GrahamC

Strange that this is in the transfer section if you’re trying to drum up interest. 4 games played, first defeat yesterday & the next 12 days will define our season, apparently. Not an overreaction at all, oh no.

I reckon we will bring in 3 before the month is out, though obviously that’s a complete guess.

Nakhi Wells has scored over 130 league goals in his career. Whatever his current form if he’s not seen as a proper goal scorer then I don’t know what he is. It might have been a statistical outlier but Weimann has a 22 goal season under his belt for us, I’m pretty sure if someone had done that at another club in this division then we’d be saying he was a goal scorer.

Having seen a bit of Roberts now he doesn’t appear anywhere big enough to play CB to me. Pring for a game maybe (I think he’ll be dropped for Hull otherwise) but not Roberts. I would argue Dickie looks Kalas’ equal & Vyner’s form has held up even when we’re poor, like yesterday. Whether it is Kalas or someone else, we do need another defender though expect Naismith to start there on Friday if not.

If we really are taking that 30 year comment seriously then that era includes; Marvin Elliott, Josh Brownhill, Paul Hartley, Korey Smith, Marlon Pack, Matty James, David Noble, Lee Johnson (I know, I know), Wade Elliott, Cole Skuse, Brian Tinnion, Gary Owers & Tommy Doc. Jason Knight, very early days but he looks a smart pick up. I’d argue all of these were decent, of course we have had some poor ones as well but this is pretty lazy stuff on the back of a crap performance yesterday. Daniel Johnson is on the way down, not someone who would make that much difference IMO, his stats at Preston show he’s been a squad player for a while now.

Mixed bag overall for me but think your point is a good one. Prior to yesterday’s poor performance & the news about McCrorie I think the consensus on here was that our recruitment this summer of Dickie, Roberts & Knight was decent. I also think the comments about signing strikers is a bit rich, we are looking to develop our own which with Semenyo then Conway & Bell is a strategy that makes a lot of sense & if TC was fit, I’m not sure people would be posting this. Wells is going through quite a goal drought in League games but I’m confident he can still make a valuable contribution & so could Weimann if played centrally.

For all I know this lad might be a decent player but like before he’s the fourth youngster to join on loan from a Prem club (2 from Brentford, 1 from Chelsea) to go with a collection of Dad’s Army signings in Friend (36 in October), Wilson (34), Hunt (33 before the year is out) & Sinclair (34). I know some above are arguing that the hatred that exists (& I do hate them) is blinding judgement on here but trying to be dispassionate does this really seem like a recipe for success? A load of here today, gone tomorrow kids & a collection of veterans who Wilson aside weren’t playing at their previous clubs. It does look a weaker league this season & Stevenage doing so well emphasises that, but whilst they probably will be top ten (no achievement based on the money they are committing to compared to many in their league), I just can’t see them going up. That’s also before we get to the elephant in the room of infrastructure, no club at our level plays in a ground as ramshackle & embarrassing as theirs, new “stand” in 2024 or not, as the case may be.

Watched a bit of it tonight, the other thing I liked was the referee, keen to play the advantage wherever possible & letting players actually tackle. Like so much it appears the Germans do it far better.

Does make you wonder what the situation is with both Owura Edwards & Sam Pearson. Neither has a squad number or like Kadji & Palmer-Houlden has gone out on loan, yet neither of them has featured in any U21 games. Both have had numerous loan spells, in Owura’s case in the Scottish Prem & League Two, in Sam’s case Scottish League One, League Two & National League yet they are kicking their heels at present. Guess we are looking to move them both on but nothing has materialised yet.

The honest answer to this question is how many of us actually buy a newspaper anymore? I genuinely can’t remember when I last did. In that environment the fact that it is run on a shoestring with few reporters & people covering jobs that used to be done by several others should come as no surprise at all. Piercy is pretty good but the digital world means it is an unrecognisable industry from that which employed the late Peter Godsiff or Richard Latham.

Number of league starts by Friend last season? 2. Hunt? 7. Sinclair made 21. It looks like collecting a lot of veterans on their last payday to me. They could do better with their squad of loan players & pensioners but in a weak division top six might still be a stretch for the jailbird.

@Merrick's Marvels This is the badge I’m referring to, I’ve taken this photo on my phone & so if I remember we can discuss tomorrow. If anyone else can shed any light on it I’d be grateful.

This is lovely & having not seen or heard anything about Donnie for years, it is so good to see him looking bloody great for his age. He probably doesn’t get the credit that he deserves, as he scored 3 of the biggest goals in City’s history for me, that FA Cup winner at Leeds, the first goal at Ashton Gate after our promotion & of course the unforgettable vital late equaliser at Coventry. Brilliant too that after so many years living in Somerset his accent is still as thick as ever… Bless him & Sir Geoffrey, of course.

Smith was really poor but there were plenty of others in the Osman era & under Cooper too when we were playing literally anyone to field a side. This has been done to death several times before but the likes of Colin Loss & Henry McKop under Osman, Paul Williams, Simon Panes & loads of kids given 2/3 games who never made it & just before TC arrived Ray Gooding & Les Carter, absolute shite. Chris Brunt was a terrible signing under Holden (literally couldn’t run), Jody Morris has already been mentioned too, personally I think Liam Walsh did less. Lansbury played regularly in a side that went up to the Prem after leaving us, he was of a far higher standard than all of these, as has been pointed out above picked the worst time to arrive.

Tommy Rowe as well. He’s a bloke from Leeds who is out of work, so don’t have a problem with it. He looked to be a squad player at Wednesday & they were in the same division last season, so it’s hardly a big signing.

I think for Ayman the goal this season has to be to get consistently fit & a regular for the 21s & if that leads to him being in the first team squad at some point then we treat it as a bonus. This latest injury is nowhere near as bad as his 2 ACLs but rightly Nige is going to be extremely cautious with him.

Didn’t Viz start the “Ken” stuff? Had the last laugh, didn’t he?

He couldn’t have arrived at a much worse time, in the COVID season right at the tail end of Holden’s time in charge when the wheels had completely fallen off. In a terrible side he was by no means our worst player (his pass at Millwall for Tommy Conway’s first ever goal was sublime, if Liam Walsh had ever managed to do that we would never have heard the end of it) plus as he proved as a squad player at Luton with the right team mates around him he could do a steady job. I can think of plenty who have been worse & hung around for far longer picking up wages & giving nothing back.

The height thing is really interesting. My great grandmother (BS3, of course) took in a lodger to make ends meet after her husband died young & he lived to a ripe old age in a house in Marksbury Rd. This old boy fought in WW1 (he had a shrapnel wound that caused one of his arms to tremor all of his life) & I remember visiting him as a little kid with my parents in about 1970 & he told me his nickname on the docks where he worked was “Sky” because he was so tall, we had all his paperwork when he passed on & he was 6ft exactly. In the 1910s and 1920s with nutrition & poverty being what they were he must have seemed like a giant. On a related note to the game I still have a pin badge showing the City side from around this era that we found when my Grandad (also BS3) passed away, I must find out more about it..

That is some leap, Steve Lansdown is a part owner of a private company yet is somehow responsible for Government policy. You are seriously comparing a regime which regularly executes people to this? Absolutely bonkers, stick to the “Jordan isn’t as bad as Saudi Arabia” line, completely irrelevant but at least that’s coherent.

Yep, they’re almost exactly the same, aren’t they? Ridiculous number of beheadings, stonings & forced amputations have taken place at Hargreaves Lansdown. What a truly pathetic attempt at a comparison. Must try (or think) harder, pal.

Seeing as it has already been pointed out he was a keyboard player he’ll never be that. By the way to answer your question about our owner & his tax affairs, I genuinely don’t give a ****. I am happy to criticise his choice of managers on occasion but he earned the money, has done loads for Bristol’s economy & is entitled to live where he likes & if that’s Guernsey it is his business & no one else’s.

Mine is still showing Preston as the next game, so how do I update this? Not bothered about getting in because it clearly says “Season Ticket” but would be nice to know. Thanks.

First win of the season & he’s off.. Narcissist.

Certainly crap, last season in the games I saw he consistently struggled to keep up with play. Poor ref who retires & gets rewarded with plum job, no wonder standards are seemingly at an all time low.