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Slightly surprised how many people thought that was really bad

Norwich have just committed daylight robbery for that win. Bad, bad defending for both their goals but we otherwise dominated the game - albeit lacking a final cutting edge (Conway should have done much better with his chances in the first half).

We’re never a top 6 side though. Too many passengers/just ‘ok’ players. 

One thing though, I assume Sykes coming off was something to do with his injury. If not, can’t understand that for the life of me.

Nah, not for us.

Wednesday, Rotherham and QPR look cut off already. Can’t remember the Championship relegation places having such a solidified look at this point in the season before.

Wednesday must surely have the lowest points total for this point of a season for any team in years and years. Even if they got a decent point last night, they’d have to go on a great run of form pretty much to the end of the season to catch 21st.

QPR been consistently one of the worst teams/worst team for 12 months now. 

Rotherham always swimming against the tide somewhat at this level.

Six points clearly not an impossible ask to make up over best part of 30 games, but would anyone be willing to bet it won’t be these three sides relegated?

Anyone see what the extent of Naismith and Sykes’ injuries were? It’s just impossible for us to build a team with so many bloody injuries.

Watched the second half in patches only. We looked ok but mostly I looked up to see one of our players just making a poor pass or give it away. Sounds like first half was better. 

Well done City. Can’t imagine we’ve won too many times having given away a 2 goal lead?

5 hours ago, pillred said:

Done and dusted? blimey, and I thought I was pessimistic.

Ha just don’t see us pulling a 7 or 8 point deficit back to be honest, if it gets to that point of course. I’d give it a less than 5% chance. 

Think it will be tough but, actually, I think we need to win. We’re 4 points off the play offs… but the sense is we’re just about hanging in there. That gap moves out to 7, 8 points and several more teams above us then we’re basically done and dusted this season IMO.

6 hours ago, Eddie Hitler said:

When I lived in central London I was a member of Middlesex Cricket Club; this is very different from the MCC, it is open to anyone and us really cheap. I think £75 back then for the whole season of county games.

My main reason was that it was an oasis of quiet and greenery in a busy city and it was lovely to sit in the mostly empty stands on a warm sunny day sipping a beer.

I knew who Mike Gatting and Phil Tufnell were but couldn't have named another player, though did cheer or clap as appropriate.

The cricket was an excuse for spending the day drinking beer somewhere nice in the sunshine.

I've moved out of London now too, but amateur cricket grounds are honestly like a cheat code. You're essentially getting a massive beer garden (try getting a seat in a London beer garden on a sunny summer Saturday), with a bit of vague entertainment going on, and the pints are about £2 if not £3 cheaper than the closest pub. We got a round of drinks for free once because "you've already bought three rounds". Try getting that anywhere else in London (or, to be fair, the UK)!

It's probably been done to death, but what's the main theory why we went from being a fairly top club in the early days to a century and more of being totally average? Was there some financial disaster in the 1920s or something I've never heard about? 

I don’t think it matters what industry it is, if you go into a room of 30 people for the first time and they all know each other already - it’s awkward.

Suspect it’s even worse when it’s 30 competitive, athletic lads tbh.

I was a bit alarmed Tinnion is front and centre though. Why? 

Please be patient everyone. We have only waited 43 years for top-flight football.

8 minutes ago, Ghost Rider said:

NOBODY FROM THE CLUB SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE AN EXCITING APPOINTMENT. 
 

HOW MANY MORE TIMES???????

Yes I for one would like the club to announce Manning and make it very clear "WE DID NOT SAY YOU WOULD BE EXCITED". That should help get fans back on board.

You have to imagine the reason managers keep coming to us is because we will quite literally put a statue of them up, and probably rename a stand, if someone ever gets us ******* promoted

2 minutes ago, Cov 77 said:

Really?  not saying it was anything great today but do not recognise what you describe , and certainly people were happy with the result afterwards . 

Pretty fed up of always putting the fans down , been away at lot in recent times , bar Leeds the home atmosphere was pretty crap , City fans excellent , just the way it is these days it seems 

I think we have excellent away support and I generally think our home support is ok. That’s why I thought it was notably flat today. But just my opinion. Maybe confirmation bias.

TBF, the trumpeter had finished several seconds earlier. I was wondering why the referee hadn’t blown his whistle as I thought he would at the end. 

Previously, I would have said what Clinton Morrison and Merson were saying was just classic pundit, has to have an opinion, unsubstantiated nonsense.

Now, I seriously wonder whether BCFC is considered a massive red flag among the football industry? I actually think, maybe, we’ll really struggle to appoint someone we want.

I thought it was dreadful today. It was an incredibly strange atmosphere in that everyone trudged off out the stadium at the end as if we’d lost. 

I thought we were a bloody boring watch, and the atmosphere was just so, so flat. 

There were occasions in the first half where we won the ball back high up the pitch, charging at goal, and it was met with… silence? Just bizarre.

Also, I know S82 are the only ones who ever start a song so fair play to them for that, but I really think the atmosphere might improve at least a tad if they sang some classic, easy to join in ones. Red flag… ei ei ei o… drink up thy zider. Even just ole ole Bristol City… Just me? 

Dreadful atmosphere. Thought it might be feisty but no… flat, dull, as if no one cares. Barely any encouragement even if we nick the ball and have four on two!

Was he the bloke in charge at MK Dons when they were absolutely flying in League One and winning all sorts of plaudits for the football they played?

If so… could be interested. 

I think the Lampard circus would be quite fun to be honest. Or Roy Keane!

More so than the Rotherham coach or Eustace. 

1 minute ago, eardun said:

What could possibly go wrong on Saturday?!

The moveable object meets a resistible force. Something’s got to give.

Do you think they really do think we should be in the top six and competing? I'm not sure anyone else does. 

It would still have pissed so many people off, but if they'd come out and said that their relationship with Pearson was simply untenable for various reasons and it was proving completely impossible to run the club with that relationship they had... at least it would have been truthful?

1 hour ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Because no-one's imterested in paying the price Guernsey wants for a middling Championship club, never mind a middling Championship club that comes wrapped up in a netball team, some egg chasers and a second rate girls soccer outfit.

If we were a Premier League club, he'd have Yanks and Arabs queueing round the block, chequebooks at the ready.

Which, btw, is why he's desperate for promotion - as it's his way out.

A shame, then, he's just ditched a manager, and associated staff, who are better qualified to achieve that than anyone else he's appointed in his decade upon decade of failed leadership.

The ‘second rate girls soccer outfit’ are the only Bristol City team likely to be playing at the top level of their sport any time soon, so they deserve more respect than that.

16 minutes ago, OddBallJim said:

Regarding SL presently, I’m reminded of a quote from The Dark Knight:

”You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

Had Lansdown hypothetically sold off the club upon completion of the AG rebuild, I think he would’ve gone down as one of our most popular chairmen/owners.

 But everything that’s going on now is destroying his legacy imo.

I don’t know if we’re quite at the legacy destroyed point yet but I clearly don’t have the strength of feeling some do about the Lansdowns.

My own opinion is that the evidence is increasingly stacking up that we’re poorly run, have been for a while (possibly always have been), the communication is terrible, and that we’re doomed to relative obscurity and failure if it continues like this. 

I agree though that I think it’s probably in everyone’s best interests (including the Lansdowns) that we have new owners sooner rather than later.

1 hour ago, ExiledAjax said:

Nicely put but in my opinion this is a very glossy and optimistic presentation of the situation. 

It's not basketball that's big in America, it's the NBA and WNBA that's big. The NBA franchises and that league are a world apart from BBL and the Flyers. Comparing the two is like comparing Cheddar FC and Bristol City and saying "owning Cheddar is like owning your own Bristol City". It's just not true.

"Arab" investors of the kind that we see in football - basically nation state investment funds - have the money to access the Premier League directly by buying established PL clubs. If you can buy a ready made club like West Ham, Everton or the like then why would you buy a project in the EFL that comes with baggage like a rugby team?

What we need is someone willing to make a documentary about a sporting backwater city beating all the odds to become one of the biggest clubs in not only football but rugby and basketball too…