Andy082005

we are litter 

Wonder what the excuse tombola will give us tonight? 
 

Have we had “not enough time on the grass?” lately?

10 hours ago, robinforlife2 said:

Could we though? What so called bigger names came out as being linked, or applied, or wanted the position. Manning has to start somewhere, and clearly was considered the best of the younger brigade of coach we wanted to employ. It's alright saying we could have done better, so name who we could have hired who was better, and fit the remit the club wanted? 

What’s the clubs remit? 
 

I see it as ‘employ someone who just says yes all the time because they are grateful to get an opportunity that’s unlikely they would get elsewhere in this league’

38 minutes ago, Riaz said:

He was doing well there by all accounts, until he lost his best players (Twine & co)

Who do you think would have been a better choice?

He had the squad built by Russell Martin - rode that wave, then ultimately got sacked 

53 minutes ago, Topper 123 said:

Good catch a 74 bud up Gloucester rd they’ll welcome you 

Good catch a 74 bud up Gloucester rd they’ll welcome you 

Good one 

2 hours ago, TV Tom said:

So who would you have wanted? it’s all very well saying you wanted NP out (as I did) and all very well saying Manning is the wrong choice but who would of been your choice, come on I need another laugh to go with the Lampard shout 

Who said Lampard? Certainly not me 

And as I mentioned previously - it’s irrelevant who I would have liked / wanted. 
 

The point I’m making is - we could have done better than someone who failed with MK Dons and has done nothing in the game to warrant the job he currently resides in 

7 hours ago, Riaz said:

Right, I’d argue someone with “more experience” would most likely be someone who had failed somewhere else. 
And if they haven’t failed elsewhere, why would they come here? 
 

I like the manning and Johnson appointments. Because it’s giving someone on the way up a chance. Much more suited to a club like ours.

Manning failed somewhere else . He failed at Mk Dons (if we go by your logic)

1 hour ago, Riaz said:

Right, so who would you have wanted?

It’s completely irrelevant who I would have wanted - but we should have been aiming for someone with more experience than we got. The reality is, anyone worth half their salt at this level wouldn’t entertain the thought of coming here because the way the club is ran is amateurish 

1 hour ago, Riaz said:

I think that’s the bit they got right

I want someone on the way up. Who do you want? Some proven failure, who comes here because he ain’t good enough for the prem? Who do you think we should have gone for??

Why would I want a proven failure? 

I’ll call it now - Manning will not take us forward. He is the next Lee Johnson 

Really hope I’m wrong though 

3 hours ago, Riaz said:

I get the match day experience. Cant argue with that.

Even in section 82 - i'm finding the songs and the atmosphere is getting really shit.

But in terms of football, you always seem to slag it off and its never as bad as you say.

I disagree, although I will say the football is average at best. Where we sit in the league is a reflection of the football we play and our performances as a whole 

My issues and frustrations are with how the club is ran - and how soft we are. The fact we have people in positions that they are not qualified to be in and are well out of their depth - Lansdown Jr and Tinnion are prime examples 

The opportunities we have wasted in recent years to grasp the opportunity that could take us towards becoming a top 6 team - it’s staggering 

I personally felt it was time for Pearson to move on, but we were in a prime position to attract someone who could really take us forward - and instead we appoint a failed MK Dons coach and someone who has not done anything at this level and has very little experience of the Championship. Why? Because it comes back to the plebs I mentioned earlier who are out of their depth and are to arrogant to want anyone in who may actually highlight what a piss poor job they do 

12 hours ago, Riaz said:

This season mid table is acceptable. 
next season top 10, AT LEAST and then a push for the play offs the next season. 
 

But hoping we can push next season for the play offs 

I think the aim has to be play-offs next year - at the very least a genuine play-off push 

Manning has a good base to work off of - it shouldn’t be another 3 year plan 

It won’t happen though as those above are out of their depth and are the ones who are holding this club back 

21 hours ago, Riaz said:

Why do you support bristol city? they are going to fail 99% of the time...

This is actually a good time for the club - being this high in the pyramid... Only the 70's we've been higher.

At our age, i'd have thought you would have got used to the disappointment and kind of expect it.

I get a season ticket, in the hope of success! Dont expect it at all.

City are doing exactly what i expected this season. And we do play good football at times

Really dont understand what people expect.

28/29 years I’ve had a season ticket - and my reason for hardly going any more and and not renewing next year is just around the whole match day experience now. It really is dire, I just don’t enjoy it like I used to. 

As for expectation. I don’t expect success - never have done, lots of my season ticket seasons seen us in League 1 in front of 11k. I wouldn’t want us back there but I enjoyed my days out a lot more then 

Who knows - i May start missing it when I don’t renew and after a break, but for now I’m happy to take in the occasional away game (which I still really enjoy) and watch the home games at home 

10 hours ago, Redshorts said:

Does anyone know when season ticket information is coming out for next season? 

Nope. And certainly won’t be renewing 

Save your money and get a fire stick. At least you can switch it off when they dish up the same shit as they have for the last 8 years 

9 hours ago, Cole Not Gas said:

Lots of reasons we will only take 400 fans. Surely its the same distance as it was for them mid-week in October. Bigger club? yes of course and going well under Ashton and McKenna but they brought thousands; sadly no comparison

They are a bigger club than us but the club has been on a real upward trajectory in the last couple of years. That will play a massive part l

I can’t remember them bringing thousands when they were managed by Mick McCarthy and coming mid-table every season. 

Now if we are making comparisons - that’s exactly where we find ourselves now. We are in a very similar position to what they were under Big Mick 

12 hours ago, Harry said:

Yep. 
No one can convince me or give any reasonable rationale as to why Twine didn’t come on. 
If he’s on the bench he must be fit enough for at least 15-20 mins. 
And he was signed for this exact situation - needing something different around the box versus a team happy to sit in. 
We signed him for these exact moments. 
Baffled I am. 
 

As for Gardner-Hickman. 
I’ve kept my powder dry on him so far but I’ve not as yet been overly impressed with him. Yes, a few decent moments here and there but he’s done nothing to convince me yet. 
And then today, he enters the fray with us needing to sharpen up, quicken the passes, start to impose ourselves etc and he’s the slowest effing passer out there, taking 3 or 4 touches every time he has the ball and getting easily dispossessed about 6 times. 
There was one moment he had an acre in midfield, received a pass, took 3 touches to turn, had a chance at a quick ball out to McCrorie in loads of space but proceeded to pass it at about 0.5 miles per hour and it eventually reached a now fully marked McCrorie the following week!  
Effing quicken it up man!! So damn slow at everything. 
I still need a lot of convincing on this kid. Sorry. 

I’m glad I’m not the only one. He has done ok but has our centre midfielders been so below average in recent times that it’s almost conned people into thinking he has been exceptional 

The centre midfield position needs addressing pre-season. It’s been weak for far to long 

2 hours ago, exAtyeoMax said:

I was just about to say, get a new manager

It may be said a little in jest but let’s be honest, what’s the guy achieved as a coach to suggest he is capable of taking this club forward 

He shouldn’t have been given the job. Only got it because he will end up being another Yes man 

2 hours ago, BCFCGav said:

We were in this exact situation just after Christmas, riding high off the back of successive wins against top 6 challengers. Then came Brum and Millwall where we got one point and no goals.

Same situation today, and many said beforehand (only partly tongue in cheek) that it would be very us to labour and lose. As of course came to pass. 
 

I know we’re not the professional coaches but any ideas what we should be doing differently? Or is it a case of giving LM the windows he needs to build a possession squad given we currently have a squad assembled for transitional play. Which would of course mean another year or more of stagnation, as we’re all too familiar with in the Lansdown reign!

Get a decent coach 

44 minutes ago, Ivorguy said:

What do people think?

I thought it was rather mealy mouthed.  Should show more self awareness.  Sadly I feel he has a long way to go to be a head coach of atop Championship side, and I had really hoped he was learning fast, re tactics and man management.  Now, as I say, a way to goon both

Said it before and I will say it again - he has done absolutely nothing in the game to suggest he will take us forward. And he has shown very little since coming in either 

Another Lee Johnson. A yes man who is learning on he job 

1 minute ago, Ivorguy said:

Answer: Coaches.  Failed to prepare a proper game plan, failed to change said plan when it didn’t work, failed to get players up for it, failed to take advantage of half time for a successful blasting.

No excuses.  Players available far far better than Nige had.  Sorry but feel Nige would have got more out of them.  They certainly didn’t seem to be playing for current Head Coach.

Hopefully wheels can be put back on the waggon, but it is a very worrying day at the office

 

 

First paragraph - absolutely right 

second paragraph- absolutely wrong. Nige football was equally as shit as today . I don’t understand why people keep trying to make out it wasn’t 

5 minutes ago, cellist said:

No question about our ability to turn up against big sides. Manning has something about him as a coach. But there should he some questions asked about the attitude in the squad, and the ability of Manning to fire them up and affect change mid game.

Anyone would be forgiven for thinking he was a league 1 / League 2 coach with absolutely no real experience of success behind him …..

hilarious 

The most Bristol City performance and result ever. 

Mid-table team, mid-table manager - mid table club 

I don’t want to see Mebude anywhere near the first team any time soon 

1 minute ago, bexhill reds said:

Has Mubude got anything else in his locker than to turn backwards?

People expecting great things from this lad when the reality is 3 weeks ago no one had ever heard of the kid 

1 minute ago, Major Isewater said:

It’s as though when there’s a danger of something special happening someone says ease off lads. 

As someone posted on here a bit earlier - we don’t have the mental strength when a little bit of expectation comes along. We can’t handle it 

That’s nothing new. It has been like that with this club for as long as I can remember 

Very soft 

Only a matter of time before we concede again. Really, really disappointing today - sadly predictable thought