Red Exile

Adam Baker making reassuring noises about further signings.

Early days this season.

Wonderful stuff!

I certainly hope that's true! It's going to be an exciting few months, enjoy the ride.

Very well done!

These minutes are passing very slowly!

Great stuff! Excellent performance.

I was looking forward to a contest between two of the better teams in the division. Perfectly happy to say that the table doesn't lie. Swindon must be one of the better teams. Sadly the sending off prevented that contest from taking place. From that moment the balance of the game was altered in favour of Swindon. Anyone wanting bragging rights about the best footballing side on the day was deprived them today. Any suggestion that the sending off didn't alter the match is nonsense, and wishful thinking. Now I was very confident that City would win a match of 11 v 11. I can assure anyone not there today, or not sat in the home end, that none of the Swindon fans around me had much confidence that their side would win until the whistle went. The reaction at the end struck me as one of delighted disbelief. On that show I'd be amazed if Swindon finish above City this season.

We could have won that match up to the last minute. It's not a fair reflection of the match to say that we didn't look like we could win it. Barnsley played well, and of course they could have won it too, but we were going for the win up until the end of added time and might have got it on another day. Of course we are letting in goals and it would be great if we weren't, but isn't being open at the back a function of playing defensive players who are looking to go forward? It looks that way to me. So on the one hand we create lots of opportunities to attack, on the other we allow other teams to attack us. In an ideal world they would lack the ability to do that, but there are two teams in the game and we're not that much better than the teams around us. I think this maybe is a glass-half-full/empty thing. I've every confidence that the players we have will gel better as time goes by, and I'm delighted to be watching a side that seeks to attack.

Just back. Is this season a dream?

Spot on Spudski. And I recall you and I agreeing with more or less all these thoughts a couple of managers ago. Quite how the Lansdowns escape near universal criticism is beyond me. We only owe them money as a club because they've run up the debts. They have an atrocious record of managerial appointments barring GJ. When JL talks of progress made in recent months in his youtube piece I scratch my head to think of anything that will truly improve the experience of Bristol City followers...unless we're in the realms of promises of jam tomorrow. And in those realms the Lansdowns have form. SL has been long on big talk and short on delivery. I have no hope or expectation that they'll find a better manager this time. Or indeed that they are following a strategy. The five pillars thing is infant class management consultant speak. With no independent voice on the Board it's all about the whims of one man, whose track record suggests he's not very good at running football clubs. I feel sorry for his son who looks completely out of his depth. I feel more sorry for those supporters who bought the Lansdown promises yet again and invested in STs up front.

The club is very lucky to have fans like some of you guys. In what other branch of the entertainment industry would the departure of the star turn be greeted with a shrug of the shoulders? The only thing that might attract fans to the Gate at the moment is JET. After several seasons of dross City finally have a player with some semblance of star quality. If the approach of the club really is to sell off all the crowd pleasing assets to repay Lansdown's self-inflicted debt then it will be a very long time before the crowds start to build again. Having personally blown the best chance in decades this club has had to establish itself at a decent standard in English football I'm amazed that SL gets as much support as he does.

+1 and in that decision lies the root of our failure to compete in the Championship since Johnson left.

my thoughts exactly. I think Jones has the experience and character. But if I was Lansdown I'd have been watching Paul Tisdale's progress down the years...

that's class...made us laugh!

Much as one wants to laugh...and why not... ...I can't help having some sympathy for the Rovers fans I know who surely deserve better than this...2010/11 hasn't been a great year for Bristol football. Saturday's performance encourages some thoughts that City can salvage something from it...Rovers need all the help they can get...