Mendip City

Just spoke with a Norwich fan through work. He thought it will be tough but they are playing well at present. We’ve similar recent form.  I think, if Norwich start well, they could well find us in holiday mode tomorrow… but you never know. 

1 hour ago, TDarwall said:

Was it home v  Newport where Curle ran 3/4's of the pitch to score?

He did it every game if I remember correctly*
 

*minus the scoring bit 

6 hours ago, MarcusX said:

Out of interest why did we have BC82 instead of a badge on the shirt?

After going bust, Ashton Gate 8 and all that, the club was “Bristol City 1982 Limited”. That’s where the 82 bit came from. No idea why we didn’t use a badge though. I always quite liked the BC82 thing for some reason….. better than a roadkill robin, that’s for sure. 

2 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

John Mousinho though. 37 years old. 74 games in charge of Pompey in his first managerial job and secured promotion. Only lost 10 games. 

Yeah but we’ve got “one for the future”

14 hours ago, Davefevs said:

As the “story” goes, they were coming, fees, wages all agreed, they wanted to come.  They weren’t unrealistic bids, they’d been agreed by Brentford and Hull.  You even said they were accepted?  So how could they be unrealistic?

Pelling stuffed it up.  So, had Pelling not interfered (on who’s say so? Hmmmmm??) Cotts wouldve been backed.  But due to Pelling, Cotts ended up not being backed.

Gayle (towards end of window) wasn’t an unrealistic deal in terms of fee, £6m plus add-ons, accepted by Palace….but he didn’t want to come.  He even came down to Bristol out of respect.

That’s how I remember it. 
We went from failing to sign 2-3 quality players at a fairly high price to a model of accumulating run of the mill “clubs in the bag” like they were going out of fashion (and at a cost). Surely a far less financially sensible plan?!?!  Oh and I’d suggest Maguire might have been a better deal than the £8m we spent on Kalas a couple of years later. 

Anyway. Back to the point - that was the best away game I’ve ever been to… by a mile. 

20 hours ago, Lrrr said:

Knight-Lebel is the curious one for yesterday that Manning would rather put a RB and make shift RCB in a back three in the middle of the back three over playing an actual centre back there, I'd be getting pretty annoyed by now if I were Knight-Lebel, he's played just 1100 minutes (including U21's) in what's one of the most important years for his development where he's had to sit on the bench for the first team where either Atkinson gets fit in the summer or we probably buy another CB over him. 

I agree with this - perfect opportunity to assess JKL. We’ve got a challenge over the summer - Naismith and Atkinson might or might not be fit for next season so do we buy another centre half and risk having way too many (and block the “pathway”)? 2 or 3 games now would tell us whether JKL is likely to be up to it as a stand-in defender, save the transfer budget and not block the pathway. If the lad isn’t up to it yet, he may as well get out and get a decent loan somewhere. 

Here’s a thought…. When was the last truly meaningful league game we played? I really can’t think…. Wasn’t there a season under LJ where, in theory, we could have made the play-offs with a win and other results going our way? It’s just been season after season finished with dead-rubbers for the last couple of months. Not even a relegation battle! 

24 minutes ago, YorkshireSection said:

As if were eer getting promoted though!

I know….. it was an incredibly hypothetical scenario. We’d be more likely to get relegated, with a 20 point “good finance bonus” and still cock up promotion. 

It’s no punishment at all. I reckon if you offered any City fan promotion now and a 2 point deduction next time we are relegated, they’d snap your hand off. 
 

In fact how big a deduction would you gamble on…. 12 points? 20??  I would for the experience, increased profile, financial bunk up and parachute payments. 
 

Sounds to me that financial impropriety pays!!! 

58 minutes ago, Sir Colby-Tit said:

Fulfillment Facility, sounds like a knocking shop.

Next year’s rewards scheme could be interesting 

55 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

I believe that this next game against Blackburn presents us with the first opportunity to confirm, mathematically, a 10th consecutive season of second tier football.

So far as the drop is concerned we're 12 clear of Birmingham on 22nd, and 11 clear of Huddersfield in 23rd, with 15 points left. Even if we lose on Wednesday we'll likely remain at least 12 clear of the team then in 22nd.

So much for the hyperbolic fears of some regarding relegation a few weeks back.

As for the legendary top 6 finish - again we're currently 13 behind Norwich in 6th so if we win and they lose, we're confirmed as being in the Championship next season. If we draw and Norwich lose then technically we could still make it, but come on. Be serious.

It's possible that due to teams playing each other (for example PNE and Norwich, and Huddersfield and Birmingham) we're actually already technically confirmed to be out of either race, but I've not checked that in detail. Wednesday night is when we could properly confirm it.

What a tame ride it's been. Not once finishing a round of games higher than 7th nor lower than 15th. Since Millwall on 1 Jan we've shifted between 11th and 14th. For all the brouhaha through the season, it's been the mid-table cruise that it was always most likely to be.

Here's to 2024/25 and hopefully something a little more exciting.

That’s an interesting table and that 7-15 is us all over and the graph would have very few spikes if you expanded it over our 9 seasons at this level.  I don’t see much likelihood of change next year… so the frustration (boredom?) will carry on! But you never know and we live in hope! 

1 hour ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

I can. All we've got to go on is what was said and numerous interviews by numerous people said that the expectation was for us to improve this season. Other wise why make the change (JL) 

When people say "Jon didn't actually mean what he said" makes me piss myself as they are just making things up to suit their agenda. 

We were just outside the play offs. We didn't bring these in to be happy to sit in mid table. 

Yes completely agree and if JL/BT did say something different at interview to what they’d said in public, LM should have spotted the bus he was thrown under and done a runner. He didn’t. 

10 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

Good, but you missed a variation on the blue and white third kit to commemorate City’s 1-0 FA Cup final defeat to Man Utd in 1909. 

Good point. Next season is the 116th anniversary - surely worth celebrating!
 

It’ll also be 45 years since we last played in the top flight…. Maybe one not to celebrate…. 

3 minutes ago, Sir Colby-Tit said:

I think it'll be a retro shirt, harking back to the 23/24 season, to commemorate the famous dumping of West Ham from the FA Cup.

I think this is the way to go, traditional is out dated. Claret and blue at home to celebrate beating West Ham. Red and white stripes, away, to commemorate demolishing Southampton by two, maybe three goals. Blue and white third kit with the dates of the Leicester win and narrow defeat at Ipswich embroidered into them. 
purple and lime tracksuits with celebrating BT image across the back. 
 

Job done, over to you Jon and I look forward to seeing the finished effort. 

8 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I wish Wyscout did PSxG in the player summary stats I extract, a good measure for a keeper’s shot saving.

The save from Vardy that he tipped around the post was 0.80 PSxG.

 

I actually think he’s our most “trade-able” player right now…. I hope we don’t sell him but he’s a very modern type of keeper and wouldn’t be out of place in the top flight… or at least warming a bench there… IMHO 

6 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Women's Team generally sits under a club Accounts wise and Isn t that expensive. How many club takeovers have seen the Women's Team consolidated or outsourced?

I'm not wildly bothered either way fwiw but it is hardly unprecedented.

I understand your point and I’m sure it doesn’t cost much. I just think it’s a distraction and yet another example of unfulfilled or incomplete projects under the BS umbrella.  My hope for a takeover would be focus…. Focus on the men’s team to get where it needs to before worrying about any other sporting endeavour. 
Looking at the WSL only City and Leicester are non-PL men’s teams…. Will we ever truly compete without the men’s team having PL size pockets? 
 

3 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Stop it….spoiler alert

He might want his money back, but it’s not worth £200m, so why not moan…he’s priced it out of getting someone better in!!!

Wish I could get my money back for every bad decision I’ve made!!!

surely Steve understands?? 

1 minute ago, Ivorguy said:

The ground is an issue, I agree, the rest can go along with BS
 

 

 

That’s the trouble.  The owner will foolishly think the rest has some value. 
I think he’d have to give it away if he wants someone to take the lot. 

1 minute ago, Ivorguy said:

Please don’t raise my hopes.

Nothing will improve until the Lansdowns go.  Period.  They have had their extended chance and blown it.

Of course there will be a buyer(s), after all doesn’t everyone say we are a sleeping giant.  

There will be buyers, so long as the (currently) awful football club comes with a ground and training ground and doesn’t include an awful rugby team, awful women’s team, basketball team (presumably awful I pay no attention to them), awful manager, awful tech director, awful media department etc etc…. 
Hmmmmn we could have a big problemo. 

23 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

jon lansdown hasnt quite got the same ring to it as mary quant has it?

The surname isn’t far off… he’s a Merry Qunt is he? 

Alex Scott played 90 mins and 2 assists. 

1 minute ago, Glen hump said:

There’s not a lot he can change once the filming has started.

And it’s important to take the emotion out of interviews (and everything for that matter). 

14 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Well. 
 

As, unlike the pre match pressers it’s an in house interview with the club having planned both the questions and the answers, and then had the opportunity to re record it had it not hit the marks they wanted, a better effort than that, particularly in the bit where he absolved responsibility for what happens when the game starts again.

It’s damning that this is their best effort of making Liam look good.

So I was hoping for something that didn’t continue to make him look incompetent. But I was expecting exactly what I got.

I think his lack of progress is due to the media team “overloading him with too much information”. 

1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said:

- The large volume of games we’ve not won or drawn we’ve been in them. The culture is good and it’s important to stick together. 

Thanks for the summary, I can’t bring myself to listen but this bit he keeps mentioning, like it counts for anything…. You get zero points for being “in games” and surely being “in games” against teams in your division is a minimum expectation! 

1 hour ago, SydneyCity said:

That’s one step away from “Live, Laugh, Love”.

Or “you don’t have to be mad to work here, but it helps”

Or should that be “you don’t have to be family to work here, but it helps” ?