Daniro

The Robins TV commentary team are getting excited - understandably I guess - but all these stupid mistakes are worrying me - We are excellent at taking these lightning chances but we will get found out one of these days if we don't cut the defensive errors out.

I think Klose is one of the best defenders we've had for a while . Very reassuring presence when he comes on as sub and will no doubt start a lot of games too over the season

Not forgetting Klose!

Thought last night was very exciting and a sustained glimpse of what NP has been promising for what seems like a very, very long time - so I'm delighted. Great to see the new players performing so well and for the likes of Nakhi and Zak to show what they are capable of. Very encouraging I do find arguments about refs very circular. Refs weren't any better or worse before - what has happened is that every decision is now recorded for everyone to pore over ad infinitum. In the old days you just forgot about it. Yes it is statistically possible that 80000 Chelsea fans are right and that one particular ref has made an unusually high number of decisions against Chelsea. But anything is statistically possible in an expanding universe. Surely nobody really thinks that a ref would deliberately set out to do it? And banging on about it and signing petitions is only likely to put pressure on him and make him more likely to make unconsciously biased decisions. And yes, we may have had more bad decisions against us this season , but that's always going to happen to some club. SH1t happens. Maybe we've had fewer pens than any other team. Really - are they all ganging up on us? That's so mean. Diddums. Move on. I even think that if a ref proves to make more mistakes than others he should still play the whole season so all teams get subjected to the same below par reffing. Unfair to drop them until everybody has suffered! Poor refereeing is like life. We all have bad days and sh1tty times. With performances like last night, I think we can all now hope for some good days at last and we won't be relying on refereeing decisions to keep us happy

Best 90 minutes I've seen from us since .... to be honest I can't remember! Excellent all round.

Interesting the tractor boy focuses on our likely reaction to him showboating like that , but do they really think it's a good look for a CEO? And, autographs aside, what was the worst signing MA made while he was here?

Did you not listen to what he said? He says quite clearly that it's not just any old corporate slogan - it actually runs through the whole football club - because they're owned by a lot of old Arizona firemen. Do keep up.

Reminds me of a certain PM who was paid to make up stories about EU bananas and got sacked by the Times.

Is a freelance journalist is more likely to "generate (aka manafacture) their own stories" than an employed journalist? A salary is personal gain too?

Makes me wonder what we might actually get for HNM and what club would be prepared to buy him??? - they have him as our second most valuable player at £3.6M after Kalas at £4M.

Is that the modern day equivalent of qatching paint dry?

Brilliant intro as ever. Only complaint is that I saw no mention of Gordon Banks , best goalie ever, who played for them when I first started watching football

that's £75 I won't see again ?

i tell you what - I would not fancy a local derby at the moment. Hate to say it but what is happening over there shows what can be done with a certain mentality of leadership and Nige could do with a bit more fire in the belly.

Good point. New ownership might create a more positive optimistic feel about the club and is urgently needed. Lansdown Junior is an accident waiting to happen and his dad has surely made enough from the real estate wheeler dealing to exit gracefully and wealthily.

When he made that comment about being bored of saying the same things and how the fans must be bored of hearing him saying the same things, I did start to wonder and worry. I don't love Nige as much as I did, but he's done an alright job given the mess he inherited and I don't think he or any one else wants to go through yet another miserable damp squib of a season where so few of the players seem to be prepared / capable of putting back to back solid performances. We just have to hope that he and Gould have struck up enough of a relationship and that SL backs them to get on with some smart transfer business over the Summer. I'm not desperate to hang on to any of the current squad really, although it would be nice to hang on to the Academy stars for another year and make some more £££ later. They should be able to make a few quid , offload some cost and get some fresh faces in. We really need much more sense of team pulling together rather than a bunch of ill fitting individuals. As far as the Lansdowns are concerned, we have enough data going back enough years to be able to make an assessment of their ability to make decisions about football related matters. We are where are because of their judgements. They should now be encouraged to restrict their activities to signing cheques and spending more of their tax free billions on football rather than real estate or rugby.

Looks like a good day - thanks for posting

Good question! I'm wondering the same thing. I very recently bought a months sky sports pass from Now TV - I wanted to watch the Spurs v Arsenal game and I went for the 30 odd quid for a month rather than the tenner for the day pass. (must admit I assumed the WIndies Test match would be on Sky so I screwed that bit up!) The London derby was a brilliant game, end to end stuff and really exciting. I have to say that as I watched, I noticed how much I was enjoying it and wondered why I put myself through the misery of watching Robins TV (which costs about the same per match). I've always been very cynical about people not supporting their local team. I've got a mate who has lived all his life less than a mile from Ashton Gate but he supports Man United (pays a lot to go and see them). I don't have any particular preferences out of the top teams but I guess I'd got for Liverpool if I had to make a pick now. But I have to say, watching really good football on Sky does make me wonder about where the heck City have got to. You can accept not having world class talent (although having one of the richest people in the world as an owner surely means we should expect better?). But you do expect some sort of team spirit, some sort of pulling together as one, giving the crowd something to get behind. Supporting your local team is tribal. I've been really proud and impressed by our fans, home and away, this season - they've been immense. But the team and the staff, don't seem to be able to generate the same enthusiasm. Exactly like last year, and many before, we end up expecting our best players to leave, nursing long term wounded, waiting for the rest of the contracts to run down, and hoping like heck there are some good youngsters who can make it at this level. It's a terrible (sinful ?) thing to say but there are teams not a million miles from AG that have been able to get some team spirit going to great effect. It's kind of essential for success. SO, I think I will keep the pass for another month to see the season out and might even skip Robins TV for the next few away games to pay for it.

The interviewer could also have responded, " If you're such an expert, why have your teams conceded so many goals at corners?" or "If you're such an expert, why do your teams always concede in injury time?" I've been a fan of NP but being snarky when he really has yet to prove anything to anybody is not a good look.

Got his half time banana tucked in there

Yes - I really appreciate the technical expertise we have at our disposal on this forum. As someone who never played at any serious level, it can be difficult to know exactly what is going wrong. I was fuming when those corners went in but it wasn't just that nobody seemed to know what they were supposed to be doing - it was more that none of them seemed to want to get to the ball first. That's about desire and will to win. They looked like they couldn't be bothered.

Well, as I said at the time on the match day thread, I can't remember being as angry with a City team as I was when that second soft corner went in last night. Schoolboy defending. What is so annoying is that they are capable of better. It's as if they can't be bothered and it feels like the end of last season all over again.

Got to agree with all this. James and Massengo were very poor indeed. I don't see the point of James at all and HNM was muscled off the ball whenever he got near it and he keeps giving the ball away. Weimann hardly got a touch and scuffed it when he did. Cundy and Atkinson are big question marks for me at this level. Barnsley are not a good team and they ran us ragged whenever they felt like it.

Same! It's insane

I thought he sounded like he's had enough in the post match interview. He's bored of saying the same thing time and time again. He's run out of steam.