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2 minutes ago, petehinton said:

What is the stage before being undercooked?

Alive?

Bitter bunch this Oxford lot aren't they? My God they've got a chip on their shoulder.

57 minutes ago, Harry said:

Yeah I can appreciate that. 
My take on it is that I was always of the opinion that Pearson wouldn’t get extended after his 3 years was up. So at some point, whether the end of this season or at some point during this season, he was going to leave. 
It came earlier than I expected and in circumstances that are unfavourable. But I always felt it was going to happen at some point this season. 
And the plan, even going back 3 years (and in Pearson’s own admission) was that someone else would come in and take forward what Pearson had stabilised. 

I’ve always felt that Pearson was simply the ‘stability’ manager and after the 3 years was up someone like a Manning would inherit the stability that Pearson created. 
 

I don’t like the circumstances as to how this has come about, but I’m happy with the appointment of Manning, having seen his teams a fair bit, I like his style of football. 

Tending to agree. 

The interesting thing will obviously be how much money Manning is given. The players are clearly not there for top 6, regardless of what JL/BT/anyone else says. The nest egg comments NOW imply that as we've got the FFP under control that there will be plenty of cash available to go all out in January, Manning will have the next 2 months to get an impression of the team and have a recruitment strategy in place to present to BT. Why sack Pearson now otherwise? We make a big deal of them being dense but there's a difference between being a little incompetent and outright stupid.

Doubt Tinnion has the perceived power he does come mid-Dec, doubt the "academy is king" holds by Jan. 

If the betting markets were offering it I'd have plenty of money on us spending big in January.

@BigTone to bring a Merlot soaked swagger to the touchline. 

2 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

I’d go for the educated foreign coach, Swedish Tommy.

Director of Comms for me.

£5 says that the first question is about the High Performance Centre

If we'd just sacked a manager and both Pearson and Manning wanted the job, this place would ******* explode if we appointed Manning.

All a bit of a let down to be honest. Uninspiring is the word. 

Torsten Leiberknecht's Cider Army does have a nice ring to it

21 minutes ago, transfer reader said:

Myth

We won today. Ergo, it's fact. 

3 minutes ago, BCFCGav said:

I’m amazed how few people know what blueballing/blue balls are. Thought it was a common phrase honestly!

Got to caveat it with the age differential on OTIB, some of these poor saps are popping corks if they manage to switch the PC on in the morning

1 minute ago, Kid in the Riot said:

WTF does blueballing mean??

1 minute ago, Harry said:

No idea

Don't google it fellas

Whats with all the blueballing @Kid in the Riot/@Harry ? Share with the class.

Out of this world save from Max!

11 minutes ago, 22A said:

0-6 now!

7

1 minute ago, Crackers Corner said:

Just grabbed this pic of some bloke chatting outside in exec box probably a total red herring and some random bloke 

David Wagner's had a dye job

6 minutes ago, SBB said:

You spend far too much time on here for someone who can eat their own knob. 

I only post on my breaks from working in the circus as "THE AMAZING ZE, COCK SWALLOWER EXTRAORDINAIRE"

1 minute ago, OliOTIB said:

Source - 600 followers on twitter

I'll eat my own knob if Jody Morris comes back as his assistant

Just now, Glen hump said:

It’s got to be crayons 

@James I'll donate £250 for packs of crayola for the boys in S26/27

It's Eustace.

49 minutes ago, jayjay said:

Sorry, was just going to say, might the pollce or security suggest that the Lansdowns stay away, like at Everton recentlic

Not like they'd be there anyway!

Just now, Topper 123 said:

Look the bloke won 2 home games this season and to be fair the last one we should have been slaughtered and Coventry are a poor side as are Cardiff if we carried on like that by Christmas we’d be facing a relegation fight 

Have you got some kind of mental defect that prevents nuance from entering the brain?

58 minutes ago, Kingswood Robin said:

The Thick of It springs to mind

He really is as useless as a marzipan dildo. 

Tin hat on, Warnock in 

Genuine question - is it common for other clubs execs/board members/DoFs to do radio interviews after the sacking of a manager (never mind a very popular one)?