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Yep, saw the same thing more or less. I was walking up those steps (ironically the back of my head was on a BBC report), a lad finished a bottle of beer and just launched it as far as he could (about 10ft over my head upon it's journey through the air) into a huge crowd of people packed in tightly. I didnt see where the bottle ended up as I was walking up the steps and it ended up behind me. One of many things from that day which were just barbaric, stupid. This bottle throwing incident, wasn't the worst thing I saw.

Shit me, that's a good post.

Different type of players but I really like the look of Roberts, his attitude too seems great, a real winner. Jay was good too, I think he suits Coventry well, ironically he would suit Manning too! Tanner on the other side is very good as well, not as talented with the ball but an excellent defender and very good 1 on 1 defender too, just goes about his business, never shows much emotion other than a professional poker face. Great to have 2 young lads like that for Free and £300k respectively. If we can get Atkinson fit, then with Vyner and Dickie we are sorted at the back for years.

Great free kick, very little else. I mentioned a couple of months ago I'd hoped he was a young Jamie Paterson, so far I've seen nothing to suggest he's as good as Paterson was. He goes missing a lot and personally I'd pass, and get someone less hyped, maybe from abroad.

Ironically, he played a nicely weighted pass through to Conway who went on to assist the goal today. To be fair, you dont need world beaters in there to compete (Morsy and Luongo at Ipswich, albeit they have promotion momentum). I just think it's too little too late to warrant a new deal.

A midfield player who rarely scores, doesn't run with the ball, isn't strong in the air, rarely passes forward and is injury prone. But he tries really hard and makes rash tackles - seems a perfect fit for a Bristol City midfielder at this level.

Just seen it back. Never a penalty in a million years. Even worse than seeing it Live and I'm in that corner of the South Stand.

Fair enough, difference of opinion is fine. Leicester was one of our better performances since Manning took charge, but we were very fortunate to get anything from the game. Today was another example. It's now 5 unbeaten, but that was dull, boring, painful to watch...again.

Unlike the Blackburn game. There were no gifted goals today to paper over another poor performance - apart from the referee giving us a very questionable penalty. It's not just performances though. The togetherness isn't the same as it was under Nige, something I enjoyed was we worked hard for each other. Now it reminds me of back in school when you'd play up when a supply teacher came in.

I still don't think we're playing really well. Leicester missed a hatful of chances and should've been out of sight. Plymouth we took our only chance, they didn't. Sunderland we were poor but not punished. Blackburn handed us 4 chances, which we took well. I don't think the performances are much different, but we are getting a bit of luck, which has got us results.

Tonight showed what a strange game football is. I don't think we created anything of note, every goal was gifted by an awful Blackburn defence. We took the chances we were given. We've had a flukey win v Leicester, a smash and grab at Plymouth and a poor performance at Sunderland which went unpunished. Fingers crossed he has worked out we can be an effective Championship side when we setup like we were under his predecessor.

Nope, over the past 10 years or so the scales have begun to balance out in Yate, maybe since Rovers non-league days? Frampton and Coalpit Heath you see as many red as you do blue. There was once a one off coach from Sainsbury's Emersons Green to Ninian Park when we played Cardiff away, coach was full.

I'd have given him another 3.5 years personally. But taking our decision makers into account, 18 months minimum would've been sensible.

There will be somebody smarter than me to explain it. But we were lopsided weren't we? Sykes was left wing/left forward, Knight central behind Wells with nobody on the right. TGH was right of a midfield 3 but nowhere near as high as Sykes and way more central. Worst I've seen TGH, he looked confused, like a few of them. The irony is, it's LJ-like in that as soon as you give these 'modern' young coaches time to coach, the performance suffers and players look confused.

The mess Ashton and LJ allegedly left behind following years of overspending, meant NP had to pull a rabbit out of a hat to make us competitive. This season was really the first season where we were less hamstrung financially and in typical City fashion had a lot of injuries. We weren't in a financial position (financially) to be hiring and firing coaches left right and centre. Then, once Nige had the opportunity to push on and improve us, we sacked him at the first sign of a bad run (during an injury crisis). Context is important. QPR might've been playing crap football but they didnt have a crap squad, very different scenarios.