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On 06/12/2022 at 09:11, MarcusX said:

My guess is mid October

They talked about Rob coming out of his shell after scoring the 2 goals (12th Oct) and joking to Kalas "back soon" - he returned on the 15th Oct so timing would fit for it to be Friday 14th.

If it was more recent I'm not sure Kalas would be kitted up - and it would have to be pre 12th November for Semenyo to be there

Day before Millwall then, day of Kalas’ brief return

1 minute ago, ExiledAjax said:

Hands up who else didn't know that Chris Hughton was part of Ghana's coaching team.

Sporting director or something like that I think?

7 hours ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Towler's gone out to get games and help progress his career.

Hasn't Idehen's gone out as punishment for giving it the big I am? Sounds like he's sulking, and unlikely to be doing himself any favours when it comes to extending his professional career.

First I’ve heard of that?

2 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

 

Perhaps there is some confusion with Taylor Moore, who has apparently been playing in midfield for Shrewsbury.

Interestingly, both RT and TM have been receiving very positive comments from their respective managers.

I am aware Moore has played centre mid for Shrewsbury, just thought Towler played more games in midfield than he did

1 minute ago, Harry said:

Been at CB until today 

Apologies, but he did play there for the game he scored in according to transfermarkt?

Just now, Mr Popodopolous said:

Thanks. One of them was preventing a Reading break iirc, Pring?

I do think we get penalised with cards more easily than perhaps we should however, for whatever reason.

Yeah Pring was on the break, thought the Reading player moved out the way but did stop a counter I guess. Martin was arguing with that Loum most of the second half and only got booked added time.

That Preston game that Stroud reffed had way too many yellows!

Just now, Mr Popodopolous said:

See we got 3 bookings today as well, were we that bad?? From just 8 fouls.

The Conway one was very harsh I thought albeit was a foul. The other two I thought were pretty fair at the time

2 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Oh I can. Arguably a foul on Klose for their 2nd too...we don't get penalties, 46 League games and counting or the equivalent of a whole season.

Think it's 1 in 100 League games now.

Think by the end of next week would be a whole calendar year since we last got one (not counting friendlies) which was Coventry away! I thought Klose one was a horrible mistake but haven’t watched it back admittedly 

16 minutes ago, Harry said:

Towler actually played in midfield today 

Where he’s been playing most of his loan spell and seems to be doing well

Those match ratings are very generous in my opinion. Thought that was Scott’s worst game this season by far, Semenyo poor and as much as I like Vyner he was nowhere near our best player. Good report though, couldn’t believe the ref did nothing about the rugby tackles on Atkinson and Conway in the box 

13 hours ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

We had an incident at under 8 level recently with an angry parent.  Under 8 for heaven’s sake!  It’s non-competitive, no offsides, all kids get game time, but someone still lost it.  You couldn’t make it up.

Being involved with youth football for a long time, I’ve seen some embarrassing incidents. You’d think people would be happy to watch their kids play and enjoy the sport but clearly they take it further than that!

Bloke has a serious temper problem, shown it multiple times when playing for us and at other clubs

3 hours ago, Logical-City said:

“Although I'm not sure anybody saw that decision coming. It was a big call and there was a lot of pressure on the manager and goalkeeper to get that right last night particularly considering the recent run of results.”

How satisfying thanks Nigel for this moment.

This has “gas” written all over it

I’m sure people didn’t have issues with this before last night so why now? Thought he patched up second half and was a lot better. Time to move on to another difficult game Saturday 

13 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Thought he was okay first half, some good things, some not so. Second half we pretty much got dominated as a team.

But OTIB being OTIB, has to pick one or two players.

Why isn’t there a Naismith thread for example. Don’t get me wrong I think he’s a good player, but he had a poor game today.

Naismith made a poor error for their first, but after that wasn’t that bad. You can see a very good player in there, times his tackles well, great on the ball and clearly got a good delivery on him. Seems like he can play numerous positions though 

9 hours ago, pillred said:

That does come accross as a bit happy clappy, we have been mostly bad the last two seasons and today offered nothing to get exited about, we are quite rightly piss*d off and dissapointed after all the pre season optimism, today we really were crap second half especially and after two years under our present manager even with the budget restraints I think most of us well certainly me expected a little more improvement.

Disagree with this, actually thought we were a lot better than this stage last season. Going forward we’re still a good side even without Semenyo, at the back and in the midfield is where are problems were today. Really isn’t worth throwing the toys out of the pram over two games when reality is we have 44 games left

29 minutes ago, real_bristol said:

Many will tell you that we’ve not had a decent midfield since Paul Hartley. Best player Nicky Maynard ever played with or so he says.

Anyway, I think today the problem was organisational not personnel. We have the right balance in midfield when our squad is fully fit. Today would have gone differently had MJ not been injured in the warm up. It might have gone differently had he played Vyner as a defensive midfielder, his best position IMO. I thought Williams looked unfit at times. 
 

Writing off Conway already is premature. Look at Semenyo’s first 60 games for us. 

He also said his son is not Bristolian, so I won’t trust him personally

Just seems a bit of a blame game  thread if I’m honest, he took set plays for Luton where he got 8 assists last season from centre back. He even put in that excellent ball for Weimanns goal v Hull

As for Sykes he’s played there numerous times and Tanner wasn’t in the original squad 

2 hours ago, 97Red said:

I spoke to some Mackems after the game and they genuinely couldn't believe they got 3 points from that game. Maybe 1 would have been fair, but who knows, on another day, we could have got all 3! Wishful thinking from our side perhaps! I said to them, we'll be seeing you in February in a good friendly manner. But, again I genuinely feel as if we deserved more out of that game, than we got. This might be the 10 pints talking, possibly, but when I sit down and think about it (clearing my young head as much as possible), we're only 2 games in, so talk of Pearson going upstairs is really knee jerk, in my view. Let's keep the faith for now, and see what happens over the next month or so. Sunderland definitely ain't going down, neither are us in my view. But something tells me there's a good chance we'll finish above them, and possibly Hull for that matter, if we can just get thing's to click. How many times under Lee did we find ourselves saying, how did we win that?

Nigel Pearson has kept us in this division on a budget far less than his pedocessor, and in tough times as well. We owe him at least the first 10 games minimum, possibly more! Open to opposing views

Think a draw may have been fair but thought Sunderland edged it due to the midfield battle. Both attacks looked good and both defences looked all over the place as I thought all goals were gifts

7 minutes ago, redsontour said:

AS played well, but my word  Carney Chukwuemeka Is some player…would love to see him have a season in the Championship. 

He’s been coming off the bench and even starting a few games for Villa at a young age, I’d be very shocked if he doesn’t stay in the prem

17 minutes ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

That number 2 Curry dominated his flank the entire game what a unit.

You didn’t type this whilst looking at the menu at an Indian did you Jimmy?

23 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

The latest is that Bassini  might buy them!

Talk of David Sullivan being involved somehow- despite his stake at West Ham. Safe pair of hands sure but he owns 38% of West Ham, how does that work?

Maybe I am getting wires crossed here but surely Sullivan can't be involved until he divests at West Ham?

https://www.efl.com/-more/governance/efl-rules--regulations/efl-regulations/appendix-3-owners-and-directors-test/

This maybe better?

https://www.efl.com/-more/governance/efl-rules--regulations/efl-regulations/section-10-association-and-dual-interests/

If Bassini comes close to Birmingham then they’re screwed. Even if it’s temporary, one look at his Wikipedia and he shouldn’t be near 

On 02/06/2022 at 12:49, KegCity said:

They’re falling apart as a club. Could easily go into free fall if they don’t survive the drop this season.

They’d have gone down last season if it wasn’t for points deductions. Actually thought last couple of seasons they could’ve done alright but they’ve always found themselves sucked in a relegation battle. If there are no big changes at the club then I think this could be the year they drop 

3 hours ago, chinapig said:

It's generally been reported that Beale was the coaching brain in the partnership so the same may be true of Critchley. Nothing wrong with that, not all managers are hands on coaches.

But Critchley has moved away from being the boss at Blackpool to being the right hand man at Villa, which is not the usual career path. Which again is fine, he may just have found that he prefers it that way.

I think it’s very common, from the looks of the Robins uncut it seems training seems to be taken by the other coaches whilst Pearson watches on. Sir Alex Ferguson apparently never took training either and left it to his coaches