Northern Red

1 minute ago, Wanderingred said:

Does it have to be 10% of the capacity? At least 6k then. Good to get a decent draw for once, a ground we’ve never played at.

15%, depnding on how workable that is, so more like 8/9k

Ooh...

Whoever we face, if we beat them there'll be plenty of excuses as to why it shouldn't count for anything.

Rearranged for Tuesday night. 

They've been porno noised

McBurnie is a moron, lucky not to get a straight red for his first booking then goes and does exactly the same thing less than 10 minutes later.

Still won the second half despite the meltdown in the middle of it.

Luatua makes a huge difference.

Meat found in the vegan burgers.

The reason given for the Hull game moving was something about extra recovery time for the games around Christmas.

1 minute ago, Davefevs said:

Personally I’m not sure what people expected.

It’s a team with a good foundation, but lacking in real quality.  At times, just like all-season, we will have spells of good play, and spells of not so good.  Against the top teams, we will get exposed at times, like tonight, like Leicesters, like Leeds.  But we can stay in games.

All three games have been very representative of the current Bristol City team / squad / ability.  You can make a case for positivity, you can probably do the opposite.

Spot on, and I would suggest that anybody doing so definitively in either direction is coming at it from an already skewed viewpoint.

Won 7, Lost 7, Position 12th, GD 0.

Absolute dictionary definition of midtable. 

The notion that this squad is top 6 ready is laughable, regardless of who the manager is.

2 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Kinda difficult to post my opinions without being accused of having an agenda by those that do have an agenda. 

BUT that 2nd half was painful. Came out and conceded and we had no plan B. We had no plan at all. We went from being well coached to not being able to string two passes together. 

Really disappointed as the 1st half was a positive half .

I agree with your analysis of the game.

The only thing I would suggest is that if you're concerned that people will accuse you of having an agenda, maybe have a think about why that is.

Deffo get the sense that certain people enjoy certain individuals making errors because they don't like/rate them.

Bit weird if you ask me.

Second half has been as bad as the first was good.

3 minutes ago, Clutton Caveman said:

The refs were bad enough before but now that many of them are required for VAR the ones on the pitch are even worse. I wonder why recently retired refs can't do VAR

Some of them do and have been just as bad at that. E.g Lee Mason being sacked last season for forgetting to draw the lines on an offside that was wrongly awarded.

That's not a penalty last night, however the threshold for handball seems to be lower in European competition for some reason. Can think of at least 3 or 4 involving English clubs in the CL this season that wouldn't have been given in the PL.

Good late win for QPR. Still rankles how we managed to throw the points away against that Stoke side, they're absolute shite.

Seb Palmer-Houlden on the scoresheet for Newport in the same game.

18 minutes ago, Super said:

What's a specific tactical offence? 

I'd guess it'll be stuff like denying a goalscoring opportunity.

1 minute ago, One Team said:

Based on body language Manning looks like the only person happy to be there to me. He seems to be doing fine. 

Yeah he's coming across well. I don't think he's ever going to give too much away in interviews but he's very polished and professional.

1 minute ago, robinforlife2 said:

The look from Jon and Brian to Liam when he was talking about having to look at the academy first. It was like, follow the script Liam, follow the script. 

What you didn't see was Steve hiding behind the curtain with the gun being pointed into Liam's back.

State of it.

Watching this I actually hope that the questions have been vetted so certain subjects are off limits, because if they haven't and this is the genuine level of discourse then we're absolutely screwed as a fanbase.

On 26/11/2023 at 10:21, weepywall said:

I thought they had to give 2 weeks notice of a strike day.

GWR aren't on strike that day (they are later that week), but their ASLEF drivers are part of a nationwide refusal to work overtime that runs from the 1st to the 9th Dec which was announced a couple of weeks ago.

Most of the train companies rely on overtime to be able to run their services, particularly at weekends, so it will cause a lot of disruption.

In addition to all of the reasons mentioned above, I get the impression that SL is maybe more willing to acknowledge others' expertise and knowledge where rugby is concerned than he is with football. The rugby chairman is Chris Booy who's been there long before Steve got involved, indeed it was him who approached Steve to see if he woud be interested in investing when the club was facing finanical ruin, and I think he's largely allowed to get on with it and have his views trusted in a way that somebody in an equivalent role at the football club might not be.

Rugby doesn't have the same sacking culture, but the roles are slightly different. Lam's position is more akin to a football manager of years past where they would be the most powerful sporting figure at the club and responsible for setting the culture etc, and would carry as much influence as a modern DoF/Techinical/Sporting Director and Manager/Head Coach combined.

2 minutes ago, BS3_RED said:

From a money perspective I see what you ate trying to say but don't think you have worded it at all well. 

It's not like we bought a shit player and he has gone for nothing.

The guy has a illness that could not be forseen and as such it's hard to make any kind of judgement. It's no different to Dean Horrix (spl) who died in a car accident just after we signed him. It's a situation far beyond out control and can't be looked at from a business sense in my opinion.

There is also the personal factor to take into account, I am sure if Ross is reading this he will be hurt that through no fault of his own some vue him a waste of money.

I hope other posters can respond with some level of dignity and thought.

Maybe try responding to the right poster before you get on your high horse.