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I think the point being alluded to is that the belief is that Manning is one of these new “textbook” coaches where everything is based on theory rather than experience, magnets on the whiteboard as it were. A lot of this comes from coaches like Pep being put on a plinth as a new football management god without the acceptance that he’s made to look world beating because money is no object when acquiring players. With no disrespect to Rotherham, would a Pep type coach be able to go in and get them promoted with a very limited budget. Having learnt some of of his trade in the City group of clubs, it’s clear that he is a disciple of that type of coaching, brilliant if you’ve got academies full of the brightest and best, but not with an inherited squad of arguably 3 managers worth of signings. I’m not sure that academy coaches necessarily are tactically astute enough to immediately make the transition to management, especially in the Championship, that is not to say they won’t, but they’ve got to learn their trade lower down. Managers like Johnson (Snr), Cotterell, and Pearson all did the dirty work before they came to use and were adept to various levels of success in getting a team out of a collection of odds and sods. I don’t think Manning has this ability, that’s not to say he won’t, but I’m not sure that the Championship is the best place to learn it.

Then this recreates problems we’ve had in the past, players brought in to play a certain manager’s way on lengthy contracts become spare parts should we decide that this head coach is better with a PowerPoint than being tactically astute and we go down a different route - again… I’ve seen sparks of something and at times we’ve played well, but you’ve got to look at the trend, and the trend is not great. His post match yesterday was enough for me, when you are criticising the players and openly questioning whether they can learn, when he clearly made yet more selection errors and then just threw on anyone on the bench that could kick a ball in the 2nd half almost as an American Football Hail Mary, but failed to accept any responsibility tells me all I need to know. He might be a great coach at junior and U21 level where he would not be questioned, but at this level you are questioned regularly and he appears to have no answer or idea other to churn out buzzwords or now throw others under the bus. This experiment has not worked and best to end it before more longer term damage is done

Naismith and King caretaker management duo???

I picked up on that, referenced learning 3 times…need to learn, want to learn, capable of learning. Nothing like assessing whether your teaching skills are up to it or whether you totally know what you want to teach….

Do one mate, lots of people are angry with the shite that is being served up at present. Millwall got rid of their coaching starlet because it was not working. Out of his depth at this level.

Manning out. Simple as, that was as clueless and disjointed as you get, and that was with days off and a full week of training. The Lansdown’s clearly can’t pick a manager.

We could have another 30 and still not create a decent chance…

What a let down that game was…

The refreshing answer would be, I started 2 players that were clearly unfit, and I’m beginning to think I’m out of my depth at this level…

That’s looking ever likely…

If Sheff W score again then I reckon this could be a 4 or 5 goal drubbing.

No, just massively frustrated about watching another abject performance, sorry if that offends.

Factually accurate though…

Least he’d put a boot in….

Frankly you could stick a tub of lard on the touch line and it would be more effective

Mehmeti obviously did enough to warrant staying on the pitch…FFS

Perhaps not, but watching shite like this makes people angry and frustrated..

Yep. There will be some that will say that he’s not got the players to play the type of football he wants to play, but you have to get the best out of what you’ve got, and I’m not sure Manning has the ability to do that. I was buying into what I was seeing but this is really poor and is a bit of a regularity at present. I see that Millwall pressed the button on their version of plastic Pep, might not be the worst idea.

I’d stay out…. Don’t rush back for this.

Dreadful goal to concede again… dire defending

Really dull game this… not even tactically interesting.

Pring is not looking fit and this pitch will do him no favours.

Standard fare….

Cliched perhaps, sardonic definitely, but not worthy of that reaction. Attack the post not the poster…

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