Mr Popodopolous

Sounds lopsided again. Hindsight but switch to a back 4 if restricted in numbers. McCrorie Tanner Dickie Roberts Then Sykes right and one of Mehmeti/Twine left..perhaps TGH or King on.

I know a Port Vale fan, part of the Stoke conurbation. He lives in Bristol and his brother, well Stoke must really be bad as he lives in the bright lights of Peterborough.

At least none of us have to live in Stoke. If anyone does, you my sympathies!

Never like losing to Stoke. Well obviously never like us losing at all but to Stoke, one of those sides

They didn't have to do much for either the 1st or 2nd, poor. Not seen the 3rd yet.

Not seen any play but seen the stats..how have we set up? McCrorie, Tanner, Dickie, Roberts Sykes Twine, Mehmeti That is interesting, it feels and sounds lopsided just looking at the personnel.

Cheers for that. 7 out then including not risking Vyner.. most were medium to long term but it feels too many really.

@BCFCGav Don't want to steal your thunder but a list today?l

Not so very long ago since there was crowing from the Aston Villa end about successful navigation of PSR. Ty Bracey was one, a local paper journalist another. If we have a compliant 7 or above or a comfortable 7 or above vote against I say. Brentford, Brighton, Liverpool, Tottenham, West Ham would be 5 likely. Burnley if they stay up. Potentially Arsenal, Man City although they have competing interests. Wolves could go either way, they may want others to have to do the downsizing they did or they may want to splash more. Man United? Who knows. When would a vote be as well, could depend on who wins the playoffs- Norwich and West Brom possibly wouldn't vote for it, Southampton and Leeds who knows. Leicester surely would. Everton and Nottingham Forest two that could go either way in such a vote.

They genuinely have a cheek Aston Villa. Apparently they would like the PL to raise the 3 Year limit to £135m. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-pushing-controversial-135m-29107660 I strongly suspect in excess of 6 clubs would be compliant so I don't see why turkeys would vote for Christmas..many clubs have taken self-sacrifices or traded to comply. They can try but they need to get 13 other clubs in board, hopefully it will be knocked back.

As well as not making the change of October, a sensible hierarchy in addition to Williams would be looking to retain James as a player and King as a coach as part of the foundation this summer. Could still happen but I doubt it. I hope it does.

I did a big list on here ,but managed to lose it somehow.. Anyway looks like we via Bristol City Holdings had the highest non Parachute Income. Albeit 13 months could assist.* *Subject to Reading of course.

Sunderland via their website are out, maybe for a day or 2. https://www.safc.com/news/club-news/2024/april/statement-of-accounts I thought their turnover might be a bit higher but then again I wonder of one or two clubs and their turnover are wholly organic and honest let's say. We seem to compare quite favourably to non Parachute clubs, revenue wise at least. We're top 10 in the division minimum wheb we look at Bristol City Holdings and close to top 6 if not in it..can depend in who exactly comes down and stays down and how many Parachute clubs in the division. Using 2022-23 as a base I'll list all Championship clubs last year by Revenue. Reading are yet to make theirs public for some reason. Worth remembering it was a 13 month Period for us so maybe included some events or a Concert that it wouldn't usually?

Thanks Kingy, all the best for the future. Moving onto pastures new and not staying here on the coaching side?

Yeah probably. At that price unless FFP is looming large for any they could and wages wouldn't be an issue. Could be a bargain for someone.

Would we have him here? Obviously yes ability wise but the wouldn't move go be a No.2 and would he supersede O'Leary do we think? I wouldn't say £1m is exorbitant at all really.

Agreed. I suggested on another thread that as you say it was neither a penalty nor a dive. However Steve Evans and Chris Foy have inferred it is such. I actually am of the view that our club should push back more vigorously on certain issues but the hierarchy in the main don't seem the type.

Yes agreed. Sure there isn't a grand conspiracy but we have seemed inordinately unlucky. Not with injuries that is normal, but the penalty saga, retrospective bans on sketchy grounds for Wright, Diedhiou, Sykes. Sure Conway may have dived but..they seem to hone in on us more than the norm for errors that go our way but not against us Although did find Ref Watch said our penalty v Sunderland in December was correct.

I can accept not winning MoTM in these circs, but to not be nominated is strange. Although Manager of the Month can be a bit of a curse so maybe for the best.

Amazing that they pick out 2 incidents that benefit us in 3 weeks of review as part of their ex Ref Analysis. Should we be querying it as a Club? The offside calls at Norwich were suspect but I didn't see any analysis of that at all.

Dermot Gallagher stated it wasn't a pen v Huddersfield, found it. https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-penalty-huddersfield-referee-9227704

Agreed, I will try and find the bit on the Huddersfield penalty, maybe I'm wrongly conflating it with the Apology Letter that Huddersfield received but I wonder if we get a fair crack by the media. Still a way to go until it evens out.

I must correct myself too, I said it was January but in fact it was April obviously!

It is and agree although I'm a bit sceptical as to whether they honed in on some do the outrageous calls vs us during that period.

Ironically our last two penalties have been deemed incorrect by Sky Sports Ref Review of Weekend big Calls. Of all the decisions in the EFL in a given weekend we come out in 2 of 3 weeks as undeserving beneficiaries. Conway was deemed to have dived in the latter ie v Rotherham. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11688/13126121/behind-the-whistle-former-premier-league-referee-chris-foy-explains-the-latest-efl-decisions