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Work in progress innit. Did more than enough to win, played at times some half decent stuff, should have won. Mind you, not sure we will have many worse teams than Blackpool at AG. Ho hum.

Played more football than the second half of last season put together, and deserve to be ahead. At the moment restricting Blackpool to bugger all. Cannot fault Palmers commitment, but really not a fan of his sliding tackle which has come to be a trademark. Going to be a card every time he mistimed it.

Bristol City F.C. 1) What will be City's final league position? 12th 2) How many points will City get this season? 64 3) Will City score 60 (or more) League goals this season? Yes 4) Will City concede 60 (or more) League goals this season? Yes 5) Who will finish as City's top scorer? Nahki Wells 6) How many League goals will City's top scorer (whether the player named in Q5 or ano.) get? 14 7) Who will finish as City's 2nd top scorer? Martin How many League goals will City's 2nd top scorer (whether the player named in Q7 or ano.) get? 8 9.) How many academy graduates will make their City debuts this season in League or Cup competitions? 2 10) Will Nathan Baker make 20 (or more) League appearances for City this season? Yes 11) Will Taylor Moore make 20 (or more) League appearances for City this season? No 12) Will Alex Scott make 20 (or more) League appearances for City this season? Yes 13) Will Adam Nagy still be a City player on the last day of the season? Yes 14) Will Tomas Kalas still be a City player on the last day of the season? Yes 15) Will City sign a striker either before the end of this window, or in the January window? Yes, if loan counts) 16) Who will be City's player of the season? Wells 17) What will be the official attendance for the first home game against Blackpool to the nearest thousand? 18k 18) What will City's Official average League attendance be this season to the nearest thousand? 17k 19) In which round will City be knocked out of the F.A. Cup? 4th 20) In which round will City be knocked out of the Carabou Cup? 4th 21) How many City players will be sent off in all competitions this season? 3 22) Who will be the first City player to be sent off this season? Kasey Palmer 23) How many penalties, in all competitions, will City be awarded this season? 6 24) How many penalties will City score? 5 25) Will any City player score a first team hat trick this season? No 26) Will Nigel Pearson still be City's manager on the last day of the season? Yes Young City players: Bell, Pearson, Conway, Britton, Scott, Janneh 1) Which of these 6 will make the mostappearances for City, in all competitions, this season? Scott 2) Which of these 6 will score the most goals for City in all competitions? Bell Gas: 1) Final League position? 8th 2) Average League attendance, to the nearest thousand? 7K 3) Brett Pitman to score 0-10, 11-20 or 21+ league goals this season for Rovers? 11-20 4) Will Joey Barton still be Rovers' manager on the last day of the season? Yes Welsh Rivals, Cardiff & Swansea 1) Will any of Pack, Flint or Tomlin score for Cardiff against City? No 2) Who will finish higher, Cardiff or City? Cardiff 3) Will Korey Smith or Liam Walsh score for Swansea against City? No 4) Will Liam Walsh make 20 (or more) league apps. for Swansea this season? Yes 5) Who will finish higher, Swansea or City? Swansea Lee Johnson's Sunderland 1) Where will Sunderland finish this season? Automatic promotion, promoted through play offs, play offs, lower? Automatic promotion 2) Will Lee Johnson still be Sunderland manager on the last day of the season? Yes Ashton's Ipswich 1) Will Ipswich be promoted this season (with MA doing a lap of honour ) either automatically or through the play offs? Yes 2) Will Ipswich finish above Sunderland? No Steve Cotterill 1) Will Cotts lead Shrewsbury to promotion? Yes 2) How many points will Cotts' Shrewsbury take off LJ's Sunderland, 0,1,2,3,4,or 6? 1 Old Boys 1) Will Bobby Reid score 14 (or more) league goals for Fulham? No 2) Will Bobby Reid score against City? No 3) Will Josh Brownhill score 5 or more PL goals for Burnley? No 4) Will Matty Taylor score against Sunderland? No 5) Will Wes Burns score against Sunderland? No Championship 1) Which club will finish top of the Championship? West Brom 2) Which club will finish bottom of the Championship? Hull

Indeed. Always worth remembering that their are a small % of people not recommended to get the jab, although I suspect not the sort who would by and large risk large crowds anyway.

All stemmed from what seemed some miscommunication within the Bristol coaches, or from the other end of the telescope, gamesmanship. Last play of the match, Bristol collapse a scrum, near their line. Yellow card to a Bristol prop, Tigers choose to redo a five yard scrum on the penalty. At that stage it would be an uncontested scrum. It looked like Tigers wanted a contested one and started moaning about Bristol could bring back on Afoa, who had been subbed earlier tactically. Ref looked at his notes and said yes, that the reason your coaches gave. Lam then got involved and said Afoa had been subbed because of an injury (which would have meant he could not come back on). Much back and forth. In the end Afoa suddenly was fit and came back on. To add insult to injury Afoa then pretty much ‘won’ the resulting scrum, match over. Much handbags. It was strictly speaking by the book. Ref had written down ‘tactical’ and that was that. It was not in fairness a great look Lam arguing Afoa was injured then him springing up and coming on (arguably when Lam realised Bristol would finish with 13 players). Ironically Tigers seemed to get what they wanted...and it bit them in the arse. My best interpretation of trying to follow it!

BP secured. No idea if you are one of the other top 4 sides what you would make of this match.

We want ten, we want ten...

Complete fruitcake of a half. Could have been 40 points ahead at half time, instead it’s a one score game.

Don’t doubt the calls were right, but don’t think I have ever seen so many tries ruled out for one side in a half before because of TMO.

The ones left that is. Now down to 13 for ten minutes.

Semenyo is a lottery ticket. He is one of the very few players we have that raises the excitement levels when he gets the ball. He is young and might become something special. No one however can know that for sure. Will he deliver that potential or become, well, a bit of a Junior Bent? Given where we are right now, I am not sure we can take that risk. A bigger club can. It all comes down to what can we get for that kind of money in this market. For sure it might be one of those we look back on and regret if he goes. Equally, lots of unpolished diamonds stay exactly that.

Result pretty much as expected against a top four side, but blimey, 0-1 and really nothing in it. Got to win their last game, but given this performance I would not rule that out.

Kind of? He got it stopping a certain try, which was then given as a penalty try anyway, so it would have been a five point game yellow card or no yellow card. Clearly did not help them right at the death.

If games lasted 75 mins the table might look very different. Somehow dug out yet another 5 point win from a game seemingly gone.

Two late late try’s and it’s a bonus point win from the jaws of defeat.

Boom...boom.

Not beyond the realms of possibility he could end up doing a ‘Cotts double’ this season.

Well, that took some doing. 21 points up going in to the last quarter, drew 34-34. Never dull watching them.

Suddenly 27-34. Game on and it should have been game over at half time.

6-31 up before half time, bonus point already secured. Job pretty much done. edit, HT Irish 13 Bears 31 (tries O'Connor, Naulago (2), Vui).

Phew!

34-3, 40 mins gone. Filth.

Yes. Was pretty sure at HT all the key teams would win with a BP and we would be sweating on Sale. Will leave that pleasure to Bath now.

Saracens level...

Well played Bristol. Fitness in the end, and a 17 point margin feels harsh on Bordeaux in a quality game that was tense as heck through normal time.