GrahamC

Seeing as yesterday was his first start in virtually a year & we all know he’s on our highest wages, it is understandable that the club won’t rush to offer him one. He has to stay fit for the remaining games first, be receptive to what would be a huge reduction even if we do offer him something, as well. Doubt anything will happen until the season ends, but Pearson will probably decide around April, I guess.

As usual we agree. Would say though what technique he has, the ball sticks to him even when the pass he receives is a bit “off” & he has given us an “out” ball that we wouldn’t otherwise have had with Semenyo gone. He’s good.

Two more wins for certain, I think. We have a relentless schedule next month & will be relying basically on the same 15 players, so will probably lose one of the games coming up (cue meltdown from some on here) but Blackpool look certs now & we have enough to secure those points before too long.

It’s hypothetical because there is virtually no chance of Atkinson being fit for the start of next season anyway. Based on recent form Vyner might not be here in August, if we don’t offer him a new contract soon I expect Inter Milan will be after him the way he’s played recently..

I had completely forgotten how high he gets up for a relatively short CB. Covered once superbly by Sykes but for a bloke who hadn’t played 90 minutes in 11 months he did a brilliant job today.

Plus there was a nailed on handball in the box by them earlier in the game.

Pearson knows what he’s doing… No passengers now. Great, isn’t it?

Very sad, RIP.

Exactly so. A year ago he was on the bench for a couple of games if I recall correctly but seems to have fallen down the pecking order with the emergence of Taylor-Clarke (who seems to have got in front of Kadji too), I definitely expect him to be released this summer & so National League is a great shop window for him. Great move for Seb but also a very tough gig, Yeovil struggle to score & he’s going in to a struggling side at 18 years of age being asked to score the goals to hopefully keep them up. Whatever happens it will be a massive experience for him in terms of his own development.

But was it really as good as we thought at the time? Which on reflection sounds like a song lyric. There’s always that nagging feeling of “it never rained when you played football before school” isn’t there? For instance Thatcher was still in power (just) then & I bloody lived in Kingswood..

Definite 89/90 Bountyhunter vibes in this shirt. Expecting to suddenly see @Bristol Oil Services in a bucket hat before those Welsh fans stole his sartorial style, @Merrick's Marvels & me still with hair & @77 punk exhibiting the sort of “enthusiasm” that seemed to have disappeared from him since Gary Johnson left..

Like all that side that got to the top flight (& I could name them off by heart), he was a bloody good player. However he was already reaching the veteran stage by the time we went up & as has been said, Sir Geoffrey switched across to LB to accommodate Norman Hunter & he dropped out. Lovely to see he’s stayed fit, active in this part of the world for all these years, his son had a decent career too.

This is just my opinion of course but it’s ******* horrible, the worst one in many years. I genuinely don’t care what we wore on the 50s, I have been watching us over 50 years & our shirt is always red, not bloody Arsenal or Rotherham. I hate it.

Absolutely so. We got generic cast offs from those companies & good as it was to have a “name” supplier it was often pretty uninspiring stuff. This looks a half way house decision & hopefully they will see us as their biggest football client, so will be accommodating & respond swiftly to demand.

Immediately thought this. I know they’re predominantly an Irish sport supplier but Wycombe at least shows that they have a foothold in the market. Let’s be honest, I’m not their demographic, but those who want to buy replica kit need to be able to do so throughout the season & simply haven’t been able to.

Absolutely it’s each to their own. I don’t mind it & am also conscious that if our second shirt is white (personally I really like that one) with Stoke, Sheff U etc in the division the choice of the third is a bit more important, we had black & I never took to that, not a fan of green & it isn’t going to be blue, then it needs to be distinctive. Aside from that truly awful centenary shirt I’ve not disliked any home shirt as much as this season’s, it hasn’t grown on me at all, still looks like Arsenal or Rotherham. I’ll be very happy if it goes after a year.

He’s a disgrace & as this shows, a liar. I have no idea if he is actually scared of Barton or simply a sycophant but he’s comfortably the most biased reporter I can ever remember cover either Bristol team.

Summed up my thoughts perfectly, RIP.

I think he was pretty unhappy to be excluded from the squad after his efforts last season & so behaved accordingly. Was best for all parties that he moved on.

Dreadful news for Rob & clearly a blow but assuming Naismith is back in the next month we are really only looking at Kalas covering for that period as the minimum. If he can’t stay fit for that period then he’s really in trouble career wise, my hunch is he’ll do so.

Good result for Rotherham but think Blackpool are going to have to do something miraculous to stay up now. They’re 10 points adrift of us with a far worse goal difference & have played a game more.

There has been a huge influx of Londoners in BS3, especially in Southville & Windmill Hill but there are still plenty of City here.

They’ll be home on August 12th, because that’s the weekend of the balloon fiesta & we never are home then. Said this before, if they were really serious then they could develop the Mem one stand at a time, in a smaller version of what we did. They don’t have the money to do so, though.

Wondered when we would take the opportunity to have a look at Haikin in a competitive game. Need to base our decision on whether we extend his deal beyond season’s end on more than training, so this is presumably going to be the first of a couple of games for him.

Since we returned to the Championship in 15/16 the highest number of points that’s ever been needed to stay up is 51, so that obviously not true (made up).