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I havent been all season, the reason, i had cancer surgery recently and currently i am on a 6 month course of Chemotherapy so my immune sytem is at an all time low so it would be crazy to go to the games. I have a season ticket but havent used it but flying VPN airways i have watched every game this seaon although it's not the same as meeting up with mates watching the games live. When everyone was moaning a few games ago i was saying to myself yes we are playing badky but i would still love to be inside the ground supporting the team i love. Hopefully i will get to a game before the end of this season COYR

I have Christmas Dinner to think of, 3 works dos, cinema tickets, panto and a mates party, plus clubbing at New Year. No way am I going to risk missing those by catching the virus at the football.

I’ve decided that it’s too close to Christmas to risk going on Saturday and potentially ruin our normal family Christmas. Having had Covid in late September/early October I’m not really prepared to take the risk of a double whammy on my body in such a short period of time. Will watch on RobinsTV and certainly hope for a home win. I can’t be the only one thinking that attending on Saturday is a potential fool’s errand?

You’ve got to say it, anyone who falsifies a negative test just to go to the football is a special type of vermin.

I cannot believe the crass refusal of so many on Otib, too many, who are so quick to dismiss the advice of the scientists in this field. What makes them think they know better from their own position of complete ignorance It is at times like this that I despair of some of my fellow Bristolians

Bravo! There are many hundreds of thousands who'd rise to echo your sentiments, that it's only 'like having a cold' and talk of anything worse is 'scaremongering'. Sadly, as they've been rendered dust or are now pushing up the daisies we'll have to take your informed word for it.

I have prostate cancer surgery planned for January.... if there's any room in the hospital by then. So I haven't been to the last 2 games, and also won't be going Saturday. Anybody that's considering going, please be careful.

To summarise for those that can't/ don't want to listen to it: Sean O'Driscoll: - speaking to O'Driscoll sold him on BCFC, rather than moving to Barnsley. - was terrible. He gave an example of when we lost 3-0 at P'boro but told the players they played well. - Frank hypothesised that Richard O'Kelly (now with Dean Smith) was key to S'OD and S'OD struggled even more when he left Cotts: - was intense, honest, loving and good to work under. - Sometimes he lost the plot and he wouldn't speak to the players for a few days at a time. He gave the example that between losing against Colchester away one Saturday am, he then didn't speak to the player til Tuesday am before we played Doncaster away. - Said Wilbs "ran our changing room and is a great human being" Championship 15/16: - Frankie got thrown in too early after being injured but they did the job by staying up. Lee Johnson: - As OP has said. - Said after being sent off against Wolves LJ told him he probably won't play again til the end of the season which was bad for Frankie's motivation. - Frankie didn't confront LJ about some of the odd management Sums up his time at BCFC by saying he loved it.

I know it’s not fashionable to praise anything Ipswich on here at the moment - but from me, huge applause to the Ipswich fans who made a 640 mile round trip on a Wednesday night - there was over 200 of them there apparently, unbelievable support - to give it some context, if Bristol City fans had travelled to an away game at Queen of the South in Scotland tonight and back again - the Ipswich fans’ journey tonight was 26 miles further than that ... well done the Tractor Boys - I’ve always admired them for what they did for our club in 1982 and that Ipswich team in the late ‘70s was simply sublime - good on them ...

A doubling rate of 2 days alone is enough to justify some restrictions. If that carries on in a restriction-free population, eventually cases get so high that so many people are out of circulation - either isolating or actually ill - that society ceases to function properly. Not least of all those working for the NHS. The threat of a virus is ALWAYS a function of both transmissibility AND severity. A highly transmissible variant that is much less deadly can pose a greater threat to our healthcare services than a much less transmissible variant that is more deadly, because of the sheer numbers involved. They don’t even need to die; if they take up a hospital bed, someone else who needs it isn’t getting it. This is bloody obvious to anyone with half a brain and I’m sick to death of having to explain it to idiots like you spouting utter nonsense as if you’re some sort of expert. Listen to Chris Whitty. He’s got more letters after his name than a bowl of alphabetti spaghetti because he’s highly qualified and actually knows what he’s talking about. And he’s telling us to take it seriously.

Not true, we have had one recorded death in the UK and others worldwide. Hospitalisation, then deaths tend to follow an increase in cases by two weeks (increased hospitalisation) and then deaths after four weeks. Its still too early to claim Omicron will not have significant impact on the NHS or fatalities.

Nope, but it’s a complete unknown that Ashton can manipulate & foist his transfers on. Where on earth has that happened before?

I'm triple jabbed, I'll be going. I've no intention of arriving early and mingling in the concourse though. I'll follow my usual routine of going to the pub, leaving at 2.30 and wandering over. There's no way they will check everyones phone/passport so it will be pot luck with the queues. (Shouldn't be too bad as nobody is going by the sound of it...!!) I've got just as much chance of getting covid on my daily bus journey to and from work or in work as I have at AG on Saturday. I do find it funny though, that all the anti-vaxxers on here have been urging people to get on with their lives as normal, yet all of a sudden they don't want us to go to AG on Saturday.

Russian roulette is a great description. My 11 year old nephew got covid and was really ill, spending several nights in hospital. He is much better now but it left him with type 1 diabetes. He had no underlying health issues and was as fit as the proverbial butchers dog. You never know.....

Good. And so they should. It’s a squad game. If you’ve got 4 or 5 players isolating or positive, play the other members of the squad. If you’ve got enough players to field a team then the game should go ahead.

Wasn't sure how to name the thread, but seemed appropriate. Just listened to a Podcast with Frankie Fielding, interesting and speaks highly of Bristol and City. What he does say is Johnson was a good coach but poor man management. The time around the Cup run stands out. Being told he was done for the season and Luke Steele would play. It's interesting as The Under the Cosh episode with Steele, he says he was promised a run in the Cup, only to be dropped for Frankie for the Man City game. Another bit when he was told he was done, when we signed Giefer. Looked like he was leaving and LJ told him he wouldn't get that same wages anywhere else. Only for Johnson to give him a new contract on more money later in the season. Interesting listen.

I consider myself to be a fairly strong 55 year old. I went down with covid shortly after the Coventry game which wasn't a surprise considering the packed train, pub and concourse. I dont mind saying it hit the stuffing out of me for a month with breathing being very difficult, no work pub or football and almost 6 weeks later my chest still isn't great. In my opinion without the jabs I would of been in the Gloucester Royal. We have to do something to help the poor sods in the hospitals who are working their socks off, they need a break. Shut it down for a month, what harm can it do.

I wasn't going to post about this as I was going Saturday but now I'm not. A few of us were coming up on the train from Devon but I really can't be arsed with a 3 hour round trip on train wearing a poxy mask. So it isn't the worry of catching COVID that is keeping me away but more about the process of attending. As a double jabbed plus booster recipient I'm still really p!ssed off that the reporting of cases, hospitalisations and deaths are reported so poorly. As a population we should get a breakdown of how many of these people are vaccinated versus non-vaccinated. I think it would help people make decisions about attending games. In addition, it was reported today that 24% of people in the official figures of people in hospital today as COVID patients were actually admitted for another reason i.e. women in child birth, car accidents etc, etc. They just happen to have COVID at the same time. That really can't be the right way to report figures or am I way off mark here?

As far as LJ is concerned, I’d hope many of his detractors will have picked up on the very important comment here : he is a good coach. When we look at how far we’ve dropped off since he left, with many of the same players, hopefully those detractors will perhaps realise that LJ did actually manage to coach these players up to be better than the sum of their parts. Regards the contract situation. LJ let Frankie run his contract down so that he would have more options in the free agency market. When those options didn’t arise he re-signed him. So that comment makes absolute sense and certainly isn’t a bad thing or something to put ‘against’ LJ. Ultimately I think, from the man-management perspective, LJ was a very young manager when he was here - yes, perhaps we employed him a few years too early. It’s an important part of the role that he definitely needed to improve. But, as Frankie suggests, LJ’s coaching ability was good. Despite what some people like to say on here.

If you’d been paying attention, you’d know that wearing a mask isn’t to protect you, it’s to help protect others!

Probably, but it's not that more onerous than rolling out flu jabs plus, as the latest variant appears to show, viruses really love spreading but hate harming hosts. Like flu it'll largely sit in the background doing minor damage only to pop up every few decades in a more serious form. Positive to take from Covid is the investment made in sequencing, development, testing & deployment means science is already guessing where the virus goes next such, has already undertaken preparation in that respect, with response times for new vaccines very quick. Pity Science cannot help with idiots who refuse to take them.

Absolutely amazed at people's attitude this time round. I thought alot would have your attitude but seems the scaremongering really has made people afraid. Didn't the doctor who discovered this virus say she is amazed at the over reaction from us? I've done everything I've been told up to now. I'll be getting on with things as normal from now on. Lockdown or no lockdown.Respect peoples space, but that's that.

Good grief. Beyond help.

Ayling, you’re not good enough get out. Freeman, you’re not good enough either…

Come on mate. You know @Riaz knows better. Well… unless you include the other day when @IAmNick completely ruined him and he didn’t reply. That was awkward.

Don’t worry Graham….the news is that McKenna will bring Martyn Pert with him. Who? The same Martyn Pert that initially worked for Dan Ashworth’s brother, and Ashworth mentored Ashton and Ashton has modelled his CEO role on Ashworth’s “I’m at the centre of everything” model. Ok, a bit tenuous, admittedly. Ok, moving on, was at West Brom during Ashton’s time, under Aidy Boothroyd (cough, spit), who Ashton took to Watford with him. Pert arrived at Watford too. So another vastly extensive search, ends up with someone Ashton already knows. What are the chances?

I said the same thing about Olivia Newton-John many years ago.

Exemption from what; being intelligent, being a considerate citizen, making demands on the health service? Exemption works both ways. Funny how those I've witnessed who've claimed exemption would be running for ambulance chasing lawyers were they to be sensibly denied access to facilities on the ground of risk. "So you're severely claustrophobic and prone to suffer major panic attacks leading to hospitalisation? Yeah. You do know the station is packed to the rafters in there, it's stifling & you can't swing a cat. Yeah, but that's my business not yours. Actually it isn't and to save you and other passengers from yourself you ain't coming in....." Also it's funny how the 'exempt' (sic) appear to fall into distinct stereotypes, as others have noted.

What about when you get home

Going luton on coach one definitely should be concerning no matter what.....

Good luck WR

Wishing you an outstanding recovery.

To echo these comments recall the first friend I had who died from Covid. Fitter than the most of you combined. Least likely bloke I know who'd die. But he did, very early doors, from Covid acquired before you'd ever heard the word. He died as a result of the 'minor' infection he contracted from his partner, who contracted the infection from ski lodges long before Britain had cottoned on to the virus. He was fine post illness, minor inconvenience, until his heart gave out that is. A heart at autopsy that resembled one that had previously suffered heard attacks. The heart of an old man. Save he wasn't. He was super fit, fitter than most of you will ever be. Years younger than I. A life to be lived. Until, that is, it (& he) wasn't. Out running he died. He wasn't expecting that. His friends weren't expecting that. Covid didn't care. So if you get Covid and dismiss it out of hand, well, I hope you aren't in for a shock, but you might be. Not you'll know until the dying. No pockets in shrouds, no smugness in knowing somebody called it wrong. Just as it is.....

Such a shame we rewarded those Bristol City legends for their promotion with giving them Lee Johnson as manager. They deserved so much more. Edit- I say promotion. Sorry, I mean double winning league and cup championship.

Why do Gasheads get so upset about this thread if Ridicule is nothing to be scared of?

I have no idea what our problem is with Ipswich but haven't we done enough to them now? No need to twist the knife really..

Just in time for Christmas, though not sure sales in Ipswich will amount to much.

I’ll be going.I don’t believe any of the rubbish fed to us by the scaremongering government and scientists.I’ve been triple jabbed and had covid 3 weeks ago and it was just like having a cold.We live with flue with a vaccination every year and we treat covid the same way.The symptoms are so mild that you won’t know you’ve got it.

The new variant is mild and hasnt killed anyone yet. Not here or abroad. Get on with your life.

IMO until the risk is so great that the government, on the guidance of the experts, introduce a lockdown then pubs, clubs, gigs and football matches should continue as long as the restrictions are adhered to. Its then down to the individual to decide if the risk is worth taking

I wasn’t going to attend as I don’t agree with the covid pass. But now that it seems thousands won’t be going, does this mean the attendance will be less than 10,000 meaning they don’t need to apply the covid pass rules? If so, I’ll be in going. ?

Very mixed feelings! At the moment I’m going after missing a few due to being hospitalised it feels a bit strange as my illness was not Covid related other than the fact that it was entirely due to the cowardly family doctor refusing to offer face to face treatment and thus misdiagnosing (not diagnosing at all) my condition - at any other time it would have been considered criminal negligence! Wish I could get paid £600+ a day and get away with doing F-all! So my thinking is Bugger it - at 71 what else can go wrong?

harriott?...

Thought it was a decent post in fairness.

100k a year on a 3 day week for most senior practitioners = £640 a day!

Looks like I will be sat in a near empty stadium then. I will be there but wont be arriving an hour early as per the ridiculous advice.

Pretty good comments from that thread: 1. Incredible really given all the credit he had in the bank after doing so well in the summer. 2. Wasn't the main thing he did in the summer telling us how well he'd done in the summer? Or do you still think he deserves credit for all the hard work he put into bringing this shower into the club?

Reg has a private jet.

Oh yes that famous seafood favourite, Petri. Good one.