Merrick's Marvels

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The Black Hole of Staffordshire. I've known 4 Stoke City fans and 1 Port Vale over the years. None lived in Stoke. Nuff said.

Well said.

Well played City.

Hold me coat.

The Villa goalie dicking around??? Who knew he was a prize pr1xk? Oh look, Everyone.

Can't happen soon enough. Sorry to disappoint.

Fair enough fella. But in a season when everyone - everyone - at City hasn't been good enough, bar Dickie, the idea of "awards" is a bit of joke, quite frankly. I can only assume you're about 12 or alternatively happy to accept utter mediocrity ad infinitum. Some of us aren't. That is, about 12 or happy to accept utter mediocrity. But no worries, knock yourself out. But as far as I'm concerned the last 9 months might as well not have occurred. If you think we've made a step forward from where we were 12 months ago, fair enough. If you think this warrants awards and celebration, fair enough.

You need 5? From the minute the owner decided not to re-invest the Scott money - a decision no doubt taken well before he was actually sold - and from the minute the owner decided to not renew Nigel Pearson's contract - a decision no doubt taken long, long before he was actually sacked - this season has been a waste. A waste of everyone's time, money and emotional energy. A waste of the aforementioned that a lot of us, including the pensioner owner, can ill afford. So can we just get on with it please. Get on with not wasting everyone's time, money, energy. Get on with having a season where it isn't just one player - Rob Dickie - deservedly hoovering up every single award going. What a joke end of season awards are when all you've done is spend 9 months pissing players and fans off.

Well played City!

He's better than what he's shown so far, imo.

Hope you're right. He's what we need - if fit!

Yes they might do, bearing in mind parachute payments and the fact they'll need to build a stronger team this time round than the last one that was in the Championship but has proved well out of its depth in the Prem. However, they won't be giving him away or offering him around on the cheap. So we'll have to negotiate well, box clever, persuade them to lower their price. Who will be doing that for us? Tinnion? Junior? Oh sh*t. £5 million it is then.

No more puff pieces about how well Bristol City are run then.

Next season has the makings of a car crash at this rate. An injury-prone squad light on numbers, lacking quality, lacking leaders who actually know what success looks like, coached by an inexperienced, negative, charisma-free robot, answering to a teknikal director who's one and only attempt at building a squad, in 2005, was a total failure. Meanwhile, an invisible owner has cut the purse strings and left his manchild, know nothing son in charge of the whole sorry mess. What could possibly go wrong?