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A few positives to take on a tricky afternoon for us: -£20+ million, 25 achievable according to some journos, secures the club for years. Many clubs can only dream of that kind of influx. -The 4 players we have brought in, and previous windows, show Tinns and the team don’t miss very often. They have money now. -Jason Knight needs one more goal this season to better Scott’s total last season and it’s August 9th. It’s the current pecking order, B’mouth took our Starboy but our status as a Championship club meant we could take Derby’s. -In very recent memory, our academy has given us Scott, Semenyo, Bell, Conway, Kelly, and Benarous. Araoye, Yeboah, Palmer-Houlden, Kinght-Lebel and Francois are loading, and who knows who’s after them. Scott was generational, but the way our academy is going, we’ll have more stars coming soon. Chins up. Big season ahead.

Just soak it all up. The Ashton implosion a year or two from now is going to be a sight to behold.

CB. Could we look at Tom Holmes out of Reading? 100 odd Championship appearances but still young, 2 years left on his deal might make them consider a sale at 'optimum price' like us with Scott. Solid injury record. He might want to return to the Championship and boost his wages so we could have him pushing from his end too to keep the price respectable. Any graphics @Davefevs?

Assuming ANY of the add-ons are triggered (I'm sure some will be), that makes this a club record sale. Previous was Webster, 20 million flat?

Fabrizio'd. 20 million, 5 million in add-ons (hopefully achievable add ons, we may never know the ins and outs). That's a LOT of money for our club. Good luck Alex. Seemed a good kid. If we play Bournemouth in our impending League Cup run, have a stinker for us son. ?

The McCrorie one is certainly new ground for me, 'bacterial infection'. Sounds more ill than injured. Looking forward to seeing him play.

Might’ve been about continuing to build the Vyner-Dickie combo too. Get them more familiar with one another’s game.

Win win. Two good players battling it out for the starting berth. Be happy with either on the team sheet.

My only whinge from tonight is I’d have liked to have seen Araoye or Knight-Lebel get some first-team minutes while we were so comfy at 4-1/5-1. Opportunity to rest Zak or Rob too. BUT was really cool seeing Yeboah get a run out, and enjoyed his pace and presence. Looked very bright.

Would rather QPR than Norwich of course, but home and doable so we’ll take it. Good win tonight, well in lads ?️

Vyner and Dickie looking a good pair, and with Naismith back we have a more than able deputy out of midfield. Well done to the centre-halves ?️

Hopefully a clean bill of health from a dominant win tonight, no sign of any injuries. In a week where our two star-boys are tearing hamstrings and chasing premier league dreams, battering Oxford and silencing that away end helped a little. He stays on the list til it’s confirmed ?? Injured: Atkinson McCrorie Scott Benarous Weimann Conway

Naismith back on the bench is a massive boon. Smart as well not to throw him straight in, more likely to need him against Millwall. Yebaoh on the bench due to dwindling numbers, be cool to see him get a run out. Injured: Atkinson McCrorie Scott Benarous Weimann Conway

Easy to be frustrated, I wouldn’t call it an overreaction. It’s certainly very frustrating. Law of averages says we’ll have a season soon where it all clicks, and it’ll be penalties and availability galore ?

Is that 20 separate offences? That’s bordering on full time work!

Looking forward to tonight. Another dose of Ashton Gate after a long summer and hoping to see one or both of Araoye/Knight-Lebel in action for the first time. Draw is directly after the match so should we progress, we'll know our next opponents almost immediately. Joe Williams to score.

Open to this ? would be interesting. Don’t keep a close eye on others but I would guess the last two seasons we’ve been about average/slightly better than average. The season before that, and this season thus far, I think one of the worst.

These threads were born out of the injury crisis a few years ago when we had circa 15 out. I would love nothing more than to support a club where this ain’t necessary ??

I can’t lie I’m looking at Rennie now. He seemed to get everything under control last season but this is starting to feel like the dark days of the Holden era now (solely from an injury perspective that is).

Is Nige saying this not a bit of a ploy to keep expectations in check? If we sold Scott for £20+5m having got £10m for Antoine 8 months ago, surely we’re financially very comfortable?

I basically include any players who aren’t match-fit for the first team, so we know who we can expect to be picking from for any upcoming games. Great news about them both though, hoping we may even see Naismith tomorrow (in which instance he’ll leave the list - and save our season ?).

Say it quietly, do we accelerate the Scott sale to finance some squad depth.

Conway has torn his hamstring. This may be an injury crisis at this point, 7 injured in a squad of 26 is over 1/4 of the players. Of the players we gave squad numbers too, we have 19 left, not enough for a full Matchday squad. When will we become a club that gets some luck? Or just less bad luck? Hopefully it turns soon, let’s get behind the boys we still have until then ?️ Injured: Atkinson McCrorie Naismith Scott Benarous Weimann Conway

Too early to say injuries have tanked our season? Because it feels like injuries have tanked our season. Rest up TC ?

Save stating a new thread on a busy weekend, how do people think we line up Weds. Strong to get the home win, youngsters to protect our fairly thin squad, or a mix? Think I’d do something like (433): O’Leary: Tanner, Vyner, Araoye, Pring: Williams, Knight, King: Cornick, Wells, Mehmeti. It’s a lot of tough calls, but my thinking was to keep Dickie, James, Sykes and Conway on ice until the war with Millwall. Hopefully we see one or two back from injury (Weimann? Naismith?) which would of course change things.