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13 hours ago, WirralRobin said:

Sykes is the Scott Wagstaff of 2014/2015 right? Versatile, always gives hundred percent, good squad player, who will mostly come off the bench....

...and get slaughtered by the thick, quick-to-anger/slow-on-the-uptake cocaine types

21 hours ago, TheReds said:

I do not disagree, but no doubt there are many on here where who seem to imply we should have never have signed him, worse signing ever (hindsight), yet I really cannot remember a huge bunch of people actually against the signing at the time, and it seemed to me (I may well be wrong), that the huge majority of fans were ecstatic when it was announced.

We are only privy though to a fraction of the information LJ and MA would've had at their disposal when making their decision to sign him - the first to take the plunge and offer him a permanent contract. We can only go by what we see on matchday, and that's missing a lot of vital info. 

LJ and MA were paid handsomely to get enough of these decisions right, and they got far too many wrong.

16 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

 

I've seen us win in Berlin twice, for starters. 

I've seen us lose in Stuttgart, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt.

11 minutes ago, brad blit said:

I might be wrong in thinking hes away on Holiday at the moment

...on Holiday from?

1 hour ago, chinapig said:

 

He just doesn't seem to be tactically disciplined, 

You mean: "He's a liability when he doesn't have the ball" ?

If so, Cruyff's quote about a player having the ball for on average only 3 minutes in a game springs to mind, he said:

"...the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball? That is what determines whether you are a good player or not."

I don’t think boys like KP and many others like him grow up believing this from JC to be true - as a boy, skipping past 5 or 6 opponents at will, scoring 40 or 50 goals a season - they grow up believing they are incredibly special and talented, and have what it takes and are destined to be a special player for someone like Chelsea - and this talent certainly carries them a long way and gets them so far - even as far as lucrative professional contracts - but eventually most meet reality and the limits of their talent.

Then what?

Then, to be a "good player or not" is determined by other things, nothing to do with your ability to manipulate a ball.

And this is where, I imagine, boys like KP - feted for so long, told they are "special" or "talented" - struggle. To be good player ie get picked, involves a whole lot of stuff they believe is for other less talented boys and not for them. They can't or won't make the switch

It's not like KP will be unaware of what is required in professional football to be a good player, to be a regular First XI player, so what has he done about that in his time - he has had plenty of this here - here?

Is it a case of he "can't" or he "won't" ?

As I imagine it, some boys that grow up streets ahead of their peers and feted for their talent just can't be doing with what is required in those 87 minutes and when they are being rewarded as KP still is, and no doubt will be again when he's gone from here, then it must be tempting to think: why change?

They want the game to fit to how they are, not the other way round. 

I am guessing and speculating but KP has had long enough now - long enough here, long enough out on loan - to know what is required and do something about and adapt his game, but it hasn't happened. 

3 hours ago, Shireman said:

  I wonder how many of the current squad  will be remembered by fans 70 years from now 

Well, nowadays, any really good player will only be here for one season/sold at the next transfer window, while the average and the rubbish players will be here for considerably longer. So not as many as years gone by when players played for years and years, and clubs held the whip.

4 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

You won't go until Palmer is bombed out..? 

What stopped you going before we signed him..?! Apart from the surprising revelation that you could "be arsed" to go to the big cup tie matches. 

I was fibbing. And being silly. Far too silly. It was a long weekend. I do apologise.

4 hours ago, Leveller said:

A bit odd 

... and

4 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

a bit of an arse .

Fair dooze. Guilty as charged, tbf.

1 hour ago, slartibartfast said:

That's the spirit !

2 hours ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

28 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Last game against Hull City - a very well deserved 5-0 victory.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

2 minutes ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

Huge queues that day due to vouchers being given out to enable fans to get tickets for the Liverpool F.A. Cup game.

Very clever by City, you had to pay for that game to get a ticket for the Cup game.

Remember seeing many fans pay to get in, get their voucher, then leave the ground straight away. 

From memory the official attendance was almost 26k, in a season where City averaged 14k.

Next time we drew Liverpool in the cup, we managed to squeeze three games out of it and three times the ticket sales. Not as dim-witted as many like to think, the City board of directors

27 minutes ago, chucky said:

City under 23s vs Coventry under 23 from a couple of weeks ago. 

Good answer, chucky. A few of the "Super" fans forgot this one ....

15 minutes ago, glynriley said:

Running Up That Autobahn 

Just got both spinning on me decks now .... not sure how Fat Boy Slim does it, tbf

5 minutes ago, Tangle Foot said:

The Killers gig on 26th May 

Before that Hull City (as a season ticket holder).

COYR.

I've changed me mind. I won't go back down the City ground until Kraftwerk play there. Supported by Kate Bush (or maybe vice versa).

2 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

At the risk of sounding “super fan” here, your last games (which were our biggest for years) predated Kasey Palmer being here by six months, and signing permanently by a season and a half. Using him as a reason not to go is odd in the extreme, while noting that there will always be genuine reasons people can’t attend such as affordability.

In short, stating “My last games were the Manchester cup games and I’m not going again until a man who wasn’t there at the time and I’ve never seen play live leaves” makes you sound like a bit of an arse tbh.

Now, now Silv. Try and answer the questions properly

1 minute ago, CliftonCliff said:

Thanks guys. Nice to know I’m not alone.

Yes, Bellingham, in particular, will be interesting.

You are not alone, Cliff. We are here with you

1 hour ago, Frenchay Red said:

I was 3 when my parents first took me. They used to stand at the front, by the railings in the old East End.

At that time I used to take a tennis ball and other toys to play with in the walkway behind them because I didn't watch the game very much and would get bored.

That was 70 years ago.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You don't get bored now?

What was yer last game? And why you haven't been arsed since?

Mine: Man City in the cup. Previous to that, Man Utd. Been busy, tbf. Won't go again until Kasey "Ken" Palmer is bombed out.

You?

14 hours ago, Supersonic Robin said:

 

I appreciate the atmosphere hasn't been great at times over the last few years, but let's be honest, that's due to the fans, not the stadium itself 

Exciting football helps. The ball being in the penalty area - ideally, the opposition's penalty area - helps. Shots on goal help. It might not be sophisticated but someone "bombing on" down the left and right and whipping it in the box between the retreating defenders and goalkeeper - this sort of thing helps with rousing a passive audience from their seats and their slumber and their apathy. And their phones.

Neat passing sideways and back in the middle of the pitch doesn't help.

18 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

How can you say ‘ we’re not going up’ ? Stranger things have happened 
 

Yes, but only twice. In 120 years, or whatever it is. So you can say: "we're not going up" using our history as your "source" and be reasonably confident in your prediction. You can go on to look at the record of relegated clubs bouncing straight back up and the inequality of the division, should you feel the need for further reassurance that "we're not going up." 

The "strangest" thing that ever happened here was being relegated three seasons in succession. That, we've only managed once.

14 minutes ago, robin for life said:

. If we turn down 8-12m for him now and he's leaving for 3-4m next summer, then we have made a huge error.

But not if we are promoted. 

29 minutes ago, Olé said:

Garth Butler (RIP)

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/football-scout-who-spotted-talent-5099324

"The club had asked Garth to take a look at this lad called Jamie Vardy .... " So Vardy was already somewhere on the Leicester "radar." Or known about, to some extent. It wasn't a scout taking in a random game and seeing some one and some thing no-one had seen before. I would imagine even us lot on here could see Vardy had "pace."

The decision to pay a record for a non-league player when signing Vardy was perhaps as much the interesting part of the story - and relevant to us now - as the "finding" of this undiscovered talent.

37 minutes ago, View from the Dolman said:

James Piercy also reporting nothing happening: "Reports that Bristol City star Antoine Semenyo has left the Ghana camp to pursue a move away from Ashton Gate are wide of the mark, Bristol Live understands. Instead, Semenyo has an injury and has withdrawn from the Kirin Cup semi-final against Japan as a precaution.".

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/truth-bristol-city-ace-antoine-7164167

Right, so he's crocked, will be out for a year, and never be the same again.

32 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

My old man can’t remember & as I was 7, nor can I.

Think it was Preston. Lost 0:1. Tom Finney pretended to be concussed, and there was a lot of "shit housery." The ref was a disgrace.

13 hours ago, GrahamC said:

He’s never scored an international goal, brave.

Does a lot of, er, "running around," though. Not saying that's all he does though .....

1 hour ago, GrahamC said:

Around ‘71, so just over my half century.

"Around ..." ? Curiously lacking in precision and detail, here? 

7 minutes ago, Harry said:

Indeed. But I think it’s been a 5-set tennis match and this move signifies we’re entering the final set. 

Maybe. But it's starting to rain, and there's no roof.