GREAT NEWS FOR ALL OF US.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Seems extremely trivial for me but I guess it makes a sort of point. Banning photographers and press and then your talking.

[Ted Hughes]

Seems extremely trivial for me but I guess it makes a sort of point. Banning photographers and press and then your talking.

Unfortunately if the relationship gets worse, not just the press will suffer. The training ground will become more & more inpenetrable & your training reports will get more & more difficult to do.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

I would hope they would realise the difference between the 2. One is positive for the club and fans and the other is garbage and anti City.

[Bluez]

To be honest, yes. The way last weekend panned out was very unlike the previous superb PR the club had done. I was beginning to think they'd spawned it!

They did mess up this weekend, they let a manager take charge of a game when the world and his dog knew he wasn't going to last the day.

Unless of course they wanted the discussion to be all about how they did it rather than what they did.

[daveh1962]

I would hope they would realise the difference between the 2. One is positive for the club and fans and the other is garbage and anti City.

But I like reading your reports Doug...................:)

[sweenyuk]

To be honest, yes. The way last weekend panned out was very unlike the previous superb PR the club had done. I was beginning to think they'd spawned it!

They did mess up this weekend, they let a manager take charge of a game when the world and his dog knew he wasn't going to last the day.

Unless of course they wanted the discussion to be all about how they did it rather than what they did.

Sacking the Manager as soon as he walked off the pitch having already got in his replacement was the only thing for me they did wrong. To allow a foreign manager time to asses the team before taking the role and employing his number 2 as an inside agent ahead of the appointments is very clever management. I just feel Hughes should have been releived of his job mid week, even if it meant the chairman taking a mid week flight into Manchester and let Kidd run the team against sunderland.