Carey 6

I think quite a few players have been guilty of that over the years though, it’s why managers are always so keen for real competitiveness in each position. A mark of 6 across his time here would be extremely harsh for his overall contribution. 6.5 is just about reasonable, I think it’s still slightly below where I’d put him, but I’m happy to agree to disagree, people see things differently. Out of interest, how would you rate Nahki Wells?

If you rate a players entire career for Bristol City out of 10, for me he’d get a 7. 1 goal every 3 games near enough, 50+ overall. I won’t let his disappointing final 3 months (not 6) cloud my judgement of him as a player for the club. As for the ‘playing in spurts’ comments, how many Bristol City players remain consistent across a whole season? It’s very rare & those that do quickly move on!

Western League Prem is pretty interesting this season. Locally, Brislington, Portishead, Clevedon Town, Nailsea & Tickenham all going pretty well, then Bridgy who weren't doing too badly, but always seems to be a lot going on there. Clevedon Town the best I've seen out of the lot of them so far, but early days. In the Hellenic, Roman Glass are going well too, they've got a couple of ex pro's in Chris Lines & Jennison Myrie-Williams playing for them. Went to watch Cribbs vs Manor Farm the other day in the Southern league, wasn't a bad game, finished 2-0 to BMF. I know managers all give a bit to the officials, but the Cribbs gaffer was something else entirely, never heard anything like it. Shut up once he got booked in the second half though!

Oh yeah I’m sure they have their reasons for it. I’m just saying it doesn’t seem common, The Robins, Spanish, Hen & Chicken & Masonic all ok with it & every other pub in town I’ve been into.

I’ve not experienced it in any other pub, not sure it is quite common. Clubs occasionally yes, but that’s more of a dress code thing.

They’ll be fine. They finished 14 points clear of the relegation spots last season with points deductions. Dyche is the perfect manager to have in there for the period they’re currently going through. Branthwaite being out is massive for them too, when him and Garner are back they’ll look a lot better.

Too young for Cole & Jacki but I’d agree with the other two. There have been plenty of players that I (and most of us) expected to move onto the Prem & did do such as Reid, Brownhill, Semenyo & Bryan. Then there’s the ones you think will go on and play for England like Webster & Scott. I think it might be too late for the former but still plenty of time for the latter! It might’ve just been me, but I felt like Christian Ribeiro would end up a Premier League player when I was watching him during Millens stint as caretaker manager in 2010. It’s a shame about the injuries!

1) Where will City finish this season? Top 2, 3rd-6th, 7th-12th, 13th-18th, 19th-24th. 13th-18th 2) What will be City's exact final position? 16th 3) How many points will City get this season? 50 or less, 51-60, 61-70, more than 70? 51-60 4) Will City win 18 (or more) league games? No 5) Will City lose 18 (or more) league games? Yes 6) Will City score 60 (or more) league goals? No 7) Will City concede 60 (or more) league goals? No Who will finish as City's top scorer in all competitions? Wells 9) Will the top scorer score 15 goals (or more) in league & cups? No 10) Who will score more goals, league & cups, Armstrong or Mayulu? Armstrong 11) How many academy graduates will make their City debuts this season, league and cups? 1 12) Will City sign a new goalkeeper this season, permanently or on loan? No 13) Will Stefan Bajic make 5 or more apps. this season, league & cups? No 14) Will Ayman Benarous make 10 or more apps. this season, league & cups. No 15) Will Rob Atkinson make 20, or more, apps. this season in all comps? Yes 16) Which of the new players, Bird, Murphy, Stokes, Mayulu, Hirakawa & Armstrong, will make the most apps. this season? Bird 17) Which of those players will make the least? Murphy 18) Will Yu Hirakawa score 5, or more, league goals? Yes 19) Will Anis Mehmeti score 5, or more, league goals? No 20) Will Harry Cornick score 7, or more, league goals? No 21) Will Harry Cornick still be a City player on the last day of the season? No 22) Will Kal Naismith still be a City player on the last day of the season? Yes 23) Will City sign another striker, either in this window, or January? No 24) Will Seb Palmer-Houlden score 12 goals, or more, for Dundee in all competitions? Yes 25) Will he be recalled in January? No 26) Will Ephraim Yeboah score 10 goals (or more) for Doncaster? No 27) Will he be recalled in January? No 28) Who will be named City's player of the season? Dickie 29) What will be the official attendance for City's first home league game V Millwall to the nearest thousand? 24,000 30) What will be City's average league attendance to the nearest thousand? 22,000 31) In which round will City be knocked out of the FA Cup? 4th 32) In which round will City be knocked out of the Carabou Cup? 3rd 33) How many City players will be sent off in all comps? 3 34) Who will be the first City player to be sent off? Williams 35) How many penalties will City be awarded in all comps? 6 36) How many penalties will City score? 4 37) How many penalties will be awarded against City? 5 38) How many penalties will the opposition score? 4 39) Will any City player score a first team hat trick this season? No 40) Will City score 5 goals, or more, in any league game this season? No 41) Which young City player out of James, Campbell-Slowey, Ali, Nelson, Meerholz, Pecover, Backwell & Morrison will make the most first team apps? Nelson 42) Will Liam Manning still be City manager on the last day of the season? Yes Rovers 1) Will Rovers finish in the top half (1-12) or the bottom half (13-24) of League 1? Top 2) What will be Rovers final league position? 10th 3) What will be Rovers official average attendance to the nearest thousand? 10k 4) Will Aden Flint score for Mansfield against Rovers this season? No 5) Will Korey Smith score for Cambridge against Rovers this season? No 6) Will Matt Taylor still be Rovers manager on the last day of the season? Yes Rivals, Cardiff, Swansea & Plymouth 1) Who will finish higher, City or Cardiff? Cardiff 2) How many points will City get against Cardiff, 0, 1, 2,3,4, or 6? 3 3) Who will finish higher, City or Swansea? Swansea 4) How many points will City get against Swansea, 0,1,2,3,4, or 6? 3 5) who will finish higher, City or Plymouth? City 6) How many points will City get against Plymouth, 0,1,2,3,4, or 6? 4 City old boys 1) Will Andreas Weimann score for Blackburn against City? No 2) Will either Marlon Pack or Ryley Towler score for Portsmouth against City? No 3) Will Joe Bryan score for Millwall against City? No 4) Will Antoine Semenyo score 7, or more, league goals for Bournemouth? No 5) Will Sammie Szmodics score 20 or more goals in all comps? No 6) Will Tommy Conway score 12, or more, league goals this season? Yes Championship 1) Which club will finish top of the Championship? Burnley 2) Which club will finish bottom of the Championship? Oxford

As expected

Should’ve taken Bellingham off. He was pony. Gallagher improved us last game when coming on for Trent. It wasn’t that crazy for him to make that change. We’ve had one of these stinking games in the group stage the last 3 tournaments now, (USA, Scotland) I’m hoping we follow it up with a good win to go in to the knockouts with a bit of confidence.

Bridgy lost a load but I still expect them to be alright next season. They will have plenty of money to spend now they’ve lost so many, it may take them a while to get going but I expect they’ll be up there again. By all accounts the coach they’ve hired Nick de-Long is meant to be very good. He’ll probably end up as manager at some point during the season.

26 I believe. 1 point & 1 place out on City Didnt we sign that keeper Thomas this season? Notice you’ve put no on your answers @Nogbad the Bad

First season up after we got promoted, I seem to recall he got quite a bit of stick on here. Good to see him doing well.

Enjoyed that. Pearson certainly trusted Fleming and Euell to do a lot of the coaching & in the end that's partly what seemed to cost him his job. Remember hearing quite a bit the board wanted a more 'hands on' coach. I hope Euell gets himself a job soon. He was highly rated by a friend of mine who supports Charlton when he was in charge of their development side & it seemed like he did a good job here too. Only 50 odd views in here, should post it into the Football chat forum because this sub forum is a load of rubbish. I only saw it because it was the most recent post and listed next to the sub forum title.

Yeah, for England. Found it interesting that he was third, only Saka & Kane ahead.

I agree with you. He's definitely a better player than both of those. He's had a poor season by his standards, but Man United seems a toxic place to be & almost everyone seems to have struggled there this season. We're going into a tournament with Maguire as the 3rd top scorer through the squad which is interesting. I won't complain too much though, I think Southgate tends to get most things right.

Branthwaite is twice the player Dunk is. Dunk has played a few times for England and has seemed to make a mistake every single time.

Trent has been named as a midfielder in the last few squads, I don't see that changing. Mitchell the palace LB made the squad a few times under GS. I wonder if he'll be in. With it now being 26 places, I think they'll take the risk on involving Shaw.

I really rate Conway, I expected a bit more from him this season though. I'm hopeful of him staying but I don't see it happening. I only recall a couple of occasions where a contract offer has been on the table for a long time and that was Reid & Scott, neither ended up signing. Am I missing anyone who we waited on to sign for a while before they eventually did? I can't think of any.

£695K Dickie.

Feltham staying at Portishead! Massive for them!

Would love to see Manor Farm win it’s a bloody tough ask though. Frome are very good & probs should’ve won the league. Have heard that the lad who scored 50+ for Portishead Ethan Feltham will be at Weston next year, not sure how true but it wouldn’t surprise me. Expect there will be an exodus from Bridgwater Town after they’ve failed to go up again. Clevedon Town will do well to keep a hold of their keeper James Dunn next season. He kept 20+ clean sheets this year & he’s definitely good enough for the step above.

Also, not sure if mentioned but Portishead got promoted to the Western League Prem yesterday. Their striker Ethan Feltham has scored over 50 goals this season.

Had no idea Leigh-Gilchrist (Gizz) was at BMF. He’s one hell of a player and way too good for the level he’s been playing at with Roman Glass.

Plymouth have released one. Are they the first Championship side to do so?