Silvio Dante Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 As attached. Feels a bit of a odd one in making Wright key player (like him, but not even guaranteed a start), although the points made re momentum are fair and discussed at length here. IIRC, Four Four Two have had us to go down each of the last two years so we may not be their favourites! They predict Stoke, Boro and Forest to go up, Ipswich, Rotherham and Reading to go down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rednotblue Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 Interesting how they see us as 19th and Sky have us 7th Whose been the more accurate over the years?? (please be sky ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meh Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 19th is a joke imo - as is calling Bailey are key player. Bristol Live level research - position - ummm - oh I haven’t used 10th or 19th yet so 19th I guess as I don’t know who Bailey Wright is but he doesn’t sound as good as that other guy from that team as he is a forward and might score more goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olé Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 Anyone remember the season under Danny Wilson where our entire preview in FourFourTwo was a large photo of Joey Beauchamp and a discussion about our chances depending on whether he would settle in Bristol. He'd long since not only not settled but not even signed. Haven't really taken them seriously since. If you want informed magazine journalism on league football and lower league football, you can't go wrong with WSC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richwwtk Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 9 minutes ago, Olé said: Anyone remember the season under Danny Wilson where our entire preview in FourFourTwo was a large photo of Joey Beauchamp and a discussion about our chances depending on whether he would settle in Bristol. He'd long since not only not settled but not even signed. Haven't really taken them seriously since. If you want informed magazine journalism on league football and lower league football, you can't go wrong with WSC. Didn't even know WSC was still going! I started reading it in the early days, but must be 15 years since I have even seen a copy now! Was absolutely essential reading back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 This was posted before. Forgot this magazine even existed, they're the same as most national media - if it's not Premiership, they just don't bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeAman08 Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 I know we don’t have a keeper but 19th a bit too low. Can’t even see it being worst case. At worst I believe we are a 60 point team which will get you at least 14th or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olé Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 47 minutes ago, richwwtk said: Didn't even know WSC was still going! Can get it in digital format on your iPad, amazingly enough. Same style and content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercidered Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 8 minutes ago, JoeAman08 said: I know we don’t have a keeper but 19th a bit too low. Can’t even see it being worst case. At worst I believe we are a 60 point team which will get you at least 14th or so. 19th ain't bad if we don't have a keeper. That will give us more scope to play another winger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One BCFC Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 They used to sponsor Swindon. Says everything you need to know really.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Dante Posted August 1, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 2 minutes ago, One BCFC said: They used to sponsor Swindon. Says everything you need to know really.. Do Swindle still have “Imagine Cruising” on their shirts? Nothing like making a Swindonite look like even more of a perv... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City exile 79 Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 53 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said: Do Swindle still have “Imagine Cruising” on their shirts? Nothing like making a Swindonite look like even more of a perv... They did when some of them went past my place earlier today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midlands Robin Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 I can't ever remember 442 giving us a cat in hells chance in any review they've ever written. Total Football were exactly the same. I have a feeling that they were based in Bath and a few Sags on the editorial team. I've got a feeling that Total Football and 442 merged about 15 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chappers Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 Hard to call this season, the Championship is hugely unpredictable, with such small margins, and who knows how this City side will perform. I’m worried about where goals will come from, and defence looks a tad suspect. Or maybe Eisa will hit the ground running, defence will just click, and Weimann suddenly start scoring regularly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gifford Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 I guess we don't have a key player. A balanced squad is much more important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfOfWestStreet Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 29 minutes ago, Chappers said: Hard to call this season, the Championship is hugely unpredictable, with such small margins, and who knows how this City side will perform. I’m worried about where goals will come from, and defence looks a tad suspect. Or maybe Eisa will hit the ground running, defence will just click, and Weimann suddenly start scoring regularly. Agree with you ...19th seems a tad low, there are worse teams for sure but not super confident we'll be a hell of a lot higher. Fam out for 6, no first team goalkeeper fit, could be a tough start and Johnson loves a losing streak. Nervous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undy English Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 With the exception of saying we'll finish 19th and highlighting Wright as our 'key player' I thoroughly agree with everything the article says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted August 1, 2018 Admin Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 3 hours ago, rednotblue said: Interesting how they see us as 19th and Sky have us 7th Whose been the more accurate over the years?? (please be sky ) @rednotblue sadly the Sky prediction was two guys from Oxford United's podcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryans Left Peg Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 I foresee a comfortable season, with no real promotion or relegation battle, finishing between 10th - 15th. I would be also be happy with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedred31 Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 Discussed this at work with a Norwich season ticket holder. His resonse - " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedred31 Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 His response "I think you'll do alright. Mind you, you do have Marley Watkins, whose complete crap". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pillred Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said: Do Swindle still have “Imagine Cruising” on their shirts? Nothing like making a Swindonite look like even more of a perv... not as bad as being the cottagers though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 12 minutes ago, Bryans Left Peg said: I foresee a comfortable season, with no real promotion or relegation battle, finishing between 10th - 15th. I would be also be happy with that. We don't do comfortable - do we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingswoodactor Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 1 hour ago, Chappers said: Hard to call this season, the Championship is hugely unpredictable, with such small margins, and who knows how this City side will perform. I’m worried about where goals will come from, and defence looks a tad suspect. Or maybe Eisa will hit the ground running, defence will just click, and Weimann suddenly start scoring regularly. Really? That's one thing I'm not concerned about. People seem to forget that we spent over 5 million quid on a good striker only 12 months ago, a striker who scored 13 goals in 28 league starts last season. I'm confident that if Fam stays fit, and can start 35+ games in 18/19, he'll bang in 15-20 goals. Weimann, Eisa, Pato, Taylor will surely contribute another 20 between them. My main concern with our club in the last 3 seasons has been keeping goals out at the other end, hence my desire for the club to spend a bit more than usual on an established goalkeeper this Summer. It would also be nice to get a few more goals from our midfield. Brownhill, COD, Watkins, Eliasson and Adelukun should be contributing 20 between them at least for the coming campaign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 Their article says Bobby Reid scored 26 goals last season?! Didn’t he get 19 league goals and 2 in the league cup? Edit: Apologies, it looks like they included assists in that figure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledAjax Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 1 hour ago, Kingswoodactor said: Really? That's one thing I'm not concerned about. People seem to forget that we spent over 5 million quid on a good striker only 12 months ago, a striker who scored 13 goals in 28 league starts last season. I'm confident that if Fam stays fit, and can start 35+ games in 18/19, he'll bang in 15-20 goals. Weimann, Eisa, Pato, Taylor will surely contribute another 20 between them. My main concern with our club in the last 3 seasons has been keeping goals out at the other end, hence my desire for the club to spend a bit more than usual on an established goalkeeper this Summer. It would also be nice to get a few more goals from our midfield. Brownhill, COD, Watkins, Eliasson and Adelukun should be contributing 20 between them at least for the coming campaign. I agree with all of this. If we add on a half dozen or so from defenders and we're rolling at 65+ goals for. If we can then keep goals against below 55 then we should be comfortably mid table with a +10 GD. Last few seasons have been +54, -71 (2015/16), +60, -66 (2016/17), and +67, -58 (2017/18) (note the continual upward trend). So if the numbers mentioned here come true, and it's a big if, then we should find ourselves at least matching last season, possibly getting up into the top ten. Note that last season everyone from 6th up ended with at least +21 GD, so that suggests we'd need a heavy improvement at either end in order to nab a play-off spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFC_Dan Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 Last year they thought we were nailed on to go down because we hadn't adequately replaced Abraham and Tomlin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Orns Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 4 hours ago, phantom said: @rednotblue sadly the Sky prediction was two guys from Oxford United's podcast Is that the lads that do the NTT20 podcast? If so, I listened to it last night, I thought there reasonings behind who they had where were pretty balanced. I think 7th is a little high, but I'd find it hard to argue with anyone who predcite anywhere between 6th and 16th this season. Tough league, some 'big' clubs falling on hard(er) times, I think it's tricky I'd have a fiver on Stoke to win the league and can see Bolton going down, the rest would be complete guesswork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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