Coxy27

Because the law is always fair and should never be questioned. Right...

Defender don't tend to win awards particularly often, so imagine he'd be overlooked in favour of Summerville, Dewsbury-Hall or Szmodics - but in the games that I've seen, I would say the player who has the biggest impact on a team is Leif Davis - so I would give him POTS. Young player can be Summerville. Manager is easy - McKenna - although for absolutely no reason at all I don't like him and don't wish Ipswich well. What they've done has been amazing, but for some reason I can't get on board with them and hope they fail.

None of 'em! Would be the answer to suck in some likes. But yes, Dickie, really.

He's his best mate.

You must be a fun fella

In a word... Nonsense. Go against the grain... Yes it will, not just on here but against the grain of just about anyone in football. A good player now with even better potential who we got for a bargain price. Whether we use him correctly is another matter.

60 tickets. Not a bad day's work.

Good summary, and actually makes a lot of sense.

Yeah, realistically the result here could be anything.

You're both using logic and rational reasoning - something which referees are discouraged from using. We'll never know - but I'm pretty confident 80% of the time (as there's never total consistency) - the referee would have just looked at a few replays and that still image and sent him off. I don't disagree with either of you - but I just think a referee would.

VAR look at the incident slowed down, we've all seen it, they look at slo-mo and still images (they shouldn't, but they do) If you shows the referee on the field this image below, on a screen at the side of the pitch (which they would) then it's an instant red: FWIW I think it meets several of your criteria... It is high (half way up the leg), it is studs up, evidence is in the picture. How can he be in control when he's full off the ground? So not in control either. Glad it isn't a red, but in today's rules, it is.

Most of the time that would be a red card with VAR - they're not entirely consistent, but there have been 4/5 pretty identical tackles this season, and all but one (the Gusto one this weekend) have been reds.

Yeah - fair enough, the first point. The history and the 'name' of quite a few clubs in this league is bound to be a bigger draw than little old Bristol City. That's where we have to be better at 'selling the dream' I guess. Not sure this particular case is evidence we're not working hard enough though. We signed Matty James and Andy King that summer (who's connections we know obviously, so can see why), and had Scott coming through who's progress we probably didn't want to block also. Just think the club passed on him at the time probably, not that I know as much as some on here seem to suggest they do. Was it a mistake? Who knows, butterfly effect... if we sign him everything's different.

Genuinely interested to know what makes you believe it is 'clear we have to work harder than other clubs at the level to secure players'? Perhaps you could elaborate a little?

I for one am really surprised, and in many ways, outraged, that our club didn't listen to random people on the internet and base their scouting network on that.