GrahamC

2 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

When / if those materialise we can reflect appropriately.

Totally.

At the moment we don’t know.

Retained list next week gives us the first idea.

What I would say though as someone with a lot of time for Andy King, you really can’t say losing him as a player (4 league starts this season) when he will be 36 early in the next one is significant in terms of the playing side, because at best he was going to be a coach next year.

Bird hasn’t come to replace him, so realistically one of Williams (or more likely) James is off, again it is arguable that weakens us.

17 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

How do you know he was very cheap.

I doubt the loan of a £1.5 million recruit was VERY cheap.

We don’t, but he’s ended up at a Belgian side none of us had heard of when he joined.

They probably pay League One wages & at least we can send him back next week rather than having committed to signing him.

5 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

Perception is a strange thing. Talk about this game and I always think , drab 1-0 defeat. Even though there have only been 3 in the last 20 games , and the last 3 games I went up there were  1-1 , 2-2 and 3-3.  

People are obsessed.

Our record against Birmingham is far worse.

34 minutes ago, MelksRed said:

And we rarely get anything from them when we play them......a club I always expect to drop points to....

“Rarely get anything”.

This season a draw at home, loss away.

Did the double over them last season.

Season before that both games were draws.

One before that we won a game each.

One before that, 2 more draws.

So they have beaten us twice in the last 10 meetings.

Facts, eh?

1 hour ago, ExiledAjax said:

Marinovic

He played one game, we didn’t lose & he wasn’t at fault for the goal.

It’s such a myth that he was that bad.

Mebude on loan was as baffling as signing Haikin, who arrived, was on the bench for a couple of months & left without ever getting on the pitch.

1 hour ago, Graham76 said:

What did Patch Warner say :laugh:?  He’s certainly king of the happy clappers 

Just stuff like “a few players have points to prove”, “next goal is key”, “hopefully we can score a couple for those who have travelled”, said something at half time about needing an early goal to get back into it, when it was obvious we’d given up.

Just embarrassing.

Absolutely woeful.

Someone should drug test that Patch Warner bloke though, unreal.

My particular favourite was when he said Stoke were “running down the clock” when they made a substitution.

They were 4 up & had hit the woodwork twice by then..

3 minutes ago, Graham76 said:

That last ten minutes was embarrassing.  Stoke have been so sloppy, how the f@ck are we losing 3-0

Not tracking runners, failing to put challenges in.

Poor.

2 minutes ago, David Brent said:

3-0 down and now these jokers on Robins TV. Get me on the beach. 

Incredible, basically North Korea TV.

Really poor defensively, Dickie aside we haven’t been at the races.

Lack of effort by Williams in particular to get back for the second was really poor.

I’d be making a triple sub at HT & give TGH, Knight-Lebel & Wells some minutes.

Wonder who accompanied Mason Greenwood..

1 hour ago, Rossi the Robin said:

Is Cundy injured? Doesn’t look like he’s played for a while 

Missed the entire season injured.

Out of contract I think, can’t think he’ll get another.

21 minutes ago, steveybadger said:

Tbf didn’t Brunt tear up his contract before it was due to end, when he realised he wouldn’t get back?

Yes, he did.

He’d been injured a while at the time but to be fair to him, he certainly wasn’t a Jody Morris type.

Top bloke who achieved the lot in football.

Real shame if (as appears the case) he doesn’t join the coaching staff this summer.

1 hour ago, JAWS said:

 

But we could easily be in the same division as rvrs which would seem quite stark being 'light years' apart off the field

I don’t know when you last looked at the league table? We’re top half & could finish 10th.

Based on your logic Brighton “could easily” be in the Championship.

Sunderland are in the division above Burton Albion, no one seriously thinks they are similar sized clubs.

20 minutes ago, Spoons said:

600 pints ….. a pint for every goal he’s let in this season

He’s a top six keeper in by far the worst side in the division, they would have conceded far more with someone else in goal.

12 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

I’m a St George boy too, Graham - born in our house on Summerhill Road in ‘55. Always considered that part of Bristol 5 to be a 50:50 split; my dad took me to AG whereas another relative took me Eastville. I was football mad so I didn’t complain but there was only ever one team in my heart. 

Lived just up from the fountain from my year of birth (‘63) until I left home in ‘86. Went to Summerhill school of course.

My old man is from BS3, so he took me to the true home of football from a very early age- a lucky escape because my mum’s side of the family were all gas..

Richard Tandy of ELO, he’s the bloke who played the piano riff on Evil Woman, they were never cool but sold an incredible number of albums in the 70s.

43 minutes ago, TDarwall said:

It was my mates 18th & we got soundly drunk in Bath pre kick off. I use that season to sum up supporting City to people that support other teams; even when we succeed we find a way to screw it up.  For me, the Millennium stadium  non event v BHA still trumps it as my worst day supporting City. At least we looked like we were trying v Rovers.

It was a great season though & I hardly missed  a game home or away. Remember getting pelted by coins & bottles (warm Lucazade, i think?) at the end of the game away to Cardiff. Still, that seemed tame compared to the scenes leaving St Andrews!

For me, Jordan then leaving is a massive sliding doors moment. Even Lumsden got us close to the top 6, had Joe stayed I reckon we had a really good chance.

I hate the phrase “typical City” because often it is used on here about things that happen to every single club (the left back is out injured, for instance).

It is the case though that a season that included a 4-0 win at Birmingham (as you quite rightly say, “lively” afterwards), a 5-0 win at Swansea (“Yorath is back”) & numerous other memorable days with Super Bob scoring 34 goals despite missing 6 of the last 7 games, could only end with us blowing a lead after the Messiah got injured & losing the title to those filthy bastards.

That summer I accompanied the lads behind The Bountyhunter on the pre season tour of Scotland & it’s fair to say optimism was very high, the first game against Blackburn (what a performance) only emphasised this.

Four days later, Joe was gone..

1 hour ago, 1960maaan said:

On form alone, and if this is right.

4 teams have 12 points from 6. 

2 teams unbeaten .

We have best goals against and equal best goal difference.

4 clean sheets from 6 games.

We are 2nd in the form table behind the team that has just won the Championship, and they have lost in that run. You would think Manning would have got the nomination 

100%.

Harris has done well but Manning should have been on the shortlist ahead of him.
 

11 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Hanham, St George have always been mixed, but I'm surprised what you say about Fishponds. Were you born in 1960? I was born in 64, went to Whitefield and it was pretty much solid Rovers when I went there.

Worked in Fishponds (Lodge House) in the early 80s, so around ‘83-‘88, it definitely seemed to be more blue than red then.

Grew up in St.George in the 60s/70s, that was definitely 50/50.

45 minutes ago, Super said:

They had a decent team in fairness. White was a real handful 

Goalkeeper who played for England, a striker who didn’t disgrace himself in the top flight & a lot of well organised physical players in a system that worked.

Absolutely hated that team (especially the thug Alexander, Jones, White & Holloway) but know they were good at what they did.

Really shit night all round.

Having to listen to that chirpy Cockernee Francis singing “going up” when they wouldn’t let us out was I thought the worst of it, until I bumped into a bloke I worked with (City lifer) a few weeks after & he told me his old man had collapsed & subsequently died on the way out that night.

Hated every single visit to Twerton until the very last one, the 4-0 defeat a year or so later was just as bad.

12 minutes ago, RedRoss said:

He also mentioned potentially going to some play off games here and abroad if time allows due to watching players live for recruitment  Perhaps we have our eye on someone in League One, Two's play off teams.

 

What like at Oxford, for instance…

Some of the European leagues have relegation playoffs, won’t be at all surprised if he’s referring to that