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Just now, Phileas Fogg said:

I’m not too sure what people were expecting from this season. Before the season started the consensus seemed to be that most would be happy with mid-table. We’d win a few, lose a few and draw a few. Not enough for playoffs but not bad enough to go down.

We look to be basically achieving that as things stand. What has changed from people’s pre-season expectations?

I get that it’s disappointing that we haven’t won at home and I think many City fans feel Luton are the sort of team we should be beating. Doesn’t work like that though. 

I was expecting us to stay in the division and avoid relegation. A season of consolidation with a few scares along the way.

What I have seen so far has been encouraging and I think my expectations will be met.

1 minute ago, Simon bristol said:

Pearsons record for us must be about the worst in the history of the club. He might have been good for leicester, but for us, its been pathetic.

2 defeats from 7 this season. Not the worst start to a season by a long way.

If some of the posters on here are actually a representation of our home support then its no wonder we cannot buy a home win.

I think sometimes we have an inordinate amount of fans that do not know a lot about football and I cannot work out why.

19 minutes ago, BasSavage88 said:

Pearson just isn't the man for this. It's easy to blame Ashton etc but this team, the way we play and the mentality is ******* dire and doesn't seem to be improving.

I wouldn't be too upset to see him gone anytime soon 

Yes you are right. Its time.

With two defeats in 7 this year, after the start of a rebuild we have not seen the likes of since the great man Terry Cooper led us out of the darkness, it is clearly time.

How we are not 100% at this stage, and smashing teams 3-0 every week is a disgrace.

In fact I will be glued to this forum all night without any sleep expecting Nigel Pearson to do the decent thing and resign. In fact he should never manage a football club again after dropping points this season with the abundance of riches and strong core club mentality he inherited.

Give me strength.

Starting to become, if it was not already, a psychological problem.

The record at the new Ashton Gate is frankly abysmal.

Too nice a place for away fans and teams, not enough vitriol or demand from our own fans.

It will be 16 without a win by the time Bournemouth leave our carpet of a surface with a smile on their faces.

1 hour ago, Hampshire Red said:

Gamon has a very short memory or is very young. Do you remeber the Cup run, beating Man U, giving Man C a harder game than most prem clubs do and LJ taking us to the heights of the Championship when we expected to win every game? We have gone downhill since then and no single coach, player (nor MA) is to'blame' for that. We all know SL found MA to be the first person in football he could really trust and in your personal world one should think about that.

Most people on here seem happy to criticise MAand for some reason are happy to ignore and forget the good players he brought in and the great deals he did selling players for good money to fit the business model. Complaining about an ex boss at the club has become one of the biggest yawns on here. Let's get this terrible home run under NP sorted out before forgetting where we were at pressing the top of the Championshi

See you tonight? CoYRS

Extending your astounding run of catastrophic posts with a belter here my friend!

Ipswich Town. My favourite sub-plot this season is developing perfectly.

Who knew that bunging together 19 expensive players, with no cohesion or knowledge on if they can play together, signed by a CEO, who has a narcissism complex, would result in this?

Oh yes, we did, Oxford did, Watford did.

Watch the cracks start to appear between him and Cook. Not sure Paul Cook will toe the party line like Johnson/Holden did here.

Just now, Davefevs said:

Pack was a decent player for us, but James has those PL qualities that stand out.

Thought Pack was decent today. That little no-look reverse will have LJ purring into his Malbec watching Quest tonight.

Went on record as saying Marlon was “world-class” at that.

Hindsight maybe bestsight but keep Pack and don’t sign Nagy?

Class act. Early days but the most effortlessly natural footballing central midfielder we have had since Zico Hartley.

Will be huge for us.

Pearson was possibly the only reason he joined. Shows the value of a respected and credible manager.

“I’ve been Mark Ashton, you’ve been the best…..”

Hardest to watch 45 from an academy product playing out of position since Dean Holden lined up Towler vs Sarr at Watford last season.

Did that actually happen or did I imagine the most ludicrous thing ever. I mean even typing it out seemed odd.

Vyner, deary me. Do we have a rule in our club that we are only allowed to play with one specialist full-back on the pitch?

We spent 60% of last season with no left-back and have decided to have a go this year with no right-back.

Just now, Simon bristol said:

I could quote some of pearsons interviews to you if you want to see some actual fewest truths and baseless comments if you like.

No its ok thank you. I would rather see how we go this season and get behind him.

Plus it would be wasted as I am not the worlds biggest Kalas fan, and I actually think Wells is under-appreciated, under-used, and wasted by not being played up top. I fully endorse tonights captaincy selection.

19 minutes ago, Simon bristol said:

Oh tomas, i know you carried the team on your back last season when i couldnt motivate anyone to bother trying, and i know you kicked arse in the euros, but you arent captain anymore,,, that guy wells over there, who couldnt be bothered playing on the wing, i think he would make a better captain than you, hope thats ok.

Early contender for “Post of The Season with Fewest Actual Truths and the Most Completely Baseless Statements”

Such few words and minimal use of sentences, and yet a work of infinite fantasy.

Good effort.

Nige doing it his way then!

Mad to think we have Kalas, Nagy, Palmer and Wells considered not good enough to start under him.

£19 (nineteen) million pounds well spent by the previous regime.

1 hour ago, fgrsimon said:

Astonishing Lansdown meltdown / Playing the victims from user 'gulfofaden' on GasChat

Akin to terrorism mind!

Lansdown hasn’t just been a benefactor to city, which he is entitled to do, but he’s also been antagonistic to Rovers on any occasion he can to win favour with his fan base including the Matt Taylor saga which given the fact we got the exact release fee (which was supposed to be confidential) is akin to terrorism in football terms.

He’s also putting posters on the Glocs road, getting his sponsors to ridicule us through postal campaigns and trying very hard to get a club who for much of his life was a giant firm of bedminster hooligans who regularly smashed up our ground and attacked and threatened our players pegged as some “family club”. They have some normal fans of course but also a giant contingent on cocaine and cider addled specimens which dwarf, and have always dwarfed, ours, even pro rata.

You think he couldn’t see all that victimisation and violence in the 80s and 90s? Was he blind? Of course he wasn’t my. That’s fine, he can still bankroll the club but to do so, and still pander to those guys and continually harrass and target us knowing full well the asymmetric history between us, is beneath contempt.

It wasn’t 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. It was grown men targeting families and players in their own homes.

If he had adopted the attitude of “City is my club,
Good luck to Rovers but I hope we are always above them” then I would have all the time in the world for him.

He didn’t, he, like a playground bully, has been sadistic and provocative in swinging his weight around, to a club he knows can’t really fight back.

And the reason for this? The heinous crime which caused this ire?

We used to beat them a lot, before. When we were in dire straights and on paper we shouldn’t have.

That’s it. That’s what all this is about.

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/18097/bristol-owner-steve-lansdown-writes?page=2

 

The jealous bile spouted by this “fan” is tangible. I have never read so much nonsense, and carrying around that amount of hatred, delusion and negativity is not healthy.

This overly-wordy and dramatic piece of literature which includes evocative terms such as “terrorism, sadistic, and bully” smacks of a very bitter individual who feels he/she needs to justify their wasted degree in Sociology whilst hating the side of the fence fate left him/her on, and has put that together on many a dark night over probably a 10 year period, manically tweaking it until they could unleash this “masterpiece” on a Rovers forum.

Unfortunately he/she is pretty representative of Rovers fans of a certain generation and he/she will be one of the one first talking non-stop about City next year and looking for our result as their own side slips further into insignificance in front of 6000 pairs of eyes.

Astonishing indeed.

I hate them with a passion (as they do with us) and will always enjoy even the slightest footballing related mishap they have to suffer (which thankfully are plentiful and often).

Unfortunately the truer the Rovers fan, the more abhorrent their behaviour is, and this often culminates in an out-pouring of bitter, irrational, City related jealousy.

Rejoice in this thread and make the most of it. They are our biggest rivals and always will be. Make no bones, if it was the other way round it would be unbearable. All of us with long enough memories will agree, and thats the way it should be.

2 minutes ago, Portland Bill said:

So your satisfied that this lot won the first 4 games, but not concerned this lot have lost the last 6-7 games. 
Your not in the least concerned that this lot can’t even win a corner now? 

Personally, and no disrespect to the OP, I think this was a thread started with well-intentioned, but ill-timed jest, which he/she is now trying to justify, but is frankly ridiculous.

4 minutes ago, Eastend said:

We’ve lost 1 game less than Bournemouth and they are in the play offs. Things could be worse. Most of the people on this forum are acting like we are in turmoil and the club are going to go bust. 
 

yes we’ve lost the last 6 or 7 games, but remember this squad or players is the same squad that won 4 in a row at the start of the season...

 

Not in turmoil? Ok. I have nothing to respond.

4 minutes ago, Eastend said:

That’s a bit negative of you. Maybe you are part of the board?

do you expect us to be running away with the championship or something? Not going to happen. We are going through a bad time for sure, but we are just below mid table in the championship and we are looking for a new manager. Trust me, I’ve seen a lot worse!

I expect us to be Top 6, which is what the board stated when appointing Dean Holden.

48% pass completion, 1 shot on target again. I have supported this club for 37 years and I cannot recall it being this bad.

Careful what you say about the Gas, for all our glitz and glamour if we played them tomorrow I would be nervous.

2 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

I know you are disappointed and lots of us are disappointed with the way we are playing but if you can’t see that Zac Vyner has come on leaps and bounds this season you need to go to Specsavers. You act as though a Centre Half who can do a job and get the odd goal from CDM is a bad thing when in reality he’s carrying out a task that 90% of centre half’s would be unable to accomplish. That’s just criticism for criticism’ sake imo.

He has come on leaps and bounds, but my point is Zak Vyner should not be a stand out player in a side with Top 6 aspirations. Simple concept to understand.

4 hours ago, TonyTonyTony said:

The emergence of Semenyo, Vyner, Bakinson etc has been the highlight of an otherwise Depressing season

Shows how poor the season has been then. A striker with no league goals, a centre half playing anchor midfield, and a guy who’s early season promise has dropped off a cliff.

Pretty damning in itself if this is your highlight.

Thought he looked decent tonight and more assured the more he plays, on a side note, it seems all of a sudden Kieffer Moore has turned into John Charles x Luca Toni, and listening to Sky and many on here who has him down as unplayable, it seems on that basis a it was a good nights work for Mr.Vyner.