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4 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Even their penalty looked harsh but what the hell!? 3 points is 3 points.

“harsh”

Jesus Wept  

Just now, Numero Uno said:

We’ve just beaten a side unbeaten in 22 league games, 25 overall………Is that the first thing you thought of?

Speaks volumes about the poster doesn’t it

Not that it’s a shock

Midfield masterclass - knitted the whole thing together

Would be madness to let him slide away IMHO

In terms of performance , the opponents a pp club , on their run , the way LM set us up and the individual and collective performances , and the result to round it off ,that’s about as good as it’s come for a few years probably

Well done LM and every player who executed the game plan so well - that’s the standard we should be aspiring to now

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3 hours ago, GrahamC said:

“More areas blue than red”.

That must be why our recent gates have been circa 23,000 & theirs are under 8000.

As my old maths teacher used to say, show your workings, sonny.

Maybe they are just very small areas Graham

25 minutes ago, Crackers Corner said:

Apparently rovers lost all thier cups when Twerton burnt down,

 

Mind you , as recently as Saturday they were still knocking out the pasties , they managed to salvage from the embers 

1 hour ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

"And now you're gonna believe us, the Welsh are f00kin shit".

"Yorath is back, Yorath is back, hellooo, hellooo..."

Still makes me laugh like a drain every time I think of it, even after all these years.

What a cracking night that was ! 

Up there with the very very best

if carlsberg did away nights

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Delighted for him - something very likeable about him 

Quiet , unassuming , zero ego , and gets his head down and gets on with it - has settled and improved bit by bit

Good on him and an excellent piece of recruitment 

3 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

I think we were just trying to defend a lead, which isn't exactly an unusual or controversial tactic.

Not a general approach I favour KITR , and certainly if at all if and when you are forced to , not at half time , if what you’re doing is working keep doing it 

Especially for a squad that has played a lot of football, and is playing away from home at a decent team

But - maybe an argument in this case due to above .

To defend a lead you need either more defenders on the pitch, more players in defensive positions, or both.

I assume that's what Manning had in mind, and ultimately it worked. 

Just now, Kid in the Riot said:

Sorry Dave, but your post comes across as joyless.

We've just won at a top 10 side away from home and one with a bigger budget than us.

We could, probably should, have been 3 or 4 up at half time.

We aren't in a place where we're capable of playing at an intensity like we did in the first half in the second as well, particularly given the amount of minutes in players legs. 

That's presumably part of the reason the change was made. 

I agree we ceded some control of the game, at the same time I thought we defended very well - and we have that in our locker. 

I don't recall many Boro clear-cut chances,  they had their first goal correctly ruled out and then scored a fluke.

If you're angry about that then you must've missed a lot of very bad City performances over the years. Either that, or experienced a lot of anger!

I think that’s the most sensible explanation I have seen suggested KITR

Its what I thought Manning may say

I guess the question is ( In the overall in game management debate ) is whether that change aided us or hampered us in second half.

If you are correct in why the change , the circumstances of the Cup game etc may mean it’s a difficult one to judge in the overall debate 

( Just listening to the various and opposing views )

For those that saw it can I ask , out of interest 

Did we start to come under pressure , or lose our ‘dominance’ , in the period before h/t 

1 minute ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

They never ask him. 

Having listened to his interview I am no clearer as to why Cornick got taken off or why we changed shape. 

It was all a bit woolly and as you say a poor interview 

I didn’t see the game , so difficult to comment , and difficult not having seen , other than others descriptions , exactly what transpired

But all I’d say - the overall subject of in game management / tactically is actually an important one (For any Head Coach / Manager - not just LM)

One of several key skill areas which will dictate how successful you are

Fwiw  And overall what I’ve seen , In game adaptability and tactical tweaks is a bit of a concern for me 

I didn’t see the game so am following the subject of the change in formation and the second half with interest

But , in his interview he’s just given in RB he didn’t explain it , said how effective we were and how well we excecuted the plan in the first half, suggested Cornick was knackered hence the sub , didn’t explain why he went to a 5 but ‘you are always going to come under pressure’ , and thought it worked well in the second half 

So I’m still none the wiser why he actually changed  

Manning just coming on RB - will be interesting if he gets asked

Burnt Pasty Chewers 1.  Brewers 2

Shucks 

Well earned win boys
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For anyone interested , a juicy German game at 1730 on Sky with Leverkusen hosting Bayern in a crunch game 

Fewers 0 Brewers 2

They need to sharpen up if they are going to get that Play Off Charge on back tracK

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

Sometimes I swear people forget that footballers are human beings. 

 

 

 

Think we've discovered in this thread those that gave Bell shit for his penalty miss. 

 

Bell is a life long Bristol City fan. You will struggle to ever find a player of ours who it means more to than him. He's exactly the sort of player I want in our team! 

He missed a penalty against Premier league Forest just a few days ago which saw his boyhood club get knocked out of the FA Cup and miss out on a massive game at Ashton Gate. We all saw what it meant to him after the game when he was crying. 

Of course the poor lad is going to be a bit short on confidence. Let's get behind him ffs not give him shit for missing a chance when we're already 2 nil up. 

Well said

Sam Bell or

<Insert Name Here> <Choose any of the various expensive , overpaid , disinterested , waste of money signings , with no interest in Bristol City , since we’ve been back in Championship)

58 minutes ago, cider hoss rules said:

Didn’t we lose a shoot out to decide the venue for the 2nd FA cup replay against Cambridge?

We lost, and then got stuffed 5-1 in the replay

Or did I imagine that? (Not the result sadly)

Coin toss IIRC

Shootout at Walsall to decide who hosted the Play Off , play off final

1 hour ago, maxjak said:

Nigel Pearson did practically no coaching...........I never referred to Euell and Fleming.  The subject of my post was Nigel Pearson.  So Please do not make up untruths to suit your own agenda . 

Nor did that bloke Ferguson.....

RIP Fellow Red

Keep the red flag flying high

31 minutes ago, phantom said:

It is certainly possible, the only concern is when we had a number of pinned posts in the past people mentioned that they often missed them

Sure

Was just thinking it's a subject thread never out of date as it’s about the future and a little about now

without creating another sub forum where the informative posts may still get lost I was thinking more a pinned thread where , for example last nights report or a Pete Hinton or Tom Sutton type overview could be reposted / quoted or whichever on the pinned thread , either by the op or someone else seeing value in it ,for a bit of a evolving overview archive / of the up and coming age groups

And it would be interesting to look back at over the seasons to come !

Just an idea and dependent on others and of course mostly mod views

Excellent , thankyou

Always good to hear people’s thoughts and overview of the up and coming And Well done the lads - good win and no mean achievement to get to ? 1/4 finals ?

Mods ( @phantom ?)

would it be possible to consider either a ‘Age groups / Academy’ pinned thread where some of these excellent posts and overviews like @petehintonand @TomSutton and others have compiled recently about the up and coming age groups, could be added  - Always find them interesting and help fill a knowledge or understanding gap of mine , and probably many others)

Sometimes you want to go back and reread them when a name comes up or appears in first team squad and it’s not easy to relocate them (And that the effort that’s gone into them , the information , eventually gets lost and wasted as such)

Any post in any thread that gives good information , overviews , about any of the age groups could be quoted to link them at least  on the pinned thread and it would be an interesting read and source of anyone interested and an interesting read back as their careers evolve ?