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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.

Community Shield @ 4. Good chance to see how the best two sides in England last year are looking.

Until Knight is up to speed, no Naismith or Scott in the team is gonna hurt us. 3 shots today, imo because the team weren’t springing any attacks. Long balls to monstrous centre-halves were always a long shot.

Disappointed with performance and two old habits - poor after scoring and poor after 85. Thought our quality was below the mark for most of today. We got a point - that’s a nice positive. But hard not to feel a bit flat, we’ve been here far too many times before. Edit: Dickie, Vyner, Williams, Bell very good. Deserve special mentions.

A point on the board is ok, albeit we showed some old traits - poor after taking the lead and poor late in the game. But it’s Matchday 1 - nothing won or lost today! Onto the Cup and a nice home win. Weimann joins a growing injury list. Injured: Atkinson McCrorie Naismith Scott Benarous Weimann

Disappointing performance, I expected more from us today. We took one of our few chances but then went very City - hated having the lead. And sure enough, lost the lead late. All painfully familiar.

We’re so back.

No spot in the squad for the injured 5, as expected. Bajic misses out through competition, with HWR taking the bench keeper spot. Injured: Atkinson McCrorie Naismith Scott Benarous 5 out. One or two too many given our small squad size, but the quality we now have throughout the squad means a strong starting XI and bench today. Here we go again then. Nervous, excited, desperate for three points. COYR. ?️

How bad is the injury?!

Alex Scott’s injury has the BCFC Shags confirmation - good enough for me. Nothing like you’re best player getting injured on the eve of the new season Injured: Atkinson McCrorie Naismith Scott Benarous Tomorrow just got tougher!

26 man squad currently then, with 20 needed for a matchday. As others have mentioned, surprised no number for OTC and I thought Francois might be given minutes here and there. As we could all see, Araoye and Knight-Lebel impressed in pre-season.

I honestly thought it meant Antoni Gaudi and was a new rhyming slang for cloudy.

‘Knock’ for Scott. Deal imminent? Throw off Preston? Or he actually has a knock. Who knows. I’ll keep him off the list for now. Injured: Atkinson McCrorie Naismith Benarous Any chance we can pin this mods?

Big season for Nige’s tenure as our manager. I’ve got a feeling he’s gonna smash it.