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1 minute ago, redkev said:

Been watching city home and away for 45-50 years and in all that time have only ever heard one racial comment by a city fan and it was a one off comment away at Crystal Palace about 20 years ago , 

im not saying it doesn’t or didn’t happen but in my experience have not witnessed anything apart from the one time above 

Wish I could say that was the case.

Remember Junior Bent getting racially abused on his debut for us in 1990 at Preston from so called City fans.

Absolutely not an isolated incident, comments about West Brom being “the pride of Pakistan” a recent example.

Cue someone saying “that’s not racist, it’s banter”..

6 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said:

"Easter Lights" aren't even a thing. One gets the impression Lee Anderson is utterly ignorant of British traditions.

That sentence didn’t need “of British traditions”. 
It could have ended there.

2 hours ago, ralphindevon said:

Smith was like lightning, sadly the end product wasn’t always to that standard 

If it was, he wouldn’t have started at Gillingham or ever played for us.

1 hour ago, 1960maaan said:

One thing that I don't think has been mentioned about them, but is regularly brought up for our games .... real figures .
There will always be people that don't turn up , but take that off of a low starting point and ...

You love to see it.

They’re slowly dying.

Reckon they’ll still go ahead with their plans for their main stand this summer?

No, me neither.

Just now, petehinton said:

And they’re ran by someone so clueless, he genuinely said there is “no value in them having an academy”. 

More like a ******* care home, looking at the age of their team.

At half time (2-0 down) Rovers made a triple substitution & brought on three 35 year olds in Martin, Sinclair & Wilson.

On 70 minutes their final substitution was to bring on a 33 year old right back in Jack Hunt.

Presumably this is their particular version of planning for next season?

Looks more like Last of the Summer Wine to me.

They’re ******, aren’t they?

14 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

One or two have been against him from the beginning.

What you notice a lot of, if you’ve ever taken a gander on there, is that whenever anything is brought up about his latest pathetically embarrassing attempts to get attention, his idiotic fans still try to defend ‘daddy’ by suggesting people “move on” as they can’t bear to see him ridiculed.

As a fanbase so many of them really showed their true colours when he was there. That stain will be hard to remove for them.

Yep- it’s total nonsense to claim there were “loads” against him.

A few (fair play to them) stopped going & were vocal, but most were fully behind him, saw him as a “name” & part of their latest (failed) attempt to get back to the Championship.

What’s weird to me is Gaschat is now full of people now slagging Barton off.

The vast majority loved the thug when he was there, absolute revisionism from start to finish.

1 hour ago, sglosbcfc said:

"So much for the hyperbolic fears of some regarding relegation a few weeks back."

 

It is easy to be wise after the event, but did many fans honestly expect us to pick up 7 points out of 9 in the past three games? I certainly didn't, if we had only picked up 0 or even 1 or 2 points from those games, we would still need to look over our shoulder.

No.

However the scenario being portrayed on here by some was we might not get another point with around 10 games to go, which was frankly ridiculous.

We were never seriously in the relegation picture, no matter how much some said we were.

Saying what might have happened if something we now know didn’t happen had taken place, is really the definition of pointless.

2 hours ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Tighter defence is what that shows. The Dickie effect. 

Yep, also pretty much the same players around him all season.

Keeper who has played every single game, Tanner, Pring & Vyner have all had decent seasons availability wise too.

None of these players is younger than 24, none is over 28, a perfect balance.

Blindingly obvious we are short of creativity & another finisher but something to build on.

Next bit is the hardest part though.

5 hours ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Sammy S usually scores against us doesn't he? 

“Usually” as in he’s only ever scored against us in one game since he left, you mean?

On 01/04/2024 at 22:36, Barrs Court Red said:

You’d be surprised, the train from Yate seems to have a lot on it - and it might be attractive for those in places like Winterbourne. 
 

At the risk of sounding like NTTDS, I would have thought a train was a good option from Yate, far quicker than the bus.

Just before my time but my old man rated him highly.

Described him as hard but fair.

RIP.

2 minutes ago, Red Billy said:

The signing reminds me a lot of the Lois Diony loan from the outside. Had performed well in the past but had struggled leading up to us signing him. Bring him in and hope you can get the better version playing for you. I’d rather we loan these players first and take a look at them than sign them like Gustav Engvall and never play them and have them stuck on a three year deal nowhere near the first team set up. 

Diony had 3 full seasons of Ligue 1 football under his belt when he signed on loan, it didn’t work out but he was an experienced forward.

Mebude is 19 & had started 1 game in the Belgian league & made 2 sub appearances.

Beyond the fact they were both on loan & haven’t worked out I’m struggling to see any similarities at all.

12 hours ago, The turtle said:

Just a football musing, but I don't want to glory hog with a new thread. It's not so much about city either.

 

A strange phrase I've seen a lot today post game = "ill take that"

It has to be one of the stranger emotions. Who pays money and time to walk away from a football match thinking "ill take that" after a nil nil.

It's not like there are exceptions either, because if you play well you aren't taking it.

I'm a master of somehow watching 0-0s and not once have i ever walked out feeling like "ill take that"

Do you know how dominant the other team has to be for "ill take that"

Not once have i been to a game hoping for a 0-0. It simply leaves a feeling devoid of emotion.

I just don't get the phrase or the feeling

 

I do.

When you’ve played poorly & your goalkeeper has saved you from defeat on the back of two wins (one against the side who’ll probably win the league) then a point away from home is absolutely fine by me.

I have been watching us a long time, so realised years ago that expecting us to win every game & even play well in them is unrealistic & pretty naive.

I look every season to make sure that first we have enough points to stay up, so yesterday was another one to that total.

The debate about Tinnion, Lansdown & Manning will go on elsewhere.

I’m definitely not in the “be careful what you wish for” camp, I’d happily see the Lansdowns & Tinnion leave tomorrow but can happily “take the point” & “move on”.

On 15/03/2024 at 19:41, Numero Uno said:

I think he'll wait until the points are in the bag first. One of the other issues we have is almost every game we play is a tight affair. We are never in that 3-0 or even 0-3 position where you can chuck a kid on for 20 minutes either because you're on easy street or you're so angry at the senior players!!

Rotherham at home & at Stoke on the last day seem the obvious ones.

Norwich away might be too much, they’re flying at present.

With sides facing each other & little prospect of all of the bottom sides winning, we should be mathematically safe by next Saturday.

3 hours ago, Davefevs said:

FBC Pod - Lez - (paraphrased) Max was nothing special, the shots weren’t in the corner, were weak, or both. Lordy!

Is he often a big drug user?

Just now, Davefevs said:

Tanner’s touch was awful, conceded possession too often in safe positions.

Clarke’s a top player & I thought he marshalled him reasonably well.

All about opinions though, isn’t it?

28 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

If he plays another minute for us I'll be very surprised.

If he doesn’t get on the pitch at all against an already relegated Rotherham I think that will say a lot.

Just now, The Original OTIB said:

Why did it not affect them in the same way? They could have scored 6.

But didn’t score even one.

2 minutes ago, 22A said:

No; futile means no purpose. Surely they do have a purpose; making us laugh each week.

I know what futile means, I just don’t see the point of them.

I’m not sure how often you can find something so pathetic, funny.

17 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

Apart from Max doing what Max does , no one worth a positive mention IMO.

From 1 to 11 ( poetic licence ) they all misplaced passes , waited for things to happen , stepped off challenges , it was just very poor. 

What I would say is losing Dickie was massive , he would have added some control and leadership. I was a little disappointed with James in that respect . 
I don't blame LM for the team, Roberts played well as LCB last time , so it was reasonable to play him there. But so many off days , hard to explain , and Pring looks back to being shot on 70 mins after so much hard work . 
With nothing on the game really . I would have liked some pro active , positive Subs from the Manager, rather than the expected swaps at the expected time. 
I wonder what we will get Wednesday .

Thought Tanner & Vyner stuck at it & Pring (who took a very heavy knock early on from a clear foul that the ref chose to ignore) certainly improved.

Beyond that we certainly weren’t great, Wells fed on absolute scraps & even James wasn’t at his usual standard.

Take the point, 3rd clean sheet & move on.

5 minutes ago, LilRascal said:

8,814 today against one of the bigger clubs in their division - they really do need a bigger stadium, don't they?

6 games without scoring a goal, crap crowds in a shit stadium.

Absolutely futile club.

3 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

The pricks haven’t scored in 6 consecutive games. 

What happened to Chris Martin, their goal hero?

He’s very good, isn’t he?

Top drawer again today, 3 clean sheets on the spin.

Well done to him.