luke_bristol

0% win record at Ashton Gate 

3 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

Bojo ? What is that ?

Boris Johnson…sorry if you forgot he exists but he’s still in my brain

7 hours ago, phantom said:

 

Assume you both realise that you actually control who you follow and what information you follow 

The “For You” tab actually generates content that goes against your “grain”.

If you’re a massive BoJo fan (more fool you) you’ll get content in the “For You” tab praising Caroline Lucas or tweets from James O’Brien pushing his latest book. It’s designed to take out of a bubble but actually just ends up being a bit of baked-in antagonism.

4 minutes ago, The Bard said:

There is not any left wing media dominance here. 

Unless you think the Times  Telegraph, Mail, Express, Sun, Talk TV, GB News etc are bastions of Socialism. 

Not having any kind of actual left wing to counterbalance the gun toting lunacy has left Americans with a choice between someone who is mad and someone who is senile.  

 

I agree but I didn’t mention the media in the U.K., although there’s always Ch4 and the Guardian, though they have their own issues. The media in the US though is in a league of their own, see attached image that tickled me today.
 

Absolutely agree on the Trump/Biden “wicked problem”, and the Trump/Clinton one before it. Surely the US could find two better candidates in a three person bus queue.

Wish me luck seeing it here in Nepal, at least the time difference means it’ll be on at a more appropriate hour

I do think a derby game is ideal for LM. If the players aren’t up for it then there can’t be any excuse, and I don’t think Cardiff fans would accept their side playing for the draw, so hopefully it will be the sort of game that suits us and we can get back to winning ways.

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

I know one of the clubs watching him are fully aware of how Tommy is being impacted by our current way of playing.

He’s as good as gone. We need to start planning for life without him next season, how depressing.

On 25/02/2024 at 23:52, Alessandro said:

I’m no scholar on the history of the culture wars so bow to your better judgement - but I’d certainly argue it’s the right’s favourite political tool…

Given the left in the USA used their media dominance and an army of online activists (and Wikipedia) to redefine the term “recession” to protect Biden from criticism (no such luck for right-wing Rishi Sunak when our own two consecutive quarters of negative growth came along) and organisations like Mermaids in the U.K. are trying to paint anyone who objects to kids having their tits cut off in the name of gender ideology as bigots, I’d suggest the left aren’t shy of a bit of cultural warfare either. 

Steven Pinker did a decent job in the early 2000s of outing scientists and left-wing academics that were putting politics ahead of facts, and you could argue it goes even further back to the emergence of particular branches of social science and psychology (dominated by the left both then and to this day) in the 1970s.

As a political centrist with leanings to both left and right on particular issues it’s certainly a topic I find fascinating and horrifying in equal measure, as you can probably tell! 

On 25/02/2024 at 23:58, Wivs7 said:

Hi Luke, I still back him but think he has got things wrong in the last two games in the way he got things right against Southampton. What do you think? 

I think on the whole he’s done a poor job (with the occasional flash of brilliance such as the Saints game) in not particularly trying circumstances, and it was obvious from the start that he’d need time and money, neither of which we had or have. 

5 hours ago, Wanderingred said:

I had a dream that the Thailand national team joined the FA cup and City got drawn away against them. The away allocation was full so my father and I went in the home end but everybody knew that we were away fans cos we were the only white people there. Then they started singing the Christmas carol “glory to the newborn king” as the teams came out. We lost 2-0. 

If you think that’s daft, some of us were dreaming of a play-off charge this season.

40 minutes ago, Alessandro said:

He may be right about this binary world - however it has ALWAYS been this way in football - long before the right wing started their culture war.

Football is and always has been tribal - fans generally either like or dislike a manager, or should I say rate or not rate - often for some intangible emotional reason and will focus on the negatives (defeats and sometimes even wins!) rather than the positives (wins and good performances) or excuse the negatives and focus on the positives.

Has been that way with teams and managers for as long as I can remember. Nothing new. 

The right wing didn’t start the culture war, but absolutely agree. This is a global issue that goes well beyond football.

3 minutes ago, frenchred said:

I listened to 3 peaps podcast today for the first time in a long time, in all honesty I got bored with their club "love in"! After listening today it is now more apt, punchier and relevant then the FBC one, I'm afraid Mr Gay is dragging the whole pod down, and I was very tolerant of him previously.

I just cannot accept him snake charming!

What does Matt Withers think of LM now?

Ultimately I think the decision point should come at the end of the season, not in November (unless we’re rooted to the foot of the table).

We can’t afford half-measures this summer; if we’re sticking with him then we need to back him properly, not give him £200k to play with while selling TC and Cam Pring. With his own team he might do well, we’ve seen in the saints and Watford games that he can get decent results with performances to match, but he’s clearly not able to get any more out of the current squad than NP was able to, and that’s with much better player availability.

Never dull is it? Well maybe the last two games were.

4 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Think he got close to that yesterday with the "players need to want to learn" 

Perhaps Premier League winner Andy King just isn’t up to learning anything…

8 minutes ago, italian dave said:

I’m probably going to get battered even more so than @RedM for this, but for me this thread pretty much sums up the negativity and the determination to find fault with anything Manning that’s so prevalent on here at the moment.

There are ups and downs, pros and cons, black and white and various shades of grey in any club and any season and especially when managers change.

Yet reading through the posts so far what stands out is the determination to attribute every single negative to Manning and every single positive to something or someone else.

Thats not being critical of your question, @Dredd. It’s a reasonable one. It’s more about what follows.

And, as a slight aside but another example of the negativity, @Merrick's Marvels - apart from the generic aspiration that any club in the Championship would have promotion as an ambition, who has ever said that promotion this season is or was our objective?? 

Eh?! It’s what Gavin Marshall said in his ITV interview after NP was sacked!

29 minutes ago, Bs4Red said:

Pearson 1.29ppg this season

Manning 1.21ppg this season. 
 

When NP left the club we were in 15th position.

Not sure which part of anything I have said is incorrect. But again thanks for your input. 

 

See you in the Prem!

I think 4-6 points.

Still don’t think we’re in any serious danger of relegation, but only because of points already on the board. I’m more interested in seeing some progress and something to give me some hope for next season.

37 minutes ago, Bs4Red said:

Which stats were incorrect? 
Think you want to read again you clown.

Just be a grown up and admit you were wrong, a typo here and there when typing out PPG/league position is easily done.

Most concerning is that the periods where we’ve managed to get a bit of time to draw breath between games and do some coaching “on the grass” have coincided with our worst performances.

23 minutes ago, Bs4Red said:

Thanks for your input Pete. Tosser

You posted incorrect statistics and he corrected you

1 hour ago, cidercity1987 said:

Ian Gay 'a small minority of the fanbase didn't want Manning as they wanted to retain Pearson'

@headhunter @Curr Avon

Do you agree with this plainly nonsense statement or if not why are you not challenging his bullshit?

Tell me he didn’t say that sentence verbatim, surely not What an absolute clown.

We can’t sack him in November, that would be a second season written off before Christmas and essentially two seasons wasted on LM. It has to be this summer or next.

I think he needs to show by the end of the season that he can get something out of this squad before trusting him with a full summer and some proper money for transfers. 

…should be ringing in the ears of JL and BT.

Never won a major trophy or been in the Prem, yet average 22601 at home in the league so far this season despite the poor season that was effectively written off in November.

Blackburn (Prem winners in mid 90s): 15,114

Hull (recently a PL club, FA cup finalists, Carvalho on loan ffs): 21,675

Huddersfield, Watford, QPR, Swansea and many more with recent success have fewer fans through the gates at home. Even Wigan in L1 have recently won an FA cup and they get barely half our numbers. Does any club with a trophy cabinet as sparsely populated as ours and with such a prolonged absence from the top flight get even close to our attendances?

It’s about time JL and BT realised it “could be worse”. 

Everyone stfu and renew your season tickets, your opinions are unwelcome 

This is absolutely terrible