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If we keep building that pickled nest egg, we can be Luton one day

What we all need right now: a day out with the boys/girls, an away win, and a nice sing-song on the way home. Maybe not the pickled eggs, though (could lob these out the window)

Booo, boring

Was it a good post, mate?

"And now yer gonna beLIEVE Us .... the Welsh're f **** n' sh*t"

Don't think Steve's funding any more overnights, Col. And no fish and chips on the way back when we win, neither

I last saw him play when he was 9 or 10, so if he's still the same it should be fun/interesting/infuriating. Liked a mazy dribble back then.

What are we doing? We are Biden our time

If you are Steve, just how well do you want your successor to do, though? You wouldn't want them doing too well, would you? Imagine you're Steve, and you sell up to whoever, and they move in and swiftly make some strategic changes, new CEO, new Head Coach and so on, and then, in their first full season, Bristol City fly, finish in the top six, fail heroically, make a small fortune/nest egg, and second full season, the new owner takes us to promotion. If you're Steve, you're thinking: Ffs! Imagine you're Steve, and you sell up, and we go up (and stay up), and nobody misses you. Not even those that defended you to the end. That's got to hurt? If you’re Steve, and you sell the City, you don't want the owners doing that well, do you? Not really, deep down. That's got to be a quiet thought he has to himself, once in a while? You want to be missed, a bit. Or more than a bit. You want the gobby ****ers that told you you knew nothing about football to eat their words. And they won't be doing that if the new bloke/owner is too successful, too quickly.

Do we need an "Injured Thread" ? Would it be more time efficient to have instead a "Fit" thread? Oh, and I hope we win Saturday too, everyone, same as you.

Ok. Vincent Tan, wakes up in the morning, first thing on his mind: wish we'd got Bale. Bloke at Plymouth, wakes up, first thought: cheese and onion, or proper Cornish Bloke at Stoke, wakes up, first thought: summat to do with betting, horses, odds. Tony Bloom, up, first: that Benham's a **** Matthew Benham, up, first: that Bloom's a **** Blokes at Man Utd, up, first: baseball, hot dogs, candy, Trump, Harry McGuire Bloke at Spurs: Lloyd Kelly? Bloke at Chelsea: must buy someone today Bloke at FGR: is it windy today? Bloke at QPR: frug me, Chris Martin is slow Bloke at Burnley: is Vince ok? Bloke at Everton: Oh no

Hall & Oates's "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" has potential here, "I can't answer that (no .... ?)" with a big 80s sax bit too ...

Because they speak with forked tongue, them Lansdowns

Fever Pitch is a book, Dave, and nothing else.

Only 100?

I was referring to coaches/managers, not players. Mind, a coach/manager from overseas wouldn't be buying Harry Cornick or Mark Sykes. Or George Tanner. He'd be bringing in talent from elsewhere (but not on our current budget, of course). There are stats that demonstrate non Uk/Irish head coaches/managers win more points per game in English football (including lower leagues) than home grown ones. It's a fact! The numbers have been crunched, Brit managers are overrated, and dopey club owners plough on regardless appointing less able but familiar looking/sounding blokes to do a statistically poorer job. "But that's because Jose was at Chelsea, Pep at Man City, Klopp at Liverpool" you're thinking. "It's not comparing like-for-like." It's the same in the lower leagues. The stats from 92/3 over three decades in the Football League reveal that Brit/Irish managers average 1.36 points per game, whilst overseas managers average 1.49, a six point difference over 46 games. Is Steve Lansdown even aware of this data?

Anyone else hearing the Largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony (that's the Hovis ad music, for all the Comprehensive ed-ju-ca-ted football lads on here) as you read this? Welling up, me. I will think of your words, Merrick, when Steve goes and some dodgy overseas sort takes over, and we find ourselves 17th in L1 for a decade ....

No, let's

A few lively home games, with shots on goal, things to make the crowd "ooo" and "ahhh" occasionally, and cheers at the final whistle, and smiles all round. He needs to do something to cheer/stir the bleedin place up

Nige said we wouldn't bring players in unless they were better, and fair play to him, we're not bringing anyone in having sold Scott cos we'll not be bringing anyone in that good. Although, maybe Barry Bannon?

We need to go Johnny Foreigner, yes! At last, someone catches on (to what I have been pointing out, occasionally, on here, for many a year now). Steve needs to widen his search for his next head coach, people all over the planet manage and coach football (who knew) and many of them (who knew) are better at it than our brave English Nigels and Lees/blokes (bless 'em). There's even studies and stats to back this up (feast yer eyes, Davefevs and that Ajax lad). Fact is, English blokes aren't that good and you don't need to "know the league." Look how international the Championship is now, then cast and eye over Bristol City: It’s like Brexit's last stand. Even Burnley have gone abroad.

Nige only has himself to blame, here. He had only to ask around, plenty of people within the game would know and tell him. And besides, he worked for Mel Morris and at Watford

It might be Deano (if not "Phlegm-o")

Cotts said this too! He said it was a "little West Country habit" of ours, to have a bit of a moan. Think this was early doors in the promotion season, did we lose at home to Oxford in the League Cup? About then, it was. We didn't moan so much after that, that season. Not sure having a bit of a grumble is exclusively West Country mind, not sure Cotts was right about that.

That'd be a "lively" point to put to Nige on a Thursday or post match, might bring out the ostrich in him. Need to spark something somehow, are BBC Radio Local up to it?