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Best hattrick I've never seen by Lita ?

I know the Gash fans aren't prone to exaggeration, but where did he get an uptake of 3500 extra seats? According to the official statement, Wael suggested an extra 2500 seats (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-rovers-new-south-stand-8398066) The above estimates also rely on a sell out each home match to bring in the additional revenue. Aside from that, it all makes sense ?

100% Amen to that. What would be nice is if we could have a pinned thread or a separate thread for the goal replays as the matchday thread can be quite long sometimes and the video links can take some finding if you're behind on the trail. Not criticising, but just an extra suggestion to make the excellent service even better ?

The point I'm really trying to ask is whether Zac Vyners upturn in performances is related to the coaching and support he's getting from the manager and coaches this season vs the support that Liam Fontaine got at the time? It was well documented that Caulker was left to his own devices back in the day which didn't help him one iota, and I was contemplating whether Fontaine was just told to get out there, and get on with it without any additional assistance or coaching?

Can't argue with that. In the past he's been moved around from RB, to CDM, to CD of a back three and back four, playing as the left or right CD. Consistency in his position I think has helped, and I wonder if the coaches at City have worked with him extra hard in one position so that he's now excelling? Looking at him over the last few games, he's really looking a Rolls Royce style of player. He moves very elegantly, with pace and strength.

Been toying with this thought recently, trying to figure out if Nigel Person and the coaching staff are responsible with the main reason for Zac Vyner's turnaround in performances, and whether it's down to really hard work by them on the training field to get Zac improved as a player? Earlier in the season, NP made a comment along the lines of "these are the players at our disposal and we need to work with them". I counter argue this with the Liam Fontaine situation where he was massively going through a crisis of confidence and Derrick McInnes (I think) was constantly picking him to make mistake after mistake for successive games. Did the coaching staff at the time recognise that Liam needed additional specialist training, or did they just set up training the same way, day-in day-out in the hope that Liam would come through it? Basically, is the difference due to the coaching that each player was getting, or something else fundamentally different? I'd like to think that as a set of coaches, Bristol City at the moment have some very talented staff that know the limitations of the players and work hard to address those weaknesses.

I thought the same with Cole Skuse. Remember the game where he marked Craig Bellamy out of the game versus Cardiff?

Stuart Munro?

Surely they couldn't drop any lower than that, that must be their lowest ebb ever???! ?

That's my memory of him, and I thought the enforced Covid break the year they went up actually benefitted Leeds as it effectively gave them a mid-season break that allowed the Leeds players to recharge their batteries. In the previous season, didn't they run out of steam towards the end of the season due to the intensity they played at?

Been thinking about this myself. If you're sat in the smaller side stand and you're looking across to a corner on the far side, you literally have 6 or 7 pillars blocking your view! I'm sure when they release the video fly through we'll be able to check.

It's difficult to tell, but is that terracing in the upper back part of the cowshed, or was it seating?

I'd love to see something like this occur in the UK, or maybe something like a fiver entry etc... But already mentioned, it also requires the stadium to have the spare capacity, which we dont. However, it would probably require a rethink of things like FFP, because you'd be missing out on a mass of income to contribute to FFP (unless you can offset the loss of gate receipts with Sponsorship instead?)

Wasnt there a rumour that during that game, a shot from City was going wide of the post and someone right next to the post stuck their foot out and directed it into the net?

To be honest, and I'm truly with you, I'd hope that it would stamp things out, however there will be situations that will be subjective like we get with Var. One persons interpretation of something being offensive isn't the same as the next person. Also, how can you be sure who said what if a mic just picks up someone swearing? it could be any number of players rather than the one the ref is asking to speak to. Some people also don't like having their integrity questioned - look at the Tony Adams\David Elleray example - the ref took a harsh dislike to being called a cheat. Calling someone a cheat isn't foul or abusive language, but the referee might really take it to heart and book or send off a player whilst the rest of us listening may think it's a very harsh call. All in all, I'm sure it would be better to hear the refs, I just feel that extra baggage will come if that happened, and that extra baggage will be interpreted in different ways by different people watching on.

I've a feeling that Mic'ing the refs up will lead to other questions such as "why didn't the ref send that player off for swearing at him", whereas another referee may not let some fruity language go and send someone off.

I'm wanting to reply with an "I'm chuffed" emoji...............but there doesn't seem one appropriate ?

Agreed. I really like it when we have players on board early. They can then have a plan put in place for the summer, and come to training and be involved from day 1. I don't particularly like it when we sell players at the last minute and rush to bring bodies in to make up the numbers. New signings along this approach, may be players we've had our eye on, but surely last minute signings restricts the pool of players you can select from.

Maybe thats why we're signing players before we sell AS?

I'd be interested to see how many relegated sides bounced straight back up before Parachute Payments were introduced. Normally when a team gets relegated from the Championship into League 1, or from League 1 to League 2, they're usually the favourites to come straight back up, which kind of indicates that relegated sides are fairly strong regardless of PP's. (ps. I'm not in favour of PP's, I'm just intrigued by the above question)

Agreed, especially as we saw in January that we tried signing that Crystal Palace CB on loan, and also tried to offload DaSilva to Coventry and bring in Currie.

If we sell AS, there I don't personally see the benefit of having him back on loan. I'd prefer we use the fee to rebuild the entire team of players that belong to us, and will carry us up the league. No point having AS on loan for a season and delaying the inevitable.

Tony Rougier away to Barnsley. Nobody could touch him when he shielded the ball by the corner flag. After ten minutes of him doing so, the referee ended up giving a freekick to the opposition in sympathy :laugh:

I see Andy King staying around. Those vulnerable to me are: - Joe Williams, not because of ability, but because of fitness reliability - we can't just keep changing the side week-in, week-out due to not knowing if he's fit - Kane Wilson, not sure he's hit the heights expected, but I do understand that was due to a nasty injury, but the way NP is talking, it sounds like he may be a fitness liability - Weimann will stay, especially as he re-signed on reduced contract a year or so ago. - A real wild-card shout would be Benarous, depending on how his rehab is going. - Kalas 50%-50% Personally, I'd like to see the following players brought in: Keeper, CBx2, CMx2, LB, RB(if Wilson leaves)

Hard or dirty?