Numero Uno

Just taking the emotion out of the game. Expect us to strike soon................

4 minutes ago, redkev said:

I agree , but I thought on Friday the subs he made and the timings were spot on ( a rarity I admit but they did work ) 

Absolutely. The first time I have looked at his substitutions and thought they all effected the game in the way you would want them to. He could have played it safer and delayed the changes but he didn't, as you say it was the timings as much as the changes.

3 minutes ago, Malago said:

Win, lose or draw, Manning will be manager at 5pm and he’ll be manager at the start of next season too.

Its what happens between then and the second international break that will really matter.

All you’re trying to do is build up an end of season bog standard championship game into something it isn't.

Each game means something different to each supporter and not necessarily revolving around what you think it means. Some are looking at these next three or four matches and deciding whether they buy a season ticket or not. It's not bog standard to them and if their decision goes the wrong way because Liam is safe in his job and can't be arsed to produce then it won't be bog standard to the club. After the 90% rubbish we have sat through since the win on Boxing Day it is not unreasonable to ask Liam to give something for supporters to grasp onto.

4 minutes ago, mozo said:

The last game was the defining one if it suits one's narrative, but the next game is defining if that suits better...

Sometimes there isn't a particular "narrative". If Liam wants to succeed he has to produce consistency not Southampton, five defeats, Leicester City, five defeats. That's no good. Most people want to see him produce over a number of games and are far more nuanced than judging over one game. Not everyone though.

1 minute ago, redkev said:

Some people will question the tactics / formation no matter what 

The thing I want to see over the remainder of the season is in those games where Liam's set-up DOESN'T work, how proactive will he be to change it up? Will he just stand there and let it fail for 80 minutes or do something about it a lot sooner? For me that has been a massive failing of his so far and part of the reason he has a defeat percentage that exceeds 45%.

4 minutes ago, Malago said:

Where’s all this “acid test”, “big game” etc stuff coming from.  It’s a fairly meaningless end of season game.  Hope we play well, hope we win, but depending on other results, the best we can hope for us to jump up to 11th.  Hardly earth shattering stuff.

It's a manager who has failed to beat (too) many sides at the bottom end of the table showing us that he can go to Plymouth, get a result this afternoon and not fall to a sixth defeat in eight matches. No, not earth shattering stuff but if the club want the manager to have the confidence of the fans and if they want to shift a few more season tickets it is very important that the great performance and result last Friday is followed up with results over the next seven matches however meaningless you might deem them to be.

The Manager and the Technical Director come out with conflicting statements and nearly every one of us would have been able to pick the bloke telling the truth. Amazing isn’t it?

5 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

I think he's done , but , although he could be a "dead man walking" as we are safe -ish then he will have a job for a while.
That gives him a chance to reassess , and maybe , just maybe , he has realised HE has to adapt rather than an entire squad of players. 
Managers should be able to tweak their ideas into a working system , otherwise they will have a very short career. So perhaps he has just altered his ideas a touch . 
I said elsewhere , they win means little in terms of "have we cracked it" . We have done well against sides that give us a little room to play or press us (Leeds apart ) . Plymouth being a "local"  derby , will be a little different , Huddersfield and Rotherham will be games to see if we go about things differently. 

If Liam has designs on remaining in post then putting in performances in these last seven games will not only ensure that BUT it will get a few more fans onside. These are the type of games where he needs to give us a lot more. Beating Leicester and Southampton means nothing if we end up with 21 points in total from the second half of the season. For me, 10 points minimum in these last seven is a fair target.

1 minute ago, Super said:

Phillips has had an absolute nightmare since he arrived there. I doubt as well now he'll make the Euro squad.

He’ll be looking forward to the cricket season……no chance at all of going to the Euro’s imo. Mainoo for a start has now overtaken him.

2 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Think the second paragraph is exactly how the club views the situation.

I fully expect a far more experienced keeper to arrive this summer & Bajic to get fed up of waiting for his chance & return home.

Don’t for a minute think it will be a big name, probably a keeper that’s out of contract in League One or a Championship squad one.

The Football Department is on the lookout for an 18-20 year old League 1 keeper with 1500 games under his belt……

7 hours ago, Jo90 said:

Really love the new Zak’s Onyego range looks great - Thanks for doing something that’s a bit different 

…………….I bet you all soiled your pants you laughed that hard.

8 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

Cheers Matt, at least we know your “truth” now.

And it’s bollocks.

Read this back: “Fans spend hundreds and thousands of pounds on their team each year in order to want them to lose”

Christs sake.

But in your world…

To be fair if the bloke has genuinely been watching City since Atyeo (although I get the impression he never goes now, just picks up the results then reacts on here) then he must be a good 80-90 years old. Add in the fact he ain’t Einstein (we all pump money into the club to hope they lose) and it’s probably not worth spending any more time reacting!!!

Just now, Glasgow Red said:

Who would want to be a goalkeeper? 

A Goalkeeper………..

4 minutes ago, MarcusX said:

It was a great performance and win, undoubtedly.

However, let’s see what happens Monday.

I got carried away after Southampton thinking we’d turned a corner and that was signs of the future.

I still see a side that can play a bit when the opposition presses us, and leaves space to get at. Still nothing to suggest we have a plan to beat the weaker sides, so very little changes on the face of one game.

After that performance on Friday, Plymouth SHOULD be there for the taking. A fanbase that are as frustrated as ours, we are off the back of the best result possible and best performance for three months imo, they threw a lead away on Saturday and know they could be in the bottom three if we turn them over.

This is where Liam earns his coin. Follow up a great performance and result with one people would EXPECT  in the next game. The minimum expectation has to be a point. Bear in mind Plymouth will not go gung-ho and won’t dominate like a Southampton or Leicester so this is a test for Liam.

4 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

We do now need to put “for avoidance of doubt” because otherwise every Tom, Dick and Cornick thinks we’re being hyper critical.

Correction……every Brian, Jon and Liam. For avoidance of doubt obviously.

1 hour ago, M.D said:

I think it will be new no.9, wells and Seb, saving loads of cash..

Might be but I’m not sure a bench player at Newport when everyone is fit translates into a successful Championship Centre Forward over three months.

10 hours ago, Cole Not Gas said:

I think we all deserve to have a little fun; perhaps at the negative **** who seem to think the only point of this forum is criticize my/our club we support. We could start a new threat naming & shaming those who find think it's hilarious to be smug & highly critical of our management and all good things BCFC

Lets start naming Silvio, BCFC 31, Cloudy, Uno, Ivan - all these people who will NOT read this post because it will make them chew so much humble pie they will hate waking up tomorrow to realize what total chumps they've made themselves look, that we did beat a Prem club with a bench today worth £95m, that Liam has yet again shown the football world he is smart and can get an average team to beat the best. I loved today even more knowing those we can name will have a horrible day; lets hope they also have a horrible day on Monday when they'll be unable to roll out their pre-written and predictable complaints about all those guys who do so much to help BCFC. I think a few of them will be man enough to own up and say we were again a good team today, all playing for the shirt, in front of a sell-out crowd at our great stadium and where Bristol Sport did absolutely nothing wrong.

Oh, and by the way anyone who enjoyed today and posts positively may be told by the neggies that they work for B.Sport - hilarious

I shouldn't react really but as I said in the matchday thread yesterday was a thoroughly enjoyable game of football. You will be very disappointed to know I was a buzzing about watching that 90 minutes yesterday as I was disappointed against Swansea when I ****** off after and hour and Cardiff when I pissed off after 70 minutes. Like "almost" all of us on here I put my money INTO the club, I don't take it out as an Employee. I come on this forum because I enjoy the debate, not because my boss has told me to spin some positive stuff about the club.

The problem with people like you is you are one dimensional. I could write a diatribe, when we lose to people like Cardiff, mentioning you and saying I bet the BS Employee doesn't criticise that blah blah blah. In the same way you laud Liam now I didn't notice you criticise that batch of awful performances for weeks in a row. Whereas pretty much all of the posters above including myself who are critical of what Manning has dished up have commented positively on yesterday to balance the negative criticism of weeks on end previously (because performances have warranted it). What you are criticising is actually WHAT YOU ARE.

Liam has proved he can "beat the best" in the Championship but, unfortunately, he's also proved he can get beat by the worst.........on a regular basis (weeks in a row in fact). If and when he proves over the next seven games that he can set his team up to beat lower ranked sides you might start to chirp a bit louder. Let's see what happens. Btw has your little list of posters been passed on to your boss?

1 minute ago, LondonBristolian said:

As we discovered under Lee Johnson, “Detailed work on the opposition” is always a nuanced thing. It can be great for bespoke plans to stop a top of the table side but strip you of identity and make you reactive when you do it each week, against everyone. And it gets a bit farcical when you’re so busy reacting to the tactical nuances of the bottom of the table side that you cannot beat them at home.

In a nutshell....................

10 minutes ago, Cole Not Gas said:

We have had a tough 2024 against sides who are not in or aspiring to be in the top flight of English football. Against the best we have been coached and set up really well. After yesterdays superb performance where TC ran the channels so well and deserved a penalty post match debate threw up an interesting one i'd like you views on.

We know Tinman loves both these players he has seen grow from kids to potential top class strikers. He will doubtless have a say in who we keep, sell etc but if you could only keep one of our own who would it be. I love TC and his late goals at Rotherham after the worst 45 mins football i have ever attended, but yesterday he didnt take any of his chances. Sam is faster, gave us a magic moment at Swansea in the cup last season and has really taken the chance Tinman gave him

I suspect Liam has already decided who he wants to come into the club and probably who he has to let go from our bunch of forwards. Which of these two would you keep if they were equally fit and raring to go next season?

Keep Sam (Conway is ******* off anyway), and make sure you report this back, give Liam the rest of the season now to show if he can cut it or not against ALL TEAMS not just the likes of Southampton and Leicester City, kick the despicable Sid's arse right out of it and kick the incompetent Crayon Boy's arse right out of it. Oh, and dismantle Bristol Sport from top to bottom and sack the lot of them.......................

13 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

I thought he was a very , big club fan. Seemed to give them a lot of easy decisions.
I was impressed he booked ours for the first fouls , yes they were fouls , but  there were about 5/6 fouls on Mehmeti  that weren't bookings. 
I'm not sure about some of the Penalty shouts . The Dickie one was a good shout , but the rest I'm not so sure.

Conway was 100% a penalty, not even debateable.

2 hours ago, David Brent said:

I thought at the time I posted that it looked like Leicester could step up another gear. That opinion might have been swayed by how slow we’ve been to start the second half recently. There were definitely signs of it in the first half with Vardy twice going close. 
 

But Liam was proactive in his changes and we took the game to them more. Definitely more down to our good performance than Leicester simply being poor. Credit to Liam and the team for that. 

It was noticeable that his substitutions had a positive effect yesterday. The fact it's noticeable is concerning BUT they did work yesterday. 

Just now, Robbored said:

I left AG surprised at how many chances  Leicester wasted, some down to Max but not all. Vardy missed at least three opportunities that in his prime would have buried but hey ho all teams miss chances…….

I left AG not giving a left bollock about Leicester for the simple reason it was so refreshing to watch us play some nice football at times and have a go.

I think he’s proven he’s not the clown one or two think he is…………

8 minutes ago, TDarwall said:

I don't need to listen to Gary Owers (much as I like him), I was there & witnessed it with my own eyes. Max was my MoM, but everyone played well. Their bench was worth > £70m, we were never going to prevent them making chances (today was the 1st time they've failed to score since Nov). We played well today & could/should have had a pen before any of their chances.  It was a good game, you couldn't argue against a draw but I don't consider us lucky to have won.

The way I look at it is we played as well as we can given the players we’ve got against a team with £40m players. For us to beat Leicester it’s a given that Max needed to be on point and he was. To people saying “lucky” it’s his job to give us a 9/10 every now and again!!

If Liam could deliver “as well as we can” on a more regular basis we’ll all be happier.