RedYoshi

35 minutes ago, CiderJar said:

Yes it's kind of like multi-tasking. The ability to achieve more than one thing at once. Being a little annoyed by "vigorous process at the football cloob" to taking the mickey out of your annoying little half brother. All things are achievable, if you just try. People say now is not the right time for it, I say now is exactly the right time. Rovers, Cardiff, Aston Villa, Leeds... all of them *****.

Oi.

@ollywhyte do you offer a cash out option...? 

Everyone knows we're gonna lose this one, right? It's football, it's what happens. Especially when it's Bristol City*. Unexpected wins and draws against all those proper teams - the ones that kick it well - showing the world that we're dark horses, or contenders, or "up there with the best", and then lose to bottom of the league Bolton who haven't won in 29 away Championship games.

It happens to England, it happened against Birmingham, and it'll happen tonight.

All that said, I'm obviously still backing us to win, 'cos it's football. @ollywhyte, I was writing too much nonsense & missed the lock so am not expecting points, but claim the moral high ground if this comes in:

City 3-1 Bolton

FGS: O'Dowda (22') - #Finally #Hashtag. Scrappy, but he loves it.

Others: Reid (38') - Lays it off to Paterson, spins off his marker on the edge of the box, receives the return ball and smashes it in the roof of the net. Or, you know, a tap in.

Bryan (60') - He's due one, probably. It'll be a screamer, too.

Wilbraham (86') - 'Cos it'll be nice, won't it?

HT: 2-0

Fixtur3s

Dortmund v Real Madrid (A)

Exeter v Notts County (D)

Cardiff v Leeds (D)

*Insert any other team who one follows closely. Every football supporter feels this way about their team. It's football.

@WTFiGO!?! called it, if slightly by accident 

Trouble is I'm now in breach of my tenancy agreement. We're not allowed pets, but those last 10 minutes gave me several kittens.

16 minutes ago, RedYoshi said:

Wycombe beat Oxford. FT at 16.51.

Ironically, this ends 11-0 to Wycombe, meaning Rovers' draw would have actually been enough to take them up.

Maths is important, kids.

9 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Right.

Can someone briefly explain the dream outcome for this afternoon.

Stevenage beat Accrington. FT at 16.50.

Wycombe beat Oxford. FT at 16.51.

Rovers beating Dagenham & Redbridge at 16.53.

Dagenham & Redbridge equalise at 16.55.

FT at 16.56. Mass riot ensues.

Meanwhile, Cambridge beat Mansfield.

Authorities investigate aforementioned mass riot, and determine that several players, the manager, and the entire Al-Qadi family were heavily involved.

Rovers deducted 15 points, thus finishing 2 points outside the playoffs.

Something about Thatcher, a dog, and that sheed Lansdown.

3 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

Dish out praise when it's deserved. Please see my posts after games like Sheffield Wed and Bolton. Plenty of credit for last week away at Brentford to against what I thought were an excellent team

Blackburn are abysmal.  Games like this are yard sticks for players....These are the games where those who ARE good enough...will prove it. 

 

Praising us for seven points in three games - without which we'd be a mere two points clear of MK Dons - doesn't quite square with us "not deserving" to stay up.

We deserve it purely because of those games. And all the others in which we got one or more of our 48 points.

The past, present, and future went into a pub.

It was tense.

Today: Bristol City 6-0 Bolton

Yesterday: SA 229-4, ENG 230-8

Ongoing: Leicester 8 points clear at the top of the entire English football pyramid

Sport is on the blink. Can we switch it off and on again?

1 hour ago, havanatopia said:

I am hopeful somebody will do some digging.

Hull: 18 (Hernández, Akpom, Diamé, Clucas, Elmohamady, Meyler, Livermore, Luer, Robertson, Snodgrass, Aluko, Bruce, Davies, Dawson, Diomande, Hayden, Huddlestone, Maloney)

Charlton: 17 (Makienok, Ghoochannejhad, Lookman, Ahearne-Grant, Gudmundsson, Jackson, Sanogo, Harriott, Lennon, Sarr, Vetokele, Bauer, Bergdich, Cousins, Fox, Kashi, Kennedy)

Wolves: 17 (Henry, Edwards, Le Fondre, McDonald, Zyro, Mason, Saville, La Parra, Afobe, Batth, Byrne, Dicko, Doherty, Ebanks-Landell, Enobakhare, Graham, Ojo)

Bolton: 16 (Madine, Feeney, Clough, Pratley, Alves da Silva, Danns, Dobbie, Heskey, Spearing, Dervite, Holding, Moxey, Trotter, Vela, Wheater, Woolery)

Reading: 16 (Vydra, Williams, Piazon, McCleary, Robson-Kanu, Blackman, John, Kermorgant, Norwood, Cooper, Evans, Iglesias, Gunter, Hector, McShane, Rakels)

Huddersfield: 15 (Wells, Bunn, Huws, Paterson, Lolley, Hudson, Billing, Davidson, Dempsey, Holmes, Lynch, Miller, Scannell, Smith, Wallace)

Ipswich: 15 (Pitman, Murphy, Fraser, Sears, Chambers, Douglas, McGoldrick, Maitland-Niles, Smith, Alabi, Bru, Oar, Pringle, Tabb, Yorwerth)

Sheffield Wednesday: 15 (Forestieri, Hooper, João, Lee, McGugan, Nuhiu, Sougou, Wallace, Bannan, Lees, Pudil, Matias, Hutchinson, Semedo, Turner)

Birmingham: 14 (Donaldson, Toral, Maghoma, Caddis, Fabbrini, Gleeson, Kieftenbeld, Morrison, Robinson, Cotterill, Buckley, Grounds, Shinnie, Solomon-Otabor)

Burnley: 14 (Gray, Vokes, Arfield, Taylor, Boyd, Keane, Barton, Hennings, Darikwa, Jones, Lowton, Mee, Tarkowski, Ward)

Derby: 14 (Blackman, Martin, Ince, Butterfield, Russell, Johnson, Thorne, Weimann, Bent, Hendrick, Shackell, Bryson, Christie, Keogh)

MK Dons: 14 (Murphy, Baker, Bowditch, Maynard, Emmanuel-Thomas, Reeves, Forster-Caskey, Hall, Powell, Revell, Carruthers, Church, Potter, Walsh)

Boro: 13 (Stuani, Adomah, Nugent, Ayala, Downing, Leadbitter, Ramírez, Fabbrini, Lopez, Clayton, Forshaw, Friend, Rhodes)

Cardiff: 13 (Pilkington, Noone, Whittingham, Morrison, Gunnarsson, Immers, Lawrence, Malone, Ameobi, Connolly, Fabio, Ralls, Revell)

Nottingham Forest: 13 (Oliveira, Mills, Ward, Antonio, Blackstock, Burke, Lansbury, Mendes da Graça, O'Grady, Osborn, Lichaj, Vaughan, Walker)

Preston: 13 (Johnson, Gallagher, Garner, Reach, Browne, Doyle, Hugill, Robinson, Brownhill, Cunningham, Keane, Kilkenny, Vermijl)

Rotherham: 13 (Clarke-Harris, Derbyshire, Newell, Ward, Burke, Collins, Frecklington, Rawson, Thorpe, Ward, Bowery, Green, Mattock)

Brighton: 12 (Hemed, Zamora, Murphy, Stephens, Lua Lua, Baldock, March, Wilson, Kayal, Dunk, Forster-Caskey, Knockaert)

Leeds: 12 (Wood, Antenucci, Doukara, Adeyemi, Carayol, Cook, Mowatt, Bamba, Cooper, Dallas, Diagouraga, Taylor)

Blackburn: 11 (Marshall, Akpan, Gómez, Watt, Conway, Delfouneso, Duffy, Graham, Hanley, Bennett, Evans)

Fulham: 11 (McCormack, Dembele, Cairney, Kacaniklic, Woodrow, Tunnicliffe, Christensen, Garbutt, Madl, O'Hara, Smith)

Brentford: 10 (Judge, Vibe, Swift, Canos, Djuricin, Hofmann, Bidwell, O'Connell, Saunders, Woods)

City: 10 (Kodjia, Wilbraham, Flint, Agard, Baker, Bryan, Freeman, Robinson, Tomlin, Williams)

QPR: 9 (Phillips, Chery, Hoilett, Polter, Washington, Onuoha, Emmanuel-Thomas, Hill, Tözsér)

So yes, they are mistaken. This is from the BBC's stats as well, so they can't even claim a discrepancy somewhere.

I did wonder if they were only counting league goals (in which case they should've put us as having 9 players, due to Robinson only scoring against Luton), but then QPR have Washington and JET who haven't scored in the league either, so they'd still be below us.

Now stop distracting me from the #GOTIB15to16CPL table. I can do that well enough by myself.

5 minutes ago, havanatopia said:

Agreed... With Smith out I wish to change my prediction.. do I have time.. Yoshi? where are yuh?

If you're quick!

Best free kick I've seen a City player take for a long time.

This is rather enjoyable.

12 minutes ago, havanatopia said:

Gus Poyet's preferred formation is 4-1-4-1 ... the only one here... we apparently switched to that 2nd half v Boro today.

A sign?

Pah. Need to add Wade Elliott up there now.

3.00 points per game average - can't beat that.

2 minutes ago, samo II said:

At least now if Wilbraham is on the pitch for his defensive qualities at that point, he'll not have 90+ minutes in his legs.

Here's hoping that such a turn of events won't merely mean that we trade the 94th minute goal for one in every other minute of the match...

24 minutes ago, ten minutes of rough said:

Pretty relaxed about this one, not expecting anything, unless we go 1 up with 10 minutes to go.

At which point we'll be expecting a stoppage time equaliser, I presume.

4 minutes ago, havanatopia said:

Would any mods be able to shine a light as to why viewing who voted for who appears not to be working? Anybody else notice that? I am sure i ticked that box. 

Happening in the prediction thread too, hav. Seems to only be new polls in the past couple of days - older ones still load correctly. Maybe only works when we have a manager in place? You know, otherwise 'names' won't come...

I'll do it.

And @havanatopia will write my programme notes.

Sorted - see you tomorrow.

Sheesh. Player commentary hadn't even started the match by the time BBC Sport was alerting me to a goal. Bummer.

Ah ha, notice we're no longer "Champions" in the title.. (this may have changed before, thinking about it..how long did you give it?)

A suitably concise but informative preamble for a young team, cheers @havanatopia. Will be there today (first match since the new stand's been finished for me) so certainly hoping your prediction is prophetic.. Shall I add those scorers to your #GOTIB15to16CPL entry?

0-0 v Sheff Wed, PNE, and today.

Birmingham are the only team against whom we've conceded in the first half when away, as we were 0-1 up against Middlesbrough.

Clearly the players don't like what we've done to the stadium.

Perhaps - thing that suggests otherwise is the order in which it's been written, with Bryan listed after Pack..

Alternatively, could be a 4-4-2.

What I can confirm is that Flint is not playing upfront.

It'll take us all an hour to get over the shock.

Not sure on the Danish pottery link, but I have heard that many Norwegians are magnetic, so...

I can clearly see your tongue there - why would you tell us it's in your cheek when it so blatantly isn't?!

You've clearly got an agenda.

#BristolCity v Reading: Fielding, Ayling, Moore, Flint, Williams, Bryan, K.Smith, Pack, Freeman, Wilbraham, Kodjia.

#BristolCity subs: Hamer, Little, Wagstaff, Reid, Robinson, Burns, Agard.

Ahem...

http://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?/topic/172039-prediction-league-reading-h/

Top work as always, Havana. I did indeed stop off there to fill up the tank (well, not "fill" - not at those extortionate prices) just the other day.

Hope everyone (that gets in) enjoys the new Sports Bar. Don't break anything, now, or we'll all be banned for life.