Charlie BCFC

Not a chance we “gave it a go” against Leicester, we had 10 men behind the ball and the goal was coming from a mile off. Both performances were poor, but only Manning gets blamed for the game he managed

Agreed his decision making has been a issue for some time now, it’s getting better but it’s still not enough in a goal shy side

I did think we needed another thread referring to the same thing but different wording

We were poor last night, Leeds were very good and didn’t make it easy but when we had the ball we didn’t use it well enough. However think that’s a rare poor performance under LM, Coventry mid week we were very good and should’ve got all 3 points for example That was a problem before Manning, our forwards aren’t good enough. Hence why two have been brought in on loan to add quality

Not at all, I’ve seen so much about how good we were under Pearson (I have nothing against him) but our expectations for him were very low. If you look at how we played at Leicester compared to last night, there was zero negativity after we played Leicester when we parked the bus all game and lost vs Leeds where we were poor but Manning is getting pelters. No consistency at all with this flip flop fanbase

I think this is out of necessity aswell though, because we badly miss Sykes going forward and for me I’d rather have Tanner and McCrorie in there than Bell

We’ll just look at this thread where people seem to think we were this incredible team, I’d much rather watch us now.

I did we played well, I can name atleast three games under Manning where we played better than that

I wish we got to see this scintillating football people are telling us we played under Pearson on this forum

I thought Mehmeti was ok yesterday and has been getting better over the past month or two. I would keep him

We were very poor for me and scoreline flatters us. Having said that Leeds are a very good side and for me look 10x better than the Sheffield United side that got automatics last season. I just think we could’ve used the ball a lot better when we had it, instead we gave it away lot with a lot of it under no pressure

It definitely isn’t, very rare we do one on a Tuesday game

Not seen anything personally but would be a miracle if no one was hurt at all

Ah some reason assumed it was at home. Yeah possibly not then

I’m with you, he’s an idiot. All well and good celebrating a goal but you can stop yourself from doing something like that. Very reactionary to me

Good result, think the U21 have struggled recently results wise but a few coming back from injury and back from loans means we look better again. Wonder if we’ll see Atkinson/Murphy for the game in mid week

Good player, dealt with this wrong but a lot of Sunderland fans turning on Beale interestingly. Do remember at Rangers, Gerrard was very much the man manager whilst Beale was the tactical side. Is his lack of man management costing him here?

I guess one argument you can do without changing the system is having McCrorie in a back 3 with Sykes in front. In possession it probably would be that even if we do go to a 4 without the ball

Well he couldn’t play last night anyway

Yeah him and Vyner were very good aswell I thought

First two starts I thought he was good but last night I think we saw his best performance of the lot. Very confident carrying the ball and uses the ball very well. Thought it was between him and Pring for MOTM last night

I don’t agree but do we really have to make this thread a Manning v Pearson debate again? Thought we had moved on

As good as Pring is, I do think he has a point on the final ball. It’s something he could get better at, considering the amount of times he puts the ball in the box, the quality is very rarely there in that respect. Brilliant again today though

Do think it’s right he’s left this season as opposed to last, this team looks like it’s on the up again as opposed to the one last season that required the midfield they had in the summer

I knew he was at Salernitana and done pretty well, seems to be having a decent career in Italy. Problem with him is he could never stay fit, when he played I really liked him