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Nice Old Town is lush. Great sweet pastries if you're in to that.

Watch out for a surprise at midday each day, there is a fun story behind it...

We are in to City breaks and have done a few, Nice is my favourite so far. Enjoy!

They could just tell the youngsters about him without needing to employ him, in that case?

No more cosy appointments for me.

17 hours ago, alexukhc said:

Get us to cat A and Carey on board 

Not sure we need yet another cosy club appointment.

Tinnion, Bell, Cisse, Gerken (Nige said bringing in Gerken wasn't anything to do with him).

14 minutes ago, Henry said:

Well said.

As long as he’s busting a gut then good luck to him if he wants to run his contract down. City should have put in a years option or offered a longer deal.

I struggle when fans still bang on about Fam when it’s cleared he downed tools after the January window.

Just me that noticed a change in attitude from Tommy near the back end of the season? I'm not sure he's having Manning, he seemed a lot happier with Nige.

I like Tommy as a player, but I don't see him as a PL player at the moment, but a top end Championship side absolutely e.g. Leeds, Norwich.

Easily good enough for Celtic or Rangers, but then again, so am I...

1 hour ago, Port Said Red said:

Personally I would be really happy with this, I know that @Davefevs had issues about his positional discipline, but I think with the right coaching and the right players ahead of him he could be a quality DM. 

We know he likes the area, maybe he is old enough to get out of his dad's clutches at last and make his own decisions?

Same, he had flaws to his game but had some great attributes too. I don't think its realistic, but Burnley may be looking to offload excess squad players following relegation. Who knows, but I'd be happy to see him return.

59 minutes ago, Harry said:

Someone on Twitter suggested that after Williams departs there will a “homecoming” to Ashton Gate, as his replacement. 
The only player I can think they might mean would be Herbie Kane? 
Anyone think of any others? 

HNM?

36 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Being a fan of the beautiful game my true and only love is for Bristol City but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other clubs that I enjoy watching particularly PL clubs.

I like watching Arsenal and Liverpool but I don’t support either of them. Yesterday seeing Klopps final game and the appreciation he was shown by the Liverpool fans was awesome and I found it very moving with Klopp himself only just keeping himself together. He’ll be a tough act to follow.

 

I found it weird, cringeworthy. Just like Liverpool. 

5 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

They also played at Cardiff versus Sheff Wed the year after they lost to us

Of course! Forgot that

45 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

Accrington Stanley are the only current league side, after Crawley will.

Hartlepool never have & missed out because of Christian Roberts, at Ashton Gate & then had their covid period play off final at Ashton Gate, but are obviously currently not a league club. 

Would've missed out even if they'd won...final played in Cardiff remember

I think it was me who first compared Twine to Paterson a few months ago, saying I was hoping Twine was like a young Jamie Paterson.

I think he has some improving to do to be as good as Paterson was.

He falls on the floor more than Paterson, he takes a better corner than Paterson. But the rest, I'd have Paterson everyday of the week.

It was nice to have some class about the club for a couple of years or so.

Sadly it always seemed like what he was building was built on sand because of those above him. It seemed inevitable that the class would leave with Nige and his staff, and it has.

Such a shame it was cut short way too soon, we were a couple of months into his first proper season, after he miraculously kept us competitive whilst clearing the crap left behind be previous regimes. 

Glad he's on the mend health wise.

21 hours ago, internetjef said:

Watched it last night . Had forgotten just how bad the scenes were on Olympic way. Remember now we saw some kids chucking glass bottles as far as they could just ‘into the crowd’, for no reason whatsoever. Shocking. Amazing more people weren’t badly injured . 

Yep, saw the same thing more or less. I was walking up those steps (ironically the back of my head was on a BBC report), a lad finished a bottle of beer and just launched it as far as he could (about 10ft over my head upon it's journey through the air) into a huge crowd of people packed in tightly. I didnt see where the bottle ended up as I was walking up the steps and it ended up behind me.

One of many things from that day which were just barbaric, stupid. This bottle throwing incident, wasn't the worst thing I saw.

53 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Theres a lot of old ground here but just to confirm:

- You may think we’ve progressed under Liam, but under the “bottom line” metric of ppg under him vs prior to his appointment we haven’t. Yes he’s had an unbeaten run but he’s also had awful runs and in the round, he currently can’t be seen as an improvement. And as the base he was coming in from was stronger than Pearson inherited then it’s very hard to argue he’s been a success in any way shape or form at the moment. That may change, but getting more out of Mehmeti, when he’s still not great, isn’t a CV headline at all

- As for Tinnion. We see a lot of this conflating - and to be clear what he did for this club as a player (whatever your opinion of him) means nothing in his current role. What he did in the academy (noting there is a school of thought that it was Probert, and it undeniably relied on a willing manager) means nothing in his current role. Nada. Zilch. Zip. If you worked in Tesco and were great at shelf stacking and decent at training it doesn’t mean you can then run the company!

Hes one of the top three men in the football hierarchy. He’s 56 years old. He shouldn’t need “guidance” - he’s the definition of an old head. Bluntly enough if he can’t do the job he’s in now then he’s never going to be able to, and shitting the bed publicly all the time isn’t a look you want from a man making decisions in a multi million pound company.

Too many people conflate their view of Tinnion as a club legend because they liked his left foot and remember Anfield with the competencies needed in his current role. And the sooner that stops the sooner we can progress.

Shit me, that's a good post.

Different type of players but I really like the look of Roberts, his attitude too seems great, a real winner. Jay was good too, I think he suits Coventry well, ironically he would suit Manning too!

Tanner on the other side is very good as well, not as talented with the ball but an excellent defender and very good 1 on 1 defender too, just goes about his business, never shows much emotion other than a professional poker face. Great to have 2 young lads like that for Free and £300k respectively. 

If we can get Atkinson fit, then with Vyner and Dickie we are sorted at the back for years. 

Great free kick, very little else. 

I mentioned a couple of months ago I'd hoped he was a young Jamie Paterson, so far I've seen nothing to suggest he's as good as Paterson was.

He goes missing a lot and personally I'd pass, and get someone less hyped, maybe from abroad.

2 hours ago, Ian M said:

I wonder if this part is accurate as, in my mind, Joe is our CM most likely to look to play incisive forward passes this season. But he does have the odd game where his passing is atrocious. Fortunately those have been fewer of late imo.

Ironically, he played a nicely weighted pass through to Conway who went on to assist the goal today. 

To be fair, you dont need world beaters in there to compete (Morsy and Luongo at Ipswich, albeit they have promotion momentum). I just think it's too little too late to warrant a new deal.

A midfield player who rarely scores, doesn't run with the ball, isn't strong in the air, rarely passes forward and is injury prone. But he tries really hard and makes rash tackles - seems a perfect fit for a Bristol City midfielder at this level.

10 hours ago, MelksRed said:

Not questionable. Just seen the highlights. He raises his left arm to block the ball. Current rules (anybpart of the arm) is a pen all day long. 

Professional defender should have arms pinned in....left arm not out for support to land....it the upper arm.

Ref got it right  

Just seen it back. Never a penalty in a million years. Even worse than seeing it Live and I'm in that corner of the South Stand.

On 12/04/2024 at 14:08, pillred said:

I have to say that's a very negative spin on 4 good results, and I still don't agree that Leicester had a hatful of chances and should have been out of sight etc, don't forget we also had chances as well, we weren't lucky or outplayed in any way, and when 3 gas heads in the Duke grudgingly say we deserved the win take it from me we must have.

Fair enough, difference of opinion is fine. Leicester was one of our better performances since Manning took charge, but we were very fortunate to get anything from the game.

Today was another example. It's now 5 unbeaten, but that was dull, boring, painful to watch...again.

Unlike the Blackburn game. There were no gifted goals today to paper over another poor performance - apart from the referee giving us a very questionable penalty.

It's not just performances though.  The togetherness isn't the same as it was under Nige, something I enjoyed was we worked hard for each other. Now it reminds me of back in school when you'd play up when a supply teacher came in.

2 hours ago, wendyredredrobin said:

Which City are we going to see against The Terriers tomorrow?  The City that just annihilated Blackburn or the Manningball City we have seen of late?

Huddersfield are only out of the relegation zone on goal difference so will be playing for their survival and I am not sure which team we will be putting out or what they will actually be playing for other than new contracts and places in the starting 11.

A repeat of the Blackburn game will suit me fine, but I would be surprised if Huddersfield were as bad as they were.

I still don't think we're playing really well. Leicester missed a hatful of chances and should've been out of sight. Plymouth we took our only chance, they didn't. Sunderland we were poor but not punished. Blackburn handed us 4 chances, which we took well.

I don't think the performances are much different, but we are getting a bit of luck, which has got us results.

Tonight showed what a strange game football is. 

I don't think we created anything of note, every goal was gifted by an awful Blackburn defence. We took the chances we were given.

We've had a flukey win v Leicester, a smash and grab at Plymouth and a poor performance at Sunderland which went unpunished.

Fingers crossed he has worked out we can be an effective Championship side when we setup like we were under his predecessor.

On 01/04/2024 at 22:24, Kid in the Riot said:

Ah, Claire Young. You can tell we're in a GE year. 

Surely there won't be the required interest in this anyway given Yate is full of gasheads, gypsies, and shops that still have pick n mix? 

Nope, over the past 10 years or so the scales have begun to balance out in Yate, maybe since Rovers non-league days? Frampton and Coalpit Heath you see as many red as you do blue.

There was once a one off coach from Sainsbury's Emersons Green to Ninian Park when we played Cardiff away, coach was full.

20 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

18 months?

I'd have given him longer personally but totally agree with your post, length of contract aside.

I'd have given him another 3.5 years personally. But taking our decision makers into account, 18 months minimum would've been sensible.

There will be somebody smarter than me to explain it. But we were lopsided weren't we? 

Sykes was left wing/left forward, Knight central behind Wells with nobody on the right. TGH was right of a midfield 3 but nowhere near as high as Sykes and way more central. Worst I've seen TGH, he looked confused, like a few of them.

The irony is, it's LJ-like in that as soon as you give these 'modern' young coaches time to coach, the performance suffers and players look confused.