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The forum today and the Matchday thread will be eerily quiet what with "Mother's Day" and all that ....

5 minutes ago, Graham76 said:

Anyone else think the attendance will be fairly low compared to normal?  With Mother’s Day and the midday kickoff assume a fair few might stay away. Recent performances haven’t helped either 

Mother's Day!!! If Leeds were playing at Plymouth today, would they fail to fill their end because "with Mother's Day" ?! Or, if we were third like Ipswich, a point off second, would the crowd be patchy like it will be today because it's "Mother's Day" ?

It's because we're midtable and shite/dull that people will stay away today. Meanwhile, they'll pop round their muh's with some cheap flowers from Tresco and chappy milk chocolates, then while she's droning on about her various aches and pains and how she can't get a doctor's appointment, you'll all be checking yer phones to see if we're 0:2 down so's you can get on otib and get stuck in to Manning and Tinnion.

58 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

Yet they are doing just as shite as us 

Yeah .... but with top end pressers

9 hours ago, frenchred said:

Going out for a meal with me mum appears a whole lot more interesting than attending the shite currently being served up as entertainment at the gate

No doubt, but there's 300 or so days in any year when we're not playing and you can be nice to yer mum. 

3 hours ago, Northern Red said:

There'll be people on here still wanting Warnock to manage us after he's long dead.

Harry Thickett gets better with every passing decade .... 

36 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

Why is the match on Sunday? A strange choice as its Mothers Day and some supporters won’t be able to attend 

Mother's day? Fer goodness sake, Pong, what is this - football, or flower arranging?

They fought and died there, the Scotch. Something tae think about when they make their way hameward

5 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

And you know what. People get agitated about dropping into relegation so often. But what was the bottom seven on Christmas Day?

Same seven teams. 

So for all the form, all the slumps, all the manager changes and the rallies from different teams.

It's the same shite at the bottom as it was 13 matches ago.

You appear to be trying to use facts to change how people feel about Bristol City. Or about life in general, including Bristol City. Once someone forms the view that City are to be worried about - or are "agitated" - you have about as much chance of changing that view with yer xG and yer stats and numbers as ..... (something massively improbable)

.... our what? Legs, I'm guessing?

6 hours ago, Fuber said:

Pearson (finally, almost completely) solved that this season though.

The only game iirc we conceded a winner in last ten or added time, was Stoke.

Yes, Nige left us with a top end if not in fact a top six defence, at least from number of goals conceded. LM was - supposedly - hired to sexy up the attacking end, get us a bit easier on the eye, front-foot if you like, than Nige's rugged, solid few-frills teams. LM was hired to build upon the solid defensive base Nige bequeathed him (as well as the transformed "culture" and team ethic), but, er, it hasn't come to "pass" just yet. Maybe Sunday it will ....

11 minutes ago, SkuseMe said:

Ipswich fan here.

The Ashton view really isn't common among Town fans, perhaps they were just trying to bond with you in extending that olive branch? When scanning the forum pre-match I also read a line from Fevs that we were lapping up Ashton's claims about our spending being net zero, which also isn't honestly true. The majority won't have heard or engaged with his comments at all, of course, beyond one-line remarks maybe if mentioned on matchday, but those who do engage are mostly very aware that he would have utilised "political" figures (ones which bear little resemblance to the reality of our increased expenditure since the new ownership arrived). 

Most Ipswich fans are delighted with everyone employed by the club right now, understandably. The months before Ashton arrived were our nadir, seriously: relegation to the third division for the first time since our infancy in the 50s, followed by not even seriously challenging for promotion at that level. Off the field it couldn't have been more amateurish, too. Quite unbelievable the cesspit that had been allowed to develop. I won't bore with what's happened since, only to say that the pace of progress on and off the pitch has been remarkable. He receives much praise for it all, not least for the crucial hiring of McKenna.

We are, of course, equally aware of his Brentish charms and recognise he would have made a very good estate agent. My own instinct is Lansdown was comfortable with the risks your club took under Ashton's stewardship, rather than blindsided by them, but we seemingly have more oversight here in the event of the alternative. I fully expect us to be close to FFP, and subsequently unsustainable without ownership investment, like most of the Championship, but importantly not in breach. All claims to the contrary are without guiding evidence.

On Manning, it would surprise me if half the fanbase hold an opinion. Those who have followed his career regard him in a positive light though, for sure. He's consistently given us a hard game, not least midweek, and he had Dons and Oxford playing good, effective football for decent periods. You were probably the best-drilled side to come to PR this season and brought plenty of shothousery too, which impressed us all the more because it isn't synonymous with Manning sides. It was a classic away performance until our depth ultimately overwhelmed you, which I suggested may happen in the match thread (we've done it to almost everyone). You totally nullified us for 60 minutes, working very hard in the process.

However, if it doesn't work out here his stock will naturally fall. Much too early for us to have formed a watertight opinion on the guy. Hope he brings better results your way soon. 

Hiring McKenna was definitely Mark Ashton? 

I think we were still top after 42 games (?) but party because those below us had a game or two in hand. I still have a newspaper cutting of the table with us P42 and top, four games to go.

Steve Lansdown has come nowhere near since, it was a freak season, more accident than design. We fell away in a similar fashion under the younger Johnson missing out on 6th in 18/19.

16 hours ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said:

I'll be devastated. Lose by 1-2 just  peed off , 3-5 generally angry, 5-10 apoplectic. Fortunately the latter is a rarity.

Shall we have this conversation every time City have a match so we can all play anti-Manning Bingo?

 

Ok mate, see you Sunday 

1 hour ago, Robbored said:

One factor in our favour is that The Tractor Boys be on the front foot from the start just as Southampton were That’ll play into our hands and I can (optimistically) see us nicking a win at Portman Rd…………

Yeah but on the other hand we haven't had any time since Saturday to be well coached up Failand,  and like practice stuff 

10 minutes ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said:

Tinnion resigned- it's all well documented .

His resignation did , however, bring in a period of great fun (mainly) and an 'almost' moment.

If you think LM will resign or be fired in the next 24-48 hours then you may well be disappointed.

What if we lose 0:8?

Did the Few fire ..... Bobby Campbell? Bobby Gould? .... whoever it was after their 0:9? No seismic change at Eastville back then that I recall, think they just tootled along like nothing terribly untoward had taken place. I expect Peter Godsiff cheered them all up by writing something nice, telling them how "special" a club they were .... 

4 hours ago, exAtyeoMax said:

Yes last thing you want is an echo chamber!

 

This ^

I just hope - and long for - Sheff, Burnley and Luton to be relegated, while Leicester, Leeds and Southampton go up. And next season, Leicester, Leeds and Southampton flounder and are relegated, whilst Burnley, Sheffield Utd and Luton go up (thinking we'll be nowhere near)

If we beat Ipswich ..... then so we bleedin well should, jumped up L1 chancers riding their luck + Wes Burns (ffs) + inexperienced coach + Mark Ashton + etc and so on ....

5 hours ago, Roger Red Hat said:

There was a clip at the end of the last 'robins uncut 089' where LM was telling the players, "I've said it to a few of you now, if you want to be a tough team you have to soak up tough times". 

WTF? Patronising shite. We used to be pretty tough.  He seems to have removed that.

Only someone that played for Wroxham, Long Melford, Melton St Audrey and Ipswich Wanderers and managed Milton Keynes in League One can stand in front of our Championship lads and say that sort of thing ....

I'm just hearing a song for S82 in this thread here .....

"It's a model und it's not looking gùt

I'd like to take it home und try and understand wtf we're doing;

We play hard to beat

It works from time to time;

It only takes a soft goal from a corner to

Change things tactically at half-time .....

Tommy's out in nightclubs drinking just champagne,

And he's been checking out all the men (representing interested clubs)

He's playing Liam's game und you can hear us say,

It's not looking gùt, for Tommy they will pay

(Keyboard synthesiser )  ......  "

27 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Basically we’re like an even worse version of “Succession” aren’t we?

 

Success - ion ?

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

1 minute ago, GrahamC said:

 

We are corner shop.

Brimful of amateurs 

4 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

I disagree Harry we aren't trying to create our own model, we are copying Brentford, then when that didn't work we copy Luton, when that doesn't work we'll copy someone else,

There is no strategic thinking,

What's going on reeks of tinnion, the same thing happened under his reign,

He needs to go ans an actual technical director with no history at this club needs to come in

We always appear to be trying to do what someone else did successfully elsewhere, without any success. A pale imitation of something that worked elsewhere. I don't think Jon, or Steve, or Brian have an original or unique football idea between them