Jerseybean

Wouldn't it be great if we could reproduce the equivalent of the first half v Wednesday and the second half v Villa today?! LJ's team selection is going to be fascinating. The three games we've lost have all been by a single goal, so not sure where the heavy defeat predictions come from. I think today we will win 2-1 with our winner coming from a PENALTY!

As always being a City fan means an evening full of all human emotions....hard to know where to start - losing after being 2-0 up, the penalty miss which would have made it 1-3, sending off, our defending / keeping or conceding so late.

Welcome back Korey

The roller-coaster experience that is being a City fan....one minute playing ten men with a pen to make it 1-3 next minute it's 10 v 10 and 1-2

Haven't managed the first bit, let's look forward to the second bit

Now we need to manage the opening 20 minutes of the second half before Tammy claims his hat trick

Tammy needs freedom of the City of Bristol......

August 1971

With the full squad on the coach yesterday it be fascinating to see the starting line-up and who doesn't make the bench tonight....... Our travelling fans please take a bow; getting to Sheffield on a Tuesday is commendable, make plenty of noise, enjoy the game and let's come away with nothing less than a point and ideally three.

I for one would have settled for a point at 3 pm today and certainly would have done so with 20 minutes to go! In the end we could have come away with all three points. This performance/result shows us: the character and belief we have in the squad that our manager continues to impress, be bold and make critical substitutions the questionable mentality of Tomlin (fourth yellow card today) the difference between this and last season our worrying ratio of converting possession/attempts into goals the never-ending emotional roller-coaster that us City fans experience!

We rescued a point and very nearly three, great character/belief among the squad, which unfortunately was not shared by all those posting on here this afty.

A point away to a team we do poorly against, having been two down, is to be celebrated. We dominated possession / attempts and showed great character to carry on believing and could have won it in the end, hitting the post in the 90th minute!

Time for us to get a third!

Half an hour to rescue this......look at what happened in the final few minutes of the first half at Fratton Park today, we can still turn all this possession into points!

Four

Starting 11 unchanged, Smith does not feature on the bench

This is a really interesting game by which to mark our progress as its: 1) against a team we haven't done well against 2) the kind of game we should be looking to win these days 3) the first game when LJ (other than for Matthews and perhaps Smith) has to pick from a full/new squad Team selection IMO will be: Abraham O'Dowa Tomlin Paterson Pack O'Neil Bryan Magnusson Flint Little O'Donnell Subs: Fielding, Ekstrand, Moore, Smith, Reid, Freeman, Engvall Obviously would be delighted if we come back with three points; but critically let's not lose today.