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Push for a winner City, go on! Prepared to gamble the point.

Just now, And Its Smith said:

Pearson: we will have to wait to see in the coming days but hopefully he isn’t out too long

Interviewer: so we might see him back towards the end of this week then?

Pearson : No. I didn’t say that 

Oh right that sounds potentially more promising than it could have done. Thanks.

5 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

Nigel Pearson DOES NOT like being asked how long a player will be injured for!

What did he say?

A hamstring injury. 

And so it begins…

Realistically a point wouldn’t be a bad result, even if it does stretch the winless streak to 15 (fifteen) matches. 

Almost feel a performance is more important than a result today. We have played very poorly in our last two, maybe three games. A return of 5 points from the last three games flatters us big time if you ask me. 

1 hour ago, Fordy62 said:

Bromsgrove are a couple of leagues lower, step 3, and we’re £12. 

Can you have a pint at Maidenhead?

No you can’t drink pitchside above National League South/North.

It was one of the interesting points about the proposed ending of the drink ban. Might not matter financially for clubs like us, but for smaller sides in the National League/League Two the revenue they could make from serving beers could be hugely important.

My team, Wingate & Finchley, looking to reach the 4th qualifying round for the first time in their history. Decent chance of it too. Seems crazy that with attendances of approx 150 - 200 a match, could then be one win away from an away day at the Stadium of Light! 

Magic of the cup certainly feels more alive the further down the leagues you go.

I thought he was awful to be honest. He looked nervous. But hopefully he’ll improve, was his first game at the level to be fair.

It’s just so boring. All the stopping and the tactical breaks and the ‘go down for a minute’… ugh maybe it’s because I’m not there in the ground tonight but Christ alive it’s tedious. 

I don’t think it’s that complicated.

Some people go to the games and love to sing - fair play to them.

Others are primarily interested in watching the football, having a chat with friends. Equally fine. 

When there’s a big, important, exciting game the latter group will join in. Sometimes even if there’s just a big moment in an otherwise ‘standard’ game.

But when you’re midtable, 6 games into a season, and drawing 0-0 with Preston - it ain’t gunna be the San Siro is it. 

3 minutes ago, BanburyRed said:

Showing some fighting qualities to come from 2 down to draw 2-2 with Blackburn. Bit of a bogey side for us in recent years.

Think they comfortably beat us last season didn’t they. Still, we need a home win - 4 points from any set of two games is good return, but if we take 2, or 1, then it’s pretty poor really.

1 minute ago, RUSSEL85 said:

Yep. It’s a point and a clean sheet against a pain in the ass side. It’s not great but not bad either.

It’s a good result IF we beat Luton in midweek.

3 minutes ago, Midlands Robin said:

Not shocked by the responses to it it though. Ranging from "it won't happen here", "we don't believe you", "no fan knows what goes on inside the club", "well it was your fault as a club for not controlling him" and so on and so on.

There are so many counter responses that could be made to their points but I sadly feel it would be a waste of breath. I get the fact that they haven't been where they would hope to be due to their ownership issues over the last decade or so but the drowning man will always grasp at anything that floats by.

Who knows. It may well all work out for them but the odds are they'll be stuck in the same rabbit hole we were. Ah well, time to move on.

No one wants to believe it before they have to, do they. Have to say that was an illuminating post to read by Fevs even as a City fan. Didn’t know about the ‘consultancy’ - shocking.

Torn. I quite like Ipswich and I’d rather see them come up than Sunderland/Portsmouth but don’t like Ashton and I want him to fail.
 

Also, that’s a strong League One this season, and Ipswich are already 7 points off the autos. I know there’s a long way to go, but that’s a decent enough gap to close already, across a season. I don’t think they’ll go up automatically, to be honest.

Signing 19 players is extraordinary. How can they afford that!?

Does anybody know how to access the red button on the Sky Go computer app? Very frustrating.

Would far rather watch a semi-dysfunctional City side with players like JET, Adomah etc. in it than the current lot.

We’re just painfully boring now. Why is entertainment never the number one priority for a football club?

You have to hand it to Gregor. Every time I come on this forum we’re all talking about him and the Bristol Post. 

I suspect the sports pages of the Post haven’t been this widely read for years. 

Ah Jesus - I’m actually so bored of Bristol City just being a bit crap. 

Not annoyed, just bored. Better see some green shoots soon.

Not convinced I’ve missed football ffs.

I bought myself a Middlesex membership this season. I'm a Somerset fan, but it only cost £70 to get access to all home Middlesex matches and I wanted to watch some live cricket. I have subsequently discovered that because I must sit in the members' areas, I have to wear a shirt with collar to every match. There is no option to buy what is, effectively, a season ticket at Lords in the year 2021 without having to wear a collared shirt to every match.

In my opinion, absolutely bonkers. I know we all love cricket for the tradition, but enforcing dress codes on fans just seems mental to me in this day and age. 

15 minutes ago, Spike said:

The quote "you can tell the players respect him" shows me that he's not been there long enough yet for his weakness to come to light. LJ is very forward thinking and has a lot going for him but we've all seen what happens when the confidence drops. I'll be interested to see how the players react to him when they begin to struggle and he starts messing with his tactics, making obvious mistakes etc as he did with us. They're still riding that positive air that inspires good run of form, let's see how they react to a run of poor results before we talk about how great LJ is. 

There's every chance he'll have them promoted with a trophy too by the time this matters though. In which case, it's job done already really isn't it.

Johnstone's Paint Trophy final on Sunday for LJ. Wembley against Tranmere, the division below. 

Surely going to be his first piece of silverware?

27 minutes ago, GasDestroyer said:

I worked in Tyneside for a while, and the Mackams know there football, trust me.

They won’t be taken in by all his bullsh*t for long from that cretin. How the heck did he last so long at City. Oh yeh, the CEO and owner loved all the bullsh*t. Quite a few on here did also.

If my memory is right, Cotts wanted some £££s for transfer targets he ID’d and got a NO, so Cotts played politics with SL and the rest is history.

Poor old DH has inherited the mess. Major clear out coming this summer IMO.

Excuse me for not being overly excited about the major clear out and new set of players on three year contracts who are desperate to learn from DH. Give it a year and we'll be stuck with a further bunch of not-good-enough players with years left on their contract playing under, I suspect, a new manager desperate to be rid of them.

14 minutes ago, Super said:

Because it was the good old days! You know the days when we used to attack, have shots on goal, score goals and win games.

And, in the championship, consistently lose!

“Burnley have great potential to grow commercially from shrewd recruitment of players, stadium improvements and wider marketing of the club”.

Burnley is a small town in Lancashire where football clubs are two a penny. They have done fantastically well to establish themselves as a lower-end Premier League club, but is there really much room for further growth? 

Not sure we’ll see the day when legions of Chinese and Indian fans are all sporting Burnley shirts. 

If I was a Wall St investor looking for a play thing I’d say someone like Oxford Utd or Cambridge Utd would be far more marketable abroad (once millions have been pumped in).

2 minutes ago, WolfOfWestStreet said:

How do you pick who would go? Ballots? 

Personally I don't see the appeal of going to the stadium to sit and watch the game on my own.

It just feels like an unnecessary risk to take when we are already seeing high infection rates across the city. 

Mark Kelly the something important at Bristol City said it would be ballot but you could put yourself down as a combo of three or four with your family. Assume if the rules allow possibly friends too.

3 minutes ago, AshtonGreat said:

Might get into an away game or two?

I can’t imagine they’d encourage travel around the country.