ProfitInMyPocket

Jobs for the boys until it all falls apart -> back to experience and show solid signs then fall out with experienced characters and revert back -> jobs for the boys and the perpetual cycle continues forever more and Bristol City barely move forward. We had experience in the hierarchy jump ship or pushed out and players with experience in the dressing room move on. I am fully convinced in a year's time we'll be having the same conversations after a lacklustre season begging for a bit more Championship experience and know-how. The best part of this season for me was seeing the academy lads getting opportunities running their socks off for the shirt, sure as hell won't see that next season. BT has a job for as long as Steve and Jon want him around. Steve ain't bothered and Jon wants to do his colouring books so leaves BT to it. The only reason you got progression with the academy this season is because of the man you shoved off the plank because he hurt some feelings. By the way BT reacts and responds to criticism shows how he feels, you're in a key position of power in the club, if you can't take it then just stay out of the way. I don't agree with everything fevs or ER says, no need to get butthurt over differing opinions. This club winds me up so much with how petty they act, I am thankful we've got a fairly honest group of players who don't roll over constantly when things aren't going well, otherwise we'd be deep in it.

Soft touch yet again

Just walked through us. How many times have these lot won at home this season? Can understand if they were a much better team than us and they've ripped us apart with some incisive football but Stoke aren't even any good. Too many emotions, not enough behaviours, not following the perfect game plan of patterns. Whatever the excuse is, we'll be in for another season of mediocrity with the setup as it is.

Too easy again.

Dreadful goal to concede. 3 toepokes through our team. Don't understand why he's so fascinated with Sykes on the left. We've seen more than enough of Sykes to know he's not good enough on that side whilst Mehmeti is stood on the right looking uncomfortable. One of our most consistent forwards performances will just dwindle with these choices.

If we give him millions to spend and we revert back to bore Manningball I am worried for next season. Will be another midtable borefest. I don't want to become another Man City clone, the football just isn't entertaining for me personally.

Technically he is decent but not very strong. Think we will lack a physical midfield presence if Williams doesn't stay.

That dive is terrible, finally Twine putting some passes through

Pretty sure Jon isn't spelt Ayda, nice choice of crayons there

Twice he's had good chances to score on his left foot, Twine's gotta do better.

Cracking finish that is.

Back to normal.

Twine is slower and is half the player Tomlin was, just my opinion but I think he's way too soft. Unless its a set piece he just gives it away constantly. Get Sykes further forward and stick the young lad Knight-Lebel at RWB, put Knight back into midfield with James or Williams. Yeah we're going to struggle without Vyner or Dickie at the back and they are pressing well but we need to go long into runners who can actually find the space, Knight and Twine aren't helping Conway in the slightest. We can't wait for the overlap from wingback every single attack ffs, the forward three need to take some accountability, so poor. If I was a Huddersfield defender I wouldn't believe this team hit Blackburn for 5 midweek. They aren't making many mistakes and look whats happening. If it carries on this way then the inevitable will happen and it will be QPR, Cardiff, Millwall home games all over again.

Everytime it goes to our front three it just comes back, moving Sykes to RWB and Knight further forward is just killing our forward momentum. Roberts done okay but that's about it, no-one done much else.

Playing Knight in the forward position again, sigh. Don't know why he keeps doing that as he played well in midfield with Williams recently.

Glad we kept the pressure up till the end. If they can't keep it tight and stay in games they are a real shout for relegation collapsing like that. First 25 minutes of that second half fell flat and the changes all went on and injected a bit of energy to kill it off.

Make that four gifts, my lord

Three absolute gifts, oh dear they're in trouble.

We are playing okay, nothing special. They wouldn't make four changes at HT if they weren't playing terrible. Hope we don't just try to coast to the end, they'll catch us out if we don't step the levels up.

Two terrible back passes and we've caught them. Nervous wreck at the back.

He's been one of our more solid players this season, usually consistent. Every keeper has a howler in them and he's not the best with his feet but he's a very capable shot stopper and controls his box much better than Bentley ever did.

99% of your posts are about Max, he done something to you?

Moving the creator/goal machine Jason Knight into right forward again, does the coaches handbook have a strict 'no more than one striker rule'. Conway for Wells, Wells for Conway every time. Let them play together ffs

Max excellent, Vyner decent, rest indifferent. If Bell misses that Twine chance at the end there would have been meltdowns on here, he's gotta do better. Makes me laugh that our formation is a copy of Ipswich with Mehmeti tucking in and Pring getting up and down with Tanner not getting forward much because they are frightened of getting Clarke 1v1. It's forcing Sykes further back to track when we he's our most consistent forward, that Hjelde at LB is dodgy yet we've barely troubled him because we are too focused on being an Ipswich copy, sigh. James trying to get on the ball, Knight few ok passes forward but midfield getting ghosted past quite often. We need to get a foothold in there otherwise they'll run away with it. Twine moves about as much as Tomlin, don't get the hype. At least Tomlin would pull something out of nowhere sometimes. Lucky they ain't got a striker. Have a feeling that young Rigg will pinch a goal if he gets a chance.

Look defensively brittle and toothless from set pieces without Dickie but without Max this game would be out of sight already! Sunderland don't look too great but just shows what a massive miss Dickie is, missing that height, the calmness and his leadership. Formation switching from a back 4 to a 5 depending on where we have possession of the ball, but we haven't really looked dangerous in either formation bar the first 5 minutes or so.