TV Tom

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

Yes the QPR home game was a thoroughly enjoyable game and a particular favourite of mine. 

Can't argue with that

25 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said:

Not every manager works at every club. Brian Clough was a disaster at Leeds, Unai Emery has done well in every job except Arsenal, Steve Cotterill is far less popular with Forest and Birmingham fans than us. Neil Warnock did well at Crystal Palace and QPR then badly at Leeds and back at Palace then well at Rotherham and Cardiff. Pearson was great at Leicester than a disaster at Derby. Valentin Ismael got a Barnsley team to the play offs but could not do so with a theoretically stronger West Brom team. Moyes has done well at Preston, Everton and West Ham but struggled at other clubs.

Not every manager job is in any sense the same and few managers would succeed at every club.

Clough was the best manager this Country has ever had, to do what he did with two ordinary provincial clubs was unbelievable, his six weeks at Leeds were a disaster for the club and was their loss not his

1 hour ago, fisherrich said:

Support the club, hate the owners? Simple

Hate the owners? What a very sad comment 

2 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

We've been turning up in our thousands and supporting all season and barely any of us have enjoyed the shite that has been served up. What makes you think we can now enjoy it? 

Admittedly the first half of the season was rubbish we’ve had some decent games since Xmas though 

9 hours ago, Davefevs said:

It’s not gullible because they have a different opinion to me, it’s gullible because they are basing it on words.  There is no substance to it.  It’s like the nation has lost its ability to think for itself, to critically analyse. 

SL follows whatever is the latest fashion, with little idea why Brighton, Brentford, Luton, Coventry, whoever achieved success / relative success, their starting position, how long it took, the bumps in the road etc.  if he did, he’d be able to explain the strategy to us.  He can’t.  Because he doesn’t understand.  Nige called that out in a roundabout way.

Enjoy your bedtime TV Tom, you wearing Bernie PJs.  No dreaming of those nuns!  Did they only drive beige Minis?

Haha, I don’t understand a single word of your last paragraph Dave but I slept very well thank you  

16 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Please explain the comparison?  And why Luton were less fancied, less fancied by whom versus whom?  Soundbites mate, soundbites, spoken for the gullible to ingest.

Why do you say people are gullible just because they have a different opinion to you?
I”ll read your reply in the morning, I’ve had a very, very long day at work 

21 minutes ago, Topper 123 said:

It would be great now if fans could come along to the gate in their thousands and support and enjoy the rest of season now the pressure is off , I’d also like to see the players enjoy it and play with a smile on their faces and interact with the fans more , come on let’s all enjoy it and get behind the lads 

It's a great thought but i'm afraid if we won all our remaining games 4-0 there would still be many on here having a moan.

11 minutes ago, Carey 6 said:

They’ll probably win 5 in a row now it’ll mean nothing. Proper Bristol City style!

I really don't understand this, why would it mean nothing ?

53 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

It’s one of those games where I’d love people to watch it back without judging on scoreline or shots on target.  Brum created chances in batches.  We built out from the back pretty well, we built momentum in both halves.  We got caught.

But I’m not not change your mind, i’m not gonna try.  That’s my recollection.

Next game was Hull, we drew 1-1 having ripped them apart at times?

 

I'll decline your invite to watch the Brum game again Dave if you don't mind.

We did play very well at Hull which sums up how consistently inconsistent we've been over many years

On 29/03/2024 at 08:48, wendyredredrobin said:

Not sure about that but I do remember a similar picture with him and Frankie Prince.

I remember Gerry's first game for City when he broke into the team as a youngster.  Not often you see a youngster hit the ground running like he did and he was good enough right from the start.  He had a lot of great attributes as well as being a destroyer in the middle of the park, he also had a bit of skill, could pick out passes and popped up with quite a few goals too.

My favourite player ever to put on a City shirt by some margin, even though there have been a lot of other excellent ones over the years.

Agreed, no one comes near him in my eyes, i imagine the only City player of the last 100 years to top him would be Big John who was just before my time

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

We've seen how this bloke goes and by and large it's been horrendous. 

Well we are very much used to that, hopefully it changes

12 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I’ll happily debate Birmingham (h), as I did at the time.  I thought it was a solid performance ruined by a stupid 3-mins before h-t when we conceded having been well on top.  Even with 10-men we were slightly on top.

 

Dave, we were dreadful against Brum, as i remember we didn't have a shot on target it then took us until the 94th minute of the next game to have a shot on target so that's over three hours of football without a shot on target

27 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

That’s nothing to brag about. The football under all four has been ******* awful 

 

Agreed, so let's see how this bloke goes and give him a chance, we live in hope

19 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

They shouldn't be any worse (albeit prior to the Bank Holiday weekend that was certainly arguable). Liam is ultimately here to do better to be fair, otherwise you don't sack people and waste money on settlements, and due to the Bank Holiday results will definitely get his chance to show us what better looks like.

Some might say he is doing better, it's all about opinions  

Not renewed yet but i will as i always have done in the last 50 years irrespective of who runs the club or what useless manager happens to be in charge (i've seen plenty of them) 

1 hour ago, Sir Geoff said:

No it wasnt. Millwall A was excellent. Swansea A, we battered them. Plymouth H, 4 goals. Stoke H 2 goals up and threw it away, but it wasn't poor.

End of last season QPR A, Burnley H we were very good.

No I don't think the football was poor before Manning was appointed. Inconsistent, yes. Poor definitely not.

So you've picked four games from Pearson's reign this season, i think you're really clutching at straws when quoting Plymouth reserves, losing a two goal league to a poor Stoke team and a 94th minute winner with our first shot on target at Millwall,

Are you honestly saying that the home games against Brum & PNE weren't poor ? and don't even get me started on some of the performances from last season (i still break into a cold sweat thinking about one of the worse City performances i've ever seen at Reading)  

I'm not saying that all things are rosy in the garden but i certainly don't think things are any worse.

1 hour ago, Sir Geoff said:

Changed nothing for me. I don't appreciate being lied to continuously by people I do business with.

2 matches mean nothing. The football has been poor to watch since Manning took over.

I will reasses in the autumn when half season tickets are announced.

Do you honestly believe that the football wasn’t poor before Manning came

11 minutes ago, Robbored said:

We had one but unfortunately City had to sell Semenyo and much of the revenue went towards financing the running the club.

Had City been able to hang on to AS he’d have be a nightmare for Championship defenders.

Agreed and with our solid defence AS could of made all the difference in our league position 

6 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

Not sure that was the complaint. He always looked like he added something to the squad, but in his first full games for us he struggled to score and seemed lacking in confidence to shoot.

Some thought he might make a midfielder but not a striker, others that it was a confidence thing and he'd come good. Which proved correct.

Oh what we'd give for a robust frontman able to hold off defenders, now. 

Absolutely, once he bulked out a bit he terrorised defences, I loved his unpredictability, hopefully Memhetti will head the same way

1 minute ago, Numero Uno said:

Some said he was “League 1 at best”. Scouts don’t look at one bad performance and condemn a player generally whereas some fans do.

Exactly this. Bobby Reid was another written off by many, fair play to LJ for transforming him, he did get something right !!

7 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

Scott finding it tough right now and in some poor form.  No doubt he will come out of it stronger.  Semenyo though is going from strength to strength.  What a player he has turned into 

And to think there were many on here that said he wasn’t good enough and compared him to a “headless chicken” !!!

With only three teams that have let in fewer goals in the division (all three in top five) it has to be a defender or the keeper, Dickie for me

34 minutes ago, JBFC II said:

Not doubting he’s done a decent job, and clearly has ability as a coach.

If we sacked Manning this afternoon, how would I feel if we appointed Rohl tomorrow though?

He hasn’t done enough in management yet for me to be certain he’d be an improvement on what we currently have

I agree to an extent but on many occasions it does work, McKenna at Ipswich, Schumacher at Plymouth, Mousinho at Pompey etc

2 minutes ago, Robbored said:

A decent CF is apparently a priority in the summer window.

its been really frustrating when City get into decent crossing positions with no ‘presence’ in the box.

None of City’s current forwards are crap Tom - they’re all victims of Mannings style of play which frequently provides poor supply.

Perhaps Crap is too strong a word, to be honest our supply to the strikers has been an on-going problem for quite a while, luckily we have the 4th best defence in the league  

11 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Tbh Rohl inherited a truly dreadful position @JBFC II

I've checked, 3 points 11 games. That is at that stage sub Rotherham territory, 0 wins..4 games without a goal, 1 goal in 7 etc.

We are talking record breaking bad..in some ways only way was up but in other ways they were so bad. Chansiri and tax was also an issue at one point.

In fairness he hasn't done too bad in putting them in with a chance of staying up, they were truly awful early season

10 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Danny Rohl would be top of my list. 

Has he over-taken Frank Lampard as your choice ? 

Their should be nobody on top of your list because like it or not Manning is now our manager for the foreseeable future, why don't you just get behind him instead of wasting all your energy on such constant negativity ?