IAmNick

Probably just a pretty normal kid who liked some subjects, didn't like others, and had a few mates.

Good post and I largely agree. However - is the real question whether we have appetite (as fans) for a rebuild or not? We've been told this is the way the club will now play, so in theory even if Manning goes the next person is likely to run into the exact same problems. Maybe they'll be better at meeting in the middle, but regardless they'll need a new squad to match this style of football we apparently want. In wanting to replace him, we're really hoping the club change strategy and appoint someone who will play a style that suits our players. In theory that should be very unlikely based on what the club have said So I guess if Manning goes, we're looking at a rebuild regardless. So it comes down to whether he's the right man to do that - and the stuff about the style not matching and the fact he'll need to rebuild is irrelevant? Is the real question here - do you agree with the current style of play the club are trying to implement? Everything else is a factor of that.

Will Still, because he likes computer games and so do I. He also said he'd be open to managing in the Championship recently: "I would work for a Championship team without a problem,” said Still. “What I’ve now understood, I’ve now realised, is how important people are. And how important finding the right place to be is going to be for my career. And people who understand the way I work, because I’m a bit different. I’m a bit odd sometimes. But if there’s a Championship club that’s ambitious, that wants to work in the right way and be open and honest about things, and really try and push to get somewhere, then I would love to do that." He operates in our environment: “Because of the DNA of the club, and the way the club is run, we get players in and then sell them,” Still explains. “So, every six months to a year, you just have to renew the whole squad and the whole team. And that’s what happened again here in January. Basically, we sold our best player and we’re now looking to find a new balance.” "“We were basically stripped down to bare bones — playing with kids,” Still says. “Which was really interesting, but makes life a bit more complicated.” On January 21, Reims went to third-tier Sochaux in the last 32 of the French Cup. They finished the game with eight players from the second team on the pitch and were beaten 5-4 on penalties after a 2-2 draw." And he kind of gets where we are at the moment as well: “You can either make a bit of money and sell players, stay a stable club in Ligue 1 where we finish between eighth and 12th, or you decide to really push on, keep your best players, do that for a year or two, get into European competitions, and make your money.” The club is left at a strategic crossroads.

Just the 4 wins and 2 draws at home in the last 6 then for them. Not great - I'd take a bit of being not great in that case then!

His control AND shot for the goal were both pretty awful I thought, but I admired the fact he was looking to get forward and take players on. That's what allowed it to happen and it was well deserved imo. Also a good bit of skill to make space for his shot from range - not too many others would have done that. A better performance overall going forward I agree.

That's not how rounding numbers works. We can also tell this because you didn't round the win percentage correctly either Mathematical masterpiece next time instead maybe?

Manning said pre-match that Pring wasn't 100%, and even the Sky commentators said Burns would come on before the end. We needed some kind of mitigation/plan there, and didn't really see it. 7/10 is probably fair I think though

PPG is 1.095 which should be rounded up to 1.1

Christ almighty we didn't just lose to Man City in the cup or something, we lost to a team who only got promoted from League 1 last year and soon won't even be able to see us in their rear view mirror. "We gave it a real go"...

Well done to Ipswich tbh

Ipswich third: https://streamin.one/v/2363c589

Awful pen, well done Max

Luckily we've got him at centre back rather than working on Fermat's Last Theroem then

Ipswich second: https://streamin.one/v/57b12c19

brother why would you say that

HAHAHAHAHAHHA oh ffs

City second (Conway): https://streamin.one/v/8c89f491

Hahahahahahah

:laugh: who is this Mehmeti guy

Agreed. There are enough sticks lying around to beat the club with at the moment - trying to find a "We should have held on to Wes Burns" one is ridiculous.

Ipswich goal: https://streamin.one/v/326eed76

Yeah it was great to see his drive forward. It's funny because his first touch was actually awful, and so was the shot - but the positive play won it as you said.

City goal (Mehmeti): https://streamin.one/v/f271362d

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

Me too, but I've thought that a few times now. The "five pillars" seems to be gone from the website, but it's been archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20140811073302/https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/article/20130206-lansdownfivepillars-641677.aspx They were: Some of it, arguably, we've been decent at. The community engagement is pretty good, and we have achieved Cat 2 status for the academy. The player recruitment seems very familiar to what they're now saying - "The club aims to sign players aged 24 and under more often than not, with older recruits becoming an exception, rather than the norm." but that's definiely not been our approach in the interim! Really I have no idea if I'm right here, but my assumption is we have no mechanism built in to course correct what we're doing. In theory, you'd want your plan and then to iterate on it gradually sensing if the bits you're implementing are moving you in the right direction or not. That needs to be built in, and for that to work you have to be getting honest feedback from everyone at the club, and that making it's way up to the most senior folk there (Tinnion, Lansdown x2). It sounds like we don't have that - the most senior people at the club don't seem terribly good at taking on board honest feedback on the stuff they've implemented (or tried to) so instead we stick with our plan, it gets way off track, then we panic, rip it up, and start again. We've seen that so many times. Then we end up with the beginnings of a plan that's working (Cotterill, Pearson), they try and adjust it or build on it, but the people in charge simply see something sort of working, assume that's job done, why is this bloke telling me I still need to change, and then don't accept the feedback they need to take it to the next level and it all comes unstuck. Rinse and repeat.