Ian M

The Oxford fans seem angry. I'm taking that as a good sign.

At the other side of this appointment, Oxford will have a vacancy. Job for Cotts? I'd love to see him finish the job Manning started!

Sometimes that isn't just bullshit and is actually just someone actually knowing what they are talking about. Don't judge every manager by LJ's standards.

We need him to get us up this season, none of this Top 10 rubbish. Otherwise Bournemouth might poach him.

He places an emphasis on practice being excellent every day. Those words will be a dream to our hierarchy Joking aside, he seems fairly similar to Nige with much of what he talks about.

If Manning had seen out the season with Oxford, it’s very likely that his reputation would have seen him get a club higher than us. I’m optimistic that at least we have tried to get someone on the up rather than gone for a mediocre out of work Championship manager. As I have posted before, to get promoted from this division you need to have something that is significantly better than our peers. That could be budget, recruitment record, tactics or coaching. We cannot have a larger budget than our peers due to trampoline payments, our recruitment isn’t of a Brighton/Brentford standard (and we sell any good Academy prospects we are fortunate enough to unearth) So, we have to go the coaching/tactics route. We at least give ourselves a chance of that with this appointment than by appointing a perennial failure at this level.

This time is different, you have the chairman echoing your thoughts!

If this is the appointment my reaction will be: Phew, could have been worse.

Did you look at them quizzically and retort “15th? We’re going up mate!” ?

As an Alma Mater of CFG, he may be trusted with some of Citeh’s starlets at a “promotion chasing” Championship club on loan?

It’s a rumour I can get behind. I, for one, welcome Will Still as our new Head Coach overlord!

As an aside, adding the Facepalm reaction was the best thing I have done on here

He’ll never join us with his current side sitting 4th in Ligue 1.

Whoever the successful candidate is, he needs to make them wait until such time as we are within 2 points of the play-offs so he at least stands a chance!

My fear is the opposite. Manning has got both his last two teams to play exciting, attacking football. It only fell apart at MK when the owners sold his best two players and he couldn’t replace them (sound familiar much?). I fear that we will appoint one of the mediocre currently out of work managers/coaches instead (which is what an appointment this afternoon would suggest).

After the win on Saturday we still sit outside the promotion places. I expect the board will be finalising Flem’s P45 as we speak.

Keep that F5 button well oiled.

Well, we went for a rebound and have since decided we’re fine on our own, let’s just be celibate!

Whilst I’d still rather we had Pearson, of the sort of candidates that would potentially be available to Bristol City, I do like Manning. If I’m not mistaken, he was identified and became part of the CFG group of clubs and they absolutely do have an identity across their many clubs and that style of football is exciting. Manning may not (yet) be a “name” to get excited about but I dare say his football might be.

Does the "cht" part at the end not depend on the region of Germany you're in as to whether it is a hard or soft pronunciation?

Go with what you know right?

Surely in a better way seeing as we have used our training methods to decondition the playing squad. You can see this from the injury time goals we concede every single game.

Someone tells them. Which is what just happened here and you are now one of these people That part needs to come from someone else, not got the foggiest

Correct. but the lounge is booked for filming

The part of the Lampard rumour that involved the Exec Lounge on Monday was correct.