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Two  penalties given away by Leeds. Penalty to Leeds missed. Luke Ayling opened the scoring on 7 minutes. It's his 250th game for Leeds.

Seem to have a buyer for the club. Agreed in principle, although fans won't believe it until all signed and sealed

On 25/04/2023 at 19:44, Lew-T said:

Seems pretty decent that in April, no?

Have noticed recently a number of adverts on prime time TV advertising season tickets for The Bears. I wonder if they think they don't need to advertise City tickets in that way due to the numbers sold. 

17 hours ago, spudski said:

Regardless of the money...going to Real Madrid is a massive cultural move. 

It's going to be a completely different environment to the UK and Germany. 

I actually feel for him regardless of money. Fair play if he pulls it off. 

Language, culture, history, politics, and so much more...even before kickin a ball. 

Think he's immersed himself in the Getman culture language etc so I can't see why he won't do similar in Spain. Seems to want to experience as many different cultures as possible whilst his stock is so high. He reportedly turned down much higher offers from Premier League clubs, so money doesn't appear to be his overriding consideration. 

49 minutes ago, the1stknowle said:

David Ornstein reporting today that Charlie Patino wants to leave Arsenal on perm.

Assume he won’t get a premier league move. And not many other champ clubs will have money this summer (assuming we sell AS). That is an Alex Scott replacement I’d like to see here. 
 

 

He would have played with Alex @ U19 level, so perhaps Alex can put in a word.

37 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

Saved me typing, cheers! This is so obviously the reason but some fans don’t want to listen to it. They’d rather be down about things. Up to them I guess. 

I think we have to look at the bigger picture when comparing ourselves with the Millwalls etc. We've built and are building a sporting complex under the Bristol sports umbrella with associated infrastructure hotel etc not just what is happening on the pitch, what SL wants to leave as his legacy. I don't think that are any clubs outside the PL can compare in this regard. Whilst that is now progressing we need to get back to the day job and success on the pitch. I'm quite optimistic,  the players seemed to be aligned with NP and the coaching team and there appears to be a team unity - look how several went up to Alex Scott after his error . I see a top half/play off place next season (officials permitting!)

2 hours ago, Red Army 75 said:

Last home game it is then. Could be the last game I see Scott in a city shirt. Disappointing for us but so exciting for Scott and proud that it’s our club that have helped develop him into the player he is. Will also be great to see Brownhill back at Ashton Gate, will certain get a good reception.

And over 23k tickets sold. Impressive 

COYR 3-2 win

I'd like to see a couple of our young players get a game today or at least on the bench to soak in the atmosphere. NP won't be able to make too many changes against QPR unless they beat Stoke today as they're in a relegation battle and accusations will fly over fielding a 'weakened team'. Regardless I think we can spoil Burnleys efforts to get 100 points . 3-2 city 

9 hours ago, Swede said:

I would be very surprised if any club paid £30M+ & the chances are that would be the fee, as there's so much interest in him so there's bound to be a bidding war, to loan him back to us.

Its such a life changing event for him that any loan back simply will not work. Its a measure of him that he's putting all this speculating to one side and is still performing consistently. That's also great man management from Nige.

I think a fresh start all round would be needed. Him at his new club and us moving on.

Barring the lucky 2,000 odd away fans at QPR, tomorrow represents probably the last time most of us will see him in a City shirt ever again, so enjoy.

We play QPR next week(8th May) and unfortunately because of QPRs league position only 1800 of us wil be fortunate to see us in a Bristol City shirt. 

4 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

They have added a million viewers a week to Countdown since he took over the chair.

I like he always manages to get a sporting analogy in (particularly football) 

On Police advice & for the first time in 12 years  the cup final will kick off at 15.00.

As a knock on effect the Epsom Derby will now run at 13.30 and not 16.30

1 hour ago, Bristol Rob said:

Like you, I try and avoid single points of failure. Cards, a bit of cash and an alternative to phone reliance where possible.

For me it's an as well as rather than instead of.

Agree. Having just gone through Bristol Airport where there was a queue trying to scan bar codes on smart phones, my printed out boarding pass worked perfectly 

51 minutes ago, petehinton said:

They’ve taken collins off and gone 6 at the back….

Well that's what you do with the League 1 player of the season and the player the opposing manager was most worried about

16 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

What's it got to do with him, he isn't an EFL player, he just played in this league for a season because he wasn't good enough for the one above.

Exactly. Sour grapes. According to the Manchester papers Manchester United Ace misses out, not a Sunderland Ace. Whereas we can rightly claim Scott. 

18 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

Ask them why aren't they at the game if we're playing tonight 

Probably were at the U21 game looking to see whose next to play in the 1st team

14 minutes ago, Robbored said:

He’s captain, elected by the players who obviously respect him as a player and a man. Try watching him closely on Saturday and maybe you’ll get a wide view of just what he contributes - I assume that you do actually watch City play live?…………

Notwithstanding your comments, weimann was poor and not to his usual standard tonight. Surprised he wasn't subbed. Being Captain shouldn't mean you can't be subbed if not playing well.

1 minute ago, old_eastender said:

goal coming for Sheff.Utd if NP does not use his subs.

Mark Sykes and Tommy Conway coming on. Wells & Cornick off

11 minutes ago, TomF said:

And Ipswich losing as well, double bubble 

and currently out the automatic promotion 

4 minutes ago, pillred said:

He does that a lot it's one of his weaknesses. 

Completely lost track of where the ball was just now

On 15/03/2023 at 10:26, lenred said:

Prices are very reasonable indeed - fair play to the club for that.  But agree - this will surely make giving your tickets to friends when you can’t go obsolete which will be a shame imho.

Should have a system like other clubs where you can legitimately transfer your ticket to someone else or sell it back to the club to resell f you are on holiday for a particular game. 

12 minutes ago, Midlands Robin said:

The commentator on the red button is really talking us up. (not!!!)

Don't think he's had a good word to say about us yet.

He described tonights match as "as easy a fixture as Sheffield Utd would want"

Think he's more complimentary now (although not sure for how  long)

On 12/04/2023 at 18:36, Curr Avon said:

The greatest supporter of West Country sport in the last 30 years.

 

Almost certainly he will be at the Gate for the last home game of the season, so would hope that we would be able to show our appreciation.

On 16/04/2023 at 10:42, Sleepy1968 said:

I don't know about 'in future', but the podcast (One for the Bristol City: The Podcast) has been running since 27/2/2023. At the moment it seems to be mainly the fan content from SOTC. and is of massively variable length.

RB seem to be pushing both the City and Gas podcasts in recent weeks, so perhaps that is the way it will be in the future.

On 11/04/2023 at 10:55, Davefevs said:

No PPs this season, but have been in the PL since we came up in 15/16 and benefitted from £75m in PPs in the time since.  That’s 4-5 years of pure football income in our case.

That money has helped them keep a stronger squad together, supplementing it with new players as they churn that squad.

They haven’t had to go through a rebuild like we’ve had to.

Of course it’s disappointing to let a 2-0 lead slip, but shit happens in football.  By the same token, we turned around our first loss to a win on Friday (a Good Friday), and have started to show we can comeback from a goal down, or stay in games with an under strength line-up.

I’m not sure I’ve heard any excuses trotted out by the people that matter, e.g. Nige, just a reflection of a good, entertaining game where we matched and in some cases bettered a team going for promotion.

I also don’t think they looked superior to us for large periods either.  Just because they have possession in our final third, doesn’t mean “superiority”, it just shows a different approach to the game.  When we have had possession like this in recent games versus low-block teams, nobody talks about our superiority, normally it’s written in the negative, ie moan, moan, moan, we aren’t creative, blah, blah, blah.

For all their “superiority” we created chances quite easily, more than they did.  We were able to defend narrow, and then spring counterattacks.  I didn’t sit there biting my nails like I have done in previous seasons, e.g. Forest (h) last season.  That was when I sensed inevitability, I don’t anymore.  We didn’t hang on at 2-2 like in previous years, we still took the game to them.  We missed 2 good (one gilt-edged) chances (Vyner and Weimann header) in the latter stages.  We were still strong, not out on our arses like in previous seasons.

We’ve come a long way, albeit in a very gradual way.  It seems more “inevitable” to me that we will continue to progress under the current structure.

That probably sells season tickets.

Also Boro have 5 PL loanees and a championship (WBA) Loanee whereas ours,are all our players Inc a good mix of academy players

20 hours ago, OddBallJim said:

I’m really gutted about this. He’s a fantastic local broadcaster and I love both SOTC and the scrum. I remember sitting with my dad listening to the Friday night phone in many years ago too. Sad times, as whoever replaces him won’t be of the same caliber.

I liked him when he did his non sporting stint a few years ago. Showed his versitality and always willing to listen to the callers and letting them give their point of view and then quietly and subtly disagreeing.

16th championship manager to be sacked this season. Probably the most in any one season