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9 minutes ago, Superjack said:

All the positives you mention have either been destroyed or are in the 'process' of being.

 

Disagree.

The style of play is poor, and results are on a negative trajectory. I'll give you that.

Are we signing old journeyman on high wages? No. Bird, Stokes etc suggest otherwise.

Are we removing the academy? Some players like Yeboah have been shipped on loan, which is odd after being in the first team, but also I expect the likes of Palmer-Holden etc to be in and around the squad next year.

So it's not all the positives being destroyed, it's merely the style of play IMO. 

5 hours ago, Robbored said:

Why not?

Murphy meets all the criteria needed to play Bond. He handsome, cool and suave and an experienced actor.

That said whoever the next 007 is they won’t ever outdo Sean Connery. He was the best Bond ever.

He's also 47. Probably too old for Bond. Or for a good run at Bond. 

Can get a good 15 years out of ATJ.

51 minutes ago, Steve Watts said:

Manning is doing a lot behind closed doors as well....sadly none of it is positive and the only thing this whole failed experiment has succeeded in is creating division between fans and the club and between fans and other fans. 

Supporting this club has never felt so difficult as it does now.  Usually you can find some things to be positive about. Youth coming through, players playing with pride even if they're not getting the rub of the green etc, but right now there's literally nothing.  Zero. Zilch. Nada.  And it's bloody soul destroying it really is. 

I've given over 40 years of my life to supporting this club.  Others have given even more. But I have never in those 40+ years felt as despondent as I do now.

I personally think you're a bit short in the memory.

We are mid table, yes going backwards, but highly unlikely to be relegated. It's not like the days under S'OD / McInnes of late.

We have a squad who played with pride earlier in the season. Again, not like the massive wages we had on dead wood earlier in the season.

We have multiple academy players in the squad, it's not like under Gary where we didn't have any youth.

Even as a squad, we are fairly young. It's not like we have lots of older players on longer contracts.

Yes Manning-ball is dire. Tinnion and JL are out of their depth. But there's also so much potential here, as seen in glimpses under Nigel.

Daniel Craig was shown getting his first (?) kill to make him a double O. Completely ignored Brosnan. 

Just restart the franchise again. The only shame is I liked Ben Winshaw, Ralph Fiennes etc who will probably be moving on. 

1 hour ago, Monkeh said:

Here's a question

Would changing the head coach make a difference where you have a technical director dictating to you how you must play and who you will sign,

It won't an entire change of approach is needed,

The ideas behind it are sound but there's too much power concentrated in one area which is why it's failing 

I actually believe a technical director should dictate how we play.

We should have an identity which runs throughout the club, meaning all youth players play the Bristol City way and can slot in seamlessly into the first team when called upon. It also means we have a clear approach and structure to transfers, protecting the club from having to be rebuilt each time we get a new manager.

If we kept ripping up the rule book each time, we'd have players like Sam Bell who are good on the press, being part of a team who play hoof ball and it wouldn't work. 

And this is part of the issue, Tinnion wants a high press, attacking team, and I feel we are actually building a team for this (Tinnion should be part of a panel on who we sign, but the key word is panel). However this is not the style Manning is playing, and that's the issue. Tinnion should be asking why has he taken a high press team (best at the press in the league under Pearson), and start to reverse it? I'm all for managers tweaking, but it shouldn't be wholesale changes.

46 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Sykes & Knight are on international duty anyway so they won’t get any time off at all.

Can already hear Mannings excuse. 

“look, we had key members on international duty so we didn’t get the time on grass together as hoped, and obviously it affects our behaviours as a collective”

1 hour ago, Super said:

I'm guessing there is more to it than that, Especially as GS still wants him in the squad, Also i'm sure many players haven't always got on with their manager

I believe the falling out was with Gareth's assistant. I think GS wants White back in the squad due to the amount of injuries we have right now, if everyone was fit it'll be a different story.

50 minutes ago, DaveF said:

Southgate has denied that today.

The Brian Tinnion school of fibs?

We are weakest in defence. I'm guess Stones Maguire will be our back two for the Euro's, Chilwell left back? Not much competition.

1 hour ago, Hxj said:

There is no such nationality as English, Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish for players.  Nakhi Wells, Alex Scott and Tommy Conway could under FIFA rules all play for Wales.

Nakhi Wells is from Bermuda for a start!

10 minutes ago, Steve Watts said:

You mean to tell me you don't feel rewarded?!?

 

I'll tell you in 20 days if I am (or whenever the competition to win the shoe laces of Bajic is concluded)

5 minutes ago, Wedontplayinblue said:

It’s almost like Arsenal are a bigger club with more fans willing to buy tat for points, I imagine the uptake on our rewards scheme was minimal. 

What I love is currently you cannot buy tat for points, merely enter competition to have the chance to win tat.

Being scraped end of season. What a waste of time. 

1 hour ago, GrahamC said:

How about developing your own players instead of repeatedly borrowing someone else’s?

Gas ***.

Yeah, Newport, Yeovil, Taunton etc!

Heard Brian has taken up a new job in the past 2 weeks, he's also the head of PR for Kensington Palace.

23 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Obsesses on reflection and analysis, works too hard which is both a strength and weakness. 

Such an interview answer. 

Good article on Paterson. Unknown if he'll be at Swansea next year (it sounds unlikely). 

Not suggesting we get him back, more of just a good read. Doesn't know if he'll celebrate if he scores against us.

Good player on his day, just inconsistent. Hopefully is the latter on Sunday!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68513914

34 minutes ago, MarcusX said:

Also worth noting that people can put any name down or is it likely that Steven Gerrard has actually donated?

 

Unlikely, I'd expect Gerrard would donate more (?). 

40 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

We need rid of both. But considering where we are and how he’s managing games, it has to be Liam in preference to Tinnion leaving as first port of call 

As I said on another thread, if Manning goes I don't trust Tinnion to get the right man in to replace him.

3 hours ago, GrahamC said:

100%, we made the playoffs in the previous two seasons, he then took us backwards & in his second season brought in loads of absolutely disastrous signings.

Signing players with no thoughts on style? My technikal director.

1 hour ago, Tomo said:

To be fair to BT 'the manager' he only had 1 full season in 2004/2005 and we finished 1 point off the play offs, finishing in 7th place.

 

Why is that being fair? The season before we lost in the play off final. The next season we had Leroy Lita scoring 24 goals that season. It was a massive failure. 

18 minutes ago, CodeRed said:

Exactly, shows what a f uckwit BT is to think Manning could lead this club, 2 minutes listening to him drone on and I'd be 'thanks we'll be in touch and watch the door doesn't bang your ass on the way out'

At the time Oxford were 2nd (now 7th), he was also unlucky to not get MK Dons promoted. 

His CV was okay, you can't judge just on personality.

We will win 1-0. It's what Bristol City do.

2 hours ago, Swede said:

who cost us £5.3M, gave him a platform to ultimately go towards him playing & winning the AFCON for his country, refuse to sign a new contract and ultimately proceeded to run his contract down so we got nothing for him, then proceeded to allow his performances to dip towards the end of that contract and was one of the numerous reasons why we've suffered FFP since then, it will be a no for me.

Aside from his performances, you have to blame Mark Ashton for all of the other reasons. 

I dislike when there's complaints about players running contracts down, that's a risk a club has to take. Same way players get released after years of service. Neither owe each other anything, you agree a contract and that's that.