chinapig

Yep, compare recruitment before Pearson (and Gould) came in with recruitment since. Not just financially sensible but a higher success rate imo. It's often said that if you get 50% of signings right you are doing ok. I'd say we have got significantly more than 50% right. What happened on the pitch was just part of Nigel's positive contribution.

I doubt we will pay more than our upper limit - £undisclosed fee.

I won't believe it until Tinnion DMs somebody it's on the OS.

Indeed, if you do that the opposition can just keep their shape and expect that sooner or later you will give the ball away. Which certainly applies to us.

I think you'll find that their full name is Promotion Chasing Bristol Rovers. ©Bristol Post.

A case of Pearson as a pragmatist and Manning as an idealist perhaps. Nigel knew the limitations of his squad, Liam doesn't yet seem to have seen that.

Thanks for your response. I enjoyed watching Sunderland under Mowbray. Lots of youthful enterprise and energy, attacking at pace, great fun to watch. I'm as big a fan of Mowbray as I am of Pearson so I may be a tad biased! Early days and you will know better than me but under Beale that style doesn't seem to be his preference. I also wonder whether Pritchard's anger when subbed suggests some underlying conflict but that's just speculation on my part.

Watching the Ipswich vs Sunderland game I was struck by how the Ipswich players were constantly on the move and looking to make themselves available to receive a pass. They don't have stellar players so it shows that it can be coached.

It's a top end sow in fact playing on the front trotter.

In which case shouldn't it have been easy to counter them?

Either they were lying or they really believed what they said. Whichever it is they are condemned out of their own mouths as not fit for the roles they fill.

Lansdown and Tinnion made a rod for Liam's back with all the bollox they spouted to justify sacking Nigel. But he will be made accountable if things don't improve. They will carry on happily in their fantasy world without batting an eyelid. It's what they do.

Thanks Dave. It seems to me that this just makes his comments even more egregious since he ought to know better. Especially if he is involved with Plymouth, one of the best run clubs around. Perhaps they ought to be giving him advice instead of vice versa.

I'm repeating myself perhaps but this is just another person who doesn't seem to know that the regs, old and new, were approved by the clubs. The reason some clubs and supporters are panicking now is that they didn't think the rules would ever be applied. The Everton case and the prospect of the independent regulator seems to have concentrated minds. Let them squirm I say!

Typical, all crowding around the ball at once. The under-8s weren't much better mind you.

Correct. We abandoned our youth policy when we were promoted so binned them off. Bad move.

We offered Chesterfield £350k but were turned down.

I love a classy defender more than any other kind of player and they don't come classier than him. Beckenbaur, Moore, Krol, Hansen, Maldini. All heroes of mine in the long lost days of my youth. RIP Der Kaiser.

You can tell Nick Ames isn't a Bristol Sport employee as he didn't feel the need to slag off Nigel or say how great JL and BT are.

From Nick Ames in The Guardian: Liam Manning has been talked about for some time as one of the country’s most promising young managers and the 38-year-old, a former manager of West Ham’s Under-23 side, gave a taste of his style on his return to east London. After a tentative start Bristol City were ambitious, slick and inventive, causing serious problems with their overloads out wide and rotations in the middle. It remains to be seen whether Manning, whose players clearly heeded his half-time call for bravery, can lead the Robins into the top six of a typically madcap second tier in which five points separate sixth spot from 14th, and there is certainly the sense they require more cutting edge. But Tommy Conway’s wonderfully worked equaliser seemed a sign of things to come and if Manning is backed, then perhaps he is the man to turbo-charge a club that routinely falls short of its considerable potential.

Liam has talked about how fit the players are, how together they are and so on. These strengths are down to Nigel and his team but let's face it if Liam was to say that it would not go down well with the hierarchy. If they had any class they would have thanked Nigel and Richard Gould for turning the club around but that would be to admit that they got the club in a mess in the first place. Unfortunately the club is not run by people with that kind of honesty or class.

He's expected to sign a new contract soon. Better get it done before we thrash them in the replay.

Oh no you didn't!

I'm not at all surprised. It seems typical of their woolly thinking if it didn't occur to them that somebody might be both a rugby and a football fan. As we have seen with Tinnion recently it also shows a lack of professional discretion.

It's an insult to our intelligence and when they keep trotting out every week how great the fans are it smacks of insincerity. You'd think by now they'd have realised we are not as gullible as they think. Especially since SL has long made it clear what he thinks of the fans and it isn't that we are great.