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Unlucky Flinty those plans for promotion on hold for another year eh

During our nine game winning streak I think the unanimous view was that Kalas and Webster were one of the best, if not the best, CB partnerships in the league. LJ switched to 352 for Sheff Utd which was a successful tactical move to counter their system (which he also deployed successfully in the reverse fixture) and I can understand why he’d use the same formation for Boro away who are a playoff rival. I am however a little perplexed as to why we continued with that system in circumstances where Webster was either being used in Korey Smith’s role or as part of a three with Baker or Wright. The timing to change system just a few games before the end of the season in hindsight seems to have been a mistake. This isn’t an LJ out type post at all as I think he’s been fantastic at raising the overall standards however I feel that this issue could have caused or at least materially contributed to our significant dip in form since the West Brom game. Why do you think he felt it necessary to change formation and break up the Kalas / Webster partnership after it had been so successful from January to March?

Oh come on you really had Baker coming on for Baker as more likely than Semenyo?

Having spent most of our existence in the third tier I’m happy with yearly progress in the top half of the Championship. There’s always something to hope for but that doesn’t mean we can’t be content if it doesn’t materialise, provided we are still playing good football and being competitive at his level.

Most pundits had us down as relegation candidates at the start of the season, really good season with some amazing memories especially if you go to away games!

I like how the OP’s edit was for “speling”. Was the only bit worth reading

I think it’s our home form that has killed our season....

You’ve been watching too much zeitgeist I think.

One day we will score in the Atyeo again? Have we actually scored down that end in the league in 2019? Last one I recall was the one against Rotherham in December 2018. Gah.

In the post-match video at Villa Park Johnson said that it may be that Bristol City need to “learn a lesson” from that ground as they had their home fans in ends behind each goal. He also spoke about the club considering to what extent it was possible to move the away fans into the corner of a side stand - clearly the issue is not lost on him and I hope he can help to bring about positive changes next season to make sure we aren’t unnecessarily prejudicing ourselves with the ground layout.

I don’t know the stats on this but I feel this season at home we have always played better and scored more goals playing towards the South Stand than the Atyeo. I thought about whether this may be more to do with the fact that we play our first halves usually towards the Atyeo and for whatever reason we often don’t turn up in the first half. However, against West Brom we scored three in 19 minutes in the first half towards the South Stand. This may be perceived as daft but I wonder if subconsciously the team have been conditioned to have more confidence playing towards our own fans rather than the Atyeo? Or is this simply a by product of the fact that we are a second half team and as such we play better towards the South Stand? Answers on a postcard.

As WBA have scored 75 goals this seasons I’d have reservations about starting Palmer as he seems light defensively, on the evidence of his first half against Wolves at least. I think like Taylor he’s more effective as a sub when the players have tired so I’d start Pato even if it is with the aim to stifle WBA in the first half before making more attacking subs in the second.

We are 18th in the league for home form and 3 points above the relegation zone, if all you’re exposed to as a fan is home games (for whatever reason, including family commitments and financial restraints etc) then I’m not surprised there’s more apathy / complaint about the team than you’d ordinarily expect for a top six club.

Roberto Di Matteo

David Wagner Huw Jenkins (chairman slayer)