The Journalist

Really?! James, King and Scott are running the game.

Superb timing from me, you can’t deny it.

King’s been excellent.

I threw the current showing in as a safety blanket. Worth also adding, there’s no way they come back out after half-time and play this badly again so we need to score now.

These lot are the worst team I’ve seen this season on current showing.

How is that not a penalty on Sykes? I don’t think the defender expects him to bring it down and clearly goes straight through the back of him. The referee 100% gives that ANYWHERE else on the pitch.

I was actually thinking about this after the game without knowing Tinnion had spoken about it. Two midfielders and two centre-halves? Assuming we’re happy with what we’ve got in goal.

Couldn’t disagree more. We barely touched the ball for the first half an hour the last time to faced them. We were nowhere near them. Tonight, we gave them genuine 50-50 match for the first 30 minutes and then stuck in there until the last 20. Dunno why I’m bothering, though. It’s like trying to tell Robbored that Gary Johnson did a half-decent job with us and that Danny Wilson wasn’t really the messiah.

So glad we’ve got a proper game coming up on Saturday where the fans will be right on it again. We can’t just let our season drift now.

Hope this doesn’t get any messier because we wouldn’t deserve that. Done us proud tonight.

They’re playing against De Bruyne and Phillips, to be fair.

I think we’ve had way more of the game than we did in the League Cup home tie.

Feel like we’ve got a goal or two in us… it’s more how many they score.

Ah.

Anyone else tempted to just switch it off now? This might be as good as we all feel for the rest of the night.

I’m so excited I’ve already gone through my first beer and I only finished work seven minutes ago. Gutted I can’t be there.

If fully fit and affordable, keeping him is a no brainer. We won’t be able to sign better.

Hope this is very much a stop-gap. Big TFG vibes. Would like to think we may look at Umbro given the Bristol Bears deal.

You can’t be too far off a call-up at this rate.

I thought we played really well. We were on the ropes a bit for 15 minutes or so after they scored, but we deserved at least a point over the piece. I’m genuinely really chuffed for not just the manager and players for everything they’ve put in but also the fans who’ve stayed behind them home and away. It’s been a long three years for City fans, really - football without supporters thanks to Covid and then, by and large, some pretty poor stuff since. It’s not been easy following that lot up and down the country, I’m sure. But I feel like, after a long time putting the foundations in among a whole lot of subsidence caused by previous incumbents, the walls are finally starting to go up and everyone’s got something a bit more tangible to look at - a young, hungry team playing good football and getting the results they deserve. Well done all and hope you all have a good night. Enjoy it, it’s been a while coming.

Just feels like he hardly ever gives the ball away, wherever he receives it and whether he’s passing short or long. He’s a really good player.

It's genuinely difficult to pick our front three on Saturday and it feels like it's been a long time since we were last able to say that. I think you can make a good case for Mehmeti or Bell and whoever gets left out will feel hard done by. I'd probably edge towards Bell purely because his movement is so good and, in my opinion, he could offer more on transition when you're looking to break. But, I mean... quite exciting either way, innit?

It’s not being treated differently at all - it’s seven referees making seven isolated snap decisions, as they do dozens of times every game, all of which happen to have gone against us. It’s only being treated differently if you think they’re linked.

Is it a fact we're being treated differently to other sides? That would suggest there's a genuine conspiracy of some description behind it all and and I just don't buy that for a second - outside of the Bristol bubble we're a complete non-entity. Unless a member of the board has slept with the wife of the chief of referees I'm just not seeing anything other than an amazing - but not unprecedented - statistical anomaly.

Looked up to around the world? Really? Only one European referee has taken charge of more Champions League games than Michael Oliver this season, who also had a World Cup quarter-final. I just think the line you're pedalling is nonsense, sorry.