Northern Red

We ignoring that our 2 subs combined for the second goal?

I realise it doesn't suit the agenda, but come on.

Justice! 

They don't always do them for midweek games.

I'd rather nail my eyelids shut than watch that smug ****

Arsenal xG 2.25

33 minutes ago, Galley is our king said:

What about the madness of sacking Pearson in the first place?

What about the madness of replacing him with someone who has no experience in the championship either as a player or coach?

What about the madness of having two people in charge of the club with no experience or qualifications to be in such a position?

What about the madness of not even seeing what's right in front of people when they attend games?

Get rid, all three of them and replace with people who know what they are doing....

I don't disagree with any of that, but a defeat tomorrow isn't going to change any of it immediately, is it?

Arteta could have subbed any of his at half time, so of course he takes off the one who I've got in my FPL team and hadn't scored yet.

7 minutes ago, Super said:

I think Kompany is getting away with it a bit.

He's a Guardiola disciple which goes a long way in the eyes of the media. Whenever I've watched them this season they're shockingly naive.

The best bit is that there's not even a press conference scheduled.

30 minutes ago, Ivorguy said:

Yes if it means we can avoid relegation, for a victory will be largely meaningless in the grand scheme of Manning’s lack of ability to coach/manage.

 

Sometimes one needs to take a step backwards in order to go forward.

 

Imo we are in serious trouble with Manning in charge.

 

Do you really want to take a real risk of relegation if a one-off victory keeps Manning in control until last match of season?  If so, I disagree

Cracking.

So if we do lose, I assume you won't be treating us to your usual hysterical nonsense afterwards?

Yeah, thought not...

20 minutes ago, Ivorguy said:

According to Bristol Live on Newsnow Bristol City, Manning has talked about being a tough guy in the dressing room. As I have said before this is not a good managerial look in 21st century.

He needs to own his own mistakes and attempt to carry a united team forward.  We have lost a great deal with Nige’s going

Do you still want us to lose tomorrow?

1 hour ago, bearded_red said:

I wouldn’t say he’s ’lost’ them in terms of them hating him, giving up and trying to get him sacked. And I’d imagine that’s actually very rare in professional football. We possibly witnessed this at the tail end of Gary Johnson’s time here, but I can’t think of any other examples.

What is surely obvious to everyone watching however is they have clearly had any passion, aggression and imagination sucked out of them. They look like the shells of professional footballers. All sticking to set plan of sterile bullshit football. All scared to do something ambitious in case it doesn’t come off.

Nothing happens at pace, it’s as if you’re watching a training routine being jogged through rather than an actual game.

Tinnion's last game at Swansea and Millen's at Blackpool. You'd struggle to find two more obvious examples of players chucking the towel in to get a manager out.

32 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Reaction at the end makes me wonder..that was rather hostile.

I must admit I was a bit surprised by just how toxic the crowd was yesterday, not just at the end but through the second half and especially once we conceded. AG isn't known for being that vocal with displeasure, it tends to be more weary resignation than anything else.

I wonder if the powers that be were taken aback too?

To be fair I'm not sure we've had any obvious ones in recent weeks. Certainly after the change of management there was an influx though, as confirmed by the admin at the time.

Gaseater was the latest incarnation of Lez/Dog/Londoner etc. He'll try again with another one soon.

Tbh I think he was going regardless of what's happened in the last few months.

2 minutes ago, Dr Balls said:

I’m not sure about this. Would that actually suit Nige and his skill set? My impression was that he was a manager who wanted to work with coaches, but still pick the team and tactics himself. What he needed was to work with an experienced CEO and be given some funds to replace Scott. A Director of Football would probably be too removed from the frontline for Nige.

Plus his stated dislike of dealing with agents, contracts etc.

Just now, Superjack said:

This is correct. 

 

Unfortunately they won't fire the mood hoover (love that!) even if we are relegated. 

I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see us in League Two before long.

Like they were never ever going to fire LJ even if he took us to multiple relegations? That used to get said on here a lot and he ultimately went for not getting close enough to the playoffs.

10 minutes ago, Ivorguy said:

Yes, of course, we need to lose and then move forward again, hopefully.A draw, even a win, would simply delay what is now inevitable.  Manning is far more likely to take us down to Division 1 than up into The Prem

So if we do lose, I assume you won't be on here moaning about it afterwards?

52 minutes ago, DaveInSA said:

First half grade C. It was ok. Cardiff did nothing and nor did we.

2nd half Cardiff scored. We did nothing. Grade E.

Yep. The first half is fine if you then kick on and win the game, or at least create enough chances to think you should have done.

We didn't do that, quite the opposite in fact until about 5 minutes left and we threw the kitchen sink at it.

Jesus wept.

6 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I think we should replace a duff head-coach with a Duff manager.

Of the realistic options he'd be my choice.

6 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Something about Cooper I don't know if he is all that yet. Wages high, lucky call(s) in a playoff final, a lot of penalties during the season..

..He's better than Parker but I still need a bit of convincing with Cooper. Nottingham Forest turned 8 figure bids for Brennan Johnson in 2021-22 while simultaneously arguing that Covid had cost them in the market??

What does that have to do with Cooper?

Absolutely nailed it.

18 minutes ago, GrumpyGit said:

Unfortunately, he did the same towards the end of his time at Oxford.

Do you mean MK Dons?

Someone posted his last post-match interview before he got sacked there the other day, it was remarkably similar to today's.