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Enjoyed that. Reckon it must be windy pitchside, ball looks to swirling, yet can’t feel it in the stands.

He might be back tomorrow, unfortunately with me ???

Nope, judean people’s front!!!

Took me an hour from Downend. Ended up going Filton, Henleaze, The Downs, Portway.

Think you have to book tickets.

My completely speculative thoughts are….we gave him a massive wage when he signed, and it’s too high in the current climate, so 1) we can’t improve it and 2) Han wants more than we are willing to offer. Therefore impasse.

Funnily enough I remember Fam partnering Djuric v Brum (h) and we played quite direct. Joe Bryan played RB!! Both played really well.

Someone told me LJ signed Palmer to feed Nketiah…and LJ was furious we missed out on him. Don't forget we had Diedhiou at the time. ???

Here’s some more: This next one was QPR, the first time we conceded last season from the initial contact. why only 3? Andy King had been sent off!!! Next, very deep. Guess where the corner was directed? Yep, Lerma no 8….tame header from 15 yards. Same game, deep, deep, deep: This was us really struggling for any solution / method.

I’m guessing LJ wasn’t after another big’un.

He hasn’t been frozen out. Nige said he is giving opportunities to those who aren’t looking elsewhere. Han has said he will continue to keep himself fit and will be ready if / when Nige needs him. Nige says he a good lad. I’m not sure there is much to see here and I’m a big Han fan.

Club media person doing a Dolman-special and leaving before the end ???

My observations are that when we did our mix of zonal and blockers, our four zonal “markers” lined up near the 6 yard line, and covered the zone a few yards behind them and in front of them, so not covering the 6 yard box but a 6 yard (ish) zone from 3-9 yards from the goal line. Crude pic to demonstrate: Basically leaving Bentley to deal with the two players inside the 6 yard box, who would be offside from any header from the “runners”…or Bents to clean them out if the ball was in that area. What started to happen was that those 4 zonal players started to drift closer to Bents (3 yards out) and then left the runners to attack flat footed defenders 6 yards out. Cowshed will probably give it better “coaching terms” than me. We also left the back post open, and teams started to hit deep also. It was however quite successful until in got got sussed around Xmas last year.

You don’t get them back either way!!! ?

Anyone there know who assisted JKL’s goal?

He cashed out!!!

With Bajic it looks like his agent met Kalifa Cisse at a “Transfer Room” conference, and it went from there. Here’s the video. https://www.transferroom.com/customer-stories/agents/classico-sports-management Cisse has linked up with a number of French clubs.

I tend to agree…until today, it looked as if Kadji was being given a chance to show what he could do…but he’s back in u21s today also.

Sam Bell and Dylan Kadji back in u21s this afternoon, suggests a couple of the ill players are back tonight.

suggests at least two ill first teamers are ok tonight (Kadji / S.Bell was on bench) Nige on the bench too.

AG isn’t 100% cashless btw….half-time draw tickets are cash. ?

Gould and Marshall are conducting the search. The rumour when Gould was appointed was that Nige wanted Bevington, so he didn’t get his way on that one though.

I always thought that we were a yo-yo club as a result. Signed players in lg1 because we were a big club, attractive, could pay better wages than most, but then those players could not step up, had no need to step up in their wages. That’s a big generalisation but it’s how I felt. We do have done Champ stability currently and we are back moving in the right direction. It’s an evolving process. Atkinson was the big, strong signing, but cost us £1.6m!!! The first part of addressing it is identifying it, which has been done. From the scouting group stuff power and pace is high up the list of needs, but so is technical ability. I think recruitment can be improved, but with no money, the pond is pretty dry. It’s a compromise at the mo’. Yep, Chairman in name only because it’s daddy’s money. Fever Pitch is his baby, and he should stick to that. Nige put him in his place. Indeed. It’s getting the balance of power, strength with the technical ability, and unless we pick up a nugget on a free or from Lg1/2, they tend to cost £££s! Definitely the opportunity to further evolve the squad, but also mindful might take time to gel and the off mistake too.