samo II

Well, that was shite.

Looked like we were playing a friendly; zero sense of urgency, and other than two/three mins of pressure post-O’Dowda coming on, offered next to no attacking threat.

Oh well; season of ups and downs it was always going to be. On to the next one.

COYR

1 hour ago, Fordy62 said:

Christ. Just had a think about that. I’m 40. More than half my life they’ve been below us and I’m pretty old!

Im not far behind…

And yes; it’s 20 years since we had any meaningful league action against them - I remember well the last league win against them; them going up in the first minute, only for us to come back.

Thing is; it’s basically a near-childhood memory now - the games since haven’t carried the same weight, and don’t see matches like that retuning any time soon.

11 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

There's a young lad stands next to me he's been there with his friends the last couple of seasons, his mates weren't there, so when the East End were singing "Joey's going down" he turned to me and the conversation was.

"Who are they singing about?"

Me. "Joey Barton"

"Ah right,........ who does he play for these days?"

Me. "He doesn't play for anyone, he's Manager of the rovers"

"Ah right.......... and they aren't doing very well?"

Me. "No especially if they lose today"

"Uhuh, what's the Cardiff score?"

‐‐_

That's how important they are in the scheme of things these days,  I think it's only us oldies, that have even a passing interest in their results.

I get this.

I’m not super young but for me; Rovers haven’t been realistic opposition to us throughout most of my time supporting City - they are a hilarious side show rather than any kind of threat.

Cardiff on the other hand… been some close fought, fierce rivalry games across the last while, and I am more concerned about the games against them than I would one against Rovers.

Rode our luck a little but spirited comeback against side most fancy for promotion.

Coming back from a goal down with 20 mins to go is always a nice feeling, especially with inarguably our best player this season not even in the squad.

Five unbeaten; On to the next one.

COYR

That was the talk of someone who’s given up.

Genuinely hilarious.

It tells you so much that he took them down, and now has them playing like absolute trash, and ONLY NOW have their fans figured him out.

Absolute daylight robbery.

And I love it.

COYR

Hard to argue with his record at Sunderland just now.

Might be their times with their respective clubs will give us a better understanding of who out of Ashton and Johnson was more responsible for the negatives from their time here.

As it stands; LJ is doing far, far better at his new location than Ashton is at his.

2 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

Exactly, patience is required but a tiny minority haven’t got the bollocks for it.

You put it blunter than me, but you’re right.

While some of the criticism is warranted, unfortunately most is the whining of people who seem to either have no clue what is having to be done to sort us out, or just seem to weirdly think we are entitled to win every game.

It’s getting incredibly boring people flying off the handle all the time.

10 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said:

What happened to all the conversations on these boards in pre-season about the fact the best we could realistically hope for this season was painfully slow progress? Why does everyone tip us to struggle and then shit the bed when we draw at home to a resilient side? 

Couldn’t agree more.

Not happy with what occurred but this season will be one of ups (Cardiff, Reading) and downs (tonight, Blackpool) that if we’re going in the right direction will teach the team lessons and improve us long term.

But we’re still stuck with a suboptimal squad and are in the middle of a culture change. It’s turning an ocean liner not spinning on our heels; will take time, unfortunately.

4 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

I'm not saying he was dynamic Samo but he wasn't playing up front, that was my point pal.

Ah while that makes more sense, I was confused what he was adding, but fair play if he wasn’t up front.

1 minute ago, Ska Junkie said:

Wells was up front? 

I missed the start of the second half and I genuinely only noticed he was playing at about the 60 min mark, and I’m not sure what he did other than receive one pass.

Just now, Ivorguy said:

We have sat back for seasons !

Yes; it’s not a new problem.

Lack of pace means we carry zero threat when sitting back, and always sit back far too early and often.

Allows teams to commit players to the attack against us late, and it’s costing us.

Ffs 

That looks Bentley’s fault that.

Shame we probably never saw the best of him, but I think personally; I’m done with buying for pure potential, and hoping that will work out.

If he generates some space on the wage bill (not even concerned with the fee) to potentially bring in some one to assist up top, it would work in our favour.

This season was always going to be an extension of the end of last, where NP works out who is with him, who isn’t, and moves things around to get us on track.

4th story down on the BBC football page.

Regardless of the ins-and-out and whatever might happen legally, not exactly top-tier PR for them.

10 minutes ago, Portland Bill said:

We are reaping what he sowed though.

A leaderless bunch of soft footballers. 

Tbf he had some very decent players, problem was we sold most of them.

Not lionising the man, but he got as much out of the current crop as anyone gas since, ie not much. But he had some alight teams, we just cashed in on them. 

3 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Barton rejects it’s a relegation on his cv. Says he can’t wait to get rid of all the players. Said some of them need to take in the stadium as they’ll never play there again. What an absolute *** of the highest order 

This is just typical of him tbf.

He preaches accountability and quotes Proust and all the **** but when the chips are down, he’s the first to find a scapegoat.

I sincerely hope they keep him, as he’s as likely to burn them down as to fix them next year.

I wonder what the financial implications of them being relegated will be.

Can’t imagine it’ll be ideal.

Just to say; those urging caution in laughing at the gas as we have a very loseable fixture tonight, you can bet your life that they’d be taking the opportunity if the roles were reversed, and with gusto.

We may get hammered on Sky by Brentford but I tell you; I’d rather get scalped by a team hoping to make the premiership while being mid table in the championship than get shellacked by a mid table team while fighting relegation in league one.

1 minute ago, Sheltons Army said:

Might have to pick up Radio Bristol post match 

 

‘Ive lived through 2 wars , power strikes , Thatcher , 3 divorces , etc ‘

 

Now it’s “Three lockdowns, one pandemic, Ben Garner...”

5 minutes ago, Crackers Corner said:

You got me there

 

ten more games!

Long live the dynasty!

54 minutes ago, Crackers Corner said:

That's some record

P    W    D    L    Win %
20    2    7    11    10.00

I’m sorry, but I have to call you up on this as being unfair;

That’s nearly ten whole games that this manager didn’t lose!

Given enough time I’m sure he can hit that crucial miles stone of a cool two digits of matches they’ve not got done over in...