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In plain English, we, Bristol, has won sod all!

We all grieve for loved ones in different ways. Time is a great healer but one never forgets. It's just further away. The older I get, the more I miss Dad and Mum. I've been happily married again for twenty years after first wife died, yet still think about her most days.

A brother that I may have never met has passed on. My sympathies to his family and close friends. CTID.

The current Liverpool squad and team, along with Man City, are two very watchable football teams. Different tactics so very good football in different ways. I don't support them but I do enjoy watching them. I've followed City now for over seventy years; it's my club. Yet why should those of us who love the game not enjoy the quality of others. A bit like admiring quality clothing yet shopping in Primark!

I went there on honeymoon. Cabbies drive like lunatics. They don't get any points for hitting tourists on crossing, that is unless they are Japanese! ?

I hope that nobody tells him that he doesn't need to measure the height of the grass more than once when they play at Almondvale!

I've never heard that one before. I knew they were a closely knit unit but not that close. They came to my employer's social club in West Street and the Mickey taking amongst them was amazing. Remember that the most cruel piss taking only occurs between very close friends. Example; Cash dropped a skittle ball and as one they roared with laughter. "Cash has dropped another easy catch" Gould leaving was the opening to bring Paul Cheesley back home from Norwich.

Well said @Taz Our "Fergie" has now had 15 months with us and while many City supporters will judge him by the wins, draws, losses and place in the table, and rightly so, a lot has happened so far that we are not fully aware of. Read the current thread about the Medical team led by Dave Rennie. Not the new ideas and how they are used but the fact that one poster has spotted that non coach Rennie the medical man is watching training sessions and by doing so, is ensuring that the lazy trainers work just as hard as the fitness fanatics. I watched the U 23 game on Tuesday. We were able to leave out four or five regular, when fit and on form, under 23's. Because, as Tinman said after, City's U23 side is really an U18 +. Those not playing are considered as full members of the First Team squad. One of Fergies predecessors at Man U was Sir Matt Busby. In the early 1950's he did exactly the same as Fergie and our Nigel are doing. Playing talented kids as regular first teamers. The Busby Babes had four or five elder statesmen and the babes made up a great team. Fergie followed that thinking with the Class of 92. Kids who won trophies! Football is a wonderful game and in many ways a simple game. No need for large squads. No need for too many expensive stars. Just everyone in the club, working for one end result; Success on the pitch. For a pessimist like me, I have a very warm and optimistic feeling about the coming season. Some more will leave the squad and a couple more may arrive. We are looking like a team that will look after each other at all times.

Conway impressed me not necessarily for what he did which was good but for his talking to team members to encourage and where to go with the ball. A leader in the making?

Derby could not share Coventry because of Wasps in the Premiership rugby. Prem rules clearly state that Wasps can only share with one other club which is now Coventry City.

Did I not see a post a few days ago that stated our game hours lost due to injury was 75 hours, season just ending, and well over 200 hours in the previous one?

A guess at 2,500? Actually, and without criticism of club or fans, I was disappointed as I thought it would be a lot more.

Well said! The numbers who are getting early match time, well exceeds the AD late 1960 early 1970 period and where did that take us?

When a manager is building a team from a squad of players, the ace in the pack is usually the final place that is filled. We have what my Dad used to call the "Tin Opener", usually a midfield creator of chances. But Semenyo is an attacking one who for a club in our position, is almost priceless. Keep him for another year or two and we have a great chance of getting there! There is the Prem, if anyone's in doubt.

Without any substantial transfer fund, he brought in players that he knew in an effort to break the stranglehold that some City players held in the dressing room even if on the pitch performances were poor. Does that sound familiar? Exactly what Pearson did. It's working for Pearson because we were able to have a significant clear out at the end of his first season.

An interesting and enjoyable evening. Shame about the result but there was enough City talent on view to see that we're on the right track for young players to be challenging for first team selection.

IMO one of the best managers we've had in the last twenty years. But clearly not backed or understood by the Board. Cotterill in similar vein also came and went. It's taken a long time for SL to realise that we were a shambles, overpaying average players, a holiday camp attitude throughout the club which meant that we struggled to achieve anything other than mid to lower table in Championship. Some may consider that the restoration into a football club under Pearson, is taking a long time. We'll, my view is that we have achieved in twelve months what it used to take three or four years. Real progress and I genuinely believe that we will surprise other clubs and our own fans, how we will do in the coming season.

Kalas?

How many "fabulous moments" in six years? A couple or three is my estimate!

Given his age and his personal health (COVID twice and long COVID) that could be how we develop. If so, at last we will have a club that will demand membership of the Premier League rather than just hoping for it!

Precisely how other clubs have moved from also ran's to top of the pile. Shankly at Liverpool in early 1960's. Revie at Leeds in 1960/70. Brian Clough at Forest. Fergie at Man U. Pearson at Leicester. All those clubs were meandering along at the time and while all those spent money, it was the building of team spirit, hard work by stars who were expected to do the same as lesser members of the squad. From Tea Lady to the Board of Directors! All singing the same words and tune!

I hope so. Tins said on the recent podcast that Print has had a very good year so unlikely he is being told to find another club.

My first ever Podcast! What happened to letters, postcards and snippets in the Evening Post and World! So interesting from start to finish, the depth of information from Brian in a way that I've never known before. As one, who in my younger days, watched first team, Reserves and any Youth (under 18's) Cup games at Ashton Gate and even Bristol Boys (under 15's) I have always seen the benefit of developing our own. So many who have become City legends during my seventy years as a supporter, were our own boys who grew up and gave great service to our Club. To name names would be unfair because with so many to mention, I'm bound to miss many out. The latest crop are a joy to watch and we all wait expectantly to see how they will develop. At different rates and have a thought for those who miss out in the end and rejoice on the successful one's.

I don't love them. Bristol City is my team, always has been and always will be But I also enjoy seeing quality football from other clubs and what I've seen from the current Liverpool side put them up there with some great teams from my past. Real Madrid with Di Stefano and Puskas was thrilling to see and the Benfica side with Eusebio was not far behind. No shame in admiring good quality football from other clubs while supporting City.