The Dolman Pragmatist

13 minutes ago, Percy Pig said:

Sorry, what? 

39 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Didn't work out though did it. We lost to a team that hadn't been able to buy a win before meeting us. So, I conclude, an error of judgement.

The list of players that train fantastically, but don't perform as well in a competitive game is much longer than the list of those that do. 

18 hours ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

Micky Mellon would make my "Bristol City Alliterative Names X1" every day of the week (that club football takes a break for international games), alongside Gerry Gow in midfield. But will it be Albert, Trevor Tainton or Greg Goodridge wide right? Fred Ford or Big Joe Jordan (first time round) in the dugout? I don't think we've ever had a keeper for this X1 though?

Of course, they would face a World X1 featuring Zinedine Zidane and Kevin Keegan. And Billy Bonds. Or Didier Deschamps, perhaps. And the Dutch maestro, Robbie Rensenbrink. 

It might have to be 5 - a - side .....

 

Hope you’ve got Dickie Down up front and Chris Crowe crossing to him from the wing…

How tall do you have to be to qualify as ‘Big…’?

19 hours ago, Percy Pig said:

They're not seeing anything, though. Because he's not as bad as people are making out and hasn't been as bad as people are making out. The trouble is, the vast majority of our fanbase know the square root of **** all about football. Pretty generalised and rude comment, I appreciate, but it's an opinion I hold that is based on the myriad of evidence I have experienced on many platforms and at the Gate. 

Even here, you are attempting a reasoned/reasonable post and compare a player who's played less than 400 minutes of football for us to a dog. A dog FFS. The other hypothetical quotes that you've conjured up are all a combination of conjecture and hyperbole. He clearly can control a ball, he's done alright in his two starts in increasingly difficult circumstances for the team

You ask what the solution is and cite the opposition do to our players as evidence that they will receive similar abuse? So what? You think as SUPPORTERS (Just read that word a back a couple of times, maybe have a quick gander through a dictionary, I dunno) we should not act differently to opposition fans re: our own? That's absolutely farcical logic.  There is a very obvious solution, we support the ******* players, no questions asked. Because that's our job for crying out loud. 

If I came to your place of work a matter of weeks after you joined a new organisation and started commenting below every report you submitted, every meeting you chaired, every shelf that you stacked that you were no better than a dog I promise you that you'd crumble. You can pretend you're some super hard man with thicker skin than a silverback Gorilla but the truth is negative feedback and a toxic work environment will never, ever produce better results. To persist with abusing, belittling and dismissing a player of obvious and proven pedigree at this level is to openly declare that you do not give a flying shit about the fortunes of either Harry Cornick or Bristol City. 

He isn't Lionel Messi, no. But what he is is our player, moving to a new city with his children likely remaining half the country away whilst in school, with a run of injuries and a totally new system and teammates to gel with. Just get off the ******* blokes back and give him a bit of leeway. What do we lose by leaving the negativity at the door? Genuine question? What do you lose? Arguably the better question is what do you gain and the answer to that is nothing, nothing at all other than negatively contributing to the club you profess to love.

 

(A lot of the you's in this are "the royal you", by the way, before this get's needlessly personal)

Sorry, but this is absurd.  If football fans can’t come on to a fans forum and post opinions about a player then what’s the point of having a forum?  I don’t remember any posts like this when fans noticed that Lois Diony was total dog mess after less than 90 minutes.

I’m sure we all hope that Cornick is a success, but I’m not surprised that people are not overwhelmed by his performances so far.

I feel sorry for the guy.  Something has gone very wrong there.  Remember him for MK Dons in our promotion season?  What a prospect he looked then…

3 hours ago, cidered abroad said:

I'm not surprised that you see nothing amiss with that article. It's full of bitterness if you can read between the lines. Chairmen should be more graceful than that.

And for the rest of City fans. This is a club that has spent a lot longer in the top league since the war and been to cup finals, not Mickey Mouse ones, than us.

They play a horrible style, but effective. Are well trained in the darker side of things will probably be in the play offs for the second year in a row. If they did go up, they would (dis)grace the Prem for quality of football but would be £100 million better off in one season.

While our massive club, with a superb stadium instead of some people's back yards, will still be stuck in the Championship.

PS. At least our owner has not knowingly cheated the FFP rules like Luton did on their way out of the League a few years ago. And he had the decency to get rid of the worm who did.

I thought they played some nice football, particularly in the first half last night.

7 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

It’s only been mentioned 8 times, he’s ill.

Sorry, reading the thread backwards.

27 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Gentle reminder for anyone bashing us that because of our injuries we are having to play a right forward at RB, a LB at CB and flogging a 34 year old in CM for consecutive games, can’t even name a full bench. Thanks 

Is Tanner injured then?

What was Cam doing?

18 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Absolutely right. Scott is a CM who can play anywhere across the engine room. Using dark age positional numbers to describe his position is pretty meaningless.

AW wears number 14 so he wouldn’t have got a game in the old days………..I rest my case……………

In the old days no one would have worn number 14………

Bath City now only two points off the play-offs in National League South.

3 hours ago, Jeez said:

 

Would love to get hold of a hi-res image of this:

 

 

 

There’s a large print of it on the wall in the Malago, opposite the Hen & Chicken.

1 hour ago, Magger1 said:

Cheers can’t bear an old program though 

Bear or beat?  

The old story - when did we last win a match when we had more than 50% possession?   We perform against the top sides but fall short against anyone who sits back.  Been like that for a few seasons.

Mind you, given our injuries I’ll take a point.  King (surprisingly) lasted the distance, Cam filled in well at Centre Half and Zak took responsibility.

51 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

I reckon I’m closer to the first team reckoning than Duncan Idehen at this point.

Well he’s captain, so someone believes in him.

3 minutes ago, Galley is our king said:

Incredibly ridiculous post.....

Well, there is something in it.  Successful teams stay largely injury-free.  Playing with players who tend to pick up injuries is a big risk.

4 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Yep, Wickham made a back by not jumping & he went over him.

Not sure what he’s supposed to do there, fail to challenge?

Hope for his sake & ours he’s back soon.

I don’t buy this making a back business.  Kalas has a track record of jumping early and high over the back of a defender.  How many times has he done this and hurt himself?  Wickham just stood his ground as far as I could see

9 minutes ago, Taunton_BCFC said:

Has anyone else’s not come out yet this month? Normally the 1st 

Yeah, got emails yesterday saying it will come out tomorrow instead.

True story.  Many, many (many) years ago, when a student, I got into the Directors’ Box at Chelsea thanks to a friend who was having a relationship with one of the Directors’ daughters.  At half time we were in the hospitality suite talking to the then injured Peter Osgood when he said “Stand in front of me lads.  If that **** sees me, I’ll have to talk to him”.  The **** was John Motson.

17 minutes ago, frenchred said:

Refereeing at all levels in England have plummeted, ours refs used to be looked up to all around the world, now they rarely get selected for top European games, this impacts the levels and performance throughout the pyramid

I watch an awful lot of football at all levels, and I can honestly say that the standard of refereeing at grassroots youth level is very good.  The best referee I’ve seen this season (reffing an Under 14 game) was 17.  What has changed is the level of abuse refs get from coaches and supporters/parents, which is completely unacceptable.  Refs can only give what they see, and they’re not helped by the frequent changes or ‘clarifications’ to the laws of the game which only make their jobs more difficult.

10 hours ago, Lew-T said:

I’m still not 100% convinced Max O’Leary is the answer for us. I know the results have really picked up, but I don’t get the impression he’s the future for us going forward.

Max has been exceptional recently, but last night would have been a nightmare for any goalkeeper.  At times last night there were at least fifteen players in the six-yard box - I defy any goalkeeper to have a comfortable night when their chances of getting near the ball at set pieces are virtually nil. And whenever Max was in possession of the ball, Wigan were closing us down immediately, leaving him with the only quick option of a long punt downfield.  That’s not the way we play, so he was right to delay distribution until options were available.

Give the bloke some credit - how many goals have we conceded recently?  And whatever happened to ‘he’s one of our own’.  In Zak and Max’s cases that seems to mean that they have more to prove.

17 hours ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

Despite how his tenure ended a very good choice for me. He came in with a remit to change the football side of the club top to bottom and did just that. We were so close to the Premier League which is why I take exception to the OP's comment that we failed to rise to the occasion. We list McCombe  on the eve of the final and Bradley Orr not far in which made a big difference to us. We conceded as we failed to stop a cross coming in from our right (where Orr would have been) although it took a tremendous strike nevertheless. Even then we were denied a Trundle equaliser by the thickness of Michael Turner's thigh. Hull fans I spoke were convinced we'd have won had it gone to Extra time as they were out on their feet. 

Still think Johnson made a major error in not taking Orr off sooner, but more importantly in bringing Little Lee on and moving Marvin Elliott to right back.  For me it should always have been Carey to right back and Vasko on, leaving Elliott in midfield.

6 minutes ago, hertsexile said:

But could nothing as the idiot I that day didn’t ask and VAR was not in play

Got to hand it to you mate, that’s a cracking sentence.  

6 hours ago, Monkeh said:

i hope the parents and kid is banned for life, entering the field of play is a criminal offence, we have been warned about this from the FA and EFL and most likely will be fined again as a result, whether the steward over stepped the mark isn't the problem, beaking the ******* law is the actual problem

A child banned for life for running on the pitch?  Surely he should be whipped through the streets of Bristol too?

Perhaps motorists should be banned from driving for life if they exceed the speed limit.  I’m sure you’ve never ******* done that though.

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

Is it just me, but…

…wouldn’t it be more polite to say “please can I have your shirt”?

To me it just reads a bit rude.

Come on Dave, he has said “please”!