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Is Bristol Manor Farm on there as well as the Gate?

They still have the stool they used to use with LJ

Depends how stark the gap is between their style and his I suppose. He couldn’t have taken over Harry Redknapp’s Spurs side and had Crouch running through at pace and latching onto cute through-balls in the space behind the CBs One for Fevs?

22,000 at home every week for a team paying premier league ticket prices to see a team that’s never played in the PL, hasn’t played in the top flight in over 40 years, and have never won a major trophy, what other group of fans can say the same?

What a ridiculous comment, I didn’t say anything about the coach. Whether we’d won 10-0 or lost by the same score line, we’d not have been able to draw any conclusions about LM’s ability.

Much, much worse. That was as bad as Holdenball at its worse.

They were including the minibus driver in their fan numbers but it turns out it’s Robbored.

“Front foot”

Henman Hill has better seating than their new stand.

No* Nowhere* C-, Must do better

He can’t afford to stick to his front foot principles though, he’s got til May to get us up to sixth so probably needs to be a little more pragmatic. Points win prizes so I’ll take a few scrappy 1-0s over tika taka

Didn’t think it was the time and place to grill JL. Thought LM came across well, he can certainly talk the talk.

“Ultimately made the decision (to sack NP) because we think the squad is good enough” We can split hairs about what exactly he means by “good enough” if you want but I assume finishing 12th doesn’t qualify as good enough in JL’s eyes and he means the POs.

Not promoted, to get into the Playoffs. It was during his club interview rather than the longer BBC one with Joe Sims.

He said that’s the standard he expects from this squad, it was the basis for the decision to sack NP. He may find that comes back to haunt him, but let’s all hope it doesn’t and LM gets us up there.

Looked a bit like Holden at first, can you imagine Good luck LM and COYR

Remember, we’re fans when City are doing well - let us know how great we are, give us your positive feedback, etc - but you’ll find we’re only mere customers when times are tough.

What’s been most telling for me is not poll results on OTIB - and there’s no reason to believe they’re not representative of the wider fan base - but the shocked reaction of neutrals, and it’s important to remember that they’re unlikely to be aware of the context of NP’s reign such as the drastically reduced wage bill, loss of AS and others, and other impacts NP had away from the actual results on the pitch.

Failure is not reaching the play offs, JL said it himself.

Ian Gay appears to be a poor man’s Roy de Alien.

Manning should be given time in the same way NP was, i.e. only if he slashes the wage bill and delivers year on year improvements in league position. I could stomach missing the play offs this season as he needs to bed in, but JL and BT have set the expectation, so I don’t think letting him go at this point next season if we’re not in the POs is inconsistent with the standard that JL and BT have set. I hope he’s on a two year or 12 month rolling contract with an option for extensions based on top 6 finishes.

This is mental, Romero always looks like a red card waiting to happen when I see him play, and he could have had two in this game edit; and he’s gone

cheers Nige

I know two people that work for the club, and they are absolutely rigid about not revealing any information. I’ve never had any gossip from them (both of them are model professionals).