spot on. I have never felt so disillusioned with the club as I do now and I've been supporting this club for 50 odd years. I just can't see where the owners can reason the actions they have taken and I am yet to hear any real valid reasons for the change other than a perceived clash of personalities & especially as we are worse off. Listening to more mumbo jumbo soundbites from a coach who seems way out of his depth who cannot game manage is as painful as reading "I'll be back on "X" when we're in the Premier League " from tweedle dumb. There is a complete lack of character running through this club and an apparent disregard for the fanbase and it will take a monumental drive from the same people to keep season ticket renewals at the same pace for next season. I'll look forward to how they're going to spin that one.

After having a proper experienced manager and backroom staff, the club refer to type and think they can save lots of money and do better by getting rid of the chief exec, manager & backroom staff and replace him with such an underwhelming inexperienced coach. I can't recall anyone saying he was the best young manager in the country. He's done f-all to date unless you count as an achievement getting Oxford to near the top of the third tier or initially doing well at another massive club MK Dons before getting bulleted. At least Eustace did it at Championship level. I am really concerned that he doesn't have the technical knowhow to adapt and change during a match. This is increasingly becoming obvious especially when you come up against defensively minded teams. To use one of Manning's excruciating soundbites its all about behaviours & he is right. The behaviour of the board at this time has been nothing short of shocking. Where are we now as a club? Pretty much the same as when we had Pearson, albeit now we have more back from injury yet we are doing worse. Unlike others I can't see him lasting long here and that is because, like Pearson before him, the problem is not with the manager or head coach, it is more fundamental than that, its further up the chain of command.

No one really knows for sure but the Cardiff defeat on the Saturday with a depleted squad, the barbed comments from Pearson about lack of contract when interviewed, the hasty announcement on Monday and the rabbit in the headlights look from tweedle dee and tweedle dumb and complete lack of transparency, leads me to believe that the dynamic duo, with all of their managerial experience were called out by Pearson changing the goalposts & thought that they knew better and Pearson told them where to stick it.

I think this sums up in a nutshell what a lot of City fans think. In the owners constant search for the next Gary Johnson holy grail, they've gone the manager way then the head coach way and then back to the manager etc etc. They've employed second in command's, they've employed ex players all while trying to keep everything under control. Its a perpetual merry-go-round. Its as if with all of the investment made into the training complex, the ground, the bigger development picture and Bristol Sport, hasn't grown with it. With that I mean its no longer just the football club, its Ashton Gate, its Bristol Sport, its grown and is still growing into a big well run, well oiled smooth juggernaut and to keep this moving forward you need experienced professionals in strategic places to run the thing. People who know how to handle all facets of the job. You can't just bin off all of that experience and backroom staff with a "its my club" attitude on a whim and replace it with totally inexperienced staff and still demand the same results if not more. Its bordering on foolhardy. With Pearson, and all of the experienced backroom staff he employed, there was finally a sense we had something going on which has been taken away. I don't blame Pearson one bit for walking away. What we're left with is an uninspiring inexperienced head coach who seems to be only able to play in a certain way who's trying to change the way we play mid season. Results have been pretty uninspiring in the main and I can't see that changing anytime soon so why the change? Very much in the same way LJ was continually judged against GJ, Manning will never shake off the ghost of Nigel Pearson. Its all a bit deflating.

He won't play two up front. He's meant to be a coach and work with what he's got until he can move players in and out to get what he wants but we haven't the type of forward player to play on his own! Quelle surprise, we haven't scored in the last three league matches! Conway looks flogged on his own; Bell, Cornick and Wells can't play on their own and Weimann looks to be on his way yet our clever head coach still won't change his tactics to suit what he has at his disposal or select from the "clubs in the bag". Unbelievable!

I thought I got one of those once a week when the wife gives me the nod.

That's not like the swamp dwellers to get planning in early. I would've thought that they would be retrospectively booking hotels in Liverpool a month later after they were knocked out by Norwich

A really good servant for the club. Always gave 100% and a great example to the younger players. Good luck and best wishes for the future Andi.

I thought he was MOM for us today. Read the game very well, combative and the exquisite pass for Conway was instinctive. We are now starting to see the player we all thought he was when he first signed

First half I thought it was a tale of the two No.20's, one, who's honed his skills and one who is hasn't.The couple of injuries they had early on certainly disrupted their game. I thought second half we upped our momentum and drove on and took the game to them and thoroughly deserved the draw if not more. Job Williams was my of the match.

It's quite amazing I haven't come across any swamp dweller who knows the fact that Hitler saved the gas. I must admit I don't look under many rocks. I'm not surprised though as they can't remember what they did 5 minutes ago let alone an important part of their history. We even loaned them players that season to help them complete their fixtures. Nothing club.

Not using a Metro bus you can't

I didn't include that date as a milestone as on several occasions they've tried really hard to get out of it ever since & almost succeeded in 1939. That actually managed it in 2014

1883: Founded 1939: Hitler saved them from the ignominy of having to apply for re election for finishing bottom of the entire Football League. 1974: Won the Watney Cup 1989: Won the Third Division 2014: Relegated out of the football league There, that's their history. It could all be put on a postage stamp. A complete and total waste of time.

The problem is money, and its getting worse. The financial disparity between the Premier League and the Championship is so huge that it is impossible to try and control it from our end. Saying if we held on to Scott or Semenyo is simply ludicrous and not living in the real world. They are players who have a talent who want to make the most of it as quickly as possible. In Scott's case it is a generational talent. Even Bournemouth fans are realising that they would do well to get a season out of him before he goes onto a bigger and better club and that's with him just coming back from an injury! We simply cannot compete wages wise. If someone offered five or six times your salary working for less and in a better environment you wouldn't think twice about it. What I would say is that with the right manager on board and experienced structure in place we can nurture this talent correctly and look to engineer the inevitable transfer at a better time that benefits the club. We had that structure in place & sadly, we don't have it anymore. So, a typical scenario would be seeing Conway bag 20 goals this season & with the support of the experienced manager who knows how to deal with the big clubs, fending off enquiries until the right one came along to the mutual benefit of club & player may delay the sale until we have the replacement lined up. Now we have a head coach who coaches and somebody else deals with the enquiries so he could be sold earlier than expected. We are a relatively small fish in an ever widening sea. It doesn't matter if we pull in 20,000 plus crowds or have a wonderful stadium or training complex, its Sky money & it will get even worse with Foreign money already distorting when & where we can play world cups and in what leagues.

I remember sitting through losing 6:0 at home to Cardiff, it makes seeing Christian Roberts' Hartlepool goal all the more sweeter.

Losing to Wolves at home 6.1 with David bloody Kelly. I remember some wag saying "if Mark Shail was in a marching band, he would be on the piano" it was that bad. Loads of games with tiny penis in charge, too numerous to mention and I don't want anybody to remind me of.

There's no pace to the version we play unlike the one Manning likes to play in his head. It's boring going nowhere football. I remember Swansea being famous for it and what a boring unattractive spectacle it was. We simply haven't the players to play that way. At least the previous manager had the experience and adapted a strategy and played with what he had at his disposal. The difference is that our current head coach has a strategy but not the players to play it. Here's the riddle, we have strikers at the club but our head coach can't find a suitable formation to accommodate ANY of them. That's not coaching, that's worrying.

That was pretty turgid stuff and all down to the head coach. IMHO to change our style from a counter attacking team to a possession based team mid season and with the same players is foolhardy. That's two teams who have set up against us to nullify and not concede. We simply don't have the right type of players to win these types of matches. Weimann simply isn't a wide player so why play him there? We haven't the strikers to play one up top, the closest is Cornick. Up until we brought James off we were solid in the middle. Taking him off and suddenly we looked ragged. Strange subs at 50 minutes, why not half time then and give the subs that bedding in period starting the second half? He then kept Conway & Mehmeti on 10 minutes too long! We then looked so disjointed it reminded me of an LJ team. Really baffling and concerning. One or two efforts on target over two matches is not good.

Form goes up and down. This lad has quality, has the right mentality, is the right age and price and can play in different positions. He, along with Rob Dickie have been the players of the season for me. What more does anyone want?

Move Kelly inside and add Joe Bryan. Add Kalas at RB.

What about Dave Rennie and Dynamo Dresden?

In all fairness they are desperate to have something positive to cling on to. Let's be honest they lucked out with their chelsea supporting arab owner who isn't exactly wealthy, re investment from a new doner, unfortunately doner is right as in kebab shop owner. The ex manager brought a lot of negative press and continues to do so, so that has backfired. So they look up to the more successful red side of Bristol and start signing their ex players, get a new manager who has the same name as an ex City player, look to employ another ex City player as a coach. Why, even their new temporary stand name is copied from our ground. Forever in our shadow, literally with the floodlight positioning with the new stand. Yep, they are right, something IS happening, they are trying to be Bristol City.