Graham76

I found Tommys interview thoroughly depressing and odd.  It reminded me of someone being held hostage. 

Every interview he does feels the same and just sounds robotic.   Conway's interview was depressing too.    

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

Top of my head these were all poor performances. 

 

Fella should be a used car salesman. 

 

Qpr (a)

Norwich

Huddersfield

Blackburn

Birmingham

Millwall

Preston

Leeds

Qpr (h)

Sheffield Wed

Birmingham and Millwall stand out for me. Both teams were on the verge of sacking their managers too

2 hours ago, Harry said:

 

Steady on now boss. I’ve had a busy day at work so only just came back to here! 
I’ve acknowledged many times that the Cardiff game was a totally impossible situation. 
When I mention TGH at RB it’s in the previous 2 matches when Knight & James were both available to play in midfield. With Tanner out, TGH should really have been the next logical option.

And Pearson has already played him there 3 times so I don’t see why he wouldn’t have done so on those 2 occasions?  

100% incorrect. 
I was watching MK that season as I was keen on Twine (and O’Reilly).  Nothing to do with Manning. 
And I think you’ll find that on the lengthy Manning thread which started a few days before he arrived, on the early pages I was the first person on this forum to raise the concern over the appointment because I didn’t feel his style would suit our squad. 
 

I have no particular love for Manning. I was the first to raise concerns over his appointment (as clearly evidenced in that first thread in November). I’m just of the opinion that it’s only fair to give him a fair crack of the whip, rather than want him out after 2 weeks (which some posters on here wanted and have never given him a chance). 

To be absolutely clear - I was never “Manning In” but I’m now “Just give the bloke an effing chance ffs”. 

If we weren’t promised top six I think Manning would have been given an easier ride. 

I wonder if Yeboah asked for the loan? There was this talk of him being upset at being dropped from the first team squad so perhaps he wasn’t happy about going back down to under 18s. 
 

If this is the case, good on him for being ambitious and believing in himself. Hope he does well at Bath and proves a point. 

1 hour ago, Numero Uno said:

This is Jon, Sid and Gavin's finest work.......literally nobody else to turn to if it all goes South.

Surely it’s got to be Scott Murray’s turn to take the blame. 

10 minutes ago, Ben1980 said:

Bit of a conspiracy theory maybe- but was Twine on the bench v QPR to try to save face after the criticisms aimed at Pearson/Rennie re player availability? Also were Pring and Sykes pushed back into the starting line up despite not being ready for the same reason? Who is making the calls on player fitness? 
 

Can’t remember many times under Nige/Rennie when a player was brought back in whilst so obviously not ready. 
 

Absolute shambles. 

This crossed my mind last week when we were crying out for Twine to come on.  There was obviously no plan B, so Manning took a gamble on Twine hoping we would cruise to victory 

25 minutes ago, phantom said:

 

There's some odd cult like obsession at the moment why all these months later can't people move on? 

It’s not just us though, what about Conway. He’s still spending his Friday nights sat on the sofa eating tubs of ice cream crying over a picture of Alex Scott 

How about our academy players.   Before Manning took over NP & BT were telling us what a bunch of talented players we had coming through the academy, some of which we saw this season (Yeboah, JKL, J James etc).  Since then, nothing and to make matters worse we blocked their pathway with loan players. 

3 hours ago, Sheltons Army said:

According to IG , Jon Lansdown and Gavin Marshall ........ made the decision to get rid of NP .....and replace him with LM .....

 

Good to know that Tinnion played no part 

Good to see Tinnion’s employed IG as his crisis management team 

Just now, lenred said:

This is the big worry for me atm.  Take some responsibility.  All the best managers do.  All the shit ones don’t.   That’s not just football, that’s all areas of life.   

Mourinho was good at deflecting criticism from the players. He would cause some kind of controversy just to deflect. Manning on the other hand just threw them all under the bus because they couldn’t download his data

13 minutes ago, phantom said:

Did he actually say we'd be in the top six? 

I always assumed he'd said we had a Top 6 squad 

Lawyer just entered the chat. 

Christ, just imagine we lose the next 5 games. Not even our CEO Sir Brian Tinnion would survive

If we put in a performance like this against Cardiff next week, its going to be really toxic for Manning. Fans wont put up with it for too much longer.  

Just now, Gaseater said:

Yes but the manager gives it the green light, like under MA, manager always gets the final say.

Well let’s be honest, Nigel could have said no thanks, but we will never know the truth. 

19 minutes ago, Gaseater said:

His agreement to spend the **** all money we had on dross like Mehmeti, crap spells time and time again, calling players out in public. Did his job, replaced with the wrong man from the look of things.

Was it?  Wasn’t it Tinnion who told us all how he and the scouting team find the players and then recommend them to the Manager/coach. 

24 minutes ago, bcfcnick said:

Kal Naismith was spot-on with his observations.  I think he'll make a very good manager after retirement.   Just a pity he's not available as I always think we play better with him in the side. He may make the occasional mistake but never shies away from having the ball and trying something positive.  As he said today, aside from being slow to react, it looked like players didn't show for the ball or want the ball.  

His analysis was the only decent thing about the game today. Naismith’s honesty was refreshing. He seemed as bemused by the lacklustre display as us fans and he didn’t hold back from criticising Memheti 

1 minute ago, bearded_red said:

Boring team, boring football, boring manager.

A ******* boring club that pats itself on the back for achieving utter mediocrity.

Still, they beat West Ham in the cup so the crayon shagger can bring out a commemorative kit.

This club is a shambles. We were promised front foot attacking football and we get that garbage 

I didnt think it could get any worse than last week, but this has been absolute dross.  Manning is tactically inept 

Front foot football is turning out as we expected 

Memheti really doesn’t offer us anything. He’s so frustrating to watch 

Why can’t our strikers striker score goals like that? 

Is it still ok to blame Dave Rennie? 

Nige was right, we shouldn’t waste our money on useless expensive loans.  Trust in the Academy kids 
 

25 minutes ago, 22A said:

OK folks; addressing  negativity on here.

Take the last three results and for some it's the end of the world losing at home to QPR.

If City had lost 2-1 at Middlesbrough, beaten  Saints 3-1 and then won 1-0 v QPR, people would be declaring "We're on the right track. LM has got the club going in the right direction" etc.

It was the manner of the defeat against a team who are in the relegation zone.