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Only temporary cover for their first choice CB apparently

I personally believe the Fleming decision was down to if the new man wanted to bring in a new assistant or not. Manning obviously wanted Hogg in who he had for his other two jobs that he held

Sunderland are a much better side for me, if they make the right managerial appointment I’ll go as far as to say I think they’ll go up. I always understood the stance on loan players, realistically a waste of money with what prem clubs demand. If it’s the right deal (TGH for me is that) then why not but for the most part it looks a complete waste

I’d agree but that doesn’t mean he should credit for every single win we get when he’s not in charge. People need to accept he’s gone and just move on

Is this what we’re going to get every time we win a game 1-0? Under every manager you have games where you scrape a 1-0, Pearson also lost a lot of games from being 1-0 up as did Manning against Norwich. Just a weird comparison to make imo

Similarly though, that same recruitment team found Knight and Dickie

Complete agree, always been a very good 1v1 defender but do also think he is capable of a good cross. Roberts turned Pring inside out a fair few times but Clarke bar the last 10 didn’t have any joy at all

Got a lot of stick recently but thought for the most part kept a really good winger in Clarke quiet. One of his better performances this season

Mehmeti done well first half but like a lot of the team dropped off in the second, right call to sub him off for Weimann

Really concerning with what happened at Wembley, I know us as fans have gone back and forth with him but never nice to see this

Don’t think I’ve ever been so critical of a referee who gave us a penalty. Horrendous for both teams, thought we were both denied stonewall penalties

Gets far too much stick, think a lot of what he did with how he deals with crosses he does most weeks but that save from the O’Nien header was incredible. Also want to point out that I think his kicking has been a lot better in recent weeks

Hence why he said data doesn’t equate to league position or points then

Just because he doesn’t do that for subs doesn’t mean he will to assess our progress. Highly doubt he’s glued to a computer screen during the game to make all his in game management decisions

I’m so glad we have another pointless thread about people trying to catch our new manager out!

Bang on, despite the results not being ideal. Performances for the most part have been good and you can see what he’s trying to implement, some people need to realise you can be angry at the Pearson sacking and give Manning time to prove himself

Where did I say something around Cardiff?

Eh? I’m just saying that’s factual, Pearson has gone through similar runs of forms multiple times and everyone was (rightly imo) behind him coming out the other end

Ipswich game wasn’t that good, other than the Cornick effort which hit the keepers back we didn’t create any big chances. More shots and shots on target tonight than we had in that game. Agree around the rest good performances but that’s very few in a lot of games Pearson still managed this season, do think performances were very weak towards the end of his tenure. Some you can blame on injuries but the most part we were capable of better

Transition between Martin and Manning would’ve been easy as Martin is heavily possession based. Oxford he didn’t win any of his first 6 games before hammering Cheltenham 4-0. Not saying results long term is guaranteed, I’m just saying that I have hope

It’s not how it was sold because our chairman is delusional about our squad. It’s a decent squad, my prediction was top half but also very suited to absorbing possession and one dimensional counter attacks. Look at his record at Oxford early on, I know they were massively underperforming but he didn’t win any for a fair few games then instantly hammered someone. I do think he will get it right but not as fast as some fans and definitely the hierarchy think it will

Not sure I agree on Cornick a lot of times he lost it quite poorly. Mehmeti looked to go at his full back with more purpose and put some dangerous balls in

I just think he’s been put in a position where the hierarchy wants instant results but when he has different principles it’s going to take time. When Lansdown and Tinnion is saying this is a top 6 squad it puts him in a difficult position

Lots of times that has happened, and probably worse

Fact of the matter is with Manning you can’t expect to get instant results, which is what everyone’s comments about it being a top 6 squad even more laughable. I like Manning and I do have full belief that it can come good but if we’re looking at players at their current state, they’re not good enough for where the hierarchy think we should be