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Maybe not LWB but he's very versatile as per his Wiki profile: He can play as an out and out striker, as a winger, in midfield, and in defence as a left back or centre back. His main attributes are his ball control and versatility.

Thanks for your comments.

Ian is my mate and he can be a rude arrogant *unt but so's Piers Morgan and he has 8.3M followers on Twitter. He talks out of his *rse quite regularly but what makes me laugh is that he's living rent free in the heads of all his critics on here. You should listen to this latest episode which also features the Sutton father & son duo plus Mark and Ian won't disappoint!!: https://foreverbristolcity.podbean.com/e/norwich-h-the-verdict-how-long-can-we-keep-this-run-going/ Fact is we're getting 5k downloads a month for our knee jerk, under analysed comment on all matters City. Now I'm guessing we're the 3rd most popular podcast behind 3Peaps & OSIB [our downloads are visible, theirs aren't] and I'll settle for that. It's fun to do and that's all that matters to me and I don't care if people think I know jack-*hit about football either.

Me too. A Tuesday night game IIRC.

1ST - he joined in Oct. 05 or thereabouts

I agree with this. 68 points [Leicester under Pearson 2013/14] is the lowest total for 6th with the average being 73. Take the high side of mid-point at 71 then from the 17 fixtures remaining it needs to go something like this 11-2-4 = 35 points + what we have = 71. Doable? Pearson doesn't even need to match what he did at Leicester 2014/15 with the final 17 games yielding 10-6-1 as they romped away with the title.

That's it for me - utility back up. He's 32 in the summer [Aug] and when his contract runs out in 2024 [?] I think he's be let go. Last season though outstanding was a one off in a career played at a higher level than anyone else in the current squad. When he signed his current contract in summer 21 at lower money he didn't know if he'd fully recover from the ACL and in his wildest go on to score 22 with 11 [?] assists. His last big pay day as a pro would have been last summer and I'm surprised his agent didn't try to engineer a move for him. We'd have seen his departure as a suicidal move for the club but we didn't know Conway would come on the way he has & Nahki show he was worth the £5.3M he cost. We don't really need him now do we?

No, Whittle for Palace was 73 City vs. Blackpool mid-September 1967 ended 2-4 and in the week following Fred Ford was sacked. 3 goals in the last 5 minutes. Alan Skirton playing for Blackpool c2 years before joining us.

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Accepting its a squad game I am interested in YOUR preferred starting line up based on fit players as of today.

Do you subscribe to the view that if fit Weimann walks back into the side? Where does he fit now?

Surely the club have a list of identified targets based on a range of scenarios based on likely sale income varying between £8M-£12M. That said, if target x has a value of, say, £2M you just know the selling club will ask for more!

I have said more than once on FBC Podcast that Palace could be a possible destination. How about West Ham too as understudy to the faltering Antonio? Rob Newman was at the game last weekend with a notepad and I'm sure it wasn't just to enjoy the company of Matt Withers who he was sat next to!

add a Dasilva & Kalas to this list too and Bents if the move to Wolves falls through

If he did that we'd probably be late contenders for 6th place!!

It is my interpretation of your use of the phrase "had to sell". These sales were not imposed on him by the owner's desire to free up cash but players wanting to better themselves. The money from the sale of Webster & Kelly was squandered of that there is no doubt. Am I right in thinking Brownhill had a release clause? IIRC he was sold so late in the Jan window there was no time to sign a replacement. Who knows, if we had kept him or used the money wisely in that January we may have made the play offs that season [19/20] but then the pandemic happened and as a club we bleat on about the effect of Covid on club finances as if we were the only one affected by it; much like the state of our economy relative to other countries!!

I'd classify myself as one of LJs strongest critics but I must disagree that he had to sell his best players. Reid, Bryan & Flint all caught the eye in taking City into the Top 2 in the first half of 2017/18 plus the cup run. I think they all had their heads turned by agents saying they could engineer moves in the summer of 2018 and I believe this played some part in the collapse of form for the last 20 games of the season. They all wanted to leave. Whether City did enough to keep them is a separate argument. It is no argument that Webster was a massive upgrade on Flint and when he left summer of 2019 there is not a single non-parachute payment club in the Championship that would not cash in the on the uplift in value that presented itself and then add to this the [probable] quadrupling of wages for the player, it left the club no option. Don't make excuses for LJ

I think similar with Basso IIRC

What are realistic individual value in your estimate as of today's date? Conway would be highest IMHO

And this is the absurdity of this maelstrom of discontent - 5 more points and we'd be eyeing 5th & 6th ; fine margins!

Over 400 listens of this so far! The content as you would expect with DaveP hosting, Neil providing balance, Mark being Mark and Ian saying Nige should go now! https://foreverbristolcity.podbean.com/e/wba-h-the-verdict-there-may-be-trouble-ahead/ Since recording our fears of there being no successor to Gould have been allayed with the appointment of Phil Alexander which on paper looks an excellent hire. Also, on reflection, I feel we have to stick with NP otherwise whatever planned transfer activity we have lined up will have been a waste of time - a new appointee would have different ideas one would imagine.

This looks a very good appointment. Different gravy to Ashton in the sense that he's got a stable employment record.

I'm struggling to name another owner who's stumped up overall about £250M and got so little to show for it. Bournemouth and others took the gamble of going for it big time one season regardless of the FFP implications if they failed. How much have they earned in their time there? Lansdown has lost in the long term by playing safe and when he did splash a bit on the playing side it was entrusted to Ashton.

More like New Years Day I feel. Anyone confident of points from the next 2?