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1 hour ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Have you seen your club on. There was a story on Sky recently where an Ipswich fan. had just visited her 90th ground with Ipswich. I've done 176 with The Gas, so firstly I want a large medal and secondly , there must be a few who have watched City with a similar number?

I peaked on 77/92 a while back, but a few of those can no longer be counted as they’ve dropped out of the league. Down to 62 now 

Early impressions — it looks to me that a) some have been rushed back from injury too soon, and b) the players didn’t show anything like the desire they mostly did under Nige.

Of course, it’s very early days for Manning. But if this is anything to go by, Pearson may well have been getting the most of out of this squad and we could well be in a dogfight if this is not a performance in isolation. 

Top six? My arse! Lansdowns out. 

“I believe we’ve got a good squad; it’s the best since I’ve been involved here.” Jon Lansdown, 2023.

3 minutes ago, Hocca said:

That was very poor. Pring having a tough game up against Smyth, we’re too laboured in possession especially James getting caught a couple of times as he doesn’t have the agility to turn quick enough with the ball.

Is he fit enough, though? He’s was in a protective boot two weeks ago and yet leapt off the treatment table after Rennie was sacked. Or could it be losing that expertise meant he was rushed back

1 minute ago, Peter1450 said:

He’s going to have his work cut out sorting this lot into a top 6 team, just proves what a job the previous coaching team were doing.

Exactly. The previous regime had a habit of getting positive results from games like these. I’m not holding out much hope for the same today on that first-half evidence. 

1 hour ago, Sheltons Army said:

This , absolutely

Their serious credibility decline for me began with the end of the SC romp , the ridiculous LJ personal project , the farce around and appointment of Holden through to the treatment of NP

Nail on the head, and those are just some of the big decisions they’ve got wrong. There are loads of other things they’ve done over the years that’ve increasingly irritated me. 

There’s the “it’s my club and I’ll do as I please” statement, the lies “we have a top-10 budget” (to give one example), and the nepotistic appointments.

There’s the Bristol Sport fallacy that makes it unnecessarily difficult for BCFC to be sold and the total lack of direction from the top. 

There are the farces over the kit deal and the robin splat, and the total lack of open communication that stands up to the slightest bit of scrutiny. 

When you add into the pot things like the BS bots coming on here to try an influence matters and it takes the piss IMO. I could go on and on but in short the sooner they go, the better. 

Some points I agree with, others I don’t. Manning certainly hasn’t said or done anything to excite me and the Lansdowns deserve criticism IMO, for reasons that go deeper than simply sacking Pearson.

12 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

Rotherham at home on a night game in the pouring rain where they hadn`t picked up a point for about three months.

Yep. 2-0 Millers.

I remember that game for being out sung by 26 Rotherham fans, who had the whole East End to themselves!

Pretty sure one of their midfielders - who was the target of “gypo” chants - scored twice, including one screamer. 

9 hours ago, REDOXO said:

Pearson was fired because we were not challenging (5 points off the play offs with a dozen first teamers injured) 

Manning was brought in to “correct” that. If Manning doesn’t get a really good start everyone at the club is going to get twitchy. Manning needs a minimum of nine for JL excuses to look in anyway credible so I’m hoping for ten and above. 

Exactly this. 

The club lead us to believe he has more of a fit squad than Nige had, and this squad “is the best in my time here” according to JL.

The board expect promotion and we need to up our PPG to do that, so I expect to beat QPR, Huddersfield and Norwich, and gain a point from the other two games. A minimum of 10 from 15. 

8 minutes ago, Harry said:

Are you going to add the gas head in Gilhepsy’s team? …………..

There’s gas in our recruitment team as well as our physio (who I used to play centre-mid alongside)?

9 minutes ago, Nomad said:

Me too, I noticed when I watched yesterday. Could have just needed a s**t I guess.

Or he’s seen his best mate and the gaffer who gave him his big break both leave in the space of three months. 

If he’s successful, I expect he’ll jump ship like he traded Oxford for us. If he’s unsuccessful, how long does the inept board give it? Would they be able to put their egos to one side and admit they got it wrong? I doubt it.

6 hours ago, Gimme Shelton said:

One of my favourite days ever, getting that ****** out of our club!

Beat me to it. I remember being stood in the top tier of that old stand at Griffin Park, I think it was Boxing Day, chanting “Pulis for Portsmouth”. I hope we hound the current ******* out of our club in the near future, too. 

1 hour ago, red panda said:

Err ... I'm not quite sure an owner can simply "resign", and we might have something of a cashflow problem if they did.

I couldn’t care less. They have long overstayed their welcome and need to go regardless. There’s no turning around my feelings towards them. Snakes and liars, the lot of them.

14 hours ago, Cidre Monita said:

LM said on the local news that he’s been coaching for 18 years, so effectively since he was 20. Did he never play professional football? Got to be honest I’ve never heard of him. It sounds like we have appointed him off of the back of a couple of good months at Oxford. I’m interested to know what the Lansdowns do next if this doesn’t work out. I think we will go down the foreign route followed by a Nigel Pearson type to get us out of trouble. 

I hope the Lansdowns, and Tinnion, all resign if we fail to make the top six. They’ve been very open about that being the goal and in some ways I feel for Manning working under that pressure, and for Nige who had to deal with that. 

This is not “the best squad we’ve had in my time here”, nor do “we have a top-10 budget” as spuriously claimed by JL last week. But these are the goals set for Manning and if he doesn’t achieve them, the board needs to be accountable. 

Much like Holden, I won’t blame Manning for taking the job. It was only this time last year he was sacked by MK Dons in League Two! Yet here were are 12 months on willing to pay a six-figure sum to bring him here. I thought we had no cash?! 

At MK Dons, he had Twine and Darling sold above his head so he’ll be used to losing his best players and not having them replaced with sufficient (or better) quality, so he should be happy to do the same here all in the name of the owner’s nest egg.

I imagine another attractive tick in the box for the board, or shall I say Tinnion, is he’s happy to put up with interference and deferring on recruitment. 

I can’t wait for the press conference when Manning blows smoke up the Lansdowns’ arses, tells us all how we’re a PL club in waiting, and talks about our vast potential. All that without managing a single game at this level and not knowing that he’s walking into a shit show. 

JL said this is the best squad he’s ever seen, that we have a top-10 budget, and the top six is the goal. So best of luck, Liam. You will need bucket loads of it. 

Lansdowns out.

I have zero faith in the Lansdowns or Tinnion. If they had a clear plan, they’d have had the new man in place by now like they did with LJ. As such, it appears - not for the first time - they have no succession plan. 

And I won’t even go into their track record of appointing managers or coaches. The evidence is there for all to see. Where’s Keith Dawe when we need him?!

I’d love to see AFCB go down. They’d probably have to sell Scott and Semenyo if they did; Kelly will walk away on a free next summer so that sell-on appears to have gone. A tinpot club that broke FFP and have punched well above their weight ever since. 

20 hours ago, bcfc01 said:

JL also said it wouldn't be an uninspiring appointment..

Manning may well be a good appointment, not sure, but with all due respect I wouldn't call it an inspiring appointment by any stretch (if he is appointed of course).

JL said Holden was the best man for the job three years ago and from recent interviews, it doesn’t look like he’s sharpened up since. 

1 hour ago, Ghost Rider said:

My Nan is 94 and in the last stages of dementia. She talks more sense than Paul Merson. 

Not on this occasion. Merson hit the nail firmly on the head, and whether you like it or not that’s the wider perception of us in the media after events of the last week. 

It’s not very often I say Merson’s bang on the money, but today he is . We are a national basket case, and it is all about ego. Lansdowns out.

7 minutes ago, Roger Red Hat said:

Just think, if Nige had got 2 or 3 free agents in as well we wouldn't have to put those pesky youngsters on the bench.

If even a slice of the nest egg was made available to Nige for one or two signings before the window closed and we’d have had more depth to cover an injury crisis. Really hope those three aren’t being rushed back too soon. 

Vyner, Tanner and James all fit to start today? I wonder who approved that

Lansdowns out

Top man who genuinely has the club’s best interests at heart, unlike those above him who put their own egos first. Lansdowns out.