cidercity1987

Quite a few of the players have donated, including Weimann

Nice touch 

This is one of the reasons why I am not Manning out.

The ideal answer is Pearson or other strong type of manager as a counterbalance to the weakness above in the structure. But that is not going to happen.

I don't see any type of young coach that they seem to want being any better than Manning.

First things first, TINNION OUT 

It's unbelievable that in a mini league of teams from 5th to 16th I bet we would be top. In the same league of 17th to 24th we would be rock bottom. Just another mad thing this season 

26 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

Sacked by MK Dons in League 1 

Wasn’t at Oxford anywhere near long enough to make a real judgement call 

lost 10 in his first 21 here 

They are basing their assumptions on what exactly? 
 

He has come here with a very similar pedigree to Lee Johnson and look how that turned out .

Lee Johnson: Great job at Oldham turning perennial relegation battlers into a solid upper midtable side. Got a move to Barnsley, poor run followed by a brilliant run, left them in a good position and they got promoted.

Liam Manning: Play offs with MK Done followed by a sacking in the relegation zone and they indeed went down. Appointed Oxford manager, saved them from relegation and had them challenging after a low number of games, now fading after he left.

Whose CV was better at the time of joining us? Probably Johnson as he had more consistent improvement in his sides 

An oasis of delusion again from these gentlemen. Of course we were going to play ok, as we have done all season against these types of teams

5 hours ago, Robbored said:

I really don’t get why Tinnion gets all this bad press. What’s he said or done to deserve all the grief he’s getting?

Can anyone explain why he’s the number one fall guy?

First major decision in a new role he is unqualified for was to sack Nige and appoint Manning.

Absolute gross negligence and incompetence of the highest order.

Picture of him overseeing training on Mannings first day scared the living shit out of me.

Too weird all around and he must go

3 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

My default position and the one I’ll always fall back on is I support Bristol City. Not Liam Manning, not Brian Tinnion - Bristol City. Now that does mean that the clubs success happens to people I don’t care for, but I’d rather see the club do well than not.

So for all I think Liam and Brian and Jon need to go for the good of the club, I’d much rather we won the remaining 11 than anything else.

That being said, I totally get the logic. And if you work on the basis we’re going to be patchy at best until seasons end, it’s better to get the defeats done now and what looks the inevitable to happen.

So, I’d much rather we won. But I wouldn’t in some ways be heartbroken if what you say did happen and it was the catalyst for change.

Depends if you go for the short term or long term view.

Do I want us to win tonight? Yes of course

Does something dramatic need to happen to get rid of Tinnion first of all, and old man Lansdown to come to his senses re correct help for his son? Yes it does

Sadly I think a few heavy defeats towards the end of the season causing more obvious angst amongst the fanbase to Tinnion and the Lansdowns is more in the long term interests of our success than bumbling our way to 56 points (as long as we survive in the league) 

The Lansdowns are incredibly lucky they preside over a somewhat passive certainly insecure and unsure fanbase (build up over years of underachievement)

No other fanbase as big as ours would be so accepting in the face of such nonsense from the owners

4 hours ago, GBF said:

Please could you direct the conversation more towards the stewardship of the Club  rather than the merits of the current Manager. How do Season Ticket holders or genuine fans influence better decision making on appointing future Managers / Head Coach/ DOF.   Is there a role for the supporters trust in future appointments?   Only BCFC could appoint Dean Holden and Liam Manning with the aim of getting into the Premiership. 

And Tecknical Directors and Chairmen even if we cannot influence actual ownership

Get rid of one to the Bahamas or Bermuda or whenever it is with Daddy's money and the other to FGR

Happy days 

'The Club announce the departure of Tecknical Tinnion' would make me very happy

Thanks for your service now **** off to Forest Green Rovers 

Hopefully she doesn't like football 

How long til Gay disappears like Tinnion and Lansdown have ?

1 minute ago, GrahamC said:

Be careful what you wish for, you could have Vincent Tan..

What the lad that got Caerdydd promoted twice?

Just now, ohhhshauntaylor said:

Easy question? 

Hardest question I've ever seen. If I answer no what's the alternative to sack or keep?

4 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said:

Correction. Tinnion and Jon Lansdown have. Manning has just helped a bit.

Bang on

I just think there is zero point aiming the anger at Manning. He's as much a victim (albeit a wealthier one) as the rest of us at the hands of Tinnion and Lansdowns

I'd prefer energies were focused on the real problem at the club and it most definitely isn't Manning

7 minutes ago, redkev said:

Love the British mentality, god snow I can’t get out of my road , 

oh hang on I’m booked on a flight to the Caribbean later , suddenly in car and off to the airport no dramas

Hope I can get out our road because I do have a flight later!! Arghh

Hate to think what our points total would be if we had more than 1 poor performance in 20

2 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

I don't believe this.

We went

LOSE

LOSE

LOSE 

LOSE 6-0

LOSE Holden sacked

LOSE 1-0 Couldn't get out of our half, player in tears

Nigel appointed as manager 22nd February Pearson joins Robins as manager - Bristol City FC (bcfc.co.uk)

WIN 23rd February

You think the win was just a random coincidence? 

2 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

Barnsley was the game before the game before he came in. He took charge for Swansea, not Boro and got 6 points over his first 4 games (WLLW) to get us to 48 points.

He did a fine job but tbh we'd have likely been safe whoever came in.

Ok he was in the stands at Boro, which knowing the character of the man was enough of a boost for the players to put in a very very good performance, night and day from the Barnsley game

5 hours ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

With respect, when Holden was sacked we had 39 points from 30 games and were closer to the play offs than the relegation zone.  After he was sacked, we took 12 points from our remaining 16 games (W3 D3 L10), including 0 wins, 3 draws and 7 defeats in our last ten games.

I’m not saying there shouldn’t have been a change of manager, Holden was after all on a poor run of six defeats in all competitions, but the notion that Pearson saved us from relegation is far-fetched in the extreme.  Only 44 points were needed to avoid relegation that season and we already had 39 when Holden was sacked so we actually only needed 5 more points to be safe.   What happened was that our position deteriorated considerably after Holden was sacked, but thankfully not enough to see us relegated.  

I will never forget the game before Pearson came in.

We played Barnsley at home, barely got out of our half and had our club captain in tears at the end of the game. If we only needed 5 more to be points to be safe then we probably would have got them somehow over 16 games, but Pearson came in and got them straightaway. He definitely saved us at least from any sign of a relegation battle.

I liked him and 50 goals is worth a cheer

Manning needs less than Lansdown and Tinnion that's for sure

60 points will be enough for the fans regarding Manning, however for the two above him anything less than 65 points and top 10 at least is a damning failure of their actions