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That's the BBC, int it?

Great. Most people are largely "meh" and indifferent about us.

I couldn't agree more. How agreeable we are.

There is if you want the laughs

Yes, Bristol City FC 2016 - 2021.

Trouble I find with all these bleedin away games is they're all so bloody far away.

But he should now be, before he's reached 30, "set up" for life, and able to holiday in the Maldives every year should he wish. Assuming he has been sensible with his money. Do we know if playing first team games is a burning desire for KP?

Depends how their summer window goes (remember summer 2015?) Depends if the promoted clubs' owners are "surprised" by the wages being asked and paid in the higher division.

Hull were "disinterested," last time we played them, sources on here revealed. I am anticipating Hull will be "interested" when we go there (no source, just a hunch). So, could be, er, interesting

Cos they were in the Premier League once. Or even twice

40,000 crowd, backs to the wall, wild dogs in the Carpathians. Nige will "learn a lot" from an opening fixture like this (ie don't pick Kasey Palmer)

There must come a time/year/season when Norwich don't go straight back up.

Well, he's been "around" KP (and a few others) for a bit now, so I would imagine he has some idea how to go about achieving this ...

It's because his name has four syllables so scans perfect with many popular songs. Try "Alex Scott" and it doesn't work. Bob Taylor had to be "Bob-bee" in song. It's like "Liv-er-pool" or "Ev-er-ton" went seamlessly with "clap, clap, clap" in the 60s and 70s and then "Here we go" in the 80s but "Bristol" doesn't, hence we have no atmosphere. And why we had to stretch it to "Buh-riss-tawl." Bristol and/or Bristol City is/are poor names/words for singing. Bed-mins-ter would've been better. People sang his name because it had four syllables and it scanned nicely. And it was about shagging. "Oh Ni-gel Pear-son ... " that might work too, thinking about it .......

He probably should've signed for Millwall, mate

Palmer. London. Bristol. North Street area. Heathrow (think KP has been there). Missing/wasted millions. Stealing a living. Melt down. Costa del Maldives. We've been here before. You'd think we'd learn. No more Palmers, no more millions. Didn't the first one live at Lansdown? Ps. Hope this time it ends differently (ie, sent to Coventry. Lives happily ever after - stealing a living off them, not us).

We see this said and read it so often - even about clubs like ourselves (difference being, supporters contribution compared to owner's rather than tv money) - that it is almost taken as an incontrovertible universal truth. But is it? A quick glance at the figures for 2018 show Arsenal's: Turnover: £403m Wages: £240m TV & Broadcasting income: £180m Gates & Matchday income: £99m Bournemouth - you are closer to the truth: TV money: £119m Match income: £5m But Bournemouth are a tinpot exception in the Prem. However, they lost money that season, so their £5m from tickets and pies was needed Brighton: Turnover: £139 TV: £110m Match income: £19m. And so it goes on. Ok, it's match day income not just tickets but is it a "tiny" percentage? Probably not to those charged with watching the pennies/millions at these clubs.

One problem with blokes being hostile is that, when it doesn’t have the desired effect - the ref giving us everything; the opposition crumbling; us winning - where to go with that whipped up hostility? Who gets the "hostility" then? The team don't need us being hostile to the opposition, what they need is their own crowd to be behind them even when they struggle, or fail. To "have their back." Show them some "love" and support.As long as they are trying, of course. But as we have seen, even those that very obviously try (Weimann) still get criticism and abuse when we lose. The "love" and "support" nowadays from a significant element (of blokes) is wholly conditional on a certain outcome regardless of effort and intent. We don’t need to "let them know about it" when they are conning us and "stealing a living," not while Nige is here. He will do this. And get rid of them, where he can. Evidently. What we should be doing is raining love and support down upon the team so that they are freed up to do what they are good at and not dreading the moaning and groaning (and worse) when a pass goes astray or things don't come off or even go wrong. If we could fully back well-intentioned players through difficult times we would be surprised the things they could achieve. However, the wages players get now (certainly up until the pandemic) and the gap between players and supporters compared to days gone by certainly make this unlikely for many paying punters. It's just not going to happen, not unless we're winning. And not always then. Things like love and support don't come easily to some blokes you get going to football. Too many blokes want somewhere to go to be hostile and toxic and create fear. They can only offer conditional support, and the players know it.

Que?

The egg buggers pull that lot in

Ask yer childr grandchildren, Grandad .....

It’s probably not great the opposite end, mind

Away from home, we've got a fair few "ahead" of the ball there, as Llewey launches a diagonal t'ward the back stick. Bob quite rightly keeps the ball well away from the keeper, thus denying the Northern monkeys the chance to counter-attack in to acres of northern space

Just don't expect much more than this