Northern Red

4 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

Manufactured concern is a bit ridiculous.  50 points is easily safe. 6 points from 11 games.  The last 5 games we have 6 points. However, if we are close to the relegation places at the end of the season that might make them think about giving Manning anymore time. Maybe that’s the best we can hope for

If we're very close to it at the end of the season Manning will be long gone.

Just now, Greedo said:

I’m happy for it to be as many threads as it takes until the lot of them are gone. Keep clapping. 

Who's clapping?

This'll be an interesting experiment to see how many people read the post as well as the title.

This deffo needed another thread.

Just now, David Brent said:

We’re stuck though. There is no way that JL and BT will want to lose face. 

We’ll give him millions and he’ll have a poor start next season. We’ll replace him and write off the season. 

Short of us barely picking up another point this season and thus getting into a relegation battle, this is the most likely outcome.

You going to do this every week?

1 minute ago, Natchfever said:

They wont sack Manning.

DEFINITELY wont sack Tinnion.

Jonny Crayon its his dads club.

A few thousand season cards not being renewed will get the message to the arrogant *****.

Whether they heed that message is debateable, but a L1 BCFC is worth less than a Champ one so think about that "Sir Steve".

Disagree with your first sentence. Tinnion will 100% throw Manning under the bus if it saves his own skin.

Don't blame the players, they're probably as ****** off with this as everyone else is.

If it's fine around the ground it'll be on. They won't be concerned about people coming from the other side of town.

1 minute ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Reminds me of Michael Duff at Swansea, just not the right fit and because that fit wasn't right Swansea now paying for that. 

Ironically Manning has had the same amount of games as Duff this season and their records are almost identical.

Both of them would be a better fit at each other's club.

I'm convinced Swansea would have gone for Manning if he hadn't just come here when they got rid of Duff.

Apparently it's the same guy who got on the pitch at Hillsborough and punched Chris Kirkland a few years back.

36 minutes ago, One Team said:

Yep, he knows he’s safe with Lansdown whatever happens this season. They are in for a shock if we lose Saturday and then again against Swansea. 

But they're not, are they?

Just now, Mr Popodopolous said:

We'll see. Different intensity in U21 vs first team especially potentially a local derby.

I hope he is fit, because a fully fit Naismith could be a real asset..no point in adding decent players if they are hardly ever available!

What I mean is that if he was going to rush him when he's not quite there, it would have happened last weekend after the U21 game.

8 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

In respect of Naismith, here is what I fear could happen.

Manning coming under a bit of pressure, possibly can noise but hear all the same.

Players who are close to ready he brings back. Perhaps Naismith starts or more likely on the bench 

Great, but not fully ready, under pressure (or feeling under pressure) to get a result Naismith comes on...and tweaks something. Tweak turns to injury 

Out for weeks if not months. 

I think that scenario would already have happened if it was going to, given that he played for the U21s a couple of weeks ago.

7 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

What about Bird ?

Not as far as I know.

11 minutes ago, !james said:

Stokes has been training with us then? Assumed he wouldn't arrive til the end of the season with Aldershot... 

I think he's been doing one day a week with us when Aldershot don't have a midweek game. Same with Palmer-Houlden.

“It makes me laugh because 12 days ago everything was great”

So he does read OTIB then!

Just now, Mr Popodopolous said:

Didn't Ian say he'd be there for Middlesbrough, Southampton or QPR at worst??

Technically he was there for QPR.

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One positive on the injury front has been the return to training of Ayman Benarous with the young midfielder having experienced nearly two years of injury misery following two ACLs and then hamstring issues since the autumn which have delayed his intended comeback.

The 20-year-old who last played for City on April 30, 2022, has trained over the last two weeks at the HPC with the intensity of his sessions being gradually increased and Manning hopes the playmaker can be involved in an U21s soon to further build up his fitness, with the end goal being a first-team appearance before the end of the season.

“With the duration he’s been out, you don’t want to force it, rush it and set him back, you do have to be careful,” Manning said. “Getting him increased minutes in 21s games, upping his workload with us in training and if he responds to the fixtures, then I’m hopeful.”

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-injury-naismith-twine-9133489

Excellent, another thread that was clearly started with the best of intentions descends into the same old arguments.

Well done to the usual suspects, you're absolutely strangling the life out of the forum.

58 minutes ago, petehinton said:

no doubt has never seen him play and the above is just completely made up 

It reads like something that a ChatGPT would churn out.

A good 90% of the replies to anything that a football club posts on social media give the distinct impression that the person replying shouldn't be allowed unsupervised access to the internet.

Is that Keith Downing on the Blackburn staff?

He was a victim of the last year or so of LJ/MA where we abandoned the idea of building a squad and were just trading for the sake of it.