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He did.

Pouring down. Loads of fans outside and in concourse. Decent noise here with 25 mins to go

God I've missed this

What will be City's final league position? 14th 2) How many points will City get this season? 60 3) Will City score 60 (or more) League goals this season? Yes 4) Will City concede 60 (or more) League goals this season? No 5) Who will finish as City's top scorer? Nahki Wells 6) How many League goals will City's top scorer (whether the player named in Q5 or ano.) get? 12 7) Who will finish as City's 2nd top scorer? Andi Weimann How many League goals will City's 2nd top scorer (whether the player named in Q7 or ano.) get? 8 9.) How many academy graduates will make their City debuts this season in League or Cup competitions? 3 10) Will Nathan Baker make 20 (or more) League appearances for City this season? No 11) Will Taylor Moore make 20 (or more) League appearances for City this season? No 12) Will Alex Scott make 20 (or more) League appearances for City this season? Yes 13) Will Adam Nagy still be a City player on the last day of the season? Yes 14) Will Tomas Kalas still be a City player on the last day of the season? No 15) Will City sign a striker either before the end of this window, or in the January window? Yes 16) Who will be City's player of the season? Bentley 17) What will be the official attendance for the first home game against Blackpool to the nearest thousand? 17k 18) What will City's Official average League attendance be this season to the nearest thousand? 18k 19) In which round will City be knocked out of the F.A. Cup? 4th 20) In which round will City be knocked out of the Carabou Cup? 3rd 21) How many City players will be sent off in all competitions this season? 2 22) Who will be the first City player to be sent off this season? Baker 23) How many penalties, in all competitions, will City be awarded this season? 4 24) How many penalties will City score? 3 25) Will any City player score a first team hat trick this season? No 26) Will Nigel Pearson still be City's manager on the last day of the season? Yes Young City players: Bell, Pearson, Conway, Britton, Scott, Janneh 1) Which of these 6 will make the mostappearances for City, in all competitions, this season? Scott 2) Which of these 6 will score the most goals for City in all competitions? Bell Gas: 1) Final League position? 18th 2) Average League attendance, to the nearest thousand? 6k 3) Brett Pitman to score 0-10, 11-20 or 21+ league goals this season for Rovers? 11-20 4) Will Joey Barton still be Rovers' manager on the last day of the season? No Welsh Rivals, Cardiff & Swansea 1) Will any of Pack, Flint or Tomlin score for Cardiff against City? Yes 2) Who will finish higher, Cardiff or City? Cardiff 3) Will Korey Smith or Liam Walsh score for Swansea against City? Yes 4) Will Liam Walsh make 20 (or more) league apps. for Swansea this season? No 5) Who will finish higher, Swansea or City? Swansea Lee Johnson's Sunderland 1) Where will Sunderland finish this season? Automatic promotion, promoted through play offs, play offs, lower? Playoffs 2) Will Lee Johnson still be Sunderland manager on the last day of the season? No Ashton's Ipswich 1) Will Ipswich be promoted this season (with MA doing a lap of honour ) either automatically or through the play offs? No 2) Will Ipswich finish above Sunderland? No Steve Cotterill 1) Will Cotts lead Shrewsbury to promotion? No 2) How many points will Cotts' Shrewsbury take off LJ's Sunderland, 0,1,2,3,4,or 6? 2 Old Boys 1) Will Bobby Reid score 14 (or more) league goals for Fulham? No 2) Will Bobby Reid score against City? Yes 3) Will Josh Brownhill score 5 or more PL goals for Burnley? No 4) Will Matty Taylor score against Sunderland? Yes 5) Will Wes Burns score against Sunderland? No Championship 1) Which club will finish top of the Championship? Fulham 2) Which club will finish bottom of the Championship? Huddersfield

I guess this is different from when a ‘almost qualified’ Uni student is placed in a business and used to do a lot of vital work without pay? But then that’s classed as learning?

I realised that, I was just trying to add a bit of humour, but to be fair it was early and so I probably deserve ‘whoosh’

I thought he was being paid and producing nothing so far.

Depends if they want a couple of years worth of contract I guess. If they aren’t particular bothered if they play or not if it’s offered they will naturally sign.

IF he scores!

FAO @Riaz deadly adjective 1. causing or able to cause death. "a deadly weapon"

Totally agree with you. I wonder how many will enjoy going back to normal at AG then go and hug elderly relatives or vulnerable others soon after. It seems a huge lunge to go from not even being able to attend matches for 16mths to no restrictions, just relying on peoples sense and goodwill. And lets me honest are emotional football fans generally the most level headed and reasonable people? As inconvenient as it maybe, it does seem to need some middle ground here.

Great race by lewis to take the win, but I think we missed out on a decent battle between him and Max which was a shame

Dirty move by Lewis. Glad Max is ok

Really interesting, obviously I knew colour blindness existed but never had any experience at all. I never knew it was so varied, I thought people either saw certain colours or they didn’t. I guess it is similar to that white/blue/gold dress thing that swept the Internet a few years ago, everyone is different. i certainly didn’t realise it affected so many people. More males than females if I remember correctly?

I agree. The club seems to operate on the fact that the employees could be fans and therefore are delighted to work for them, dream job as you say.

I also thought that the Fruit Market, or maybe one of the companies in it (they would all have to agree to sell or relocate) was owned by a staunch City fan who was highly unlikely to help the Gas in any way.

I don’t disagree at all. I read somewhere a quote which said the season is just qualification for a knockout cup, a good description I think. Yes everyone knew the rules at the start, etc, etc. But I don’t see why there can’t be League Champions then a playoff for a Champions Cup. One team could do the double of course, but it would be fairer and therefore more just to all involved.

Not really fair play is it though when the team that finished 4th are declared the Champions

We are thinking this too. Also what is puzzling me is that The Killers are end of May, are they really going to leave the pitch covered for a month between the concerts? There won’t be any possibility of working on it until after either which is quite late. I think there could be more...

When local TV news went to AG last night for Euro coverage an advert for EJ was shown on the screen outside, by accident I believe. But yes I heard the rumours too, this confirms it.

I agree. But as far as I’m concerned we finished top after playing a season of rugby, so we won the league. We won’t have a trophy or the title of Champions, but we are. Everyone knows the format at the start and it’s very harsh when it pans out like today. But as you say if we couldn’t see out the game after being so far ahead then we got what we deserved. So anyway, I predictvwe will finish fourth next year and go on to be crowned as Champions and will be parading a trophy. It won’t feel right but neither does it feel right at the moment.

Yup, whatever happens they should remember that they finished top and therefore are the Champions.

I’m hearing we were expected to be told late last night but only found out an hour or so ago, after all the food etc had been prepared. What a waste. Apparently Exeter are moaning too, even though the Covid was nothing to do with us! Gutted it’s cancelled but also relieved that we hadn’t exposed ourself to it unwittingly too.

Retained list announced. I always knew it was happening but gutted not to have seen Max and Ben play

I think the Ref went over to find out what the delay was. To restart the game we needed a player to be in the scrum and the Ref went over to find out why we hadn’t immediately had a player ready. Pat said in the interview, words to the effect of, that Afoa was injured a couple of weeks ago and was only played due to Sincklers injury. He said he never ever takes Afoa off after 40 minutes but as he wasn’t fully fit he didn’t want him to be injured. It seems we were preventing injury rather than him actually being injured. So when Pat was asked he said he was injured but of course it had been recorded as tactical as it was in the strict letter of the law. The Ref was trying to talk to Pat who was being shouted down by Leicester players and staff. Afoa just sat there amused. The official word is that Afoa just said ‘bugger it, I’ll go back on’ and Pat was heard to say to the Ref that he would hold him responsible if Afoa was injured as a result of this. After the game Pat was insistent that he was looking after Afoa who then had to return to the pitch without being warmed up and was already carrying an injury. Afoa then basically won the game for us in the scrum, screamed with joy at a Leicester player who then had a fight with him after the whistle. Hughes was pulling players off him as they all piled in and took a few hits himself. @Kid in the RiotI think you probably know all this but I was just using your post to respond for those that have been asking.