Numero Uno

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.......................

If anyone, including the staff, cannot see what difference James make to our side then I'm lost for words. All I can say is if he's being canned then Max Bird or whoever else we recruit had better be AT LEAST his equivalent. Some League 1 or 2 "Superstar" who has played 30,000 games but takes 9 months to learn at this level whilst we get overrun in midfield every week won't cut it for me.

Conway was 100% a penalty, not even debateable.

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

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…………

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.

I bet the players enjoyed playing in that too. Makes you give that extra 1% of running to hold on at the end.

Leeds are the best side I’ve seen by a long way.

Put in a PERFORMANCE and the result takes care of itself. Thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable game of football. That’s the benchmark, gotta go again Monday. Well done Liam, didn’t think you had that in you.

What it sums up is a manager and hierarchy that is flapping and lacks the intelligence and know how to navigate a few awkward questions without getting basic facts wrong (at best, lying at worst) or contradicting themselves. The only conclusion I can draw is NONE OF THEM are up to holding their current positions at the club.

Tinnion and Jon are the problems, Liam is the major symptom. It's that basic. If you don't lance the boil(s) you don't sort the issue. Hopefully I can take more than an hour of Liam's Binary Ball this week.................

That particular brigade got their wish when Nige was fired!!

I am seriously starting to wonder whether a right shellacking tomorrow is the only way that this mess will get dealt with swiftly and properly. More weeks of this will not do anybody any favours.......except Jon and Brian who are clearly having fun at the moment.

As you've copied Richard Latham and I'm unable to ask him, perhaps you could explain what "Marquee Signing" would come here? Or even contemplate it. You don't just go into Waitrose and buy one off the shelf. "Haven't had a Marquee Signing for a while, shall we treat ourselves Brian?". "Ooh Jon, you're so naughty". Don't you think that a "Marquee SIgning" comes with "Marquee Expectations"? What I mean by that is they won't come here to finish 16th. They will want to win a medal via promotion and they will want to know who we are signing because telling them we've got Josh Stokes, some lad from St Patricks Athletic and Sam Bell is expected to be fit by October won't attract them, that's a certainty. It stands to reason that a "Marquee Player" will attract significant interest from other clubs at our level which means we have to COMPETE. What are we going to tell them to stand out from the crowd?.......That we lost 13 of our last 14 last season but don't worry, Liam has got it covered?

I think we've definitely reached the stage where a large proportion of the crowd will be ready to jump on anything they don't like such as an unnecessary back pass to Max (from a corner probably) and if we do go 2-3 goals down I cannot see it being anything other than unpleasant. My gripe if that happens is that it will all be aimed at Manning whilst the real culprits just sit there in the Directors Box sharpening their knives so they can save their own skin. Whilst I don't feel sorry for Manning in terms of the football he has produced I do feel for him in terms of the way he is going to get shafted by the club. Will probably put the bloke back 2-3 years, career wise, and whilst you can detest his football there is nothing obvious I know of to hate about the man himself.

We'll find out tomorrow. There are normally plenty of empty seats in the South Stand whatever. I think you might see a few stay away for the last three home games though, whatever happens tomorrow.

I would go to the Woodspring if I knock City in the head. No, the players aren't anywhere near as good but they are decent enough and, at the same time, you don't generally have managers at that level strangling the life out of football as an entertainment business with their tactics boards. If I wanted to watch a game of Chess I would watch two proper Chess players going at it hammer and tongs in a room somewhere (as much as you can go hammer and tongs in Chess)!! Football is about emotion and action so lesser players making mistakes here and there and not being tactically on point for a full 90 minutes often make for a more enjoyable game................with the ball being passed forwards, shots and goals. How many people want to leave a game and say "the way the two sides cancelled each other out so there wasn't a single shot on target in 90 minutes was totally captivating"?

If that was genuinely the case then you just bring in a replacement manager, keep the staff and go for continuity. Or you just give Nige the season off and tell him that if he's alright by June we'll look at a new contract. Curtis and Euell would have been able to deliver a lot more than Manning has. You seem to have ignored the front foot comments made by Sid, the deconditioning and the "better chance of success" comment from Crayon Boy that clearly demonstrate it was a SACKING..........of the entire staff, none of which, apart from Nige, had medical problems.

Facebook and X, haven't checked anywhere else. I wouldn't just say it to knock the club if it hadn't happened albeit I realise you may be asking out of curiosity!!