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Over the moon with this news. Let’s take another little chunk out of football’s soul, decrease attendances, lose income for match day reliant local business in the area - all for the price of one Gustav Engvall! What a deal. Jesus ******* wept!

Barely anyone is ‘embarassed’ by the Wurzels. People cling to pillars of regional identity and they get passed on just as successfully through the generations today as they always have. A strong sense of regional identity continues to hold across the entire country from place to place and with devolution movements growing and being successfully implemented these regionalist sentiments are only getting stronger. It’s one of the things that makes England and the UK interesting. Our national identity may be a bit confused sometimes but from city to city, region to region we have such a stretch of cultures, dialect, even language. It’s a great positive way forward for pride of place in this country that most people can get behind. Which is also why the songs of the Wurzels, particularly those written by Adge Cutler, remain just as relevant as ever to folk of all ages in the West Country. He sang about life in rural Somerset, where a lot of City fans are from, and in many of those places the essence of life is much the same as it was when he sang about his experiences.

Not a hope in hell

This. There’s no great conspiracy most of the time, Bristol Sport is just swarming with inexperience, nepotism and a general naivety. You can overlook it in the marketing department, but when you have the owners mate as technical director, his blundering son as chairman, uni graduates in the recruitment room, it’s a problem. I’ve always said the same about the Lansdowns, as far as football owners go they are just crap, naive, easily led and prefer to have a similar sort of people around them. But they aren’t evil maniacs. There are some really rotten bastards who take control of football clubs, we don’t have one of those at the helm here, but what we do have is an owner radiating a general malaise, tiredness and passivity which in an emotional game feels infuriating.

If the deal is going to shaft us onto Sunday lunchtimes or afternoons up to 50% of the time then I will re consider. The benefit of being perennial underachievers is that you get to watch football mostly at its traditional time. I will seriously consider non league as an alternative if this is the case. Bad for fans, for business in the area, for pretty much everybody except the broadcasters.

Felt like a club on its arse today. All the optimism and togetherness under Pearson drained away. Didn’t give a toss about the win felt nothing

These Saudi shows are all glitz but sooo dry of atmosphere. Definitely hampers the viewing experience on the tele too

The infrastructure does complicate things. It’s like having parents who have ultimately put food on your table, kept you stable and given you plenty of reasons to be grateful but at the same time have passed on just as many unhelpful complications and issues to carry through life. I think most clubs would feel conflicted. Especially those with old fashioned, decaying stadiums who are essentially stuck in bygone eras. It’s not a surprise it has taken a while to really start boiling over.

They are trying to sell. Lansdown has been all but checked out for about 5 years now. The issue is nobody serious wants to take his burden. The more pressure and toxicity that grows the more likely it becomes a firesale of the football club that, believe me, could make things worse. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have a right to pile it on. It’s a complicated situation of his own doing and the biggest losers are ourselves. We somehow have to hope a good intentioned suitor comes along. Doesn’t happen often. They will of course whoever they are have more money than sense but that comes with the territory. The soul of the club is mostly decayed, the damaged disguised with LED screens of club legends and a top goal scorers list in the concourse. How do we get it back? With an American conglomerate or gambling company as guardians? Unlikely. But something has to change. It’s shite.

After a horrible set of results today there is quite clearly a need to look over our shoulder. All it takes is another weekend like this and we’re 3 points off the drop. Lots of teams below us but are there any besides Rotherham performing as badly as us right now?

Call it off. We can’t win without the Foresters

The cynic in me thinks the club wouldn’t mind being presented with a decent excuse to postpone this one

Takes a lot for a game to be off these days, if there’s nothing in the vicinity of AG it should be fine

It was after a tepid draw at home to Peterborough. Think he followed it by saying the problem in question is ‘getting players to play’ ie culture.

He seems like a serial over thinker. I never hear stories of managers studying tape until 3 in the morning and think it bodes particularly well. Perhaps we were lacking complexity at times under Pearson but each and every player knew their roles and they would stay mostly consistent from game to game. The last month has been a borderline tombola of selections and ideas reminiscent of Johnson. Today was just bizarre. I don’t think you really tend to sneak into 6th or 5th with tactical wizardry, you are more likely to achieve a higher placed finish as a club with an average budget through a robustness and spirited togetherness. It’s old ground, but throwing that in the bin is going to continue to haunt this club. We were nearly there. A hope is that he realised a while ago play offs were never on the cards this season and is trying to work out the foundation he will build on from next season tactically. He’s certainly capable of getting it right and winning a game with his tweaks, unfortunately at the moment it feels like he isn’t going to be able to find and settle on a formula. Some managers aren’t capable of it, but it feels like there’s just no need for the chopping and changing and barrage of ever evolving ideas in the Championship. We were so concerned about them today, a side who have been struggling at the bottom all season, there was no need for it. I doubt the many sides that have taken points at Hillsborough this season have done so by trying so hard to stifle them? More likely playing to their strengths and just backing themselves against a weak opposition.