italian dave

And when rule 15A states: “Each team participating in a match shall represent the full available strength of each competing club”

I always thought that it was less to do with transfer rules and dates, and more to do with the principle that you shouldn’t be able to continue to play in a tournament (and potentially get a ‘winners’ medal) when you’ve already been knocked out.

I think he’s past that point already, isn’t he?!?

Agree - although I fear you have just put the kibosh on our next home (league) game!

Yep, me too! And there was a similar one in the first half - don’t think that was Scott - when Mehmeti himself was in yards of space on the left and a free run on goal, and no-one spotted him. It looked to me like Mehmeti passed a few comments after that one! So, whilst I take the point that @GrahamC and @Silvio Dante make I think I’d qualify that in two ways. Firstly, Mehmeti has the ability to run into and through trouble and create an even better opportunity when he does release the ball, but it won’t come off every time. And secondly (as per the above) this is still a set of players who are relatively new to each other and it will take time for them all to read what and where their colleagues are and what they’re expecting. Wells and Conway have that understanding - but only after the best part of a season in the U23s.

It was 100% more a penalty than the one they got awarded at the end of the game up there. So good enough for me!

Major Minus……Coldplay ((just to complete the set!)

Intro….L’Addition (fewer options there!)

Whether you like it or not (I liked both the grey and the white ones) I’d certainly hope we’ll be with them for more than one year. And that this is our shirt for next season. Changing it again in August really would be taking the piss.

Isn’t @Robbored our usual senior reds channel? Probably something to do with it not having been announced on the OS??

To the tune of “Dickie Dickie, Dickie Rooks, Dickie Rooks, Dickie Rooks”………. Alex Alex Alex Scott, Alex Scott, Alex Scott. Why complicate things. Keep it simple. And the old ones are always the best ?

White Light, White Heat…….Velvet Underground.

Crikey…didn’t realise there were so many…it would be quicker to list the ones that away fans don’t visit!

Satellite of Love…..Lou Reed

It’s got Bristol R####s in it; should need no further explanation!

Oy, stop posting pictures of Tories…..you’ll get in trouble for that on this thread ?

It’s about time we had Gavin Ward ref us at Ashton Gate ?

I’m not sure I’d call the penalty incident nasty or a dark art……just smart and clever. But I agree; we’re much more adept now at, for example, the deliberate foul that stops a potential break in its tracks, and does so early on before it becomes red/yellow card territory. We did that a few times yesterday.

Wow, so a lot more likely. Albeit still quite unlikely! You can but hope.

And what are the odds for City going up and R###s going down?

I wonder what the keeper was saying to Sykes. Something along the lines of you've waited this long and made all the headlines so now you're bound to miss?!

Oh, go on then...you can have camp C. Just be careful though, these sort of wishy washy compromises are really not OTIB ?

It’s an interesting one. There was a spell in the second half when he tried to do a bit too much and I thought exactly the same. And it was almost as though he had the same thought himself, because for the following few minutes, every time he got given the ball he just passed it straight to another City player, but without having created any real threat. And on one of those occasions he passed it straight back to James, who himself passed it straight back to Mehmeti again, and almost seemed to be saying ‘no, you have a run’. I guess it’s all in that word you used - smart. And I’m confident that will come. But it’s also one of those things that easier to define with hindsight! He tried to do too much a couple of times - and managed to do it! And that’s when he creates great chances, Ironically, in the second half there was a moment when he was on the wrong end of Sykes/Bell (?) not playing the ball to him when he would have had a tap into an open goal.

I’m with @Port Said Red and thought he had a good game, better than a 6. I know what you mean about his kicking, although he generally kept it on the pitch yesterday, which is an improvement on a couple of recent games. Part of the problem is that he’s clearly following instructions and we have one plan A - get it out to Pring to flick on to Mehmeti - and no plan B. Which makes it relatively easy for opponents to work out. Handling wise, one dodgy moment first half but otherwise I thought he was good, and two really top class saves. Came out of his box a couple of times and judged those well. And when he came for high balls he did well, I thought: in a very crowded area he caught several cleanly, and got enough on the others to achieve what was needed.

Life on Mars…..David Bowie (merci beaucoup!)