Northern Red

Ominous start. Not so much what France are doing, but the **** with the whistle.

Barnsley and Peterborough still have to play each other as well, plus Barnsley play Reading.

Some would call it bonkers....

Ah, the questions that none of the people screaming for Pearson to go can ever answer.

Easily.

We could lose every game 5-0 and the reality would still never be as bad as the meltdowns on here.

I know he's one of us, but Kevin Friend is a consistently hopeless referee.

Darren Gough said much the same on the radio earlier. Kemar Roach was interviewed after play had finished yesterday and was having a proper moan about the pitches in the Caribbean, how they do nothing for fast bowlers and aren't enjoyable to bowl on. All the hallmarks of a man thinking "why am I still doing this?"

Can't fault the effort today but they're getting no help from the pitch. Just have to hang in there and hope it breaks up over the next couple of days.

There's plenty of legitimate criticism that can be levelled at Lansdown without having to resort to inventing things to have a go at him over. Otherwise it just reeks of an agenda. Same goes for Pearson, Johnson, Holden and whoever else.

In your wet dreams.

Do you like anything about the club? If not, why are you still here?

Yep. I wonder if they ever considered that 2 spinners might be the way to go?

Leach will be liking the amount of turn that Permaul was starting to get in the last few overs.

Simpson is currently on BT doing punditry on the Leicester game.

Yep. Must have been a nice change for him to come in at 250-3 instead of 25-3. I think I heard them say they were expecting 10k out there on the radio yesterday.

Genuinely think that the only way that a significant chunk of our fanbase might wake up to the reality of the financial situation is if we get hit with a points deduction and/or transfer embargo. And even then, there'd be some who still wouldn't get it.

The article on the website also mentions that Benarous and O'Leary both have Covid and won't be available.

And how much money do you think one of them would cost?

Could have been worse.

Not really a surprise. He's making a useful contribution, seems to enjoy it here and Pearson obviously likes him.

State of it.

The type of manager that a lot of fans tend to want is the proven, experienced type who knows what a successful, well-run football club looks like and what it might take to get to that point. Unfortunately, these types do not tend to be a good match with the hierarchy at Bristol City.

I'd be quite interested to see how many of those saying that we'll be in a relegation battle next season were saying exactly the same thing before the start of this one?

Yeah that was right. It's been mentioned before ( @Davefevswill have the stats) but the average age of our squad masks that the bulk of it is at either end of the age spectrum, so it meets somewhere in the middle. We have very few, as in less than half a dozen, in the 'prime' of their career between about 25-29, and 2 of those are goalkeepers.