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They were supposed to be doing a scene from Snow White, but only Sneezy showed up. Sleepy and Dopey were playing for the City. Grumpy was in the Dolman. Doc was seeing to Sam Bell and Happy was in the away end. Bashful was up in the boardroom reflecting on his embarrassing choice of words about having a top end squad

We’ll have to disagree on this one big guy. I thought he was the only player today who looked like he was giving qpr anything to worry about. If everyone scores a 4 today, he’d at least get a 5.

I agree that I would have also kept Mehmeti on. He was the only one looking remotely like given them something to think about. If he wanted to get Medube on, he’s more comfortable on the right, so could have been worth having both Mehmeti and Medube on each flank - that might have been something slightly different.

He’s shown in half a dozen games that he’s pretty much ok. Not much more than that. And if he keeps doing what he did today then I’ll be making a much bigger deal of it

To be fair I’ve got no problem with the Cornick sub. It was early in the game. Sykes and Twine wouldn’t have been fit enough for that long. And Medube; as we saw, was not ready. No problem at all with the Cornick sub. And no problem him switching flanks either - Cornick is generally better from the right than the left so it was perhaps correct to bring Anis to the left. Bell’s injury did scupper our overall game but yes, I wasn’t sure about all the other subs in the 2nd half, and as said, if Twine was on the bench he should’ve been fit enough to do 20 minutes in the exact situation for which we signed him

Yep. That’s the all or nothing society we have nowadays. Basically, the kid had a poor game. No getting away from that. But let’s see what he does for the rest of his loan and decide whether we want him or not. Bad game. Move on.

Should have subbed him on for the free kick and then taken him off again. I mean, if he wasn’t fit enough for 10 minutes at the end when the game is crying out for his type; then we might as well have just used him as a Special Teams sub when we got that free kick.

There’s only 3 people in the country who thought we ever had a playoff shout this season : Jon Lansdown, Brian Tinnion and our resident bird vermin from super-mare.

Yep. No one can convince me or give any reasonable rationale as to why Twine didn’t come on. If he’s on the bench he must be fit enough for at least 15-20 mins. And he was signed for this exact situation - needing something different around the box versus a team happy to sit in. We signed him for these exact moments. Baffled I am. As for Gardner-Hickman. I’ve kept my powder dry on him so far but I’ve not as yet been overly impressed with him. Yes, a few decent moments here and there but he’s done nothing to convince me yet. And then today, he enters the fray with us needing to sharpen up, quicken the passes, start to impose ourselves etc and he’s the slowest effing passer out there, taking 3 or 4 touches every time he has the ball and getting easily dispossessed about 6 times. There was one moment he had an acre in midfield, received a pass, took 3 touches to turn, had a chance at a quick ball out to McCrorie in loads of space but proceeded to pass it at about 0.5 miles per hour and it eventually reached a now fully marked McCrorie the following week! Effing quicken it up man!! So damn slow at everything. I still need a lot of convincing on this kid. Sorry.

Yep but I mean the free shirt offer thingy. I always thought that was only the upper Lansdown but apparently not

I must admit. Until recently I always thought the cheap kids tickets (with free shirt) were only available in the upper Lansdown family stand. Only in the last couple of months I’ve seen comments on here about it being available elsewhere too. Seems a bit baffling to me. I always thought the cheap family tickets were only for the family stand. So I agree with your idea.

You can say that again !!

Well. At least it’s better than that horrendous monstrosity they came up with for the 125 year anniversary. No surprise that we wore that sickening kit in the last game before covid struck - it was clearly enough to make the whole bloody world sick!!

YETI !!

Tell us how you really feel Mr Pops By the way, I 100% agree with you.

Got any tippex?

The Heaton Stifles one was concocted by you and I sir, away at Barnsley. Here you go @TV Tom. Some folks did hear it A screw, a screw, a screw a screw a screw

Thanks for that info. Do we know how this compares to other League 1 clubs. And I suppose league 2 clubs for that matter?

Aha yes. That reminds me of the Agostino song. Again only sang a few times by a few of us - was a bit tricky to get this one catching on. To the tune of Waltzing Matillda There was a jolly swagman, down by the Do-It-All Goes by the name of Agostino P. He can tackle, he can pass, he can even score against the gas He’ll keep on scoring for Bristol City Paul Agostino, Paul Agostino Floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee He can tackle, he can pass, he can even score against the gas He’ll keep on scoring for Bristol City.

Comfortable-ish Like you, on Saturday I was thinking it was an onslaught. But watching back without emotion it was the 55-70 that was white-knuckle. The last 20 was relatively more comfortable ish and it wasn’t anywhere near as threatening as it ‘felt’ on Saturday.

Thanks Dave. Again kinda backs up my thoughts. That 55-70 period was where Azaz was finding pockets and either creating centrally or allowing Ayling to overload wide right. That period was horrible and I was very worried. But the substitution and tweak made on the block (ie Williams on gave more legs than James plus JK & AM tucking in to close down the spaces in midfield) allowed us to stifle Boro again. Again having watched it back without emotion, on Saturday I was on the edge of my seat all 2nd half, with head in hands, but without the emotion we were actually quite comfortable in the final 20 mins after the sub and tweak. My conclusion there is that LM knows exactly what he’s doing, knew where we were struggling, knew where Boro were gaining the advantage and he adjusted accordingly to good effect. Edit. And plus in the interview today he did reference that 10 mins prior to halftime (it was actually from 32 that Boro changed it). So again, for those who have said he doesn’t see the opposition tactical changes - well, he did. And he adjusted accordingly.

Yep. There was a big blonde chap in the East End late 80’s early 90’s who used to shout at the opposition goalies “drop yer drawers and show us yer bum”.

I agree Dave, that the reaction was not necessarily the correct solution. But I did want to make sure it was clear that LM did actually react. Not you, but some others in this thread, were keen to state that Manning did nothing to react to Boro’s changes. Whereas the opposite is true. He did react. The half time change was a reaction to Boro’s change on 32 mins. As you say, when Boro then reacted again and took dominance from 55-70 minutes, Manning DID react again, with the Williams sub he tweaked the block and brought Knight & Mehmeti tighter. So I think the argument I’m trying to make is not necessarily that the half time change was the correct one, but is in response to some who say there was no reaction. When in fact the half time reaction stifled Boro for 10 minutes and made them rethink, and then the 70 mins sub and tweak was a further reaction and contained Boro after a worrying spell. I was much like you after the game (as we mentioned on WhatsApp) that I was relieved when the final whistle went. But I watched the game back last night and a re-watch always takes the emotion out of it, and actually, from 70 minutes onwards we were actually quite comfortable and Boro didn’t really create much and were restricted to a few crosses. The most worrying spell of the game was the 55-70 minute spell. And Manning reacted to that and shored it up.

And you sir certainly know about the BERRRRRRISTOL bellow. You were probably the loudest ever! Ha ha, as for the “who’s your barber boy” I’m pretty sure I introduced this after seeing something similar on the Mary Whitehouse Experience. I used to begin it with a shout that again wouldn’t be allowed nowadays : ”Nice hair ya homo!! Who’s your barber boy”. And I am also pretty certain that it was you and I who introduced the “Garden Shed” song away at Wigan. @TV Tom - Banbury Red will be able to back me up on a number of those chants which you “weren’t having” last night

We also got this one going quite well away at Wycombe mid 90’s at their keeper Martin Taylor (after we’d been shouting at him that “Taylor - you’re wife’s got a cock”). Don’t know why - we just decided to pick on him that day. oh Taylor’s wife. She’s got a cock. oh Taylor’s wife has got a cock. She’s got a cock, and some bollocks. Oh Taylor’s wife has got a cock. Fun days You’d probably get a 3 year ban for singing that now!!