Pezo

Having moved to the corner this year for a better atmosphere I'm glad I did, it's excellent in there and has really added positivity to my matchday experience. 

3 hours ago, Atticus said:

Sadly the Ipswich fans seem to be completely moronic. And under the spell of Ashton can do no wrong.  It is genuinely hilarious how they call us bitter. Yet any type of research would see that we are NOT. 

And because of this, I hope they go down. I will be gleefully celebrating their demise if they want to be that stupid and ignorant. 

DELUDED. 

That's the problem with a salesman like Ashton is everything looks good until you try to use the snake oil. Then when you do there are other reasons for the problems that cloud the picture - the first thing in most fans playbook is sack the manager.

Oxford tried telling us and we were apprehensive about listening to them when we were selling players for considerably more than we ever had before and signing players left right and center. When you're in the middle of it it all makes sense sell players for large amounts, buy more players that (he says) needs only a little development and have lots of competition for places and ready made replacements. This is all fine from the clubs perspective but misses out the human element of players actually wanting to play and what happens when they don't.

If Ipswich fans don't want to listen to us then fair enough IMO, you can't get someone to listen by shouting louder - they certainly know what our experience was. I wouldn't wish ill on them for being blinded by the bright lights of a dodgy salesman and if there was a way of separating there eventual pain from Ashtons then that would be preferable to me, it might take them 3 seasons to realise but they will eventually. 

I think the reason we're all over explaining this stuff to Ipswich fans is because in the grand scheme of things we actually quite liked Ipswich before Ashton got there, they are a good traditional club that I can't remember us having any issues with. 

12 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

They love him don’t they?

Bless them, thick ******* nuggets. 

 

You don't find the problem with snake oil until you try to use it. 

1 minute ago, Tomo said:

I saw that free agent 'andy carroll' talks with Reading broke down. The bloke is probably ridiculously over rating himself in terms of wages. Will ANY Club have him on a pay per match basis?

Can anyone actually do this? It would be like your boss at work saying they will choose when and how much to pay you on a weekly basis. Surely its very rare people can live like that. 

20 minutes ago, myol'man said:

EFL are weak when it comes to the so called 'big clubs' and London bubble 

If the accepted perspective is that Reading are either a big club or in London then we might as well just say we won the prem last season because saying something clearly just makes it true even if its the biggest bunch of nonsense ever. 

4 minutes ago, 54-46 said:

Two stood in front of a shipping container and the other beside what I guess is one of their rusty stands. 

Rusty stand would be a step up for them, I think it's just a generic picture of a football stand that happens to be rusty - you never know they might have taken the picture while at a better ground like Cheltenham. 

2 hours ago, FramptonRed said:

He reminds me of a character in The Simsons called Troy Mclure.

That's a great shout

14 minutes ago, downendcity said:

Not new at all - we were all too consistent last season!  

True, I guess it all depends on your lens. if you take "games" we were consistent (ly bad). If you take a game we had minutes of quality and hours of poor performance.

We're looking consistent which is new/different.

This is a result based on a found rather than a particular tactic or result that doesn't mean anything next week. The foundation might not return a win every week but it is a consistently good performance which I'm more happy about. 

Teams that can't defend get relegated. 

Anything less than 9 is disappointing now

7 hours ago, Robbored said:

No…..GmG does tho - on his own.

Gregor by trying to take on Nige is cruising for a bruising - if of course Nige read the shite that GmG writes. It’s  transparent attempt by GmG to raise his own journalistic kudos by goading a manger with a previously prickly relationship with journalists into another media battle - but Nige is too wise for that.

GmG would be well advised to to stick to asking well constructed questions than writing this load of bollocks.

I would agree but after GmG had a pop at Nige for not doing a post match interview in pre season Nige gave a public reaction both in his comments post Plymouth laughing and saying "this will be the only interview" and his next press interview with GmG where he came across as a bit of a cock. 

These 2 need to be locked in a room for an extended period of time. 

13 minutes ago, Finley_Smith10 said:

how we haven’t signed more players is a joke. Can’t even beat forest green

I'm more concerned by the ones we have left! 

1 hour ago, JonDolman said:

I have been there and had a vegan pasty. Very nice

Fairly sure my steak pasty on Saturday was vegan. 

Just now, redpole said:

I’ve looked at other squads today and other players involved in Euros are all starting for their teams. That’s the easy answer to say they are not playing because they’ve come back late. They’ve all had enough training and opportunities in friendlies. Don’t forget NP left Kalas on the bench v Villa! 

Yes but we don't know what's happened to those other players last season whereas we know our previous pre season was awful. The other players conditioning was likely better going into the euros.

I'm not sure everyone understands the impact of the situation Ashton and his cronies left us in - it's going to take a perfect pre season to get most of our players back to a championship level of conditioning and Kalas, Wells and Naggy aren't going to get that this season or next if we want them to play 90 mins right now. We're better off focusing on getting them right so they can make the difference in a few games time and for the rest of the season rather than them limping through the whole season. 

Kalas didn't play against villa because NP wanted the players that were going to be ready to play against Villa. 

It wasn't a surprise that Kalas, Wells and Naggy didn't start - they didn't get back to training until after the squad went to Loughborough. All of them are trying to catch up with the pre season and I don't think they will be properly really ready for a few weeks yet. 

Naggy has had a long standing issue settling in the UK, it's just simply not for him and the championship doesn't really suit him either. 

He could keep trying to settle but after 2 years and less time on his contract than has already passed he must be thinking that he isn't ever going to settle so for his own mental state and the best for Bristol City I think he has called it correctly (if not a little late). 

3 hours ago, The Constant Rabbit said:

I suspect a psychiatrist would have a field day with Ashton.

He's a borderline sociopath.

Borderline? 

If we still had him and LJ I would definitely have him gone over LJ every day of the week. LJ knew what he was talking about and loved telling everyone, Mark Ashton has no idea what he's talking about but loves telling everyone what he thinks. 

9 hours ago, phantom said:

You can't seriously compare an underground station to a new Ashton Gate station 

It's more than trains, there's simply not the space to control thousands of supporters 

I don't see why not, it's all rails, trains and stations isn't it?

As someone that has stood in queues outside underground stations following football games I can confidently say there isn't space there either and yet they manage. They manage because they can bring a train in every couple minutes and keep the crowd moving, our problem will be not being able to bring a train in evey couple minutes, we simply don't have enough trains. 

2 hours ago, phantom said:

Can you imagine the size of a station that would need to be built to cope with a matchday crowd 

Never going to happen 

Not sure how every London club does it with poxy little underground stations. 

The answer is queues and lots of trains (which is the actual problem). 

So is this going to be part of, and an extension of Ashton Gate stadium or is it something next to Ashton Gate stadium? Will the flyers be paying rent to Ashton Gate?

It's presented by Ashton Gate (which is our stadium even if it's in a separate company) whereas I thought it was something separate.

3 hours ago, Supersonic Robin said:

Ah, okay. So why is it that City can include AG profits towards FFP, but not the rest of the sporting quarter? My understanding (which may be wrong) is that the football club and AG are now 2 separate businesses?

The football club and the stadium are separate companies but one is a subsidiary of the other. The Rugby, flyers and Bristol sport are peers in the hierarchy and are all "owned" by Pula. The Football club is registered with the FA so profits from the stadium as a subsidiary count towards FFP, Pula isn't registered so profits made by Pula (not that it makes sense to have profits in a holding company) don't count towards FFP.

Basically for the same reason as if the rugby makes a profit that doesn't count towards our FFP but the rugby club pays rent to the stadium and that does count towards FFP. 

8 hours ago, Banned User said:

No, don't don't don't do this, Robbored incoming! 

It depends on what the 3, 4 or 5 million gets us in this market. If we get the next Toney then great - if we get the next Brunt then not so keen.