Mendip City

Imagine him on today’s pitches…. Bearing in mind a Saudi club has today offered £300m for Mbappe, what on earth would Trevor’s value be today? RIP Trevor.

Yeah you’re probably right. In the case of Vyner, presumably we want to keep him and, presumably, his attitude is good. No need to change anything. I suppose sone players down tools but I reckon that’s the minority.

Difference is - Atkinson and Naismith are under contract but I agree with your point about their injury records. I guess adding Kalas to them just adds to the overall injury risk. I hope NP is reasonably fair with players running their contract down - it’s the player’s choice and not playing them is cutting off your nose to spite your face. Gary Johnson used to freeze players out completely - Basso and Orr being two examples. It didn’t help the club at all. I guess we are thin at centre back but I don’t know how good the new signings are at playing there. We’ve also got Pring to cover. Hopefully Atkinson hits the ground running when he’s back.

Agree I’m sure he’s gone. Good servant but also the injury record was becoming a concern (especially when, correctly, we’re carrying a small squad). my bigger concern is whether Vyner signs a new deal.

Looks like he might well have picked it up whilst on holiday in Spain!

They definitely need Kane! Also what happened to our pre-season community games?

Exactly! I see Rice is set to sign for Arsenal any time now….. could that open West Ham’s wallet???

That’s a hidden bonus a lot of the time! I’ll up the bidding - £26m for the castle and half of Scotland.

Imagine that reversed - gold-y yellow with green trim as our retro inspired 3rd kit…. Obviously without a splatted robin. Maybe templates from good brands are the way forward.

Don’t give them ideas…. We’ll literally have a shit logo next! ?

Is that really official merch? Looks awful.

Yeah, I know it’s not RSG. I just meant it looked a bit like it….. or to put it another way, it looks shit ?

Looks like the old RSG sponsor logo.

Is it better for City for him to leave. Ow for a WHU or Brighton and us pocket the sell on when he moves up a notch? if he goes to a top 6 club now or next year we can, most likely, kiss goodbye to a future sell on. Brutal I know but it might be better for Bristol City if he went now. Obviously, ideally he stays, we get promoted and he signs a longer deal - however unlikely that might be!!!

Just think, if our kit supplier was Umbro not O’Reilly, they could make EXACT replicas of the top flight shirt. I mean O’Neills not O’Reilly. O’Reilly was the dodgy builder from Fawlty Towers… easy mistake to make.

He will find a decent job. His reputation was always high and much more so since the job he did last season. Nige is doing a good job and completely safe but if, hypothetically, our job was up for grabs, O’Neill would be right up there as a sensible choice.

In fairness JL has done his best to disguise the image as a canary. Norwich will be furious at his genius idea!

He looks happy…. Brave to put that date in the shirt…. What are the odds of him lasting that long, one way or the other….?

Depends doesn’t it? Would you want last year’s injury record on the books for 3 years if you weee the club? If you were Kakas would you want a massive pay cut? Six months of form and fitness would improve both positions. Just thought - I know nothing…. but then again that’s as much as anyone on here!

This got me thinking…. I don’t think we know the length of contract Kalas will have been offered. Could be as little as 6 months to cover Atkinson and prove his own fitness…. Then take it from there. Maybe triggering an extension if he passes X number of games. That wouldn’t seem an unreasonable approach to me.

I agree we should use blue - ideally a dark navy: as you say, shows how irrelevant the gas are bristol blue - as in the glass ties in with the rugby (part of the same group and both could use red white and navy as their core colours) matches the colour from our one and only fa cup final. But this Man City blue is outrageous especially without referencing Bristol

This is it….. stupidly the club’s obsession with re-making shirts is losing an opportunity. They could have a normal, modern shirt AND a range of retro shirts (as plenty of clubs do). Companies like Score Draw and TOFFS make perfectly decent retro shirts.

Hopefully JL runs out of retro ideas soon…. Or rinds out of crayons and crap kit manufacturers.

How many badges/logos does JL want (after redesigning the robin only a few years ago)? We’ve a robin in a circle, a robin without a circle, a robin that looks it’s been flattened/roadkill and now a retro City logo. The colour and quality of those training t shirts looks awful.

Thanks for the heads-up. Brilliantly funny even if a little “of its time”.