bearded_red Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Yozzarian said: 'There's a real good feeling in the stadium' Bloody hell. He's having a laugh. Seeing Williams saying sorry at the end of the last home match but being met with a lot of fans waiting to tell him and others to '**** off' was indicative of the 'good feeling' in the ground. Without any doubt the most hostile Ashton Gate has been towards our own team in a long time. As weird as it sounds you could almost tell at 0-0 that people were waiting for the chance to vent. Good feeling in the ground though. I am absolutely no lover of the Lansdowns, Liam Manning or (sadly, these days) Brian Tinnion, but judging from almost all of the people sat near me I’m actually less angry about this than all of them, I’d recommended Brian Tinnion comes and sits near me if he believes there’s a good feeling in the ground at the moment. Edited March 9 by bearded_red 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunningdalered Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 Pity he wasn't being asked to explain how they intend to square the circle on playing staff vs the managers preferred playing style without a wholesale change in the squad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 1 minute ago, bearded_red said: Without any doubt the most hostile Ashton Gate has been towards our own team in a long time. As weird as it sounds you could almost tell at 0-0 that people were waiting for the chance to vent. Good feeling in the ground though. I am absolutely no lover of the Lansdowns, Liam Manning or (sadly, these days) Brian Tinnion, but judging from the almost of the people sat near me I’m actually less angry about this than all of them, I’d recommended Brian Tinnion comes and sits near me if he believes there’s a good feeling in the ground at the moment. Absolutely. None of us ever want to see City lose a game, but if we do tomorrow I can only see it being hugely negative/toxic. There will be no good feeling that’s for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clint Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 20 minutes ago, Yozzarian said: 'There's a real good feeling in the stadium' Bloody hell. He's having a laugh. Seeing Williams saying sorry at the end of the last home match but being met with a lot of fans waiting to tell him and others to '**** off' was indicative of the 'good feeling' in the ground. I’m sure this good feeling in the stadium will carry on tomorrow if we lose to Swansea! 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galley is our king Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 7 minutes ago, ralphindevon said: Well that’s true. I’m not close enough to the club or know anyone in the club to be sure. We were dreadful for decades at bringing youngsters through, then all of a sudden we were one of the best. I don’t really know who does and doesn’t deserve credit for that. Possibly a mixture of things. Gary Probert was the academy director until he left to work for Swiss. He brought through Semenyo, Scott, Conway, Benarous etc. He deserves huge credit. Brian Tinnion was the loans manager and then pathway manager. Loads of loans taking place until Pearson stopped them. He used Pring as an example of a player constantly on loan and not feeling part of BCFC. He also stopped the loans because he had little choice with the small squad he was left with after getting rid of the dead wood and overpaid players he inherited. Tinnion does deserve some credit for his work in this area but definitely not enough to justify his promotion to technical director. Nigel Pearson. Deserves massive credit for integrating the academy players into the first team squad and then providing the club with saleable assets. Circa £35,000,000 worth. And for that he was given back (in comparison) peanuts....... 9 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacki Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 1 hour ago, Roe said: Perhaps I'm being too simple and maybe he does excel in this kind of role, but it also seems a pretty easy role? How much of the U18 success is based on big investment in youth levels and just talented young players they have? I struggle to see how there would be any difference with a "technical director" overseeing that. Things like sending Yeboah out on loan is easy to talk about as a good thing. "We sent Semenyo there." OK but dozens of others have been sent there and never came back. To be fair to Tinnion on the Semenyo comparison…. Yes, dozens of others HAVE gone on loan to places like Bath and not been seen again, but might that be because they weren’t good enough? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusX Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 3 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said: I swear we could get relegated and they’d still come out saying “yeah but what about that Southampton game eh?”. We were 4 points off the Play Offs, not 3. Not a huge mistake but does make it sound like we were within one win of the top six position we were told we were capable of. At least that's the next anniversary celebration replica shirt sorted in 10 years time 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy1968 Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 1 hour ago, redsquirrel said: i know hes still raw but i see some semenyo in there when he goes barging forward, as a sub and bit of training at releasing the ball at the right time would be very useful late in games especially when we cant fill our bench Good for Chaos Theory, which is anti-ManningBall so never happening. But then why have we loaned in Mebude to sit on the bench? Can you imagine CozyTV asking that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 33 minutes ago, Yozzarian said: 'There's a real good feeling ceiling in the stadium' 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 6 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said: But then why have we loaned in Mebude to sit on the bench? To go with the other ‘ Manning ‘ player Scott Twine. What a difference these two fellas have made. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Dante Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 16 minutes ago, Jacki said: To be fair to Tinnion on the Semenyo comparison…. Yes, dozens of others HAVE gone on loan to places like Bath and not been seen again, but might that be because they weren’t good enough? Yep. Notably he didn’t bring up how much the loans to Bath had helped Freddie Hinds, Ewan Clark etc make league careers. In the interview he talks of people like Idehen are on loan - simply enough, players such as him and HWR are on loan to try and get them in early to a non league club when their contracts expire. And that’s fine - but it isn’t a building players to bring through. As has been said, he blew it. He had a manager who would play academy and made the job Brian was doing look better. He’s traded that for a guy who hasn’t brought youth players through in his managerial career, and isn’t going to start now when under heavy pressure. I’d go as far as saying that with Liam Manning in charge, we may not have seen a Semenyo, a Conway, a Bell or even a Scott (and Brian, picking up the phone to the Guernsey chairman doesn’t mean you made him a £25m player or even had great foresight - similar to Nigel Martyn at the gas, he fell into your lap!) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheltons Army Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 34 minutes ago, sunningdalered said: Pity he wasn't being asked to explain how they intend to square the circle on playing staff vs the managers preferred playing style without a wholesale change in the squad. Absolutely , for me , the current biggest elephant in the room Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 1 hour ago, W-S-M Seagull said: What Tinnion and Manning seemingly don't understand is that it's entirely possible to be happy with a one off win whilst still being unhappy about general form. I can't remember what our form was like pre Southampton game but I do know that it was not good! I’ll tell you, before the Boro and Southampton back-to-back wins, we’d gone 6 without a win (2 draws / 4 losses). 1 hour ago, marmite said: Do you think the current trio, LM. JL. BT. have it in them to take us to the next level? Depends on whether you're level is up or down. Imagine walking into Ashton Gate with its impressive facilities and asking to see the top man, and being met by theses three. Jeez. No. You have to have a vision. That vision has to be based on something, and it helps massively if that vision is based on knowledge and experience of having been there previously. We have none of that in anyone other than in the playing staff - King and James, Nahki briefly and Weimann (on loan). It is likely only one of those will remain beyond the summer, in a playing capacity that is. Its quite disheartening, for me at least. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natchfever Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 1 hour ago, Bob Taylor is GOD said: Not to me! Agreed. You are mind Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W-S-M Seagull Posted March 9 Author Report Share Posted March 9 17 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said: Yep. Notably he didn’t bring up how much the loans to Bath had helped Freddie Hinds, Ewan Clark etc make league careers. In the interview he talks of people like Idehen are on loan - simply enough, players such as him and HWR are on loan to try and get them in early to a non league club when their contracts expire. And that’s fine - but it isn’t a building players to bring through. As has been said, he blew it. He had a manager who would play academy and made the job Brian was doing look better. He’s traded that for a guy who hasn’t brought youth players through in his managerial career, and isn’t going to start now when under heavy pressure. I’d go as far as saying that with Liam Manning in charge, we may not have seen a Semenyo, a Conway, a Bell or even a Scott (and Brian, picking up the phone to the Guernsey chairman doesn’t mean you made him a £25m player or even had great foresight - similar to Nigel Martyn at the gas, he fell into your lap!) I said this at the time he was appointed. We will never find a manager more willing go blood youth than Pearson was. They got took in by the fact Manning had worked in academies. Now he's got his foot through the door here and his reputation is on the line he doesn't want to use academy players. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew-T Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 2 hours ago, Street red said: It's ok we will win on Sunday and everything will be ok and manning will be over to the home fans fist pumping. I really hope not. But I wouldn’t be at all surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Dante Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 6 minutes ago, Lew-T said: I really hope not. But I wouldn’t be at all surprised. Well… Per his press conference he doesn’t pay attention to the boos so you’d imagine he also wouldn’t pay attention to cheers… Its by far from the worst thing about him as head coach but doing that identikit fist pump when he says he doesn’t like doing it just makes it look more like he’s doing it because, again, the manual says it’s what your supposed to do. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearded_red Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 1 minute ago, Silvio Dante said: Its by far from the worst thing about him as head coach but doing that identikit fist pump when he says he doesn’t like doing it just makes it look more like he’s doing it because, again, the manual says it’s what your supposed to do. As you say, it’s not the worst thing about him and obviously it doesn’t matter, and fair play I can’t stand it, so clearly not I'm not the target audience, but why on earth did he feel the need to do it after a 1-1 draw at West Ham. My word, this club really enjoys acting seriously smalltime. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galley is our king Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 Just listened, that's 3 minutes of my life I'll never get back! You would think the technical director would know how many points we were short of the playoffs wouldn't you? Three? ******* three? I'm sure that wasn't done deliberately because if it was it would be a lie.... So...... he's just incompetent then... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 2 hours ago, Galley is our king said: He used Pring as an example of a player constantly on loan and not feeling part of BCFC. To be fair to Tinnion, he said Cam was ready for the first team but was ignored in favour of sending him on yet another loan. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 2 minutes ago, chinapig said: To be fair to Tinnion, he said Cam was ready for the first team but was ignored in favour of sending him on yet another loan. Yep, sometimes he’s too bullish about the youngsters, but there have definitely been those that had “one loan too many”. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 (edited) Watched it at last. The Youth stuff seemed fine, encouraging to hear. The final minute or two about the first team..Ipswich was an improvement on the 3 that went before but he got the top 6 gap wrong, failed to factor in games in hand of opponents and seems to have a strange take on the overall mood of the fans, in the ground etc. He is either out of touch or.. Edited March 9 by Mr Popodopolous 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 3 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said: Watched it at last. The Youth stuff seemed fine, encouraging to hear. The final minute or two about the first team..Ipswich was an improvement on the 3 that went before but he got the top 6 gap wrong, failed to factor in games in hand of opponents and seems to have a strange take on the overall mood of the fans, in the ground etc. He is either out of touch or.. A ******* idiot? Both! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Show Me The Money! Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 7 hours ago, And Its Smith said: Anyone who signs Dave Partridge, Marcus Stewart and Michael Bridges in the same window shouldn’t be in charge of transfers To be fair if I remember right most fans were excited by these signings 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrs Court Red Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 2 minutes ago, Show Me The Money! said: To be fair if I remember right most fans were excited by these signings Well, 2 out of 3,yes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Show Me The Money! Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 10 minutes ago, Barrs Court Red said: Well, 2 out of 3,yes. To be honest I don’t even remember Partridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 12 minutes ago, Show Me The Money! said: To be fair if I remember right most fans were excited by these signings In hindsight they weren’t great but you’re absolutely right, Bridges and Stewart were exciting signings for L1 given their pedigrees. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Show Me The Money! Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 2 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said: In hindsight they weren’t great but you’re absolutely right, Bridges and Stewart were exciting signings for L1 given their pedigrees. The City curse of turning good players into piles of poop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrs Court Red Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 4 minutes ago, Show Me The Money! said: To be honest I don’t even remember Partridge I only remember him for : 1) being a Welsh international 2) going to prison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Show Me The Money! Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 1 minute ago, Barrs Court Red said: I only remember him for : 1) being a Welsh international 2) going to prison Which was his lowest point? 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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