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Who's the boy opposite Tinman on RobinsTV? Have they actually employed an actual TV presenter? Ah, sorry, no - he's just done a link to totally the wrong camera. We're back boys. We're bloody back.

Also remember this is the first of 6 (potentially 7) games between now and 28 August. Got to use the squad. Early injuries or burnout are not wanted.

At the very least I imagine it's the deciding factor. Hoping Scott plays well. I also live in perennial hope that COD will come into his own.

Nagy and Kalas are 2 or 3 weeks behind the rest of the squad preseason wise. They also had the Euros in which both played every minute of their country's campaign. I don't find it too surprising that they are being eased in, especially given the both play in positions where we (suddenly) seem to be well covered.

Here we bloody go. Bristol City F.C. 1) What will be City's final league position? 17th 2) How many points will City get this season? 53 3) Will City score 60 (or more) League goals this season? No 4) Will City concede 60 (or more) League goals this season? Yes 5) Who will finish as City's top scorer? Chris Martin 6) How many League goals will City's top scorer (whether the player named in Q5 or ano.) get? 11 7) Who will finish as City's 2nd top scorer? Andreas Weimann How many League goals will City's 2nd top scorer (whether the player named in Q7 or ano.) get? 9 9.) How many academy graduates will make their City debuts this season in League or Cup competitions? 3 10) Will Nathan Baker make 20 (or more) League appearances for City this season? No 11) Will Taylor Moore make 20 (or more) League appearances for City this season? No 12) Will Alex Scott make 20 (or more) League appearances for City this season? No 13) Will Adam Nagy still be a City player on the last day of the season? Yes 14) Will Tomas Kalas still be a City player on the last day of the season? Yes 15) Will City sign a striker either before the end of this window, or in the January window? Yes 16) Who will be City's player of the season? Daniel Bentley 17) What will be the official attendance for the first home game against Blackpool to the nearest thousand? 20k 18) What will City's Official average League attendance be this season to the nearest thousand? 19k 19) In which round will City be knocked out of the F.A. Cup? 3rd 20) In which round will City be knocked out of the Carabou Cup? 4th 21) How many City players will be sent off in all competitions this season? 3 22) Who will be the first City player to be sent off this season? Joe Williams 23) How many penalties, in all competitions, will City be awarded this season? 2 24) How many penalties will City score? 2 25) Will any City player score a first team hat trick this season? No 26) Will Nigel Pearson still be City's manager on the last day of the season? No Young City players: Bell, Pearson, Conway, Britton, Scott, Janneh 1) Which of these 6 will make the most appearances for City, in all competitions, this season? Scott 2) Which of these 6 will score the most goals for City in all competitions? Bell Gas: 1) Final League position? 11th 2) Average League attendance, to the nearest thousand? 4k 3) Brett Pitman to score 0-10, 11-20 or 21+ league goals this season for Rovers? 0-10 4) Will Joey Barton still be Rovers' manager on the last day of the season? No Welsh Rivals, Cardiff & Swansea 1) Will any of Pack, Flint or Tomlin score for Cardiff against City? No 2) Who will finish higher, Cardiff or City? Cardiff 3) Will Korey Smith or Liam Walsh score for Swansea against City? No 4) Will Liam Walsh make 20 (or more) league apps. for Swansea this season? No 5) Who will finish higher, Swansea or City? Swansea - but barely Lee Johnson's Sunderland 1) Where will Sunderland finish this season? Automatic promotion, promoted through play offs, play offs, lower? promoted through play offs. 2) Will Lee Johnson still be Sunderland manager on the last day of the season? Yes Ashton's Ipswich 1) Will Ipswich be promoted this season (with MA doing a lap of honour ) either automatically or through the play offs? No 2) Will Ipswich finish above Sunderland? No Steve Cotterill 1) Will Cotts lead Shrewsbury to promotion? Yes 2) How many points will Cotts' Shrewsbury take off LJ's Sunderland, 0,1,2,3,4,or 6? 3 Old Boys 1) Will Bobby Reid score 14 (or more) league goals for Fulham? No 2) Will Bobby Reid score against City? No 3) Will Josh Brownhill score 5 or more PL goals for Burnley? No 4) Will Matty Taylor score against Sunderland? Yes 5) Will Wes Burns score against Sunderland? No Championship 1) Which club will finish top of the Championship? Bournemouth 2) Which club will finish bottom of the Championship? Derby

But at least the Hundred is class. ?

Basically yes. In 2003 the ECB invented T20. However, they did not properly protect it and so when it became successful other country's cricket boards copied it, and made their own tournaments (such as the IPL and Big Bash). Because the ECB had not protected the format these new leagues didn't have to license it - ie they didn't have to pay the ECB a penny to use this new format. The ECB are obviously very angry about this, and so have invented an even newer, shorter, bouncier, and louder form of cricket. This time it is protected to the hilt and if India want to have a "Hundred" league, then the ECB will be getting a slice of the pie this time, and they'll control it all as well. It's on the BBC because in 2017 the ECB sold the BBC the rights to broadcast a "new T20" competition (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jun/30/live-cricket-return-bbc-twenty20-tournament). The BBC didn't buy the Hundred, they bought a T20 competition, and the ECB then changed the product. It's honestly all just a vehicle to market crisps, and for the ECB to try and wrestle money, power, and control away from the counties and away from India and Australia. It's also a great advert for crisps. I'm not watching, there's no team in the South West to support. I've also stopped listening to Tailenders as they (as a BBC program) were plugging it incessantly and not even pretending that there might be an alternative view to that of "the Hundred is bloody brilliant isn't it". Read this and see what you think https://www.thefulltoss.com/england-cricket-blog/love-minus-a-hundred/

We had a discussion last week on the forum about colourblind friendly sport. This. This is really, really not it. In fact it's possibly the best way to make a TV show about as unwelcoming to the colourblind as you can. As if this Hundred muck couldn't get any worse.

No worries. Always happy to answer questions on this subject.

My parents got a set from the states to try out on patients. I was the Guinea pig. Honestly it was an absolute sensory overload. Stuff was really vivid, very bright, there was green bloody everywhere ??? I tried them for a day and decided I was happy in my muted world, even if I do wear purple every now and then, and sometimes struggle with the odd football kit.

Awful. The Birmingham kit I remember being particularly terrible. On 5 a side kits you have my sympathy. My old team decided we'd play in purple. Obviously at least two other teams in the league used blue...so yeh those games went as well for me as you can imagine. It's 1 in 12 blokes. So that's almost an average of 1 player in each team. It's a big number of people. It's not on the level of some disabilities, of course it isn't, but it does affect players. As I posted above, there's already extensive guidance on how to make kits accessible. Honestly, my view is that with most teams having three kits, you should always be able to get a combination that satisfies everyone. But that relies on clubs, and officials to make intelligent choices when deciding which kits to wear for a particular fixture. If those clubs that traditionally wear green (the article says only Sassuolo in Serie A) are happy to have a white, blue, or otherwise drastically different away kit then great, when they play a team in red they need to remember to bring the white kit, and put the green to one side for a game. The Birmingham game last season is a great example. Why didn't they wear their blue kit when they played us? Why that green one? As I say, there's FIFA/UEFA guidance on this already, it just needs to be read and implemented.

So I am a lawyer. I trained in 2013 and did part of my training in the property law department. Property lawyers have a very particular way that they colour in the borders of a map to show how a bit of land is parcelled up. IIRC it goes piece 1 = red, piece 2 = green, piece 3 = pink, piece 4 = brown. It honestly could not be worse hierarchy for those of us with colourblindness. As a trainee I was asked to colour code a plan. I asked, out of interest, if the colour hierarchy was a legal thing, and was told no, it was just custom. Cool thought I, and off I trotted. I grabbed my red, blue, yellow, and black pens and proceeded to use my own, brand new colourblind friendly hierarchy to colour code the plan. Upon turning it...honestly I've rarely received a bigger bollocking at work. The partner was incredulous. "But you said it was just customary" I said innocently...well it turns out that 300 years of property law 'custom' wasn't about to be overturned by one smart arsed trainee. I had to re-do it, torturously trying to figure out if I was using red/pink/green/brown correctly. And I swore to never, ever, do property law again.

Just been googling and there's actually already some pretty comprehensive FA/FIFA guidance for clubs and associations regarding colourblindness. https://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness-and-sport/guidance-documents/ This document is lengthy, but provides (apparently, I can't tell really) some examples of how the world looks to those of us with colourblindness. It also runs through some of the most common kit issues and issues around signage at stadia. https://www.colourblindawareness.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/FA_COLOUR_BLINDNESS_IN_FOOTBALL_ENG.pdf People may be interested in reading if they've already watched some paint dry tonight.

Vastly more. IIRC it is something in the region of 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women that have some measurable level of red-green colourblindness. There are a couple of other, more niche variants of colourblindness, and of course many millions go through life without any formal diagnoses, and their only experience of it amounts to a couple of strange anecdotal stories where they got a colour wrong for whatever reason. When you look at that kind of prevalence, and then look at a male-dominated group of people like a football crowd, then you start to see why I think organisations need to take it a little more seriously. You're probably talking about something like 1,500-2,000 people in an average AG crowd who have some level of the condition. It's not negligible. I am relatively mild - maybe a 6 out of 10 for severity. I also was lucky and got diagnosed very early in life as my parents are optometrists and so spotted it very early on. Most kids get diagnosed later when it inevitably becomes an issue at school. Far from it! the red/black thing is really tricky. Don't know about you but when someone edits a word doc and uses red to show their changes...yeh that can be tricky. I always edit and mark up docs using a bright blue.

I only learned that car brake lights and indicators are different colours when I did my theory test at 17. Genuinely still don't really see it, I only know they're different because I've been told so.

No worries. It's such a weird "disability" to have as for 90% of those that have it, 90% of the time it's just not an issue. Buy then, every now and then, it can be really embarrassing and cause serious issues. One other 'everyday' example. You know the little LED lights everything has nowadays, the ones that tell you when something is charging or is charged? Well, apparently they are often orange or red if charging, and change colour when the device is charged. Do they heck! I basically just have to guess, or just leave stuff for ages. Same on my internet router. If the internet's not working then my wife has to sort it out as I've no idea which light is flashing red, orange, amber etc. No idea at all. But anyway. Down with green football kits!

Haha, a fair question that I will try to explain. Ok, so being "colourblind" doesn't mean I do not see colour. Basically I just see red and green less intensely than most. In reality this affects my daily life very little, however there are some circumstances where it does cause issues. I find that when multiple shades of red/green/brown (or blue/purple or white/pink) are present and 'mixed' together - I have trouble distinguishing them. So, where it is just City in red versus a green pitch, it's basically fine. That's one strong clear shade of red on a strong, clear green background. I probably don't see the green as brightly as you, but I can see the players just fine. It's when a third option is introduced that the struggle begins for me, especially if, as on Wednesday, that third option is a darker green like Celtic wore. Another example is a snooker table - apparently there are green and brown balls on that thing but all I've ever seen is a bunch of reds at one end, and then two others next to the yellow ball in baulk. As @Tinmans Love Child says, actually I more often have issues seeing purple. I've had numerous pieces of clothing that I've thought are blue, only to be told years later they are purple. Our purple kit really isn't that offensively bright to me either. It's all because I don't perceive the red element of the purple very well, and so it comes across as a muted blue. I absolutely refuse to believe in made up colours like 'turquoise', 'magenta' and 'cyan'. Caveat all the above with the fact that colourblindness is very much a spectral issue (pardon the pun) and everyone that 'suffers' from it will be affected in a slightly different way, and will have a slightly different experience.

Oh my god please. They are atrocious for those of us with red/green colourblindness. In the game v Celtic I could only really distinguish the teams by our white shorts. Everything else, when moving at speed and on TV is tough* to distinguish. Same as the annual Wales v Ireland rugby match. *not impossible, but tough to the point that it makes it unpleasant to watch.

Re questions 5 and 6. I think we need to sign in a variety of positions, and can't really pick a priority. I put ACM as last couple of seasons it's been the supply to the strikers that's been lacking. I've not been following transfer rumours this off-season. I've therefore no idea who we've been linked with or haven't been linked with so honestly am not 100% sure who these blokes are that you've listed. I put King, because he's a King. I'd have preferred an extra "I'm not confident but he seems alright for now" option on Pearson.

I know this thread is about cricket, and Gould's opposition to the 100 is laudable and obviously shows him to be a proper good bloke. However, from the perspective of City, my favourite bit is "These new teams will exist for 33 days a year. They have no player pathways. No academy. No age group teams. No regional community projects. They don’t have international venues. Our domestic clubs do so much: they provide focus and pride." That's a very desirable attitude that I want to see in our CEO. Tells me he will see value in everything that Bristol City does, and isn't solely focussed on getting to the Premier League. Hopefully signals even more investment in local youth, the community of BS3 and Bristol as a whole, and the club's charity work.

This article may be of interest here.

A really interesting one to balance. We can safely say that £5m would be very welcome this summer, and as a few have pointed out, we probably don't have too many we can realistically sell for that kind of money right now. Personally I'd lean towards selling now, banking the cash, and reinvesting. I think we've seen the dangers of frustrating players that want to move, and running down contracts in the hope of getting "one more good season" out of a player isn't something I want to become standard. On top of that, would that represent £0 - £5m in 4 seasons for Semenyo? Some return if so, especially considering he's had a solid, but far from spectacular season.

Rovers being relegated this season is like finding a diamond in a mountain of manure.

That was it, they got two. Fam missed a goal from about the penalty spot, but it wasn't a pen. Anyway, it's not many is it. But then we have been actively avoiding the opposition box for about two years.

Fam missed one away to PNE last season didn't he?