Woofyourkipper

3 hours ago, cotswoldred2 said:

Nige...please if only to shut the groupies up!!

You sir are a ****

7 hours ago, Cole Not Gas said:

Couldnt get to the Gate so Robins TV did the trick. Leroy loves the players and club, particularly Liam. What a great series of opinions about our coach- might be worth that seagul from Weston taking a listen!! I bet a lot of other recent moaners wont be on here tonight.

With a transfer window to come, with Zak our oldest player starting at 26 and with inspired subs like Liam has made tonight i reckon all our season ticket holders will be delighted  and encouraging their mates too join up as well for August; it isnt long now. Up the City!

What’s the date of the wedding for you and Liam?

well i've just watched the podcast back, the first time i have seen it and if you have bellends like Lez on there then i won't be watching again.So up his own arse, he was constantly on i can only gather his phone, or trying to find something extremely small in his lap, who knows.

i was at sunderland on saturday and yes we played poorly for large parts but we also played a few decent spells. Mehmeti rightly subbed at half time,2 good runs and the rest rubbish from him, constantly pushed off the ball and very naive in his play.

twine was below par, pring so so, roberts hot and cold, tanner was probably the worst ive seen him play, stood off clark constantly to allow him to run at him, not the best way to defend against clark.

before the game i would of settled for a draw, after  i was rubbing my hands together with the point after we played the way we did. Thats a get out of jail day

Most exciting bit of the day was the landing back at heathrow on the evening flight,almost soiled myself

8 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

I want to see that we can impose ourselves on teams and not be passive and wait for the opposition to let us play. 
If we get performances, they would likely lead to results, but I want to see signs that next year will be worth the effort of going. 
Yesterday was an awful watch , Dickie missing was massive and so many having off days couldn't be expected. But after good early positive subs Vs Plymouth , we were back to waiting for 60 minutes and changing players and not plans. 
We could have put TC on for Twine and play 2 up top or 1 & 1 , anything to give them more problems. We were better in the 2nd half, but it felt like hanging on to what we had , rather than trying to win the game. With nothing really hanging on the result, that is disappointing . 

Not sure if Mehmeti got a knock , but swapping him for Cornick was odd . AM had supplied a few of the more interesting moments , if he had to come off we could have had another look at the other loanee . If Mebude isn't going to play from the bench and isn't going to play for U21s , I'm not sure why he hasn't been sent back. 

Thought mehmeti was subbed at half time with mcCrorie coming on,or my eye sight is that bad from up in the stands

8 minutes ago, FNQ said:

Well if things don’t go to plan, try your best not to Booourskipper..

I’ll try

cant promise mind

Sat in T5 Heathrow now waiting for flight 

2-1 city

uredzzzzzzz

27 minutes ago, pillred said:

By a mile the better team? I think we must have been watching a different game, a draw would have possibly been fairer but I would say from what I saw it was very slightly in OUR favour, miles better hmm.

Different views I guess,clear cut chances absolutely they were streets ahead

i think most are missing the point here today.

we played well in parts and created some chances

BUT

Leicester were by a mile the better team today and missed untold clear cut chances to score 2/3/4 goals, another day we don't get so lucky.

i'm still manning out

I think he’s shit but what a goal,well done Anis

Flying up from Heathrow and back same day

However you see it,before the subs we were cruising 

1 hour ago, JBFC II said:

Issue is would we trust the board to make a good appointment? 

They've made 14 appointments in the last 25 years, how many of those have seen us finish in the top half of the championship? 2?

Ultimately if Manning gets sacked will anyone better come in? I heavily doubt it

would'nt be hard to get someone better would it

The Orphan,thats what our group nicknamed him in A block dolman.

he used to stand in front of the ref and plead with him with hands cupped together like the orphan in the film oliver twist

Cornice my man

shut the fridge 

Can you get a yellow which obviously shouldn’t of been given rescinded?

What a save by max,IF his distribution was great he’d be in the prem,his shot stopping is so good

Yes Anis

pass and we score

yesssss

Just now, old_eastender said:

decent effort bu Mehmeti, deflected into the side netting.

He needs to pass the bloody ball,greedy little shit

Just now, The Gasbuster said:

Mehmeti makes the wrong decision, as always.

Spot on

12 minutes ago, The Coach said:

Bingo 

House

1 hour ago, BigTone said:

That's in Dublin

there was one in middlesborough aswell,drank in it several times

13 hours ago, redkev said:

That sounds like something else

Just checked,it’s now renamed The Pig Iron

11 hours ago, iamalagerdrinker said:

Does anyone any good pubs for tomorrow? I’ve just looked at Dr Browns where I went last time I went up but it’s closed down unfortunately. 
 

 

 

The Hairy Lemon

Subs

On 04/02/2024 at 13:53, Spike said:

I agree and think it comes down to the ego. They want to get promotion doing it their way and when Pearson came in he changed that up and even when they ham-stringed him he continued to do it his way which obviously rocked the boat. 

I think the board want to get promoted in a way that have the footballing world talking about what they've done, not what the manager has done for them and so they brought in Manning to coach whilst they can get back to running the club the way they want it to be run without any pushback. 

I see Manning as LJ mark II, he's forward thinking and has ideas but ultimately doesn't have the successful experience that makes great managers great, which is being able to get the best from the players. LJ and LM both are tactical thinkers, purists so to speak when it comes to management. They focus on the tactical side of things and try to get the players playing to the tactics whereas the best managers adjust the tactics to shield players from their weaknesses and use their strengths. 

A prime example is Bell and Vyner. Pearson identified what I've been saying for as long as I can remember  now, that Vyners awareness is lacking in a back 3 and that he's uncomfortable there so his confidence shrinks and he makes mistakes. Pearson changed it up to a back 4 and once Vyner got his confidence back our fans were taking about him like he was the best CB in the game and the reason for that was Babbage he's more suited to that position mentally. He doesn't look around as frequently in a back 4 because he knows his positioning is correct, in a back 3 he's always second guessing himself and so he focuses less on the game and more on where he should be causing him to make mistakes that he doesn't make when he's comfortable with his positioning. Manning came in, changed us back into a back 3 and now Vyner looks like the shadow of the player he was when he was playing with confidence and it really showed in the Leeds game as him and Dickie both looked lost in where they should be as they struggled with their positioning. 

With Bell Pearson identified that the chances were not going to come through creativity but instead in catching the opposition off guard so he employed Bell to use his pace to force chances of which it did so well that Bell was scoring for fun, Manning has come in with his tactical vision and tried to shoehorn Bell into it but it plays to all of Bells weaknesses and nullifies his strengths so he's shrunk in the eyes of the fans. 

I am still happy to give Manning time as he's still using Pearsons players, but if he manages to change so many players in the squad and his tactical vision still overlooks players weaknesses whilst failing to come to fruition then his days are already numbered regardless of what he does as he's not the type of manager to build his team on players strengths and weaknesses, he builds his tactics and tries to implied the right players to execute it, something that you need money to buy the right players to pull off effectively. 
 

cracking post