handsofclay

Fair enough, nothing against you personally and if it proves to be correct more power to your elbow and thanks for informing us. But there have been several ITKs dropping hints for instance that the new head coach has German connections and cannot find any German connections with Manning. (It will probably be revealed later that his house was wired using material made in Berlin.)

Someone came on and said that it's definitely going to be Manning and provided a time frame for when it would be announced. That's all it seems to take. Thank goodness social media wasn't around in the blitz. There'd be constant ITKs telling us when the next air raid was due. We would never emerge from our shelters. Although, thinking about it that wouldn't happen because if an ITK got it right about the next raid they'd be promptly arrested, tortured in the Tower of London and hung as a spy within a week.

Not arriving via the airport, jumping out of a plane over Ashton Court, being picked up there. All kindly thanks to Leeds United who have provided some of their parachute payments.

He was interviewed for the position so that was more than just speculation.

I agree with all of you who express doubts and there's no concrete evidence but as I post earlier it's also telling that with all these rumours escalating to the point where it's making the nationals that there hasn't been a single denial yet from either party. Plus, it's very rare when appointing a new manager that the news of the appointment is confirmed in any way before it's officially confirmed.

Good point but if it was nonsense they wouldn't give it credence.

Check Google. Input Frank Lampard Bristol City and you'll see that several of the nationals are running with it. I'm guessing they still employ journalists unless it's AI.

Who wants to be known as Bristol City let's just check, oh, they're managed by some dude called Liam Manning when we could be known as: Frank Lampard's Bristol City.

Oh dear. I have received some itk info. I shouldn't really be sharing this but. Yes, Frank Lampard is likely to be appointed the new Bristol City boss. But it's Frank Lampard Senior!

He won one of his last 11 games as Chelsea boss which is probably better than the present incumbent.

Good move. It's already spooking the opposition.

Tbf last time he managed in this division he got Derby into the play offs. When he left them they rapidly went downhill. In the Prem he got Chelsea into the Champions League despite a transfer embargo. Plus he kept Everton in the Prem. Okay it's not brilliant but the majority of his management career has been in the top flight and there are plenty of great managers at Championship level who are found wanting in the top flight.

On the one hand these are the same people who signed David James for Bristol City whose previous game had been against Germany in the knockout stages of the 2010 World Cup (in which a certain Frank Lampard had a legit equaliser ruled out by an incompetent ref). On the other hand these are also the same people who appointed Dean Holden and sacked Nigel Pearson.

If the Lansdowns are looking to redeem themselves after the car crash that was the Pearson sacking pulling off the signing of a big profile name as new manager (first team coach) would go a long way to achieve that goal. I can imagine them doing high fives if it comes to fruition. Maybe to entice Frank they have agreed to his celebrity wife becoming the new Bristol City women's manager too. What a TV series that would make. Wrexham eat your hearts out.

I don't tend to think Frank Lampard will be our next boss but I find it somewhat odd that for a couple of days now he has been the overwhelming, odds on favourite on the betting markets yet neither Lampard himself or the Lansdowns have denied it. Surely, all Frank has to do is issue a brief statement to the effect that he has no interest.

Caller has a dig at City fans for having goes at the Lansdowns. He tells us to talk to fans of Reading, Sheffield Wednesday and Cardiff before having a go at our owners. Maybe while chatting to them we can also ask them what the Premier League was like.

Could we sell him back to Birmingham in a few matches time when Rooney is ditched?

As Steve Coppell worked out very early in his tenure here.

I also started in 1970 so have experienced the same as you. You omitted Gerry Sharpe between Roy Hodgson and Terry Cooper, incidentally. Like yourself the only other time I can say I was saddened by a manager leaving was Joe Jordan the first time around. But on that occasion it was the manager himself who chose to leave having progressed the club and put them in a better position. This time the manager wanted to say. I thought it was incredible a week ago when with City in 8th place having just beaten Coventry with a team depleted by injury, someone posted on OTIB that if City lost to second placed Ipswich and Cardiff who are riding high with an even more depleted team that Pearson would be sacked. The incredible thing was that I believed that could well be the case due to the vibes of the last few months. It's bizarre now thinking that this was the same owner who allowed LJ several losing runs of far, far more than two matches having given him Megabucks to amass a big squad to give him all the clubs in the bag but never sacked him until the umpteenth time this happened. But sacks a very popular manager of City, whom the fan base could see was building something, after two losses partly brought on by the owner's refusal to invest and obviously before two upcoming matches against teams in the bottom three. The cynic in me reckons that had City been playing Leicester and Leeds away AFTER these recent two losses instead of Sheff Wed and QPR, Lansdown would have waited until after those games to wield the axe believing it would then be four losses on the bounce. An absolutely disgraceful approach and attitude from SL.

Gardner Hickman doing well in midfield. Spraying some good passes around and manufactured a great shot for himself which tested the keeper.

Tony Lockwood

I have often thought that the pitch itself could be used to paint on the national flag of the country the ground is in. In our case the flag of St George. The only problem with that is in the Isle of Man where matches will then always be played over three legs.

Good point. Told my partner the match could well be changed to the Sunday or even the Friday due to it being Leeds and the love in they have with Sky Sports.

Got two places booked for the Leeds match in February. £102 each.

I'm given to understand that the dismissal of LJ back in 2020 was the first part of this agenda to no longer fly to away matches as had he remained we would be playing all around Europe by now.