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And? It’s on the club to punish the individuals, I doubt the club is able to shut a section of the ground and rehouse STHs for a match.

Why would there be?

Great response, quality play from Weimann to spin flint.

Vyner makes me want to phone Samaritans.

Just can’t get a foot on the ball. Cardiff to be fair are pressing well and knocking it about nicely.

Advantage: Cardiff

Any stream links around? Want to make sure I don’t accidentally click on one

Semenyo has great feet but he’s streets behind Eze in terms of technical ability. That’s not a slight on Semenyo, just Eze can do far more with the ball and can play at a higher standard than Semenyo. We still need to see Antoine perform consistently in the championship before comparing him to a player that’s performed consistently in the Premier League. He’s got bags of potential, and could well end up at a similar level to Eze, but he’s not near it yet.

Too early to be making those judgements imo. Eze is a top top talent.

It's all about the rugby in Bath. It's also a tough location as they're not a big club so most people in the area either support City/Gas or are closer to Wiltshire and support Swindon. I think if they somehow got to league 2 they might be able to build some momentum.

Yeah, I didn't bother rising to that one. I just don't think they're comparable in practice, yes they're both "businesses" but there's a lot that makes a football club different to a normal business that isn't tangible. I'm obviously in the minority that think that so I won't try and convince you otherwise. As many village pubs have seen it doesn't matter if you're the only pub in the village as people will still switch allegiances, that isn't really a thing in football. For the record I'm a STH at City, not sure if that comment about being taken seriously was a dig at me or somebody else.

Yeah don’t disagree that it’s his name attached to the club, just at the risk of being too romantic whoever the owner is isn’t actually bigger than the club. To me the fans are part of the club as they’re the ones that make it what it is. I’d like to see a similar situation to the fan ownership in Germany but that won’t ever happen.

No I don’t because I don’t “support” a pub in the manner someone does a football club because a football club is not simply a business despite the attitudes of many these days. My view is that whilst the owner owns the club, it’s the fan base that make it what it is and it’s their club. I know some people like to act as if Lansdown is Mr Bristol City, for example, but he’s really safeguarding the club and running it. The club was here before he arrived and providing he doesn’t hire another Mark Ashton it will be here when he leaves. It’s part of the community. You can make a strawman comparison to a pub but they’re clearly not the same thing. Both have “customers” and owners but by that logic you can compare pretty much anything with transactions involved, they’re clearly very different organisations. Don't understand what illegal streams has to do with the club belonging to the fans. I genuinely don’t get what you mean about debts etc, if anything that strengthens my point more? Look at Wimbledon for example, now technically the club is MK Dons as it belongs to the owners who do what they like. The actual club was resurrected by the fans and is now AFC Wimbledon. They’re two different entities, technically the business renamed, rebranded and moved cities, but it’s no longer the same club. I might be pedantic or too quaint about it but whilst the fans don’t sit down and do the spreadsheets they make the club what it is. It belongs to them. The contempt of Colchester’s owner to have an attitude of “it’s my club I’ll do what I like” rubs me the wrong way because whilst it’s technically true, in reality it’s not. If every fan abandoned the club the club folds, it’s not like a pub as you alluded to where other customers can be attracted unless you do an MK Dons where it’s no longer the same club. I don’t want my bit at the minute let alone yours! I would say owners have more choice than fans over which clubs they’re involved in. You’ll have the standard top 6 fan who chops and changes but I’d expect most city STHs feel more of a connection the club than an owner, it’s not a standard choice like in most markets. Who knows though, maybe football is just another day out these days?

He owns the club, but it belongs to the fans, as it is at City. Owners, managers and players come and go but the fans stay.

Webster was not on Keane's level when he was getting England caps. Webster has since surpassed him comfortably. I'd like to see him go to Arsenal in the summer.

Very weird stick to beat our top goal scorer with but each to their own. Yep, Semenyo's been guilty of leaning back as he shoots but that certainly wasn't the case on Saturday. Said my piece on his finishes in another post: As you've made extremely clear this doesn't necessarily mean he's turned a corner, but from a purely technical POV his performance on Saturday displayed everything you want from a top forward.

For want of better phrasing he hit the ball with anger whenever he was in front of goal last Saturday. Instead of rushing the shot or taking too long to pick a spot as he's done previously, when the opportunity for a shot arose he got the ball out of his feet, took a step and just struck the ball cleanly and hard. The way he shrugged off their centre backs and ran half the length of the pitch showed that "**** it, I'll do it myself" mentality that Harry Brooks and other coaches attribute with top players. Whether that was a flash in the pan or the start of something exciting remains to be seen, but there's promising signs there.

Just because he isn't Jude Bellingham doesn't mean he doesn't have a high ceiling.

Pretty accurate!

He scored against Norwich. That's about it. The bar for him is so low that the occasional performance where he actually does his job is seen to be much better than it is.

I get what you mean but that's not the right attitude to go into a league match with. We could have competed with Fulham for 90 minutes. We did it in the first two meetings with them this season and we did it for the first 30 minutes of yesterday. It was the complete collapse of Kalas/Vyner that threw the game away. Yes they were against excellent players, but it wasn't any opposition magic that lost us the game.

Pring was the only defender to do themselves any justice imo.

There’s no conundrum. He’s had enough chances to produce and he hasn’t taken them. Wish we’d let him go to Leeds.

Is winning at Fulham classed as doing something? Meant more actually achieving something aside from beating man united.

He embodies Lee Johnson’s team well. A lot of energy without ever really doing anything