Red-Robbo

It might be pertinent to note that there are no laws about domestic violence in Kuwait, you can only be done if you've breached a non-contact order, not for the violence itself. Additionally, "honour killings" of women by male relatives are punished by a fine, not imprisonment. Unsurprisingly, 82% of Kuwaiti women surveyed said they thought DV was a problem in their country.

Fair points.

Good L1 and L2 manager. Failed at Championship football now with two clubs. I don't dislike the guy from what I've read about him - a real character - but the leap between those divisions for managers is as big as what is expected from players. Some aren't suited.

Well struck, those two senior players should really have prevented the shot though.

Although I'm generally happy with Max, he just has to have meaningful competition - and if that means paying for an experienced loan keeper to come, the case must be made. Bajic seems only to be here to cover for injury or suspension for Max - not to provide an alternative. Keeper is a strange position, and there are usually a few decent and experienced ones sitting about at clubs waiting their chance.

Although it was Cornick and Knight totally failing to stop Colwill.

Manager of Bristol? I know he likes a scrap, but he knows even less about rugby than he does about football.

Centimetres away from crossing the line. C'mon, admit it, which one of you lot coated it with iron filings and who was holding a magnet?

Decision making meant several times James and Knight ignored Yeboah when he was in space, but instead punted 50/50 balls at Cornick or Sykes in a congested right side of the pitch. Roberts was similarly ignored once. Whether it's that they don't trust them, or just have poor left-sided vision, it was a waste. Ephraim will get a goal, then all the rubbishing that he gets will fade away. at present, half the time in order to play the ball forward, he has to go and nick it from an opponent himself.

Did he accuse the interviewer of being a p--f?

He's turned them down...

This one: There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I'd also have liked us to put their keeper under more pressure. The guy did one long kick - right at the death - all game and liked to dribble it around the box before a short pass to one of their centre backs. He didn't look the most confident. An Antoine Semenyo would've loved to have robbed him.

Zidane's available...

The scene from the Gas "training ground" when the news broke:

We could certainly have done with a Tammy Abraham last night!

Back in time for a couple of pints

You couldn't leave your #3 (Davis?) behind could you?

Very true and never was the phrase "fine margins" more apt. Cornick's shot must've stopped a centimetre short of activating the goal-line technology, and the foul on Knight was about 2 foot (at most) outside the box.

The only time we threatened is through fast play. I thought one of the problems last night was we were far too ponderous in attack and by the time we'd passed it around sideways and back a dozen times then finally put a through ball into their final third, they had 11 men back. It was symptomatic in my view of Weimann not really providing that link between MF and the forwards, and us missing Naismith and Williams. Strangely, although he'd been great when playing through illness on Saturday, I don't think Knight had a very good game either. He had moments, but by his high standards was muted and got done by Ipswich opponents a fair few times as well. Perhaps feeling the after-effects of whatever bug he had. But it is what it is. I don't think we can draw too many conclusions about City's preferred style of play when watching a side with so many people out and others filling in, out-of-position.

I thought Yeboah looked an improvement on (an admittedly tired) Sam Bell.

Sounds like it's some setting whereby Google/Apple wallet can be set to receive notifications of changes.

I don't think it's necessarily that dramatic. In the Post interview he talks about a 24-48 hour absence "to sort it out". What is a bit more worrying, for him as well as us, is that the symptoms he reports do not match what scans can see on his back, leading to the conclusion that the pain might be a neurological condition. I hate to play the amateur GP, but I wonder if stress over the contract situation is exacerbating a physical problem?

I don't get any notification, it just changes. Is this another benefit of not having an iPhone?

100% with you there. It would be the mistake to end all other Lansdown mistakes, some of which at least had some logic to them, in hindsight. When he stood by LJ in 2017, Lansdown talked about the benefits of stability at a club. Pearson took a bit longer to get City on track then I hoped (perhaps because at the time, I underestimated how off-the-rails we were), but now, as you say, he has a project, an ethos, a method of building for a long-term future. There is stability.