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May I point out to the club, who no doubt read this, that @Harry is an absolute wind-up artist and he doesn't mean this at all. And it's not going to happen. You can stand down Jon.

We get an easy 4th Round game against Chesterfield...

Who is going to explain the ghost goal for him? He looks a good appointment but overseeing a club going twice into administration does suggest he shouldn't be in charge of the balance book spreadsheet.

You've got a lot of positive reaction to this so perhaps your life approach is working. However, it helps to be positive in the real world.... Where are these "commanding, leader types" that you hope Pearson will recruit? If they are in a successful League 1 team, will they come to a struggling (second-rate) Championship team? Do we want another Lge 2 player? We need results NOW. This is what will happen. Pearson will recruit yet-another Leicester-era midfielder who will be injured and/or played at centre-back after two games. Pearson will recruit a Lge 1 player who @Harry or @Davefevs will say "He's good, I've watched him for a few years" and the rest of us will say "Who?". He will be playing for the U21s after two games as Pearson goes back to the players "he trusts" (namely playing King on crutches). Pearson will be sacked in February. If you want positivity, consider your point about the spine of the team. We already have that spine!!! Although, I disagree about "tough, big centre forward" as I think that is a bit old-fashioned. Consider: Bentley. Klose (and Kalas), Scott / Williams, and Weimann. I'm taking a punt on Williams but I think he could be a good captain. That is a hell of a spine for a team. We are not far away from that spine. We just need to sack Pearson. Think positive!

"I played a midfielder at centre back which tells you what I thought" - I really do paraphrase but it was a quote like that when Klose was taken off at half time during Lincoln. A game, btw, where Klose did nothing wrong, and Pearson made about 6 mistakes before the game started... How people are defending Pearson is beyond me. Ps Also, Bentley frozen out. O'Leary didn't get dropped and come back better. He was average to poor the last time Pearson blamed Bentley for something. And eventually was so poor that even Pearson couldn't persist with him. This season O'Leary has been poor to even poorer but Pearson is a "great man-manager" so has decided to continue with him...

I think he'd run out of midfielders because he was playing them at centre back... ?

So, in an idle moment I got to thinking that the next couple of weeks could be the biggest games of their lives for some players. But how does that compare with playing at Ashton Gate. Incomparable I suspect! Which players that have played at the current World Cup have appeared at Ashton Gate? To my shame, my first thought was Grealish and De Bruyne. I was looking forward to seeing one player and disappointed, and think the other person is the best player I've seen at Ashton Gate. My shame? I next thought of Fammy and Semenyo (same reasons as above). After that, and I'm quite pleased with this one, I thought of Suarez. Then Rashford, Schmeichel (I think) ... I'm sure there are many more not least from the ManU and Man City games but I can't recall. So, without looking it up, who have you seen playing at Ashton Gate who has minutes in this World Cup?

And to think people ridiculed Johnson when he said we'd be playing in Europe in 5 years time. We're playing in Qatar!

I appreciate these clarifications. Must be hard on the refs, who presumably know the rules, hearing the crowd baying who likely don't. Having said that, could this be an opportunity to influence refs? When Wells is kicked, the club puts the relevant laws on the screen whilst the announcer says "<cough>on the screen ref. </cough>"

By a country mile, Bentley is a better goalkeeper than O'Leary.

I'm of the old-fashioned opinion that the manager should pick his best team. Do you not recall the last time Pearson kept picking O'Leary until he went back to Bentley? Embarrassing. I've certainly decided that Pearson should go, like many Bristol City fans who don't wear rose-tinted glasses. The rest of your post is unfair and unfounded. If he picks Bentley Vyner Klose Atkinson Semenyo Massengo Scott Pring Weimann Conway Wells then I will not criticise him even if we lose 0-4.

I'm expecting Pearson to pick King "I'm slower than Chris Martin me" at centre back. O'Leary will be back. I hope and expect AW behind Conway and Wells, which is good. Pearson should be picking Bentley and Massengo but won't of course. We will get one of Jilliking (I literally can't distinguish between the three midfielders "Big Nige" brought in). To be honest, I don't mind which team we play as long as Pearson hasn't picked them.

Where has this myth that Naismith gave us an "extra attacking threat" come from? He doesn't come forward like Atkinson and his long passing is just average. He can pass short (though tends to prefer a Cruyff turn on the edge of the penalty box giving away goals) just like Klose....

I had a real tenner pretending to be a fake one as I couldn't get the pretend ones. So realistic, I even conned the bloke next to me when we swapped fake tenners! ?

Umm, right , really? When? Klose is the far better centre back despite today's mistake.

Can someone who was there tell me if we were really that good at WBA? Or was it the Pearson fanboys who were overselling it? The only thing is, I watched Millwall (live) and now Reading (online) and we were beyond awful in both. The problem is not the players who, early season, were playing some great football. Now, we seem to think bringing on Martin (and hence per-force having to entirely change the way we play) is the answer...which rather shows how poor Pearson is.

? Bless.

I'm really trying to process this. Especially the second sentence. Or is "drive her into the City Centre" an euphemism that I don't know? ?

That much is true.

Job for Naismith?

Am I the only one who will be disappointed when we next get a penalty?

Not bothered* *Come on, someone had to do it. It was an open goal that even Savage couldn't miss....

Was the Preston manager sent off today? Does that mean he has to be in the stand for our game? Might not matter as some managers prefer to be in stands anyway...but is he allowed to communicate with his associates? Not sure what it means when managers are sent off.

Announce Holden. In. Six. Weeks. Time.

@grifty meet @SecretSam. @SecretSam meet @grifty. Real fans together. ?