Ashton Fete

So season ticket prices then..

100% agree. Think Knight is wasted in that advanced role but maybe when James/Williams plays out he’ll drop back there next season Can’t call the contracts there albeit the longer it goes on suggests there’s nothing on the table or it’s lower than wanted and they’re scoping their options which is understandable. Who knows!

I’m totally torn, I wanted Nige to get another 2 years and have the transfer funds/turnover opportunities that Manning will get. However, some of the football under Manning does make me buy into the plan, games against Forest, West Ham and Southampton prove that thought process and it gives me optimism But then the game against Millwall was so boring and flat and QPR was a tactical mess making me think he has no plan B when teams play certain ways against us He will get the summer/pre season so I’m just hoping it pays off but as of now I could see us being in the top 6 and a flying start to the season or just above the relegation zone after 20 games. Whether you were a Nige fan or not, the transition from him to Manning wasn’t helped by Jon Lansdown spouting the nonsense about the squad. The reality seems to have been there was a fall out and Nige wasn’t going to be offered a new deal so it became toxic. Perhaps something like that would have at least been understood by fans. So in summary…not a clue but I’ll renew my season ticket as always on the hope next season is the exciting play off push and try to have that optimism

For me it’s Mehemti, Cornick and Wells but that’s just my personal opinion really. We all see slightly different things in players

So your logic is because I’m trying to be positive about the club and a loan signing I must be being paid by the club? Jeez

Ah must have been the Grimsby game I’m remembering

Bosses? I doubt very much my bosses would care very much about Bristol City I can assure you As you asked the first team squad players under contract I would look to sell this summer would be Cornick, Mehmeti, Bajic and Wells

I said “we just can’t shift on as easily” meaning players under contract are harder to shift than loan players i.e if Mbude doesn’t work out then we don’t have to sign him and the loan ends. However, if as an example LM wanted to move on Mehmeti then that’s not as easy as he still has 2.5 years left on his contract its just the point that we’ve signed Mbude on loan, he’s played about 45 minutes and I’m not rushing to judge him yet albeit if it doesn’t work out then he goes back to his parent club and we move on.

I liked the spirit in those final months trying to stay up, think I recall a win at home with Jim Brennan flying down the left side and Ade Akinbyi grabbing a couple..Norwich perhaps

It was more the broad point that every manager has players in the squad they want to move on but it’s not that easy when under contract etc. I’m not on the inside so no idea who the club will be open to offers on but there obviously will be

Some of the comments on here about Mbude are utterly ridiculous The lads played about 45 minutes over two games, he’s on loan and if it doesn’t work out then no harm done We’ve all been crying out for decent loans since Tammy and some work out and some don’t. I’m more concerned about the players we have under contract who aren’t good enough that we just can’t shift on as easily as not signing a loan player permanently He may settle in and we’ll all be raving about him in a couple of games, if he pops up and scores the winner against Cardiff then we’ll all be cheering! So let’s give the lad a chance

Fair assessment, at times far too predictable to play against it’s baffling how we can go from so good to so bad in a matter of days. Yesterday he got it all wrong and players were way off it of which he can’t take all the blame clearly

Guess it depends on contracts of Williams and James and what offers we get for fringe players or perhaps those out of contract next year namely Conway for one

Yeah that’s true we did, I guess time will tell (I wouldn’t have sacked Nige by the way)

Because ‘buy in’ means I can see the style and impact it can have and has been shown as West Ham, Forest and Southampton to name the most obvious games i haven’t said we are a top 6 side, that was Jon Lansdown’s lack of credibility comment around sacking Nige when he should have just been honest.

I buy into what Manning is doing and I think after a summer turnover I think next season is going to be the best for some years But yesterday he got pretty much everything key wrong from starters to subs to formation/tactics chasing the game Hopefully he’ll learn a lot from it!!!

Nahki dominated the run around, push people over and then complain about it competition

Spot on

I get it wasn’t the best of games from him but come on, give him a chance. Plenty of other far more experienced players yesterday had awful games and aren’t getting this level of negative attention.

For me Mehemti’s negatives outweigh the positives too much in game, lots of trickery and gets into good positions but end product is often poor, backs out of every 50:50 and when the game gets tough he goes missing. Hopefully with a summer of protein powder he’ll come back next season better Cornick is clearly a likeable bloke and you could never fault his work ethic as it’s evident throughout but he’s just not good enough for a team aiming for the play offs, there’s a reason Luton didn’t extend his contract and he was their 3rd or 4th option up front Everytime he comes on I want him to do well and prove everyone wrong but yesterday again I was away from the game thinking he’s Steve Torpey with a moustache. Great work rate but falls short too often

Completely agree..what a performance

Great composed and controlled performance..I stand by it…next season we’ll be in or the closest to the play offs since Hull Albeit this season as of now we’re only 4 points off so you never know!

Drink up thee cider

Spot on really, Cornick could have been throwing up at half time for all we know and that’s been disguised in the post match comments to not reveal any possible selections for Tuesday However, Mehmeti just doesn’t have the defensive abilities so bringing him on when we should have expected a more attacking Boro might not have been the best in hindsight He clearly works hard but his positioning when teams attack his side needs massive improvement, he’s a few seconds off knowing where to be and often gets caught out as a result so him coming on allowed them to build confidence on the right hand side which every attack seemed to then come from.

Agree with this, Mehmeti leaves us wide open with his defensive play and backtracking against an attacking wing back/full back like Ayling