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17 minutes ago, Red DNA said:

Treacle was ok but condensed milk was / is so much better . 

To wade through?

11 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

Not unlike football ‘ supporters ‘ to write off a young player prematurely is it? 

Certainty, old chap, certainty, that's what we all crave and need as much of as we can grasp on this uncertain, fragile planet. 

28 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

No, not yet another thread about Mark Ashton.

They were away to MK today (which is 100 miles each way) & took 6,850 fans.

Big ground with plenty of space but that’s incredible support, so fair play.

Only clubs that at some point in their history have been truly successful at the top level (ie not grim struggles against relegation from the top, and not promotions from L1 and Sherpa Van cups) have that level of interest, and that quality of tradition, handed down from one generation to the next, regardless of current status and regardless of the number of years since their glory days.

We're not in that category of club and never will be. No-one outside of Bristol remembers our Anglo-Scottish cup win, except for Alec Ferguson. 

11 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Ipswich fan on Twitter a week or so ago said he ran like he was wading through treacle,

Yep.

For any young people browsing on here (unlikely, but just in case) treacle is a thick, sticky, gooey sugary gooey thing your grandparents used to eat in the 1970s, and when they were wading through it it was not very easy, and exhausting.

3 hours ago, Super said:

Best i would say Man United we outplayed a very good team full of internationals.

They had 55% possession that night. We had 11 shots and 6 on target, they had 19 and 5. I think they hit the post first half, at 0:0.

We definitely outscored them, and scored by far the quality goals, but "outplayed" them is a figment of your fertile imagination I would say. But don't let me get in the way of that, I'm sure I won't. You remember it as you please!

He doesn't appear to be much of a "January, February, March" sort of manager. I can see him working next in the southern hemisphere, Boca Juniors perhaps. Or Santos. Mind, he still won't get them promoted. 

2 hours ago, BTRFTG said:

To those still not getting why Sunderland acted as they did, let's put in terms you may understand.

There are two types in life: those who pay to take their perfectly performing cars in for service and those who think it wiser to save money and act only when the warning lights appear. They're easy to distinguish, the former putting miles very quickly between themselves and the latter who await rescue on the hard shoulder.

What about me - I don't drive?

11 hours ago, The Horse With No Name said:

Can you remember whether Harfords goal was a  shot or a header. I remember a towering header but other posters seem to think it was a shot.

We were defending a Newport corner. Mick rose at the near post and headed the ball away and it flew the length of the pitch and into the top corner, past a despairing Neville Southall, as @GrahamC will confirm.

1 minute ago, BTRFTG said:

I just hope she sang with the irony Randy Newman injected into the lyric.

Sang it like she meant it, maaaaan. 

2 hours ago, Fordy62 said:

 

I think “Pitch Personalities” is a new one on us!

Just watching Elaine Page (bird that used to sing musicals) on the telly singing 'Short People' (really), right now, and she goes:

"Short people got no reason 

Short people got no reason

Short people got no reason

To live

They got little hands

And little eyes

And they walk around

Tellin' great big lies ..... "

6 minutes ago, TomF said:

A top 10 finish next season will be progress imo 

That's good, but a bit dull. Try something more outlandish, like Silvia's doing here (taking the forum off somewhere different /livelier this evening)

7 minutes ago, Bcfc3660 said:

Sky Sports highlights of todays game

https://www.skysports.com/football/preston-north-end-vs-bristol-city/report/447684

We played well but most of the write up is about PNE. The highlights show us in a good light but for a neutral just reading the write up…

This happens a lot. If we win the other team were unlucky. If the other team win the only mention we get is who they were playing.

It pi55es me off! 

 

Preston are in the "not famous anymore" category. We're in the "meh, beige" category. We've been shite for 100 years, it's not the media, it's us! We're not interesting. It's our responsibility to be interesting, not sky's to be interested in us (when we're not interesting).

We were interesting for three months in 2017/18, and media were all over us (pissing off fans elsewhere) before quickly returning to our usual dull, shite, beige shiteness. Which isn’t of any great interest to sky or anyone else outside Bristol (and most people within it).

1 hour ago, bexhill reds said:

Sure, but I think you’ve got to look at the overall. Klose was excellent, Kalas looked even better beside him, Semenyo, HNM, Scott and Dasilva were excellent, Williams also very good when he came on.

Perhaps the final substitution with Cundy (nothing to do with him) coming on caused a loss of focus right and the end, but that is being really picky.

Overall a decent result and one most would have taken pre-kick off. But for some dodgy finishing and actually getting a penalty that could have been comfortable. 
 

This lot are getting my juices flowing. 

 

Long may they flow, Bex. 

4 minutes ago, marmite said:

Disappointed that we conceded late but we were going for a third when it happened , not friggin about in our own half  trying to hold on and hoping that nothing would happen. That's the difference now, we are still trying to score even when we are leading. Don't knock it.

Can we not knock it - when it knocks us two points?

6 hours ago, Never to the dark side said:

Not going to book one in advance,as last time their were taxis waiting outside the away end

Thing is their is only south bound service per hour from Preston at 17:17

Not keen on waiting till 18:17 then finding out the 18:17 might be cancelled

Call us on  07565 848 889

Got a Preston, er, contact, who is trying to get in touch with our, er, top fella, for post-match, uhm, y'know, "rendezvous," is this the right number?

11 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

When you put it like that... 

It's football for grown ups. Tyreeq got some growing up today. Mark Ashton will help him with this.

2 hours ago, Seventeen said:

Almost as bad as the City fan who went to Wembley with Grimsby to see Rovers win a penalty shootout right in-front of him. 

People like a day out. Some people like going to Wembley, in May; other people like going to Ashton Gate in, er, January. 

1 hour ago, 77 punk said:

can city ask cardiff for compensation ?

Are you doing irony here? Is this a dig at our Welsh neigh-bours reluctance to meet their moral obligations and difficulty in doing the decent thing?

19 minutes ago, swanker said:

Just let eight goals in, in the last two games!

Step aside @Davefevs, step forward @swanker.

37 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

I like this as it proves NP doesn’t hold a grudge. If you do it in training, you’re back in the fold. If you don’t, like a few we all know about, you’re out. 

Carrot and stick. Carrot: play for us; stick: play for Ipswich. 

16 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

 

Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing - Tuckman Model

Yes, precisely what I had in mind and was going to post a week or two ago. Been a lot of "Storming," though;

3 hours ago, gl2 said:

I  look at teams in the play offs and just outside; Blackburn, QPR, Boro, Huddersfield, Coventry and think why are we not in amongst these teams?

 

Partly because we're in a different stage of the cycle of form and fortune: we were where they are now in 17/18 and 18/19, and where were those clubs at that time? Answer: not where they are now. 

The trouble is, it's too difficult for clubs without the funds to maintain a play-off challenge year after year in this division for a number of reasons including when you do well but don't go up your best players are cherry-picked by better and wealthier clubs, and it's not always a good idea to stand in their way if they have an opportunity to move up the pyramid, or let their contracts run out, as we have seen.

Another reason is that few if any coaches or managers maintain their "magic" at one club for more than a handful of seasons. 

What we have to hope is that we stay up this season, and that we're still a Championship club when Palmer and Wells and whoever else is holding us back are gone, thereby free-ing us up to bring in appropriate, motivated lads for the task facing us here.

Then we might see the cycle turn around again, and good form and fortune return. If it doesn't then Nigel will go, and someone else will come in.

What we're trying to do is what we never seem to have been able to do, and that is rebuild at this level ie without collapsing back down to L1 and rebuilding from there, and seeing instead if we cannot get back amongst the not-so illustrious or much-like-our-level clubs you list there currently going through a positive stage of their own cycle. Back where we were three or four years ago, and ideally stay in contention longer and "deeper" into the season than we managed under LJ.

It might be SL's finest moment if we can do it.

9 minutes ago, formerly known as ivan said:

They really are the most vile club around aren’t they?!

 

I think so, yes. I mean, others do try: Leeds, Stoke, Birmingham, etc, even our mob at times! But Millwall revel in their "vileness" and would be upset if we thought any better of them. Like a naughty child it's best to ignore them where possible  (this is how to rile them. Not calling them "vile" and so on).

9 minutes ago, chinapig said:

Thanks. I like that Kalas doesn't talk in cliches but gives an articulate opinion about tactics and performance.

Very much so.

58 minutes ago, Clevedon Red said:

£5 rings a bell. 

38 minutes ago, East Londoner said:

We did need to buy a new ticket for the rearranged game although at reduced rate, i was in the dolman for the original game but my seat had already been sold by the time i was able to purchase the new one and ended up in the old enclosure 

So, Sir Les Kew (the Honourable Les): he sold Cole to Newcastle and robbed the Scousers. Our Greatest Leader of All Time (Gloat) who never had a stand named after 'isself, surely?