ExiledAjax

Anyone looking forward to Friday night?

Truly eggsceptional

Two excellent gifs as well. 8/10 for both.

Flint assist

Delightful goal

Same. I wasn’t asking for subs at 35mins. We’ve played well but at the moment it’s kind of two teams trying not to lose. Djuric (and eliasson) might just unsettle Boro a bit. Their defence has vulnerabilities.

Because I think Bobby’s been a touch isolated and Djuric would just give an extra option. We’re playing well but could improve.

442 please. Djuric for Pack and push Paterson wide please.

One. Best gif yet @Luxo Jr.

Scenes

Flint should just do everyone else's gifs as well. A true master. It's an honour to be alive at such a time.

Sounds like it's not worth it if he is. Change it up at half time or just bank on us outscoring them?

Is Mags perhaps on there for the long throws? Have we had any throws in range of the box yet?

I'm glad that O'Dowda's shooting boots have finally turned up...but Jesus does he need a new gif if he's gunna keep scoring.

To be fair I suspect they are including his days when he was out on loan. Still, I want some of whatever he was eating in June 2017.

Top stat just put out on BBC Sport Bobby Reid has scored as many goals (10) in the last 88 days as the 2,282 days since his debut before that. #BristolCity

I reckon some guilt-ridden absent father has bought his 13 year old son a crossbow for his birthday. I can just imagine little Toby being bollocked to high heaven after accidentally lobbing into the Oval the only bolt that daddy bought. A proper middle-class drama. Oh well, at least the story will entertain the neighbours at next month's supper club.

bbc sport have picked up on it

Without wanting to start a debate on an old match - I thought he was ok, he made a couple of errors and didn't look particularly sharp but we did threaten more once he was on (we were still useless though). I also suspect that our threatening more probably had something to do with a switch to 442 and Brentford chilling out a bit. Anyway. COYR.

4-5-1 was pretty useless on Saturday and I really hope K Smith can do a better job at RB - perhaps he might have learned to jump between then and now. Oh well, at least Jens is back starting.

2-0 at home. The warm comforting hot chocolate of football results. Unspectacular, satisfying and delightful.

Is that the first goal at home in the first half?

I'd rather see the rules exploited to deprive the organisers of a small pay day.

From the Guardian match-report. I say fair play to the Gas for the bit in bold, although the entire report reads like a comedy script. "Portsmouth also set their worst post-war home attendance but they at least reached four figures, with 1,200 turning up at Fratton Park to see their opponents Bristol Rovers bring off their first-choice goalkeeper Kelle Roos after two minutes to circumvent the competition’s selection rules that bring a £5,000 fine if broken. His replacement, Will Puddy, conceded a penalty with his first act of the game only to save it. However, Portsmouth still won 1-0 thanks to an 88th-minute winner from Kal Naismith, with Puddy making an error. Rovers did not seem overly fussed by the result."

@phantom in my defence I did make it clear that we would have some hard evidence that we remain superior. Maybe not living in Bristol shields me from the crowing. Every cloud I guess.