Sack Manning, it’s not working and we are in free fall

[Mr Popodopolous]

3 minutes ago, adamski said:

Or Mehmeti and Armstrong could have taken their chances?

I definitely recall us hitting the side netting at 0-0 but..those are two great chances.

[Silvio Dante]

5 minutes ago, Jimmyjimmy said:

Data Dave must be fuming we won.

Unlike you Jimmy squared, who only comes on here when a game happens that supports your worldview (notably you haven’t posted since the Coventry game shockingly), @Davefevs will be on here and also give credit where it’s due. If you’d listened to Radio Bristol he already has.

But in the spirit of attacking the post and not the poster, this post is being a bit of a ***** when it should be happy with a win.

[adamski]

1 minute ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

I definitely recall us hitting the side netting at 0-0 but..those are two great chances.

I was on Mehmeti watch today, three good opportunities in the 1st half, hit at the keeper twice, I think, and two Armstrong headers - one glanced from Robert's cross and another powerful one from 18 yards centre that went wide 

[Davefevs]

19 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Unlike you Jimmy squared, who only comes on here when a game happens that supports your worldview (notably you haven’t posted since the Coventry game shockingly), @Davefevs will be on here and also give credit where it’s due. If you’d listened to Radio Bristol he already has.

But in the spirit of attacking the post and not the poster, this post is being a bit of a ***** when it should be happy with a win.

Jealousy is a terrible trait to have.

[bexhill reds]

1 hour ago, Jefferz said:

And how about this talking point.

Bristol City 2 Oxford Utd 1

We won, was it convincing? No.

Would a better team have scored more goals with the chances Oxford created? Possibly.

Does one win vindicate Manning? Not really. 

You may choose to simply look at the result, and that's fine, but yet again the 4th best defence in the league last season looked very shaky, Oxford were passing through the middle with ease especially in the first half. They could easily have gone 2-0 up but for the post and crossbar, and should really have equalised in the 2nd half.

Plenty of talking points beyond the result.

 

[Dr Balls]

What is so frustrating is that Manning doesn’t see to learn. Swapping Bird and Knight as the “10” but still playing Twine on the left is just perverse as we all know Knight in that forward role didn’t work last season. Thank God Williams got booked early so that he had to change it at half time, put Knight back, move Twine centrally, bring on Yu, plus really go 3 at the back with Roberts playing high on the left. And it worked. We looked much better. However do I think Manning will start like that against Swansea? Probably not and that’s part of the problem. He is to wedded to a 4-2-3-1 formation, plus trying to shoe horn what he thinks are his best players into that, that he ends up playing players out-of-position, who unsurprisingly then don’t play very well. That’s also what is so ****ing frustrating!

[Engvall’s Splinter]

46 minutes ago, adamski said:

I was on Mehmeti watch today, three good opportunities in the 1st half, hit at the keeper twice, I think, and two Armstrong headers - one glanced from Robert's cross and another powerful one from 18 yards centre that went wide 

And two opportunities blazed over in the second half. One ending up in row Z. You’d think he’d learn. 
 

Mehmeti isn’t the answer - not if we are serious about competing towards the top half of the table. 

[Jefferz]

44 minutes ago, bexhill reds said:

We won, was it convincing? No.

Would a better team have scored more goals with the chances Oxford created? Possibly.

Does one win vindicate Manning? Not really. 

You may choose to simply look at the result, and that's fine, but yet again the 4th best defence in the league last season looked very shaky, Oxford were passing through the middle with ease especially in the first half. They could easily have gone 2-0 up but for the post and crossbar, and should really have equalised in the 2nd half.

Plenty of talking points beyond the result.

 

It’s a results game. 

[Engvall’s Splinter]

1 minute ago, Jefferz said:

It’s a results game. 

It is. That’s why there are / have been concerns, frustrations etc. Hopefully we see an improvement in results. 

[petehinton]

1 hour ago, Jimmyjimmy said:

Data Dave must be fuming we won.

Fuming on another day we most likely lose that 2-0 or 2-1, as we all would’ve been. 

[Northern Red]

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[Redtucks]

1 hour ago, bexhill reds said:

We won, was it convincing? No.

Would a better team have scored more goals with the chances Oxford created? Possibly.

Should we have scored more goals with the chances City created?

Does one win vindicate Manning? Not really. 

You may choose to simply look at the result, and that's fine, but yet again the 4th best defence in the league last season looked very shaky, Oxford were passing through the middle with ease especially in the first half. They could easily have gone 2-0 up but for the post and crossbar,

And City should have gone at least 2-0 up with the chances that Armstrong and Mehmeti had in the first half.

and should really have equalised in the 2nd half.

Plenty of talking points beyond the result.

 

 

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from zero to hero LM depending what day of the week it is and our latest result.....meanwhile nothing changes