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That's simple, but also shit. My kids don't want to sit in the family area. They want to sit in the dolman, not with the prawn sandwich brigade. They love hearing a good swear. They laugh at the guy who shouts "defend it" at every corner, for every game, every year. "What else are they going to do, Dad?" they say. Why can't they have a free shirt? Just get rid of the free shirt offer. £99 still very cheap. Be nice if we could actually buy a shirt though, stock levels are abysmal.

I enjoyed this podcast, thanks for doing it. One request - can you stop talking over each other? Quite often two of you talk at the same time; it gets really messy on the headphones.

The teams weren't even as some have suggested, Wednesday were a nasty, cynical, shitty league one team, set out to spoil, foul and waste time. The ref got it wrong, often. We weren't great, there is stuff clearly to do (a lot), but we set out to play and we deserved to win.

Maybe Eustace is the new Ranieri. It's all going to click and by the end of the season we'll be chanting both names. Who knows.. It is what is, and it's not Nathan Jones or anyone called Gary/Gareth, for which we must give thanks at the shrine to Hörður Björgvin Magnússon. edit: Piercy says it's not Eustace. Maybe it is. We don't know until we open the box. It's Schroedinger's Eustace.

The length of that film you'll be lucky to get a new pod out before the next manager comes in

I quite like both podcasts. Let's not be mean. There's clearly space for both.

Yeah maybe. Although I got the Man City lanyard and a bouncing ball through points (not chance) and the kids were over the moon about that. I see some people have had less positive experiences but... people appear to be complaining about being given free stuff.

I won a stadium tour before the West Brom match. It was for me plus one, Jerry let me take both kids, which was handy because if I had to take only one then world war 3 would have erupted. It was a fantastic day. Full tour, went to the dressing room, saw Nigel, walked out through the tunnel, TV studio gearing up. Kids said it was "best day ever". We also bumped into Geoff Merrick after and had a great chat.

Yeah same vibes here. I had the headphones on and was watching on the iPad whilst the wife caught up on the bake off. Suffice to say I got a telling off by the wife for my language used on three occasions: a. Questioning referee's parentage, personal habits and comparing him to various parts of the anatomy after he ignored the WWE takedown of Sam Bell. in my defence comments referred to both male and female body parts, so gender equality was noted b. Somewhat strongly espousing a view of the players and people connected to the town of Rotherham, implying that they were vaguely subhuman, of a restricted gene pool and troglodytic. c. Questioning quite forcefully our invitation to Blackett to take as much time and space as he needed, maybe have a cup of tea and some cake, sit on our picnic rug (also known as the penalty box), before gently nudging it into the net whilst our keeper falls over backwards to provide some icing on his slice of Battenburg.

On my god Tommy Conway baby

Commentator on the money, "a goal that belongs in a different game"

Conway!

Great news

I think his decision making in the Norwich game has cost him for now. Lots of fancy footwork, no product. There was visible frustration from Pearson on the night.

Also allowed WB player to throttle Yeboah and squish him into the ground

Agree on James and Kal. I guess I'm a bit scarred by Mehmeti's flat, skiddy, wasteful deliveries midweek.

TGH did seem to offer a much better ball at corners than we've had recently. Not that this is Tanner's thing.

Cornick really doing a job as a second half substitute. Definitely sense that the crowd are behind him in this context. Jason Knight Knight Knight

The swans goal was against the run of play, and a bit soft. Even at that point I felt City would go on and win if they sustained the way they were playing. Very similar in this respect to the Hull game, where they were always in the game, always looked like scoring, but fell behind. it's the Bell/Wells/Sykes combo that seems most threatening. Looking at the table we've lost one against the team in second, lost in the cup against the team in third and drew against the team in fourth. Doesn't look like quite such a depressing start after all.

We weren't great. We weren't as bad as against Birmingham, but that's a low bar. The final ball was lacking, lot of misplaced passes. Mehmeti seems existentially incapable of making the pass when he needs to. Yeboah has a chant, as does Jason Knight. This was the best bit of the evening. Knocking it back to Max when desperately chasing the game in the last 3 minutes was pretty typical.

Decent match report here, as long as you can speak Yorkshire. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/football/hull-city-1-bristol-city-1-tigers-forced-to-settle-for-point-in-hard-fought-clash-with-robins-4269819

I was at the game. It was a cracker. Beforehand I was really anxious because the performance against Brum was poor. We started well but the Hull goal was very clinical and I thought we might get rolled at that point. Classic away vibes as well with the graceless young firms on either side giving it some beans, a descent into Hull, and a very long night in prospect. But... They maintained their workrate and were much more like the side from the latter half of last season. It was much much better to watch. I felt one of the key differences was that the Pring, Sykes, Knight, Naismith all had really good games. Players were much more assertive in the press. The passing was a lot better. Against Birmingham the ambition didn't match the result, players tried to thread the needle and failed - Williams was a case in point, as was Vyner, who seemed to think he was Trent AA last week with his distribution. Here, Naismith was excellent. Perhaps that reduced the pressure on Vyner to make the pass. Vyner also did some of those runs we *sometimes* like to see. Bell has copped some flak but I felt he was much more threatening than he was in the middle. On several occasions both Bell and Sykes got in behind. On occasion Bell makes the wrong decision, he could have cut back late on for a goal but went round, and he still can get pushed off the ball by a crafty defender and is left wondering why. Sykes was a constant threat. Knight looked like he is beginning to settle at this level and the play with Sykes, Pring and James was good. Basically, Knight showed here the kind of touch he showed in the friendlies. Weimann's cameo was sad and a bit strange. Taylor Hickman looked good, made the right pass. Hard to tell on the foul but it looked like he got the player from where I was (i.e miles away). I came away happy with the point. I found my car and avoided the stream of northerners in a very dark car park. We could have had all three, yes, but so could they. They had several chances including one "how the f did that not go in" towards the end. Some optimism has returned.

the best movement I saw all afternoon were the red and white paper planes drifting down to the corner flag