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So we take their players, they take our songs.

What a season that was. Simon Jordan’s Crystal Palace away in the playoffs. Not sure that will ever be beaten. (Wasn’t at Manchester U at home mind).

12 hours ago, petehinton said:

Make a move for Jerry Yates the day after the season ends. Please and thanks. 

Couldn’t finish his dinner today. Keep an eye on him though, by all means

Watched all the 1st half on RTV.

Not bad given the circumstances and Colin, could be worse, they’re probably gonna get a player sent off.  We need to switch it quicker and shoot, test the effing keeper. Toe punts are underrated. 

Just seen we’ve bagged a sleeve sponsor for tonight in addition to the safari park one. Any idea how much these will get us, or is the safari one a freebie as it’s a charity? I’m not saying it is a charity, it just looked like one based on the headline.

Also, what sort of overall revenue can we expect?

6 hours ago, glastored said:

Surely Wells has to start on Tuesday? Sam Bell may be the future, but I don’t think he’s the one to face Man City for the majority of the game. Bring him on as a sub, by all means, but not from the start.

I’d rather see Bell get big game experience. 

23 minutes ago, Cityboy1954 said:

Mate I'm with my six year old grandson  I'm hardly gonna start lighting up flares

That’s a shame. Teach ‘em young I say! Mind you, this as a policy would discriminate against people without 6 year old grandsons

10 hours ago, One Team said:

What on Earth for?!

Causing loads of problems in the first half, loads of complaints to the stewards and man handling people when we scored. 

 

Which “singing section”?

6 hours ago, Cityboy1954 said:

What about you walk up the steps in B Block to be greeted with a girl in a vest I personally was with my 6 year old grandson she,asked for my ticket I said how the **** do you think I got through the turnstiles .

Mistake me if I’m wrong but if there were no checks at the top of the steps, wouldn’t you be able to sit anywhere in the Dolman or South Stand? Just thinking she’s checking to make sure people are in the correct block/seat. The turnstiles nowadays are probably just to make sure you’re in the correct stadium/stand on the correct day. 

11 hours ago, shahanshahan said:

You mean like the Ashton Gate 8? Saw this in person on Saturday. Photo from Section 82's Twitter page

 

Brilliant!

14 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Nope, exactly the same as ours.

What about the window for loans. Does that slam shut on Tuesday as well?

6 minutes ago, Winterstoke toad said:

Yeh mate each to their own but if we’re ever on sky all I see after is fans of other clubs taking the piss out of us for singing it ( I completely agree with them)

Fair enough. As an expat I’ve watched 90% of all our league and cup games over the last few seasons on telly and can’t say I’ve ever seen or heard other fans taking the piss of that song. Could be different coverage to what you see on sky though. But even if they were, who cares? Opposition fans will take the piss out of anything and everything, that’s their/ our job :laugh:. The fact that they probably don’t realise it started as a piss take makes it funnier IMO. 

5 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:

Blimey , it was Pearson out a few weeks ago . And they say fans are fickle  

Not me Steve. 

16 minutes ago, Winterstoke toad said:

We’re all singing over here and you’re not singing over there has to be the cringiest chant we do . Had people ask why our fans are singing a mls chant .

Disagree. This sounded great on the telly. I think it started as a piss take to the MLS iirc. I like it because it’s a slower chant. Sometimes I think we can sing too them too fast. It’s definitely one of those that would sound good when the whole stadium gets involved. 
 

Each to their own of course.

Must admit I do like the idea of one lad with a megaphone and a couple of orchestrators. Seemed to work well a while back in s82

Unbeaten in 7 and 2023, shall we re-run that poll from a few weeks back? Or how about this for next week to the tune of “I see the east end rising”:

We’ve got Super Nigel Pearson,

He knows exactly what we need,

Vyner at the back,

Belly in attack,

Nige’ll take us to the Premier League!

Too soon!?  

27 minutes ago, brad blit said:

He’s joined Bournemouth - If Fabrizo Romano tweets it’s true, he’s probably (after official club statements) the most trusted and reliable source out there. 

Guessing both clubs will announce at popular time today for best exposure 

Didn’t know he was that reliable. Appreciate the insight

7 minutes ago, Vespa Red said:

I think that we can but Palace would only offer what we've already accepted: it would be churlish of us to ask for more now - I know we have previous with Palace but it's probably time we let it go.

It's then about who offers Semenyo the better terms/package and completely out of our hands.

So hypothetically, if they wanted to encourage the player to go to them would they not offer us more to assist with the encouragement? Hope that makes sense…. I mean Palace give us a bit more dollar to nudge him towards Palace. We can say “Tony me old luv, show us a tiny bit of loyalty, and go to Palace because they offered us more” that sort of thing.

I’m also assuming palace would match AFCBs player contract offer or better it 

Are Palarse out of the picture now then? Just heard that Naouirou Ahamada has turned them down, although he’s a midfielder. The beeb are also saying Viera is frustrated with the lack of activity. Am I clutching at straws by hoping for a “Palace swoop for Semenyo” headline? What are the legals, can we accept more than one bid?

8 hours ago, robin_unreliant said:

He wasn't fit, then when he was, NP decided to keep him on the bench. I don't think it is any coincidence that after a run of games where he started he has got his mojo back. I do struggle to understand why he wasn't given a run of games earlier. Similar questions about why Cam Pring wasn't in the team. I question some of Nige's selection decisions, while accepting I don't know what goes on off the pitch.

I’d hazard a guess that it was to do with Tommy being on a good run at the time, and Nige not wanting to disrupt that.
 

If memory serves, we’ve not seen a great deal of the two of them in the same starting XI. I think we were about to were it not for Tommy getting injured. The thought of the two of them on the same pitch, in top form… sheesh. I genuinely believe that would scare the living shit out of any defence in this league. 

Have a feeling that getting Network Rail’s backing will be the tough one.

6 hours ago, Percy Pig said:

Absolutely not, my one game in Central midfield was much as you describe. I played off the shoulder and then missed whatever chance I managed to make for myself.

 

It was coaching academy standard players and working with a few really excellent coaches that opened my eyes to what real football entails, rather than the ball watching simplicity of being a spectator. If not for kids and the necessity of a real job to keep food on the table I would have loved to have gone into video analysis and scouting- (team rather than individual). Alas, the friends I started out with have coached at three prem academies in London and appeared on the Palace documentary and I spend my week days staring a spreadsheets and P6 schedules... 

The boys and wife have a lot to answer for. One of them better make it pro so I can live vicariously through them...

Based on 30 minutes? 

Okay  

I could tell you were involved somehow. Really interesting insight to midfield dynamics. Hope you get chance to further pursue your interests. I too am interested in coaching. I see friends coaching their kids and am very tempted to give it a whirl someday.

2 hours ago, Shuffle said:

The problem was not the personnel but was the formation in that Swans had extra man in midfield.  It was crying out for a change & thankfully Pearson made it but why move Naismith into the midfield when Williams was on the bench.

Why not try Naismith in midfield. He’s a good ball carrier after all. When we were going through our leaky spell I often wondered what it would be like having him at holding mid or vyner for that matter. Either way good that Nige spotted it but should have seen it before HT

2 hours ago, Percy Pig said:

Thought he looked fine. Noticed him telling his partners to pick up the interchanging midfielders of Swansea quite often. Trouble is, if Williams, Scott, Naismith or Weimann ignore that instruction it looks like the passage of play has passed him. He's not all action, but he was marking the space well and conducting the defensive movements those around him should have been making. When it clicked you could see it was as a result of his guidance. 

 

Off the ball defending is one of the areas of football that very few understand or recognise. In a game against a very fluid side like Swansea it's absolutely vital that everyone is aware of their jobs and responsibilities. Every time they created space in the attacking half space you could pin point an error on our part. Think James was the least culpable on that front. 

Williams will get a lot of praise, but without James covering space he wouldnt be able to vacate the midfield to engage the opposition. It's a team game and every role is important whether it's fashionable and entertaining or not. 

Incredible post this. Tried playing centre mid once, ended up running around in circles not having a clue where I was supposed to be. Out wide was much more my comfort zone. Different breed players like James, and yourself based on the way this is written. 

Why don’t they put gates at the bottom of that top tier in the Atyeo and block off the first and last blocks!???

2 hours ago, MelksRed said:

To be fair I had to motivate myself to attend. I love the club but have a growing antipathy for attending when the games are so poor. Attended as always need to undertake resilience training.  COYRs

Being a life long Bristol City fan will make this a walk in the park in terms of resiliency. Good work digging deep today though. Hope you stayed for the 2nd half because that alone was worth the price of the ticket.