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Almost as if the much maligned Naismith is pivotal to the way we attack...

For what it's worth, the Times reckon he's been interviewed for the role.

Oh I dunno, Gould's predecessor fancied himself as a DOF...

I think he's safe as long as we're in and around the top 6, at least for this season.

That's extremely harsh.... ....on Diane Abbott.

They chucked it in with 20 minutes left, that's not acceptable regardless of how much better Exeter were. Big reality check.

And with a less talented squad.

You'd never know it, would you?

Is he trying to get pregnant? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/63146437

I was a bit surprised that Martin didn't come on, especially as he usually does even when we haven't been crossing it to the levels we did last night.

Yep. And let's face it, that slip was nothing that Naismith hasn't been guilty of several times.

Cracking signing. Though it probably confirms that Piatau will go at the end of the season.

So basically if a manager has a run of any more than 2 or 3 games without a win you're going to have doubts? In that case I'm not sure that there's any manager that Bristol City could attract that would satisfy you.

The ref gave him a long lecture but I don't actually remember seeing the card come out, whereas it definitely did for their player.

He's got his next Pearson Out thread ready and waiting to go as soon as he thinks he can get away with it.

Thought he was very good on the whole. May have had a call to make on a penalty if Andi hadn't been offside when he went down in the first half.

They're also unbeaten in 4 now. Slowly working their way into the season after a seriously disrupted start.

It's almost as if we're a middling Championship side who are going to have good days and bad... Though obviously that's far too nuanced for the numpties who just scream and whine every time we don't win and/or play well.

This is ending 1-0 either way.

Williams in for Naismith as whipping boy then.

Do you think the refereeing decisions we've had for the last few months have been acceptable? Though I guess that having to admit that we've been hard done by would detract from your agenda so I can see why you don't want to.

The agreement between Sky and the clubs will be that the red button service is very basic, so that people who want the full coverage pay a tenner to Robins TV/IFollow etc. During the Norwich game the commentator made it very clear that the picture freezing was nothing to do with Sky, and it was obvious that he was working off the same pictures that we were seeing (or weren't, at the time)

Good bit of analysis by Carragher on Sky just now (there'll probably be a clip of it posted later). Highlighted how the Man Utd defenders didn't do that much wrong in terms of their positioning and setup, but Haaland puts the fear of God into defenders so they back off and he gets the space, and how Martinez tried to get tight to him at the start but after a couple of minutes Haaland just barged him out of the way so he then backed off. Carragher compared it to when he faced Thierry Henry at the peak of his powers who had the same effect on him.

I'm just looking forward to the meltdown when King is named in the starting XI tomorrow night.

Looking at social media it seems that he was heavily linked with the Burnley job back in April and was quite keen on going, and it's never been quite right between him and Boro ever since. edit: further research suggests that Burnley made an approach, he wanted to speak to them but Boro refused.