Merrick's Marvels

Yes indeed, good old Bones. Went to same schools as him, as did one or two others on here. Yep, his brother Chris fought in the Falklands.

Beautifully put.

Cheers Major!

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Bristol isn't Timbuktu! Please don't find excuses for our chronic under achievement. If the people who've been in charge of our club down the years had been any cop, and if there were more Bristolians like you and me who gave a toss about their local teams, we wouldn't be having this conversation. When you get down to the brass tacks of it, location has little to do with it. We haven't been run well enough since the year dot and there aren't enough of us to kick up a stink about that and demand better. End of.

Indeed, I wouldn't want us to change managers every 5 minutes like Watford. But they've found a way to actually achieve something while Lansdown, at City for 25 years and counting, has implemented more duff ideas than good ones.

So you think we wouldn't be a yo-yo club if we ever achieve this much talked-about, but highly elusive, promotion to the Premier League??? I'd bite your hand off for a bit of yo-yo action!

2 promotions to the Premier League, 1 automatic the other via the play-offs. 2 other play-off appearances. An FA Cup final. 2 FA Cup semi-finals. A League Cup semi-final. That's what Watford FC has achieved since our current owner became chairman/majority shareholder in 2002. Some people talk the talk, others just get on and do it. If you really want, you can add a further spell of top flight football if you go back to the time our owner first joined as a director in 1996. Yes, the way they hire and fire managers is bizarre, and they've sailed close to financial ruin too, but on the field they've achieved far, far more in the last 20 years than we have.

He's a good player. Got everything in his locker. No idea if he can stay fit but, if so, he'll be part of a darn good City team further down the line - spine of Bentley, Kalas, Atkinson, Baker, James & Williams gives us every chance once we have the time and money to re-calibrate the forward positions.

Leave it! ?

Yeah, Liam Walsh ?

By which time it'll be irrelevant, given they'll stay up this year even with a 6 point penalty? The efl are such a weak, ineffectual, limp wristed organisation. You'd think Larry Grayson was in charge. He might as well be. Reading need to be shat on, like Derby. Instead, they've been allowed to sign players the rest of the division would love to have! Utterly useless governonce by the efl.

A splendid initiative. Sir Tom Ritchie for President!

Sod the rattan chairs, he should've done this the day he announced Dean Holden, in an empty stadium. Unt C.

That clip is a beautiful thing.

Once he finds his feet, Tanner will provide the quality we currently lack from RB going forward. Good luck today young man. Play well.

We are boring but difficult to beat. Circumstances dictate this. This season is about staying up, no more no less. We'll be bored shirtless but needs must. Next summer there will be scope to mould the squad more to his liking.

Atkinson's a big softie + Bentley always has a mistake in him = disaster.

I think you'll find that will be, verbatim, the Luton manager's post match comments. Which keeper was making all the saves? We were dreadful tonight and barely deserved a point. 0/10 for entertainment, lacked energy and the usual absence of control and any sort of quality.

Because they're a moron? Or perhaps a massive WUM, which is moronic behaviour by another name. A moron it is then.

They're not wrong. The singing's been decent at home games so far this season tbf.

Plenty of effort but a complete lack of quality, composure, and control. Dreadful spectacle and a waste of everyone's time. We go again.

At last, a player the manager actually asked for! Look out for a quote from Cook along the lines - "When I write my autobiography, I'll have some stories to tell" (copyright L.Johnson)

Mamma mia. Love it.

Proper job. Well done City.