DaveInSA

For me it’s about momentum and Nigel Pearson. If the young lads believe and why wouldn’t they, we could do a Leicester (without he winning the Prem bit, obvs). I think we could extend all of their deals. FFP is an issue, though but that’s Richar Gould’s job to balance the books. Cant we fire the useful overpaid assholes that don’t even get in the bench - breach of contract or something - just so poor.

If I’m being a bit harsh, I reckon he’s got to be more ‘available’ for the ball. That backpass from HNM in the first half. He surely can see that Han is in trouble and he must make for the corner flag for an easy back pass and clear the lines?

He was proper rubbish.

Such a negative view. Your man Semenyo was utter quality today. Take him out of the city line up and you have…literally no movement, no pace in the press. Nobody running back to make interceptions and pressure the opposition into mistakes. He’s critical to the way we play. And his goal today was brilliant. so get off your high horse admit you’re wrong and we can all move on.

I’ll think we’ll start with 11 players. And take it from there.

Me too. I haven’t been since the shambolic battering at the hands of Blackburn. I haven’t witnessed such a lack lustre performance in years. We offered nothing going forward. And the throw in routine was at under 3 level of ?. I vowed not to return unless we were entertaining. I’m hoping for that. And a bit of fight and commitment. and a 3-1 city win.

You can’t coach players who don’t want to learn. Or that can’t implement instructions on the pitch. I don’t think the players we have are good enough. Individually maybe; as a team they’re not. They’re mentally weak. You can have all the talent in the world, if you don’t believe then you’re done. Not three managers has got a tune out of them. So is it the fiddle, the conductor, the orchestra or the music?

Fixed that for you

I’ll never get these 2 hours of my life back. Egypt is dire. But could Gabanski solve our goal keeping problem?

How do you score two thirds of a goal? I’ve been on this planet 47 years and never seen it?

They need to clean Liz Truss. Filthy. Dirty. She is.

Would you rather… be paid 15k a week playing first team football or be paid 80k a week warming the bench at Bournemouth. that’s the equation.

He’s the 21st century Ian Wright. What a ?.

Who?

Dear Forum, Two weeks ago we got hammered 6-2 vs Fulham. Yesterday, we played well and drew 2-2 away at mid table PNE. One week from now, we will have lost at Blackpool and it will be "pearson out", at least according to @ralphmilnesleft foot and @hampshirered. Let's have a sense of perspective shall we. and consider the long term. We are in phase 1 of a massive rebuilding job, on and off the field. The young players have come in and to some degree displaced the old guard. We're playing positive front foot football, mainly due to the positive impact of Semenyo. Pearson is showing us a glimpse of what is possible. We're still shipping goals for fun. And many on this forum still think that "scoring" is our problem...:laugh:. When did we last keep a clean sheet. Phase two is consolidation (next season). Phase 3 is the push (season after). Who knows, it may all click next year. And we have to keep our best players for that big push. If we sell it aint gonna happen. So do we keep them and risk losing them on a free, push for promotion and keep them? OR do we sell them and be unable to replace them? Stick or twist ladies and gents... Of course there is another way, that we have players tee'd up as replacements. But we're Bristol City. A half baked custard tart. And there's FFP and all that other stuff around finances to throw into the mix as well. Cheers DaveInSA

Another fine for Pearson. He's right though. The refereeing is awful. And we never seem to get anything from the refs. Ever.

Wow. I’m lost for words Ralph, spanking. good defensive shape and on the attack we look amazing. holdenball has died.

Flapper Phillips. I’d forgotten all about him ?

Also on the plus side. He rarely plays.?

That second goal…was brilliant. A carbon copy of Foden’s against Brentford. And FYI if you didn’t watch that game, the Sky commentators creamed themselves about the quality. I also think @spudski you have a point about technical ability. I can’t correlate today’s wages with the talent on show. Maybe my expectations are too high? Some of the crossing I see at the highest levels of the game, from players on £40k a week is shameful.

seems gross to me ?

…I landed. Moving back to the UK from South Africa. it’s been downhill ever since. From a footballing and socio-political perspective…

Bottom line is. I don’t think any of our players are top half Championship quality. Vyner is a symptom and not a cause. I’ve read on here that people think we have very good players. but who are they? Because they don’t turn up on a Saturday at Ashton gate or a Tuesday in Sheffield. one game in ten to ‘put a shift in’ isn’t good enough. There’s no leadership on the pitch.

Very good players. I’d gamble that none of them would make it into a top 6 side in this division. Very inconsistent players too. For me, they’re not good enough. They don’t have the mental fortitude. They’re not ‘winners’. They expend a lot of energy but deliver little.

Not pompous. I was asking you to support your opinion, with some facts. What you’ve stated above re ‘losing concentration’ - how do you coach that? That is an individual weakness- which is far too prevalent in the DNA of our players. Ashton deliberately recruited ‘mentally weak’ players. As a collective their is no coherence and no leadership on the pitch. You can’t coach that - I think it’s telling that our under 23s are showing these seasoned pros the dark art of shithousery. We’ll not do much business in Jan (I hope we do) there’s no money. We’re spending all our cash on Players to sit on their backsides. So unless KP, JD, Wells and Moore go, we can’t afford it. we have defenders who can’t defend, a midfield that is non existent and an attack spearheaded by a geriatric. All in all it’s a total mess.