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Let’s all feel sorry for this guy. Logs in at 2.45pm to watch the game that kicked off at 1pm...

Aww, do we have to? As it stands I can have match days ruined without having to put any petrol in my car

Joey Barton being appointed according to Bristol Live. Perfect fit for them. Scum.

I expect us to be Top 6, which is what the board stated when appointing Dean Holden. 48% pass completion, 1 shot on target again. I have supported this club for 37 years and I cannot recall it being this bad. Careful what you say about the Gas, for all our glitz and glamour if we played them tomorrow I would be nervous.

Or better still,both of them.

Not sure what league table you’re looking at. Lost 1 less than Bournemouth?? The table I’m looking at says we’ve lost double the amount of Bournemouth. And yes, we are in turmoil. We need 11 points from 15 games to stay up. We’ve only managed 12 in the last 16!! Unless something drastically changes, we are definitely going to be in a relegation scrap. I don’t wish to be rude, so please forgive me, but some people really need to wake the hell up.

That’s it The Bristol City Problem and pitiful attitude , for decades , in one post Ohhhhh it’s ok because xxxx (Particularly if it’s the fewers ) are worse than us Embarrassing - You should get a place on the Board

Maybe we should start calling them The Bacons.

So the Fewers hope Barton can save them from relegation, whilst facing a criminal trial. Only the gift that keeps on giving could end up with... Barton keep Rovers up, whilst he goes down.

ere we go ....make it political.....

Amazes me that people still don’t think we are in deep trouble. Take the blinkers off FFS!

We’ve lost 1 game less than Bournemouth and they are in the play offs. Things could be worse. Most of the people on this forum are acting like we are in turmoil and the club are going to go bust. yes we’ve lost the last 6 or 7 games, but remember this squad or players is the same squad that won 4 in a row at the start of the season...

That’s a bit negative of you. Maybe you are part of the board? do you expect us to be running away with the championship or something? Not going to happen. We are going through a bad time for sure, but we are just below mid table in the championship and we are looking for a new manager. Trust me, I’ve seen a lot worse!

I think the problem is that people are naturally very selective with what they remember about managers. It's selective to ignore the utterly superb job Steve Cotterill did in League One, and the brilliant football we made, but it's equally selective to ignore the fact he was doing a very good job of taking us back there when he got sacked. Meanwhile Lee Johnson did a good job in parts - the League Cup run, turning a relegation threatened side into promotion challengers - but we had the dire losing streak in his second season and, as you say, we went through several awful spells in his last season. We were dreadful in January and February and then abysmal when we came back after the restart. There's no doubt at all that it was time for Johnson to go but we were very decent for spells under him. There is no doubt that we were brilliant in 2014/2015 underr Cotterill but we were dreadful in 15/16 and would have been relegated without a change of manager. People seem to feel the need to set up this slightly bizarre Cotterill fan vs Johnson fan rivalry where they wholly praise one and wholly trash the other but, with both managers, it was way more complex than that.

What odds on the words ‘Joey Barton’, ‘fight’ and ‘Bristol city centre’ appearing together in the news in the next year?

Umm, it is a political decision? ?

As much of a **** Barton is, it’s bit of a coup them getting him in.

Imagine a derby with Pearson in one dugout and Barton in the other....

Awful club

I think it's stupid if we do, but I wouldn't rule it out from this government.

Are Bristol making that many mistakes or has the referee forgotten that he's got two arms?

These are the same people inside the ground that you hear say we played well and we're unlucky when infact we got played off the park and didn't deserve anything.... Too many fans blinkered and happy just tobe comfortable just like MA. It all needs to change.

Rovers are. Spitting distance of the relegation zone of league one, shit stadium, shit training ground, shit Santa’s grotto and worst of all they can’t even spell their own players names correctly on their calendar. it could be worse...

I went on to the Sunderland forum to give them some insight into what they could expect from LJ as a gesture of goodwill amongst football fans - what an ignorant bunch!

Can't believe you wanted to get rid of TC. Surely you can't mean Top Cat: Top Cat! The most effectual! Top Cat! Who's intellectual! Close friends get to call him "T.C.," Providing it's with dignity! Top Cat! The indisputable leader of the gang. He's the boss, he's a VIP, he's a championship. He's the most tip top, Top Cat.

I get the impression some people are a bit miffed that LJ had the balls to take the Sunderland job. People who dislike him were fond of the idea that he benefitted from his relationship with the Lansdown family (true) and wouldn’t get another ‘big job’ from his own merit. I find it a bit odd how there are some who’d love him to fail at Sunderland. I appreciate his personality is a bit grating, but he gave his all for us and ultimately left the club in a stronger position than he found it. In my opinion we should be happy for him to do well - same way we should be for Cotterill. Both good men who gave this job their all and improved the club’s situation.