JamesBCFC

10 minutes ago, Abraham Romanovich said:

Whoosh ,glad to see some people recognised the joke.

Nice backtrack, very commonly used though.

28 minutes ago, CheddarReds said:

Did you go to the Man Utd home game? 

We essentially played with 2 false 9's that game in Reid and Paterson. As you mentioned, a benefit can be that a 3rd man run can be effective to get beyond the forwards into dangerous areas which is exactly what happened for both our goals that night. So I'm surprised you feel that players in that role steal a living given that night!

Here's LJ discussing that: Coaches' Voice | Lee Johnson (coachesvoice.com) 

Another article there on False 9s

https://www.coachesvoice.com/cv/what-is-a-false-nine-explained-messi-kane-firmino-fabregas/

13 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Or you could look at them as pivotal to the performance of others, e.g. Firminho at Liverpool, or when Barcelona played without a striker.

Reid when we played strikerless against Fulham too I think?

4 hours ago, bcfc01 said:

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/bristolcityfc/videos/913504079427175/

Tore cardiff apart last season too, albeit lower age group

Not sure he was being used in what would be his preferred position either.
Add to that him being a young, attacking minded player coming on when we didnt have a grip of the game and were under pressure.

Just now, petehinton said:

We all owe Devante Cole a beer for clearing the ball of the line at the end, a certain equaliser for them it he didn’t touch it 

Son of Andy Cole.

Clearly he was told by his father to let us win!

FT. not a great performance, but got the all important result.

Shame we aren't Geordies questioning the sub, we could all say Why Ayman?

Barnsley on top, need to get the ball and just slow things down for 5 minutes

Just now, WolfOfWestStreet said:

Absolute deluded if you think this football is worth a season ticket. 

I suggest an eye test.
My post didnt mention that at all.

2 minutes ago, WolfOfWestStreet said:

What moments. It was ******* awful. We are terrible, fortunately for us barnsley are also relegation fodder.

For about 10 minutes or so, ending in the 5 minutes before they scored we were on top and the only one looking like scoring.

Was it great? Absolutely not.

Was it shit? No.

Time you get a grip.

an OK first half, were on top until about 5 minutes before Barnsley scored.

Then they had a spell on top, got their goal from some sloppy defending (how many times has that been said this season?)

Barnsley on top for a bit after their goal, but a strong final 10 minutes from us with 2 well worked goals.

What a ball by Massengo!

ref giving us nothing

Well worked move.

On 27/10/2021 at 16:40, Davefevs said:

Not very familiar with hardly any Yate players:

Duran Duran keyboard player at Left Back.

Boris’s son up-front.

Mark Thuo, let go by City in the summer, and I’ve heard of Liam Angel.

Sam Kamara was at Rovers.

Late coming to this.

Tumelty is a good player, bag of tricks, saw him and Jamie Adams when they were with BMF

Think Ricardo Rees was in Citys academy

Tunnicliff was Brum academy.

1 minute ago, tts_city said:

commentator speaking through a kazoo

Fairly sure he called them Barnsley City after the minutes silence.

14 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

The only defence of the ref i can give us that it’s a slight studs up lunge, and as the striker is through on goal it’s denying a chance and therefore a red.

But it’s a shocker imho.

There's one angle where it looks like he gets the players foot first.

The others it looked a perfect challenge. 

Think it's a tough decision for the ref, he clearly didn't think it was a foul at first viewing and was told something through his earpiece.

3 hours ago, JamesBCFC said:

just got the game, torn between doing a City save or starting unemployed

doing a City save, was finding our transfer budget very limiting so offered Massengo to Arsenal for £10m with a 25% sell on fee (his value was listed as 8-10m), they then offered him back on loan for the season with no fee or wage contribution.

After a bizarre preseason where we scored 12 and conceded 11 in 4 friendlies (Guernsey one not counted) including throwing away a 5-1 lead against Leyton Orient to draw and a 3-0 lead to lose 3-4 at MK Dons the league started with a comfortable 3-0 against Blackpool with Massengo getting the assist for all 3, and the last goal being Alex Scott from 30 yards with his first touch as a sub.

7 minutes ago, David Brent said:

It’s better than anything we’ve had though. Why can’t the club be proud of it. Not sure if any of our new signings are coming from Palace, Brighton or other premier league clubs with impressive training facilities. 

essentially this.

Atkinson signed from Oxford, his prior clubs (including loans) bar Fulham all likely to have worse training facilities than ours.
Tanner joined from Carlisle. Admittedly before that he was at Manchester Utd, but whether their youth facilities and training ones are together I dont know.

There's also an element of it saying to the players "we've just spent x million upgrading this, we want the money to have been put to good use and for it to help the club advance".

I'm sure we won't be saying it to players in 5 years time

just got the game, torn between doing a City save or starting unemployed

10 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

 We have to be careful banding names around from the u23s.  The reasons why the likes of Bell, Conway (when fit), Scott are up with the first team is because they are at a level above the ones who played the other day for the 23s, with the exception of Britton, who is trying to get fit enough to be park of it.

Understand that Dave, was just responding to someone asking who other young prospects might be.

1 minute ago, Port Said Red said:

James, I have seen 3 or 4 U23 games this season and Dylan has some lovely touches, but if people think Tyreeq is too laid back they would change their mind very quickly if they saw them on the pitch together.

I'm going to try and catch a few more. Almost every time they've had a game there's been something else that took priority for me. I'm just aware he's rated fairly highly.

58 minutes ago, Wiltshire robin said:

Would like to see benarous even for a 20 min cameo at the end . 

 

Anymore  highly thought of academy products we should be looking out for? 
 

Britton maybe?

Dylan Kadji is highly rated I believe. 

Not sure we're likely to see him around the first time yet though.

23 minutes ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

While society assumes that everyone is straight until told otherwise, coming out is always going to be a fact of life for many people.

The assumption isn't necessarily an unreasonable one as the vast majority of people are straight, so long as the person is treated the same regardless.

Think a little cross purposes here. I support Josh Cavallo coming out, and hopefully he also gets the support needed because sadly there will be a minority of people who will use it to abuse him. But hoping that one day we can get to a point where it isn't needed for people, particularly those in a public to have to make a big statement, but are able to feel comfortable living their life as who they are anyway.

I havent articulated what I'm meaning very well though. 

Wasn't Justin Fashanu the first to 'come out' while playing?

Regardless, fair play to Josh Cavallo.

Hopefully we can one day get to a point where players are able to feel comfortable in football without the need to publicly 'come out', but unfortunately society isn't at that point yet.