And Its Smith

Jaidon Anthony will have a lot of fun today down our right hand side.

Come back LJ

Once you get to the quarters you are going to play a good team so I wouldn’t stress too much about it!

I would say, just don’t mention expected sales at all. It makes them look out of touch

How do you know how many fans are wavering? I’ve seen fans on here, twitter and my WhatsApp groups thinking about all areas of finances right now. It’s common sense really. Cost of living has gone through the roof and hasn’t peaked yet. It will be down to people to prioritise I guess but there will certainly be a reduction in sales. The club have said they expect sales to increase. I think that’s extremely naive and their belief is completely baseless. If you accept that season ticket sales will reduce then you must accept that there are fans deliberating over buying/renewing. Anyone not going through their incomings and outgoings with a fine tooth comb right now must have a lot of disposable income.

Counter argument to that is that to grow season ticket sales by 38% you would have to reduce cost per game from £13.10 to £8.70 if you take the £3.6m as the end revenue for both 18k and 13k. That would mean that POTD prices would have to come down or the gap is too big. If it didn’t come down you wouldn’t get many POTD fans at all as anyone thinking they will spend £35 on a ticket a few times a season would just have bought a season ticket as well. Not sure I’ve explained that very well but can’t be bothered to re type!!

@Super guessed 10k, which would be disaster. I am going to guess 11k which is about a 15% drop. 11k would be bad as well. I cannot for the life of me honestly believe that the club think they will increase on 13k. Its pretty much impossible. Even when typing this out I think maybe Super is closer than me! It must just be positive spin when they say it will increase.

Absolutely. I know a fair few who will do the same. I wonder what the clubs estimates are on season ticket sales. Wouldn’t be surprised if they were 10-15% down on last year

Season ticket sales will be the lowest since we got the rebuilt stadium, surely. The club must know that.

No doubt lots are struggling like hell. I am and I won’t be buying one. But nobody can moan about a 2% increase, in my opinion. If someone can’t afford it then I’d suggest not buying one.

Yeah

That’s a moot point as nobody is moaning about the results. The moans are about the entertainment

About a 2% increase when inflation is well over that. Anyone moaning doesn’t live in the real world. Everything is going up including the cost of running Bristol City

Southgate has to decide between 3 or 4 at the back. I think the personnel pretty much remains whatever he does. Just James v Bellingham in the XIs. I think he will go with the 3-4-3. I would do that but with Bellingham for Phillips but Southgate will pick Phillips. These are his trusted. Pickford Walker. Stones. Maguire James. Rice. Phillips. Shaw Sterling. Kane. Foden Pickford Walker. Stones. Maguire. Shaw Rice. Phillips Sterling. Bellingham. Foden Kane

I will try to get excited about the ‘Hummel Journey’

No of course not and nowhere have I implied I would expect complete silence. Would you expect an open top bus parade for a new sleeve sponsor?! Just announce it and move on. No need for all the images and Lansdown saying what an amazing journey we are on with Hummel.

I think, for me, it seems a bit insane to be lauding a kit maker renewal when things are so bad on the pitch. The style of announcement seems way too much

Jon Lansdown calls it a ‘great journey so far’ with Hummel. I find it hard to believe that many fans give a damn about who makes our kit. Is anyone excited about this ‘news’?

Broad for me. Some noise around Billings. I don’t really care who it is to be honest. Don’t think it makes much difference. Root should probably step down just to give the players another voice to listen too. His captaincy is closely related to numerous batting collapses and he’s been captain for more tests than anyone so it’s all run it’s course a bit

Weimann and Scott for player and young player, surely. Would be hard to understand anyone else!

I’m not sure he will. Ultimately, even though our batting is poor, if Strauss had picked Broad and Anderson we would have won the series. Strauss decided to see if Overton and Woakes were good enough….I could have told him they weren’t if he’d asked and so could many others

So you fell into your own trap?!

I’m really confused as you seem so sure. They won it in this season and here is his appearances

Are you sure? Just found about 5 websites that says he has and I think he played over 20 games one season they won it. That would be enough for a medal.

If it was true it would be some stat, yes!