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Knight has taken the plaudits (no harm in that - been fabulous this season) but Dickie is a phenomenal bit of business. Liked it a lot as soon as I saw the first rumour. 

I feel like I may actually be in love with him

Tanner doesn’t pass the fitness test and is therefore the one player to leave the MD20 from Saturday, with Nelson returning to the bench in his stead. Big win tonight please. Put the back to back losses truly behind us.

Injured:

Tanner

Vyner

Atkinson

McCrorie

Benarous

Excellent news. Brilliant young player and person.

I wouldn’t look too deep at it. There is one rule that seemingly comes first and foremost - no penalties for Bristol City. The stats show this is no coincidence!

He’s a change I’d make for Rotherham. We’re all about ‘keeping the shirt’ and squad players are told to stay on their toes as their opportunity will come. Naismith, a great player, has made two expensive mistakes in our last two games.
 

After a 2-0 up, to 3-2 loss, against a pretty poor Stoke team, I think we have to give some other players opportunities on Wednesday. I’d bring Roberts in at LCB and Weimann into the midfield, with Knight playing just a little deeper. Naismith and Williams out. Rotherham are poor, we don’t need two sitting midfielders.
 

Ideally we could bring an actual centre-half in for Kal, but barring the kids we don’t have any more. I understand Roberts has experience in that role.

Most painful result in some time. Just changes the whole feel-good factor around the season ahead.

The Vyner injury… could we be saying ‘what could have been’.

Yeboah is an uncut gem, needs a loan to develop some aspects of his game a little. 
 

I rate all the players we brought on - but I’m not sure the whole front line needed changing in one swoop. 

Coming into this, everything looked in our favour. Should have known there would only be one outcome. 
 

Tanner potentially with a knock, but seemed to play through it.

Injured:

Vyner

Atkinson

McCrorie

Benarous

Unchanged XI and just one change to the MD20 as TC is back! He takes Nelson’s bench spot, excellent to see him on a team sheet, and a little sooner than expected. Hopeful for today, come on boys ️

Injured:

Vyner

Atkinson

McCrorie

Benarous

12 hours ago, James54De said:

Barring any addition the list will be looking so much better by the end of the next international break. 
 

Conway almost back

Vyner not out for too long

Benarous on his way 

Atkinson back November/December

McCorie back early ‘24

It does point toward the squad getting a massive boost about midway through the season, ready for a real assault on the upper reaches of the table. Exciting times ahead hopefully. 

I'm still taking the Vyner and Conway news yesterday with a pinch of salt, we've been burned too many times before! Once they're back on a teamsheet - happy days.

Wow, I'd seen bits and bobs on Twitter but this post filled in a lot of the gaps. What a bloody mess!

1 hour ago, Zookeeper WSM said:

For me the only metric to define a big club is attendances (consistently over several years whilst taking into account success / lack of). I actually think that honours and recent years in the top flight reduce how big the club is relative to their attendances. Ie, a club that averages 21/22k consistently over years like us despite no honours or recent top flight exposure is bigger than one that gets the same crowds but has had some success (eg, Burnley, Cardiff, Watford). There's definitely a spreadsheet asking to be created to measure this!

For me that’s a measure of support rather than club size. But club size is so open ended as a term, it’s very open to individual interpretation so there’s no real right or wrong. One thing we can all agree on is we are a well supported club, which beggars belief based on some recent seasons

For me, honours is the first and foremost metric in the ‘club size’ debate. That’s what this is all about after all, winning things. But all the metrics you’ve mentioned do also play a role, just to a lesser extent imo.

Well the dream once you’ve won something is to win it again. Teams are always winning trophies, always getting ahead of your club. We’ve won League 1 four times, if we found ourselves down there again god forbid I’d still be desperate for number 5 and nervous before all the games.

Always hurts to lose and the players looked hurt at the end, but a pretty Herculean defensive effort. Bloody penalties will never be our friend will they. Still, 8th as the dust settles. Good place to be.

Injured:

Vyner

Atkinson

McCrorie

Benarous

Conway

4 minutes ago, Stevo said:

Any news on how long Vyner will be out? 

Early whispers seem to say it’s nothing major - but I’m citing Twitter and OTIB rumours only. Pray they’re correct! Up the reds ️

I said we needed another centre-half… Vyner is injured and we’ve done what we really couldn’t afford to do, lost a defender before any have come back. Trying to stay positive but that’s the kind of injury that really damages a season. 
 

On a brighter note, super Andi Weimann back in the squad. Tough game today but we’re here and we’re behind them. Let’s go ️
 

Injured:

Vyner

Atkinson

McCrorie

Benarous

Conway

4 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Cheers Dave. Someone on Twitter speaking of bad news incoming tomorrow with regards injury. I can’t find the tweet again to share it - have you heard anything? Pray it’s a wind up.

1 hour ago, redkev said:

I hope rrrrrrrrovvvverrrrs sit firmly at the top of that list Gav

They do but we need a game to reignite the anger I feel. We’re ahead of them in every department so there’s not too much to get worked up about

No prem team or any of that nonsense for me - but a soft spot for Real Madrid.

The list of teams I actively don’t like on the other hand. Loooooong list.

30 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

I hadn't either until he came on.

Like seeing a Swedish ghost.

Didn’t even notice him on the team sheet! Lovely assist - what a man. Couldn’t help but smile!

Well I assume we'll still be contracted with O'Neills, which is fine by me. A slick red home kit, a funky purple and lime away kit (since we have black this season and don't want to be samey), and maybe a nice white third kit since we haven't had white for a bit? All with the new round badge, no splats. Easy, fun, happy days.

Bought the away kit Tuesday night, it's a beautiful thing. One of my favourite kits for some time I think. 2 out of the 3 kits from O'Neills are very nice imo. And lots of clubs having trouble with Hummel...