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Are we not? We have to beat the teams in the bottom six to ensure that your assumption becomes reality.

Told you so. Should have put a bet on it!

BBC have lined us up as 3-5-2.

Smzodics is absolutely certain to score at least one today!

My question would be " Do you consider that the Board , including you, made a horribly wrong decision to employ Pulis instead of Moyes?" With a follow up of "If you had recruited David Moyes at that time, do you now believe that City would have been a fixture in the Premier League if you had financially supported him as you did for another more recent City Head Coach?"

He has put on a little weight and started shaving since that day back in 1982 when a tall skinny lad made his debut against Fulham. Yet another who could justifiably be called as Bristol City's finest. 100 plus per cent effort in every match I saw him play.

@Littlesh*t "Will cut up more". That sounds like it does now. Have you ever looked at it carefully after two matches on consecutive days in rainy weather? I have and it resembles a billiard table. The Dessa pitch is very resistant to having lumps kicked out of it. There are pieces of polypropylene cord (or string) 20 centimetres long implanted vertically into the soil at 2cm in both directions. They protrude above soil by about 5mm. The purpose of them is for the grass roots to entwine with them. This minimises grass roots being kicked out of the ground. The green grass may go but as the roots remain, grass will grow again. As for the old days when football was played in all weathers and became sodden due to poor drainage, the level of the pitch was raised by approx 35 cm with a totally new drainage system installed. So rainwater disappears from the surface very quickly. Sorry if I sound overbearing but I made a point of reading the Desso data when the pitch was installed at a cost of £1.5 million. So City's pitch is up there with the best. One day we might match them in a game on it for season after season.

Either that or totally deaf, dumb and brainless?

No carrier pigeons?

@Littlesh*t If you are referring to the Ashton Gate pitch, we have had football and rugby on it since the new pitch was introduced about six years ago. Have you seen it "cut up" at any time because me and many thousands of other City and Bears have not. It is among the very best pitches in the country, superbly designed and maintained to an amazing standard by the ground staff.

My eyes are damp at this news. I always thought of him as Liverpool's version of Atyeo. He played hard and fair with much more skill than he received credit for. I saw him a couple of times at Leicester City and Chelsea. Condolences to his family.

Yes he could but when do they actually add enough? One should also remember that a team is at it's most vulnerable of conceding, immediately after they score. Take a couple of minutes to go to the lad with our players itching to get going again without delay. Followed by a slow walk back to positions and the last one to do that is always a striker who wanders across the centre circle - 20 yards of further delay.

@Davefevs I knew that I would get some flack and be labelled cynical and to an extent you are correct. If the Fulham team wanted to acknowledge the boy, they could have arranged it to be during their warm up or immediately after the game ended. Not during the game. Clubs and players now use every method of breaking up the rhythm of the game especially when they are leading. It's overdone already!

You should not fall for that event. It's just another clever way of time wasting and delaying the restart of the match. Players are only allowed to leave the pitch during a match with the permission of the referee. Taking a corner, goal kick or throw in is not leaving the pitch.

I stand corrected by others that a save by a keeper still leave the player offside. So a big chunk of good fortune due to a visually challenged assistant referee, or Linesman as we all know them as. About time we got a break or two so add Mitrovic's abysmal finishing in the last few minutes.

We clearly are not spending enough on the quality of recruited players. Poor display today and would not be surprised if we sink again at the end of the season, unless better players are brought in.

Why the negative view? He is young enough to learn and improve. A solid home debut and for a small fee, we have filled another weak spot. He'll make mistakes but will improve.

As one who goes back to the Atyeo days, when Big John scored goals for fun without ever hurting a fly let alone big defenders, I wonder if his fifteen years of "Playing in a sporting manner" has been an influence on how we play. Many City fans voice their disgust at the cheats like Warnock and their sides are here. Remember the ten minutes with a Rotherham player and serious head injury, followed by running straight back onto the pitch. Pearson is correct. The game has changed and we must be more assertive than we have been for a long time. It doesn't mean cheating but a more legal aggressive attitude will prove beneficial to our performances and results.

There were two City players in offside position as the shot was made by a third City player in the lead up to the goal. I think I'm correct that as soon as their keeper saved the shot, then those two become onside again because the ball then comes from the opposition not a City player. A bit like the goal about three years ago when Taylor Moore headed a ball to a clearly offside opponent behind him.

Great effort by everyone in "The Team" By that I mean the playing squad, coaches, supporters, backroom medical staff, kit man and the one who hasn't used the first person singular since he arrived, preferring the first person plural instead. He is the one who is running the show but one who is happy for everyone else to take the glory!

He weren't bad today, was he?

Football is a funny old game. Palmer in under 23's earlier this week got a minus 5 out of ten from me. And then today he is the hero fir squeezing in the equalizer. 110% effort from everyone.

How about a return to more sensible wages instead of selling our football club's souls?

About time that this has been formed to benefit former players and supporters. Well done Messrs Palmer and Gould.

@Moments of Pleasure Not often you get it right and you got it wrong again. ?