Liam Manning - CONFIRMED NEW HEAD COACH

[redkev]

10 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

Definitely better defensively this season - bit our attacking play has gone to pot & we look like we have very little plan, Bar the occasional counter attack. 

I think a mr Scott has a lot to do with that , we do look really bland as an attacking threat this season , 

[Major Isewater]

5 hours ago, Garland-sweden said:

NP-Manning, its like you have a good car then you buy a cheap Skoda. The board say pl, in Cardiff we had 11 injuries, can only laugh about it.

Skodas aren’t cheap anymore.They are also excellent cars and always were. They suffered from the reputation of cheap communist cars and a bad image but were well built and engineered. 
So you’re saying that Manning is a cheap communist with a bad image.

[redsquirrel]

36 minutes ago, Warwickshire Red said:

Have you the seen the price of them these days? Not so cheap and actually very good. Their factories make engines for Audi too as all VAG now.

i work on vag stuff for my day job,apart from the yeti, (nasty cack) they knock spots off the audis,  for anyone considering buying vag, vw deffo the way to go but id take skoda as a second choice.(they use more audi/porsche stuff than vw)

[steviestevieneville]

6 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

It's happened in football before. 

If he comes in and loses 4 or 5 in a row then we can find ourselves drawn into a relegation scrap.

But what if he doesn’t . Bit of a doom & gloom merchant ain’t you ? All you’ve done is be negative but when someone calls  you out you start crying about it  saying you’re being picked on (paraphrasing ) chill out mate . We have to move on & get behind the new bloke . It’s football , it happens 

[Jose]

10 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

Definitely better defensively this season - bit our attacking play has gone to pot & we look like we have very little plan, Bar the occasional counter attack. 

Amazing what happens when you sell your best player for Millions and don’t re invest it isn’t it. 
 

Anyway I’m reading cheap option, don’t buy that at all. Will be a decent compensation package I’d imagine for him and all his staff. Easier to control, yes. Cheap? Don’t think so. 
 

Any worries about him jumping ship so quick? Barely been there half a season and moves at the first opportunity?! 

[Mad Cyril]

6 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

i work on vag stuff for my day job,apart from the yeti, (nasty cack) they knock spots off the audis,  for anyone considering buying vag, vw deffo the way to go but id take skoda as a second choice.(they use more audi/porsche stuff than vw)

You are a gynaecologist or a porn actor?

[astrondrew]

7 minutes ago, Jose said:

Any worries about him jumping ship so quick? Barely been there half a season and moves at the first opportunity?! 

He'll have to impressed here so I'll take it.

[noize]

As silly as the reference is.... Skoda is now owned by Volkswagen and are decent, so i guess City could be the Volkswagen? The original Skodas used to break down a lot, hence the rep.

On a more serious note, to me Manning is a boring, uninspiring choice,  i think because he is unproven with no real experience of getting teams into the prem.

Where's Warnock when you need him  

[astrondrew]

Given how young a coach he is, Manning is probably an electric car.

In which case everyone is needlessly worrying about the unknown and he's actually brilliant and nothing to worry about.

Just to stretch the metaphor beyond breaking point.

[Snufflelufagus]

How long a contract do we think he will get? 2.5 years seems too short. 3.5 years possibly seems about right. Anything longer they really are backing him with blind faith.

[johnheadbcfc]

29 minutes ago, RedReg said:

I would have rather seen them give the million to Nige to spend in January 

But he's been sacked though

[Charlie BCFC]

6 hours ago, Malago said:

It doesn’t matter who we employ, if we keep selling our best players we'll be going nowhere fast.

Not being funny but any good team in this league will sell their best players. All the prem teams coming down will, Brentford did and kept improving, Luton sold a lot of players who were deemed too good for them and kept progressing. Obviously helps keeping your best players, but there are examples

[Red Army 75]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/lansdowns-put-faith-concept-bristol-8888252
 

JP with another good article. 
 

One former City manager once said of how Ashton Gate can “swallow you up” at the worst of times; an oppressive almost suffocating experience.

Interesting part of the piece. Which manager said the above 

Edited November 7, 2023 by Red Army 75

[ORANGE500]

5 hours ago, Garland-sweden said:

Yes but not to a higher ground.

Nigel took us to middle of the road 

[Aaron-Bcfc]

Just now, Red Army 75 said:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/lansdowns-put-faith-concept-bristol-8888252
 

JP with another good article. 

To me this read more as a rambling piece intent on massaging the Lansdowns’ egos at every given opportunity. It gives them far more credit with regards to some master plan being in place than we know to actually be true.

They didn’t like Pearson as a person and are simply reverting back to the “Lee Johnson plan” which ultimately left the club in such a mess last time, with Tinnion now seemingly taking up the role of Mark Ashton.

[glynriley]

3 minutes ago, ORANGE500 said:

Nigel took us to middle of the road 

And did it on the Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. 

[Rudolf Hucker]

37 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

i work on vag stuff for my day job

What a coincidence.

[Shauntaylor85]

19 minutes ago, Snufflelufagus said:

How long a contract do we think he will get? 2.5 years seems too short. 3.5 years possibly seems about right. Anything longer they really are backing him with blind faith.

One year rolling would be more sensible. 

[Red Army 75]

3 minutes ago, Aaron-Bcfc said:

To me this read more as a rambling piece intent on massaging the Lansdowns’ egos at every given opportunity. It gives them far more credit with regards to some master plan being in place than we know to actually be true.

They didn’t like Pearson as a person and are simply reverting back to the “Lee Johnson plan” which ultimately left the club in such a mess last time, with Tinnion now seemingly taking up the role of Mark Ashton.

Fans will go for the Lansdowns this time around if/when it fails. 

[Spud21]

5 minutes ago, Aaron-Bcfc said:

To me this read more as a rambling piece intent on massaging the Lansdowns’ egos at every given opportunity. It gives them far more credit with regards to some master plan being in place than we know to actually be true.

They didn’t like Pearson as a person and are simply reverting back to the “Lee Johnson plan” which ultimately left the club in such a mess last time, with Tinnion now seemingly taking up the role of Mark Ashton.

How exactly is this reverting to the Lee Johnson plan? Is every club that have appointed a young coach following the Lee Johnson plan? I see almost 0 similarities between Manning and Johnson other than the fact that they have both managed in League 1. 

[ORANGE500]

4 minutes ago, glynriley said:

And did it on the Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. 

I think he had a budget higher than a lot of teams in the division

[Southport Red]

Just now, ORANGE500 said:

I think he had a budget higher than a lot of teams in the division

Woosh

[Shauntaylor85]

1 hour ago, fisherrich said:

Agreed - A couple of defeats and things will get toxic very quickly. A very average appointment. Massive gamble and a cheap option.

This. LJ got away with it at times because he was marmite as an ex player. Same with likes of. Millen and Tinnion. However here there is no connection to the club past and based on the great love and support for Nige, a bad start and this is going to get interesting. Again Manning isn’t to blame, he’s been given the job, it is Tinnion (who again is the key driver here) and Lansdown. 

[fisherrich]

24 minutes ago, astrondrew said:

Given how young a coach he is, Manning is probably an electric car.

In which case everyone is needlessly worrying about the unknown and he's actually brilliant and nothing to worry about.

Just to stretch the metaphor beyond breaking point.

Think the Bernard Manning metaphors will catch on ……

[Marina's Rolls Royce]

5 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Fans will go for the Lansdowns this time around if/when it fails. 

Define failure

Explain "go for"

[Phileas Fogg]

21 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/lansdowns-put-faith-concept-bristol-8888252
 

JP with another good article. 
 

One former City manager once said of how Ashton Gate can “swallow you up” at the worst of times; an oppressive almost suffocating experience.

Interesting part of the piece. Which manager said the above 

I think that was Lee Johnson

[YGBjammy]

So do we think this morning or later in the day? 

[extonsred]

3 minutes ago, YGBjammy said:

So do we think this morning or later in the day? 

Probably it won't be today, rumours start that LM has turned us down, and we all realise the circus is back on track for the 6 week option!

[Marina's Rolls Royce]

5 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

On the Oxford podcast,their assistant Chris Hogg said they are very much a team. 

One interesting point that was made on the podcast is that Hogg lives in Ipswich and commutes to Oxford and that they feel that Bristol would be just too far to commute which it obviously is.

So there is a real possibility that Manning comes here without his long time friend and assistant. How that would work, I don't know. 

Well just imagine what it's like for McCrorie who lives somewhere north of Glasgow and has to be on the treatment table by 9a.m..

It's crazy that all these people do so much driving everyday. If only Bristol had flats to rent or hotels or a good Air B&B. 

[fisherrich]

18 minutes ago, Aaron-Bcfc said:

To me this read more as a rambling piece intent on massaging the Lansdowns’ egos at every given opportunity. It gives them far more credit with regards to some master plan being in place than we know to actually be true.

They didn’t like Pearson as a person and are simply reverting back to the “Lee Johnson plan” which ultimately left the club in such a mess last time, with Tinnion now seemingly taking up the role of Mark Ashton.

It’s just another way of regaining control by the Lansdownes. Pretty obvious to most. Rather have “Yes Boss” coaches than a manager who told us all the truth. Johnson mark 2 recruitment in Manning.