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The Fat Controller

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  1. I missed the build up as the pub were showing Liverpool v Man Utd, did Matt Smith make an appearance?
  2. With absolutely no disrespect to Crewe at all (who, like others, I admire as a club), we need to be winning these games if we have any intention of being promoted. I'll take any sort of win today, even if we have to grind out a 1-0.
  3. It's okay. I have the exact same attendance record as you and I am attending today, so we should be alright.
  4. Bristol City: League runners up 1906/7, FA Cup Runners Up 1909
  5. Stewart (Ipswich) Hayles (Fulham) Cureton (Gas) and one other? EDIT: Unless Cureton had gone to Reading by then.
  6. Gary Stevens is one of them. EDIT: And Alan Smith is another.
  7. 3 in a row for the first time since beating Burnley at Home 3-1, Millwall Away 2-1 and Southampton Home 2-0 in November 2011.
  8. I agree, it is unbalanced. I suppose the good thing is given the selection it would be easy to swap to 4-4-2 if it wasn't working.
  9. The way its listed (from @bcfctweets on Twitter) indicates 3-5-2.
  10. You'll be disappointed then. Moore; El-Abd, Flint, Williams; Wagstaff, M Elliott, Gillett, Bryan, Cunningham; Emmanuel-Thomas, Baldock. Subs: Barnett, Burns, Pack, Reid, W Elliott, Moloney, Fielding Another bizarre selection, I think. Burns not worth a start? Pack dropped?
  11. Yeah, delivery quality is a concern. I would hope it's something the coaching staff are working on.
  12. I don't know. But with Osborne, Flint, Williams, El Abd, Elliott, and Barnett in the squad whoever takes our Set-Pieces (Pack?) will have something to aim at!
  13. Whilst I think this a dangerously poor selection, I'm totally unsurprised by it given SC's comments. He clearly doesn't rate Maloney, and is shoehorning Osborne into the side following El Abd's arrival. I think it's likely El Abd would have been basically guaranteed First Team football. Reid can't play two games in a week, so is "rested". W.Elliott is 35 and likely can't play two games in a week, so is saved for Saturday when he'll have trained with our squad a bit. M.Elliott and Pack are selected to "toughen us up" in midfield a little bit. I don't think it will work personally, but I reckon that's the theory. For what it's worth I think Marv gets a bit of unfair stick from some. He'll be energetic and break up or disrupt their play, although we all know he can't really pass for toffee. i don't think JET being left out is anything other than being rested, as others have said, if a serious bid had come in he wouldn't be in the squad. We'll miss his creativity/goals/assists and the space he creates for others. I think the whole selection is SC trying to make us a little more physical, which of course has meant we'll sacrifice creativity. Set pieces are our best bet for a goal.
  14. Or perhaps he knows something we don't. Maybe Green is off at the end of the season. He didn't get on the bench all that much when he was here so you can hardly blame him. It was poor management IMO, Should have shipped Gerken out OR not brought in James.
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