Riaz Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 People saying its underwhelming?? Personally I'm relieved. Relieved we didnt get a big name like Lampard who is living off his playing career. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjak Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 13 minutes ago, asfred said: I bumped into him as he was leaving the car park earlier. Had a bit of a chat and seems a nice chap, very articulate, and genuinely excited about the job. Didn't ask about back room staff. He asked if I could hold back on posting for a couple of hours, which I was happy to do. Oh, and was happy for me to take his pic (for proof, and all). Good quality pic.......excellent composition...! Youv'e now got the arriving one, wonder how long you'll have to wait for the leaving one? Ha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Marsh II Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 2 minutes ago, The Coach said: So it’s possible we don’t have pay off 3 years if end of season we don’t get promoted? Because that’s what our chairman has stated right? Well it's either the new boss or Tinnion and JL go in that case. I guess if Manning is top 10 at the end of the season he stays and those two go. However anything lower and Manning will be ditched by the other two. Lot of heads on the block given all the public speaking. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLionLad Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 20 minutes ago, GrumpyGit said: He’ll be looking for another job come March. He’ll be wanting to leave in December 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akira Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 2 minutes ago, 2015 said: You've changed your tune given the fact you were on NP back from the moment he signed Danny Simpson. It's unreal ain't it. This coming from someone who says she's stepped away from watching us, but also says our football under Pearson was awful. Any stick to try and beat Pearson with, she'll use it. Not everyone is happy with this appointment, and rightly so. We had a manager in place, and have been lied to by the board. By their own admission, it's gotta be top 6 or this guy is out. Otherwise their lies and BS is exposed even further. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidercity1987 Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 Better than a lot of the candidates I wouldn't swap Pearson/Rennie/Euell/Fleming for Manning/Hogg but good luck to them Pressures on the Lansdown's I would say rather than those two 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 5 minutes ago, The Coach said: So it’s possible we don’t have pay off 3 years if end of season we don’t get promoted? Because that’s what our chairman has stated right? All I’m saying is that termination clauses don’t have to match remaining term of contract. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2015 Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 Just now, Akira said: It's unreal ain't it. This coming from someone who says she's stepped away from watching us, but also says our football under Pearson was awful. Any stick to try and beat Pearson with, she'll use it. Not everyone is happy with this appointment, and rightly so. We had a manager in place, and have been lied to by the board. By their own admission, it's gotta be top 6 or this guy is out. Otherwise their lies and BS is exposed even further. I'm ok with the appointment, but just calling a spade a spade. Don't call others out for negativity from the start when that same person was negative from the very start when NP took over. It's hypocrisy. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Rs Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 5 minutes ago, red panda said: Also on the BBC football website too https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67333709. They say he was sacked by MK Dons Nevertheless, welcome Liam, 3 points on Saturday please Wait he was sacked by MK Dons? Why have we got him in then ffs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgess Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 (edited) Will be interesting to see what other backroom changes cream in over the coming weeks and months, am guessing he will want more than just CH with him. Edited November 7, 2023 by Sturgess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercidered Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 Just now, Riaz said: People saying its underwhelming?? Personally I'm relieved. Relieved we didnt get a big name like Lampard who is living off his playing career. Doesn't really matter now does it. We've been around the houses since NP was binned. Now we've got this bloke that our media team couldn't even get his name right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayfield8 Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 Bit of a downgrade, but best of luck to them, would love to be wrong on this one! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Ian M Posted November 7, 2023 Admin Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 5 minutes ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said: So what is the appropriate and respectful period of time before starting a " Manning Out" thread. ( just asking for a friend. Or Jon as I call him) After the QPR game if we aren't in the top 2. Good luck Liam 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 Just now, George Rs said: Wait he was sacked by MK Dons? Why have we got him in then ffs? He was sacked after things went downhill in late 2022. However he has done well at Oxford but I'm still highly underwhelmed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 18 minutes ago, Port Said Red said: Theoretically, a drive up to Norwich and a flight to Bristol might be an easier commute than he has now? Also you would have to assume we supply good quality accommodation for the nights he stays here. No direct flights to Bristol from Norwich (or there wasn't when we went up there for a wedding recently), nearest was exeter. Ended up driving. Never again, nice place but totally hidden from the rest of the country. I would hope the bloke and his family move down here for his sake. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City_USA Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 Welcome to the club Liam. I wish you all the success for our club. It's not on you for how this has transpired so cannot hold that against you. You clearly want to be here so lets so where you can take us. COYR! 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercidered Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 3 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said: Better than a lot of the candidates I wouldn't swap Pearson/Rennie/Euell/Fleming for Manning/Hogg but good luck to them Pressures on the Lansdown's I would say rather than those two Do you really think the Lansdown's give a Rat's arse about the pressures of getting it wrong. Again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the1stknowle Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 6 minutes ago, The Coach said: So it’s possible we don’t have pay off 3 years if end of season we don’t get promoted? Because that’s what our chairman has stated right? I keep seeing this brought up but haven't seen the quote. I've seen a quote of 'challenging around playoffs' and 'outperforming our top 10 budget' and an ambition of promotion. But nowhere have I seen JL say 'we have to get promotion this season'. Where did our chairman say we have to get promotion this season? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BanburyRed Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 Thoroughly underwhelming appointment. If he's not top 6 by end of the season, he's toast. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 It’s reassuring to see the board appointing someone who fits their remit, and Oxford fans are very annoyed which is a good sign. I had a feeling they’d be tempted by the novelty of appointing Lampard or someone like that and throw the baby out with the bathwater. Sacking Pearson was absurd but not Manning’s fault. However, if he doesn’t get results quickly there will be a lot of pressure. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 33 minutes ago, Port Said Red said: I seem to remember a time when the person with the best win % at the club was Les Bardsley. Gerry Sharpe had 100% as well . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke_bristol Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 1 minute ago, the1stknowle said: I keep seeing this brought up but haven't seen the quote. I've seen a quote of 'challenging around playoffs' and 'outperforming our top 10 budget' and an ambition of promotion. But nowhere have I seen JL say 'we have to get promotion this season'. Where did our chairman say we have to get promotion this season? He said that’s the standard he expects from this squad, it was the basis for the decision to sack NP. He may find that comes back to haunt him, but let’s all hope it doesn’t and LM gets us up there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOTBLUE Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 Welcome to the club LM, I will be giving you 100% backing,as I have with every other manager we’ve ever had(apart from Pulis ).I quite liked NP,but he’s gone,that’s football,on we go. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Hampton Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 Asfred. Very impressed with you keeping quiet on that. Nice one 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Robin Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 Welcome Liam. Despite being fairly critical of our managers who underperform (and there have been plenty), I will always give new ones the courtesy of giving them the time to prove themselves....and I really hope you do. I'm afraid there are some on here that will never offer you that courtesy and will never accept you, mainly due to their adoration of the man you replaced. I suppose it's up to you to prove them wrong. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TammyAB Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 27 minutes ago, The Coach said: One Nigel Pearson there’s only One Nigel Pearson 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GrumpyGit Posted November 7, 2023 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 As an Oxford fan, I hope he gets you relegated and he ends up sacked. Manning has shown he’s got no loyalty. He was doing nothing prior to his appointment, the Oxford board took him on and backed him to the hilt in the close season, now he’s shown that a sniff at the Championship and he’s off, leaving Oxford in the shit. 13 games where he managed to keep us up, just, then got us to 2nd in League One in what is a poor division. If he’d left at the end of the season, fair enough, but to do it a third of the way through is galling. Hope QPR beat you Saturday. regards 1 55 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Hampton Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 Don’t know if this has been posted before. All sounds extremely interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinforlife2 Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 35 minutes ago, GrumpyGit said: From the Oxford site: - Tim Williams, Oxford United’s Chief Executive Officer, added: “I am hugely disappointed to be losing Liam and Chris at this stage of the season, particularly given the support they had been given. Or in other words, f.off Judas. I never get this, as tbh, he was contracted to them, and if they didn’t want him to leave etc, they could have said Bristol City you don’t have permission to talk to him, and to do so we want £10m. The fact is, they give permission and agree compensation, so they can’t really play that card. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Somerset Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 I’m still bitterly disappointed that Nigel and his experienced team have departed, but good luck to the new guy. I didn’t know who he was until rumours started circling a few days ago - but that’s on me because I don’t hugely keep on top of much outside of the championship. Let’s see how it goes… We have the facilities in the stadium and training ground, a new head coach who it seems could grow to be very good in a few years. Hopefully a top half finish this season. But our board personnel and high level football structure still concerns me and could hold us back imo on recent (and past) evidence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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