steveybadger

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3rd worst defence.

Although only 2 conceded in the last 4…..

8 hours ago, steveybadger said:

Update, he’s walking out with Joe So we may be down to ten before kick off after JW is sent off…..

Further update, apparently Joe thought it was really funny (though there are rules against child violence). In fact Chris Martin described himself as having cheese string hamstrings!

Was a little unsure about Klose until today but not anymore. Certainly worth another year. However still a little unconvinced about Cundy - is he a bit one paced?

3 hours ago, Harry said:

With all the talk of Massengo, Scott & Semenyo having potential offers in the summer, I wouldn’t be surprised if Weimann actually has a heck of a lot of interest too. 
After Mitro & Solanke, he’s the best striker in the championship this season. There will definitely be clubs who are interested. 

And he’s a mid fielder not a striker

3 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Haha, brilliant.  Hope he had a great day.  Joe loved his mascot experience (Swindon 3-0 14/15).

I’m quoting him here;  ‘it was the best day of my life’!*

*5-0 may have helped…

Update, he’s walking out with Joe So we may be down to ten before kick off after JW is sent off…..

6 minutes ago, MarcusX said:

What was the answer?

He just very graciously laughed!

12 hours ago, Super said:

Just saw him on the one show!

You were watching the one show?!

3 hours ago, Robin Goch said:

That’s from GW8 when we’d only played Boro, Cardiff, Reading and QPR away. 
 

Here’s a more recent one:

 

So we’re quite big, not massive?

As ever there’s a range of factors in place here. ‘Traditional’ size of fanbase, success in recent times, how well the season has gone and (particularly to my mind) geography. The latter 2 factors are the main reasons we are where we are, especially given our away form since early on has been mediocre. 

8 hours ago, Sheltons Army said:

Quite a few 

There’s a particular one on every match day thread , who posts every time he makes what the poster perceives as any form of error or shortcoming

The same poster who used to focus his drivel at Andi Weimann until he shamed him and ridiculed his opinions with his performances

So he turned his attention on Chris Martin ...

If it wasn’t so embarrassing it would be hilarious

Can we line up each under performing player as this poster appears to have a magic form inducing keyboard

9 hours ago, Davefevs said:

When you standing, do you mean standing as in last ones fit?

Yep sorry

3 hours ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Interesting that this decent run has coincided with the Cundy/Klose/Atkinson formation at the back.  We now have some consistency, height and mobility at the back, and no more of Kalas’s ridiculous long throws.

I don’t think I’ll ever understand this season, as long as I live.  That we’ve accumulated more points than last season seems patently absurd, and that confusion seems to be reflected in the attitude of the fans to Pearson.  No surprise at all to me that opinions about Pearson have varied dramatically, and no call for anyone to have a go at people with different opinions to their own.  If we have genuinely turned a corner then fair play, let’s hope that next season will show further improvement.  

At his worst this season NP has reminded me of the Derek McIness team - constant tinkering with the defence leads to uncertainty and goals conceded. Now I realise it’s a bit chicken and egg - you can’t keep players in a team who constantly make mistakes - but given the patience he’s shown to other players, in particular younger ones, I’m a little surprised he hasn’t previously just chosen a defence and just stuck with it for a period. Is it a coincidence that the back 3 at the moment are more or less the last ones standing, so he hasn’t had a choice?

12 minutes ago, Mr Sno said:

To be fair previously he did tend to just run around a lot - fair play to NP for getting the best of him this season.

He was much better than that - he pulls players out of position with his runs, works really hard defensively and chipped in with assists and goals, albeit not as many as this year.

I also still think Holden deserves a little bit of credit for showing Weimann could play behind a front 2….

As a Glos fan I think Briz deserved that, based on possession and number of tackles we had to make. We were curiously uninspired second half and that’s the best negating I’ve seen of our catch and drive ‘superpower’ as Big George calls it. Thought the refereeing of the breakdown was quite relaxed (both sides) and both the final 2 tries should’ve been chalked off. But they evened out and he got the cards right so no complaints really.

8 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

What’s wrong with “Blackbird”?! The boys down at Somerset CCC play it, and sing it, after a victory and so do the Bears - a classic West Country ditty - what have you got against it?

Only City should be allowed to play it, anywhere else it makes me feel queasy.

*the fact that I support Glos CCC and Glos RFC is nothing to do with it

50 minutes ago, Harry said:

Sorry mate, didn’t mean for it to come across all serious. 
I just find that when people compare clubs via attendances it makes them sound a bit ‘gassy’, if you know what I mean. They’re notorious for it

Ha, no probs

1 hour ago, Harry said:

So what. 
FGR have averaged 2,600 this season which is more than Crawley, Salford, Harrogate and only a couple of hundred below Scunthorpe, Colchester, Rochdale, Stevenage - all long time established league clubs. 
Plus only a few hundred short of League 1 teams Accrington, Burton & Fleetwood. 
 

If you’re gonna base opinion on attendances, you’re going down the thought process of a gas head. 
If attendances were the denominator for league stature, why aren’t Bradford in the championship instead of Luton. Why aren’t Sunderland, Sheff Weds & Ipswich in the Prem instead of Watford, Burnley & Brentford?  Bristol City would never have any right to be in the Premier league (okay, never gonna happen anyway!). 
 

If it’s because of the investment that’s been put into FGR, well, all the other clubs in the league are bound by the same rules regarding wage/turnover. So it’s impossible to ‘buy the league’ on the 4th smallest crowd. 

Stop taking it seriously, I’m from Gloucester and FGR will always be a pub team to me!

1 minute ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

I've always assumed FGR are more or less by default the club that represents Stroud. Nailsworth is no distance from the town.

Many years ago they changed their name to Stroud FC i think, or something similar, then went back to FGR when it wasn’t very successful. That said the new ground is just off the Stroud M5 junction.

FGR on Monday, run by a multi millionaire, about to be promoted to L1 and they get an attendance of 3100.

Gloucester City, struggling near the bottom of National League North, now part time and having only returned to the City last season after 20 years away, get an attendance of 2800.

One is a team with proper support and the other is a financially doped village team.

2 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Had missed this one but browsing the Bristol Post briefly, some interesting- salty and sour grapes another that springs to mind- comments by Michael O'Neill.

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/nigel-pearson-bristol-city-stoke-6974884?int_source=nba

Seemingly told his players that they had lost vs 'the worst side in the League'.

O'Neill I've always considered to be a bit of an arse tbh, also has a forked tongue- "I enjoy the challenge of FFP" when selling both big Tangible Assets and signing loanees that they have post Parachute Payments.

Good to see NP biting back.

We are a bit of a bogey team for them tbh, or have become one- 5-1-2 in the League since they came down plus a relatively comfortable win in the Cup in 2017/18.

Doesn't reflect terribly well on players or manager to lose- twice- to the 'worst side in the League'.

He also strikes me as somewhat of a moaner about refs.

Somebody else moans about refs tbf, very close to home.

On 18/04/2022 at 22:28, steveybadger said:

Hope Taunton beat Farnborough but the SW’s 2nd team is of course the mighty tigers of Gloucester City! (Followed by the the Grecians).

Fantastic attendance v Hereford on BH Monday - 2800 with c 800 away. Record for the New Meadow Park

18 days too late.

31 minutes ago, Riaz said:

I hope scudamore has nothing to do with this club.

This is the guy who come up with the 39th game!!

Given his experience and knowledge then (if it was an actual possibility) it would be a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face, to not use him.

But it would annoy me a bit given his role in maintaining the system of parachute payments which make it so difficult for clubs like ours to achieve success in this league. City fan or not.

8 hours ago, pillred said:

Not sure the personal opinion was warranted in the circumstances, sometimes a touch of arrogance separate's the good from the truly brilliant and as far as his personal history we only have third party testimony for that.  

Well possibly (re his history) and not sure re the arrogance bit, but fair that probably not the place to express it, so on reflection, apologies.