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Really enjoyed that. Well done Liam and the lads. In fact, I’ve enjoyed all the games over the Easter season. 10 points out of a possible 12 - plus 4 clean sheets! Happy days - and into the top half of the table.

I agree that LJ was given ‘mates privilege’, but Cotts’s results made his sacking easy - we were in the relegation zone and he wouldn’t change his tactics. Suicidal management. He needed to go. For the record - at that time I didn’t want LJ - but I wanted a change.

I took my old dad up to Sunderland to see the Tall Ships a few years ago. Really enjoyed it - the people were very friendly but struggled to find any ‘nice’ pubs there. It was all a bit ‘run down’ and depressed.

I enjoy watching football at all levels. Loved playing it too. I never get bored with it. But I only support Bristol City. Some people have a ‘Prem Team’. I don’t. I can’t. I think of them as ‘plastics’. That doesn’t mean I hate them - far from it - I just don’t get how anyone can support more than one team. Why get excited about a team you’ve never seen winning against another team you’ve never seen? Weird. Maybe the key word is ‘support’ - for example, as I live in Swindon, I ‘keep an eye’ on their results and I don’t wish them any ill (unusual I know for a City fan), but I don’t ‘support’ them. There’s a difference.

I’m surprised at the Palmer ‘love-in’. When he arrived from Chelsea he was good partnering up with the lad from Stoke (Afobe) but after BA got injured I thought he was too inconsistent - and on a lot of money. Likeable guy though - and I’m sure many Bristol housewives from the estates are disappointed he’s gone, considering his song…..

Well, I plan to go to the Huddersfield game and I must say I’m looking forward to it.

Not sure if this has already been posted on here, but here are the highlights:

Great win - well done Liam and the lads. In one respect I’m happier with todays win than Friday’s - of course I’m delighted with both, but this season we’ve played better against the higher placed sides and been undone by the strugglers. Now we’ve shown that we can beat teams at both ends of the table. A very wounded Sunderland next - despite it needing an utter miracle for us to exit the league at either end of the table, for me it’s getting interesting!!!

Just to illustrate my earlier comment - here you can see Phillips in the process of clearing the ball, clearly in front of Gordon and not even looking at him. Gordon stamps his foot down, behind the ball and behind Phillips’s standing foot. There appears to be no effort on Gordon’s part to play the ball - he’s stepped over it in order to impede Phillips, who, being already in mid-kick makes inevitable, unavoidable contact. The penalty award may well have been applying the rules of the game, but it was morally wrong IMHO.

I thought that second Newcastle penalty was ‘interesting’ - let me say that. Gordon didn’t get the ball. He placed his foot in between the ball and Phillips who was obviously in mid-kick with no chance of aborting. Someone asked earlier in the thread; what if it was an attacker about to take a shot in the box and a defender sticks his foot in the way of the kicking foot without touching the ball? The rules say you are not allowed to kick another player, so the referee applied those rules to the letter of the law. They don’t seem to address the situation where a player deliberately puts himself in the way of a player in mid-kick. In the hypothetical example of it happening the other way around, I would bet 50p on a penalty being awarded to Phillips. I would suggest that Gordon is guilty of ‘ungentlemanly conduct’ by deliberately causing a situation where he knew a foul was inevitable. It could be argued that Gordon actually kicked Phillips because no attempt was made to kick the ball. It’s an interesting situation and I see debates raging on multiple forums and in news outlets about it. Personally, I think the rule book needs updating to cover this sort of situation. Under the current rules it was a penalty using the ‘thou shalt not kick another player’ rule, but there is no allowance for a deliberate drawing of a foul. It was the football equivalent to a pedestrian deliberately throwing themselves at a motor vehicle in order to collect insurance or compensation. It worked in this case for Newcastle and Gordon. Let’s hope we don’t see a flurry of similar incidents.

Yeah but the downside to this is that if you get caught short during the game then you miss it! I remember the good old East End (where the Heineken lounge now is) had a gap between the wall and the roof, so you could enjoy relieving yourself into a trough whilst continuing to watch the game!!! Ah the good old days!!!

On the ‘gushing praise’ bit; yes, Liam got it right yesterday. Great win and a great performance. I’m delighted with it. Having said that, we need to do it more than win the odd ‘one-off’ for people to start trusting in him. Maybe if we win the next 3 or 4 then people might start to think we’ve maybe turned the corner. Im not in the ‘Manning out’ camp - as I’ve said in previous threads I’d much rather he turned it around than we started back down a chaotic road with an utter fiasco of another recruitment round. On James and Williams; ideally we should try to retain both. We’ve missed James and I believe that some of our poor performances have been as a result of his absence. If forced to choose then a fit James would trump a fit Williams for me - but let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.

I don’t think we’ve been able to regularly unlock sides that do that since Cotts - and those were only League 1 sides. It’s been our problem for years and through successive regimes. Personally, I think you unlock sides like those who ‘park the bus’ by playing ‘route 1’ football - but we haven’t got a big centre forward or a defender who can push forward with the stature of Flint, so there’s no point in trying right now and we continue to try and play ‘through’ them - mostly without success.

I’ve said before on here and on other forums that IMHO Liam deserves to be given a chance to start next season with his players. Whether they will really be HIS players, or players he’s been told to work with by the COO (possibly like LJ was??) is something I don’t know, but he should be allowed to start the season at least. We seem to play better against better opponents - today’s result was fantastic. Yes Vardy wasted 2 great chances, but we had 2 strong penalty shouts too and their keeper made a great double save. Can we keep the same self-belief going into the Plymouth game? That’s the key. Manning in for me - for now. As with all clubs and managers there comes a time when a managers job becomes untenable, but we have not reached that point imho. I’d stick with him, rather that another gamble on yet another JL/BT unknown appointment.

Well, technically without Mehmeti, Max’s saves would have won us a DRAW Max was brilliant - it was a tough call for MOTM - even Sky admitted.

12th place, 11 points from the playoffs and 11 points clear of the drop. you can’t get much more mid-table than that!! Great performance, great result, all the players played well but Mehmeti and Max were outstanding imho. Well done Liam and the lads. A very Good Friday indeed in the R&W household. More of the same vs Plymouth please chaps….

Not good enough for us. Past it. Too old. Move him on. Just look at how we’ve thrived without him. Romping up the league Happy days. ……. oh …….

Hopefully it will. They rushed it through for Swindon - after the season had ended. Why should the big boys cheat and get away with it when the rest of us toe the line and go nowhere?

Every time I get frustrated and upset about our lack of progress up the leagues, I remind myself that the ‘norm’ for many years for me was to watch us bumping along in the old Div 3 season after season, playing the likes of Grimsby, Tranmere or Mansfield on a wet weeknight. The weather hasn’t improved much, but our league average attainment thankfully has.

I’m amazed (a) Rowett is available and (b) he’d go back to work for his fickle former employer. He would have been good at BS3 IMHO.

Yes - and at about the same time Swindon Town was found to have made ‘illegal payments to players’ during their promotion season and were forcibly prevented from being promoted. As a small club they didn’t have the finance to fight the ruling. I’m not saying Swindon were in the right, but the rules need to apply to everyone equally.

Agree - that’s just one win and a draw They have benefited far more than that.

Warnock is one of a very small list of ‘big’ football characters I’d love to share a beer with and talk football. In the dugout he’s a shouty angry panto villain but by all accounts he’s a complete gentleman outside the stadium and always makes time to talk to people who want a chat.

This - is the only reason I want LM given more time. I’m not happy with things at the club - either on nor off the field, but replacing Liam with another Jon Lansdown appointment - or Tinnion - is scarier to me than hoping LM can turn things around.

It won’t happen - and we aren’t quite in a position where we need him (yet).