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10 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

Yeh I found this which says roughly 6% of PL direct free kicks go in https://sqaf.club/free-kick-goal-stats/. Not sure if it's only counting those that might reasonably go in. Guess it shows you that Ward-prowse is genuinely good at them if he's going at more than double that rate.

It's similar to corners - which people get excited about - but actually only result in a goal something like 3% of the time.

If our players are below average at these skills then it's no surprise we don't get many.

.... "people get excited about" ?  Ok, interesting. What instead might they save their "excitement" for?

Holes? Cut by little moles?

I think Twine was going to come on when we were 3:0 but ......

11 hours ago, CS Red said:

Give them Monday off back in Tuesday.

 

..... We'll be making love box entries and a season's high xG by Friday (and hopefully Saturday 

9 hours ago, Slippin cider said:

I’d get them all in today and beat them soundly with a wet fish

"What about a point-ted stick?"

I think it has dawned on Steve that this pathway is working rather well for his players - nowhere > City > Bournemouth - but not so well for himself/his team/his prospects for hawking his team/Bristol Sports, so he's tweaked the "philosophy" and is buying a stair lift to heaven Bournemouth  the Premier League, and not messing around anymore. He's running out of time, and as the lad in Grev Smythe park after (I think Walsall at home in the play offs in '88) said to Bob Crampton on HTV: "We don't wanna mess around, we wanna go up" as chaos and police rained about them.

Tbf to that lad, we been messing about long enough now

Just now, JP Hampton said:

Sorry lost on me?

He said: we can't go over .... we can't go under ... have to go through (it)

1 hour ago, JP Hampton said:

Well I think the answer has to be, you do something different. If we can't go round them, then we have to go direct. Even the occasional ball over the top wouldn’t hurt now and again, when all else is clearly failing. 
 

 When Sykes came on I expected to see his usual runs down the wing full of pace etc. but it didn’t happen. We possessed the ball too much at the back reverting to the usual “pass it back” style, with no one being brave enough to create something or anything else. 
 

 I think my criticism of LM would be a seeming lack of adapting to the game that’s evolving in front of him. It feels like Plan A is all there is and if that’s not working then bring on the subs without any change in application. 
 

 It won’t take long for any team to work out how we play. 

Yes, as first suggested by Michael Rosen, in the late 80s 

33 minutes ago, Redtucks said:

So four games against Premiership sides with only one goal conceded are conveniently forgotten in your analysis???

 

I must say, I don't remember this myself either?

29 minutes ago, Super said:

At least today puts that nonsense to bed.

Not if we win the next two it doesn't 

41 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

When the opposition focus on their own game predominantly we often get a result. When they focus on stopping us playing we have an abysmal record.

We'll do rather well in that Premier League, when we get there ....

3 minutes ago, MarcusX said:

Talking about not have the time to work on it again.

How often do they actually train? Anyone would think he’s managing a part time team the way he talks about training sometimes.

Nige managed ok, working part-time (well, Saturday afternuns)

3 minutes ago, bexhill reds said:

Yawn, how many 20 goal a season strikers are available in Jan…. Agree it’s a problem but it will only be solved offseason not mid way through it. Remember Dony?

I remember MS Dony, he was a front foot sort of player ...

8 minutes ago, INCRED said:

Strongest bench we have had this season

Top end bench

1 hour ago, petehinton said:

It’s either going to actually be a continuation of the last two games and we could run riot, or we will revert to inconsistent type and draw 0-0/narrowly lose. 

Yeah, I think we'll either do well, or not do very well. Just putting it out there ...

1 minute ago, Davefevs said:

Bears don’t make any money!

 

F+ck's sake, what about the Ladies Dave, they making a tiny profit in that Super League? And the basketball lot, they got more coming in than going out?

12 hours ago, Calculus said:

Sorry to drag this back. What exactly was the Nolan sister Incident?

One of the Nolan sisters was the missus of Torquay manager Bruce "I predict a" Rioch. Torquay played their matches on Saturday evenings so everyone was a bit, er, tired and emotional - some had been hard at it from the Friday afternoon/evening; some got a bit carried away (ie in a boat) - by the final whistle and not best pleased with another ropey away effort from TC and the boys. In the absence of any local firm to take it out on the unfortunate Mrs Rioch took the brunt as she escaped the ground in a car and we poured out into the Torquay night. The car's suspension and shock absorbers were given a thorough examination, shall we say. It was in the national tabloids the following Monday. City would be in the local and national papers quite a bit back then for this sort of thing (not roughing up members of girl groups, just generally behaving appallingly at games).

Not big, not clever; but 40 years on, quite funny. If I was writing a Bristol City "hoolie" book, that would be a centrepiece: we took it to one fifth of the Nolans.

(Must've been pretty terrifying for Mrs Rioch, really shouldn't laugh about it, but always makes me chuckle. Hope she's ok).

What happened 40 years ago? What to commemorate from 1984? Well, 40 years ago this month we roughed up one fifth of the Nolans on a Saturday night down Torquay. Saturday night was fer fighting back then, and boy did we take it to just the one of the Nolans.

Let's have a shirt for that one. Lest we forget.

2 hours ago, Riaz said:

Good shot stopper. Makes plenty of saves

But the rest of his game is a bit iffy. Distribution and commanding his area.

For me he's a bottom half championship keeper.

 

Bottom half? Well, he's part of a top six defence though, along with Zak, Dickie & co. I don't know how many shots we allow the opposition and all that but only five other sides have conceded fewer. Max must've played his part.

Big Nige certainly left us with a decent, one could say top end defence, a very solid base for Liam Manning to build upon and deliver or add the desired front foot/"sexy" football  (which was perhaps not Nige's forte).

Any word from Matt Le Tiss on last night's very peculiar, very "strange" result? 

3 minutes ago, Gakoe said:

Yeh that's sky for you, it's all about how shit Soton were

Always cracks me up that!!

That's why we NEED to, must, get to the Premier League. So that when we crash back into the Champ, Sky know who we are and are all over us. 

2 minutes ago, redkev said:

Listening to that Scottish tart on sky 

Southampton this Southampton that ffs 

Ditto , just posted the same 

Mute volume, turn on BBC Radio Local. Sorted.

Just need about 38/40 like this tonight between August and May one year in the next year or three, and we can all .... forgive Brian.

3 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

I believe so with boys and brother. I offered a beer but heard nowt. Not sure he's ever seen Saints win at The Gate. Not in recent times anyway.

"It's a difficult place to go"

4 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Good effort that. Saints not at their best but who cares. Well played City!

Alan there tonight?