Mr Popodopolous Posted November 13, 2023 Report Share Posted November 13, 2023 (edited) Reading The Game in The Times tonight, a snippet on us, more of the piece was on QPR and their new manager but..the City related bit. The game offered the strange case of a side deemed almost unfixable against one that did not need fixing. If QPR fans believed their club waited too long to remove Ainsworth, many Bristol City fans feel theirs sacked Nigel Pearson prematurely a fortnight ago. Pearson's absence from the City training ground in recent weeks with back and neurological issues that necessitated his use of crutches to get about did not help his cause. But while progression on the pitch has been slower than those in the Ashton Gate boardroom would have liked, it was still there, and achieved despite the wage bill being cut drastically and the starlet Alex Scott being sold to Bournemouth in the summer. The strains of "We want our Nige back" coming from the away end at Loftus Road hinted at the work that lies ahead of Pearson's replacement, Liam Manning in winning over City hearts and minds. Manning moved from Oxford United on Tuesday and went into Saturday's with a new club in a new division and against a side for whom he could predict neither their line-up nor their style in Cifuentes's home debut as the head coach. "It's been a challenging week, a whirlwind", he said. "I was in a car first thing Tuesday morning to head up and I've been in a hotel all week. It's part of the industry. You have to adapt and live with it". New lives, new head coaches. And new perspectives". Not a fan of starting a sentence or paragraph with "and" or "but". Was as written though and they are professionals. Edited November 13, 2023 by Mr Popodopolous 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Dante Posted November 13, 2023 Report Share Posted November 13, 2023 Just impressed by Niges use of crunches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted November 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2023 Edited. One typo in a multi typed paragraph piece, but will check again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacker Posted November 13, 2023 Report Share Posted November 13, 2023 3 hours ago, Silvio Dante said: Just impressed by Niges use of crunches Crunchies?Is it Friday already? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exAtyeoMax Posted November 13, 2023 Report Share Posted November 13, 2023 3 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said: The strains of "We want our Nige back" coming from the away end at Loftus Road Ahh didn’t know they were singing that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted November 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2023 9 minutes ago, exAtyeoMax said: Ahh didn’t know they were singing that Suggested it in the article, likewise @Olé referred to it on Twitter. Maybe it was a minority Idk? I wasn't there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exAtyeoMax Posted November 13, 2023 Report Share Posted November 13, 2023 Just now, Mr Popodopolous said: Suggested it in the article, likewise @Olé referred to it on Twitter. Maybe it was a minority Idk? I wasn't there. I wasn’t either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted November 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2023 (edited) 9 minutes ago, exAtyeoMax said: I wasn’t either. It wasn't constant I am sure but the initial reaction from a lot of fans to the departure, the chants at the end of the Sheffield Wednesday game and these, albeit I think this will be the last of it..unprecedented in my time (25 years) post the sacking of a manager here. Edited November 13, 2023 by Mr Popodopolous 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W-S-M Seagull Posted November 14, 2023 Report Share Posted November 14, 2023 18 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said: It wasn't constant I am sure but the initial reaction from a lot of fans to the departure, the chants at the end of the Sheffield Wednesday game and these, albeit I think this will be the last of it..unprecedented in my time (25 years) post the sacking of a manager here. I'm not sure. If we put in a similar performance against a rejuvenated Boro side then we are going to get comfortably beat and those chants will become even louder. This was all so unnecessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted November 14, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2023 (edited) 52 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said: I'm not sure. If we put in a similar performance against a rejuvenated Boro side then we are going to get comfortably beat and those chants will become even louder. This was all so unnecessary. Hugely unnecessary, completely agree there. Yeah..We hope for a reaction and improvement vs Middlesbrough for sure. They can be a bit sketchy on the road but that was earlier...last season over Easter vs Middlesbrough that was a very enjoyable game they had players such as Akpom, Archer, Giles. We should probably have won but the positive had a lot of good things. Plus Ramsey! Just watching the highlights back now, forget about him..that is some side for the level. We matched and at times outplayed them, perhaps should've won. We had Scott of course. Enough said about how big a loss he is. All that said Scott was injured for that game, we were down to the bare bones somewhat. Edited November 14, 2023 by Mr Popodopolous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1960maaan Posted November 14, 2023 Report Share Posted November 14, 2023 I was bottom tier and didn't hang around outside , I didn't hear the chants, might have joined in. I thought the support was quiet and nothing on the pitch was going to get them going. 7 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said: If we put in a similar performance against a rejuvenated Boro side then we are going to get comfortably beat and those chants will become even louder. I was thinking that hen looking at the up coming fixtures M'boro (H) South'pton (A) Norwich (H) Hud'field (A) Black'bn (A) Sun'land (H) If we are as disjointed and scrappy as we were Saturday through those games, we wont be picking up many points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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