And Its Smith

Printing the “we were excellent in the first half against Leicester” T-shirts now 

Time on the grass has worked so far 

Should be winning but the ref is a clown 

Very good first 15 from city 

No idea why Zak would agree to this! 

He looked so nervous. 

1 minute ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Nope. Me too. Funny watching people get worked up over an England friendly on here mind 

Is it only English fans that care about friendlies? Feels that way sometimes. Completely pointless 

Just now, Super said:

Extra time first?

Yes, boyo

2 minutes ago, RedorDead BCFC said:

Extra time presume it’s pens then. Dont know if they replay or not 

It’s pens. Georgia qualified today on pens 

Just now, Natchfever said:

Wtf does that mean?

I think it means as we’ve been worst in the past we should be grateful now!

Just seen this on twitter which is why you shouldn’t believe stats as that is surely absolute bollocks:

OPTA stats confirming that was Jordan Pickford's first mistake that has led to a goal in 60 England appearances.
 

I like Pickford but I swear he’s made mistakes in the past for England 

10 hours ago, frenchred said:

Are you a member of the hierarchy at our club? Because your inability to read a room and come out with some pathetic, sad statement has you well qualified to be

So you have a go at me for rightly predicting that people will call this gesture woke?  Care to explain why you have a go at me and not the people disgustingly calling it woke and/or a waste of time?

Braithwaite better than Dunk

1 minute ago, Silvio Dante said:

Well when…

- James Piercy community noted it

- It was said on here as being false

and

- It’s Tinnion who is a known bullshitter

Then I’d say yeah, you do check before repeating it as fact!

As far as I know, Del doesn’t post on here so not sure of the relevance. Maybe he didn’t read Piercy’s bit. 
 

Agreed that Tinnion is either a bullshiter or stupid 

16 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Dels a great guy but repeating the Tinnion claim that’s been debunked of McKenna only winning 2 in 12 is a big credibility misstep

Is it ? Do you check every stat you are told?  I think it’s fair to assume when someone in Tinnion’s position gives a stat it’s correct 

Del is a lovely guy and usually very calm in his opinions.  Good balance between him and Pete

4 hours ago, exAtyeoMax said:

no…

You have more confidence in the public than me! 

4 hours ago, phantom said:

I'm guessing people will rightly see it as a brilliant gesture to raise awareness of an awful illness 

Unless the Sun or Farage tell them otherwise 

2 hours ago, Northern Red said:

 

Guessing people will call this woke 

29 minutes ago, Henry said:

Yes someone has made that point already!  Let’s see what happens with Bird. In my opinion it Derby go up he will still play for us.  Who knows what actually happened with the situation you and the other poster refer too 

Southgate said he thought England played well. He doesn’t seem to be someone who just says things to deflect so I can only conclude that he believes that.  It’s a worry if that’s the case 

15 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

I've got to say that with one being a current club employee and the other being a former club employee, I struggled to take anything they said seriously. 

I think Latham is very much stuck in the past with regards to football and his defence of Lansdown his former boss did him no favours. 

 

Honor wasn’t towing the party line. He said he didn’t know if Manning has it in him to succeed and he said the board should stop insulting fans by selling us the dream that is never going to be realised.  I think it’s harsh to say because he is on Robins TV that he doesn’t make points that warrant being taken seriously 

24 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I can’t be arsed to calculate the average, but to the eye, I’d suggest the minutes out of an available 990 (1170 v Forest) has stayed relatively the same:

Green - GK start (basically Max O’Leary!!!)

Red - outfield starter

Orange - outfield sub

Grey - unused sub

(mins played along the bottom)

When the original article was published after 16 league games, the percentage was 33.1% so won’t have changed much.

 

basically we need a couple more Haydon Roberts (free and young!), show PL academy players that they can get their chance here, rather than being a loan-pawn.

Thanks. I felt it was similar as Manning hasn’t really dropped any academy player that was playing a lot under Pearson.  

2 minutes ago, IAmNick said:

I guess it depends whether you consider a player who doesn't make it at our level or with us but goes on to have a decent league career (Morell for example, or dare I say Wes Burns...) or not.

With the Scott/Semenyo group we didn't get from 8 years old or whatever I think it's a balance. We still signed them (many others will have looked and passed on them) and developed them for a few years. They're not an A+ for the academy, but they deserve some kind of score surely?

If another team took them after we passed up we'd be saying why don't we have those contacts, why aren't we scouting and finding those players etc... We can't have it both ways.

All fair points and agree with them. 

1 minute ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Ironically this is much lower than it would have been had Pearson remained in situ. 

 

Of the 38 Championship games Bristol City have played this season, almost 30% of the minutes have been played by homegrown players.

What do you think it would have been?  Any idea what it was when he left ?