2 hours ago, Son of Fred said:

Not too sure that Murphy & Palmer-Houlden will be first team squad..

League one loan for PH, League two for Murphy would be more likely.

Numbers wise there would have to be more signings made this summer than I’m expecting for that to be the case.

If James moves on & Bird is his replacement then we are still King’s usual place on the bench down after a season where we often only named 8 subs.

I’m expecting Stokes, Seb P-H & Murphy, alongside the likes of Backwell & Knight-Lebel to be the players we look to for 2 of these spots.

Wondered if having a final U21 game next Tuesday might be a factor, or if we play it with youngsters included who already know they are being let go?

58 minutes ago, East Londoner said:

I’ve definitely seen this guy somewhere before, was he the one with his dad in the unlucky da shit video?

Think so.

50 minutes ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

Just saw a report that Aden Flint picked up all 4 season awards at Mansfield from their supporters groups. Obviously they can't have a young player of the season award. 

Far too good for League Two.

He never had any pace so he won’t be any slower & he certainly isn’t getting any shorter.

Looking forward to him giving those North Bristol clowns some grief next season.

1 hour ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

Adelakun starting for Donny, Tommy Rowe on the bench.

Completely passed me by that Dave Rennie is now at Doncaster.

On 05/05/2024 at 11:50, Mark barton said:

Naismith- he must be coming up the end of his deal maybe 12 months left.

What is the current state of his recovery.

 

I dont see him getting back in the side so another wage being sucked out of 1st team squad.

 

Hopefully pompey will take him on loan?

He’s got another year.

No idea of his recovery position but his availability record this season (9 league starts) has been awful.

Think Manning would be happy to move him on if we could find a taker this summer but expect he’s a top six earner for us, which will make it tough.

8 minutes ago, Ivorguy said:

Yes, but quality is quality.  Any rate Murphy comes from arguably same level

Down here Brighton are reported to be interested

Don’t really think you can say the Irish top flight is of National League South standard.

Sam Curtis has been on the bench for Sheff U in the Prem this season after playing in it last season.

Can’t believe any National League South player has ever made that leap in one go.

Can only put it down to the gentrification of the club, the amount of what I would describe as middle class families at games is off the scale when compared to before.

Our support is phenomenal, I know plenty like to moan about it on here (“typical Bristol apathy” is one phrase) but this shows that to be utter bollocks. Away support much better than you would believe if you lurked on here, too.

As an aside what a small club Swansea are, huge catchment area but poor away following & their home crowds nothing to crow about either.

1 hour ago, Eddie Hitler said:

 

The power of a two second internet search.

 

Stephen Lansdown: Bristol City owner 'embarrassed' by spending

31 July 2013

Bristol City owner Stephen Lansdown says he is no longer willing to pay excessive player wages after spending an 'embarrassing' £50m on the club.

City were relegated from the Championship last season and posted a record loss of £14.4m in 2012.

The backing of billionaire Lansdown, 60, means they are not in financial difficulty, but he is determined to make the club more sustainable.

"I'm embarrassed by how much I've spent," Lansdown told BBC Points West.

"I daren't add it up, and although I have no regrets in doing it, it's probably over £50m.

"We started paying out bigger wages because we felt we needed that extra class, and it hasn't worked for us.

"I look back and it was a mistake."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/23501929

 

I think what confused many of us was your comment about an “unsuccessful promotion push” as being in 07/08, rather than the whole period.

SL is absolutely brilliant at investing too much at the wrong time (when GJ was randomly signing striker after striker towards his end) & of course the LJ/Ashton era then not investing enough (GJ’s playoff final season, Nige earlier on in this one).

He’s not going to learn now though & that “embarrassment” has been replaced by arrogance that he always knows best.

Wish he’d sell up.

3 hours ago, Eddie Hitler said:

 

SL said he spent £50m in that ultimately unsuccessful promotion run under GJ and confessed that he felt "a bit silly" for doing that.

£50m -That’s utter nonsense, the major spending of GJ’s team was in his latter years.

GJ spent minimally in the playoff season, in January when we were in the top two we spend the grand total of £800k, £550k on Carle (sold for a million that summer) & £250k on Adebola.

**** knows where that £50m figure comes from, the keeper Basso (free), our entire back four cost £5k! Orr, McAllister frees, Carey free, McCombe £5k.

Midfield Elliott £100k (!), Lee Johnson £40k, Sproule & McIndoe didn’t even cost £1m between them, Trundle was a million but Byfield was £100k.

£5m sounds more likely to me.

1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said:

Is nice deal.

Wycombe? I like.

Your Bristol Rovers? Not so much..

3 hours ago, Street red said:

I'm getting the feeling that this club doesn't like experienced people around the place it honestly doesn't make sense at all. Kingy deserves better if I'm honest and yeah a link up with Pearson again could be next watch this space I presume. James leaves as well it's a big chunk of experience leaving the building.

Well he’s no Matt Hewlett or Dean Gerken, is he?

Our random goalkeeper signing, currently on loan at Bromley is on the bench for them at Wembley today as they face Solihull Moors for a place in League Two.

2 hours ago, Oh Louie louie said:

If he was ok, we wouldn't have cut his loan short

Fielding was fit again.

Look at his career, he’s played for Leicester, Huddersfield & Swansea & even this season he’s featured for Watford, he’s not some bloke we fetched out of the pub.

We have had loads of worse loan signings than him, several that season.

15 minutes ago, Oh Louie louie said:

I can't recall how many ben hamer let in, but im sure it was double figures in a few games, he didn't steady the ship

Won our first game in the Championship (Boro away, clean sheet) with him in goal.

He was ok & has had a decent career.

12 minutes ago, pillred said:

And yet they have sold over 12,000 season tickets again, who says you can't fool all of the people all of the time?

We’re not all being “fooled”, it’s our club.

I was here before Tinnion, here before Lansdown & as long as I’m on the planet & well enough to attend, will be here after them, too.

Doesn’t mean I don’t find Tinnion an embarrassment or Lansdown & son poor owners beyond infrastructure.

2 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said:

The Chief got a lot of unnecessary stick here, but when he left, he seemed to spent the majority of his career in a higher division than Bristol City.

Remember, he's the reason we got that replay at Anfield.

Mate & I were discussing this the other week, he scored over 100 goals at Championship level, Tony Thorpe scored 2…

We were shit, I don’t think it would have made a big difference if Manning or Hogg had refereed the game.

The offsides at Norwich were far more contentious & as has been said, we have had a lot of penalties recently.

Mr Roundabout meet Mr Swing.

2 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Jesus, that feels a bit extreme. I know Tinnion blocked @Davefevs recently and in a way I kind of got it as Dave has been critical (not abusive) and Tinnion has a skin as thin as tracing paper.

But Paul Binning is, for me, someone who is more often on the side of the club than not. Good read, decent bloke but errs more to establishment than rebellion. Blocking him is just odd.

If he blocks Patch Warner and Math Withers next then he’s having a full on breakdown.

He’s just sad.

Like you I see Paul as far more “pro” the regime than most, so this is just pathetic.

No way is he blocking Patch “I’ve got our bean counter on my podcast today” Warner, he wouldn’t criticise the club if they started randomly talking people out of the Dolman & shooting them on the halfway line.

27 minutes ago, bearded_red said:

How on earth does he hold such a role at a championship football club. It’s truly absurd. The consistent lack of professionalism is just beyond a joke now really.

At times the criticism of him on here makes me quite sad as along with Wayne Allison he was my hero when I was about 5, but it’s beyond belief he is the Technical Director at a championship football club.

Don’t get me wrong, there are two people above him that are bigger stumbling blocks to this club ever progressing or truly achieving anything, but come on, let’s be sensible, we need to employ someone much more befitting of such a senior role if we wish to have any sort of success.

He did have a lovely left foot though.

This, every day.

Just to go off at a slight tangent here, the great Wayne Allison is now the proud possessor of a Doctorate that he studied for.

I’d be far, far happier if he was in Tinnion’s role, because in complete contrast, he’s literate & numerate.

2 minutes ago, phantom said:

I never realised football success was related to the size of the location they were based

Also, we’re the 7th biggest, not 5th.

London, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield & Manchester are all bigger.

People are entitled to their own opinion but not their own facts.

2 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

When / if those materialise we can reflect appropriately.

Totally.

At the moment we don’t know.

Retained list next week gives us the first idea.

What I would say though as someone with a lot of time for Andy King, you really can’t say losing him as a player (4 league starts this season) when he will be 36 early in the next one is significant in terms of the playing side, because at best he was going to be a coach next year.

Bird hasn’t come to replace him, so realistically one of Williams (or more likely) James is off, again it is arguable that weakens us.

17 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

How do you know he was very cheap.

I doubt the loan of a £1.5 million recruit was VERY cheap.

We don’t, but he’s ended up at a Belgian side none of us had heard of when he joined.

They probably pay League One wages & at least we can send him back next week rather than having committed to signing him.

5 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

Perception is a strange thing. Talk about this game and I always think , drab 1-0 defeat. Even though there have only been 3 in the last 20 games , and the last 3 games I went up there were  1-1 , 2-2 and 3-3.  

People are obsessed.

Our record against Birmingham is far worse.

34 minutes ago, MelksRed said:

And we rarely get anything from them when we play them......a club I always expect to drop points to....

“Rarely get anything”.

This season a draw at home, loss away.

Did the double over them last season.

Season before that both games were draws.

One before that we won a game each.

One before that, 2 more draws.

So they have beaten us twice in the last 10 meetings.

Facts, eh?