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Look defensively brittle and toothless from set pieces without Dickie but without Max this game would be out of sight already! 

Sunderland don't look too great but just shows what a massive miss Dickie is, missing that height, the calmness and his leadership. 

Formation switching from a back 4 to a 5 depending on where we have possession of the ball, but we haven't really looked dangerous in either formation bar the first 5 minutes or so.

Deserved for the second half, still a bit toothless in the final third. Not really many clear cut chances throughout. 

Can see why they are down where they are, lack of quality and things not going their way and the toxicity is building. No home goals in 5 games. 

We've caught two teams at the right time and deserved both wins, see if we can carry that on at Sunderland.

Is Pring the only one who will make moves off the ball?

So passive every time we get it. 

Vyner been the standout for me so far.

Barely touched the ball and they've had 5 corners in the first 10.

Enjoy the result and performance. A lot of the things said today were said after Southampton and looks how it went after.

He got it right today and fair enough to him, the staff and the team. Now try break down a team who sits in and see how the response is on here.

Going to keep going in circles if you get too high and defensive after every win against a big team. From the 25 odd games he's been here, in my opinion he hasn't showed enough.

We're good when we are the counter attacking team and a team gives us space to work in, let's see if you say the same after struggling against a team who sit in.

Another decent performance against a side who leave gaps, deserved the win.

James, Mehmeti, Roberts were my standouts apart from Max who was in top form bar the suicidal pass to Vyner. 

Let's see how we get on against a team on Monday who won't afford us the same amount of time we got today.

Back it up now.

Add Leicester to the shirt!

Wait till they make a tactical change and we won't adapt because Manning can't affect the game after it starts. The perfect plan.

They'll grow into it yet, this is probably towards our better level and they haven't hit their stride yet. 

Mavididi and Fatawu to keep our wingbacks pinned back. 

No-one on Winks, can't let him control the game. You're gunna find Dewsbury-Hall and Ndidi in spaces further forward, they'll get chances today.

Going to have to take risks and less of this passive rubbish or they're gunna do us on the transition.

Jon really got nothing better to do but help Zak with some drawings for a shirt?

Once again this club makes me giggle, keep it up hierarchy, great job.

Sounds like one of those Addams family chants, can we change the forum name to OFIB? 

We are so tinpot from the top to the bottom all I do is laugh at us nowadays.

2 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Still can’t understand how Luton signed Taylor from Peterborough, played in the Play offs last season, then got sent to Colchester on loan!!!  He’s bloody rapid too.

I noticed #28

They are flying though.

Been seeing a lot of that Taylor this year, reminds me of Baldock but twice as fast.

Does miss a fair share of opportunities but makes a lot of them himself with his ridiculous pace and running. If Luton don't stay up they'd be stupid not to keep him around.

Think we could lose 5-6 of the final 8 and he'll still be here.

The fragile egos of the hierarchy are much more important to them than the performance of the club they are custodians and employees of. 

Only way he goes is if we get smashed to bits in a few home games and it gets super toxic but still I can't see them making a change. They are more likely to double down on it. It's "his club", he'll do what he wants.

Fair enough if you think he goes before the seasons out but I think he's getting the nest-egg in the summer and we'll regress again.

Level of excitement with the quality of football is on par with SOD. 

Thought Manning said we lacked belief in our last game, do we always believe?

He's a real manager with a brain, wouldn't touch us with a ten foot barge pole.

All he had to do was build on the foundation he was given. And it has been thrown aside already. 

We know we are a half decent counter attacking side, our main problem being we don't do well when we have more possession and struggle to break teams down.

Here are some statistics of the games when we have had more possession in the league this season;

NP - 6 points.

Millwall 0-1 Bristol City - we had 56%.

Bristol City 0-2 Birmingham - we had 65%. 

Bristol City 2-3 Stoke City - we had 54%.

Rotherham 1-2 Bristol City - we had 58%.

Cardiff 2-0 Bristol City - we had 53%.     

Flem - 3 points.

Bristol City 1-0 Sheff Wed - we had 66%.    

Manning - 2 points.

Bristol City 1-2 Norwich City - we had 61%.

Huddersfield 1-1 Bristol City - we had 61%.

Birmingham 0-0 Bristol City - we had 64%.

Bristol City 0-1 Millwall - we had 54%.

Preston 2-0 Bristol City - we had 52%.

Bristol City 0-1 QPR - we had 59%.

Sheff Wed 2-1 Bristol City - we had 53%.

Bristol City 0-1 Cardiff - we had 60%. 

Turns out Nige was a better possession-based manager than Manning after all. Even Fleming too!

Obviously it all depends on games in context but I found the statistics to be quite interesting considering LM said he likes his side to dominate the ball. Not very well in this case.

I don't want this Muppet getting the summer. 

Do you see any of the top 10 playing this style of boring emotionless following-the-perfect-plan football? Maybe Hull/Boro sometimes but they get found out.

It's not even possession for possessions sake like Swansea which I don't enjoy but at least there's a point to it and you can understand why they play like that.

Our style is pointless. I'd hate to be a player in this team if it was me.

Football is meant to be entertaining and unpredictable, not boring and formulaic.

The players didn't follow the perfect plan.

Club deserves what it's getting for the decisions they made.

They'll never learn.

They were 1-0 up, made a like for like change. Moved Mowatt more deeper for Diangana to get the ball deeper and into the game with the fullbacks getting up higher up the pitch, couple of passes and they score.

That's how you make a change and an impact.

Don't worry, we got the big boot and hope. 

Knight killing the counter, giving it away. Roberts showing the most left footed player on the pitch inside for a free shot.

So poor. Just hoof the ball and hope. Time in the air more than time on the grass. 

Yeah, WBA are a decent side but they're not world beaters. 

We're only going to score if they make a mistake, sick of this football just sitting there letting them knock it around.

Pass pass pass around the back, hooooof.

Looks like we're in good hands then. 

Waffler.

Next time someone ask him how many points we've got when we have more of the ball in a game of football.

So Ipswich is the new club we are emulating now? McKenna is levels above Manning. 

New one every year isn't it. 

He's backing his boy.

Actually beat a team when we have more possession than them. 

Still hasn't happened yet I don't think.