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Sounding pretty comfortable right now...but whilst its 1-0 and all that.

Goal! Bristol City 1, Fleetwood Town 0. Matt Smith (Bristol City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Joe Bryan with a cross. Not the first good cross he has put in today.

Cough...left footed shot...

Matt Smith!!!!! Assist Bryan who seems to be playing well. Lets push on from here boys.

Only going form player, but poor first 20, then started to assert ourselves. Fancy the second half will be them sitting back, making it difficult for us to break down, trying to get something on the break. Get an early goal, we may well be able to push on easy enough. Otherwise, its kind of what we have seen a fair bit at AG - trying to break down a massed defense. Most of our chances seem to have been via Flint and Smith in the air. Close, but no cigar yet.

Well, 0-0 half time. Sounds like Fleetwood started like a house on fire, and we were slow out the blocks. Second half of the half we have been increasingly on top, with Fleetwood already starting to waste time. Flint and Smith both going close more than once from headers. Long way to go yet - far from easy, so fingers crossed for the second half.

Well on top now - cleared off line from Flint.

Sounds like we are on top just at the moment. Not dominating, but starting to create the odd chance.

At the moment the good news is it is only 0-0! Starting to sound like we are slowly getting on top.

K Smith booked.

Sounding more 50/50 now. Hopefully weathered the early storm where they were much the better side.

Agard - good save by Goalie tipping it on to bar - better!

Early days of course, but first 15 minutes, Fleetwood much the better - 6 corners, 6 shots. Hopefully this is their good patch! We seem to be giving the ball away and just not playing well...so far!

All them at the moment. Fielding save, five corners to them.

Mine working ok. Slow start from City, first real chance to them after a couple of corners.

Well, let's see how it plays out, and as others have said, they are on the bench. Not convinced Elliott has been 100% since his return, so a good time for him to show how he can dominate that midfield. COYR!,

Like good positive posts. Fingers crossed come 5pm we can all discuss how he got it right...again.

Fair comment. Was surprised, but lets hope we can get an early goal and push on. The big plus is Agard is back.

Don't get me wrong, there might be very sound reasons why this is the right decision, and not being critical of Cotts. That is different from saying it is still somewhat disappointing, and a little worrying at this stage, that neither are able to take a place in the starting eleven. I would be very surprised if they were all 100% fit that this would be Cotts's choice.

Not liking that! Assume it is forced on us somehow, but its ironic with Agard back that neither JET or Freeman will be there to play balls through. Midfield looks 'workmanlike' and Agard cannot be 100% match fit yet. Feel up front with no cover for the past few weeks we have been riding our luck (very well...) and hope it falls our way again today!

As an aside, pretty sure if we won today, it would be the first time this season we had won five in a row in the league. Would not be a bad time to be hitting that kind of form.

That is a tricky one, and would depend on Agards fitness as much as anything. Personally, they have been doing fine, and unless they are saying they need a break, would start with them without a doubt, and bring Agard on from the bench if needed.

Really? Right now?

Long way from our best 90, but fair play Gills who gave it a good old go. They might even with some justification say if Freeman had been sent off it could have been different. Big shout out to Smith who scored all five of our goals...and will miss the big day. Thanks biggun!

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