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cidered abroad

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  1. 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.
  2. @Mr Popodopolous Did we get any income for using the South Stan concourse for Covid jabs?
  3. 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!
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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!
  7. Zak Vyner had a very good afternoon as sub for the injured Atkinson you will be pleased to admit!
  8. 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!
  9. My phone changes Cundy to Cindy. Why does yours go to Candy?
  10. 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!
  11. He promises much but delivers very little.
  12. I have been patient for 42 years since 1980!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At 78 will I ever see us there again?
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. I like these videos and wish that we'd had this technology when I was a boy. We just had matches to see how the pros did things and then we'd try and copy in the streets and the parks. I've just read Andy Cole's book and he stresses how important training should be productive and enjoyable. Fleming clearly follows the same thinking. The number of accurate shots and headers was high - I wonder why they rarely show the same accuracy in shooting warm up on the pitch before matches?
  16. Yes I had the privilege of watching him even I didn't realise how big a star he would become.
  17. I forecast a draw. As we don't seem able to keep a clean sheet, it will be 2-2.
  18. I watched a drab FA Cup tie between two clubs who will never be among my favourite Non BCFC clubs. A game then where I wanted neither side to win! At least Forest tried to attack but Arsenal were pathetic!
  19. We have begun to look like a professional football team that has the ability to compete rather than the replica of an under seven years kick about in the street.
  20. Same as always. His final ball, pass, cross or shot is invariably way off the target. He threatens to achieve but rarely does.
  21. Could be one of several Leicester players who won the Premier League. None of them were in the Grealish region and the best way to consider the fees is to consider what was achieved. And for every Mahrez that arrived, there was also a Wes Morgan who came for a pittance. It's not who you buy, it's what quality you get.
  22. Because some peoples opinions are not based on fact and thus the person cannot remember what their view was last week let alone a few months ago. My father taught me that I should always speak the truth as I see it, as it is almost impossible to remember what you said at a later date. It might not be a correct view according to others but at least one is consistent.
  23. The Bilbao definition would be OK for John Atyeo who was actually born in Standerwick village in Somerset, about three/four miles from Dilton Marsh. He grew up in Dilton Marsh but was only able to play cricket for Somerset Second team as he was born in Somerset as per rules in operation at that time. Birth or residency in the county. Birth and living in Wiltshire would have not allowed him to register with Somerset CCC. Plenty of Bristol boys. Tom Doherty, Brian Clark, Bobby Williams, Jantzen Derrick to name just a few.
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