ExiledAjax

Yes he bloody has

Yes!!! Run at these CBs and we'll get joy!

Downsy on RobinsTV says "lots of the players will be mates with Pack and Flint." Are lots of the players mates with Flint and Pack? How many of our current first XI actually played for City with those two? I'm not sure it's too many. Flint's last game for us was the final game of the 17/18 season. Looking at the line up for that game - against Sheff Utd - only Semenyo, COD and Bakinson are still at the club. Not a single player in the starting lineup is still with us. Looking at the first XI from Pack's last match - the opening loss to Leeds in the 2019/20 season - and there's a few more. Bentley (although he'd only just joined), Kalas, COD and Weimann started that game, and Baker was on the bench. Basically, unless they're mates outside of City, through other ways, our club has really moved on from these two. They're ex players of the club, but for most of the guys on the pitch today there's not much special going on.

Joe Williams on RobinsTV today. Says he likes Martin and looks forward to playing with him [insert injury joke here]. Says Martin posts pretty good figures in speed tests - quick feet for a big man. Oh god RobinsTV have a feature on the CATS coaches coming up.

Glad he's got all 3 of the big boys on the pitch. I suspect we'll start with 4 at the back, although the personnel are there to switch to 3 with wing backs if we want to do so. I'm a little concerned about who is going to support Martin. I'd have liked maybe one of Scott or Semenyo on to make runs around him. I guess it's Weimann in behind him but I think Pring will need to push on and help as well.

Thanks. I'm ok, I'll see them all in a few weeks - I am in the UK fro nearly two months so should be able to catch up with everyone. My experience of moving to a new place (or back to an old one in your case) is that in those first 6 months or so you just say "yes" to everyone and every opportunity that comes your way. You might have the odd awful dinner, or bad date, or rubbish away day - but you'll make many more friends than you would sitting in your flat saying "no". Therefore, my advice - and feel free to ignore it - is to go. Go with an open mind and, if you're comfortable with it, then feel free to approach/talk to fellow City fans at the game, especially once you're in your seat. Most humans will reciprocate a friendly chat. I've done solo away days many times before. I don't actually have many City supporting mates so, especially when I lived in London, I'd quite often go on my own to the less fashionable grounds. I could get a mate to come to Fulham...but weirdly no one fancied Charlton or Leyton Orient quite as much. I won't lie and tell you I've made life-long friends, but I have had many great conversations, and learned a lot about our varied fanbase. By the time our third goal flies in you'll all be hugging each other anyway.

Today is the 23rd. Happy Birthday to you. Please let us know that you decided to do something else with this great day. I'm thinking of you today.

Sorry to hear that. I'm going through a similar bout of loneliness myself. Currently I'm living on my own in a far flung corner of the world. My wife and 3 month old son are back in the UK visiting family...and that's also where all my family and real, old, friends are. It's been 18 months since I saw 95% of those people as well - thanks to Covid. I have a few friends here but people you've known for a year or two never really compare to those you've known for 20 years, or your family. I'm joining my wife and son in the UK in 3 weeks' time, but this weekend I struggled a bit with feeling pretty disconnected from the world. Like you I was mostly sat around the flat all day doing not very much. Honestly, reading the thread about Nagy's homesickness has hurt a little bit as well. I'm jealous of you even being able to go to the Cardiff game!

Tammy. I've rarely been more jealous of a bloke. Firstly he gets to be star striker for the greatest club on the planet at the tender age of 19, bags 26 goals in the season and leaves a legend who will always be welcomed back. Ok then he has a couple of years at some backwater clubs that we can gloss over. But then he returns to Chelsea, scores freely in his first few weeks of prem life, gets a couple of England caps and then sits on the bench whilst still collecting winners medals for some major trophies. Now...now he gets to go and live and work in the greatest city the world has ever known. A beacon of western civilisation for millennia, steeped in history and filled with delicious coffee, glorious piazzas and beautiful women. Tammy my boy you are truly blessed. Carry on working hard and remember fortis fortuna adiuvat.

Bristol City is a football club. It fields multiple teams across multiple competitions. Men's and Women's first teams, then numerous age group teams. The men's first XI may be the most prominent part of the club, but it's not the only part. It's a club, literally a group of people joined by a common interest - in this case football. You can ignore the women's team - I largely do. However, from time to time they will be more relevant in the news than the men's. I believe they played today and so I assume they are lead story today. That's fine, the men's team was the lead yesterday. It's a club, all are welcome, there's multiple teams and they all get covered in the same football section of the site.

Toby on RobinsTV very, very nearly said "Bristol S****y" just then.

We've been much much better in the past few minutes.

Lovely from Scott on the left of the box there. Stings the head of the defender.

Pearson has descended from the stands to stalk the touchline.

Right. I cannot see the game anyway so I'm getting on the beers.

Oh god that was awful wasn't it.

Semenyo is sighing so much on RobinsTV commentary. Sounds so frustrated.

Yeh that will help a bit tbf. Also, if its floodlit that should be easier as the lighting is more even. Anyway, I'll stop playing my tiny violin now and try and figure out if we've still got 11 on the pitch.

It might seem petty but I'm probably going to send an email tbh. Can see this happening again at Forest, Barnsley, maybe Bournemouth as well. We must have some of last season's white third kit lying around. Also, Boro's away kit is black as well - so the return match will be just as bad. I can manage - in the same way someone on crutches can 'manage' stairs.

Oh gosh of course. There is absolutely nothing better in football than seeing number 4 or 5 marauding forwards. I am totally in favour of that. On this ridiculous kit blend we have today. UEFA publish pretty clear advice on how clubs can avoid pissing off 1 in 12 blokes watching. All it needs is for refs and clubs to have a little bit of thought when deciding on their kits for the season, and for individual games. Red v Black is right there on the "problem kits" page.

Could he have laid it out wide rather than back into the box. I ask as I genuinely don't know if it was a Boro or City player outside of him.

All black v all red. Brilliant once more for the colourblind among us. I have no idea which way we are even playing.

Unbelievable echoes on the sound on this Pearson pre-match interview. Normal fayre though - work hard, disappointed with the last results. No easy games etc.

Who knew that Christian Dior did "lounge around the house" hoodies.

Nope. Also, I had a look and it's weird. People in New York City are closer to Havana than you are in Barbados. The Caribbean is pretty spaced out it turns out.