italian dave

I’m not trying to fit any stat into any particular viewpoint. Just asking the question. I’m actually very positive about the direction of travel generally, and I’ve really enjoyed our football for large parts of recent games. But it’s starting to become a bit of a habit: off to a flying start, playing some great attacking football, failing to convert any chances, and then running out of energy and ideas second half. I think to some extent it’s about new players and new formations, and taking time for it all to bed in. But I still think it’s becoming a worry. And however good your football, if you don’t score goals then that’s a massive problem. And 500 minutes is a long time without one.

However good we are, 5 and a half games without a goal (apart from pens) has to be a concern though, doesn’t it?

Corrected for you!

Need a goal soon…it’s getting to be a familiar story, starting with lots of good approach play but failing to put it away. And then run out of steam.

Star of Points West too!!!

What I want to know is whether all the games during covid are included in that 1000, and whether he was able to get to them because of his position in the club…..that would be an unfair advantage over the rest of us ?? Seriously, I think this thread should be about 1000 games, not about what he does or doesn’t do as SLO. That’s some record, and some dedication. Well done Jerry. (And - don’t know if I’m imagining this, but I seem to remember being at Huddersfield a few years back when someone (maybe even Jerry) got an award or some sort of recognition for another achievement as a fan)

Eton Rifles…..The Jam

Glory Box…….Portishead

Missing Conway? They had a great understanding. That can trump pace or movement sometimes.

Nowhere Man……The Beatles

I think it was more a case of horses for courses. The game plan, coupled with the formation we played for much of the past couple of years, just didn’t suit his game and didn’t play to his strengths. His job much of the time was to be part of a 2 sitting deep and getting the ball out wide. That’s not his game. From the little I’ve seen, Auxerre play a different style and formation, playing through the middle a lot more, playing him further forward, and in that formation his strengths are utilised - and actually you then do see a player with strength, pace and forward thinking. (And, incidentally, there seems to be a similar situation with Palmer and Coventry). No-ones “fault” - it’s just how things work out sometimes.

I blame all those overpaid footballers buying up houses here!

Yes, the subs were bad enough, but the minutes silence/applause was shambolic….just embarrasing.

Made in the UK too. ?

I’d agree - and several posters have acknowledged - that he wasn’t at his best last night. There were even a couple of mis-hit passes! But I’d still argue that ‘distinctly average’ by his standards is worth the admission money alone to watch. Apart from the passing and the running, he has the knack that great midfielders have of being able to find and drift into space, even in the most crowded and frantic of games. And that always gives his side an outlet when they are under pressure. And a goal, and a decisive part in another goal, isn’t a bad return for an off night! I guess you can always find something preventable about any goal, and I know you can argue we could have closed down quicker, got bodies in the way, but I still think that goal was more down to KDB’s abilities than it was to anything we did or didn’t do. He knew what he was going to do and was so direct and powerful that it was hard to react. And at that stage of the game too: the effortless way that he plays the game means that he still has bags of energy left to be able to do that. Our players were just so tired by then.

Pleased when I saw he was starting cos I was so looking forward to seeing him. Agree with @cidercity1987 that he wasn’t quite up to the 2018 matches against us - but that’s a ridiculously high bar - he was so good then. Didn’t disappoint tonight though: pure class. Great great ball to set up the first, and what a fantastic goal for the third. And makes it look so easy.

My City MoM too. Superb tonight. Like to think we can pin him down, but I fear tonight might have put him in the window just as much as Scott.

I’d suggest that the AG bit was your fatal mistake. I took Mrs ID to an away game. Cambridge. Also a boring 0-0. And the coach broke down on the way home. Never been since.

I think the point is not so much that it’s a new opportunity, but nowadays it’s just about the only opportunity. As @Davefevs alludes to the CTA means that it’s now the only place in Europe that we’re not now at a huge disadvantage post Brexit. https://news.sky.com/story/how-brexit-is-helping-european-clubs-beat-uk-giants-to-some-top-talent-12813748

Nearly = Albert ??!!

Fly……..Nick Drake

Yep, I’d go for a ‘former player’ section. To be fair, at least the discussion about former players generally relates to players who actually played for us. Unlike the section for future players which mostly discusses players who never get within 100km of Ashton Gate!

So, by that logic, Dasilva, Atkinson, James, Williams, Weimann, Wells, Kalas……all shite?

League as against Cup, I suppose - even though the Champions League blurs those distinctions fundamentally!

Agreed, but that wasn’t really the point I was making. I was talking more generally about the way the rules of the competition are applied. How many ‘big’ clubs put out their genuinely full strength side in early rounds? How many out out patently second string sides?