The Bard

1 hour ago, Graham76 said:

If Manning gets sacked then who deputises whilst we recruit a new Manager?   Hogg doesn't seem like the type who would step up or be capable of getting us out of this mess.  We would therefore probably need someone immediately on a short term basis to save us from relegation. Big Sam?  Warnock?  Brian Tinnion?  

Sack him after West Brom as 2 weeks before next game 

13 hours ago, The Original OTIB said:

Sunderland now lost 5 in a row so giving it a good go as well. Sure their fans not impressed with their hiring and firing either.

Us, Sunderland and Brim

3 sides who sacked managers doing good jobs all of whom have suffered since.

Just shows the real incompetents are the owners and Directors of Football 

13 hours ago, City1970 said:

Manning is doing better than I expected. Perhaps the Lansdowns are thinking the same.

Only if you're all on crack.

8 hours ago, BCFCGav said:

And what did they do to Pearson as soon as it started to bear fruit…

Whoever the manager is, they will ensure we fail. That’s exactly my point!

Absolutely.  It's the model.  Not worth investing. Buy potential,  develop your own , sell on.  Ensure you have a mid table side with the potential to have a good season if things fall into place, but don't overinvest.

Ensure the main businesses ( Bcfc & Bears) have high costs which probably appear as an income in the holding company's accounts.

He's making it pay.

Trouble is with City that changing a competent manager who will deliver on this and replacing with a student of the game with no real understanding of the wider aspects of a club is risking the mid table turning into relegation. 

I think Manning has 2 games to get a win or we're looking at a new coach for the international break.

8 hours ago, Harry said:

They scored 10 seconds after the 4 subs. We’d brought Sykes on and he switched off. 
Not sure how LM could have reacted to the 4 subs when they literally scored immediately after 

Glad someone else noticed Sykes asleep 20 yards from his man

1 minute ago, 1960maaan said:

Played MF and CB too

Centre back!

Flipping he'll.

Just now, Super said:

Did he always play RB for Aberdeen?

Yep.

But that was against Raith Rovers and Cutters Choice vets

Just now, Better Red said:

McCorie is an accident waiting to happen.

Beats him 3 times and then he loses it…

I am trying to hold back about him, hoping I will be proved wrong, but, he's brainless. Athlete but poor football brain. Makes dumb decisions all the time.

Promise you he does Vyner's head in.

2 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

The scapegoats Cornick and Mehmeti started well. 

Cornick has been good. Mehmeti shite

How many more TV games have we got?

City players in playing much better on TV shock..

Just now, Davefevs said:

I thought Hoggy was gonna do it, and I’d missed it.

Should get Tubby to do it.  I'd watch

34 minutes ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

Tinnion has probably had a promotion too far. It wasn't that long ago that he was viewed as a genius skillfully placing academy kids out on loan, monitoring their progress and feeding back information when they might advance to the 1st team squad. Funny how things change. 

Very generous use of the word probably there Royston.

Cracker this week 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/picture/2024/mar/05/david-squires-on-mark-clattenburg-nottingham-forest-dropped-ball-furore

5 hours ago, bexhill reds said:

TBH I can see the OPs logic about getting beat, sometimes an ineffective and hopeless manager needs a game to but them out of their misery, 7-1 at Swansea is an excellent and appropriate example of this.

That said with the run of games coming up, unless the club have already spoken to someone and got them primed, then there won’t be enough time to recruit a new manager and have them get any sensible work on the training ground to make any improvement on the mess that Plastic Pep has made to this squad and is unlikely to change any outcome, so I think the die has been cast with regard to us getting further into a relegation scrap. 

So it’s up to Manning and his wealth of experience in coaching academy U23s where results are irrelevant to get us out of this mess.

International break after West Brom

2 hours ago, sephjnr said:

By that logic, Plymouth are a bigger club than West Ham.

The absolute neck of this club.

Basic laws of supply and demand.  Low supply with high demand. Means price ( or in this case qualifying criteria) go up.

On 02/03/2024 at 21:55, DaveInSA said:

I go about three games a season. Maybe I’m not best placed to say this. 

But today was rubbish. 

Cardiff had no threat. Were generally awful. And yet, we were worse.

There’s nothing positive about this club. We’ll have 4-5 new players for 2024-2025.

Season tickets will be bought.

Manning will be god.

and if we’re not in the bottom 3 this time next year I will be amazed.

nothing in that game was good offensively. Zero. We could play for 165 years and not score. It was piss poor. 

 

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Going occasionally enables you to see the direction of travel clearer.

A bit like seeing a fairly distant relative after 3 years and thinking "they've aged/put on some timber "

Sheff U were shite last season I thought. Didn't understand how they got up. Obviously repeated the trick of winning 1 0 despite being terrible a few times.

Burnley were great at dominating at our level but they aren’t managing that in the Prem.

1 hour ago, Numero Uno said:

Managers normally take over when a club is in the shit. Most would bite your hand off to take charge of a side with no attitude problems and bumbling along comfortably in mid-table. What most probably wouldn't be doing in that scenario is ripping the lot up and ******* the lot up.

If Liam tried to "beat anyone up" Andy King or Matty James would probably tell him to shut the **** up" and that wouldn't happen again.

If a selection of players  maybe James, Naismith,  Vyner, Wells Contacted Steve Lansdown to advise that it's a s***show, what do you suppose would happen?

Did Steve pick Manning?

21 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Yep, absolutely. He's already recorded on the club's own social media output as telling players "I've told you already...".

At which point, there's the distinct possibility a few of them were thinking "who the heck are you". The worse results are, the more likely this reaction.

It's why we're getting rid of lots of experienced players and replacing them in the summer with teenagers from Aldershot, Ireland and who knows what other minor leagues.

Which is exactly where we'll end up if Tinnion and puppet Manning remain in charge long enough.

'I've told you already '

seriously?

****

Imagine what Matty James thinks of him?

One look from Nigel Pearson would be more effective than any number of angry Manning and Johnson talking tos

7 hours ago, cidered abroad said:

Very improbable?

Don't kid yourself, keep losing and we will be well and truly in the scrap to stay up. And those that have been in the bottom four or five all season will be well aware of how to fight for points. Whereas we've been comfortable in mid table all the season.

This

5 hours ago, Baldyman said:

No team has given us a real hiding all season . ( from a scoreline perspective) Can’t even recall us conceding 3 goals in a game if I’m honest . I fear that may change with interest tomorrow night  Our defence has been our strength all season but Vyner seems less focused as each game passes and Dickie and MCrorie seem to be getting more hacked off with life with every game . Not sure we’ll continue with our resilience at the back to keep scorelines respectable too much longer . 

We need Tanner at right back tomorrow. Mcrorie is unconvincing defensively.  

Think he played him on the left because he didn't think him and Mcrorie would work.  He is a great player in front of Tanner for sure but Mcrorie leaves the Right back position to overlap, so, I guess  Manning wants someone at right mid  whose first instinct is to come inside.

28 minutes ago, Simon bristol said:

The system might work, we just have people incapable of working it. And i don’t think theres a lot wrong with the academy either, at least when nige was giving people chances.

Which is the key to making the academy work.

For every Alex Scott there's a Sam Pearson.