The Journalist

9 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Any streams. 

Can only echo this plea.

20 minutes ago, johnwilkinson said:

Can I be today’s designated annoying twerp and ask where I can find a stream of the game online please? What’s the usual website that does them?

Apologies in advance, I realise at least one person will be absolutely enraged by my request.

 

https://best.hesgoal.pro/

So what am I clicking on then?! All kinds of links and pop-ups flying at me here.

Can I be today’s designated annoying twerp and ask where I can find a stream of the game online please? What’s the usual website that does them?

Apologies in advance, I realise at least one person will be absolutely enraged by my request.

16 minutes ago, StefanDimz said:

Apparently their owner got involved in a traffic incident in Istanbul earlier this week and had to undergo a surgery on Tuesday. Probably that's the reason behind the late sacking.

... Was Arveladze the one driving then?

On 18/09/2022 at 16:08, Negan said:

Yeah I think if the season continues as it has so far where we are playing good football, sometimes it doesn’t go out way but you can see the lads have tried, we’ll definitely be top half. I’ll take anything from 10th-14th right now. Like others have said it’ll be next season where I think expectation levels will rise for a top 6 finish 

I'm looking at it slightly differently - I wonder whether this season may actually be our best chance of sneaking into the play-offs.

If we finish 11th, for example, but Alex Scott, Antoine Semenyo and Tommy Conway all continue to impress, how likely is it we lose at least two of those three? And then there are others - including our goalkeeper - out of contract too?

I'm not sure, with our FFP situation as it is, with the way we're playing currently and the way this season is already panning out, it's going to be as simple as just seeing an upward trajectory/year-on-year improvement.

The next block of games before the World Cup will obviously give us a clearer idea, but instinctively my feeling is we're ahead of schedule and an opportunity to go and get in that top six could present itself sooner than we expected. If it pans out that way, we may need to grasp it now rather than expecting it to happen again.

This might seem weirdly vague, but I just hope that, whatever potential is in this group, as a fanbase we feel like we've fulfilled it by the end of May.

For me, at this stage I'm not really sure across a 46-game season what our ceiling is... but after 10 matches I do feel like we deserve to be higher than ninth. Instinctively I feel like we're better than that - how much better, I'm not sure.

I do think Nigel's done a fantastic job and we look as good a side currently as we have in years. It's really fun to watch.

All that said, I also think there's every chance the core of this squad could be ripped apart next summer, hence my opening comment - I just hope we have no regrets by the time that happens.

(No idea if any of the above will make sense to anyone other than me).

Does feel a bit like 

Just now, Logical-City said:

I may be wrong I think you can add 10 season cards on each Bristol Sport profile and buy 3 tickets on each season card on that profile 

So assuming you have access to to multiple profiles for example and have 10 cards added on each of those profiles with multiple browsers open you can get a lot of tickets purchased for people that is possible yes so silly people like me are waiting by the PC at 9:50 ready to buy when I never had a chance. Also staff will have ways of securing tickets 

It is starting to feel a bit like a lone man shouting at the rain hoping it'll stop, at this point.

As I say, hope you get something sorted, but it feels to me like you've had one bad ticket experience, missed out on tickets for this fixture because of your own fault and now you're trying to come up with a solution for a problem that doesn't really exist.

Hope you have a better afternoon.

2 minutes ago, Logical-City said:

No because it evens out one week I won’t be able to get to the ground and que for a ticket where you might be able to then you get that ticket on that occasion I live in Weston-Super-Mare but I’d travel to the ground to que I did in the 00s many times 

Todays system allows you an hour to get a ticket some just buy them and don’t go just because they can and decide on the day make them travel to buy that dosent happen 

As I said before the current system does not give many ANY opportunity to have a chance to see a popular away fixture opportunity for all is what is fair 

How many people do you really think are buying tickets without planning to go? You genuinely think that is the thing costing you a chance to get to that game?!

Nonetheless, I get that you're annoyed and hope somehow a ticket lands your way and you're able to get to the match.

2 minutes ago, Logical-City said:

I don’t agree but it is the way it is and the powers that be agree,

My point is a lot of us want to watch City away but can’t afford to every week so when there is a close away game I at least want an opportunity currently their is little to 0 chance

And no touts are not getting the tickets but City fans do band together in large numbers passing details on to aquantinces with Bristol Sport accounts to get their tickets all you need is login details season card info and a spare hour one person can mop up a lot of tickets and do for popular fixtures 

This rules out chances for large parts of the fan base who used to go to the ground and que up to ensure they got to see a game 

But doesn't being able to get the ground and queue place you at an unfair advantage over people who live further afield/work during opening hours?!

I completely take your point, but if I went to near enough every away game but then missed out on tickets to this one - one of the plumb away games - because I couldn't get to the ground to get a ticket in person or they decided to share them around I'd be equally miffed.

I realise it's annoying but I think you're looking at it from a very specific point of view.

Many of you will have watched a lot more of us and studied this much more closely than I have, I'm sure, but I did think our throw-ins were so poor down our right side against Norwich.

There's a good chance Mark Sykes has never had to take throw-ins in his career before and it was pretty clear he wasn't particularly comfortable doing so.

It's funny that they're never really talked about, but when you think about it they're such an important and fundamental part of full-back/wing-back's game.

3 hours ago, pongo88 said:

His mistakes have been discussed on the forum before. The general, though not consensus, view then seemed to be that they were just the odd mistake or two and all would be well in the long term.  Unfortunately he’s beginning to remind me of a quote from the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde:

 “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

For Naismith it should read:

To make one serious mistake may be regarded as a misfortune; to make several looks like carelessness. 
 

Unfortunately he’s also beginning to remind me of something else - Adam El-Abd (I’ve got my tin hat on and expect a lot of abuse). When El-Abd arrived from Brighton he was highly rated by their supporters and seemed to be a great signing. Then it went pear shaped as he managed to make a series of big mistakes in matches. In a way Naismith reminds me of El-Abd as both seemed to have a lot of confidence in their own abilities.  Perhaps too much, which leads to careless mistakes 

Imagine comparing El-Abd with Naismith!

One a limited, physical clogger at centre-half and the other a genuine quality player. Sure, he's made a few mistakes but it's obvious he's a proper footballer.

Glad you've got your tin hat on because that is an absolutely horrendous comparison. Enjoyable.

I can't remember the last time we were that genuinely competitive against one of the division's top sides at this level. And when I say competitive, I mean in a football sense rather than simply out-running the opposition and hanging in there, keeping it tight.

One thing that would be madness (and I'm not sure anyone's suggesting this necessarily) would be to remove him from the back three.

I thought the last 10-15 minutes last night were interesting, as Norwich continually closed his passing angles and forced him to switch across to Vyner, whose passing range is just nowhere near Naismith's. His mid/long-range passing is absolutely top class for this level.

As a broader point, (and this is partly because we've got three ball-playing centre-halves) this current team reminds me a lot of the 2002-03 side. Ridiculously open, often you're left tearing your hair out, but so good going forward and genuinely a pleasure to watch. We're never out of any game.

I think we’ve played pretty well against a really good team.

5 minutes ago, Phileas Fogg said:

Think it’s The Mail.

Predictably, The Mail are very much in favour of mass leisure cancellations so I’m not reading too much into it yet.

I also very much suspect they're just taking a wild punt to be first with the story. That page will be getting bucket loads of traffic, if it happens they can claim the exclusive and if not they'll bill it as a u-turn.

1 minute ago, Phileas Fogg said:

That’s my thoughts too. Difficult situation for them.

The only way to solve it is if the Royal Family advise the DCMS they don’t feel cancellations are necessary. 

I think that is the one thing - I imagine everything will be off or everything will be on and it'll be a decision taken jointly along with the DCMS. That will, at least, protect (for want of a better word) the Premier League from the obvious "typical football, think they're above everything..." accusation.

For what it's worth (nothing, really), I do think the Premier League and English Football League are on a bit of a hiding to nothing with this decision. They're going to upset people - and open themselves up to criticism - either way.

I’m not reigning anything in. That doesn’t mean I’m going to be shouting from the rooftops that we’re going to win the league, but after several seasons of mediocrity and then decline we absolutely should be excited by what’s happening. Life’s too short.

We’ve got a genuine chance - no more, no less, let’s enjoy it!

The last time we had this many points after seven games was under Dean Holden.

“I just see something in Semenyo, the way he strikes the ball off both feet, the power he generates with little backlift... I don't think finishing is going to be a problem for him.”

Posted this in December 2020. Still don’t think finishing is going to be a problem for him.

21 minutes ago, Ian M said:

BB8 Bristol City vs Huddersfield Town - ALL SPORTS DAILY

This has died for me

https://bristolcitypayments.streamamg.com/account/register/step1

Where it says "£10 - INT"... does that mean international only?

1 minute ago, Davefevs said:

Here is each sub that has come on this season (league):

From a pure 1s and 0s the last 3 columns are the ones you’re after, but of course they don’t tell us anything tactically or about individual performance.

Pts +/- reflect the change in game-state from the point they entered the pitch to the point they leave (often full-time).  A player like Antoine came on yesterday at 1-2 (L) but end result was 3-3 (D), so we scored 2 (GFOP) and conceded 1 (GAOP), but importantly we went from getting 0 pts (losing) to 1 pt (draw) so Antoine gets +1.

Youll see most subs don’t change the game-state, but overall our subs have had a slightly negative affect.  But can you legislate for a pass from Naismith like yesterday?

I think if Pearson was to answer my question (publicly at least) he’d almost certainly say “too many individual mistakes”, which is never an untrue statement when you’re conceding goals, but it’s happening too frequently and over a sustained period of time to put it down solely to that isn’t it?

What are we doing tactically when trying to see a game out? What’s the strategy? What’s our decision-making process like when in front? What are the players doing instinctively when placed under pressure?

It’s almost become an embedded issue. I don’t know how anyone could just dismiss this in the way some have re: Harry’s original point.

We’ve all seen City teams in the past who, when they go in front, you just know they’re in control of the situation. It works both ways.

I don’t really understand why Harry is copping it here - it’s a fact that in 15 of our past 16 games we’ve led but only won seven. We keep getting ourselves into a winning position but don’t see it out.

Now, we can all ignore that, put our fingers in our ears and hope it goes away, but I don’t think that’s a ‘normal’ record and suggests to me we’re not matching results up with performances. This team is capable of more.

What I would be interested to know… is there a particular substitution we keep making when leading, either positional and personnel? Are we doing something tactically when ahead?

Others who watch us more often and more closely may be able to answer this, but the general consensus seems to be that we tend to retreat back into our shell when in front? Perhaps we need to keep the game more open so we can keep playing to our strengths?

FWIW, I think Pearson has done a tremendous job in his 18 months or so - when you think about what he inherited and the absolute apathy surrounding the club at that time, he’s done exactly what I hoped. We now have a more balanced squad and a genuinely quite exciting group of players.

For the first time, though, his job is starting to become more about making sure results match the quality we’ve got rather than just fire fighting, building and nursing us through.

For me, we’re entering the next phase of our development under Pearson - which is absolutely a compliment to him that we’re even in this position and should fill us all with excitement… but it also brings a bit more pressure.

We shouldn’t shy away from that or be afraid to call it out - let’s take the next step forward!