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27 minutes ago, Benneythered said:

Mabude must be regretting ever turning up

Jason Knight might be regretting signing.  Derby look like they’ll be promoted. If they are, who would you prefer to play for next season - Derby or City? 

7 minutes ago, Nomad said:

Sounds like we are giving this a real go. coyr

4 minutes ago, Pezo said:

A go at what?

Boring the fans to death 

Just now, RUSSEL85 said:

Beat me to it, start buying league 1 players, hire a league 1 manager end result is obvious.

It’s a league one set up in terms of players and manager but, what is worse is, we have a non-league set up above Manning. 

5 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Albert & Costello would do better. And they've been dead for years.

Absolutely fword inept.

The question is, who is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?

We’re doomed 

It has been the same for the last few years. Many people say they won’t renew but the number of season tickets sold remains approximately the same. Either existing holders give in and renew or there is a steady flow of new people buying tickets. It will be interesting to see if the events of this season, and people’s anger, really make a difference 

10 hours ago, Cityboy1954 said:

Pay his contract up hes a waste of space . Best performance,this year was in Robins T.V .

The logic of this is lost on me. If his contract is paid up it will cost the City the same amount of money that it would if he stayed. It would also involve an upfront cost which compared to phased payments is bad for cash flow (though in the overall scheme of things it’s a small percentage of the total costs). If he stays at least there is a possibility that he might get on the pitch before the end of the season 

Bearing in mind all the kerfuffle around  the recent royal  photoshopped photo, how do we know that this is real? To me, Zak Vyner looks like he’s wearing Nahki Wells beard and Nahki Wells looks like he’s wearing Vyner’s 

1 hour ago, Northern Red said:

Because sometimes it's unavoidable, the EFL fixture list doesn't revolve around us.

It is avoidable. In the past the fixture list was compiled without the aid of computers and City and Rovers never played at home on the same day. The same applied to other cities that had two teams. In the modern world clashes should be simple 

44 minutes ago, OneTeamInBristol said:

Our game was Sunday early kick off because of it being against Swansea on police request.

Without the clash of Rovers being at home it could have been early Saturday kick off, the same as the Cardiff match 

32 minutes ago, Superjack said:

Three points. 

Virtually confirming survival this year and relegation next.

Not necessarily relegation next season. If it’s this bad by October then Manning will be gone. SL will react, unless influenced by Tinnion and will appoint a totally different manager / coach. The cycle will repeat itself with wild swings between managerial styles 

I’m glad I’ve got my needlepoint embroidery to keep me entertained. The football doesn’t 

Just now, Chrizzler said:

How's booing them during the game going to help ffs!

I agree, but it’s probably frustration caused by what’s happened over the recent months 

15 hours ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

Mother's day? Fer goodness sake, Pong, what is this - football, or flower arranging?

I’m quite keen on needlepoint embroidery 

3 hours ago, Northern Red said:

There'll be people on here still wanting Warnock to manage us after he's long dead.

Even long dead he’d be better than some of the City managers I’ve seen over the years 

Why is the match on Sunday? A strange choice as its Mothers Day and some supporters won’t be able to attend 

Simple long ball attack pays dividends 

7 hours ago, fisherrich said:

Fearful of a spanking tonight.

I prefer not to have information on your personal fetish 

IIRC he brought his own coaches with him when he came. If he still needs help what do you do with them except let them set out the cones at the beginning of a training session 

I miss, to a degree, matches played in fog. Where has all the fog gone?

I can remember the Anglo Scottish Cup. It was awful with sparse crowds and a sprinkling of unbelievably drunk Scottish fans who could hardly stand up. One of them spoke to me and said something like “Mony A Mickle Maks A Muckle.”. I couldn’t argue with that so I made my excuses and beat a hasty retreat 

This question is asked every year. Often people say they won’t but the total remains roughly the same. I’m sure this is because of the cheaper childrens’ tickets sold so it would be interesting to know how many full price tickets are sold. 
 

PS - I will because I’ve been stupid to support City for so long and I’m stuck in an addiction 

36 minutes ago, Boring Sag said:

Truly curious what a lot of you think. Martin has now scored 15 in 20 starts (25 games played), a goal every 120 minutes. Meanwhile Clarke-Harris has only 6 goals in 14 starts (24 games played for Peterborough). Do people think that Rovers' huge oopsie moment at the end of the August window might have ended up being very favourable (Martin outperforming JCH and signing for free, wouldn't have happened if JCH had signed and saved iirc £750k), or do you think that it's a lot more complex than that (Martin performing well now but overall play iffy, 35 years old so we might rely on him next season and he might not perform, JCH's poor performances hugely impacted by having to stay and big confidence shot etc.)

I hope Rovers do sign him for another year. His goals per game ratio this season is his best ever but it’s extremely unlikely to be repeated particularly due to his age. When he was at City he had no pace or mobility and, even allowing for the drop into League 1, it can’t have improved. Another year and he’ll be even slower 

When I watch City I find it difficult to see a discernible style of play. My playing career was limited to Saturday parks football and Sunday morning pub teams (usually with 11 player suffering from a hangover). We were often poor but, no matter how bad we were, it was obvious what formation,  tactics etc we were using. With City I now see a set up of goalkeeper plus 10 outfield players just wandering around a bit. Often players in strange positions- eg Sykes on the left wing. It usually gets worse in the second half when the subs come on and what limited shape there was previously just disappears 

3 minutes ago, BCFC31 said:

Did anyone see williams litrally pass a simple 3 yard pass straight out the pitch it's also stuff like that our players really struggle with thr basics 

I did and I also saw dozens of other awful passes during the game. The players seem to have lost all confidence and seemed to be bedazzled when required to do the basics

21 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

The reaction at the end..

Quite hostile IMO.

Half of the crowd had left before the final whistle. Those that were left booed the players as they came over to the Dolman / South stand. They usually get a bit of applause even if it’s half hearted. Shows how bad it was today