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Unless the player is determined to jump at the first offer of a Premier club, we should do our absolute best to hold on to the crop of young one's. Pearson is probably advising or wanting to stay here in the first team in the toughest second tier league in the world. They will improve quicker in our side rather than playing under 23 at a Premier club or being loaned out to another Championship club. If they stay, improve significantly in a year or 18 months, we will get much higher offers and they will be nearly ready to go straight into a Premier club first team squad with a fatter weekly pay cheque. And we could be taking them to the promised land anyway!

Don't want to spoil an excellent thread but I consider that McInnes also began the recovery by dumping long serving players who were running the club and giving Joe Bryan his debut within a short time of arriving at City.

O'Dowda! He has promised so much but never delivers. Hits crosses wildly and so rarely accurate and his attempts at shots are feeble to say the least. Yesterday's wild shot over the bar is a typical example.

And I can just about receive a dodgy commentary, consistency wise, living in Burnham on Sea. Why was the Gas match on channel 719, the only way one can receive a radio commentary apart from paying BCTV for a stram that is about three minutes behind time. Radio Bristol? Awful coverage of their region's largest club by a country mile.

The fact that it has taken him twelve months to arrive at this level of performance, emphasises how bad we were a year ago. Every footballer makes mistakes. The teams that makes the fewest are usually in the top three or four. I'm looking forward to next season

We are all very disappointed but we should all consider that twelve months ago, we would have been hammered away to Preston. The green shoots of a revival are now very visible. We are playing as a team and even though individual errors occur, each of the current squad of "Old Men" and Bristol City Babes are beginning to look like a football team again. As someone posted a day or so ago, this could be the first time in living memory that we have rebuilt WITHOUT a visit to the Third Division! PS. Welcome to both centre halves making their City debuts.

@Jerseybean Edit the spelling of Finley in the "Preston" paragraph Probably an auto spelling change.

I am surprised that so many City fans have criticised the recruitment of more experienced but older players. Do they genuinely believe that it was stupid? Compare City to any organisation or middle to large company in any branch of industry. The ages range from very young to approaching retirement because the young ones are there to learn from their elders. Occasionally the young ones will replace the seniors because even though they have less experience, they have better ability. Gerry Gow and now Alex Scott are prime examples of this. Initially they will make more mistakes than the elders but so long as they learn from those mistakes, they will, in a year or two, be way ahead of them. Thus, this season, so long as we do not implode and get relegated, has given so many City young ones, the chance of quicker progression than under any manager since AD. We will see the true benefits in the coming months and years.

I hadn't thought of it that way but well said to remind everyone. Usually Division Three but also Division 4 with TC. Assuming, and nobody is 100% sure yet, that we stay in the Championship, this year will be the first that is similar to the building of a squad in the Alan Dicks days from 1970/71/72. Those years followed the three years of scraping enough points to stay up. At the end of this season, if all goes well, we'll have had three more years of "scraping by" and we should be able to look forward and a bit higher than 17th in the Championship

Gerry Gow ? Sorry it wasn't.

Fair comments about individuals. The first half showed how much we have improved in passing and keeping the ball. However, we still lapse into the things that have now haunted us for at least the last two seasons. Allowing opponents off the hook by not having the confidence to keep them penned in and going back to our keeper from the half way line too often. Trying to be too intricate in opposition penalty area when a shot could be more creative, either scoring direct or picking up the scraps. Now defensive problems. Conceding free kicks in areas that allow other side to plant the ball in the box. Allowing wide players to get in the crosses. Conceding corners unnecessarily. All of these allow opponents to score easy goals which allow a poor team such as Luton to grab all three points. Individuals get the blame. Both of our keepers stay rooted to the goal line. Defenders don't jump to head or get nudged out of the way. Weak clearances that just allow the siege to continue. I don't know what the answer/solution is. Pearson has got us playing like a team compared with what he met when he arrived. I'm not picking on individuals but it's like panic stations in defence and defensive midfield. Unless this is sorted and cured we will forever be looking over our shoulders at the bottom five or six.

@Mr Popodopolous Did we get any income for using the South Stan concourse for Covid jabs?

Section 82 create new words for old music? Well done but how did they find the time? Oh yes, they stopped throwing bottles on the pitch! Brain dead idiots!

Greedy sod!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is actually helping Chris Martin to be a useful striker instead of being left on his own to bully all the opposition's defnders. And allowing Weimann to operate and roam just behind them. A strong central midfielder, additional right back/right wing back and an organising hard central defender would be the icing on the cake.

He will learn from all these games. For example the run in the second half he took the ball to far to the right side of the goal (from his view). He will get to understand that if he had veered to his left, it leaves him a much better angle and chance of scoring. That subtle move got Chris Martin his second goal.

We have some morons in our crowd, just the same as every other club. With all the CCTV cameras, it should be possible to find them. If it doesnt improve, put all those in that corner in the top rows in Lansdown. They couldnt reach the pitch!

Zak Vyner had a very good afternoon as sub for the injured Atkinson you will be pleased to admit!

Brilliant! As a boy I spent a few hours at Ninian Park. My Dad, the son of a Somerset lad (Claverham), dragged screaming and kicking to the Rhondda by his parents who wanted the work in the mines in place of unemployment, always organised his trips back home from Bristol so that he could see a match en route. Not that he supported them, he just loved football (and rugby). His team as a child was Merthyr Tydfil. When he was a boy, he came to Bristol with his Dad to visit an uncle in Coronation Road. If City were home in the Wedlock days, it was off to Ashton Gate for all the males. When he moved to Bristol to work at BAC in 1930's, his team became BRISTOL CITY and a win over Cardiff was the one he prized most. So come on City, do this one for my Father. And the rest of us!

My phone changes Cundy to Cindy. Why does yours go to Candy?

I don't know if I knew him personally or just by sight but thanks for following and supporting City. Condolences to his family. We need another new supporter to replace him. Come on kids, do your duty!

He promises much but delivers very little.

I have been patient for 42 years since 1980!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At 78 will I ever see us there again?

2-6 is a thumping at any level of football. Yet I don't think we should flip our brains over this one. A year ago, it could easily have been a defeat with a rugby score of 10 or 15 to nil. We took the game to Fulham whenever possible. Semenyo scored two super goals and at 2-3 if Weimann had scored or the ref had given the penalty, we would have been 3-3 instead of two minutes later 2-5. We have made a great deal of progress this season and must turn it around yet again and win next Saturday to keep us far enough away from the bottom.

Atkinson will be back soon enough. Anyone who expected him, with only one season of League football, was too optimistic. He's a young and relatively inexperienced, so be patient.