THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

If I were really Manning, I'd be talking more about "good behaviours" and noting that "we don't get too up, and we don't get too down" when posting on here. Not sure if he trotted out these soundbites in interviews at MK, but they generally get used in every interview here at Oxford. You could ask him what his favourite colour is and he'd manage to get those comments in I think!

I'm always intrigued by what Manning's reputation is generally at MK. When he joined us, one of your local journos talked to our local media and said that he was still very measured and calm in interviews as your Coach, even when going through a terrible run which eventually lost him his job. Almost to a fault.

(As you might have guessed), I really like his calm and considered approached to the media and fan engagement, but I'm guessing that it rubbed some fans up the wrong way when things were going badly?

Still, I certainly prefer that to how Karl Robinson was when things were going badly here, when he would just blame everyone but himself and generally get less and less coherent.

Manning didn’t pump his fists on the touchline; ergo, he was a shit manager. 8)

Manning was, and still is, fondly thought of here.

I argue that it was right to get rid, and probably too late..
Not because he's a bad manager, but because it simply wasn't working and wasn't looking like getting close to working.
But that doesn't mean he isn't a good coach, I think the previous year was more a showing of what a good coach he is than last season. There was much more at hand than just results.
As for his interviews, that is literally what he said here. Not too low, not too high etc what a bloke

I think you’ll find Liam Manning to be a very good coach, give him the right tools and he will be successful, as he was in his first season here.

It wasn’t his fault the club decided to rip apart that squad and sell the family silver, only to be replaced with dreadful quality Aldi bargain bin players, to then expect him to repeat the feat the following season, with a team a shadow of the previous one.

Manning was culled because of poor results, his replacement Jackson, also failed with the squad who were just not good enough, Pep Guardiola would not have prevented us being relegated.

Now here we are in league 2, struggling again with a tactical dinosaur that is Graham Alexander.

Stick with Manning, I’m sure he will get you to at least the play offs this season

Still, I certainly prefer that to how Karl Robinson was when things were going badly here, when he would just blame everyone but himself and generally get less and less coherent.

This is one of the best summaries of KR I think I've ever read.

I’m usually one for stability in terms of giving managers time, but I think fans can sometimes see when the writing is on the wall quicker than Boards too. Sometimes you can just FEEL that things aren’t going to turn round, despite the good qualities that coaches might have.

Glad the cliches are well used classics. There’s also much talk of his excellent PowerPoint presentations to ‘excite’ interview boards and new signings. It really must be something

His media buzzword for the last few years with us was “clarity”, which was used every other word during his increasingly incomprehensible diatribes. Who said irony was dead?