GrahamC

He won’t be “cheap” he’s a top 4 earner. Plus even if we got him to accept half, so £9k a week, how does that help us if he is missing 50% of the time? Which would still be a huge improvement on this season. May as well keep Mariappa in that case, on about a third of what Baker is & available far more often.

Can’t see it. If we cannot find someone with a better availability record & on far less than Baker we really aren’t looking very hard. My hunch is Simpson, Walsh & Weimann will be the only 3 offered contracts. If there is a 4th I think Lansbury or Rowe are more likely than Baker.

Expect Bakinson & Vyner to both play, if Baker is being released there seems no point in him playing, unless Kalas is left out when we have no choice. Bakinson should start, with Scott possibly getting another 45.

I’d be amazed if we win, Brentford have already made it clear that they are picking a strong side & with our levels of form & confidence they could probably rest 8 today & still win. Hope Pearson uses as few as possible that he has already decided to release, we probably don’t have enough to leave them all out, but with the game being meaningless to us, I hope to see a fair few youngsters given a go.

And of course Radio Bristol & The Post just lap the myth up. 2000 at Barrow, Harrogate, Carlisle, Scunthorpe & Oldham? Remember when they took less than 400 to Peterborough on a Saturday & tried to claim it was 1000. Delusional.

£1m.

Absolutely so. Certainly can argue he never got a chance, from memory he only got an hour in one game v Swansea & 2 brief-ish sub appearances. For those who claim he is someone we miss, I genuinely don’t know how you can have an opinion either way, based on that tiny sample size. What this season has showed is that he is clearly very good at League One level, but for him & Peterborough, next season will be a totally different test.

Yep, around 4000 apparently.

Should do, but their form over the last six games is as bad as ours & that is in League One with a side that has been top eight all season. Of all the sides involved up there the pressure is far, far higher because no way should Sunderland ever be at that level. The 2 promoted sides, Peterborough especially, aren’t half their size & their players seem to shrink with the responsibility of getting back to at least where they should be.

Presumably the “10,000” who can’t wait for the first game of next season from the Blue “half” of Bristol are all on holiday?

Remember hearing this & drawing 2 conclusions; Hoskins is either a gashead or he’s completely utterly ******* deluded. Rovers will be in League Two next season whilst we are in the grip of a pandemic. There is very little chance that a club who get around 6500 watching them in the third division suddenly getting far, far more than that one division down. Also, back to that pandemic bit, for safety reasons I’d be amazed in a ramshackle ground where social distancing will be difficult I doubt they will be allowed to operate anywhere near full capacity. Still, in the spirit of false equivalence Hoskins also trots out the “Blue half of Bristol” myth from time to time, so my first comment stands.

Can’t be arsed to listen to their sad tales but what they cannot comprehend is that for the overwhelming majority of this city they simply no longer matter. Pre pandemic they were often getting crowds of 6,500, since that time their on field performances have declined, so they would be lucky to get that now. Despite the media locally still giving them false equivalence (equal coverage, this “blue half of Bristol” utter myth) aside from very very few, no one is remotely interested in them. I said last week I genuinely can not recall the last time I saw anyone wearing a replica shirt of theirs. We averaged 22,000 in the last season crowds were allowed, I doubt very much we would do so next season even if possible but truth is for anyone writing another of those articles about Bristol’s inability to punch its weight, we are the only game in town now, they are slowly dying.

Yep- I can certainly see us finishing bottom of league one next season.. **** off.

Every chance they will, MK Dons season is over. However with Pompey & Blackpool away to come, even winning both their home games would see them go down, as no way are Wigan, with 3 wins on the spin, going to fail to get another point in 4 games, the last of which is Swindon at home. Be nice to see them relegated on the last day having thought they still have a chance.

My view (trying not to be biased) was it was pretty much identical in intent to the one that Kalas gave away at Coventry. TK didn’t mean to, but he tripped the guy, Conor Roberts lost his footing & inadvertently pulled Semenyo to the ground, there is nowhere in the rules that says it has to be the intention, but he did so. it was a penalty. For me one of the clearest penalties we should have had was at Hull when Afobe played for us, the defender stumbled in pursuit & basically accidentally rugby tackled him to the floor, interestingly not long afterwards the ref awarded one for a trip on Rowe that was also a foul but more marginal.

Amazingly if you look on Twitter there are still Swansea fans moaning about the one we got against them at home in October when Conor Roberts lost his footing & tripped Semenyo. This coming from a side with a diver like Andre Ayew up front..

Seeing as Rovers haven’t played at Championship level since 1993 that is impossible. Or are we now saying getting points against Swansea & Watford is the same as against Northampton & Rochdale? That’s blue “half of Bristol” levels of delusion.

I wouldn’t say Rovers are going down but they need to catch either Wimbledon or Wigan who have both managed to gain 9 points from their last 3 games. They are 6 points adrift of 1, 7 of the other & Wimbledon also have a game in hand. Rovers have managed just 8 from their last 11 games, so 8/33. Think that’s what they call the Joey Barton effect ?

Why the **** are they “amazed?” East Bristol hasn’t been a gas heartland for a very, very long time. Basically Fishponds & parts of Kingswood aside, they are a minority interest outfit now. Never see anyone in central Bristol wearing their shit garb any more.

They are pitiful. I love it. Gas go down in May & Barton goes down in June..

They have already lost at home this season to Rochdale, Swindon & Wigan, drew 0-0 with Wimbledon. They are a laughing stock, I usually think they will sneak their way out of things with a dodgy penalty or sending off, but they could well go down. Hilarious, isn’t it?

This is exactly the narrative Barton is after, isn’t it? The Post article last week uncritically (of him) implied the same thing. Fact is he took over a side with 18 games left that weren’t in the bottom 4 at the time & have a top half wage bill in their league. He is simply getting his excuses in early if they go down, the standard is really poor & if he was a tenth as good as he thinks he is, he would certainly keep them up. They are rubbish but their rivals are Rochdale, Wigan (who had to play their youth team for a while), Wimbledon, Northampton, I mean, seriously?

Absolute myth of a club. Cheated FFP by a country mile to get into the Prem, if they can’t get back during their parachute payments era they are in big trouble, even with one of Putin’s mates propping them up.

I listened to an interview of his in the week, he seems totally convinced he is one of the best managers around. Completely deluded, he’s done absolutely nothing & that’s why his next job after Fleetwood was with the blue few, not as LJ got after leaving us, a club with real potential.

And the deluded fools just lap it up. According to Gaschat reaching the L1 playoffs once with Fleetwood puts him on a par with the top names in the game. He is banging on about not having a transfer window but I’d be amazed if they don’t have the highest wage bill of that bottom six & so his job is to get results with what he has, not slag off & demoralise them. He’s taking them back where they belong, they might as well have persevered with Tisdale for all the difference he has made.