The Bard

Luton will stay up. Hopefully Forest will go down. Ross Barkley is looking top level.

Mehmeti and Mcrorie is not a combination I like the look of at all. As soon as he switched he woke up. Don't think he likes playing on the right.

Everyone focusing on subs is ignoring Tanner being dropped for Mcrorie. It massively weakened us defensively and having Mehmeti in front of Mcrorie was a recipe for disaster. Took them about 5 minutes to start arguing. We're Bristol City not Man City. We don't look better with a right back who pushes high and leaves big gap to his centre half. We need solidity and should play from there. Mcrorie needs to be sub so he can add something late on in games like he did v Southampton. Manning created a situation for himself with the original selection. He needs to learn from it.

Pathetic isn't it. I hope we don't get an LJ situation where 2 weeks of just training leads to a load of confused players who've had their heads filled with overly complicated jargon.

We were shite before that sub with the exception of Bell who started really well. Presume Sykes wasn't up to 70 minutes hence he wasn't brought on. If it wasn't for our core Max Zac, Dickie and James it would've been catastrophic

Dynamo Zagreb v Red Star was a major catalyst in the civil war. https://www.soccerphile.com/soccerphile/news/balkans-soccer/football-war.html

I had Sts for my 3 kids in all 4 stands over the years.

They also get into the corner. It was ridiculously overcrowded v West Ham. I think the main point is there are too many games. I can't believe that clubs would really lose out if they lost a couple of evening home games a season. Our actual crowds for some are really low. Club still have to fork out for stewards etc but probably take very little in terms of matchday revenue.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/feb/17/baltic-league-could-be-pioneer-for-cross-border-football-in-europe Interesting. Makes sense as the Nation state isn't always the best basis to organise a league. These 3 together are similar size to England. It will improve the standard of their clubs and players. Surely only a matter of time before they try it in Ireland. Linfield v Derry would be 'Interesting'. Would they try it in Yugoslavia or Czechia & Slovakia?

He transmitted panic last night. Arms waving about. Their players' body language at 1 0 was really poor. With there being 4 very good sides I Can see them struggling in the play offs too.. Leicester + Leeds or Ipswich and I bet Coventry to go up via play offs.

He doesn't know. That would take a degree of self awareness and insight.

As usual the problem isn't the idea itself, it's football's inability to implement changes in a logical way. It makes absolute sense to have a sin bin for certain offences. I'd suggest for all cards. A caution is supposed to be a deterrent. Atm its seen as something you sometimes have to accept for the greater good. But by differentiating between different cautions, they make the refereeing of the game more complex. They never seem to copy the good bits from other sports or learn their lessons. Just try to create a whole set of new problems of their own making. If they introduced Sin bins for all yellows, that would speed the game up. Then VAR review if it should be upgraded to a red. Ref just needs to decide if it's at least a yellow. That will be quicker. Game isn't stopped as much. You would hope a couple of irritating things would end immediately such as Goalkeepers time wasting and 'taking the yellow'.

Yeah. Red is Danger Yellow a warning. Amber a serious warning. Blue is the colour of harmony and contentment.

It's the coaches decision isn't it?

Just like euros you need to look at who makes the decision not the takers themselves

About 5 years

I don't see the problem. No one complains when the ref changes do they? That's a far greater change than using VAR or not. Rules about players needing to be registered before a tie starts are fair.

the suggestion is we are going to be signing promising players. We are going to be a very young side if that's the case. Experience isn't just about number of appearances. It's also about maturity of the individual. Most males prefrontal cortex doesn't properly mature until mid 20s. Emotional regulation/personality etc. You could see watching the way likes of King/James/Weimann and Wells interacted with Scott/Conway/Bell when they first came into the side that their development as people was just as important as their footballing ability. Pearson knows that this is what distinguishes the ones that make it from the ones that don't and positive role models is absolutely key to that. Scott and Conway in particular have developed really quickly I would say because of the nature of the environment created by Nigel Pearson which is now being hacked to pieces by Tinnion. There were worrying signs on Friday - bickering amongst players. A couple of times I noticed some not exactly busting a gut to track runners etc.

Some of the 'costs' in both Bears and City's accounts are exceptionally high. Given everything is owned via Pula which is the off shore company in the group, it's pretty obvious what is happening. The whole thing will have to be reformed if they are to sell any of it. It's structure is primarily about drawing profits in Guernsey.

Scotland are like Bristol. Swing between looking consummate and hopeless

I didn't hear anything from Block B. Sort it Out

When Bristol lost to Harlequins in the Premiership semi finals in 2021. They put 500 middleclass Londoners in half of the top tier of the Lansdown as you want. They made a racket, played a massive role in Harlequins winning. Replace that with 3,000 Leeds fans and it'll be really really loud. The acoustics are actually really good.

It's the loss of nous and experience. The championship is a hard league. We've seen with likes of Mehmeti that players don't just step up. They need a few heads around and we seem intent on ridding ourselves of them. Could work but could go wrong..

James is Pearson's man so more chance of me getting a contract than him. You can sense the pettiness already. Totally different feel to before.

If that is the plan then we are going down next season. We need proper experienced players to play next to the promising ones. That's why we bought James and King and gave the likes of Weimann and Wells new contracts. It's pretty flipping obvious