And Its Smith

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!

Bale is allowed to be arrogant. What a career he has had. The epitome of a big game player

This batting from our 10 and 11 doesn’t bode well for England. Basically you have about 2 hours to get wickets or the ball goes soft and it’s easy.

Was desperate for a 4 then!

Idiotic from Crawley. Driving on the up on this pitch is suicidal

Just because you can’t read what I wrote properly doesn’t mean I said what you think!

I think people didn’t read what I wrote properly. I said give him game time now (we aren’t going down) and see if he can improve with extra game time. If he does improve and is as good as Bentley then we can sell Bentley and reinvest. With our money situation we will need to sell and buy and Bentley is one that we could get money for which in this scenario wouldn’t weaken us

What Pickford has done is irrelevant. On loan at Preston he was already superb at 21 Who has said that ?