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Dave P always invites me, it’s family commitments that stops me.

https://www.skysports.com/football/story-telling/11095/12734982/nigel-pearson-interview-bristol-city-manager-on-changing-the-culture-at-the-club assume they will show sone if this pre-game tomorrow? more interesting stuff.

Unlikely, there is no broadcast deal for Carabao Cup, so nobody can stream it to the likes of Hesgoal. Best I could do was to register on the other club’s iFollow account and watch a full playback the next day.

See the defensive corners thread, Saturday’s were pretty decent…except the short one!

What we tend to see when 1v2 or 2v3 happens is that one of the defenders makes a late run to the box, and drags our player with them. In your approach, if you leave one or two up, are you brave enough to ignore a defender making an unopposed run into the box?

Believe it or not, that’s what we did at the start of last season until Xmas, and the only goal we conceded was O’Hare (Coventry away). But we got sussed out!!! I wrote this last December. Maybe I shouldn’t have!! Helps when you have Baker, Kalas, Atkinson and Martin to attack the 6 yard ball.

He will be giving half of it to the tax man, whichever way he gets it!!! ???

Naismith - I doubt it was in the magnitude of the figs quoted above though! Bentley - £300k would be at the sacrifice of wages, which has no real benefit does it?

Ah, yes. Ta.

Big signing on fees are no longer the norm for OOC players…not below PL anyway.

Corner 1: Aimed to midgoals area, good delivery but headed away by Cabango. Corner 2: Taken short, Scott hits it straight at on-rushing defender. The clip didn’t show the set up, but Swansea open to the 2v1 as defender slow to move out to support his teammate. Corner 3: Sykes starts at far post, marked my Obafemi Then he bends around the central markers / blockers. Loses Obafemi who is blocked by Vyner. Unfortunately his glance is so slight, it doesn’t go on goal. But a classic example of where m2m marking fails…a really simple run around a block. Good delivery, Shane Sykes didn’t get a better connection. Corner 4: Pring blocks Darling, who wrestles him to the ground, but Vyner gets away from his man. The delivery is just too high for a free Zak, and they head the ball away. Corner 5: Great flat delivery from Dasilva. Just evades Vyner at near post, gets a touch off their player and goes out other side for another corner. Corner 6: Another short one…cue the groans. Well worked, Scott gets a shot off but it’s blocked. Corner 7: Deep delivery, James loses out to Darling at far post but we retain ball through Pring. All in all, our corners were well delivered (bar the first short one), and on another day, we might well score. We see a couple of examples where m2m has its flaws too.

What did I do / miss?

Might get a nominal fee but wages would be the big winner here.

That’s brings painful memories from school. Wasn't the story that Bristol City Council ordered 1000 rolls, not realising it was 1000 pallets!!! Hence why all Bristol Schools had it for years. Probably an urban myth, but is quite funny.

Yep, posted way back at the start of the season, that I suspect Cov might also be working to the £15m FFP limit, rather than the £39m (backed by owner). Couple that with Cashflow issues, and you can see them having to sell in January. Hyam already sold in the last window to Blackburn.

Might not have won the first ball on that corner and others with one less in the zone. Newton’s Third Law and all that! Don’t get me wrong, despite mine and @spudski’s differing views, I don’t think our current set up is optimal either. Every set up is a compromise in some shape or form. In a utopian world, we have players who have been briefed about opposition corners, can identify their triggers and set-ups, and are smart enough to adjust to each one in-game / real-time. That’s not gonna happen in this current squad. You still might concede to the perfect delivery, or concede to a fluke though.

Cov fabs were awesome at AG last season, sang loud all game. This season not so much.

Yes, looks like Melksham’s keeper was on loan and gone back to FGR.

26 (Oct 10).

Glad their reporter said Hayles goal was a header, because our twitter said the keeper saved and smashed in the rebound. Thought my eyes were playing up.

That is quite a difference from the past imho. Although he was technically good with his feet, I always felt he wasn’t quite switched on to the pace of the game. By the time he’d made his mind up to pass, opposition strikers were ahead of him, and he could sometimes put his teammates in trouble by delaying that odd second or so.

I used to work with his cousin, yep sports mad family.

PSR has a very close contact. Let’s not forget that the press-conf was Thursday, and Atkinson had it by Saturday, Nige said Scott had it on Friday but played through it and it was spreading thru the squad and they were on medication as a result. So quite likely a few / several suffering in some shape or form.

Pretty sure John was wicket-keeper / batsman for Chipping Sodbury, and if it’s him, the whole family are from Yate / C.S. area.

It’s not that difficult to understand…they aren’t the ones taking to the pitch!!! I know that’s said half tongue in cheek, half facetiously, but it’s a fact. They can coach, set them up, etc, etc, but if the players can’t execute, there ain’t much more they can do. Nige was an old fashioned ball winner, he wasn’t that tall, but he was physical and good in the air. Fleming was a terrier, a 100 percenter. Atkinson is the closest we have to an aerial ball winner, and he’s not fully dominant, like a Flint or a Baker…and we conceded from set plays with them too. Kalas has moments where he looks awesome in the air, but it’s moments, not more. Nige wanted a CB, we couldn’t afford one…we try to do the best with what we have. We’ve also missed Martin a bit too, but I can’t imagine some of the posters on here would want Nige to pick him over the other forwards…just for his defensive play. Maybe we wheel and deal in January and bring one in.