Gert Mare

He’s great with the academy, agreed, but when it comes to the first team…..

I listened to the interview today. We have a great academy, but playing regularly in the Championship is a different kettle of fish. Oh, how we were so blatantly lied to in October (we already knew that). Top end THIS season a distant memory. Why make the change? Yes Jon, why? Because Tins now states we have someone ‘learning on the job’, so why make the change when we had an experienced manager who didn’t need to learn? Injuries….Hang on….didn’t we have players coming back from injury since Liam was appointed? So why were injuries ignored for Nigel then? He had a worse availability situation than Liam, yet it was ignored and the club sacked him!!!!! Gone from ‘right end of Championship’ to being happy if we were 10 points better off? None of this correlates with the absolutely clear narrative set out in October???!!!!! The football is awful, crowds are down, a club that was all pulling in the right direction has been ripped apart and it’s now back to ‘us’ (the supporters) and ‘them’ (Steve, Jon, Brian etc). Conclusions:- They didn’t like Nige - Even though he did everything that was asked of him. Appoint anyone other than Nige - Even if he has to learn on the job. We’ve got a brilliant academy and a first team which is regressing. Tommy has had enough and is off. Bajic will be off if he doesn’t like bench warming and moans about it. It’s ‘their club’ and they’ll do what they want. Don’t hold your breath over any future spending sprees. They’re happy even if we’re not and that’s all that matters. Shut up, get behind the team and renew your season ticket as we ‘learn’ our way into League One. No-one is going anywhere. Keep your blind faith. We beat Southampton and Middlesbrough. McKenna lost a load of games that he actually won. Coventry have spent money because they sold players for big fees so we can’t compare ourselves to them. Hang on didn’t we sell Semenyo and Scott for big fees Brian?….Ignored, the same as Nige’s injury list. The gulf in opinion between the supporters and directors of this club about how to achieve success has to be the biggest since they took control. Brian has been here 30 years. We haven’t had top flight football for nearly 50 years mate! Please sell up. This is a train crash.

Job for LJ short term until the end of the season possibly? Followed up with a 3 year contract if we stay up?

“Aggressive, front foot” - Brian Tinnion 2023

Runner up was Ronald”oh” with his short corner.

If today’s exhibition was of two young ‘progressive’ managers going head to head tactically then I’d happily go for another dinosaur next time around. 3 years of rebuilding to finally get a good feeling about the club again only for it to be completely destroyed in a matter of months thanks to a call centre boy way out of his depth.

Thank **** for that!

We can’t string 2 passes together and there is zero movement off the ball.

Of tears? Yes, plenty. Paint a wall and watch the bubbles disappear. It will be far more entertaining.

Wow. This front foot football is really something isn’t it?! Back to Max and he hoofs it into touch both sides, or Vyner / Pring launch a 60 yard ball to the Swansea keeper. Apart from that it’s 43 minutes watching Swansea pass it around like Coventry away in 1977. Highlight of the half has to be Ronald’s short corner. Scintillating. Brilliant stuff crayon boy. Well done

This front foot, aggressive, in your face football hasn’t yielded much of a return thus far.

I just couldn’t comprehend it if the ridiculously idiotic decision made earlier in the season culminated in us being sent into League One. Felt sick enough back then. I thought that getting into the Premier League was almost the impossible job for City, but this would trump it by a country mile from the position in which Manning took over. The damage between the supporters and the board would be off the scale. Irreparable in my opinion. Preying this doesn’t happen.

Any manager with a decent track record and ambition would have serious concerns about taking the Bristol City job. Especially after the most recent change. We were the hot topic of conversation on Soccer Saturday when usually we only ever get a mention if we’re playing Leeds, Norwich or Southampton.

For me it seems like there are huge trust issues for the Lansdown’s. Sadly, the ones they seem to trust appear to be bad choices. Their involvement appears to be too intense and suffocating. I might be way off the mark, but from various sources there seems to be a sense of micro-managing going on. That’s never good in any industry, let alone in football.

Well, Jon said “We want to be challenging at the right end of the division this season”, which is why we had to make the change when we did. Unfortunately he was looking at the League table upside down.

The old one would have been good enough, but hey-ho young Jonathan has got his finger on the pulse….sorry, crayon.

Unfortunately credit won’t prevent us from being sucked into a relegation dogfight. Points are the only credit that matters and for the fourth game on the trot we have 0.

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I agree. He had a lot of key players on the treatment table, he was blooding youngsters as required, he was restricted on the financial side, very little to spend in the market compared to previous managers. Just as we were in a position to untie his hands and give him some money to spend the clowns sacked him and replaced him with a complete rookie. Sacked a bloke who took Leicester to the Premier League and built the team that won it against massive odds. Anyone who seriously thinks he took us as far as he could should have a think about how constrained he actually was!!!! They fed him crumbs!

NP did NOT take us as far as he could. Jesus wept!

Har, we had the right manager, but old dopey bollocks and numb nuts fired him. No one with half a brain is going to take the job and be micromanaged by Jon and his sidekick “Call me Gaffer now please lads” Mr 7-1 defeat at Swansea.

But not as easy.

Successful managers get inside players heads and are masters at man management. They understand personality types and can speak in appropriate language to deliver their message and get the optimum performances out of their players. Nige had this. I haven’t seen it with Liam yet. The theory and tactics might well help improve results, but if you cannot deal with different personalities and communicate your ideas into a language that can be interpreted and understood by the individuals then you’re on a hiding to nothing. A football team’s success is the sum of its parts. Every man needs to know his job!

The key words in the statement are “Football Club”, not a mish mash of sports under an umbrella.

I think you ended JL’s statement slightly too early. I think he said “The best chance of success this season, otherwise what would have been the point of making the change now?”……or something near as damnit to that anyway! I can’t be bothered to listen to the drivel again to be honest. It sounds worse every time I hear it. What he should have said was “Nige told us we had no idea how to run this football club and we didn’t like it so me and Brian got together and decided to sack him”. That’s the ******* truth! Don’t take us for fools Johnny lad!