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  1. Pedantry alert, but it was 12 points initially, then reduced to 6, then reduced to 0. I think the appeal was made by Sugar on the grounds the irregularities were committed under previous owners.
  2. We’ve been losing a six figure sum every week for years (transfer profits notwithstanding), so are we really in a position to turn down an extra thousand or more away fans by restricting away sales to 2,000? Not every team will bring more than 2k but some do. And it’s not as if we’ve got an equivalent number of home fans unable to get tickets every week.
  3. Which City player were they referring to (sorry if explained elsewhere and I’ve missed it)?
  4. Swansea corner that went for a throw-in on the same side as the corner taker has been the highlight so far.
  5. 21st and 22nd both currently have 38 points from 35 games. Extrapolating that to 46 games would equate to 50 points. Now Stoke and Huddersfield might both pick up a bit between now and May, but that would likely be at the expense of one of the other 7 teams currently between Huddersfield and ourselves in the table (or ourselves, in an Armageddon scenario), so 50 points is probably a reasonable proxy for where the line will be drawn. Peterborough went down on 54 a few years ago, which was an exceptional year. By the time Rotherham come to Ashton Gate they’ll already be down. That game is probably the likeliest source of a win in our remaining games, and I suspect we’ll scramble a few other points here and there to take us past 50. The other thing in our favour (at present) is goal difference - it’s more than 10 better than each of the current bottom 8. So in summary, I think it’s unlikely we’ll go down, but not impossible. Cue a final day relegation decider at Stoke now I’ve said that.
  6. Coventry in a play off final would be a 7th different ground in living memory for older fans (Ashton Gate, Highfield Road, Ricoh / Coventry Building Society Arena, Sixfields, St Andrews and Burton), although I think the game at St Andrews was behind closed doors due to covid restrictions.
  7. West Brom’s finances are tight at present so I would expect this is primarily an economic decision. Either they’re confident of selling the extra 1,000 tickets to home fans (where there might some uncertainty on their side as to whether we’d sell a full 3,000 allocation) or their policing and stewarding bill might be lower if there are fewer away fans.
  8. London to Manchester, Manchester to Middlesbrough on two separate tickets works that day. It’s a long time on trains, with an early start and a late return to Euston, but it’s doable.
  9. Last posting day was yesterday. From today it’s collection only, which is a pain as an exile who can’t make the Leeds match on Friday. Couldn’t the club have extended the postal deadline by a couple of days? 8 days before the game seems a bit extreme.
  10. Finally two quality deliveries into the box, and what do you know? We score
  11. One of my more surreal experiences watching a City game was when we played Cardiff in the FA cup around 2010. I was overseas with work at the time and the only live stream I could find was from S4C with commentary in Welsh. It was snowing quite heavily at Ashton Gate and I think an orange ball was being used. It felt a bit like watching an obscure Eastern European game.
  12. Why do so many of our set pieces either hit the first defender, or miss everyone altogether?
  13. Are these Robins TV commentators watching a different game? They keep saying how City have been the better side, and that Preston’s goals have come against the run of play.
  14. TV could also be a factor here given a couple of replays will be televised live. I suspect the TV companies are waiting for the result of tonight's final third round game before deciding which replays to show, and on what days. If Man Utd draw at Wigan tonight I wouldn't be surprised if ITV wanted to show the replay at Old Trafford (Man Utd games command significantly higher advertising revenue than games involving most other clubs).
  15. No sign of Stefan Marinovic, I notice. He has been in NZ squads this year but hasn’t played for them since September 2022 as far as I can see. Currently playing club football in Israel.
  16. I have a hunch there’s more to the story about Sterling returning to the U.K. during last year’s World Cup than has been let on. Southgate has barely picked him since. There might be nothing in it, but to continually not pick him when his club form has been decent seems odd.
  17. Yes. Currently at Heathrow about to fly to Basel, and then flying from Basel to Skopje tomorrow morning. Looking forward to it; I’ve been to Skopje a few times before (the Peter Crouch game in 2006, and a few trips with work).
  18. As there was contact between Rashford and the defender, I think any deemed obstruction would have resulted in a penalty, not an indirect free kick. I think an indirect free kick for obstruction only arises if a player is obstructed without any contact AND with the ball being deemed to be out of playing distance for both players, which is quite rare. It’s also why players shepherding the ball out of play while being harried by an opponent, or taking the ball to the corner flag to waste time towards the end of a game, generally aren’t penalised for obstruction.
  19. Realised I'd forgotten Bury, Rushden & Diamonds and Tamworth, so my City total should be 97. Have also totted up the overseas ones. I've seen England at 92 different grounds (13 of which are in England or Cardiff), and 15 other overseas grounds for non-England games. Overall total is, I think, 206 (97 with City, 9 of the current 92 not with City, 79 others with England that aren't already counted, 15 other overseas grounds, and 6 others in the UK).
  20. It's a great effort either way! I've seen City at 71 of the current 92 grounds, at 11 clubs who are currently non-league, at 10 former grounds of current 92 clubs, and at Wembley and the Millennium, which I think gives me a total of 94 different grounds with City (counting old and new Wembley as one ground instead of two). Have done a further 9 of the current 92 grounds either with England or as a neutral, so need to tick off 12 more to complete the current 92. Haven't worked out the overseas ones but have seen England in 41 different countries so far.
  21. Fair comment, I missed them. Which I think means 80 is the current maximum if talking strictly about the current 92 league grounds.
  22. Unless I'm missing a pre-season friendly at Newport or Oxford, I thought 81 was the maximum possible at present, unless anyone managed to sneak in to the behind-closed-doors game we played at Brentford's new stadium during the last Covid affected season? Either way, a very impressive total given it's been a long time since we played at some of the current 92 (e.g. Lincoln, Exeter). The 11 of the current 92 that I don't think we've played at (but stand to be corrected): West Ham, Brentford*, Oxford, Barrow, Morecambe, Accrington, AFC Wimbledon, Harrogate, Salford, Newport, Sutton Utd. * We have played at Brentford but no fans were at the game.
  23. Early odds from BetVictor: https://www.betvictor.com/en-gb/sports/240/meetings/441511110/events/2057263400?market_group=3538 At the time of posting Steve Cotterill is the 4-1 favourite, with Nathan Jones and Frank Lampard joint second favourites at 6-1. No doubt these odds will change over the coming hours and days.
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