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19 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

@EnclosureSurge it wasn’t New Order, but I see that @SecretSamhas already imparted this important info - great song, great band - and good to see that great minds think alike ...

Yes. I needed correcting there. 

14 minutes ago, SecretSam said:

Joy Division, FFS

I only remember Bern singing it post reform. 

In place of ClapfortheNHS tonight I suggest ClapforgAss on our doorsteps. Accompanied by singing that splendid New Order song, ‘Two, Twooo Divisions Apart. Again’. 
#Clap4gAss

1 hour ago, Bristol Rob said:

Does this change in position now mean that students and academics at UWE will now have to boycott Rovers 'to hurt them financially' - in the same way that the blue few have reduced Sainsbury's to their knees by moving half a dozen eggs from their basics range to a different shelf?

Surely it means gAss fans will geoff boycott UWE and academia, now, does't it? All those gAss fan plans for Masters and PhDs - they'll have to apply to other learning establishments. 

2 hours ago, simonb2020 said:

Me and a friend (a sag) unfortunately.... bumped into Steve Landsdown, he explained he didn't understand how rovers fans with such little investment in their club in the past years still love their club and manager more than city fans appear to when he has poured millions and millions in and still they do not love him. on another note, dont get to happy about stadiums, Brentford and Burton both have rubbish stadiums yet still on paper and last year on evidence are a better team than us!

If he did say that, he must have forgotten the 'One Stevie Lansdown' chants by hundreds and thousands of fans at the end of 2014/15, the opening of the ground last season, after the Birmingham game in May... Strange, he's always struck me as a man with a good memory. 

3 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said:

Eh?!

Can't one have mixed emotions? It's not a game of black & white y'know. There are two sides to every story etc etc... Quite simple: I feel torn between being p*ssed off at throwing away 2 points vs. probably taking a point before the game started/at 0-1 facing a pen. Some of us have more than one thought at once, y'know...

Thank f*** City, a good point that, could've been 0-2, so I'll take a draw.

FFS City, how many times are we gonna throw things away in the last minute?

57 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Dominated possession away from home, scored 2 and could have scored more and only conceded because of two very unfortunate errors by one of most solid performers.

Nothing to see here.

Would rather Flint made two errors in one game that two errors in two games.

What about two errors in three games?

8 hours ago, gornagain said:

The club is also building up a database of young players in all positions to aid in talent identification."

And this just makes it worse!

I remember the club going on about this database they were heralding ...

WTF? Didn't we have a list of players from up & down the country/abroad who would be potential targets? Or did we only go out shopping once we started losing/had injuries? It's laughable that we didn't have lists of players ready to be talked to if/when their contracts were up/we saw a future hole in the squad. 

Reactive as ever, not proactive.

13 hours ago, LondonBristolian said:

  I'd be really interested to know what it is about the principles of the five pillars that makes so many of the fans find them inherently terrible. 

An excellent post, LondonB.

I think some fans, myself included, were quite incredulous that we as a club - run by a billionaire whose money was made from a company which surely has a similar set of aims (not similar aims, but a list) - didn't have this in place in either black&white form or just in people's heads/in the Board meetings minutes. What we/I find terrible is that, despite 1982, we didn't seem to even have a whiff of any of this as something explicit among the people running the club.

Which leads some of us to think, well, surely they didn't have a list of objectives including those negative attributes you correctly point out (eg the squalid waste of money on people like D James), so what did the club have as stated aims (beyond the usual get to the Prem)? Did we have nothing written or discussed? It's tempting to think this was the case.

Also, whilst having nothing inherently against these pillars, we/I are/am concerned they only get trundled out at times of optimism/when things are going well, plus they were easily put to one side by Cotts (youth academy - he point blank said he wasn't going to play kids; £9m financial prudence? I don't see PNE or Hfld spending that yet they outstrip us easily), largely because, it seems, the club didn't have the balls to tell him to stick to them. Either we've got them or we ain't, they can't come and go on a whim.

They are good aims, but it's so City to only come to this conclusion later than other clubs and then waver on them. 

I'm not disagreeing with yr opinion, just a bit hesitant on their tardy creation and implementation.

 

CONGRATS CITY - ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS MY BABBERS. WELL DONE. NOW KNUCKLE DOWN AND KEEP IT GOING.

 

Keep the title.. just increase the number if we continue to remain unbeaten. This is a moment to celebrate. I am sure some stat bod can give us the stats for that season what was it 60 years ago?.. so what match stands out for you guys this season.. in order of our superiority and where do we need to improve? Our defence needs a little tinkering me thinks without wishing to take anything away from the team and management.

An excellent post, recording for posterity (or as long as this intermenetthing lasts) the sentiments of City fans. Congrats seconded (thirded?). And a wee bit of tightening up collectively at the back is, indeed, in order. Funny, individually players aren't particularly at fault, yet we look like conceding every/most games since Fleetwood. Knuckling down sounds like a good way forward - plenty of hard work on the training pitch. C'MON!!

0'35"seconds into this, exactly the same angle as one of Baldock's yesterday...goal!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiU1kNJHLyQ

 

And it's irrelevant that it's a Serie A player scoring (and a brilliant one at that, Callejon for Napoli) - you'd see a goal scored like this on the Downs of a Saturday pm.

 

What worries me about Baldrick's 1-on-1 misses is thathe is a recidivist, straight at the keeper's legs nearly every time. 

 

He says he could improve this in training (5'15" in this interview -

) but it's been months since he has shown he can do this regularly. The second interviewer even suggests what he could do (changing the angle)!!

 

Personally I think, as an intelligent footballer, he'll find his confidence and start converting some of these 1v1s - let's just not make him the next target for the boo-boys (must admit I got enraged by him yesterday!! But I'd stop before booing, hopefully).

 

C'mon Sam, one thing's for sure - start knocking those easier chances in and we'll have an ever-improving chance of staying up. Cos at the moment, without winning games but drawing them, we're gong down.

 

 

On the one hand he scored two from 'five' chances today (a lot of other games he's scored zero from three, four chances) and gets in position to miss/score them; on the other the header in front of the EE was an abysmal effort and not untypical of some of his finishing this season plus, for me, he is at fault for missing 1 v 1s the same way - straight at the keeper.

 

Has he tried to go round the keeper at all (I honestly can't remember! He may have done!)? Surely he should be (and may be) working after training to get that bit of his game right as it is clearly amiss. In our line of work, whatever it might be, we'd work on something that wasn't up to the mark.

 

Couple of things on here: http://thenatchwall.wordpress.com/

 

But don;t all go too mental, it's all just a matter of opinion!

 

No matter what, gotta keep getting behind him and the lads cos by not winning games like this (ie in this manner) we are going down...

Under SOD 16 passes would of been across the defence 4 times.

Now come on, mathematically that doesnae add up:

 

left-back to centre-half 1 is one pass

 

centre-half 1 to centre-half 2 is two passes (total)

 

centre-half 2 to right-back is three passes (total)

 

and then the same back again, meaning three passes per full width of the defence.

 

16 divided by 3 is 5 and a third times across the defence, ie 5 times the full width of the four players plus a final one pass (this being one third of a full width of the four defenders full passes width and third times thirteen equals, ah, um....)

 

What was the sum again?

Did I hear the City fans at Tranmere singing -

'Judicial review, judicial review

You took the piss Gas

Now you got one too'

Great song, I've had months and months of how great their stadium will be, how we missed out on ours through our own incompetence etc etc, and the best of all this little beauty 'when we get our new ground we will be top dogs in Bristol'.

Time to get back in the shadow,

back in the shadow, sglos? 

 

I'm with you on all this, but when have they emerged from said shadow in the past, oooh (pick a number at random), 20 years?

 

I can appreciate from your name, mind, how difficult these past couple of years must have been for you, so more power to your elbow. And knee. And all joints between.

 

That all said - and it is a great song - are we getting carried away too much, having a judicial review doesn't mean their plans are in tatters does it? Don't get me wrong, I want them to pfaff up as much as the next man, but as much as they laughed at us when we were stalled by the dog-walkers, as much as we are laughing at them now, couldn't they be laughing again at us

As some are saying here - enjoy him while he's here and playing. He may well end up some place where he doesn't play as well and fade (again) but get down AG while you can...