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Just now, The Coach said:

Well done team

Liam Manning get out the club still though yeah?

Absolutely buzzing well done city

What's mental is the lack of posts when things are going right.

You reds

Love this club

Just now, pillred said:

All the Mehmeti haters, what now?

Love it

Fair play Anis ... hoping this brings that confidence back.

Think people abit ott with his performance tonight 

3 hours ago, Andy sprod said:

Because he and his coaching team were capable of building a football club, unlike the the billionaire owner and his son who have over 20yrs spunking millions at making us bang average.

That's got nothing to do with what I said though! 

1 hour ago, redsquirrel said:

if all that was the case, the board should have sacked everyone else first and said there wasnt a job left for NP as his work was done here.

Sorry,but with all due respect, i dont agree with much of that

Why would you sack everyone first and then leave 1 man on crutches that cannot take training 

1 hour ago, robinforlife2 said:

I agree with a lot that Ghost Rider has put to be honest.

I personally find it rather pathetic the amount of Nige threads ranging from a leaving card to how fans want to chant for him every week etc. Nigel Pearson came in to do a job. What was done off the field, was done very well. However, this was not JUST because of him. It was because of many people employed to work towards that remit. Whoever was manager, would have had to work within that remit. On the pitch however, we were poor. We were under achieving and we weren't going anywhere. It was time for a change for one the pitch reasons. People seem to praise Nige for bringing down the wage bill, steadying ship etc. However, do you really think it was Nige chatting to players about lesser term contracts, identifying affordable targets. He even said many times, the coaches done the training not him! People say he blooded in the youth, he had no choice, no manager had any choice, whoever was in the job would have had to have done that. Yet he still turned to Andy King ahead of the youth so many people say he was keen to blood in!

It was not just Pearson who was responsible for the transition, there was a whole team of people. Pearson's number one job was to get performances on the pitch and he failed at it. I really do not get the love in one little bit.

He was part of a team who steadied a ship through tough times, don't get me wrong, but he was not some vital cog that without it all fell apart. Had he concentrated on getting us to play better and get results, he wouldn't have lost his job.

The love in with him is a joke. We won nothing under him, we were bang average and the way he is lorded like he won us every trophy under the sun, because he was relatable, spoke his mind and had the fans backing is somewhat crazy! The fans who idolised him, were hoodwinked, he played up to the board, when he knew the fans weren't happy with the board. He tried to make himself untouchable by having the fans on his side, by calling out the owners and trying to manipulate them into a new deal. He knew he was getting sacked and deservedly so. He just tried to roll the dice by getting the fans on the backs of the owners and on his side, to try and get what he wanted. Yet he was continuously failing to improve us on the pitch. 

His time had come, the board made the right decision to try and progress and improve. If it works it works, if it doesn't it doesn't, but it was not going to work under Pearson, so despite many fans on here wanting to fall to their knees and bow to someone who achieved NOTHING here, he was not the answer. There is a chance Manning might be, there's also a chance he won't be and the dice will be rolled again.

Brilliant post... there's a storm a'comin

2 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

It is because we are limited to 90+ minutes for our information. We don't know what's happening in training, whether he is carrying injury or any of the other things the manager will base his selections on.

I also don't understand this obsession that some of our fans have with starting eleven's, football hasn't been an 11 man game for a good 10 years or more, every player in the squad knows they potentially have a part to play on match day. If TGH wasn't getting in the squad, that would be harder to understand.

Well said

I think he deserves a fair chunk of minutes like bell has had ,some players don't just hit the ground running he may build up his confidence and not look back. 

Just now, The Original OTIB said:

Have a lie down. 

I hope I execute it properly 

1 minute ago, The Original OTIB said:

Don't mind anything if well executed.

I can take people being negative about the tactics and subs but a fist bump really

4 minutes ago, The Original OTIB said:

Manning's fist pump needs to go, about as convincing as Dad dancing.

What would you want the manager to do instead? Bet you detested Gary johnson bouncing around

Great win push on now Mr Manning!

Just now, BigTone said:

Bell needs a loan

Could say same for anis!

1 minute ago, BigTone said:

Needs to be moved on in January IMO

Or Bell, but will need a replacement asap

1 minute ago, Sheltons Army said:

Ironic from a LJ fanboy 

More of a GJ fanboy a proper club legend 

Ben & jerries and romcoms all night is it lads

16 minutes ago, Meh said:

Interesting you say a few windows.

How soon do people think we may realistically be able to challenge top 6 again out of interest - head ruling heart?

Do you think that even can happen under the current top level team?

Don't want to start a new topic as that happens too often anyway

Championship is too difficult for most teams to predict top 6 , I'd hope next season is given more of a go but I've been let down way too many times

6 minutes ago, Meh said:

The board and Tinnion for their terrible decision and in the case of the former, the timing really annoys me.

I still do not get why they appear to be willing to back signings will be needed and will give LM funds in Jan or mainly the summer YET gave NP nothing last summer (I know we bought a couple but compared to funds that came in for Semenyo prior and Scott it was never enough).

They clearly set NP up to fail so why not get rid at end of 22/23 and give a new manager the chance to make some signings who felt would work in his team and the way he wanted to play.

Nobody would know if we would now be better or worse off but we would have players that fit the system. We now seem to be back to “tombola” formation and players as LM is trying to adapt his style and over-thinking.

I doubt he was set up to fail as this is a business foremost and the worse you do the less money you make (or more you lose) , would of been nice to see pearson get a decent budget but to be honest it's not like many of his signings throughout have really wowed us. I'm praying the next few windows are good

19 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

At least the three Pete mentions below.  All three loads better than Huddersfield too.

Agree, those 3 sprung instantly to mind

Where were you at the start of last season, when Naismith made a few, or Vyner did, that cost us results in good performances?

I was there dont worry about that, supported pearson hes gone now support Manning 

Just now, bcfc01 said:

Well, Norwich was certainly that.

But, like today, we should have been out of sight anyway.

Yeah I'm intrigued to see who's brought in January because the squad obviously needs it. I think results wouldn't be too different under Pearson or Manning.

Cant wait for pearson to get another job so the nigel pearson army can go and support whoever he takes over, Christ there's so much season to go yet with hopefully a positive transfer window. 

It also feels like every goal we have conceded since Manning has been here have been individual errors rather than team performance.

Confident for Manning and the boys to get 3 points saturday