Andy082005

92nd minute - why are you not having a shot from that free kick ?! 
ridiculous 

There’s nothing more beautiful then the limbs of a packed Bristol City away end 

3 minutes ago, !james said:

West Ham have their 2 week break after this so werent going to be resting anyone! Should be a great game

First 20 minutes will be huge. I just seeing us getting a bit of a tanking today sadly 

Just now, JoeAman08 said:

Doesn’t feel like a signing for the u21. I think he’ll be part of the first team pretty quickly

Big, big step up for the lad . Not so sure he is going to feature that much in the short term 

1 minute ago, INCRED said:

We are very fortunate to land this lad, going to be a very exciting prospect for us as long as he steers clear of injuries 

Can’t wait for them to announce tomorrow his head has fallen off in training and he is out for the season. Standard City 

On 31/12/2023 at 17:49, petehinton said:

Yeah there was a running joke on here that it was either him or Tommy given how news of his injury broke on here

To be fair ….bcfcshags wasn’t a bad player, but played in a different position to Alex Scott 

Always remember he got sent off against the team I played for 

3 hours ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

As per the above, I have been thoroughly disappointed with Tommy this season. I don’t think the lone role suits him at all, offers very little threat and struggles up against physical CB. With just 18 months to go I would be tempted to sell this month, I don’t think we will get more than £5M to be honest, but we need a better all round striker to progress. A shame as I really hoped this would be his season but lacks that quality required. 

Absolutely we should cash in. At a time when we have virtually no striking options - let’s cash in on the best one we have 

or ….….….…

….our head coach could actually start building his team around his better players and playing to their strengths. 
 

Why Lee Johnson pt2 keeps playing his as a lone striker is beyond me. 

40 minutes ago, Engvall’s Splinter said:

I’m not convinced Manning will take the deal on. 

Same. I think he has done ok - but not quite sure he has done enough to earn the plaudits he is getting . Personally - I’d wait to the end of the season and make a decision then. I don’t think we will take the lad on permanently if I’m honest 

24 minutes ago, formerly known as ivan said:

Manning has been winning me round in recent weeks, which is natural given the results. Still find the football a bit boring, but everyone will have their own opinion.

So this isn’t a dig at him, but can you name a worse city game than what we witnessed today? Everything from performance to atmosphere and even the weather was just completely not there today. It has to be the one of, if it the worse, days at football for a long long time.

It’s not even the worst this season 

Birmingham at home was awful

That was bad today - but we have had many games like that over the last few years  

53 minutes ago, Scrumpys Dietary Advisor.. said:

Today was dire, absolutely dire and a prime example of how this modern trend of Play Station football will be the death of the game we love.

It is well known that The Etihad is a library and that is because nothing exciting happens there anymore 

Clubs that try and emulate this beware. Today, 21,000 people were bored rigid watching players endlessly recycling the ball in an attempt to emulate this turgid shite

It was probably the worst atmosphere I think I have ever experienced in 50 years of watching football at The Gate, there was literally nothing to get excited about 

At least the "dinosaur" football that I used to watch was exciting. Wingers taking on their full backs, through balls, crosses, shots, stuff that used to get you out of your seat, ALL GONE thanks to this modern brand of football which is dull as dishwater 

We've been sold the Emperor's new clothes, there is no substance to it, PlayStation is NOT REAL. When are people going to open their eyes to this game killer....

 

 

 

 

 

 

When was the last time we had exciting football at the Gate? We had a brief few months in 2017 but apart from that - it’s been shit since we returned to this division 

3 minutes ago, Jimbo76 said:

We have a mid table squad. Why does everyone keep thinking we're likely to get top 6?

We have an industrious set of players (with the odd exception). We lack top 6 quality. Max probably not good enough. Tanner, good defender but SO negative. Mehmeti, league one show pony. James and Wells probably showing their age. Bell, lightweight. Cornick, squad player.

But I'm not moaning cos I know that is our squad and so mid table is about right. To do a Brentford or Luton needs all the planets to align. Other than that, Steve would need to spend money and we all know that won't happen. 

So I'm keeping realistic expectations for the average squad we have. But some entertainment wouldn't go a miss. Struggling to recall two worse back to back games than that.

Shame, cos I'd like to see what Manning could do if backed with some cash.

I think it’s just frustration more than anything. Frustration that we are on course for another meaningless season where we just ‘exist’ in this league. Supporting City really is boring as **** 

A couple of good wins gets people excited because let’s face it, we haven’t had anything remotely exciting happen since 2017. But reality very quickly slaps people back in the face with performances like today 

I’ve said it before - we are a nothing club in this league . Simply there making up numbers 

The most Bristol City performance and result ever 

Said it on here earlier this afternoon - the sort of game we always struggle against. That really was a terrible performnce 

At least it stops all this nonsense talk of play-off pushes etc 

We are no where near good enough to challenge for top 6

Sykes lucky not to get booked there . Terrible dive 

Weimann has been a great servant for this club but I just don’t see where he fits in in this team 

He should not be playing in a wide position. He has no pace at all 

As predicted - a real slog of a game 

1 minute ago, NewquayRed said:

What’s the crack with Manning and Sykes ?

In what way? 
 

lots of games in such a close time scale. The squad was going to have to be utilised 

Expect him to come on second half and get at a tired Millwall 

one thing I will say is though - prepare for a really dull game 

1 hour ago, GrahamC said:

There were loads on here saying we should beat Birmingham (1 win in 7, Rooney struggling) it doesn’t work like that.

This is our 4th game in 8 days with basically the same 14 or 15 players, so simplistic stuff like “let’s get into them” is  pointless.

I expect a real slog today & if we win it will be a tight one.

After today we don’t play a league game for 12 days so assuming no replay v West Ham, can hopefully use the time to get at least one in & give a few a bit of recuperation.

Spot on. I think today will be a real slog and if we can manage to scrape a win, it sets us up nicely 

Personally can see a score draw 

14 hours ago, BCFCGav said:

Is it just me or does tomorrow feel huge? I have a habit of feeling like this about every game we play but tomorrow just feels massive to me. 
 

No Championship football for two weeks after New Year’s Day, as it’s FA Cup next weekend and our trip to WHU. We could spend those two weeks just outside the play-off places, potentially even in them.  A two weeks when we can bring in reinforcements and see some big players back from injury. We beat Millwall tomorrow and we’ll be well placed for a full blooded assault on the PO’s in the second half of the season and the fanbase will be really believing.

So let’s get right into them. They have a few injuries and suspensions and apparently they’re only bringing 600, let’s drown them out completely and start 2024 as we mean to go on. COYFR ️️

I was saying the same last night. This is exactly the type of game we struggle in though. I’d say this is the first game in the last 5 (including this one) - that we should be expecting the win. We rarely turn up in these sort of games 

Can honestly see this being a score draw today 

1 hour ago, GrahamC said:

Certainly presenting us with a dilemma.

Expect as he’s the only player left not to leave or renew his contract since prior to the pandemic he’s at the very top of our remaining earners now.

After a horrendous first season & not great second one in terms of his availability he managed 33/46 games last season & has done 20/25 this.

His recent form has been excellent & earlier in the season (outstanding at Swansea) he’s played very well too.

Not a clear cut decision either way, at 27 he’s at his peak but I doubt we are interested in offering him even his current wages & that is if we decide to offer anything at all.

Certainly expect either him or James to depart next summer, alongside King, but it could conceivably be all 3.

I just can’t believe the lad is 27. Only just turned 27 to 

I thought he was 4-5 years older!

Just now, Colombo Robin said:

Thought it was pretty good myself

Agree - it wasn’t boring, just lacked quality in the final third. 
 

We could have carried on the game until midnight and neither team would have scored 

Would take a point now. We are just lacking that quality in the final third we could be here all night and we won’t get a chance to score 

9 minutes ago, RollsRoyce said:

You mean he is playing like Mehmeti, he has not changed at all. Just had more game time. Same errors and decision-making, always cutting inside onto his right.. He was doing the same at Watford, but it was masked by scoring a goal. A lot of work still to be done with him. 

Personally think he looks a bit tired. Wouldn’t be surprised to see him subbed early in the second half 

1 minute ago, petehinton said:

Bell on for Mehmeti please

Christ…..it’s not that desperate yet surely ?

Mehmeti has morphed into Pre-Manning Mehmeti 

4 minutes ago, luke_bristol said:

A Birmingham supporting mate is there and messaged me and said there are already arguments among the home fans and someone has stormed out, are they really that bad?! We have 73% possession according  to the BBC!

No - we are edging it but by no means are we much better then them so far 

At the minute very much the story of our season so far (apart from Watford) - some nice possession but lack of quality in the final third 

What a miss