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10 hours ago, PFree said:

Okay, beaten in the end by a side who were better than us, but fair play, we gave it a real go. Along with most others, I’ve been really disappointed after the last three games but tonight felt different.

Finally, well done to our fans who made the journey, horrible place to get to and it takes flipping ages.

 

Better than us? we were beaten in the end yes, but watching the game it was only right at the end where we lost it had Wells's shot gone in to make it 2-0 or Mehmet's wonder strike went in who knows how the game would have turned out, any neutral watching last night for 80 minutes would not have known who were the better side, am I delusional? maybe, to my mind we just seemed to run out of inspiration, had we held on for a few more minutes I think maybe your opinion might have been different.   

27 minutes ago, The turtle said:

In a way manning is stuck in a vortex atm.

Play half decent = he's unlikely to get credit because most of that comes from an idea implemented pre him. No matter what he does there he isn't getting credit 

All the worst stuff, such as winning it in midfield but declining the option to counter multiple times, literally turning back to give it to a defender behind their attackers. Inviting their attackers to press then giving it away. All in the name of fake control, that's on him!!

Is that fair? Probably not, but it's still a reality he's going to find difficult to overcome.

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Truthfully, those loses happen, can't win every game. It was a half decent performance. At times, we got the city we know is in there, but it's nothing to do with his footprint, or his ideological style.

Ipswich basically showed us how it's done.

all options on the table!
short, long, ground, air, to feet, in behind. They had all options at all times. And as soon as burns came on they simply added that weapon.

It was a relentless pursuit of goals. both games v us; they had always felt there to be had, but that is because they are really going for it

I don't think they've been that good in this game ,but it is that purpose that drove them to win the game.

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Tonight showed we play our best when a team believes their best beats ours. According, swansea is probably huge. It's on him to show he's evolved and learning.

Is that fair? Probably not but that's the reality he is facing! Patience is going to be thin; he simply has to read the room and know patient fake control football is going to turn the crowd very quickly. 

Which takes me back to the top of my post, in a way he can't win.

 

 

 

 

In more ways than one, unfortunately on a hiding to nothing and all the other cliches you can think of, frustrating because Wells scores and Mehmeti's shot goes in and who knows what could have happened, but some things never change, as usual it's not us equalising twice after being behind and getting a late winner, how much of that was Manning's fault who knows, we were a couple of minutes away from getting a result that would have lifted all our spirits but somehow most of us knew that somehow that wasn't the way it would turn out.  

1 hour ago, Tim Monaghan said:

This is nothing to do with Manning tonight, sorry. You can say that about the last 2 results, but this one’s on the players. Gutless and weak. 

Did we watch the same game? yes we gave the game away a bit at the end, but lack of desire or effort could not be directed at the players, we matched them for most of the game in the end it came down to us lacking the confidence to see the game out. I'm disappointed yet frustrated at how close we came to actually getting a result that very few on here gave us a chance of getting. 

3 hours ago, EstoniaTallinnRed said:

Hopefully it will be on Sports 10.(

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3 hours ago, formerly known as ivan said:

… would you take it?

I thought the magic number was 7-1. Or exactly how much change were you looking for?

4 minutes ago, Lordofthebling said:

I think that has to be the saddest and most worrying thing. 

We ain't stoopid.

We could see the elephant in the room, we could see NP was a strong manager, got good results from a small arguably average squad, we had young bristol born players, week in week out in and around the squad. We could all see that NP wasn't the issue, his cv has weight, and we were all crying out for him to be backed in the transfer market and his contract. 

Instead of biting down and realising this, putting ego to the side for the good of the club,JL got his knickers in a twist and let his own ego get in the way.

Promoting the ultimate yes man in tinnion and sacking a manager whose face just didn't fit.

Well, they've played their cards now haven't they? The grass ain't always greener is it Jon? This is a f###£# car crash and it won't go away. Yeah you'll disappear out of the limelight for now, you'll reappear with a bcfc special over the summer or show up at a supporters qa after we spend a few quid and a win away at Mangotsfield, but fundamentally, this is a #### up that's put us back flirting with league one.

And you've driven a huge divide between the club and fans, those fans who turn up and you don't listen to or really give a #### about.

 

Got good results? that's pushing it a bit, by that, I assume you are using the caveat of what he had to work with because overall the results were average at best, I'm sorry if that doesn't fit the narrative but it's the truth.

4 hours ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

I'm considering a .... move to Memphis

And that's what I'll do.

4 minutes ago, sticks 1969 said:

Only positive today 

the wife came got wet,cold and was bored stiff and will never come again 

 

Think of all the other opportunities you could have had to put her off for life, and that's just this season.

30 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

Exactly. What are some thinking. There is always one club that falls like a stone and right now it’s us!

I spent most of the afternoon hoping Millwall, QPR, and Stoke would do us a favour and lose, I should have known better after all these years. 

2 hours ago, BCFCGav said:

Anticipate a battering here but I’ll post my thoughts anyway. 
 

We should keep him. LM is going poorly - let’s have it right. We’ve lost to three teams with worse squads than us on the spin. Criticism is more than fair and us, as paying and long-suffering supporters, are qualified to give it.

But.

- These are not his players. They don’t suit his style. His one ‘big’ signing in his mould is injured (an ongoing issue here that long precedes LM). He will need the summer.

- The same idiots still own the club. The next appointment will also struggle - they struggle at appointing managers.

- He’s got over 3 years of contract left. So has his assistant. We’ve sorted our money issues, let’s not piss all that money away now.

- This will be the least popular one. We showed some signs of progress today. We nicked the ball high on about 4 occasions, that’s our best avenue of attack and we saw signs of it. I actually think we were the better team today. They scored one set piece, and their keeper had a solid game. Today was better, albeit against a low bar.

 

We’re safe this season. Some will say we’re not but we are. 9 points AND 9 places clear. 6 more points from 11 games will do it. 
 

The problems lie above his head, and until they’re gone, we will always fail at this level. No amount of chopping and changing managers will change that fact. And even if they do finally get it right and appoint a man to take us forward… we know they’ll sack him anyway. 
 

 

We are 6 points clear, and have you seen our upcoming fixtures?

I don't think the other results below us could have been much worse for us today, not a good day to lose at home.

10 minutes ago, Lew-T said:

Currently 6 points from the bottom 3…

If you had said to me after we beat Southampton 3-1 that we would be looking over our shoulders now I would not have believed you. I'm not confident especially when I see our upcoming fixtures it would be just like us wouldn't it?

1 minute ago, cotswoldred2 said:

Saw the line up and it was always going to be another defeat. 19 or so attempts and still fired blanks, to state the 'bleedin obvious we don't have a striker. 

This is indeed grim, 3 defeats on the trot and next up Ipswich, what I don't get is the not filling the bench with subs, seems like Manning is making a statement, my support for him has evaporated God knows what the next move from the board will be, my guess eff all, but we need some sort of intervention before we slide if not this season the next to League 1.

We are really a cheapskate club we deserve better than this.

Didn't Cotterill do a similar thing with the bench, and we all know how that turned out. 

9 minutes ago, fanjita said:

What do you mean,keep out of a relegation battle, we’re in one NOW

Unless the bottom 3 start playing like Man City we are definitely NOT in a relegation battle ....... this season. though having just looked at the table if Stoke win today we will be only 6 points from the bottom 3 and with the fixtures we have coming up and City being City well who knows.

9 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

10 defeats in 13 or something wasn't it when Holden left? 6 defeats in a row? 

But we were still mid-table when he was sacked 13th, though the omens weren't good. It's pure speculation to say we would have gone down if we had not appointed NP though. 

6 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

It's really not. 

Yes we were not in the relegation zone but we were dropping down the table like a lead balloon. Had Holden of remained, had we of gotten the appointment wrong, we'd have gone down. 

In your opinion, the truth though is we will never know.

For all the excuses that get trotted out like getting rid of the deadwood, cutting the wage bill etc he wasn't exactly a roaring success was he, I must admit the way some go on on here you would have thought we had been a fast-raiding attractive to watch side that was going places when he was with us when in fact his stats were quite poor, yes there were some mitigating circumstances but I somehow expected more from him, but even so I find the OP a bit cringy, I mean OUR Nige. 

It's with a heavy heart I have to announce one of footballs great showmen and entertainers from the 1970s Stan Bowles has died aged 75 from Alzheimer's, for those too young to remember him he was a true entertainer a cocky flamboyant player who sometimes did things that made it worth the admission price alone. RIP Stan. Stan Bowles: Former England and QPR forward dies aged 75 - BBC Sport

5 hours ago, Banjo Island said:

Is it possible for us to sleepwalk into the bottom three

No way on this earth ( this season) as for the next well the jury is out.

I could have sworn I heard Illia's Chairs name mentioned for QPR that can't be right, can it?

1 minute ago, JP Hampton said:

All I can say is it’s slightly better than the QPR performance

I wouldn't like to have to limbo under that bar :laugh:.

A typical game where one team have a lot more to play for, it's the travelling fans I feel sorry for.

What a time to concede ffs.

Get in!!!!

Called their goal a collecters item on Sky Sports.