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Really frustrating. It's quite disillusioning feeling so unimportant to an institution I put about a grand into every year. It's like they see us fans as a nuisance to deal with. We just want to be kept in the loop. They forget we as fans and supporters care more about this club than many of them as employees.

Ok, looks like it’s sorted (ish). Anyone in the industry of data or seen anything like this? Could this actually cause us big problems? No I’m no JL before anyone asks ?

God sake man. I assume banking details are mostly ‘**’? Ie we don’t all need to put our bank accounts on hold? Ruined the dog walk this.

This is the key for me. I'm frustrated by the weird home kit variability (collar size, shirt trim... why is it changing?!), and the clubs stark refusal to give us any indication of an away kit release (how hard is it to tweet that the away kit launch is being prepped and all is well, enough people are asking). BUT I don't want bad feeling seeping from the fans into the club just as we're heading into a hopefully very productive season. If the kit is the biggest problem, that's a fairly charmed life. Hopefully this O'Neill's deal is short and sweet and we'll be back with a proper distributor when we're in Europe in a few years

Will today be away kit day? Will it be this week? Have O'Neills forgotten to make one altogether? All these answers and more on this weeks edition of... Bristol City: Apparel Apathy!

I wouldn't say no to an old head to compete with/mentor Max but it's a nice to have rather than a need. I think Bajic will impress a few if called upon.

A couple more games under the belt and the lads seem to be playing well. Still no sign of Kal sadly. Injured: Atkinson Naismith Benarous Ross McCrorie was absent from both games today. Potentially an injury, but that’s not confirmed at the moment (to my knowledge). I note there were some subs today, I take that to be a case of controlling minutes and legs rather than injury subs? I didn’t watch either game but can’t see anything about knocks in the mdt. 2 weeks to go ?️

Haha na I’ll get you an executive box mate ?

I’ll be buying a couple, just waiting on payday. Few others may be doing the same ?

As soon as Leeson started earlier I was concerned about McCrorie and Tanner! Seems the former is playing no part today. Concerning. ‘Minor calf strain’ according to the local paper, fingers crossed they’re right! We’ve heard that before and not seen a player for two months.

6pm ticks past with no cryptic nonsense so looks as though no away kit tonight. Preston just announced theirs so I think that’s 18 teams who’ve released it. I wonder if Scott was central to the announcement vid and they’re now in an awkward position?

I've not heard anything. Just hopeful. Was always very much under the impression he likes being in Bristol. Go on TK, sign it ?

Cardiff are financially a bit wobbly aren't they. If he went to them and we didn't match their wage offer I'd be pretty disappointed. We need an extra body who can play the two centre-half roles and he knows the team and city inside out. I'm still hopeful he signs.

Posts at 8 and 10 on the dot, I’m gonna stick my neck out and say I think we’ll have the away kit tonight.

I was on holiday for that Sheffield United game. My Gashead Uncle was having a lot of fun taking the piss... up until the Wade Elliot (I think?) winner!

The really stark realisation of how little pre-season results matter came in 2014 for me. Before we won the double and got oh so close to 100 points I watched as we lost to Weston-Super-Mare. Not a dig OP, just an anecdote I like to share. I’m sure many others recall that evening.

Talk of Wolves and £25 million on Twitter now. One thing I will say, I have every faith that Tinns and Pearson can immediately pull a trigger and get wheels in motion on some new post-Scott signings. BUT we're not there yet. Let's see where this goes.

Following our 7-1 win at the HPC against Swindon, we've had an an opportunity to look at swathes of our squad as we fielded 2 different XI's and some of our young guns, including OTC, Palmer-Houlden and Idehen, turned out for Swindon. Everyone we expected to be present was. Wiles-Richards didn't play (I'm assuming he didn't get any time in Swindon's net?) as Bajic was given an hour instead. Main headline, still no Kal Injured: Atkinson Naismith Benarous

I actually think it would be a good move for all parties. We'll loan in Haaland as cover.

One more to match our Torquay tally.

Gwan Stef. Crocked. This seasons first CB crisis has come in *checks notes* July. Anyone got a full list of our youngsters playing for Swindon?

Pre-season, means nothing, I'm not worried at all. But I do want to see us get better in those moments after we score. We must protect leads better this coming season.

Very different forwards but I do have a special feeling about Bell. Conway is excellent but something about Bell's game just moves me.

It's a good XI, even better when you factor in the lack of Atkinson/Naismith/Pring/Weimann/Conway/Mehmeti. We're putting a really nice little squad together.

I could see there being something in them delaying the release of the third kit for fear of backlash. The club will be aware of how under scrutiny the club apparel is following the Hummel/O'Neills switch mid season and the negative reactions to both O'Neills kits and splat. Or they're releasing it really late to try and maximise interest/'hype'? Either way it's a bit dumb. If the away kit proves popular, get it out now so you can sell more units and if it proves unpopular, rip the band aid off and get it over with. Finally bring this saga to an end ? At the end of the day, it's one season. We'll have many more kits and suppliers over the coming decades. We may have to write this one off!