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Pay him as you would do one of your top tier earners. 27 years old (28 in Dec), get him signed up for 3 years (at worst 2+1). Treat it like a free transfer, because that is what it is. He’s a top half championship performer. I don’t think you’ll bring in as guaranteed a performer for the overall cost. At his peak years.

Well, I have succumbed to renewal for City and Bears but I'm still unsure about City being able to do well and manage to get into the top six after 46 games. However, as I'm coming up to 81st birthday, still fit and able enough to get to the matches. I have done so because this life isn't a rehearsal, I am keeping all my interests going as long as I can. So it's dog walking twice a day, model railway construction any spare time, City and Bears for entertainment(?) keeping the garden alive and still doing all the cooking as wife is useless at that. But I still want to see running, flowing rugby and a football team that will provide entertaining matches, win, lose or draw. PS. Can we please arrange for Rebecca Welsh to referee all of our matches, the best and impartial, referee I have seen in many years.

Scrapping the Semi Finals being played at Wembley also please. Never agreed with that nonsense.

Marlon going ‘home’ to captain his boyhood hometown team to promotion. Fairytale.

A very good cause. My son was one of the first children to enter Charlton Farm when it first opened. The support they provided was brilliant and even in his passing they provided comfort at a very difficult time for us.

Happy St George's Day!!

Cardiff City - not their player when there’s a transfer fee to play Cardiff City - is their player when they want compo

Good for him. I always liked him as a City player and he seemed to be a good character, too.

Dear Bristol City Fans, We are 4 Belgians (in our late thirties) visiting your lovely city the last weekend of april. As we are massive football fans, we bought tickets for the Rotherham United Game (Dolman Stand seats). As our passion for beer even exceeds our passion for football, we're looking for a Bristol City legend(s) to show us the Bristol City FC pub life before, during and (god willing) after the game. Beers, snacks and tales of heroic football games are on us + an invite to do the same in Bruges for the next Club Bruges game. Please let us know by replying on this post, or contacting me on whatsapp +32498760835. Thanks for considering our request. Bart, Bruno, Thomas & Frederic

I don't think Nige would fire shots at SL even if he's entitled to. I reckon he'll say things like, "We felt that we'd laid the foundations for success", "Year on year improvement", "Confident that we could have acheived given time", "Chairman/board saw it differently", "Fans and players believed in what we were doing", "Nothing surprises me in football these days."

For me, it's the fact that VAR allows for a level of fussiness you (rightly) could not get with the naked eye. Offside was ultimately created to stop players gaining an advantage by just hanging around the goal waiting to score. Pre-VAR, a player needed to be far enough offside to gain an advantage in order for a decision to be correctly given. Otherwise the referee or assistant simply could not possibly see it, and there was a clear rule the attacking team was given the benefit of the doubt if it was not obvious. Now you've got several minutes of studying camera angles to establish a player was marginally ahead in a way that a) could not possibly confer an advantage to the attacking player b) an attacking player could not be expected to notice and correct themselves against. I agree that, by the letter of the law, Haji Wright was offside. I do not believe anyone could possibly argue that Wright gained any kind of advantage by being offside or that, had he been onside, the goal would not have bene scored. I also don't think anyone could claim Wright was at fault for being offside to such a fractional degree that he could not possibly have noticed and corrected without the aid of a replay and video cameras. So what you get in practice is a player who has made no correctable error and gained no possible advantage getting penalised for an infraction that nobody could have been expected to notice without watching multiple replays of the decision. By the letter of the law, it's the correct decision but I don't see how anyone could argue it's a decision that makes football better or a fairer game. I think the whole "a play is offside if his right testicle is fractionally ahead of the defender" is a nonsensical law, especially once you apply cameras and slow things down to check the testicular configurations. To my mind, the only way to make offside and VAR compatible with the spirit of the game is either to a) only correct decisions that the Assistant or Referee could reasonably have spotted b) change the law so a player's whole body needs to be ahead of the defender for an offside to occur.

I have been blown away recently with his performances. He has settled so well into the back 3 and him Dickie and Tanner were a really solid back 3 today. This kid is something special, he has got potential to have a really top career and picking him up on a minimal fee (I think it was a bit of compensation to Brighton) was incredible business just like Dickie. I remember right at the start of the season there was glimpses of what he could do before he picked up that injury and I remember reading a month ago about how he asked Manning to go out on loan in January. Our upturn in form has come with Haydon Roberts has been playing in this back 3. What a brilliant defence and goalkeeper we have, dare I say next season I am really excited to see what could happen if we do some good summer transfers on the other end of the pitch!

My two Penny… Sykes’ comments re Manning needing a window and not being able to play his way with the current group, is just yet another clear example and statement from someone who isn’t JL or Tinns showing just how ridiculous and naive their comments and approach back in October was.

6526, **** me. Not so much a crowd, more an audience.

Not his job. Korey Smith only scored one league goal in his time at City, he was still very good.

On 20th April 1976 we were promoted to the top flight after an absence of 65 years. I remember it being a humid evening at Ashton Gate, with City needing a win against already relegated Portsmouth, managed by Ian St. John. Clive Whitehead scored in the third minute in front of the open end (now the Atyeo Stand), but it was a nerve jangling 87 minutes to follow, especially in the second half when Geoff Merrick's sliced clearance nearly ended up in his own net. 27,000 fans went bonkers at the final whistle, there was a huge pitch invasion and City management and players took their bow in the directors' box. Alan Dicks ended up fully clothed in the players' bath, and the sports page headlines in the next day's Sun read "Splash! Bristol jump back". The two games before the Pompey game had seen City at home to Chelsea, drawing 2-2 in front of 26,000, and most surprisingly a 0-0 draw at Eastville against the Rovers, watched by a now unbelievable 26,400! What are your memories of that evening 48 years ago? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk8VE4BrlqU Norwich are still hoping to secure a play-off place and are currently 6th so will be well up for this. They have three matches to secure their spot in the play-offs, as they lead seventh-placed Hull by six points but with the Tigers having played one game less. The game pitches together the division’s two best teams over the last five games; City have taken 11 points and scored eight goals, conceding once, during that time whereas Norwich have 10 points with seven for and six against. Fan’s view Few saw operation play-offs coming in late 2023. ‘What a weird old season this has turned into. And not just because Norwich City have gone from something the dog passed to genuine promotion contenders in the space of four months. The Carrow Road crowd has also done a full 180 – transforming themselves into Portsmouth’s finest (a Delia joke) when, for the first half of the season, our spiritual home was the place to go on a Saturday afternoon if you needed some quiet time. (It’s only fair to point out that those who follow City on their travels have been admirably steadfast throughout). But it doesn’t end there. In November, David Wagner – nice chap that he is – was, in a footballing sense, Norfolk’s public enemy number one. Even some of those for whom the cup is usually half-full had to reluctantly admit that his useful life at Carrow Road appeared to be nearing its end. At the time the debate was around who would pull the trigger and when. There appeared to be no 'if'. But here we are, four months hence and Wagner’s star is rising. While he still may not be everyone’s vision of a Norwich City head coach of the future, in the here and now he’s earned the respect of just about everyone of a yellow and green hue for what has happened in 2024. That, in doing so, he’s recently overseen a win over Ipswich certainly did his street cred no harm. And there’s more. All of the angst around our majority owners and their questionable ability to run the club has been shelved for the time being. Even their most vociferous critics have put on hold their gripes and concerns while a promotion charge is ongoing. Delia’s “20 per cent of our fanbase are whingers” rant has also been temporarily overlooked. All of these positives are, of course, related. Little would have changed without the transformation on the pitch but, as things stand, we are all currently in the grip of operation play-offs. An 'operation' that's been a while coming. Not since back in 2001-02 – when we sneaked into the play-offs and lost in the final to Birmingham (in Cardiff) – have we been in this position. Since then, it’s been either automatic promotion, just missing out on the automatics, or missing out on the top-six altogether by some considerable margin. This is different. From being outsiders for the top-six, this good run has gradually hauled us into the play-off picture and, thanks to all of the above, we’ve stayed there… so far. There is still work to be done, but even if we somehow conspire to miss out, few expected this season to still be ‘alive’ when we reached game 46. And it will be. Like I said, weird old times.’ On the first Sunday of December at Ashton Gate we witnessed a very poor game with us conspiring to throw away a one goal lead, thanks to Knight’s first league goal for us, with George Tanner putting through his own goal and then Norwich stealing a winner in the 94th minute. Highlights: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/highlights/highlights-bristol-city-1-2-norwich-city/ Guide to Carrow Road: https://footballgroundguide.com/leagues/england/championship/carrow-road-norwich-city.html PotD is available, https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/pay-on-the-day-at-carrow-road-2/ Their forum: https://forum.pinkun.com/index.php?/topic/156283-bristol-city-saturday/ Match preview: https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/norwich-city/championship-promotion-race/preview/preview-norwich-vs-bristol-city-prediction-team-news-lineups_541569.html LM grew up in Norwich. Here he is with Mark Sykes, pre the game: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/manning-and-sykes-preview-canaries-trip/ Rob Dickie is expected to be in the squad, https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-receive-timely-injury-9224257 Their manager David Wagner grew up in West Germany. He made his professional debut with Eintracht Frankfurt in 1990 and played as a striker for several clubs in the first and second division of German football. Son of an American stepfather and German mother, Wagner played for the United States national team, earning eight caps from 1996 until 1998. From 2011 to 2015 Wagner managed Borussia Dortmund II. In November 2015 he took the manager's position at Huddersfield Town, whom he led to the Premier League via the 2017 EFL Championship play-off final. He left Huddersfield in January 2019, and then had brief spells at Bundesliga club Schalke 04 and Swiss Super League club Young Boys. Their nine most successful managers: https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/norwich-citys-best-managers-in-order-of-games-won-ranked/ In this fixture last season they came out on top, https://youtu.be/-ibCyMnAw6I Interesting Radio 4 food programme looking at Delia’s impact on food at NCFC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jbx9 Head-to-head record Won: 21 Lost: 39 Drawn:18 They lay claim to the oldest football chant in the world - On the ball, City! Which is 121 years old. Talking of ages https://www.onthisday.com/people/adolf-hitler Hitler was born on 20 April. Officials Referee: Sam Barrott Assistants: Jonathan Hunt and Greg Read Fourth official: Ollie Yates Defender Dimitris Giannoulis is out having picked up a hamstring injury last month. In March Ashley Barnes was banned indefinitely from attending horse racing meetings in the UK. Barnes, 34, was placed on the British Horseracing Authority's excluded list because he did not co-operate with an ongoing BHA investigation. Norwich nonsense From Medieval times right through to the Early Modern Age, Norwich was second only to the capital in terms of population. Immigrants came from all around to partake in the city’s wool trade and weaving industry. NORWICH IS THE ONLY ENGLISH CITY LOCATED IN A NATIONAL PARK. The Norfolk Broads is designated an Area of Outstanding Beauty – all 125 miles of navigable lock-free waterways, beautiful countryside and picturesque towns, villages and cities. It’s also mentioned in David Bowie’s hit song Life on Mars. NORWICH WAS FIRST TO BE PEDESTRIANISED. The city had the first-ever pedestrianised street back in July 1967. At the time giving people priority over traffic was a bit of novelty – so ubiquitous and much-loved had the car become – but other cities caught on to the benefits of restricting traffic and well, the rest is history really… Pubs ++++ Back in the day (or rather the 17th century), Norwich had 600 pubs. But the 1904 Licensing Act, Second World War and slum clearances in the 1960s saw many forced to close. King Street was the worst hit, with the number of pubs there falling from 58 to one. And the name of that one pub? It’s the Last Pub Standing, of course… NORWICH CITY FC’S CLUB SONG IS OLDEST IN UK. Today’s footie fans still sing the song ‘On the Ball City’ at Carrow Road Stadium today. It was written for another team in Norwich back in 1890 before the city’s football team claimed it in 1902. ALAN PARTRIDGE IS FROM NORWICH. OK, the self-promoting Alan Partridge may be a fictional character, but his creator Steve Coogan is real enough. Partridge is a DJ on Radio Norwich in the series, spouting his ‘words of wisdom’ to the city’s general population. COLMAN’S MUSTARD IS FROM THE CITY. Jeremiah James Colman started producing mustard at his factory back in 1814 and it’s been going strong ever since. Some of today’s farmers who supply the mustard seeds for the condiment are fifth generation of the original family suppliers. NORWICH HAD THE FIRST-EVER POSTCODES. Yep, today there are more than 1.8 million postcodes in the UK – every street has one. But, at one time, only streets in Norwich were recalled by a series of letters and numbers. That’s because the GP decided to trial it here back in 1959. Looks like it proved successful then. SALE OF THE CENTURY WAS FROM NORWICH. One of the most popular programmes on TV from 1971 to 1983, Sale of the Century began every show with “And now, from Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week!” Quizmaster was Nicholas Parsons. It had the same kudos as today’s The Chase with Bradley Walsh. Pubs There is no designated away team pub in Norwich. This is due to one too many issues of damage being caused to the Compleat Angler that means they no longer accept away fans. Furthermore alcohol is not served in the stadium to away fans. Sometimes the Waterfront pub or Stadia (both close to the ground) permit away fans but this is very hit and miss. Places to consider are: The Wildman, 29 Bedford Street, Norwich, NR2 1AG, https://www.wildmannorwich.co.uk Prince of Wales, 8-14 Prince of Wales Road, Norwich, NR1 1LB, http://www.inapub.co.uk/venues/the-prince-of-wales/norwich/nr11lb/1937 The Coach and Horses, 82 Thorpe Road, Norwich, NR1 1BA, https://www.facebook.com/thecoachthorperoad and http://www.thecoachthorperoad.co.uk Light and airy tap for Chalk Hill brewery (tours available) with eight own brews plus guests, food from baguettes up including lunch deals, Sat brunch and imaginative weekly specials, friendly staff, L-shaped bare-boards bar with open fire, pleasant back dining area; sports TVs, gets very busy on home match days; disabled access possible (not to lavatories), front terrace, open all day. Revado Hotel, Restaurant and Bar, 2 Stracey Road, Norwich, NR1 1EZ, https://revadohotels.com The Rose Inn, 235 Queens Road, Norwich, NR1 3AE, https://www.facebook.com/RoseInnNR1/ Adam and Eve, https://m.facebook.com/theadamandevenorwich/?locale2=en_GB 17 Bishopgate, NR3 1RZ Norwich (a 25 minute walk from the ground) The oldest pub in Norwich dating from at least 1240 when used by workmen building the cathedral, has a Saxon well beneath the lower bar floor and striking Dutch gables (added in 14th and 15th c); old-fashioned small bars with tiled or parquet floors, cushioned benches built into partly panelled walls and some antique high-backed settles, well kept ales such as Adnams and Wolf, Aspall's cider and around 40 malt whiskies, traditional pubby food (not Sun evening) from baguettes up, friendly service; background music; children allowed in snug till 7pm, no dogs inside, picnic-sets out among pretty tubs and hanging baskets, open all day. Duke of Wellington, http://www.dukeofwellingtonnorwich.co.uk 91-93 Waterloo Road, Norwich, NR3 1EG (8 minute drive from the ground) Rambling corner local with huge range of well kept quickly changing ales including Fullers, Oakham and Wolf, many served from tap room casks, foreign bottled beers too, no food apart from sausage rolls and pies (can bring your own, cutlery is provided) and weekend summer barbecue, real fire; live music and traditional games; well behaved dogs welcome, small back terrace, open all day. Edith Cavell, https://www.stonegatepubpartners.co.uk/run-a-pub/pubs/Pages/edith-cavell-norwich.aspx 7 Tombland, Norwich, NR3 1HF (6 minute drive to the ground) Corner pub-restaurant named after the gallant World War I Norfolk nurse; popular if not especially cheap food with emphasis on steaks cooked on hot rocks, three real ales including a house beer from Wolf, friendly helpful service, smallish bar, upstairs restaurant (and loos); diagonally across from Erpingham Gate leading into cathedral green, open all day (till 1am Fri, Sat). Fat Cat, https://www.fatcatpub.co.uk 49 West End Street, Norwich, NR24NA (10 minute drive from the ground) Heaven for real ale lovers, this cheerful town pub lies tucked away in a residential area just west of the city centre. With bare floor boards throughout, the no-nonsense furnishings include plain pine tables and simple solid seats, lots of brewery memorabilia, bric-a-brac and stained glass; board games. The knowledgeable Mr Keatley and his hospitable staff can help guide you through the extraordinary choice of 32 perfectly kept and quickly changing beers. On handpump or tapped from the cask in a stillroom behind the bar ' big windows reveal all ' are their own beers (Fat Cat Bitter, Honey Ale, IPA, Marmalade Cat, Tom Cat and Wild Cat), as well as guests such as Adnams Mosaic, Crouch Vale Yakima Gold, Dark Star American Pale Ale, Fullers ESB, Green Jack Mahseer, Greene King Abbot, Oakham Bishops Farewell and Citra and Timothy Taylors Landlord ' and many more choices from across the country. You'll also find 15 draught lagers and craft ales, over 20 international bottled beers, ten malt whiskies, ten rums and 22 ciders and perries. There are pavement tables outside. No children under the age of 16. Kings Head, http://www.kingsheadnorwich.com 42 Magdalen Street, Norwich, NR31JE (7 minute drive from the ground) Traditional Victorian local with good friendly atmosphere in two simply furnished bare-boards bars (front one is tiny), up to 14 very well kept changing regional ales, good choice of imported beers and a local cider, no food except pork pies; bar billiards in back bar; dogs welcome, open all day until late. Plough, https://www.grainpubs.co.uk 58 St Benedicts St, Norwich NR2 4AR (9 minute drive from the ground) Small city-centre pub owned by Grain, their ales and guests kept well, good wines and cocktails, food limited to sausage pie, cheeseboards and summer barbecues, simply updated split-level interior with bare boards and open fire; background music, occasional DJ; good spacious beer garden behind, open all day. The Ribs of Beef, https://ribsofbeef.co.uk 24 Wensum St, Norwich NR3 1HY (7 minute drive to the ground) Comfortable and welcoming riverside pub; nine real ales including Oakham, two traditional ciders and good wine choice, generous well priced food such as burgers and wings, roasts on Sun (no food Sun evening), quick cheerful service, traditional carpeted bar with river views, smaller downstairs room; live music Sun, quiz every other Thurs, sports TV; children welcome, limited seats outside on narrow waterside terrace, open all day. St Andrew’s Brew House, https://www.standrewsbrewhouse.com 41 St Andrews St, Norwich NR2 4TP (7 minute drive from the ground) Interesting place visibly brewing its own good beers (can tour the brewery), also plenty of guest ales, craft kegs and bottled beers, utilitarian bare-boards interior with exposed ducting, rough masonry walls and eclectic mix of seating including some button-back booths, popular sensibly priced food from British tapas and sharing boards up including special theme nights, busy efficient staff, upstairs function room; background music, sports TV; children and dogs welcome, pavement tables, open all day. Wig and Pen, http://www.thewigandpen.com 6 St Martin-At-Palace Plain, Norwich NR3 1RN (6 minute drive from the ground) Popular 17th-c beamed pub close to cathedral; half a dozen well kept local ales including Adnams, Wolf and Woodfordes, well priced wines and good value food from sandwiches up, Sunday roasts, prompt friendly service; background music, sports TVs, spring beer festival; metal café-style furniture on large terrace at front, open all day (till 6.30pm Sun).

Well fair play to him, he does a ******* brilliant impression of one.

Bristol City 1 (Whitehead) Portsmouth 0. What a night.

I thank god daily that I’m not as thick as you.

Seems the case!

I've got mixed views on this. On the one hand, I suspect most managers - including in the Championship, League One and League Two - regard replays as a bit of a pain in the arse and there are probably a lot of fans who'd appreciate getting a result on the day. On the other hand, replays are a fantastic income generator for small clubs and there's a certain magic in smaller teams forcing major sides to a draw and an extra game - even if they ultimately lose in the replay. I feel like the main result of this will be more bigger clubs going through to the later stages and less opportunities for smaller clubs to get a money-spinning second fixture.

Kudos to everyone involved, a great cause. Well done players and staff.

All because the bigger clubs wanted less fixtures, voted for more European games, so the smaller teams miss out on extra income and the bigger clubs make more.

As we are talking renewals, I have just renewed my forum membership. For a fiver, it's a bargain!

It's an uncomfortable truth that what he will have ended up losing annually, once he sells the club, as a percentage of his overall wealth will very likely be similar in many cases to the percentage of their wealth that most fans put into the club in the form of season tickets, merchandising and the like every season. Some of our fans on minimum wage will be putting in (not investing) a far greater percentage of their "wealth". I don't know about tax breaks but I do know that owning a football club as a billionaire will lead you to meet people and open doors to pursue other interests in your life that are not necessarily quantifiable in simple money terms. I also know that Steve's money will be working very well for him so if he pumps £15m of his own dosh into the club this year he will almost certainly be spending money that is effectively "Investment gain". It's not about being ungrateful, it's just recognising that a local billionaire has CHOSEN to do something with his money that HE WANTED TO DO, WASN'T FORCED TO DO and ultimately will cost him around the same, in proportion terms, as any hobby that people on this board pursue. The main difference is that in the pursuit of my hobby I'm not able to turn round and say "it's mine"................ As I've said before, if I had Steve's investment nous and was a billionaire, I would 100% be happy to buy the thing off him and waste a couple of hundred million doing something I would love doing.......I don't though. I'm sure quite a few on here would do the same.

As someone who has suffered 3 ACL/PCL (2 in right 1 in left and a re-rupture in the final stages of recovery as he did) which forced me to call it a day at an academy at 20, I can tell you this, its a unfortunate domino effect and we can say or blame the medical department but drawing from own experiences with it, if or when complications and setbacks happen they will just happen; the trauma to that part of the body makes it unpredictable and will never recover. Depending on how he had his repairs (There is various methods depending on the individuals needs). He will continue to suffer hamstring injuries as they are the most common and potentially further knee complications (tendonitis will be one) and will have to manage that along with his playing time for the rest of his playing career additionally that will also be impacted by how significant the potential acceleration of knee osteoarthritis could be in his situation. He will suffer a shift in performance in areas of his game which is to no fault of his own. I would have realistic expectations of him never being the "same" player.

Do what? What would have impressed you in any manager having to take over a Pearson (basket) case 6 months ago? The summer will go well because the club (ie owners & senior, respected managers will back Liam) so you have no reason to have a bad feeling. And what the hell do you mean by regression? Since when, since Cotts or since Johnson? There has been zero regression since Pearson lef; the players are happier, the cup run, we beat or draw with top teams, we smash poor teams etc etc - sometimes the negativity of you (and others) posts is simply baffling. What regression can you possibly mean?

I don’t care. Accept the element of human error to preserve the wonder of the game and the joy of the moment. This is what happens when the rules matter more than the game.

Why are you laughing? We've gone from 14th to 12th with this little run! Storming. The. League.

So the questions are .... "How well are those back-stabbing pains healing?" and "do you remember how and when they first started?" I'm no doctor. but I'd suggest he was suffering from a severe case of Tinnionitus

Gas are leaving their promotion push late. 17 points from play offs with 1 game left. I fear their goal difference may be their undoing.

Strange how so many of us on here are renewing a football season ticket DESPITE the football not because of it

Loved it when they played the semis at grounds like Villa Park or Hillsbrough - those semi final games were often better than the final

“Bloody get it forward and get in the top quartile for successful forward passes against peer group comparison for Christ sake!”

So Gavin Marshall has come out and said they should have "communicated this move better". He's the one who said communication needed to improve afer NP was sacked. Bristol Sport.Run by clowns.

Stopped reading after 3 words..

See you have the book “Derby Days”. For the benefit of our younger subscribers, perhaps you’ll be kind enough to answer their natural question, wtf is a derby?

Top teams play to many games How about getting rid of the champions league and put it back to the European Cup Champions only Straight ko That would save the big club a minimum of 6 games a season Oh wait it's the small games they play to many of Happy to play likes of Madrid Barca all day every day

Killing time in the airport this morning saw the annual list of this was out. Dewsbury-Hall number one, but there was one City player in the list - Step forward Max O’Leary, who has come in at number 40 based on votes from other clubs.

What I was told: No compensation, was free…as Brighton didn’t offer him a deal, they weren’t entitled to any. Why didn’t they offer him a deal? Madness, surely! Because he wasn’t gonna sign and they realised that any compo might be entitled to might put clubs off…and they felt it was in the players interest to have as wide a choice as possible. Fair play to Brighton, he wasn’t gonna make it there, so why make it harder for him.

Bit disappointing to read most of these comments. Last night's episode was a much needed live discussion/fans panel from two City Women fans & good friends of mine (one of which is a fellow SC&T board member but was giving their own opinions) - to go into detail & to hold people to account. There's been a bit of imbalance between City men coverage & City women coverage in some episodes this season (and in some episodes there was no mention at all despite the team playing a game that weekend), so it was great for Radio Bristol to use their platform to give more time & coverage on their main show for Bristol City. Radio Bristol go to City Women's press conferences & also cover the WSL home games - but a lot of match going fans like myself will miss that coverage for obvious reasons, hence usually listening to Sound of the City instead. As Nigel Pearson once said, the women's team are also a first team, just like the men's...

But the issue is that you don’t debate. You’ve brought up a few times “The Truth” and when asked to expand have said “It’s something you deny” as opposed to giving any kind of coherent argument. You get the memes and facepalms not because others have lost - but because you can’t, or won’t, give coherent points. In respect of being sick of snidey posts, I’d argue you’re equally as guilty - across multiple threads in the last 48 hours you’ve referred to “Nige Groupies” and brought him up unprompted on at least one thread. You’ve then just gone on a bizarre rant at @GrahamC when a valid point has been made about the providence of signing Medube (where Tinnion was very vocal on Twitter as to how good the signing was, so the player not playing is very relevant criticism). Supporting a team isn’t assuming Brian Tinnion is infallible- in fact, evidence in senior roles is very much the contrary. I’d argue that supporting a team is very much not just blindly shouting how awesome everything is - in fact, we often mock the other lot because of their lack of ability to critique, so it’s actually the opposite of your final sentence. You blindly not questioning and “FFS showing a bit of support” is actually the meat and drink to other fans. If you want to avoid the facepalms, debate. Or keep shouting at clouds and think something’s happening that isn’t. And for everyone else I apologise if this makes the Medube thread “hot” - we’re not signing him (we hope!) (Aside on DM - I saw a theory earlier that we weren’t playing him so we didn’t alert teams to him. Utter nonsense. We’ve agreed a fee. If we want him he’s our player. He’s not playing because he was pony when he did play and because the coaching staff have seen him for 3 months and concluded he’s not good enough).

Perhaps when he takes the mask off it won’t be the janitor, it will be a competent chairman.. Sorry, a bit too far fetched.

Question to be submitted by Cole Not Gas: 'Nigel, was it your greatest moment in football to be replaced at Bristol City by the genius tactician and ebullient raconteur Liam Manning?'

Congratulations to Pompey who secured promotion this evening.

I think this is a horrendous decision. It's been made by the Premier League clubs purely due to their own agenda, without a second thought to the clubs lower down the pyrmamid who can earn life-changing amounts of revenue from a replay with one of the big clubs. I get the argument about fixture congestion, but even that doesn't stack up when you hear that Newcastle and Spurs are flying to Australia about 2 days after the season ends for a money-spinning friendly. It's an absolute nonsense and the top clubs will do anything they can to maximise their own income without a second thought for those lower down. It also takes away some of what was left of the magic of the cup... We were absolutely delighted with the draw at West Ham knowing we had a night at AG, in front of the cameras ahead of us. That got people talking about us in a way that rarely happens to us.... I had messages from people who live overseas that I hadn't seen in years and things like that just won't happen from next season. Football is the worst for it, but all sports are going this way now. It's all about the dollar and the rich getting richer, and the essence of what makes sport so special is being eroded more and more over time. I for one am sick of seeing things like this and it will only get worse as time goes on. Sad.

Couldn't agree more. The quality has varied from the dream results coming true in the First Division to a team of mid teenage boys at the bottom of Division Four. In 1982, I did something that Lansdown never has or never will do. I spent the £90 of cash in my savings bank account on shares to keep City in business. And so did around 2,000 others. I have little respect now for SL as over 25 years he has spent peanuts on City, City Women and Bristol Rugby. When he completely clears his bank account as I did, I'll grant him some respect. He is taking the piss out of us supporters. Not funding the playing staff to give us a better chance of top quality football. And employing a head coach who is trying to do the impossible; to play the same style and quality as the Man City's, Real Madrid's with Second and Third Division quality playing staff. They're doing their very best but the style of play that Manning is trying to produce is way beyond our players ability. So send Manning back to Man City where he can coach their thirteen year olds!

I think the club know the score. They 100% do read this forum so they will be expecting a large purchase of ST's by this time next week because that's what many have said they will do. The danger is that Jon and the Geordie think that everything is then rosy in the garden and it's a vindication of how they have acted and how they can continue to act. It most certainly isn't and they will need to work very hard next season to get fans onside and prevent a far larger and damaging exodus occurring at that point. They are certainly in the last chance saloon with me, that's for sure.