Mr Hankey

But to have the £3mil option after the loan, then surely we would be paying at least a million (you would assume) for the 6 months loan that we have him, then if we don’t exercise the option at least Burnley would look at it as having gained a million as they certainly won’t be letting him come on loan for nothing, so that would total (completely assuming here btw) a transfer fee of £4mil all in…..which in my opinion is far too much money for a player whose best season has not even been at this level. Seems mental to me, either buy him now or wait until the summer, a loan is pointless. If we were top 4 of the league then i could understand, but not in our currebt position

It’s not harsh at all though, can you remember his stint as manager when he was involved in transfers? He’s great with the acadmey, but shouldn’t be in the job he currently has.

Sorry, Brian.

A loan would be stupid, we have zero chance of winning the play-offs and very very unlikely to finish top 6. If it was a permanent deal for around £3mil in this window or the summer then fair play, but a loan in January (when we must assume we would be paying a fair wedge for it considering Burnley would be recalling him from Hull) then wow……we all know Tinnion is absolutely clueless (as his awful stint back in 2004/2005 shown) but this would seem a dumb way of using some of the finances that the club worked so hard on sorting over the past 3 years.

An all day festival with apparently 2 stages was never going to attract anyone massive, at least not in todays standard. Ne-Yo was a very big name well over a decade ago. Don't think this is going to be for me, but i can imagine they will sell out easy enough.

Wait until you see the replay (if you haven’t already)…….certainly not a red, but Conway doesn’t take his eyes off the defender, he knew what he was doing

I’m not slagging btw, just really enjoyed the reaction to Pring, the bloke can be a bit of a crazy but class, nice to see a prem club appreciate him!

Not sure if anyone has already posted this, but this is from KUMB about Pring, which i fooking loved!: Their left back …. Bit of Julian Dicks in his play … potential head case material Not sure he would last a full game in Premier league but I thought he was fun

But i never said that i wouldn’t be posting again until we were in the premier league did i? Interestingly enough, that tweet has now been deleted from his twitter account……im going to leave it here anyway, what a great result today! The replay will be a cracker

Oh i am, most certainly, just putting it out there is all.

Maybe….but when you are in a position of power, if you say/post certain things, expect them to get dragged up, some people dont forget.

Binman posting non-stop today…..including retweeting something about “how proud” he is after the equalising goal…… an ego even bigger than Ashton’s?

Well played City, thought we were excellent after the first 10 minutes, very physical and in their faces straight from conceding, couldn’t ask for anymore.

Thats what i thought as well, which is strange as Coufal is no stranger to a tough tackle and a bit of shithousing himself!

Think we have looked ok since conceding, in a wierd way seems to have woken us up. Loving the Pring v Coufal battle!

Meh if they go, they go, but i just think due to the massive reaction & protests of the fans last time that they may think twice about it. I often find the most boring matches are when the top teams play each other anyway, these days with the amount of analysis & tactic work they put in to it, they end up cancelling each other out so it's a drab affair.....people would soon get bored of watching that type of football every week.

Not sure if this will change much, particularly for the English clubs - it was soon pretty apparent that the driving forces were Barcelona, Juventus & Real Madrid, all of which were massively fooked financially & that is where their drive came from. Madrid seem to have sorted themselves out a bit now but Barca & Juve are still very much in massive trouble.......& lets be honest, Juventus aren't exactly an elite club these days.

I think it was more so the manner in which we lost & the momentum that we would of taken from that game, beating what appeared to be the run-away leaders of the league & to end the year in 2nd place, after the hysteria & euphoria of beating Man Utd, it would of shown how much steel & determination there was in the group to go again. Of course that isn't the game that derailed us (i would of said that damage was done in the Sunderland game when we were 3 goals up at half time), but i do think that would of been a massive result that could have potentially changed the way the second half of the season went.......but we will never know.

I think you are completely misunderstanding my point mate. Did i want Manning? No. Do i think he will succeed & take us new heights? Not at all. But why bother wasting my Saturday if i don't have some form of hope. I have already paid for my season ticket so i'm not going to stop going halfway through the season. Will i get a season ticket next year? Most likely yes, despite my apathy towards the current owners - it's not their club, it's ours, despite what Lansdown may say. I wont be giving up something i love due to my dislike of the owner. The club will be here long after they leave

Of course i can see the warning signs......but there's not much we can do about it as the powers that be don't give a shit what we think. Also, i believe Manning has a lot more substance than LJ ever has & ever will have. I have been calling for the Lansdown's to leave this club for a number of years, despite people screaming "careful what you wish for". But there needs to be some hope for the summer otherwise what's the bloody point?

I think a major issue is that the players were coached and set up to play a certain way, particularly over last season and this pre-season (counter attacking, fast paced), to now have to have all of that ripped up & play a completely different style (possesion based, keep the ball, pass pass pass) which unfortunately some just aren’t up to that standard of play in this division, especially the likes of Williams and our wide players (barring Sykes). Whilst i am pretty confident we won’t be relegated or end up in a scrap (fingers crossed!) it certainly won’t be a final 6 months of challenging for top half. Manning really needs some serious backing in the summer if he is going to succeed & transfer his methods over to this division.

Pearson had these lot playing way above their ability. Unfortunately i think we are in for some tough times ahead.

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That bloke is a grade A fanny, cant handle the heat so he’s scurrying away. Bitch ass ******

Im always a bit confused on how the route works these days, especially as 2 (i think?) of the best 3rd place sides go through. If we want to win it then we were always likely to meet France at some stage & we are due a win over them at some point! Never know, they may have a mare like last time and get knocked out in the second round, but the fact that they don’t seem to have many bad eggs in their dressing room these days makes that scenario less likely this time.