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Leroy Rosenior on Robins TV tonight: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/rosenior-on-robins-tv/

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/how-sammie-szmodics-proved-right-9214885

I was in the chemist yesterday and the elderly gentlemen in front of me at the till asked the young assistant for some help with deodorant. She asked him if he wanted the roll-on-ball-type, after a moment he responded, ‘no thank you, it’s for under my arms.’

LM presser: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/interviews/manning-looks-ahead-to-blackburn/

Last season we shared the points https://youtu.be/6G9i7dyY6Vw Back in December we lost 2-1 at their place highlights: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/highlights/extended-highlights-blackburn-rovers-2-1-bristol-city/ In July Villarreal announced the signing of Ben Brereton following the expiry of his contract with Blackburn Rovers. Brereton signed for the La Liga club on a free transfer, agreeing a four-year contract. He joined Rovers from Nottingham Forest, initially on loan, with move made permanent in January 2019 for a fee of £6m. They signed goalkeeper Leopold Wahlstedt from Norwegian side Odds Ballklubb for an undisclosed fee, as a replacement for Thomas Kaminski. On deadline day they signed Bournemouth's England Under-21 international defender James Hill on a season-long loan and German striker Semir Telalovic from Borussia Monchengladbach. The 23-year-old joined on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee, with the option to extend his stay at Ewood Park for another 12 months beyond June 2026. In December forward Arnor Sigurdsson signed a permanent deal until the end of 2025. The 24-year-old was signed on an initial 12-month deal in June from Russian club CSKA Moscow. In the January window they signed Brighton midfielder Yasin Ayari and Aston Villa defender Ben Chrisene on loan. Sweden international Ayari, 20, played 13 Championship games for Coventry on loan this season, while Chrisene, 19, was on loan at Kilmarnock last season. They also signed defender Kyle McFadzean from Coventry City on a short-term deal until the end of the season. They were founder members of the football league, and in September played their 5,000 league game. Head-to-head record Won: 22 Lost: 17 Drawn: 14 Officials Ref: Sam Allison, assisted by Richard Wild and Ian Cooper. Fourth Official : Tom Nield. We are 8th in the form league with 10 points from the last 18 available, they are 14th with 7 points from their last six games. They are currently 16th in the table on 46 points. Match review https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/blackburn-rovers/preview/preview-bristol-city-vs-blackburn-prediction-team-news-lineups_540861.html John Eustace was named head coach in February, just 35 minutes after Jon Dahl Tomasson's departure by mutual consent. The 44-year-old signed a two-and-a-half year-deal with Rovers, his first post since he was dismissed by Birmingham City in October. Eustace inherited a Blackburn side without a win in their past eight Championship games. Where would they be this season without Sammie Szmodics? He has scored 29 (in all competitions) so far this season. The attacking midfielder put pen-to-paper on a three-year deal until June 2025 in the summer of 2022, becoming the third signing of the Jon Dahl Tomasson era. Born in Colchester, Szmodics started his career with his hometown team, scoring 38 goals in 162 appearances for the U’s, whilst also finishing as the club’s top scorer in successive seasons. In June 2019, his 16-year association with Colchester United came to an end, as he signed for us for an undisclosed fee. After finding opportunities limited at Ashton Gate, Szmodics made a January loan move to Peterborough, where he scored four goals in his first five games. Following his successful loan spell, and with clubs circling for his signature, his move to London Road was made permanent in September 2020, with Szmodics joining Peterborough on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee. The high-energy midfielder enjoyed an impressive maiden season as a permanent Peterborough player in 2020-21, netting 15 league goals in 40 starts, helping Posh secure automatic promotion to the Championship. COYR.

From OS, https://www.bcfc.co.uk/city-men-news/rest-in-peace-dickie-rooks/

Player ratings https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-player-ratings-sunderland-9209748?utm_source=bristol_live_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Bristol+Live+-+BCFC+Newsletter_newsletter&utm_content=&utm_term=&ruid=eda3a0ce-34ec-4a85-96cd-ae68727a6b80 What does Max need to do to get a 10?

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/interviews/manning-on-sunderland-stalemate/

Positives Max O’Leary, as close to a 10 out of 10 performance as you can get Keeping a third consecutive clean sheet Picking up a point on the road The traveling fans, who made a lot of noise Negatives Pretty much everything else, especially our consistent inability to look after the ball and our poor decision-making which loaded more and more pressure onto an already pressurized team.

Halftime thoughts, there’s an awful lot of rubbish on the pitch! Sunderland have been far they better team. If it wasn’t for Max O’Leary we’d be two or three down. We have been so wasteful with the ball, consistently giving it away which has resulted in wave after wave of Sunderland pressure. Our decision making at times has been awful, so we’ve caused problems to ourselves. If this carries on it must only be a matter of time before Sunderland score. They have had 14 shots with six on target to our four with just one on target. Relieved to be going in at 0-0

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68691286

Dodds presser….https://www.safc.com/news/team-news/2024/april/bristol-city-h/mike-dodds-press-conference-pre-bristol-city

Does this help remedy me missing him? https://www.a-love-supreme.com/single-post/bristol-city-a-foot-in-both-camps

Thank you phantom

Last season it finished all square thanks to our first penalty in 469 days https://youtu.be/GcHefHW9qEM https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bristol-city-penalty-shock-euphoria-8166515 Guide to the Stadium of Light: https://footballgroundguide.com/leagues/england/league-one/stadium-of-light-sunderland.html We won at our place in December thanks to a great performance from Max O’Leary highlights: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/highlights/extended-highlights-bristol-city-1-0-sunderland/ New head coach Michael Beale joined them immediately after this game, he said joining the club was "a huge honour." At that time they were 7th in the table. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67730543 In February they sacked him after just 63 days and 12 games in charge! Mike Dodds was appointed as interim head coach until the end of the season. In January they signed defender Leo Hjelde [20] from Leeds United on a four-and-a-half-year deal for an undisclosed fee. Also signed winger Romaine Mundle from Belgian top-flight club Standard Liege on a four-and-a-half year deal, for an undisclosed fee. Jack Clarke made a cameo appearance against Blackburn and could be fit to take Romaine Mundle’s place. Head-to-head record Won: 18 Lost: 16 Drawn: 15 Players who’ve played for them and us include Marcus Stewart, Stern John and Bailey Wright, of course LJ has managed both clubs. They are immediately below us in the table on 51 points and are 21st in the form table while we are 11th, they have 2 points from their last 6 games, we have 9. They haven’t won at home since February 10th (when they beat Plymouth 3-1) and were thumped 5-1 at home by Blackburn on Easter Monday. Pay on the day will not be available. Referee is Leigh Doughty Chris Hogg presser: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/interviews/hogg-previews-black-cats-trip/ Sunderland stuff You can see stalactites in Sunderland. Behind the Marina Activities Centre in Roker is the North Dock Tufa, a set of calcite stalactites created over the centuries by dripping water. No one knows for sure where the water comes from and it was only discovered in 1992 when some old huts were removed, although some claim to have known about it before that. Tufa looks especially beautiful when lit up at night. It’s free to view and is open day and night. Wearmouth Colliery was the deepest mine in the world. The area was once home to the deepest mine in the world. The Stadium of Light was built on the site next to the three shafts leading deep below the earth. When Wearmouth Colliery began producing coal in 1835, it was the deepest mine in the world at 481m, almost a third of a mile. Eventually there were three pits on the site, imaginatively entitled A, B and C. In December 1993 Wearmouth became the last deep coal mine of the County Durham coalfield to close. The first stained glass windows were made at St Peter’s ... probably. The earliest known reference to true stained glass windows is from 675 AD, when Benedit Biscop imported French craftsmen to do the glazing of the monastery of St Peter’s in Monkwearmouth. In the 1970s hundreds of pieces of coloured glass and lead, dating back to the 7th century, were discovered there and at St Paul’s in Jarrow. St Peter’s was built a decade before St Paul’s, so it is thought that Sunderland was presumably first. The city’s glass making heritage is now celebrated at the National Glass Centre, just a stone’s throw from St Peter’s Church in Monkwearmouth. Sunderland was one of Britain’s most heavily bombed places in World War Two. The Germans were well aware of the astonishing shipbuilding capacity on the River Wear and the town was made a target because of that. In Easington 36 died in air raids. In Seaham it was 51 - 36 of them in a single raid in 1943 Sunderland’s shipyards produced a quarter of Britain’s tonnage of ships during the war, as shipyard girls stepped in to keep production going as the male workforce fought in the war. A total of 267 people were killed in Sunderland by the Luftwaffe, and 90% of the town’s houses were damaged by bombs, 1,000 of which were totally destroyed. Sunderland had a ‘mobile’ lighthouse. The Roker lighthouse is a well known symbol of the city, but before the current lighthouse was built in 1903, a lot of effort had gone into preserving the previous building. Sadly no photographs exist of the older lighthouse and pier, which were replaced by the current models in 1903 In 1841 the working, 300-tonne, 24m high stone Roker lighthouse was moved on wheels 145m – uphill - then put back again after a new north pier was built. It sounds like a Monty Python job, but it really happened and is the oldest documented example of such a feat. The know-how was provided by Scottish civil engineer John Murray. Sadly no photographs exist of the older lighthouse and pier, which were replaced by the current models in 1903. The Beatles played in Sunderland three times. Everyone knows that The Beatles played at the Empire at the height of Beatlemania in November 1963, and many people know the legend about the group sliding down the pole in the fire station next door to escape hysterical fans. But most people don’t know that the biggest act in the history of popular music gave three performances on Wearside, firstly as bottom of the bill to Helen Shapiro on February 9, 1963 at the Empire Theatre before they played the Rink Ballroom in Park Lane three months later just before the superstardom began. The FA Cup was invented by a Mackem. Charles W Alcock was born in Norfolk Street in 1842, the second of nine children. The family made their money in shipping, which meant that Charles could be sent to mega-posh public school Harrow. As a player he played centre-forward for Wanderers and captained England, but he is best remembered for founding the world’s first national football tournament, the FA Cup, which was first played in 1871. The Alcocks were quite the footballing family and Charles’ older brother, John F Alcock, was a founder of the Football Association in 1863. The hand grenade was patented by a Mackem. Keeping on the theme of Mackem inventions, a Sunderland man invented the hand grenade. The “Mills bomb” was invented by William Mills, born in 1856 in Wear Street in Southwick, where the Times Inn pub stands. There were hand grenades before Mills, but the most recognisable was his “pineapple” design, first used in 1915 at the height of World War One and which changed trench warfare. It was safer than its predecessors (at least for the user) and around 75 million would be manufactured. Less controversially, Mills also patented aluminium golf clubs. He died in Somerset in 1932. The first UK cases of cholera were in Sunderland. The deadly disease first spread to Europe in 1827, and despite best efforts to keep the illness away from British shores, cases were quickly recorded in Sunderland. The symptoms were horrific and included profuse diarrhoea, vomiting and sweating and death would often occur within hours of the first symptoms. The disease’s mortality rate was high as doctors were baffled by how to stop the spread of the illness. Suspected cases of cholera began to be reported in Sunderland from late summer 1831 and despite quarantine attempts soon spread across the region and then the rest of the country. Across Britain, 32,000 people died of cholera in 1831 and 1832. Alien 3 was filmed in Seaham. Okay, so I’ve now strayed a little way outside Sunderland, but worth a mention is Blast Beach. The dark and desolate area was also used as the backdrop of the final scenes in Get Carter with Michael Caine. The Dawdon beach plays a starring role as alien planet, Fiorina 161 in the 1992 Alien 3 film starring Sigourney Weaver. At the time the beach was polluted by years of coal mining and the sand covered in black soot leading the director David Fincher to decide it looked sufficiently like somewhere not quite of planet Earth. It’s much nicer these days after a major clean up operation which cost £10 million. Pubs Sunderland's supporter liaison officer has highlighted the following as being the best for away fans: Greens: Dating from 1901, this city centre pub is within the Bishopwearmouth Conservation Area. Located in a pedestrianised area close to the Sunderland Empire There are several large screen TV's including one that faces out to the small outside drinking area at the front of the pub. Note the copper domes at the top of the frontage of this grade ii listed building Street Bar: https://www.streetbar.uk Victors: https://www.useyourlocal.com/pubs/victors-sunderland-88448/ Fire Station: https://www.thefirestation.org.uk The Peacock: https://www.facebook.com/ThePeacockSun/ For those looking for something closer to the Stadium of Light, the Colliery Tavern (see below) and the Hilton Hotel (see below) also accept away fans. The Harbour View, 1 Benedict Road, Sunderland, SR6 0NU. A modern local pub opposite Roker Harbour and not far from Roker Beach. It was converted from a hotel and restaurant into a pub. Six hand pulls are changed regularly. Boards behind the bar display the Brewer, name of ale and ABV. Every Thursday evening from 8.pm there is a popular Speakeasy. A wide range of popular music can be heard as background music at other times. If real ale is for you, then you have found home. There is outside seating for those who enjoy sitting in the sun and a Function Room is available upstairs. The Albion, Victor Street, Sunderland, SR6 0EN. Suburban pub not far from Roker Sea Front. Dates from 1861. Also known as the Albion Hotel. Joseph's, 29 Holmeside, Sunderland, SR1 3JE Wetherspoons, the William Jameson, 32 Fawcett Street, Sunderland, SR1 1RH. https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pubs/all-pubs/england/tyne-and-wear/the-william-jameson-sunderland The Colliery Tavern, 12 Southwick Road, Sunderland, SR5 1EQ. Brightly coloured pub (in red and white) opposite Stadium of Light. Dates from the 1870's The Wheatsheaf, 207 Roker Avenue, Sunderland, SR6 0BN. Large three story grade 2 listed building dating back to the end of the 1890's. The name means : - meeting place for shearers engaged by farmers for cutting grain. On a busy junction. Bus stops outside the door and about half a mile to Stadium of Light Metro. Further afield (a 7 minute drive from the ground) try the Ivy House, Worcester Terrace, Sunderland, Tyne And Wear, SR2 7AW, https://www.facebook.com/TheIvyHousePubSunderland/ Friendly Victorian corner pub off the beaten track; five well kept changing ales from interesting brewers such as Cullercoats, Torrside and Two by Two, plus a real cider, interesting bottled beers and good range of spirits, popular reasonably priced food from open kitchen including own-made burgers and pizzas; background and live music, quiz, sports TV; children and dogs welcome, special (non-alcoholic) beer for dogs; open (and food) all day. To all the traveling fans have a great day and be loud and proud - reckon if we score first it could get ugly with their fans.

Here we go…. LM ‘Me and Brian will have the discussions with the correct people and the direction and what it looks like, and once we’ve got a final decision we will communicate that with the players’ = Brian and I will speak to all involved to consider what’s best, once we have a decision we will speak to the players.

Ditto

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/04/01/plymouth-sack-ian-foster-head-coach/

A half of two halves, they were much more positive and showed good intent for the opening 25 mins or so without really threatening to score, then we got into it and looked a bit more like it. Twine had the best chance of the half, but was denied by a smart save. This game means much more to them than it does to us, nevertheless, we have stuck at it and got ourselves into it. Their main threat has been down their left.

Snooker

Doesn’t appear to be on ITV4 tonight

Plymouth’s name was apparently drawn from a hat on Soccer AM during a segment involving Holyfield as the programme looked to find a team for him to follow!

Their match preview: https://www.pafc.co.uk/news/bristol-city-h-match-preview

Bet ya @BigTone ‘s response won’t take quite so long to compose