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The concussion is worse than I thought.

I'd be a little surprised, but money talks so I'd guess more money. If it meant a return to this, the best ever kit IMO, then I'd be happy.

He got married yesterday

Not even close, Chelsea players had a monopoly .

His health comes first. For now, let's leave it at that.

Another member of the forum police out in force (probably BS4 in disguise), I may have posted it late, but better that than being a sanctimonious *****

Not ploughed through all four pages but anyone saying we've been "saved" by other teams receiving points deductions needs to give their head a wobble. Those teams were deducted points because they cheated. They cheated in signing substantially better players than they could afford. They've been deducted points to counter the competitive advantage they gained/tried to gain by signing those players.

Worse? Palmer £3.5m, huge wages, we still can’t get rid, Engvall £2m, striker who never scored a goal for us, sold 2 years later for £200k. Adelakun, Watkins, Walsh, Wells, El-Abd, Ryan Fredericks, Hegeler, Geifer, Diony, O’Neill, Jody Morris, Richard Foster, Mark Wilson, Gilmartin, Brunt, Nicky Hunt, Styvar. That enough for you?

It's not a different opinion, it's a matter of fact. The players take the knee because they want to, not because they have been ordered to. If you are going to repeatedly spread lies then expect people to get pissed off wirh you.

There are players in our current squad who were worse signings than Simpson (I struggle to look past Kasey Palmer for that accolade when you consider the eye-watering sums of money involved for a player who wasn't even good on loan)! In terms of negative PR, I think people over-egg this point slightly. Bristol City are a very small bubble - the ripples weren't even felt that strongly across the local media, let alone further afield. Most football fans probably wouldn't even know Danny Simpson was at Bristol City, frankly.

I loved that kit. Had the home one as well. One for Christmas and one for my birthday. A great reminder of happy days. My dad (sadly no longer with us) would drop me and my younger brothers at the children's enclosure and would go and meet his mates in the open end. It was very exciting. Little did I know then as a 10 year old that my city supporting experience had peaked.

The one from Aldershot? (OTIB classics. If you know, you know)

I’d respectfully disagree. Diony came on loan, we realised he was Pony Diony, and he was sent back. Simpson came in short term, it was clear to everyone he was Gimpson Simpson, but we re-signed him anyway. Both signings were crap. But only one of them was given a further year, so in my opinion that makes it the worst one of the 2.

Listened to the commentary for a bit and Pearce mentioned that the new Spurs ground is the best he’s visited. Started to rattle off a number of other favourite grounds and I was waiting for Ashton Gate. Luckily Chris Sutton mentioned AG!

When Derby County started their Umbro kit deal in 2014, they launched this heritage shirt from the 70s. Reminds one of a similar shirt from this parish...I wonder....?

Yep

Good thought provoking post…it nags me too! “Is the squad that much weaker?” Always gonna be a subjective, opinion based response in fairness, so probably a case that I’d be arguing the toss one way and others may see it differently. I would add that Alfie Mawson was key in those early weeks and should be factored into the debate. In many respects, comparable in ability, but even with injuries, we had a deeper squad last season imho. I honestly think the biggest factor was the contract situation created by SL/MA. It’s unforgivable and it “did for” Holden imho. I certainly want one who wanted us to pull the trigger, but he became the scapegoat. Pearson took over a squad unwilling to fight as a team. ”Would others have got more out of this team?” Im sure some would, and some wouldn’t. Would others have taken the job with the constraints imposed? I saw the appointment of Pearson as much more than “first team manager”, but almost “General Manager” too. I now have seen evidence that is in fact the case….he is building the foundations beyond the pure playing side of things….and I think that is massively important to what happens with City next. Has he made mistakes in the transparent arena on the pitch? Yep. Are some of those mistakes disappointing based on what we expect from an experienced manager? Yep too. Are some of them forced on him by other factors? Yes. We can debate to what extent each of them is “Pearson’s fault”. I lean to the side of being in Pearson’s favour. Others won’t. ”What should we do about it?” in my view, be patient. Watch the rest of this season, watch the summer, evaluate at the end of the window. I’m not gonna set any aspirations at this point. There are too many unknowns at this point. If we want to keep Scott, Semenyo, Massengo, expect compromises in other areas. I think Pearson’s year in charge has been all about compromises. Not sure if that is the answer you expected? Yep, and their punishment came in a season when they might’ve avoided relegation without a points deduction. Tough shit! Do we benefit? Yes we do. Did we lose out in the years they cheated? Arguably yes. Might we have beaten Derby in the 18/19 game where Semenyo got a red card, and pipped them to the playoffs? Steve Gibson argues Boro were cheated, why not us. I don’t really care about the table without a points deduction. I never expect a win in this league…I might hope for one. We lost against Cov, but I wouldn’t say we were dicked. Was a strong team performance imho.

I’m not gonna reinvent my history, my stance at the time was purely football based as I really had no real background into what happened off the pitch. I read some bits and decided that “rehab” had been done, do didn’t give it any further thought. Playing wise I bought into the logic of resigning him in the summer. It hadn’t worked out. It didn’t cost us much imho. Shit happens. Although we need to improve in this respect.

But there are educated guesses using a bit of common sense. Minevis that In all likelihood he was on something in the region of £3 to £5 k per week. Anything more would've been overpayment. Anything less you'd wonder whether it would've been worth his while considering his career.

That's just a back heel. A reverse back heel is when you dislocate your knee enabling you to back heel the ball in front of you.

@VT05763 how come you asked Fevs to meet before a game but you asked me to come round your house?!

I don’t get the obsession with Danny Simpson and the greater obsession with beating Pearson around the head with it. We are a club that over a five year period have signed, for huge money, players that have failed, retired, had no ability and were discarded! Pearson signs a player on a free that doesn’t work out and there are six pages and a dozen threads about it. Some need to get a grip and move the eff on!

Next June (2023) if we can’t move him on beforehand. My view is I don’t think some people realise how much the financial situation impacts things. We have to go backwards to go forward. It’s bloody painful. Very few seem prepared to go through a bit of pain. The club is already in a better place, because Mark Ashton is no longer around, but it takes time to recover. I might not have been referring to you! There are quite a few who can’t wait for a defeat, can’t wait to pick holes. Sad I know, but that’s the way they are.

Wes Brown Wayne Pooney Rio Turdinand The Gary Neville Ryan Skids Jobbie Savage A bit Man United heavy so I'll have them managed by Jurgen Plopp. sorry

"As I understood it..." isn't the start of a statement of opinion.

So that's one potential downside to Simpson leaving then

If you're of a certain age, it's the easiest Google search ever. Even Ralf qualifies

I came back to view the forum because some friends told me Simpson was released and I was interested in the responses. I'm not supporting the club because they have shown that they will sign players who are violent towards women while footballers. This manager. This ownership group. Until those both change or a statement of some kind happens where they announce they will no longer do so, then I cannot give them my time or energy. If someone does it before they're a pro/really young, that's one thing, but I think entertainers should lose their privileges to entertain when they do something so heinous as an active entertainer. I won't listen to Chris Brown's music or watch Roman Polansky films. My line for stopping supporting the club was employing footballers who displayed violence towards women. Maybe you don't have a line, that's fine. Your choice. Maybe it's just a different line to mine? Would you still cheer on Luke McCormick? Lee Hughes? Adam Johnson? Is there ANYTHING the club could do to get you to stop supporting them? I'm not looking for debate, just saying why I won't return to supporting the club for the foreseeable future and probably ever. Who cares about me? Well some people do enough to accuse other people of being me... so hopefully you'll judge them on their own actions rather than mine. I'm sure there have been posters who get banned and return, or have multiple accounts, I'm not one of them. I just don't follow City anymore. If I change my mind I'll post on this account. @Sheltons Army@Toblerone boot@Davefevs Just tagging you three because you've recently mentioned me.

I don't even wash my own clothes. I'm not washing someone else's!

Let's not forget when Newport sported a snazzy Goldie Looking Chain (remember them?) number...

I guess you have to factor in that he started 3, sub 2 and 15 unused sub appearances, and was fit for both training / selection certainly until the turn of the year. It’s certainly not “all of his wages down the pan”, although easy to frame it like that. in the 2 league games he started I don’t actually think he played badly….Tin-hat on, but I thought was he was ok v West Brom too, just a shocking backpass is the lasting memory. The key qualifier is - did he meet the expectations of Nigel Pearson for the wages outlaid? I suspect the answer is “no”, even with the intangible off the field stuff he hopefully brought whilst here. Could we have done better with his wages by signing someone else? imho, undoubtedly yes.

…for today anyway, as part of world wildlife day, a nice touch (apologies if already posted): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bristol-city-football-club_worldwildlifeday-worldwithoutnature-activity-6905059916260667392-KrvV

I recognise Max Wall, but who is the other one?

I understand they voted to do that rather than it being a rule imposed by the club. As for giving his shirt away, I suppose he's the only player whose jersey will fit an 8-year-old.

Dean "Deano" Ashton, on the telly, Forest v 'uddersfield just now. This is a new one on me. Would any of our technical or in the know contributors be able to explain what a "reverse back-heel" is? Is it kicking the ball forwards? Or doesn't it work like that (mate)?

Everton are my second team so to speak and they very much feel like they are the Bristol City of the prem in that they have a very rich owner who’s invested a lot of money in the club with regards to players but invested badly and are now suffering the consequences

Much bigger club than Villa and Leeds. they are in Freefall. I too have a big soft spot for Everton and have been to Goodison on many occasions when a youngster with my late father who went to University in Liverpool in his younger days.

Unlikely. Richard Gould said in an interview back in November that the new kit design for next season had already been signed off (with Hummel).

Norman cook sponsored brighton as well. Im sure i saw a team, sponsored by heinz baked beans at the gate? Wigan, i think.

St Albans are sponsored by Enter Shikari, an emo band. So not much has changed. David Noble, blast from the recent past.

Bristol Rovers were sponsored by Pound World, until they couldn't stand the embarrassment anymore...and who can blame Pound World for being embarrassed.

Dasilva was our best player on the day imo

If you take the context of his whole message ie the bad PR around the signing I think he has a very good point.

Good. A joke of a football club.

Maybe we can get a shirt sponsor from a company that doesn't profit from human misery.... West Ham also have a betting company as shirt sponsor, but they offer a shirt option without the sponsor logo. I would definitely get a replica shirt then (shirts look a lot better without some commercial crap on the front in any case), but I would never get a shirt with a betting company on the front.

It genuinely astounds me how they are 5th in the most prestigious league in world football, an they still find a way to complain more than Bury and Macclesfiel fans ever did.

People need to remember that our recruitment department was basically whoever Mark Ashton's preferred agents suggested before. I suspect there wasn't a long list of candidates so he went for what he knew. Simpson getting paid a relatively small amount is still nowhere near as bad as Chris Brunt though.

They haven't gone bust. The parent company have chosen to close that part of the business, and are still trading. I guess we are the ones holding the other party to the terms of the contract. Sentiment aside, I don't think we can afford to turn down a guaranteed income stream however short the remaining term.

The signing clearly didn't work out, but I'm slightly confused why people are quite so vitriolic about this one in particular? We signed someone on a short term contract with good football pedigree - three promotions wasn't it... He played a bit, but seems to now be past it. What's the huge deal exactly?