Lorenzos Only Goal

I tend to support players more so in the PL though I hate Chelsea marginally less than Utd at the moment. Cole is a good player but I think he stands out in a fairly disorganised Chelsea side. That being said he should be way ahead of Gallagher in the England setup.

Stick to enjoy the rest of the season. Rob Edwards and Liam Manning could not be further apart in styles and pedigree; apart from Rob Edwards having had an extensive playing career under multiple decent managers, his team is more akin to Pearsons than Mannings. Luton focuses on using the ball well when they have it, utilising speed, aggression and intensity when they have the ball, versus us trying to retain possession and play from the back retaining possession. To get from A -> B with Manning will take a rebuild and will take some time with a busy transfer market (it might work, but if it doesn't, it sets us back years), and the only thing that's changed in recent results is Matty James coming back into the side; not much has changed on the Manning end. And I think that worries people: the results are masking the problems.

I'm sure he's got potential at some point, I think the problem is he's come in as a loan to bolster the squad. Development wise he might be ahead of Bell and Conway at the same age but not Tammy for example which is what I think people expect when the club loan in a ex Man City player. If his loan was with a view to taking him in the summer and developing him the club could communicate that better. But I get the feeling they've just signed a raw kid at the wrong time, might even have damaged him.

FML Keane is a nob and that's a United slanted view.

Max mad some phenomenal saves.

He did, he'd also be a lunatic not to be hedging his bets as he's been offered nothing.

I'm not interested until he says its been my biggest honour to be Bristol City manager, but I've been offered the job of getting some other poor bastard relegated while I churn out words that sound interesting.

What do you mean, he was asked about his contract and on a number of occasions said there had been nothing. That's poor on the clubs part, poor and rings alarm bells that there is going to be a clear out in the summer. And the Manning interview why's he sending Bell home to analyse teams?

I think the majority are worried about what will happen if Manning is still here at the end of the season. We will lose Tommy, for one, sure, and how many others will disengage from the academy? I'm not sure what the point of putting Jed Meerholz on the bench was; he could have let the kid have a cameo. Now that I am sure the season is over, relegation is not on the cards unless we fail to take any points between now and the end of the season. I'd like to see the loans sidelined (Yes, Twine, I don't think he's terrible, but unless we sign him, we'll be playing against him next season) and academy players at least reassured that there is still a pathway.

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I used to donate blood to the Welsh Blood service to give some Welsh players the option of playing for England instead.

There is a half-chance the worms will also be feasting on me. However, I'll be ripe to run for US president.

I'm feeling a name change to "Harry's Scorned Girlfriend". That being said he's been very hit and miss, no pun intended.

Couldn't have said it better.

Sadly I think you're right. I'm very concerned about us bringing in loans that simply don't hit the ground running and displace academy products.

With SOD at least there was some process, it just wasn't working quick enough and we were in danger of dropping again. He was slowly turning a bad disjointed squad around, with Manning he's simply made a decent squad bad.

Offff

That poor women only nipped out for some backy and a sixpack now shes all over the forums.

I honestly think it is a next-season problem (a win and a couple of draws, we will be fine), but that being said, mathematically, we could get relegated if his form gets markedly worse than it is (yes, it can), Manning's current form, if it rolls over into next season, puts us on about 52 points if it gets much worse puts us in the drop zone.

I agree I think he does need a bigger backroom staff with more experience.

It's but still funny "My wife's card on our joint account was stolen, but I've not reported it, as they are spending less than the wife did."

Me too, I was livid and still am about Pearson's departure, but I was willing to give Manning the benefit of the doubt and compartmentalize the two issues. The benefit of the doubt has been shown, and at this point, he's going to have us in a relegation scrap next season, he doesn't appear to have the experience or flexibility to adapt well at this level, all his rhetoric about stepping up boils my piss! He needs to step up, either pull in a more experienced assistant or adapt to the squad he has.

I think Manning motivates opponents better than our players. Two weeks ago, I had Ipswich planted right in the playoffs if they were lucky; there were comparisons between Manning & McKenna being cut from the same cloth. Now the bastards are on a run and second in the League, and McKenna will be using Mannings's "Why won't the players do what I tell them to do, sob!!" as motivation laughing his tits off at the constant iterations of "step up", "leaders on the pitch", "little moments of quality" and my personal favourite "taking responsibility" How would I motivate the players? I would stop talking, and say something like its not acceptable and stop. I'd let Tommy be Tommy and I'd stop over complicating it, wind it back a few games to what was going well.

IF we don't sort our shit out there are enough games to leave us in the shit! Very improbable though.

He has been but its not removing from the fact his lack of experience and lack of ideas is costing us dear. The raw Mebude thing vs our own raw Yeboah befuddles me are we paying a loan fee and wages for the kid, loans have to be able to hit the ground running if not, then you use your youth!