DaveInSA

Post of the day.

£84. People who buy this literally have rocks in their heads. The fabric is cheap, the labour is cheap, the shipping is cheap. Literally they cost about a fiver to make.

Thanks for the clarity about not needing to sell @Mr Popodopolous, my view is that the players are smart enough to know that they aren’t going to flourish under Mannings style of play. So how many are going to put in transfer requests to leave. I can see Sykes and Pring heading onto pastures new.

Unless something really, really bad happens between now and the end of the season I can’t see him going. At the same time, I can’t see him getting more than £6million to spend (purely a guesstimate by me) - unless we sell. Given that Conway is most definitely leaving, I suspect Sykes and Pring we’ll get offers for, I can see us letting Manning have about £12million to spend in the summer. Which, would be a categorical disaster and put us back five years. We’re Bristol City, it’s what we do.

I hope they have a week off “on the grass” should do them the power of good.

I’ll rather have Klopp’s energy and passion any day if the week over Manning’s dour behaviours led garbage.

Hate hate that plastic Man United. But what an extra time.

The speed of decline is startling. How we won against Swansea must have been a miracle I might go to one more game to witness the slide in person before the end of the season.

Save your money until next year….if manning is still here

Wait what…??? You’d seriously let him spend some few millions or so on players and wait until November to make an opinion. I’m also looking forward to about 4 of the first team leaving in the summer too. I’ll be amazed if, Conway, Sykes, Pring and Dickie are still here after the window closes. Plus King, James and Williams all OOC. This isn’t going to end well.

Wouldn’t it be great, if, just for once, a football coach / manager went “you know what lads, hands up, I’m not going to make it work here, I resign” It’s a complete joke that we’re so bad. It’s relegation performance. In fact, if he’s still here when the new season kicks off, I’m putting money on us going down, and I never bet on anything ever. Let me clarify that I DO NOT want that to happen. It’s just my reality. Although, I reckon the bookies will have us nailed on so the odds will be shit.

well against Cardiff he brought on all the attackers he could, and that was absolutely shambolic.

I think we’ll win this today. As others have said, if we ply on the counter we’ve got every chance. It would be “so Bristol city” to do that.

I’m not as smart as you @Davefevs when it comes to the football. Norwich at home. Strangely in that game I felt we had the better of it. Although watching in S82 isn’t ideal, in the left attacking channel it was clear we had no clue what we were doing, although this was where Norwich were weakest. It was, yet again laughable, Bell, Knight and Pring were all getting in each others way. Either all trying to overlap. Or all going inside. It was nonsense football. My other in person experience was Cardiff at home, which was nothing short of shambolic. First half, we were compact defensively (good) offered nothing in the final third (bad). In the second half, it was much the same until Cardiff scored, it then felt like we threw on all the attackers we had, and it became so incoherent and disjointed it was laughable. E.g. Mebude was left isolated on the left wing partly because nobody would pass him the ball. In between these two games our head coach has had plenty time on the grass with the lads. Hopefully to teach them his methods, behaviours and attacking patterns. I’ve seen nothing on the pitch to suggest we’re getting better. I’d LOVE him to turn it around. Really I would. But I don’t think he’s able to. It’s totally batshit @spudski. I’ve got a mate who is the CFO for a few companies. Not as many as Marshall - and he’s super intelligent and methodical, it simply doesn’t make sense to have one person managing all that at Bristol Sport. While at the same time not having any football people in the boardroom at all. If we continue like this for any period of time, >18 months, we will be relegated. I’ve no doubt about it. And this omnishambles started in September with the departure of Alexander. I will be astounded if we’re not in a relegation battle in a years time. We might avoid it because there could be 3 absolutely dreadful teams below us that keep us out the mire. And as for Tinnion. I don’t have real problem with him as a person. But, he’s also spread way too thin across all his areas of responsibility. Noting, that at the same time you can’t give away confidential information in a radio interview - for me that’s an instant sackable offence. It’s surely gross misconduct. Or have I totally misread the room there?

Aren’t we? In the past year. -We’ve axed the CEO role and sacked the manager brought in to stabilise the club. -Sacked all his back room team too. -Employed a technical director with no qualifications for the job. -Employed a young coach who isn’t willing to acknowledge that we don’t have the players to fit his style. -Inso-doing we’ve created the least capable team to oversee the next building phase of the club. -Also by doing the above introduced massive risk. -Prioritised the U18 cup over the first team. -Signed 2 players on loan, at vast expense, who have played between them about 150 minutes. -Sold our best creative talent and not replaced him. -Decided that a big number 9 target man would score more goals than Tommy Conway, who (checks notes), has been told to stand around the 18 yard area and wait for the ball to be delivered on a silver platter for him to smack in the net. -Divulged live on radio Bristol, undisclosed transfer fees - thus tarnishing our reputation as a discreet transfer dealing club. -Changed our playing style to one which doesn’t suit our players, not realised this, and are playing the dullest brand of football you could ever wish to see. like I said. Normal club.

Well I listened to that with my brother in the car last night. Somewhere between a car crash and a train wreck of an interview. My opinion is that Tinnion is very clearly passionate about BCFC and wants us to do well. But deary me he’s out of his depth. He’s disclosed undisclosed transfer fees. Thrown Bajic under the bus as being unhappy and possibly wanting out. Told the fans that the U18 cup is more important than the first team. Said that some of the young players had their chance and didn’t take it. I don’t have anything against BT. But if we are a sane football club those comments make his position untenable.

Relegation is how it ends.

The only target I have is to get the idiots running the football side of this club out of it. And pronto.

I wonder if the death of football is: “I only buy a season ticket now to meet my mates and for the social” There are literally 5 million things to do that are far less torturous than shelling out ££££’s a season to socialise and watch that drivel.

The trend isn’t good is it. Since Manning’s appointment we have gotten worse. The only player who he has improved is Mehmeti. And he wasn’t playing before, so that’s the lowest bar you’ll ever seen. So, for an on the grass coach, who is focused on front foot attacking football, intelligent pressing, with good behaviours and balanced emotions it’s, quite frankly . As others have said, I want him gone before he causes too much damage. Giving him time IMHO is a total fallacy. He’s shown he isn’t adaptable, cannot or will not change his style and doesn’t take any accountability for failure. We have an honest, hardworking squad. We are currently in an honest hardworking position in the league. We won’t go down - I can see us scrambling enough points together because some teams will have to go for it against us. If you don’t have to go for it, all teams need to do is sit back, wait for us to gift them the ball, and score. I’ve never seen a more simple game plan. FWIW, I wanted it to work out. Of course I did. But it isn’t. And as I’ve mentioned multiple times before, it won’t work with Manning or any other coach/manager until Steve sorts out the football structure.

The only good thing about this match…is that it’s on Sunday….and we won’t lose on a Saturday!

I used to watch the Man City first team train at the bottom of Platt Lane when I was in Manchester in the mid 90s. how things have changed.

Manning is not the cause of the problems at Bristol City. He is one of the symptoms. It’s actually completely laughable that we’re so poorly run on the footballing side. How Lansdown is a billionaire is beyond me. There’s literally no experience or expertise at the highest level of this football club. We have a board that knows nothing about football. A technical director who knows how to run an academy but little else. A recruitment team that’s woefully under-equipped. In short - it’s a recipe for disaster. And guess what - it’s happening right now.

I realise I forgot to answer the “whom” question. I’ve got a three year old out of date blancmange in the fridge.

Indeed it does. Lose against Swansea and they will need to act. Our post NP point performance per game has decreased by 22%. During a time of BETTER squad availability. Which makes Tinnion’s current role untenable at the same time. It all points to; bad decision-making caused by poor governance. We need; a proper CEO; two additions to the board who have FOOTBALL experience; a stable football management structure (I don’t mid what model, but pick one and stick with it) Tinnion could still have a role in the academy. In any other world, when you’re appointed to improve performance and things go backwards so quickly, you’re out on your ear. But not in Bristol City world. Sigh.