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Just now, alexukhc said:

Oh Sam Bell

Actually oh Nakhi Wells

2 minutes ago, Midlands Robin said:

I've got it in my head that we had a penalty shoot out at the Gate at some point in the late 90's or very early 00's. I seem to remember the opposition manager moaning like **** that the ref chose to have the penaltys taken shooting towards the Atyeo and that it wasn't fair.

 

Against Bournemouth in the JPT on the way to the final in 2000.

1 minute ago, ollywhyte said:

Mind you Matt Turner's penalty save record is ridiculous, about the only thing he's good at 

Incredibly, Turner's saves meant that he has now stopped 11 of the 25 spot-kick efforts he has faced in his professional career, denying the opposition on 44 per cent of occasions from twelve yards

It won’t get that far.  Sam Bell’s goin score a breakaway goal in the 118th minute.  Mark my words.

HT

Cod Lots 1 Cod Pieces 0

Playing Forest, Coventry and Leeds in the space of 8 days with our numerically limited squad was always likely to be too much.  So it proved.

They were a yard quicker than us in both thought and movement.  I don’t think the 72 hour turn around helped.

4 hours ago, Boring Sag said:

5 limit in match day squad. We have 6 loans. Max you can have is 8, 4 from one club. We had 5 earlier in the season but the two midfielders went back to respective clubs, one of which has now gone to Exeter on loan. We now have a goalkeeper, two CBs, two midfielders and a LB/LW on loan. Main difference is we now have an extra CB on loan 

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah , blah, blah blah.

who gives a Foxtrot, Uniform Charlie Foxtrot

Described by Manchester City as a "skilful forward with blistering pace", Mebude is renowned for his goalscoring ability, and was named academy player's player of the year for the 2021–22 season.^[

45 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Not a whoosh.  I had no idea.  Was the 73 side with the kids of Gow, Ritchie, etc?

The Gow generation played in the 1970 semi against Spurs.  Gerry matched up against a young kid called Graeme Souness.  I can’t remember who played in 73, possibly Collier, Mabbut, etc.  Hopefully someone out there will have a teamsheet they can share.

9 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Be good if we could beat Burnley next week and make the quarters.

Anyone know what the furthest is we’ve gone in the FA YC in the past.

At the risk of a whoosh, the Final in 1973, we lost 4-1 to Ipswich on aggregate.  We also lost to Spurs in the semis in the late 60s

Max makes fantastic reflex saves, sweeps exceptionally well and will come for crosses when most keepers say at home.  However, he has a problem with shots that bounce in front of him, like last night, because he gets caught with his weight on his heels, falling backwards rather than diving forwards to smother the ball, style Clemance and Shilton.  He also flaps at inswinging corners, but generally gets away with that.

Just now, FNQ said:

Bit harsh.. my point is that we are clearly not top 6 worthy and for us to reach those heights then we need to improve. Whilst JK’s effort and application are exemplary I personally feel that we need more quality in midfield. If things don’t change, they stay the same..

Fundamentally disagree.  The midfield is fine, our problem is the quality of the two wide forwards.  I’ve seen enough of Mehmeti to think he won’t make it at this level and Bell is very much a work in progress.

A fit Sykes on the right and Tommy and Nakhi interchanging between the centre and left is worth trying and may solve the creative problem.

Looking at the highlights, Simms could well have been offside for their second.  Would like to see a freeze frame if anyone has one.

Biggus Dickus.  Get in

Ball was a yard out leading to their goal.

FFS how soft was that.

RTV sound problems.   Anybody else hearing a dreadful crackling sound.

1 hour ago, BCFC31 said:

I was thinking this.... seems very strange we always have a pre march presser. They haven't bothered this time and that's the first time this season they haven't done one

Nige never did a PC for a Tuesday night game.

1 minute ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

A lot of my Welsh friends want Welsh independence. I say to them good luck with that considering how much Westminster subsidies Wales. I'd be very happy for them to have their independence. 

I’m all in favour, as long as Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and Wrexham get thrown out of the EFL, but it’ll be like the Catalans in Spain who want independence, but think Barcelona should still play in La Liga.

1 minute ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

You can get tablets for that.

The side effects are pretty nasty, they bring you out in blue and white squares.

1 hour ago, petehinton said:

I see they now want c£1m for Collins after saying he was worth a minimum of £4m in the summer. Gas logic and gas math. 

It’s not Gas math, or even Gas maths, it’s Gas arithmetic.

One goal wins it, probably from a defensive mistake, hopefully not one of ours.

1 minute ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Horfield is going to be bombed by the USAF?

By the look of it Horfield has already been bombed by the USAF.

Just watched the highlights.  Really like the look of our No 3.  Name anyone?

2 minutes ago, TonyTonyTony said:

Thats a bit hand wringing for me sorry. If they are mismanaged then so be it. No club has any divine right to exist in the commercial world of football -  and any club that employs someone like Joey Barton deserves all they get.

It’s not even like we play regular derbies anymore - there is zero interest for us apart from the comedy. Id love regular, passionate derbies but thats not happened for years. They are irrelevant to be honest. Anybody under 35/40 scratches their head at our “rivalry”. You have to be close to, or thinking about early retirement to have any real memory of genuine rivalry. 

If they went out of existence the football world would not bat an eyelid in the grand scheme of things. It would be 5 minutes on BBC news showing pictures of IKEA.

We’d all miss the piss taking but that would be about it. You hardly see their kits around Bristol now - apart from a few poor kids given it to them by their Gramps. Poor bastards. 

Extinction is part of evolution and it will come for them sooner rather than later unless they sort themselves out.

Quite.  The football world barely batted an eyelid when twice FA cup winners Bury FC went bust.