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20 hours ago, Jeez said:

Why do so many come at it like we’re a premier league parachute team?

Reality is we’re a mid table championship club at best who will get raided for best players to stay a float.

When was the last time we troubled the playoffs (not including L1) 

Unlikely to go down or up - we’ll win some lose some - enjoy the ride & let’s hope the board back Liam for next season.

Well adjusted point. 07/08 was incredible and the wave of excitement at being back in the championship propelled us nearly to the prem, we knew we were not the big boys and that us vs them mentality made us a a strong and difficult team to play against and a united club
 

we have been chasing that high ever since but with it has come a huge surge in the expectations of the fans and with that comes an arrogance and entitlement that I don’t think has gone away, even with a chastening relegation in between our long stay in the championship 

first 16 years of my city supporting career we spent 15 of them in league one. Being an established championship club for much to the subsequent 15 years has been a good return. In reality there are only a limited number of ways a club kicks on from here and only a limited number of clubs who do it

1. Perennial up and downers - pots of cash from parachute payments and top league experience

2. Long term projects getting it right over a sustained period of time to finally make it over the line

3. surprise packages fromnowhere making it up for a season maybe two

4. financially doped to achieve number 3 - rarely works out

we will never now be number 3 as we have established our base camp in the championship and number 1 can only be achieved after succeeding at number 2.

we are probably firmly in the number 2 area and you’ve got to kiss a lot of frogs to get there, and when I look at my first 16 years that’s what makes me comfortable with where we are. this is the most sustainable way to get to the top flight and clearly what our owners try to do with their rinse and repeat strategy. Are they capable of getting it right? I don’t know but I fear any sale in this day and age only invites people interested in number 4 and can only look at the likes of reading to see how that works out.

abridged version: I like the championship, and being stuck in it is better than being stuck in league 1. Back the team and the new ideas and let’s see where it takes us

Struck me today that it must be nearly 25 years since they were last above us? Sadly it’s not quite the full 1/4 century and we are entering the 24th year of utter dominance. Now can’t get out of my head

theres just one team in bristol

thats all you need to know

theres a team that plays in filton

but I just don’t want to know

because for 24 years we’ve been looking down on the rovers

(rovers? Who the **** are rovers)

OTIB.

Louis Carey is, literally by all measurable statistics our record appearance holder. He has appeared the most times on a football pitch as a Bristol city player. Why anyone fights this or try’s to denigrate the achievement of one of our own is just baffling.

to adapt a well known saying 

“give a city fan a bag containing a million quid.. they’d complain about the colour of the bag”

happy birthday louis 

2 hours ago, Super said:

In spells the atmosphere was good.

Bit flat first half but a consequence of scoring early I think. Second half was pretty consistent and everyone played their part 

Just got to look at the premier league. 800m spent last January, admittedly skewed slightly by Chelsea but barely 25m spent this time and we are half way through. Chickens are coming home to roost and player “trading” will be the norm for a while. That being considered, this calibre of player being “traded” in is great business. Very happy

28 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

Said before. It's absolutely nothing to do with 3 points on a Saturday. Good luck to you if you are happy being lied to and having an owner with his bull sh ing son in charge of mediocrity and crass decision making. A large majority of fans have had enough of the Bristol Sport rhetoric, nonsense.

Describe your dream owner, who/what would really make you happy. I'm listening

Timing of this poll is hilarious. TGH scores a relatively easy chance on Saturday first half and this poll doesn’t exist. Funny old bunch, football fans 

12 hours ago, Bris Red said:

The same complaints were all over twitter when we played Man City in the cup last season aswell. So 6 years later and the club still haven't taken onboard the criticism, just about sums us up really - ******* amateur from top to bottom at this club.

Been fairly content with the lansdowns myself, bungling but well meaning rogues that they are however you are right on this and now I am absolutely LANSDOWN OUT. The camera is too high at AG and it is absolutely the fault of the man who funded the 50 million pound redevelopment. When oh when will we have an owner who will stop this madness and lower the damn cameras, then AND ONLY THEN will we reach the promised land. I heard Nigel person was secretly working with ground staff to lower the cameras but he got caught by the lansdowns and that’s why he was sacked. Brian tinnion saw him checking out site lines on a Tuesday morning early in November. COINCIDENCE??

4 hours ago, bearded_red said:

Steve- Time to sell and leave.

To who?

think this one might sell out ya know

https://twitter.com/BristolCity/status/1744063853879754807/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1744063853879754807&currentTweetUser=BristolCity

seems to be very well received across multiple outlets! Other clubs do similar but should this be ‘our thing’ like the ayatollah only much, much better

2 minutes ago, italian dave said:

The concourse (or more accurately, concourses plural - one for each tier) were huge! I’ve never seen so many toilets. The food offers are better at QPR mind, and that’s not saying much! 

5.50 for a semi decent pint was good too - although I think they were clawing some of that back with the (reasonable tasting) 11.50 burgers!

TOMMY CONWAY BABYY

Phenomenal today. The whole midfield functioned so well

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

OP - Friday’s press conference with the local media was a really interesting watch. Two things stood out, one “good”, one “bad”.

The good - the belief in his methods, his system.  Most on here will know that I want us to play someone closer to Conway, James Piercy asked him whether Sykes injury might allow him to change the way we set-up.  A pretty resolute “no” in an answer / explanation using more than the no I put.  That’s absolutely fine.  If we didn’t have clarity, we do now.  It helps us understand where recruitment might focus, or at least why we might go for certain targets over others.  It shows his strength in his beliefs…this is the way he wants us to play and he’s not gonna change.

The bad - when asked about being able to create against a low block, he went a bit defensive in his answer, and deflected away to the fact we weren’t conceding many chances, only lost to a late goal.  It’s the first time I’ve not seen him give a confident answer…but I do think it was an acceptance that it is the “thing” he needs to improve in the team.  It’s not a “bad”, that’s just me trying to frame the two opposing answers he gave.  But again it gives us something to watch.  Will we start improving on breaking down these stubborn teams.

So, whilst today was a really good performance, I thoroughly enjoyed it, I’m mindful that our next fixture is…

…Preston - one of those stubborn teams.

I’d really want to see a performance like today’s against a team like Preston (ala Millwall / Brum).  The players should be approaching it with confidence, so fingers crossed.  But we still need to give him time.  There will be ups and downs.

Was thinking on this before today and expected a better performance, someone like West Ham would allow us to play our game a little better than against the likes of Birmingham and millwall. The plan and training becomes clearer in games like today, more work on this should help us become better at unlocking the lower blocks. Won’t always work but expect it to improve

37 minutes ago, Leveller said:

But after that handful of appearances for Bournemouth, Danny Murphy has been singing Alex's praises on MOTD and The Athletic are already calling him Bournemouth's most naturally talented player. So I think they'll be qute happy.

Same with semenyo, getting a lot of praise and looks great and a huge part of what is currently a very well functioning team 

1 hour ago, Ivorguy said:

That was one of our best teams ever.  Real quality across the pitch.  Would be happy to have that quality today.  Solid defence, defensive and creative midfield, and a frontline with goal scoring potential everywhere you look.A d look at the wider squad :  Derrick, Crowe, Merrick, Garland.

We have to ask how have we landed up today with a performance like that at the weekend

 

 

 

Yes I am sure that city team never had a poor game. Every game electrifying 

12 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Was more fun, less clinical I'd suggest.

Of course I get it, it can even be beneficial at times the not too high etc but the game, the experience has lost something.

Is that easy to say after dour last minute loss though? All forgotten when you turn round a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 win. Swings and roundabouts 

need a couple more players for sure to make that high a little more routine 

8 minutes ago, sh1t_ref_again said:

Thought TGH was poor at Brum as well, maybe LM comments that we do not need to rush to sort out a contract have had a negative effect, or maybe just performance has dropped 

Off it against brum for sure, lot of football has been played and we play our best when he’s on it. Sadly the alternatives are a little too functional in comparison and offer us nothing going forward. Centre mid a must in January but unlikely given competition and general January window issues. Hopefully a less hectic schedule has him refreshed and involved most games 

18 minutes ago, FNQ said:

14 shots and a win away at Millwall back in August… 5 at home and a loss today. Happy New Year..

David Moyes will be crapping himself..

Yeh that’s how football works 

3 hours ago, Barkhamred said:

Just switched automatic updates on and off and it did update. Maybe try again.

This. Shouldn’t have to do it like that, but it does work

i will say this is preferable to it updating 6 times a week and then not moving off my Home Screen for years after a match. I know there’s a game, I’ve just been!

3 minutes ago, fisherrich said:

Another massive mistake by the Lansdowns. Plenty on here defended LJ at the time.

Did well for a time, stabilised us in the championship and gave us some great moments in that 18/19 season but ran its course and they didn’t pull the trigger soon enough. Not much to see here 

Just now, Engvall’s Splinter said:

Isn’t it bollocks though that sometimes it takes the expiry of a contract on the horizon to kick players to another level. 

Nah just a decent manager 

1 minute ago, old_eastender said:

Said on Robins TV that this will be the first time in 3 years we have won 3 league games in a row.

That is why the previous regime was not everything some make it out to be. That is a really really poor stat. 
 

onwards and upwards!

1 minute ago, Johnr1986 said:

Hopefully he gets some confidence from tonight he was really poor for the first 70mins

Credit for leaving him on tbf, was starting to come into the game and looked like he could make things happen. Thought he was positive in the first 25 to but lost it for the next 50 mins like the rest of the team I guess!