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Mehmeti in his pre match interview talked about game management and seeing out games, decision making rtc

Then in the last minute tries to go for goal instead of running the clock down in the corner…

5 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

I put it on mute and decided to do something more entertaining - review a company's share capital.

Have we been better? Presumably the goal was a fluke.

We’ve been better, still wouldn’t call it good. Almost a role reversal of the first half, Swansea have done absolutely nothing and we’ve created a couple of chances and managed to score one of them.

3 minutes ago, Barrs Court Red said:

Was about to post “this is so much better” and we score. 
 

Well done lads for turning it round. 

I’m taking credit for that, told the Mrs I couldn’t get up and get the snacks as I might miss something.

Had to promise her something was going to happen by 75 minutes… and here we go 

In a game of who can be shitter, we’ve taken the initiative and been slightly less shit

1 minute ago, Ian M said:

Pay attention, "once the game has started, there is very little you can do as a manager to affect the game"

Wait, he said that?

1 minute ago, Midred said:

Is it only city committing fouls or is the ref overlooking theirs?

Hard to be fouled when you don’t have the ball

3 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

Is this representative of how shit we are?

Yes, but it also makes swansea look better than they are 

7 minutes ago, Lordofthebling said:

Players have chucked in the towel. Thats pissing me off now

We’ve gone from having a squad of hard working, honest and truly likeable players to this crap. I feel for them tbh, as much as it’s frustrating for us as fans, don’t think the players enjoy this either, they’re being told to play this way and it’ll be killing their potential in their careers too. Conways got a euros on his mind for example…

One thing I always had to say to team mates when we went through changes like this is that you have to do what the manager says. If you do what he says and it’s shit and it doesn’t work, it’s the managers fault. If you ignore what he says and try to do your own thing, it’s now your fault.

This today is worlds apart from Tuesday, this looks more like a “lost dressing room” than anything we’ve seen to now. They don’t believe in this plan.

6 minutes ago, robinforlife2 said:

The commentator on Swansea TV has said Liam Manning should be pleased!!!!! Pleased!!!!! What the F is there to be pleased about. We've not had a shot in 40 minutes, we are passing it backwards and sideways, we look absolutely useless and it's a rudderless ship. I had been willing to give him time, even up until Ipswich, but this is dire, really really dire! 

Right now I would take Warnock on a 15 month contract! Yes the football may not be exciting, but it'll be a darn sight better than this!!!!

I did hear right then??

but he then went on to say we’ve had no shots. Was a truly bizarre sentence or two 

Hes now commenting on highlights and talked about how the header (nowhere near the goal) gets “closer and closer” each time he sees it…

I think he’s taking the piss 

At least the Robins TV lot have each other to talk to, this poor chaps on his own.

5 minutes ago, Bedred31 said:

To be fair, it’s 0-0. We’re not losing and  in the game. A horribly poor game, certainly, but I think we’re more likely to get the 3 points than Swansea. 

This has to be bait?

Did the swansea commentator just say Manning will be pleased with this first half?

6 minutes ago, Chrizzler said:

How's booing them during the game going to help ffs!

I’d usually agree, but this is absolutely dire and it might cause a bit of fire in the changing room at HT

6 minutes ago, Chrizzler said:

How's booing them during the game going to help ffs!

I’d usually agree, but this is absolutely dire and it might cause a bit of fire in the changing room at HT

Boos are starting and a chant of “f’ing useless”

This is honestly terrible.

One of the worst opening 25 minutes of a football match I’ve ever seen let alone City.

And to be clear half of that is down to how shit swansea are too,

3 minutes ago, frenchred said:

Swans TV for me, prefer a Welsh male accent, wtf have we gotta tick a box as well

I don’t want to derail the thread but why is it that any woman getting a job in football MUST be a box ticking exercise?

The same in the past has been said about black pundits etc. it can never be possible that they’ve earned their place?

And there’s so many shit male pundits, yet rarely does anyone call out how they’ve got the job.

Must be so depressing for women (or any other less represented population) trying to get into the sport to constantly face these dinosaur comments.

38 minutes ago, Leabrook said:

After listening to the presser I said he’d be back. Could tell that Manning was telling fibs.  

What fibs? He’s even said in the pre match interview he’s basically got 10 minutes max - which sounds like he shouldn’t be risked

1 hour ago, Sean Emmett said:

One thing I've yet to hear at Ashton Gate is "Liam Manning's Cider Army".

Here's hoping.

Allright it's Sunday. Praying.

It was tested Tuesday at ipswich, didn’t last long 

2 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

To be fair, I, and many others, in January said that we weren’t going up (I also said we weren’t going down but less said there!) so spending substantially didn’t make sense. The one transaction I had a real problem with was the loan of Twine in view of there being no option and it (at the time) being the difference between 12th and 13th in reality.

Nobody could have foreseen just how bad we’d get (the signs were there, I just didn’t think it’d come this quickly) - but signing Bird and Stokes in the manner we did I thought at the time and still do was sensible business.

Yea I'm not necessarily unhpapy with the transfer window from a realistic view

But in the context of the things coming out from the club, it's a weird transfer and window in general

13 hours ago, Rocking Red Cyril said:

Was there a question ?

 

Well technically the subject, though the post seemed to go onto a different topic

10 hours ago, DaveF said:

Is it? We paid a fee to steal a march on our rivals, its as simple as that.

Why is it weird?

Because we were supposedly chasing top 6 and we needed players now.

20 hours ago, HIGHRIDGE BCFC said:

I'd not even looked at who other teams have to play. I'm just going by our current form.

We literally look like we have absolutely no idea how to break down a side that aren't looking to come at us!

After just looking at who everyone has left to play, what struck me the most is how many times the teams i would say are currently in danger (bottom 10) have to play each other. There's so many "6 pointers" up for grabs which could either give teams a good chance to pull away with a few wins or make it very, very close if everyone takes points from each other?

Win Sunday and it would make a huge difference to our outlook for me!

I don't disagree with our performances, but someone loses points in all those 6 pointers which complicates the "only 6 points from safety" aspect.

There's a reason those teams are down there, they don't all suddenly hit promotion form to gain 6 points in 10 games on teams above them.

19 hours ago, glynriley said:

Not with skybet. I only got 50’s on Wednesday 

 

I said put £10 on those 4 results. I was using Bet365 if it really matters.

3 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

I swear we could get relegated and they’d still come out saying “yeah but what about that Southampton game eh?”.

We were 4 points off the Play Offs, not 3. Not a huge mistake but does make it sound like we were within one win of the top six position we were told we were capable of. 

At least that's the next anniversary celebration replica shirt sorted in 10 years time 

Also worth noting that people can put any name down or is it likely that Steven Gerrard has actually donated?

Also as @Bristol Rob has said, not put their name for anonymity.

Such a sad thing for Scotty, echo the comments about him he's a legend of this club.

2 hours ago, The turtle said:

If

Stoke

Huddersfield

Birmingham 

Qpr 

All win this weekend, and we lose , at that point... It becomes worrying

We are in the battle before the battle.

Go stick a tenner on it, £650 return.

2 hours ago, HIGHRIDGE BCFC said:

If we don't win Sunday then we're definitely in a relegation battle!

I don't care how well we've played against the better sides, i can't see us getting anything from the West Brom and Leicester games.

We could then conceivably be 3 points or less above the relegation zone!

Admittedly i do believe we're probably only around 8 points off achieving safety but our form since the new year massively concerns me as to where those 8 points are coming from!

Sunday is a massive game for me!

The problem you and many others fall for is just looking at the table, counting wins and points and then fearing the worst. Not only that, but applying worst possible results to us, and assuming promotion chasing form for the other 6/7 teams at the bottom of the table.

For that to happen you're going to need results such as Sheff Wed and Cardiff to beat Leeds and Ipswich respectively - both at home but still highly unlikely. Blackburrn and Plymouth, and Millwall and Brum play each other.

Next week Sheff Wed would have to backup their massive Leeds win by beating Ipswich away. Millwall go to Leeds, the rest are all playing teams higher than them.

Good Friday Blackburn are next up to topple Ipswich, QPR and Brum play each other, Sheff Wed and Swansea face each other.

It's not impossible, but it's very unlikely many of those teams are picking up more than a few points if that. And if you do think it, I'd head to the bookies as you'll get some good odds.