BRISTOL86

So no, you didn’t watch. Newsflash - pretty much every team will concede goals in this league. Many of them will be soft. Stoke, WBA and Boro have all conceded soft goals already this season. They’re all considerably better than us. We’re two games in after a considerable squad upheaval. If you’d watched the game you’d know there areactually a lot of positives to take. Several players look sharper than last season and the new lads all look like offering something good. If Diedhiou had been on that pitch he’d have had a field day.

Understand some of the sentiment but a little harsh. 16 attempts on goal and they didn’t all come at 0-2. We don’t look lacking creatively for me, we look lacking in someone who can finish them off (enter Diedhiou). All in all not going to grumble about a 2-2 after going 2 down. It’s a good result whatever way it’s spun and we’re still unbeaten.

Did you watch? Guessing not if you rubbished my post as we actually played some very good football. Always makes me wonder how people form such strong opinions based on radio and text.

Plenty more positives than negatives from that for me. On to Boro.

Haha just lovely, embarrassing how carried away people get when the game's still in play.

Hard to be overly critical of our lack of end product when we are, unjustly, without our main man up front. With the quality of Eliasson's delivery, I think this side will look very different when Fam's back. Can't come soon enough. I hate us losing but IMO there are definite improvements in the way we play vs last season.

Fair shout. Haven’t got a good view, was mainly going off the commentators reaction about how it was a blatant pen, so assumed he’d seen better footage!

Unreal. World’s most stonewall penalty turned down and 5 mins later it’s 0-2. Even the Bolton commentator couldn’t believe Eliasson was booked.

Bmuff miss pen

Bmuff pen

Cardiff losing

Well that’s a good start. Though already proves why we needed him in. If we didn’t get one in and it was Kelly injured we’d have no one in the senior squad who could play LB. Pato hat trick inbound (we can dream!)

Tough one for me. Seems Marlon is operating much deeper this season and if you swap out Brownhill for Smith we have no creativity at all. Thought Brownhill was excellent with the ball at his feet on Sat. But also agree that our best side has Smith in it. The joys of a 2 man midfield I guess. Wish we’d abandon 442 frankly.

Kelly. Dasilva not even on bench. Guessing not quite match fit. Same team as sat except Kelly for Bryan

3-1 City. COYR.

A decent point against a team with considerable more talent in their ranks than us. For all their technical superiority they were pretty toothless.

As in....stays on the big green thing?

An average defender and a great goal scorer. Will miss him more in the opponents box than our own imo.

Reasonable half. Faded after a bright start but Maenpaa has had nothing to do. Diedhiou can’t come back soon enough however.

Congratulations Hav and COYR!

YOU ******* REDS

Bold, Brave or Bonkers? Stay tuned!

When you think about it, it’s actually crazy how much impact the next two rounds of fixtures could make. Best case 6) City 68 7) Boro 66 8) Millwall 66 9) Sheff 66 2 points clear going into last 3 Worst case : 6) Boro 72 7) Millwall 71 8) City 62 9) Sheff 62 And mathematically over

Why bother. It’s hardly like anyone’s going to let a 3 goal half time lead slip is it?

Well where does negativity get you, at the end of the day? People acting like it’s all done and dusted when there’s 15 points to play for. It may be unlikely, but it’s amazing how quickly things can change from one extreme to another (don’t we just know it....) 3 points for us and zero for Boro and Millwall and it looks very different to if we get 0 and Boro and Millwall get 3!