Red-Robbo

I do oppose the pedestrianisation of the city centre though. People need access to Tandy's.

Pub options near Kennilworth Road are woeful. And to be honest it isn't much better at Stamford Bridge! Griffin Park - now you're talking! And even the new ground has an easy walk to some lovely old pubs in Kew Village. My favourite away ground - although I won't be travelling there this visit - is Carrow Road. Near the city centre and not too far from the station, nice waterside pubs nearby and some cracking bars and restaurants. Far away enough to be a real jaunt. I usually stay over as I'm a big fan of the city and Norfolk on general.

Resist the Southville attempt to invade its neighbour. Whatever Red Trousers and various estate agents try to tell non-Bristolians North Street is Bedminster. All of it.

Southville my arse! That's a red card offence!

You've misspelt pillocks.

No it won't. F- the Skates.

Was just going to say this. Drink Up is just so massively better and specific to us. Imagine singing a 1930s dirge about a cuckold about to kill himself. AND having borrowed it from another club.

Because, as I've noted elsewhere, sides that've been cack all season are suddenly revitalised by the need not to have a relegation on their CV, with attendant potential loss of income and career prospects. It really focuses the minds of lots of players. Results at Home Park, St Andrews and the New Den show Huddersfield's players aren't the only relegation-threatened team to play with a new urgency at this stage of the season.

You're right although according to the 2023 PL guidelines it's still a handball if "The player falls and the hand/arm is extended laterally or vertically away from the body". IFAB still distinguish between a supporting hand/arm and the other arm. Most of the rule changes seem to cover deflections. The rules that come into force next season (and already are applied in European competitions) seem to suggest that if it hits the upper part of the arm and the position is accidental and "justifiable" by a player's action, that would no longer be considered handball. As ever, it's very much at the ref's discretion if they think the movement of an arm is natural and thereby justifiable or exaggerated and therefore unnatural. Having read what's coming in, I don't think it clarifies the law at all.

Totally agree, but it's a bit like my local boozer: the landlord is a bit of a twonk and he's had the pub on the market for a while - but I still go there because it's my local and there are things I like about it, that are nothing to do with him. City are my club, so I'll hopefully last out the Lansdown years.

. A player is not deemed to have committed an offence if he/she handles the ball while falling “and the hand/arm is between the body and the ground to support the body, but not extended laterally or vertically away from the body”. So, if it had struck his other arm, no handball. Waving arm for balance, even though not deliberate, handball.

I just think "I've seen a hell of a lot worse in the past"! Not thrilled with Manning, but his reign has so far given us a few highpoints, so it's not all been tedium. There are glimpses that a joined-up successful Bristol City could be created although far too much is slow-paced cobblers like Saturday. I'll press on as a fan and hope that consistency might come. We've not had a really exciting season for some time. Even under NP it was all "a period of transition". Although Huddy fans are big soppy Yorkshire puddings - they must all have eagle eyes in order to have instantly seen from the other side of the ground that there was "no penalty" (and as for the extra time added, they clearly don't know the rules) - however their side gave a good account of itself, as will most teams playing out of their skin at this stage of the season to try to avoid the drop. I think that intensity made us look poor, especially in the first half.

There is also the fact that it was a dead rubber game. The end result wasn't really that important. It was boring and a bit cold so people left. If we'd been desperate for a point to stay out the drop zone or make the play-offs, then you'd find people staying until the final whistle regardless of those two factors.

Gatlin O'Donkor has to be a made-up name, surely?

Huddersfield got entirely what they deseved after all the ludicrous play acting and unsporting behaviour in the last 15 minutes. It's interesting that during the attack which led to the ball being up there for the penalty, yet another one of their players went down "with cramp" and once his appeal to stop the game was ignored by the ref, instantly sprang back up and sprinted to the box, cramp now all better. I hate the play acting in modern football. It's one of the things rugby fans always ridicule about the game - and they have a point. Up to now I have had no real feelings about Huddersfield Town. Now, I want them to go down. **** them.

At minimum, they will not have any full-time pros on the books. They get decent support for that level and now Osborne isn't involved the ground should be safe. Rumour is that the bloke who runs Brewdog is interested in taking it over.

I just love it when timewasting comes back to bite a team on the arse. I was bored to ****, but now feel rather cheery.

I usually stay to the end but the game was so horrible I"d have probably left had it not been drizzling. I waited for the rain to pass whereas my matchday companions caught the rain but missed the goal. You gotta larf!

Fair enough. and having rewatched Conway's goal, I think you're right: the ball isn't trapped by Hyam but bounces off him and TC pounces. Still needs good composure from Conway to seize the chance. Another 20 seconds and it's safe for Blackburn.

Correctly quoting a personal hero.

I think we played very well as a unit - you don't really criticise anyone much after a result like that. Vyner made a couple of howlers in the game, but Blackburn couldn't make much of them. But, like Syksey, he played his part in the win and overall, he's a positive, as ever.

To my mind, a "press" includes strategic balls over the top. It wasn't as if we were lumping it up from our half a la Pulis. We played on the front foot more or less from the off. Totally agree that they gave away stupid penalties. But then, most are... Silvio is right to give credit to a ref who called them correctly particularly when others might've ignored the handball "because I've already given them one".

It was a simple finish, but it was possible because we were repeatedly up there and Tom was quick to pounce on the mistake. Nakhi managed to give the keeper an option when he was clear through in a one-on-one in the same position in the second half. Quite why Blackburn were so bad is interesting. They aren't a great side, but haven't been that bad all season. It might just be a case of everything going wrong for them and us doing everything right. "The perfect storm". I remember seeing us get demoralised when we've conceded from an obvious defensive balls-up and after penalties too, so I think the first half double whammy knocked their individual confidence to play. Amazing how professionals can begin to doubt themselves, but it happens. All that said, there was a period of about 15 minutes after half-time when they more than matched us - their subs had strengthened their midfield and the #2 in particular was giving us problems that the man he'd replaced never had. It's the story of the night that we easily absorbed the pressure and when we replaced our own tiring players, the results were spectacular.

Del Boy's dad watches us take on Bradford Park Avenue.

I don't think we were "gift wrapped" goals. Hyams may have been poor but both pens and his under-pressure back pass came because we were pressing high and continuously. For his first, Conway still needed to be alert to the possibility and bury it. I've seen us miss plenty of possible interceptions. As for Mehmeti's goal, there was nothing gift wrapped about it in my opinion. After robbing the defender he had to hold him off, take it into the box, wrong-foot another defender and shoot from an angle to avoid a third. It was pure skill. You don't fluke a 5-0. It comes because you were playing well - as well as them playing poorly.