bexhill reds

Ref couldn’t wait to give that

1 minute ago, Fordy62 said:

Excellent cross and header. Truly awful defending. 

Talking about their goal or ours

Amazing what a byline cross can do for a striker…..

1 minute ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said:

In 2017 BT has about as much influence on who got sold as the tea lady. He was pretty much derided by most on here- not good enough etc.

I think his old man was a fairly regular itk  poster towards the end of his time here

Just now, Wade Wilson said:

Sold him for £400k though didn’t we? Cheers Mr Tinman, what a deal. 

He was a bit part player at the time that found he mojo later on, plenty to had a dig at Tinnion with but not that

Just now, The Original OTIB said:

Sub not needed, then they score.

Think it was an injury, not a change for the sake of it

Cornick signalling to the bench and gesturing to hamstring

Have we just witnessed a miracle?? A Mehmeti goal?? Dear whatever omnipotent figure you might follow….

3 minutes ago, IAmNick said:

I'll tell you what he's not - he's not a striker, they score goals

Needs to be played as a striker though

2 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

With VAR Morsy’s challenge is a yellow at least.

Sort of player he is, hope Williams keeps his head & only nails him legally.

I know he can lose his head, but I think he’s more than capable of a legal looking payback challenge. Going to be interesting watching that little match up in the 2nd half

Just now, ExiledAjax said:

Joe Williams is using this game as a therapy session isn't he.

Naughty foot left on him. You can see why he was slightly incensed..

1 hour ago, cotswoldred2 said:

.it's not as if we are getting stuffed 4 or 5 the REAL problem is out misfiring strikers. If TC was on form we would be having a very different conversation.

Ah, so that fact that that we are not actually creating any clear chances or giving our strikers any form of service is actually not due to whatever style Manning is trying come up with, it’s actually down to the form of our strikers and TC in particular???

We don’t need to be stuffed by 4 or 5 a game at present, one or perhaps two goals against us (assuming we get lucky from a corner) would suffice for our opponents to get all 3 points at present.

I’m not one for attacking the poster, but you’ve got to be somewhat delusional if you think that the concerns that are being manifested by a large number of posters on here of late are made irrelevant and not worthy of debate simply by a 21 year old striker not being in form….

I do admire your panglossian optimism however unfounded. 

3 hours ago, italian dave said:

First rule of OTIB, Super. If there's an angle for criticising Manning, start at least three threads on it.

Second rule. Most things are open to interpretation. Find the right angle.

I'm beginning to think that Liam Manning is to OTIB what Megan Markle is to the Daily Mail.

(And, yes, "Nige" is our own Kate Middleton)

It’s a forum of made up of seeming mostly unhappy punters, someone starts a thread with something that amuses / irritates / annoys depending of the previous results or interview / press article and people chose to read and interact. If the thread gets some traction then it flies, if there is no interest then it disappears.

In the past the criticism has been player focussed and you could pick your scapegoat depending on the game, so we’ve had combinations of Tanner, O’Leary, Williams, Bell, Naismith, Cornick, and more recently Mehmeti even Dire as being the aim for people’s ire, now it’s Manning’s turn.

Clearly some of it will be a lingering dissatisfaction arising from the way in which the previous manager was dispensed with, but some and I think this covers a lot of the recent posts (rightfully in my view) will be people who are pissed off with performances, tombola team selections, incoherent tactics and regimented 60 min substitutions.

I'm not sure it’s fair to simply dismiss questions or opinions about Manning as some form of Daily Mail-esque Meghan Markle agenda, that’s the perks of being the manager / head coach of a club in a very poor run of form. I’m sure he’s got more important things to consider like selecting what player to play totally out of position to demonstrate his coaching genius than to read the thoughts of some “made-up-random-city-related name” anonymised account on the forum.

The forum remains a place for people to vent and occasionally for there to be some interesting and thought provoking debate, and for me at this time Manning remains fair game.

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.

2 hours ago, redsquirrel said:

more like reg prescott in the making

edit,link didnt work

 

Thank you for posting this, I forgotten about Reg Prescott. Funny as….. 

Kenny Everett was an underrated genius.

2 minutes ago, The Original OTIB said:

Biggest problem for me is that we do not turn teams around. We spend so much time faffing about in the central third that any team has so much time to set in shape. A key factor is to move the ball quicker into space in behind, turn the opposition around quickly, and have willing runners in number attacking the box, with some withdrawn to confuse and create space. 

If that means laying up balls into the space behind the full backs, then so be it. A form of long ball, but it can be effective. Gives you the means to turn the opposition around, press them out of shape and win the ball back if need be. Key also is that pressing can create throw ins high up the pitch for which you need a plan. You can't just twirl the ball then drop it for another player to throw back down the line towards your own goal (as we do 90% of the time).  You need to get it back in play quickly, having a preconceived strategy that prevents the opposition falling into organisation and shape. 

 

It was noticeable that we upped our tempo in the last 10 mins yesterday and that brought about a bit more pressure and our offside goal. We do seem to be a better team if and when we play at a pace.

Are elements of the way he wants his teams to play is that we mix that up a bit by keeping the ball at the back to drag teams forward and to lose their shape and then to “pounce” with pace?

If that’s the case then the players are at fault and or are not capable of playing the way he wants them to, as evidently we are not doing that, there are no clever through-balls nor does anybody we put wide, apart from perhaps Pring and to lesser extent McCrorie, try to take their player on and get behind them.

Arguably Cornick’s goal against Southampton and Conway’s at the London Stadium might be the best example of what Mannings style could achieve.

My anger and frustration into where we are right now with the performances of late, the inability to adapt during games, and the evident removal of the unity that Pearson had instilled in this group of players (demonstrated by the finger point and arguing on the pitch yesterday) wants Manning unceremoniously kicked out of the door.

My Sunday morning pragmatic head says what if there is merit to the style he wants to play should he be given the time, the players he needs to implement that, and be given budget that we apparently didn’t have when Scott was sold.

The pragmatic me is not sure that sacking him now would have the desired effect, the toughest games we have remaining are bar Swansea the next 4 or 5, the club would struggle to get anyone else in of quality and they in turn would struggle to impose their style in that time frame which ultimately suggests we’d could have the same series of results, therefore why change now?

Let the season meander out, Manning has a summer window, a preseason and 10-12 games next year to demonstrate he’s got the ability to get a team that is moderately successful in his mould, if not then change and we start all over again….

Just listened to his post match. Players fault again, not brave enough. Where LJ used to measure the height of the grass pre game, Manning measures the gap under the bus to ensure that the players will fit when he chucks them under it.

14 minutes ago, headhunter said:

9.00 Sunday

Think you should have a go at 6pm tonight rather than have night to think about it.

1 minute ago, Andy082005 said:

….just joking lads 

He’s absolute pony. Completely clueless 

Get him gone 

One of the few times I 100% agree with you… 

12 minutes ago, Johnr1986 said:

We are bang in trouble now, manning tactics and lineups are confusing, we were such a better team under Pearson 

At least they knew what they were doing to a man, we might of got beat by Cardiff at their place, but he had a banged up team putting in some sort of performance. This was just insipid back passing shit

4 minutes ago, formerly known as ivan said:

Thanks, wasn’t the main point of the post but had to drop it in there .

 

And so you should. I don’t know you but I will be immediately wetting the baby’s head with Gold, as I’ve wet the bed already. Congratulations my man…

6 minutes ago, Sniper said:

Can't get my head around WTF has happened since West Ham, Southampton, Boro, then this crap.

Had a really good feeling about today, so lumped £100 on the win, but as always, they let me down

4 minutes ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

Never bet on City I thought everyone knew that!

A fool and his money and all that. I strongly encouraged my son to put £50 on Cardiff to win at 16:5 last night, easy money.

Manning, take your cones, behaviours, patterns, HPC pitch arrows, plastic Pep coaching handbook, Scott Twine and Mehmeti then get the **** out of this club. You truly are the most hopeless ***** of a manager. Hopelessly out of your depth.

Playing better with pace, why has it taken 88 mins to work that out. So ******* angry about this clueless ***** of a head coach 

Just now, Fordy62 said:

I’m stuck at a kids party. I’m guessing it’s the standard sort of display, but can someone entertain me by telling me how Mehmeti is playing?

See the 5 year old in front of you that’s running around cluelessly fuelled up on Haribo, a bit like that without the running around…