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39 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Knight is a midfielder, Gardner-Hickman has been totally anonymous for weeks, so drop him, play Knight alongside Williams & try Conway & Wells as a pair.

All very well but not what a modern, progressive coach like Manning does. Just not funky enough I'm afraid.

We mortals can't possibly understand the subtlety of his tactical brain. Unfortunately neither can the players.

2 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

Jesus even Toby on RobinsTV is asking whether too many teams meetings is too much information.

If he's lost Toby Osborne then that's it. 

How else can Liam "give them the information"? The wrong information admittedly but it's a start.

1 hour ago, DaveF said:

He would have always picked Ipswich above us, bit of a non-starter...

Yep, and he turned down his old club Cardiff. We had no chance of getting him.

I thought Cardiff got far too emotional towards the end of the game. Not the right kind of behaviours.

2 hours ago, Galley is our king said:

He used Pring as an example of a player constantly on loan and not feeling part of BCFC.

To be fair to Tinnion, he said Cam was ready for the first team but was ignored in favour of sending him on yet another loan.

29 minutes ago, Alessandro said:

He keeps talking about us going in the right direction? 

A case of "The operation was a great success but the patient died"?

14 minutes ago, George Rs said:

What the **** are you doing then? 

Hardly seems worth him turning up on match days does it?

Mind you the same could be said of the fans!

1 hour ago, Selred said:

Such an interview answer. 

But he forgot to say his greatest weakness is being a perfectionist.

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

 Most winning managers tell a few white-lies.

You mean Arteta wasn't being sincere when he said Sheff Utd were a tough team to play? How disappointing.

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

Manning and Hogg are too similar in their thoughts.  You need your no2 to challenge you, not agree with you and be telepathic.

Which is what Nigel did with his coaches and Dave Rennie. The best leaders are open to disagreement and prepared to change their mind.

14 minutes ago, headhunter said:

Amidst our detractors it is morale boosting to read the more positive posts like this one from @RedRock.

Our Ipswich review will be LIVE & recorded at 9.00 AM Wednesday and will feature, amongst others @Davefevs & @TomSutton . 

I'm very much in favour of differing views being debated whether on a pod, on here or anywhere else. I'm happy to give a like to somebody I disagree with if I think they have made their point well.

But opinions should be presented rationally and with respect for those you disagree with. If a mature adult can't do that I for one not going to listen to them.

43 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Yeah, think those clubs had THEIR plan for THEIR reasons.  Without understanding how they hit upon their plan, you cannot emulate.

And assuming you have the right plan, if there is such a thing, you need to appoint the best, most suitable people you can to key roles to implement it.

I can't see that JL/BT/LM are those people so the plan is neither here nor there.

2 hours ago, Davefevs said:

I’m on Wednesday morning (after Ipswich).  I wish I’d been on this morning.  Especially having my name called out “on air” re my position that I’d sack Manning.  I’d like to have explained myself.  Not that I’m not comfortable with my reasons.

I’m on SOTC tomorrow evening, I’ve no idea what questions will be thrown at me, or what opportunity I’ll get to expand my reasons.

The problem is you can't have a rational discussion with an irrational person. The more you set out your opinion based on evidence and intelligent analysis the angrier they get.

Anyway, I'll hold yer coat.

25 minutes ago, BCFCGav said:

These are not his players. They don’t suit his style. His one ‘big’ signing in his mould is injured (an ongoing issue here that long precedes LM). He will need the summer.

So we replace the players rather than play in a way that suits them? That seems rather expensive though no doubt he will have money thrown at him in an attempt to rescue JL and BT from their own lies and incompetence.

At least you didn't say 3 transfer windows.

27 minutes ago, Top Robin said:

It's so frustrating. 

A few weeks ago we were playing with pace, high press and passion, to the extent that we beat a Prem team, held another for 120 minutes and stuffed the 'unbeatable' Southampton.

So the squad has it in them but why has it disappeared? 

In the presser before QPR it was put to him how good we were in pressing and transition against Saints.

He bristled and said "Yes but we had control at times". I found that revealing as it suggested he doesn't want to play in a way that best suits our players even if it works. Seems we're going to play his way regardless.

Reminds me of the fictional civil servant who says "It may work in practice but does it work in theory?" That's increasingly how Manning comes across for me.

Presumably when you know who has received his script from Tinnion.

It's easy, just ensure that the 3 people in the most important positions are out of their depth. I can do that.

Yes, but he's done it in a modern, progressive way apparently.

21 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

What a pathway..

Seems like we've installed bollards and a no entry sign to block access.

40 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Bloody hell, if you’ve got a flaw in your comms style, I might have to stop posting!

Not just you Dave, we'd have to shut the forum down! Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.

37 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

You say that - I had to listen to it twice so I could scribe the 1 in 20 quote and confirm the context!

Thank you for your service from a grateful nation.

5 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

He did say, when questioned by Piercy , that he has, or will adapt . Says it would be wrong not to.

I like Piercy , asks questions I want to know the answer to.

Point taken though that seems to contradict him saying he wouldn't change the way he works. There could be a subtle difference I suppose.

Agreed on Piercy, he's excellent.

7 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Wouldn’t change any of his processes or the way he works

This mindset bothers me. It implies he's right regardless of the outcome. Not encouraging to be as rigid in your approach as he seems to be. Good leaders in any context are open to the possibility that they may be wrong.

7 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Can give all the information to the players but they need to step up on pitch

He keeps saying this but it comes across as he's doing fine it's the players' fault.

These sort of things don't come across to me as 'good behaviours'.

All very well but how are his behaviours?

1 hour ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Thanks, myths being debunked is good.

Who has it coming more do you think China? I was going to make a separate post but Everton or Nottingham Forest? Realistically a minimum of two compliant clubs will drop so Burnley, Sheffield United seem gone..but deductions could assist with relegation for one or the other.

Unless they're huge deductions of course.

Hard to say without knowing the detail of the Forest case. And of course they have a lower limit. Tribunals don't set precedents but I can see them getting 6 points deducted if mitigation is factored in.

Who knows if Everton's double jeopardy argument will work? A 4 point deduction would be amusing though!