The Bard

Reading/watching/listening to a few of these, all be it briefly, there is just so much laziness and/or slavish obsession to the established narratives that they aren't really going to be illuminating. They obsess about the 3 teams coming down, the 3 that came up and the ones that missed out in the play offs. Some teams literally go unmentioned. I think we've got our best chance of a play off challenge since the Webster season. Then we had a well balanced squad with a sprinkling of high quality and I think that's the case now. I think we will be more consistent and less likely to be 'found out'. If you consider that Millwall, Sunderland, Coventry and Blackburn basically fought it out for 4th and 5th places last season, it makes you realise there really isn't a massively high bar to reach to be a play off team. It's worth noting that 3 of those have seasoned managers in charge and so do we. We are in the position to challenge and it would be a big let down if we don't get amongst it this season. That's obviously different to saying we're getting promoted. However, I get the feeling that if we did get amongst it we would maintain our challenge in contrast to the previous 3 opportunities we had under Lee Johnson.

That's from the Times? Standard of journalism is at an all time low. * Bristol City or just City please. * What relevance is our manager's age? * Mcrorie has been bought as a Right back * If Dickie ever plays Left back you'd have to wonder what the **** has happened.

It's consistent with someone whose prefrontal cortex hasn't developed fully.

But the evidence is he scores goals when making runs from deeper isn't it? Even a few when he had to play wing back.

Yeah, nightmare watching him score 22 goals from there the other year wasn't it?

I think Nige is holding back on the last signing. He wants to see if Naismith and McRorie are okay and the other defenders okay come the end of August. If they are the money left will go on a keeper. If he thinks we need an extra CB, the money will be spent on that. There's also the advantage of saving on wages until then. Expect a signing 2 to 3 days before the deadline. When you think about it, it is about risk management. There's a risk Max might get seriously injured, If he does then we need another keeper without question. If Vyner or Dickie get injured we need a CB without question.

So you're saying we're behaving like a well run club?

Bell away. Mehmeti home.

Yep. Similar happening at women's wc

So, you would assume that by now Mr Lansdown is possibly making a nice profit from the overall collection of entities?

So, I assume that Pula is based offshore and hence that is why it owns everything? Are their accounts published?

I remember most of those differently 1982 Flattered to deceive. 1986 Started terrible, unlucky at the end. 1990 Could've won it if we'd been better in shoot out 1994 dnq as manager not up to it 1998 Shoot out loss. Difficult to gauge how good we could've been 2002 Flattered to deceive. 2006 Flattered to deceive with strongest set of players in my memory (bluffer manager). Penalties again 2010 dog shit 2014 dog shit 2018 excellent performance with relatively weak side. 2022 Opportunity missed. Penalties again..

I disagree. We would only stop playing him when we agree a fee. Why change our plans to give our best player a game because another club might be about to offer a fee for a player that we might accept?

Max Mcrorie Vyner Dickie Pring James Knight Cornick Weimann Bell Conway Sub A Goalie, Tanner, Roberts, Naismith, Williams, King, Sykes, Wells, Mehmeti Really difficult to read though. Think Max, the CBs and Matty James are nailed on. All the other starting positions are highly debatable. The sign of a strong squad

I don't think this is as far fetched as Graham thinks. A 4 year deal with a substantial wage increase and a buy out clause would make a lot of sense. The thing that works against that is the potential knock on effect with the expectations of the other younger players. It would immediately stop all this messing about with lower bids plus add ons. It would give Scott a wage he is worth at this level of football and give us a guarantee of a fee. There is a lot to be said for removing doubt from a scenario.

I listened to the first half on the radio and they were saying that their team are young, have been together for almost 10 years. Loads of them are at US Universities and are starting to get contracts with big US & European clubs. Sounds like they'll be a force and will improve.

England 's Centre backs are a massive worry for me.

Showing ambition has nothing to do with not selling players. It's to do with being smart, making decisions with a medium to long term goal

2 seasons ago, 4 4 2 predicted Barnsley would win the league even after Ishmael had left for West Brom. They were relegated.

I went to the game in March and quite frankly I don't blame them if they don't. Sizeable number of our support that day were just embarrassing little Englanders.

What a dreary set of games.

Think someone needs to request that UEFA officials, press, 'dignitaries', corporate sponsors etc don't do it as well. Otherwise it's just yet another case do as we say not as we do..

EPL champions Man City Relegated: Forest, Sheffield Utd, Palace Championship : 1 Leicester 2 Middlesboro Play Offs :Norwich City =10th Relegated : Cardiff, Swansea, QPR League 1-Champions Portsmouth. Runners up- Derby Playoffs - Bolton Bristol Rovers 18th Relegated- Cambridge, Burton, Exeter, Lincoln League 2 Champions- Wrexham Runners up-Notts County Third- Stockport Playoffs- Bradford. Relegated- Swindon and Crawley

I guess so. The margin of profit seems like it might be slender though. Especially when you consider the revenue that the club won't get from having the game at home..

That's a bit harsh. Wait till next season's EFL TV deal kicks in..... What I don't get about this is why is it our home game being moved? Surely it would make sense for it to be Gloucester's home game. Saracens move from a 10,000 crowd to 55,000 at Spurs which makes sense. Few miles down the road. If they get 40,000 in Cardiff rather than 22,000 in Bristol, what has been achieved? Except for me starting drinking earlier in the day than I would if the game had been at Ashton Gate...