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32 minutes ago, phantom said:

That's really sad that you had that information at your finger tips to instantly post 

 

You must be prepared in order to have the required excuse/explanation/whataboutary at the moments notice

PPG was held very dear by certain members of the forum not so long ago, seems to have been cast aside now. Weird

You can never fully know what player you are going to get, only have to look at two of our high profile loanees turned perms in to know that even when theres try before we buy it doesn’t always work.

said before that with twine and mebude there’s a case of thinking what type of player you might want, getting them in and seeing how it works, hence the loan. If it is that player great, sign him up or if not available someone similar. Mebude is currently an enigma. Must be a player in there but wrong time of the season to find him - but of course could have gone another way.. potentially undervalued needs the right coach and right situation etc 

4 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Was 59 points the target for this season for either manager?

No.

Simple as that.

I’d expect manning to beat the total tbh but Both crap then?

1 minute ago, bexhill reds said:

Not sure I see the irony, but it is a dull post. I rather think you like the attention.
 

Oh the infamy.

Surely it’s a decent observation against a what has been a tide of negativity? Something we should celebrate no? Pound for pound we now have a better manager at the helm 

2 minutes ago, bexhill reds said:

No, but it’s desperately boring to post shit like this. Time will tell whether the new manager will be a success, we’ve done the minutiae of comparing every single metric. 

Oh the irony.

1 minute ago, transfer reader said:

What they said isn't wrong though.

 

I didn't agree with Nige being sacked, but there's a not insignificant number on here who are fully bought into the Nige cult of personality and have, from the day of appointment, not been willing to give Manning a fair chance.

 

That doesn't mean people can't have reservations about Manning either, but there is absolutely a group here who go out of their way to negate and diminish anything Manning gets right, while at the same time exaggerating and focusing on things he gets wrong.

My comment was flippant (but factual) but only to match the OTT nonsense that is on here when we lose. Your post here sums up my feelings very well.

1 minute ago, Super said:

Let it go.

Hahaha this is irony, oui?

It must be so confusing for a number of people that we are 6 points off last seasons total with 6 games to go. And Manning’s PPG also beats last years total 

But but but Nigel 

Such a mature thread. Absolute cringe overload 

St George did not slay that dragon for this 

The only real question of loyalty here is you moving away from Bristol, if anything you should be paying the club more

Not even anywhere close to being pride related, it’s a design touch. One that makes it not even look the thing it originally was so fairly pointless from many angles but the backlash is embarrassing. When did the world become like this, how depressing.

1 hour ago, Harry said:

It would never work. 
Warnock has been a success in the past because of how he does things. He does it HIS way. 
We won’t tolerate that. 
 

Neil : I want to sign Sol Bamba, Paddy Kenny & Shaun Derry. 
Brian : Sorry Neil, that’s not the way it works. We have a list of players that we’ve targeted through our world class analyst department and you get to choose from the top 3 list we provide to you. 
Neil : But they won’t be able to play the way I want to.  
Brian : What is it you want to do?  
Neil : I want to play direct and ugly football and make sure my players are total shithousers and get under everyone’s skin. I want us to be horrible to play against. It won’t be pretty but it can be effective. 
Brian : I’m sorry Neil, that’s not how we do things around here. 
Neil : Well, best of luck with that then, you fools. 

What part of this sounds good to you?

16 hours ago, Eddie Hitler said:

 

I like our current ownership but they need a wise old head directing football matters as the owners are no better at this than I would be.

Neil Warnock or Roy Hodgson maybe.

Not some bullshitting suit like last time but we need somebody.

Exactly the point. Ownership is stable, as local as you could reasonably expect a billionaire to be and ultimately does have the interests of the club in its heart and not in it to make a quick buck, there shouldn’t be a lot to not love about that but..

thinking we didn’t need to employ after Gould is the real crime and would be a relatively easy fix to bring the fans back on side and to support manning  (which he needs, all coaches in this mould do) warnock/hodgeson is abit too bennie L for my liking but a sensible sporting head would go a long way to repairing the fractures. pisses me off that they won’t do this though, can’t fathom it

:laugh:

Make him caretaker !!!

44 minutes ago, formerly known as ivan said:

That was bloody terrible. Literally the worse performance of the season. 

Unfortunately all it’s done is give Manning breathing space.

Making that my last visit to the gate this season. Can no longer sit through it and cant celebrate even when they win.

Don’t be fooled anyone. It’s what they want you to be. Be on your guard 

6 hours ago, David Brent said:

Up there with one of the worst posts I’ve seen in a while. What nonsense. 

Have a closer look around and just wait till you read some of the things people write completely seriously 

7 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Lot of erratic owners around.

Football wise I think they would have been in safe hands. Parachute Payments, keeping key players and a solid tactical framework.

He was actually doing wonders there and he probably would have kept them up, if only he’d kept his mouth shut I guess.

seems to be a bit of the old self sabotage in nige, maybe he doesn’t think he’s good enough. Low self esteem is fixable though 

10 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Sacking Edwards a mistake...sacking NP a bigger one.

NP plus Parachute Payments would have had a good chance to both take back up and build back stronger.

They've made a few sackings which were too soon or just seemed plain incorrect down the years though.

Good point on NP at Watford forgot about that. What is it they say? Once is a coincidence, twice is a pattern?

31 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

We're failing and regressing- if you can't see it well..

My comment was clearly tongue in cheek regarding the battle for manning and Pearson to be desperately average.

what the answer is, I do not know.

38 minutes ago, AshtonGreat said:

 

So what we can deduce from these stats is that neither Manning nor Pearson performed particularly well, but Pearson performed slightly less bad than Manning 

Exactly, although there is still time for manning to be less badder in a direct comparison on these stats adjusted for season end. I can’t see sky covering the race for mid table anytime soon tbh

5 minutes ago, BrizzleRed said:

Yes, totally agree in the divided opinion.

Wouldn’t it be great if we actually found something we generally agreed on someday?  Never gonna happen though!

I am sure even if we hired pep some would doubt his record 

4 minutes ago, BrizzleRed said:

I’m sensing some very worrying echo’s of LJ with the discussions we’re having regarding LM.

There’s the ‘give him time’ side and the ‘he’s not showing much that makes us think he’ll improve’ on the other side and I’m in the latter category

Do we give him hard earned funds for new players in the summer, when he really doesn’t look like the person we hoped we were getting and could well be gone before Christmas, even if he made it through the summer.  Do we learn by our previous mistske of keeping LJ for far too long, hoping he would eventually come good, but it never happened.  We’ll never get those wasted years back.

My only question would be, do we get shot sooner, or give him until the end of the season?  I’m massively underwhelmed with him so far, on so many counts.

Strong similarities in baggage too, LJs due him dividing opinion after his playing days and LM having to follow Jesus Christ himself.

underwhelming is a good summation for sure and we are certainly at cross roads and we are potentially facing the sunk cost fallacy.

4 minutes ago, Capman said:

Based on nothing more than the assertion that things were ‘starting to go sour’. Personal opinion, which is after all what a forum is for. You might note that I prefixed my statement by making it clear it was a personal opinion, not the same as the statement about things ‘going sour’ which was seemingly presented as ‘fact’. 
I think Pearson was showing plenty of promise to take us to the next level. He had created a decent team on a shoestring and generated a war chest of tens of millions which, with the right backing, could have created a great team. We have seen since he left that his squad, when given their head, can perform against the best opposition. Personally I would rather trust a manager with a good track record to spend the money Pearson and Gould harvested. We have adopted a different approach. We will have to see how that goes. 

I think the fact the manager was sacked is a pretty clear indication that things had gone sour. Based on niges interviews in the lead up It wasn’t exactly out of the blue was it